Fear and excitement, these two emotions should be unrelated to each other, but they appeared together on Hou Junji at this moment, making him go crazy.
Perhaps this is in line with the old saying: If you are not crazy, you will not survive!
Before riding back home, his subordinates had already delivered the news that Hou Junji wanted to know.
In recent days, Li Jing has been staying in the house, and no one has visited him. On the contrary, his restless brother has been running around Chang'an, and he has met no one knows how many people.
"Li Shentong!" After hearing the news, Hou Junji's eyes suddenly shrank. He knew where he had miscalculated.
It's also because Li Jing has been so calm these days that he even had the illusion that Li Jing, the tiger, has become completely depressed.
As everyone knows, even if this tiger still has breath, it is still the king of the mountains and forests! Not to mention, even if the tiger wants to be depressed, the other people around it are not willing to let it be depressed.
"Where is your Majesty?" Hou Junji unconsciously tightened his grip on the reins, took a deep breath and asked in a cold voice.
Seeing Hou Junji's ugly face, the subordinate who reported the news did not dare to delay, and hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, Bai Arowana, has already been to Li Jing's house in the morning!"
"Who is going together?"
"It seems that there is Your Majesty, Lord Changsun, and oh, there is also the imperial doctor in the palace!"
"Imperial doctor?" Hou Junji narrowed his eyes quietly when he heard this, and then continued to ask: "When did your majesty come out?"
"About half an hour!"
"Is there anyone to see you off?"
"Hongfu Nu and Li Shentong send each other off!"
"Have you not seen Li Jing?"
"I haven't seen Li Jing yet!"
"How is Sanyuan County?"
"According to the spies' report, there is nothing unusual!"
"Where are those Cheng Yaojin people?"
"Also stay at home."
After receiving the news from his subordinates that everything was normal, Hou Junji not only did not feel relieved, but always felt a sense of loss in his heart, as if he had forgotten something important! But if I think about it carefully, I can't remember anything.
"No, there must be something wrong!" Hou Junji rubbed his temples vigorously, and his eyes inadvertently swept across the street, where a group of soldiers were patrolling past.
"Bing? Ministry of War!"
The moment he saw the group of soldiers, Hou Junji was suddenly shocked. He finally knew what he had forgotten!
The Ministry of War has been too quiet from yesterday to now! It was so quiet that not even a single person came to ask for instructions from his chief officer. This was not in line with common sense!
It's no wonder that Hou Junji is too confident these days!
He was so confident that if he became Minister of the Ministry of War, the entire Ministry of War would be in his pocket! I even forgot that Li Jing had been in that position for three years!
Three years!
After such a long time, even if Li Jing can no longer win over people's hearts, he should still have some friendship with those people! Now that I heard that Li Jing was humiliated and beaten, the Ministry of War had no news at all. Is this possible?
impossible!
In this case, the only explanation is that something happened there, a major change that even he, the chief officer, didn't know about.
"No! Go to the Ministry of War!"
Thinking of this, Hou Junji suddenly turned the horse's head, and the next moment, he whipped the horse's butt hard with the long whip in his hand!
And this extremely handsome horse neighed in pain and immediately started galloping along the road!
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Ministry of War lobby
As the place where the generals in charge of the world are in charge, this place is extremely busy every day, but today, it is extremely quiet. Even the occasional subordinates holding documents pass by, but they are in a hurry and dare not stop.
"I bid farewell to my mother-in-law in the morning and stayed by the Yellow River in the evening. I didn't hear my mother-in-law calling for my son, but I heard the splashing of the water in the Yellow River.
I left the Yellow River in the morning and arrived at the top of the Black Mountain in the evening. I didn't hear the mother-in-law calling for my son, but I heard the chirping and chirping of the wild horses in Yanshan Mountain.
Thousands of miles to go to war, pass the mountain as if flying. The new energy spreads to the golden watch, and the cold light shines on the iron clothes. A general dies in a hundred battles, a strong man returns in ten years! "
In this strange silence, suddenly, a sonorous and powerful sound of poetry reading came from the martial arts hall at the back.
After reading the poem, there was the sound of seats being kicked down, and the man's angry questioning: "Listen, listen! This is our general, our soldier! In order to protect our country, we will risk our lives." He went to fight with foreign enemies, but when he came back, he ended up being bullied. When did our Ministry of War become so cowardly? Even the people in the Ministry of Rites next door laughed at the fact that the people in our Ministry of War were ignorant! They only know how to be cowards. horizontal!"
"..."
There was silence in the martial arts hall for a while. These soldiers may not understand the poem, but the sentence "A general dies in a hundred battles, and a strong man returns after ten years" still hit their hearts hard!
Thinking of them throwing their heads and blood in exchange for a peaceful world! After finally returning, the heroes did not get the respect they deserved. Instead, they were bullied. All kinds of resentment and unwillingness immediately filled their bodies!
"Get the hell out of here! You don't have to say it if you have the guts or not! Brothers, let's kill that bastard of the Marquis of Xiangcheng first, and then deal with those nerds in the Ministry of Etiquette!"
After a long silence, someone finally roared angrily, and as soon as these words came out, it was like a powder keg being lit, and countless voices echoed! Then countless military officials and generals rushed out with swords in hand.
When Hou Junji arrived, he only saw the open door and documents scattered on the ground. The entire military department was as miserable as if it had been looted.
"Where are the people?" Hou Junji angrily grabbed a person and asked angrily.
The arrested man was a civil servant. He was lifted by Hou Junji like a chicken. His legs were weak and he stammered: "Back to... Sir Shangshu, they have all gone to the Marquis' Mansion in Xiangcheng!"
"Going to the Marquis' Mansion in Xiangcheng?" When Hou Junji heard this, his eyes went dark again. In broad daylight, his subordinates ganged up to commit murder in another noble's house. They hated him, the chief official, for his immortality!
"Notify the Sixteenth Guards, martial law, martial law throughout the city! Catch those bastards back!"
Hou Junji yelled with trembling lips, leaving the civil servants behind, mounted his horse again and rushed out.
At this time, he had long lost the excitement of meeting his opponent at the beginning! Replaced by deep fear and hatred,
He originally thought that no matter what the person behind him wanted to do, he could not get around the emperor!
Because except for colluding with the aristocratic family, everything he did was what the emperor wanted him to do, or instructed him to do!
However, he never thought that that person would be so crazy that he would directly start a riot in the Ministry of War, bypass the emperor, and directly attack him, the chief officer of the Ministry of War!
"Crazy! Crazy! Isn't he afraid that the emperor will be furious and chase him to the end!"
Thinking of this, Hou Junji's hands and feet felt cold, and the horse under him was almost exhausted from running all morning. However, he did not dare to stop at all. He could only swing his whip mechanically and charge towards the Hou's Mansion in Xiangcheng. go.
