Gu Qing felt that a crisis that had never been seen before was quietly coming.

There were no signs, pure intuition. Obviously, Li Longji was not at ease, so he sent a cool official to contain him, but he just felt unsure.

Therefore, before the cool officials arrived in Anxi, Gu Qing had to finish the original things in one go.

He was worried that after the cool officials came to Anxi, they would point fingers and deny all the changes he had worked hard to make in the past year, Gu Qingke would be passive at that time, not to mention that An Lushan was about to raise troops, everything Gu Qing did was to deal with the future King of Entering the Customs, if all the words of the cool officials were denied, when the troubled times came, Gu Qing could only be a piece of duckweed in the frenzy, and he had no ability to change his fate.

After the military order was issued, that night, Shen Tian led 5,000 cavalry to quietly leave the camp and go all the way north.

There were generals in the battalion who found out that Shen Tian's subordinates were open, but no one dared to ask. Whenever a large army is drawn out, it is usually to carry out a certain task, and the generals are all military men, and they know that they should not ask.

Everything was in full swing, and overnight the whole camp was busy.

Li Siye stared at the red eyes, scolded and scolded and led the Mo knife hand to run around in the camp, no matter what the size of the battalion, when he saw the camp tent, he drilled into it, and when he met a burly man with a strong body, he unceremoniously brought him over, first looked at the arms and then looked at the legs and feet, and finally looked at the waist and abdomen to see the teeth, almost a look and threw it back like a chicken, this person Mo Dao Battalion wanted, the brigade commander was unhappy and went to complain to Gu Houye, Lao Tzu only asked for someone.

Gathering 3,000 Mo swordsmen within three days, this is an extremely difficult task, even if the conditions are lowered and lowered, there are still very few people in the battalion of tens of thousands of people who can be Mo swordsmen, Li Siye is a natural tank-type soldier, and the Modao Battalion will be led by him in the future, and he really can't lower his standards anymore.

In contrast, it was even more difficult for Chang Zhong to gather five thousand marksmen, and he was about to apologize to himself.

In an army, the marksman is an indispensable type of troops, this kind of person is a rare treasure in the army, they belong to the bow and arrow class, but they are beyond the bow and arrow class, every time the battle is critical, or when the enemy is negligent, the role of the marksman is highlighted, a cold arrow goes straight to the enemy general unconsciously, and sometimes an arrow can even determine the outcome of a war.

Therefore, there is an old saying that has been passed down for thousands of years, "open guns are easy to dodge, but hidden arrows are difficult to prevent".

For a marksman, this old saying is the highest compliment.

In an army of tens of thousands of people, it would be very good if there were more than a dozen marksmen, not the target of the Ten Rings that hit the half bucket of water of the Eight Rings, but the kind of marksmen who hit the hearts of the Ten Rings every time.

But Gu Qing's order to Chang Zhong was to gather five thousand marksmen.

Chang Zhong dared to swear by the names of his old Chang family's ancestors and ancestors, even if he counted all the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, he might not be able to gather five thousand marksmen, and Gu Houye's military order clearly wanted his life.

What made Chang Zhong even more puzzled was that what did Hou Ye want five thousand marksmen to do? Expect them to shoot the enemy out of the distance between the two armies? …… That's naïve.

After a long day's work, Chang Zhong was about to go crazy, so he simply followed the example of the ancients, kneeling on one knee outside Gu Qing's handsome tent with his bare upper body, with a posture of pleading guilty.

According to the routine, Gu Qing should run out barefoot at this time, help Chang Zhong with a look of pity, make sincere criticism and self-criticism to each other, and finally make handsome and harmonious, and pass on the words of joy through the ages.

However, Gu Qing has never played cards according to routines.

When Han Jie entered the handsome tent to report that Chang Zhong was kneeling outside, Gu Qing was barbecuing meat in the handsome tent at the time, and when he heard the words, he planned to go out and help Chang Zhong up after the meat was roasted, after all, it would not be bad for Chang Zhong to kneel for a while, but it would not taste right if the meat was roasted for a while, and the consequences would be relatively serious.

But after the meat was roasted, it was so fragrant, Gu Qing couldn't help but take a bite, his mouth was full of oil, and then he felt that there was something missing from eating barbecue, so he took a small jar of wine, a mouthful of wine and a mouthful of meat, ate eight points full, seven points drunk, and finally fainted,...... Fell asleep.

Han Jie saw that Gu Qing only cared about drinking wine and eating meat, and ignored Chang Zhong outside, and thought that Hou Ye intended to beat Chang Zhong, so he didn't remind him very interestingly.

When he woke up, it was the middle of the night, Gu Qing opened his eyes and suddenly felt as if he had forgotten something, and when he was about to recall, a surge of urine hit, Gu Qing ran out barefoot to make it convenient, and opened the curtain of the handsome tent only to find Chang Zhong who was still kneeling outside the handsome tent.

