In Chang'an, the sun sets, the city gate is closed, and the originally bustling street is deserted in an instant because of the arrival of the curfew, and a team of carriages and horses roars past outside Yongchang Fang.

On one of the carriages in the carriage and horse team was Yang Guozhong, a subordinate of the same Zhongshu, and the dignified deputy prime minister was holding an official document in his hand, smiling and prostrating his belly.

At this time, a letter of help from Xinfeng County was urgently sent to the political hall, and the fugitives who should have been in the river engineering camp rebelled overnight, and tens of thousands of troops had already arrived at Xinfeng City. If the imperial court's rescue is a little late, Xinfeng may be broken overnight.

Xinfeng is at the foot of Lishan Mountain, only dozens of miles away from Chang'an. As long as the thieves capture Xinfeng, they can reach Chang'an City all the way unhindered. The problem came suddenly, and it was even more intractable.

If people who don't know the truth see Yang Guozhong with such a demeanor, they will think that he is angry and attacking. In fact, his mood at this time can be described as full of joy. Because he finally found a perfect opportunity to kill Qin Jin in this sudden rebellion.

Although the dredging of the Zhengbai Canal was nominally in charge of Wei Ji, the concurrently appointed river envoy, in Feng Yi County, Feng Yi County was responsible for the dispatch of all palace personnel and materials, which means that the refugees who should have been in the river camp rebelled, and Qin and Jin would be accused of dereliction of duty and leading to civil rebellion.

However, Yang Guozhong has a deeper plan, since he is guilty, why not add some fierce information and change the dereliction of duty to intentional trouble?

The carriage was still galloping, and Yang Guozhong in the carriage ignored the bumps in the road, constantly urging the driver to speed up. He wanted to return home as quickly as possible, and then personally write a badge against Qin Jin and the Shenwu Army, this time if he didn't beat this person and never turned over, it was really in vain to be the prime minister.

When the car arrived at the mansion, Yang Guozhong had just gotten out of the car, and the officials of the political hall arrived first.

"Yang Xianggong, the official document from Tongguan. ”

Yang Guozhong raised his eyebrows, isn't it Gao Xianzhi's gang who also wants to be involved? This person must not be allowed to be involved, otherwise the plan may fall short. However, after he couldn't wait to open the official document, he breathed a long sigh of relief, it turned out that it was just a supplementary official letter against the rebellion of the rebellious people.

According to the article, the reason why the rebels rebelled was all because the prison army Bian Lingcheng hijacked the fugitives who should have been in the river engineering camp without authorization. Speaking of which, it is already rumored that Tongguan is gathering the Taimin to serve as a rebel battle to fill their lives. If they went to Tongguan to die, how could those fugitives agree, no matter how poor they were in the river labor camp, they would be used as coolies, working for a day, and having food for a day.

And when I went to Tongguan, I ate the last meal, and whether the next meal was blessed or not, it was not certain.

Therefore, the fugitives, in extreme dissatisfaction, took advantage of the night to kill the officials who escorted them and raised the banner to rebel.

In this official document supplementing the situation, the explanation is much more detailed than the Xinfeng County request for help, not only roughly describing the scale of the rebels, but also listing the banner of the Qing monarch side played by the fugitive rebels, Yang Guozhong saw that his Ming Dynasty was impressive, and he was a little faintly angry, a group of despicable untouchables, who gave them the courage, actually dared to accuse the prime minister of the dynasty of being a traitor of the country.

"Who in the government hall has read this official letter?"

The official replied honestly: "Wei Xianggong is on duty, and this official letter was handed over to Xianggong by Wei Xianggong." ”

Yang Guozhong was slightly disappointed, he originally planned that if this official document had not been seen by others, he would deliberately suppress it, so that the gaffe would be a little more chaotic so as to show that Qin Jin's crime was not light.

It's a pity that Wei Fangjin read the official document first, and it is obviously unrealistic to want to suppress it, Yang Guozhong secretly regrets that if he leaves half an hour late, he may be able to hide from the sky and the sea.

After learning of the rebellion of the fugitives, the defenders of Tongguan immediately sent a cavalry to follow and monitor, because the main force had to strictly guard against hundreds of thousands of rebels outside the pass, and could not see the changes in Guanzhong for the rebels, so they did not dare to move on a large scale.

The official document explained in detail the various reasons why it was inconvenient for the Tongguan army to return to Guanzhong to suppress the thieves and quell the chaos, and these reasons were precisely in the hands of Yang Guozhong. He wished that Gao Xianzhi would stand by and stay out of the matter.

With Gao Xianzhi's ability, with the old army of Hexi under Ge Shuhan, it would be enough to wipe out this group of thieves in ten days, and at that time, his plans would naturally have more variables because of this.

In order to make Qin Jin completely unable to turn over, it is always necessary to let these vulnerable thieves make more waves, such as breaking through Xinfeng, or approaching Chang'an City.

The soldiers came to the city of Chang'an, which has not happened for more than 100 years since Taizong. How could the Son of Heaven not be thundered and angry because of this?

In Yang Guozhong's consciousness, he didn't take the tens of thousands of fugitive rebels into account at all, and the forbidden army of Chang'an might be dwarfed by fighting the Anbao rebels, but it was more than enough to deal with the fugitive rebels. The key question is just sooner or later.

Therefore, he naturally hoped that the later the better, and only later would he reap enough benefits from this sudden rebellion.

