Chapter 679: Swinging the Army to the North (7)
Ye Tingcheng suddenly remembered that Ni Fuguo was not like a prodigal kid like them, he was a person who needed to interact with those circles in Chang'an, and it was impossible for him to be as pure-hearted and unwanted as Ye Tingcheng, in that kind of circle, if he didn't collect money, wouldn't he be pretentious and incompatible with everyone? If he did so, he would be excluded, and it would have a great impact on the future, although he Ye Tingcheng knew about that kind of circle, but he felt very disdainful of these circles.
"I was negligent, I almost forgot that it is normal for those rich and official circles in Chang'an to accept bribes, and a person of Brother Ni's status, if he doesn't take money, I'm afraid it's really inappropriate. Ye Chengcheng also suddenly remembered that the eunuch he knew at the beginning named Yu Chaoen, didn't he also ask for money when he opened his mouth? Compared with him, Ni Fuguo was good.
"It's okay, Captain Ye, you were the kind of person who was jealous and hateful when you were still Ye Sanlang, if it weren't for this, you wouldn't have been ruthless to arrest the corrupt officials in Jiangnan, and even for the sake of the security of the Tang Dynasty's frontier, you raided your own clan, the Ye family, even me, is quite convinced. To be honest, I admire Captain Ye from the bottom of my heart, but it's a pity that I am the person next to the emperor, so although I am becoming the kind of corrupt official I hate the most, I am still helpless, this is fate. ”
"What about corrupt officials and corrupt officials? If you do the right thing, even if you are corrupt officials and corrupt officials, you can still get the support of the people, just take it now, I tell you the truth, I will not accept your box of money, but I will not say that you should take it back, wait a minute, I will let the two hundred brothers in the scout camp divide it, and the right is regarded as the reward that everyone deserves in this battle of the Sanggan River, and I will clearly tell everyone that this is Brother Ni, you generously took out to reward everyone. Speaking of this, he smiled slightly, and then said: "In this case, even if I tell everyone that these are actually bribes accepted by Brother Ni, do you think they will mind because of this? Although the bribe money sounds dirty, as long as it is used in the right place, then not only can you feel at ease, but also many people will change their opinion of you because of the favor, Brother Ni, do you still need me to be clear?"
In fact, when Ye Tingcheng said this, his meaning was quite obvious, although he saw that Ni Fuguo had goodness in his heart, but he was deeply trapped in various circles in Chang'an and could not extricate himself, and he had a certain inferiority complex about it. His suggestion was to use the bribes he received to do something beneficial, such as distributing them to the poor, such as giving to the middle and lower level officials who were in difficulty, especially the latter, which was a big deal to buy people's hearts. He could see that Ni Fuguo was not the kind of person who was greedy for money, otherwise his body would not be so thin, and it would be impossible for him to be willing to give money to others, only people like him could take his advice.
And Ni Fuguo is naturally not a fool, he understood Ye Tingcheng's suggestion as soon as he heard it, but he still didn't understand why Ye Tingcheng asked him to do these good things.
Seeing that he still had doubts, Ye Tingcheng hesitated, closed his eyes for a moment, when he opened his eyes, clapped his hands, and a subordinate he trusted walked in, and according to his gestures, the two Tang soldiers carrying the box were invited out of the camp, Ye Tingcheng closed his eyes again and confirmed that no one was eavesdropping by looking for qi with Yiyi, and then continued: " I don't have many friends I can trust in Chang'an now, and there are even fewer with high status, so I decided to gamble on Brother Ni, after all, Brother Ni even dared to risk offending Li Longji and suggested to me, then I could rest assured that Brother Ni would be able to win over Brother Ni. ”
Although Ye Tingcheng's words were full of displeasure with Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji, Ni Fuguo did not notice this kind of rebellious words and deeds at all, but suddenly realized that Ye Tingcheng was not trying to win him over for something? If this was true, wouldn't it mean that Ye Tingcheng was really doing something unfavorable to him as Li Longji was afraid of? What was the purpose of his gang up like this?
However, after thinking of Ye Tingcheng's personality and his dedication to Datang, Ni Fuguo still calmed down, if Ye Tingcheng really wanted to be unfavorable to Datang or Li Longji, he didn't know how many opportunities there were at the beginning, how could he wait until now.
"Captain Ye, no, Brother Ye, if you really have anything to use for your junior brother, please just say it, I will do my best. ”
"Okay, it's worthy of Brother Ni who I like, it's really fast, speaking of which, does Brother Ni know An Lushan?"
"An Lushan, how could Brother Ye suddenly mention this?" Ni Fuguo suddenly felt a little surprised, he didn't expect Ye Tingcheng to suddenly ask this, not that he didn't know An Lushan, but he didn't know why Ye Tingcheng mentioned him at this time, his intuition was faintly telling him that all that Ye Tingcheng did seemed to be related to An Lushan.
"I don't hide it from Brother Ni, An Lushan has the possibility of rebellion. ”
"Rebellion? this, how is this possible?" Ni Fuguo suddenly couldn't help blurting out exclaiming, it was enough to see the degree of disbelief he couldn't believe, what kind of joke, An Lushan is the most favored border general of Emperor Xuanzong at present, even Wang Zhonghe, who is now in the limelight, cannot be compared with An Lushan's favor, because this guy is too good at slapping horses, every time he comes to Chang'an, he can coax Li Longji to be happy, if not, his festival degree should have been rotated a long time ago. But now Ye Tingcheng actually said that this person has the possibility of rebellion? Yes, through Ye Tingcheng's words, he suddenly remembered that An Lushan seems to have taken root in the Fanyang generation for a long time, and has received a lot of Hu soldiers and Hu generals, maintains good relations with the surrounding tribes, and has been praised by Li Longji many times. Although there are limits on the number of soldiers and horses of the Jiedu envoys in each border town, in fact, most of the Jiedu envoys are seriously overspent, and even if they are traced, they always have various reasons to prevaricate, such as their own private army, or local militia groups, and various other reasons.
An Lushan's Fan Yang theoretically led more than 70,000 troops, plus he concurrently served as the leader of the Pinglu Jiedu envoy with 36,000 people, a total of about 100,000 people, but in practice, there will probably be more than 100,000 people, if the northern Zhuyi helps, he will indeed be a huge threat.