At this time, Gu Qing finally remembered and forgot something.

Chang Zhong was already kneeling and crumbling, tears couldn't stop flowing, thinking that Gu Qing was completely disappointed in him and was already planning to give up on him, otherwise why didn't he kneel for so long and didn't see Gu Qing come out to help him up according to the routine?

Seeing Gu Qing running out barefoot in the middle of the night, Chang Zhong, a seven-foot-tall man, suddenly cried.

"Master Hou, the last general will disappoint you!"

Gu Qing's old face flushed, and then his thoughts returned to the old question.

Chang Zhong kneeling for a while and kneeling is not bad, but the consequences of holding urine for a long time are very serious, and the boys of the two generations must take good care of their bodies.

"Stop! I'll cry later, I'll do something and I'll be right back. After speaking, Gu Qing slipped behind the handsome tent.

After a rush of rain hitting the plantains, Gu Qing came back with his pants in satisfaction and sighed.

Sitting cross-legged on the sand, Gu Qing and Chang Zhong faced each other.

"Don't kneel, sit down first and move your muscles and bones, otherwise your legs will be ruined."

Chang Zhong knelt from the afternoon to the middle of the night, and the pathos of the twilight of the hero was wiped out, and when he heard the words, he sat on the sand happily, rubbing his numb legs, and screaming like killing pigs.

Gu Qing looked at him sympathetically and sighed: "What do you say is so hard, whether you admit your mistakes or ask for sin, isn't it good to sit in front of me and say it calmly?" You have to carry a few broken wooden sticks naked, although the camp is full of men, but you look really immoral, kneeling naked outside the handsome tent, I don't know that you think you are coming to sleep for me, teach me how to be ......embarrassed."

Chang Zhong was stunned.

Good...... The fresh and refined brain hole makes people's scalps tingle when they hear it, and even the standard routine of pleading guilt that originally felt normal is a little ashamed for some reason at the moment.

So Chang Zhong looked left and right, looking around.

"What are you looking for?"

Chang Zhong's cheeks twitched, and he said in a low voice: "The last general wants to wear a dress......

"No need, let's be naked, I feel ashamed at this time, why did I go earlier? Ah, General Chang is in good shape, full of muscles......" Gu Qing praised.

Chang Zhong covered his chest with shame: "Master Hou, let's let the last general put on his clothes...... It's a bit cold. ”

Gu Qing dragged a special wide bathrobe from the tent and threw it to him, and the two big men didn't look normal until this time.

"Say, why is it such a hypocritical thing to bear the guilt of Jing Plea?"

Chang Zhong lowered his head and said, "The last general is sorry for the Hou Ye, five thousand marksmen...... It's really not all together. ”

"There are tens of thousands of people in the camp, can't you just catch 5,000 strong men?"

Chang Zhong was stunned: "'Grab it casually'? ”

Gu Qing nodded affirmatively: "Just catch it." ”

"Master Hou, how can a marksman be caught casually, the talent of a hundred steps through Yang is given by his father, our Anxi army has tens of thousands of people, it would be good to be able to gather ten marksmen, it is impossible to make up five thousand, Hou Ye is really embarrassed."

Gu Qing sighed and said, "You, you are really a pig brain, stupider than a pig." Li Siye is such a stupid and honest guy, let him make up three thousand Mo knife hands, half of them in one day, people's brains are more awake than yours, whether he has talent or not, let's get people together first, the important thing is not the marksman, but the quota, understand? After the Marksmanship Battalion, it was said that there were 5,000 people. ”

Chang Zhong became more and more puzzled: "Why is Master Hou suddenly in a hurry to expand the Divine Marksman Battalion?" Even if it is expanded, you can't find some useless guys to fill up the numbers. ”

"It's like building a house, laying a good foundation, first building the overall frame of the house, and then slowly ramming the earth and laying bricks, these five thousand useless guys are the frame, all I want at the moment is the frame, after the frame is done, I can eliminate them, and then slowly compile those who really have some marksmanship into the marksmanship camp, understand?"

"The last general still doesn't understand why Hou Ye is so anxious, training a sharpshooter battalion is a slow job, and he can't be in a hurry."

Gu Qing sighed: "I can't help but be in a hurry, because trouble is coming, and you will know in a few days." Shall I build the framework before the trouble comes, or will I be able to do it with the military order to gather 5,000 sharpshooters in three days? ”

Chang Zhong smiled bitterly: "If the Hou Ye only wants some indiscriminate guys to fill in, he will be able to complete this matter within half a day." ”

Gu Qing said with a smile: "Then half a day, tomorrow afternoon, I will wait for you to come to the handsome account to hand over the order." ”

After pondering for a moment, Gu Qing's eyes flashed, and he suddenly said, "You wait for me......"