"Go back and tell Wei Xianggong, just say I know!"

The official looked embarrassed.

"Wei Xianggong's substitution is too inferior, and he must seek a way to deal with it from Yang Xianggong. ”

"How to deal with it?"

Yang Guozhong sneered.

"He's the prime minister on duty, why do you need to ask me?"

After that, he ignored the official and strode into the house.

Half an hour later, Yang Guozhong put the ink in his arms, and ordered the slaves to come to the war horse from Hexi, and he wanted to enter the palace overnight to meet the Son of Heaven.

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Li Longji, the son of the Tang Dynasty, was unprecedentedly angry, and he turned out the names of all the important ministers he could remember one by one and scolded them bitterly, until his voice was hoarse and his body was out of strength, and he gradually stopped scolding.

"Sage, Yang Xianggong has arrived!"

The fugitives in the Guanzhong gathered to rebel, and the delay in the arrival of several prime ministers had already made Li Longji very angry, and now that he heard that Yang Guozhong had arrived, he immediately seemed to have found a breakthrough, and urgently ordered the eunuchs to lead Yang Guozhong into the palace.

Yang Guozhong never expected that he came in a hurry, and before he could say a word, he was scolded by the Son of Heaven for slashing his head and covering his face.

It wasn't until the Son of Heaven felt that most of his anger had disappeared, and Yang Guozhong presented the prepared bullet seal.

Unexpectedly, after Li Longji read it, he didn't speak for a while, and was silent for a while before squinting his eyes and asking:

"Do you think that Qin Jin should be fully responsible for the fugitives and rebellion?"

Yang Guozhong replied: "Even if it is not fully responsible, it is the first evil!"

Li Longji asked again:

"What should I do?"

Yang Guozhong did not hesitate and calmly replied:

"If you don't kill this thief, it's hard to be angry. If you don't kill this thief, it will be difficult for Datang to be stable!"

The voice fell, and suddenly a eunuch entered the hall in a panic.

"Saint, sent by the Political Affairs Hall!"

Li Longji glanced at the eunuch in disgust, and just from his trembling performance, he could guess that this would not be good news.

However, what he didn't expect was that although he was ready to deal with the bad news, the content of the official document still shocked and angered him.

Xinfeng ready-made is actually broken, which is only half a day away from the first call for help.

"Didn't you say that the fugitives are a rabble, and it is difficult to achieve great things?"

Li Longji held back a sentence for a long time, which was actually more of a rhetorical question about his own incomprehension, rather than an accusation against Yang Guozhong. When he first received the news of the rebellion of the fugitives, he was only angry, and did not feel that these people would pose a threat to the overall situation of Guanzhong.

However, the situation is very different now. This rabble turned into a fugitive actually broke through Xinfeng and killed the Xinfeng County Order in half a day, which shocked Li Longji no less than someone launched a mutiny again.

To tell the truth, after the mutiny, Li Longji made careful arrangements and deployments for the Beijing Forbidden Army. The old northern and southern forbidden armies were combined into one and handed over to the sons of Xun Qi to command. Then he transferred the Shence army that came to the aid of Longyou to replace the main general, and the Guan army Rong made Yu Chaoen to control it.

After completing this layout, Li Longji took action to ** the Longwu Army, and transferred the Shenwu Army, which was not easy to mess with, to Fengyi County in the name of suppressing thieves.

At this point, the military and political power in Chang'an was once again firmly in the hands of Li Longji. It's just that he made a lot of calculations, but he couldn't calculate it, except for the possibility that the guards might rebel, even the people began to rebel

Li Longji carefully read the military report sent by Gao Xianzhi again, and two of them made his brows furrow. The first is the name of the rebellious Qing monarch, who claimed to kill Yang Guozhong, Yu Chaoen and other traitorous ministers and eunuchs. Second, the fugitive rebels were on the road, and the short distance of dozens of miles from Weinan to Xinfeng had expanded from 30,000 to 50,000.

What does this mean? Even the common people know the reputations of Yang Guozhong and Yu Chaoen, but these are stinking reputations. The people were dissatisfied with the imperial court, and only then did they respond to the rebels that the fugitives had turned into.

Li Longji never thought that one day he would lose the support and will of the people. And the short journey from Weinan to Xinfeng gave him an unprecedented sense of crisis.

Li Longji first thought of the methods of Emperor Jing of the former Han Dynasty in the rebellion of the Eight Kingdoms, and the rebellious princes and kings attacked Guanzhong in the name of "the side of the Qing monarch, and the princes were wrong." In order to expose the true intentions of the rebellious princes and kings, in order to block the mouths of the princes and kings of the world, Chao Cuo was punished by beheading.

Thinking of this, Li Longji looked up at Yang Guozhong intentionally or unintentionally, and wondered in his heart whether killing a few traitorous eunuchs would make the situation fundamentally better.

Yang Guozhong keenly felt the cold gaze of the Son of Heaven, and couldn't help but shiver all over his body.

But wasn't the fall of Xinfeng exactly what he expected? Why not take this opportunity to fall into the well and trample the little vertical son of Qin Jin to the point that he could not turn over forever?

"Please kill Qin Jin to deter lawlessness and eliminate the source of chaos in Guanzhong!"

Without warning, Li Longji erupted, and if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would have been difficult to associate this outburst with an old man who was over his prime.