The day after the departure of the soldiers, Guo Song ordered the construction of thousands of carts, this news made many people suspicious, and Shi Cui Wenjing, the governor of Hexi Jiedu, was one of those who did not understand, and he found Guo Song.

"Why did you build thousands of cars?" Cui Wenxiu asked suspiciously when he entered the door.

Guo Song smiled faintly: "Whether it is from Hexi to the capital, or from Ganzhou to Shazhou, a large number of materials are needed, but there is no big river communication in Hexi, and it can only be transported by animal power, but I still think it is not enough to rely on camels alone, and it still needs a large cart for transportation. ”

"Of course I can understand, it's just that there are rumors in the city that the envoy wants to transport the supplies from Hexi to Anxi, and the Son of Heaven has made it clear that he will no longer support Anxi, and we ourselves are short of supplies, will this cause dissatisfaction among the people and soldiers?"

"Since it's a rumor, why should Cui Changshi care?"

"Humiliation is just a kind reminder."

"Thank you Cui Changshi for your kind reminder, as the chief official of Hexi, I will consider it holistically, and I will be responsible for my own decisions."

Guo Song's answer was very decisive, and he didn't give Cui Wenjing any chance, Cui Wenjing was bored with herself, so she had to leave in a huff.

These days, the military room has been closed, Tian Wenxiu stayed in the mansion and did not come to the official office, and the impeachment letter of ten thousand words three months ago was finally closed, which made Tian Wenxiu very frustrated, and the Son of Heaven did not have any explanation, he didn't know what went wrong, and Tian Wenxiu spent a whole month in anxiety.

Finally, two months ago, he received a secret letter from the head of the family, Yuan Xuanhu, in which he told him that the impeachment letter had worked, but it would take time, and Yuan Xuanhu asked him to lie dormant as low as possible to protect himself.

With the instructions of the head of the family, Tian Wenxiu no longer showed up, and spent most of his time dormant in the mansion, but he did not hide his eyes and eyes, and still sent his entourage out to understand the situation, and learned some information from Cui Wenjing.

At noon, Cui Wenjing came to the prison mansion, came out of the carriage, and more than a dozen internal guard soldiers stood in the distance, looking at them coldly.

"Tian Jianjun, it seems that the surroundings of your mansion are being monitored."

Tian Wenxiu snorted with a gloomy face and said: "Of course our family knows that half of the entourage sent out by our family has not returned, and in the past half a month, our family has not dared to send people out, and the surname Guo has become more and more unscrupulous. ”

The two walked into the lobby and sat down, and Tian Wenxiu asked again: "What is the situation over there?" ”

"It's much the same as you, the Sogdian merchant who sent me the pigeon letter before has disappeared, I haven't heard from Lu Xiangguo for three months, and I don't dare to send someone out to deliver the letter now, for fear of being arrested, I don't hide it from the army, and my house is also being monitored."

The two were speechless for a while, and now it doesn't even make sense to scold Guo Song, Guo Song did it, this is power, they have no power to fight back in the face of power.

Tian Wenxiu was silent for a moment and said: "Our family still wants to send a letter to the saint, is there a way for Changshi?" ”

"Does faith matter?" Cui Wenjing asked.

"Very important."

Cui Wenjing was silent for a moment and said: "There is actually only one way now, that is, the prison army returns to Beijing, and does not write any letters, and reports to the saint in person." ”

Tian Wenxiu said worriedly: "But...... Our family was afraid of being ambushed by the surnamed Guo halfway. ”

"This shouldn't be, he didn't really rebel, he won't assassinate the prison army in order to block your mouth, once the prison army is killed, the imperial court will blockade Hexi, all kinds of materials can't come, and even wine can't be transported into Beijing.

Now although the military is in arrears, the imperial court's delivery of other materials to Hexi is normal, and the wine of the Hexi army can be sold normally, no matter how much he hates you, there is no need to cause the serious consequences of being blocked by the imperial court in order to kill you, you underestimate Guo Song too much. ”

Tian Wenxiu was a little relieved, the head of the family also asked him to find an excuse to go back to Chang'an, and if he stayed in Hexi, he would be killed by Guo Song sooner or later.

Cui Wenjing took out a thick stack of materials and gave it to him, which was the basis for him to collect various situations in Hexi as the basis for Tian Wenxiu to write a work report.

In the afternoon, Tian Wenxiu found Guo Song and proposed that he would return to Beijing to report on his work, hoping that Guo Song would send troops to escort him.

Just as Cui Wenjing judged, Guo Song did not embarrass Tian Wenxiu in this matter, but readily agreed to send a hundred cavalry to escort him back to the capital.

.........