Saying that, Gu Qing got up and entered the handsome tent, and quickly took out a piece of paper and handed it to Chang Zhong.

Chang Zhong took it, leaned into the dim torch outside the tent, looked at it carefully, and found that a slender pipe was drawn on this piece of paper, and the pipe had a plan and a section, which indicated the specific length of the pipe and the diameter of the hollow of the section.

Chang Zhong looked confused and said, "Master Hou, what is this?" ”

Gu Qing looked at this drawing, and said slowly: "I think about the things I figured out in my spare time, I want to know if the blacksmiths of the Western Regions can create such iron pipes, the iron pipes must be made of refined iron, the inner walls must be smooth and straight, and there is no room for any bends and unevenness, do the blacksmiths of the Western Regions have this skill?" ”

Chang Zhong gestured for a moment, and hesitated: "I'm afraid it takes extraordinary craftsmanship to create this thing, iron pipes are easy to make, and a mold is enough, but Hou Ye requires the inner wall to be smooth as a mirror, and does not allow a trace of concave and convex and bending, which is very difficult, and the old blacksmith who has been playing iron for half his life can probably not make it, and it is not easy to find such talents." ”

Gu Qing was not surprised, and said with a sigh: "Help me keep an eye on it, if necessary, you can send a few people back to Chang'an to look for it, and find someone who can build this pipe as soon as possible, I want not only one iron pipe, but many, many of them, and the amount is very large, and one or two blacksmiths may not be able to cope with it." ”

Chang Zhong was curious: "What is the use of Hou Ye creating this thing?" ”

Gu Qing sighed with a complicated expression: "A novelty that I came up with a long time ago, I always felt that the timing was not right, and I was afraid that I would become a guilty horseman, but now I can slowly make some preparations, and when it is done, it will definitely scare you." ”

Chang Zhong grinned: "Master Hou can't scare the last general, the last general crawled out of the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, and he is very bold." ”

Gu Qing sneered: "Heh, you are bold but you still keep covering your chest, are you shy or afraid that I will insult you?" …… In other words, General Chang's muscles are really cute, how do you train them? Tell us about the advanced experience. ”

"Master Hou, don't, don't ...... like this"

…………

Half a month later, the superintendent of the imperial history Pei Zhounan arrived in Anxi.

Early in the morning, a guard scout entered the camp to report, Gu Qing nodded to indicate that he knew, and did not go out of the camp to meet him, because it was not in accordance with the rules.

Gao Xianzhi is the envoy of the festival of a town, and Gu Qing is the deputy envoy of the festival and the prince Shaobao, from the second rank, theoretically on an equal footing with the prime minister of the current dynasty. And Pei Zhounan is just a seven-grade imperial history, and there is no reason for the officialdom to take the initiative to greet the lower officials, and if it is passed on, it will become a laughing stock.

Interestingly, according to the scout's report, this official of the Seven Grades Imperial History is not small, obviously a sesame official, but he brought a team of more than 1,000 people on this trip, including personal guards and troops, as if Li Longji prepared a dowry for Pei Zhounan.

Gu Qing asked people to go into the city to tell Gao Xianzhi, and then they practiced with the soldiers on the school field, and when they were halfway through the practice, the guards came, and Pei Zhounan had already gone to the gate of the camp to ask to see Gu Houye.

Gu Qing nodded, and asked again, "Is Gao Jieshuai here?" ”

The guard said: "I haven't seen you out of the city." ”

Gu Qing quickly figured it out, Pei Zhounan must have brought a holy decree today, and the holy decree was most likely to transfer Gao Xianzhi away from Anxi, anyway, he was leaving, there was no need to see this little imperial history.

Gu Qing sighed, Gao Xianzhi could ignore Pei Zhounan, but he couldn't, I'm afraid he would have to fight with this imperial historian in the future, so let's be polite on the first side today.

So Gu Qing left the school and walked towards the handsome tent, and instructed the guards to invite Pei Zhounan into the camp and meet the handsome tent.

Sitting in the handsome tent, he didn't have time to change his clothes, so Pei Zhounan arrived outside the handsome tent.

Only then did Gu Qing open the curtain of the handsome tent and welcome him out.

What caught my eye was a thin, expressionless middle-aged man, about thirty or forty years old, with a somewhat dark complexion, narrow eyes, and a fierce look, and his whole face looked quite handsome, but he always gave people the impression that he was by no means a good type.

