The two ministers had a fierce confrontation of words in the palace, and the side of the Son of Heaven who stood on the side of the Son of Heaven was heartbroken, for fear that these two would burn the flames of war on him. Now it's too late to regret it, why did he get so confused in the first place, and he had to bite the news of Qin Jin's death when there was no solid evidence?

If that guy was really burned to death, or killed by the rebels, it would be enough, but it was unlucky, not only did the guy not die but also made new contributions, and now Lubu Feijie has reached the heavens, even if he wants to do it again, it will be too late.

Alas!

Bian Lingcheng sighed secretly, and now he can only resign himself to fate.

At this time, the Son of Heaven and the prime ministers discussed, don't look at him, when he supervised the army, he could command the border town commander, and he also served as the official of the general of the prison gate, but he was a slave in front of the Son of Heaven, and he was just an internal servant in front of the ministers, and he had no power to sit on an equal footing, and he didn't even have the qualifications to interject.

Li Longji asked Ge Shuhan again, the current situation seems to have taken a turn for the better, how to deal with it, and the county lieutenant Qin Jin, after all, he has made two meritorious contributions, and how to reward him.

Ge Shuhan didn't think about it, so he calmly replied: "The rewards and punishments of the court are all customized, and the minister should not have put his beak, but when the sage asked, the minister thought that the principle of impartiality should be upheld......" Only halfway through the words, Yang Guozhong interrupted it unceremoniously.

"The sage has previously crowned Qin Jin, the lieutenant of Xin'an County, as the history of the county magistrate of Hongnong, and the edict of the Son of Heaven has also been reviewed by the Zhongshu sect, and the minister thinks that it should not be lower than the history of the county magistrate in any case. ”

Ge Shuhan sneered twice, and refuted unceremoniously: "Yang Xianggong is a big mistake, the history of the magistrate of Hongnong County has already broken the unprecedented precedent, no matter how high it is, where do you want to go? Not to mention that the envoy holding the edict of the Son of Heaven also returned to Tongguan because the road was cut off?" Then he turned to Li Longji, the Son of Heaven, "In terms of the merits of Qin Jin, the lieutenant of Xin'an County, it is indeed possible to be promoted beyond the ranks, and the ministers think that they can be honored by the prince's mansion and praise military affairs." ”

The rank of Wangfu Mansion is only on the sixth grade, Ge Shuhan thinks that this can be called impartial, and at the same time, it also makes the hundred officials and generals have nothing to say.

At that time, Li Longji appointed Gao Xianzhi as the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, and actually had the power to dominate the world's soldiers and horses, but the nominal generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses was Li Wan, the sixth son of Li Longji, the son of heaven. Therefore, the suggestion that Qin Jin should be promoted to the position of Rongwang Mansion with two beheadings is also pertinent.

Li Longji nodded appreciatively, once he realized that his arbitrary and arbitrary judgment was inappropriate in this life-and-death situation, he immediately resumed his old obedience, even if Ge Shuhan's suggestion was indeed suspected of suppressing Qin Jin, a rising star, but he also had to show the world with a supportive attitude that he was still the wise son of heaven. At the same time, it also released a message, that is, to reuse and trust Goshuhan.

Now that Li Longji has lost trust in Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, if it weren't for an accident that stopped Bian Lingcheng, the heads of these two people might have been passed on to the heads of the armies now. But he will never let this edict go unpunished, but if it is over, these two people must die, otherwise wouldn't it be child's play for the Son of Heaven to deal with the life and death of the border generals?

In addition to agreeing on a reward for Qin Jin, the most important thing is how to deal with the aggressive rebel rebels.

Geshuhan's advice is simple, just four words: "Hold on and be ready for change!"

Hearing the advice of Ge Shuhan, who had high hopes, Li Longji was a little secretly disappointed, the fall of the Eastern Capital made him face unprecedented pressure, even if he could not recover the Eastern Capital as soon as possible, he had to appease the pessimism of the hundred officials with a sufficiently exciting victory, as well as the various thoughts of a dozen sons.

Especially the crown prince Li Heng, Li Longji guarded against his heir more than against foreign ministers and enemies. Although Li Heng trembled and was cautious as the prince for more than ten years, his vigilance still did not weaken.

For example, in the selection of generalissimos of soldiers and horses, according to common sense, the first target should be the crown prince, but Li Longji chose a king Rong who is known for his elegant name and neat style. One of the most fundamental reasons is that he doesn't trust Li Heng, can't let Li Heng take charge of the army, and can't let Li Heng have the slightest opportunity to accumulate meritorious deeds and build prestige.

This is actually Li Longji's biggest helplessness, since the Tang Dynasty Gaozu, the Li royal family has been a common example of the son overcoming the father and passing on from brother to brother.

Taizong killed his brother and brother in Xuanwu Gate to seize the throne from Gaozu. Taizong's eldest son, Li Chengqian, also colluded with the important minister Hou Junji to conspire against him, and in the post-martial period, he was also a mother and son suspicion, and a series of human tragedies were staged one after another.

Including Li Longji himself, he also won the world through two coups, the first time he put his biological father Ruizong Li Dan on the throne, the second time he killed his aunt, and forced his biological father Li Dan to completely cede power under house arrest.