There is a manor covering an area of 100 hectares in the northwest of Chang'an, called the fishing manor, this is because the owner of the manor Zhu Zhu loves fishing and gets the name, there is no farmland in the manor, only a large forest and grassland, as well as rivers, ponds and lakes, every summer and autumn, Zhu Zhu will come here to live here for ten days and half a month, fishing, hunting, self-cultivation.

But this time, Zhu Zhu lived here for a long time, from March he resigned from the Jingyuan Festival to now, he has been here for three months, in his words, he is obese, riddled with diseases, need to find a beautiful scenery in the suburbs to recuperate, every day there are famous doctors from Chang'an to see him to see a doctor, in addition to seeing a doctor and taking medicine, Zhu Zhu spends most of his time fishing by the river every day.

At the beginning, Li Shi, the son of heaven, often sent people to visit, but after a long time, Li Shi saw that Zhu Zhu was really recuperating, so he gradually stopped paying attention to him, and handed over the task of monitoring Zhu Zhu to the Hidden Sword Pavilion.

In fact, the reason why Zhu Jun wants to live in the manor outside the city is not to recuperate and fish, the military power of the Jingyuan Army is still firmly controlled in his hands, he needs to listen to the report and make instructions, it is inconvenient in the city and easy to be discovered, and in the manor outside the city, he can even secretly return to the barracks without anyone finding out.

Zhu Jun successfully deceived Li Shi, the son of heaven, and began to implement his plan in full swing.

At noon on this day, Taichangqing Yuan Jin came to the fishing manor on behalf of his father Yuan Xuanhu, and Zhu Zhu personally came to the gate to welcome Yuan Jin's arrival.

The two rode slowly through the meadows in the forest.

In the face of Yuan Jin's dissatisfaction and doubts, Zhu Jun had to explain: "The original plan was to operate in April, but the defeat of the Youzhou army on the Hedong battlefield disrupted our plan. ”

"What my father means is to revise the plan, don't consider the response of the Youzhou Army, now the Longyou Army, the Fengxiang Army and the Jingyuan Army are all in our hands, which is enough to deal with the tens of thousands of garrisons on Bashang."

"And the defenders of the city and the palace?"

"Don't worry about that, we'll arrange it."

Zhu Jun was silent for a moment and then asked, "What does the head of the family mean, when will you do it?" ”

Yuan Jin smiled slightly: "It's soon, wait patiently, the time will come soon." ”

"What do you say after it's done?"

"We have long said that the Zhu family takes the interests of the Zhu family, and the Yuan family takes the interests of the Yuan family, we are collaborators and allies, and there is no conflict of interest."

Zhu Jun squeezed out a smirk on his face and nodded, "As Yuan Gong said." ”

At this time, Zhu Jun suddenly asked: "Although Zhu Tao's attack on Hedong failed, I believe that the Yuan family still has a backhand, right?" ”

"What do you mean by that?"

Zhu Jun smiled gloomily: "Brother Ling Yuanlu hasn't seen him for several months!" How is he now? ”

Yuan Jin glanced at him vigilantly, and said lightly: "He's all right, don't worry about Zhu Gong." ”

.........

At the foot of Hutu Mountain in the west of Taiyuan Prefecture, there is a large manor with a mountainous area of 200 hectares, which contains rivers, forests, hills and valley floors, as well as rows of houses.

"Kill!"

Ten thousand Zhuang Ding brandished spears, neatly aligned, and from a high place, the black pressure training array was very spectacular.

On a high platform in front of the clearing, Yuan Lu watched Zhuang Ding training expressionlessly, followed by five or six generals.

"Saburo, why don't you put on your armor and train?" Yuan Lu asked with some dissatisfaction.

San Lang is a child of the Yuan family next to him, called Yuan Ren, is Yuan Lu's nephew, once served as the training envoy of the Shizhou regiment, and has very rich experience in training the army, and the other generals are all Yuan family generals, who have served the Yuan family for generations and are loyal.

Yuan Ren hurriedly bowed down and said, "Second Uncle, if you put on the armor, it will be too conspicuous, and it will cause trouble when you are seen." ”

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, land annexation was extremely serious, Haoqiang manors abounded, a large number of people disappeared from the official registration book, became Haoqiang vassals, and it was an open secret to keep Zhuang Ding in the manor, but most of them only had one or two hundred Zhuang Ding, in order to protect the safety of the manor, like the big manor in front of him, which raised tens of thousands of Zhuang Ding, the Tang Dynasty was still relatively rare.

Yuan Lu shook his head, "This doesn't work, you have to wear armor and train, this is called a soldier, and they themselves will have a sense of being a soldier, understand?" ”

"Nephew understands, and this makes them put on armor."

Yuan Lu said again: "I'm going to Jinyang County, I hope that when I come back, I can see the majestic army training!" ”

"Obey!"

Yuan Lu immediately asked people to prepare horses, and he rode to Jinyang County, dozens of miles away, with a dozen of his entourage.