Gu Qing's smile remained unchanged, and he stepped forward and said with a smile: "Pei Yushi drove to Anxi, Gu has never greeted him from afar, Pei Yushi forgive me." ”

Pei Zhounan still had that expressionless expression, and said in a flat tone: "Supervise the imperial history Pei Zhounan, meet Gu Houye." ”

Gu Qing said with a smile: "Pei Yushi doesn't have to be polite, in the future, you and I will work together in Anxi, and we will have less etiquette with each other, and we will meet every day, and it will be too troublesome to worship and worship." ”

Pei Zhounan said lightly: "Etiquette cannot be abolished, rudeness will inevitably make people hold the handle, because of small losses, it is very unwise." ”

Gu Qing blinked, quickly digested his words, and then said with a smile: "Gu has prepared good wine and good food, and washed the dust for Pei Yushi, Pei Yushi is invited." ”

Pei Zhounan saluted again and said, "Master Hou, forgive me, the lower officials never drink alcohol." Before entering the tent, I also asked the Hou Ye to accept the order. ”

Gu Qing was stunned for a moment, but still smiled, and bowed in the direction of Chang'an.

Pei Zhounan took out a roll of yellow silk with both hands, slowly unfolded it, and read it in a subdued tone.

The four or six texts were obscure, but Gu Qing had now mastered the knack of listening to the holy decree.

Throughout the ages, about three-quarters of the first three-quarters of the content of the Holy Decree is basically, either boasting or scolding, and the last quarter of the content is what the Holy Decree really wants to express.

Sure enough, when Pei Zhounan was about to finish reading the holy decree, he mentioned that the prince of Qinfeng, Shaobao, the doctor of Guanglu, and Hou Guqing of Qingcheng County were the envoys of the Anxi Festival, and they controlled the soldiers and horses under the command of the four towns of Anxi, and had the right to make decisions on the spot and act cheaply. The original Anxi Jiedu made Gao Xianzhi transfer to Chang'an and set off on the same day.

is still the same as the holy decree when he left Chang'an, which mentions "make a decision on the fly and act cheaply", but this time the meaning is different.

Li Longji sent a superintendent to Anxi, which clearly meant to supervise and contain him, how could Gu Qing "make decisions on the spot and act cheaply" in the future?

The royal historian in front of him doesn't drink alcohol, doesn't eat oil and salt, and doesn't seem to be easy to deal with, even if Gu Qing wants to get closer to the relationship between the two, it is impossible to use a hot face to stick to someone's cold ass.

After the holy decree was recited, Gu Qing was in a mood of no sorrow or joy, but the surrounding guards cheered excitedly, the news that Gu Qing was officially appointed as the envoy of the Anxi Festival soon spread throughout the entire camp, and for a time there were tens of thousands of people thunderous with joy, like a landslide and a crack, even the people in Qiuzi City heard the cheers of tens of thousands of people, and countless people were surprised, and they went out of the city on tiptoe, standing outside the camp from a distance and looking curiously.

Pei Zhounan was taken aback, and when he heard the tsunami-like cheers of the soldiers, his brows furrowed imperceptibly, and then he still maintained an indifferent expression.

Gu Qing had been paying attention to Pei Zhounan's expression, and when he saw him frowning, he suddenly cried and laughed in his heart.

Well, the first time we met, I don't know what impression it gave people, a coach is too popular with the soldiers, and it is not a good thing after all.

Pei Zhounan was cold and hard, but the etiquette was still very decent, and after entering the handsome tent, he consciously sat in the guest seat, and he sat down only after Gu Qing sat down.

The guards brought wine and food, and Pei Zhounan ate a few bites of food, but he really didn't drink.

After chatting a few words, Gu Qing mentioned Pei Zhounan's accommodation arrangements, and suggested that he live in the Jiedu Embassy Mansion in Qiuzi City, and when Pei Zhounan learned that Gu Qing had been living in the camp, he was immediately a little displeased.

"Lord Hou, please forgive the official for saying bluntly, in the past, Lord Hou was the deputy envoy of the festival, and it is understandable for Gao Jieshuai to live in the Jiedu Embassy's mansion, but from today onwards, Hou Ye is already the envoy of the Anxi Festival, and in the future, please live in the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion, so as not to lose the majesty of a town's Jiedu."

"Pei Yushi said very much, it's just that Gu has been in command for a long time, and he is used to the horns of the camp and the neighing of war horses, and he sleeps sweetly listening to these sounds every day, if he lives in Qiuzi City, I am afraid it will be difficult to adapt." Gu Qing refused neither softly nor hardly.

Pei Zhounan frowned again, and then avoided the topic.

"Hou Ye's Pingtubo policy, His Majesty has made a decision after convening the courtiers to discuss, the court from His Majesty to the courtiers, fully implement Hou Ye's Pingtubo policy, the lower official went to Anxi this time with more than 1,000 soldiers, Hou Ye must not think that the lower official is for pomp, this more than 1,000 soldiers are to help the lower official transport silver money, according to His Majesty's will, the lower official brought 300,000 taels of silver cakes this time."