The family tradition and the bloody encounters he experienced made Li Longji have to guard against his son like an enemy, and in the twenty-fifth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, he killed his three sons in one day, that is, the then crown prince Li Ying, the king of Hubei Li Yao, and the king of light Li Ju.

Although Li Longji has been the Prince of Peace for more than 40 years, he has been lazy to ask questions about the affairs of the court, but he has not relaxed for a moment for more than a dozen sons who threaten the throne, especially in the current situation, his authority as the emperor has suffered an unprecedented blow, and he needs to be strictly guarded.

Therefore, he needed to find a few scapegoats with sufficient weight for the fall of the Eastern Capital, so as to wash away the stain of his own failure to do so, so as to maintain the authority of the Taiping Emperor, and the two Feng Gao were not the most suitable candidates? Therefore, Li Longji spared no effort to promote Ge Shuhan, and crowned him as the left servant of Shangshu, and he was ranked in the class of the prime minister.

Now Ge Shuhan's proposal clearly has a tendency to be slow, which is also contrary to Li Longji's most urgent needs.

"Now that the counties and counties of Hebei Province have returned to the Tang Dynasty anyway, the sage only needs to order the Shuofang army to go out of the clouds to deal with the counties, so that the back road of the thief will be cut off. As long as Hebei Province is in the hands of the imperial court, the thief will be like a thorn in the back, and it won't be long before the morale of the anti-Hu army is exhausted, and it is not impossible to break it if it is not attacked!"

For example, the soldiers available to the imperial court were all peddlers and scoundrels recruited by the market, lacking training and no combat experience, how could this kind of army be compared with the Yandi rebel army that had been in a hundred battles?

Li Longji, however, couldn't wait! Just now, he talked for a while with the official who had reported the victory, and he also got a piece of news that made him sleep. An Lushan will ascend the throne and become the emperor after the first day, but how can he say it, is it possible to order this important minister to mourn Kaoyan?

Yang Guozhong immediately read a trace of extraordinary taste from the somewhat displeased face of the Son of Heaven, he lost to Ge Shuhan in the confrontation just now, how could he easily let go of the opportunity now that it fell from the sky?

"A fire outside Tongguan burned down the 100,000 army of the anti-Hu army, and now is a great opportunity to fight back, what is Brother Shu still afraid of?"

He said exactly what Li Longji, the Son of Heaven, wanted to say but couldn't easily say.

Unexpectedly, Ge Shuhan asked seriously: "I don't know if there is a definite basis for Yang Xianggong's statement that 100,000 rebels died in the mountain fire?"

When people talk about numbers, they have always been false and consciously exaggerated, and Yang Guozhong just said it, now Ge Shuhan has a straight face to rely on, but where to give it to him?

Yang Guozhong recalled the content of "Lubu Feijie", and the silk book did mention Cui Qianyou's troop deployment in Shaanzhou and Yuzhou, so he had to move out to deal with the old thief of Geshu.

"'Lubu Feijie' said that Hongnong has 50,000 rebels, and there are tens of thousands under the city of Shaanzhou, adding up to 100,000!"

Ge Shuhan thought for a while before raising his head and said: "If what Yang Xianggong said is true, at least 50,000 rebels will be trapped in Kunshan, and this mountain fire is really better than 200,000 elite soldiers!"

Bian Lingcheng, who was standing beside the Son of Heaven, couldn't help but scold: Ge Shuhan's mind really can't be the amount of the lake and the sea, and the number of soldiers led by Gao Xianzhi when he came out of Tongguan was 200,000, he said this is nothing more than an allusion to Gao Xianzhi's incompetence, in fact, even if no one falls into the well, Shi Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing are also dead, how can the emperor's edict be a joke? However, Ge Shuhan's words were also very comfortable when Ling Cheng listened, after all, the credit for the fire was on his head, but when he thought that the credit for the Kunshan fire would be half of the credit of the living Qin Jin, his heart immediately became pimple.

If it weren't for Qin Jin's "resurrection from the dead", how could he be blamed by the Son of Heaven?

Yang Guozhong saw that Ge Shuhan actually echoed him, although he cut half of the 100,000 number, but the result was the same, he would not let go of this opportunity to block Ge Shuhan again. He laughed twice and said:

"Just as the old minister said, the fire of Kunshan deserves an army of 200,000, what else does the old minister worry about? If he doesn't take advantage of the victory to attack, won't he give the rebels a chance to breathe?" At this point, Yang Guozhong paused and said with a smile: "The fire of Kunshan Mountain was caused by the fire of the county lieutenant Qin Jin to burn the grain and grass in Xianshan.

Hearing this, Ge Shuhan sneered again: "My Datang only talks about military merits by beheading and breaking the city, if he can get back 50,000 heads, he will naturally make meritorious contributions for him." ”

As for taking advantage of the situation to send troops to the east of Tongguan at this time, Ge Shuhan looked at Li Longji, the son of heaven, who was staring at him.

"Sage, if the fire of Kushan is not extinguished, it will be difficult for people and animals to pass. The minister thought that the top priority was not to send troops to attack, but to have three, one to contact Gao Xianzhi who went north, echoing Guanzhong from afar. The second is to respond to the uprising in Hebei Province and the counties, so that the thieves will be cut off from the back road. The third ordered Qin Jin to defend Shaanzhou and completely cut off the back road of the rebels in the mountains, in order to use it for attacking Luoyang after the fire was extinguished!"

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