Li Zhi paid special attention to Zhang Jiuling, and there was another important reason.

An Lushan, who Zhang Jiuling had asserted that he would oppose, set off the Anshi Rebellion after his death, which led to the rapid decline of the Tang Dynasty from its heyday.

When this person was in charge of the government, he dared to speak out and advise the emperor, and repeatedly advised Xuanzong to be prepared for danger in times of peace and rectify the dynasty.

Xuanzong's favorite concubine, Concubine Wu Hui, wanted to abolish the crown prince Li Ying and set up her own son, she ordered the officials and slaves in the palace to lobby Jiuling, and Jiuling retired the envoy to fight in time, thus calming down the internal strife in the palace and stabilizing the political situation.

As for the actions of An Lushan, Li Linfu and other traitors, Zhang Jiuling even denounced them and tried his best to thwart their conspiracy.

Because An Lushan served as the general of Pinglu and lost in the crusade against the Khitan, Zhang Shouqi asked the court to behead him.

Before, An Lushan had entered Beijing to meet and met Zhang Jiuling, who was the prime minister at the time.

This coincided with An Lushan's violation of military law and was escorted to the capital to ask the court for a verdict. Zhang Jiuling did not hesitate to give instructions on the performance, and beheaded An Lushan for the sake of strict military discipline.

The famous "Sui Tho out of the army, must behead Zhuang Jia; Sun Wu gave the order and also beheaded the palace concubines. If the military order is carried out, Lushan should not be spared death. This is the content of the instructions at that time.

It's a pity that Tang Xuanzong didn't know Huayi's distinction, and after reading the approval, he said: "How can Qing think that Wang Yifu knows Shile, so he conjectures that Lushan is difficult to control?" ”

He did not give final approval, but in order to show the emperor's grace, An Lushan was released.

In the end, An Lushan rebelled, repeating the scene of the rebellion of the Shile of the Qiang nationality in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty.

The consequences of the Anshi Rebellion were extremely serious, the war caused the Tang Dynasty society to suffer an unprecedented catastrophe, destroyed the ruling foundation, weakened the feudal centralized power, created the necessary conditions for feudal separation, and made the Tang Dynasty rise and fall from prosperity to collapse.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty also lost control of the ethnic minorities in the surrounding areas.

An Lushan rebelled together, and the Tang Dynasty dispatched heavy troops in Longyou, Hexi, and Shuofang to the interior, resulting in a lack of border air defense, and the Tubo people in the west took the opportunity to enter and take advantage of the Longyou and Hexi corridors.

The Tang Dynasty still controlled the Northwest Court of the Western Regions, and decades later, around 790 AD, the Tang Dynasty lost the Northwest Court of the Western Regions.

Therefore, the Anshi Rebellion was a civil war in the Tang Dynasty for the right to rule, a turning point in the Tang Dynasty's decline from prosperity to decline, and also prompted the Tang Dynasty to begin to have a situation of separating feudal towns.

Li Zhi did not believe that he had the ability to revise history, although at this time it seemed that he had become a cultivator and seemed to possess transcendent abilities that ordinary people did not have.

However, to change the major historical events from now on, it is obviously contrary to the meaning of his rebirth, he does not belong to this world in the first place, and now Li Zhi feels more and more that he is an original member of the cultivation realm and even the immortal realm.

The special ability given to him by God is to return to his own side of the world to start a new storm, and not to stay in the mundane world to make trouble.

He was convinced that once he let the inherent trajectory of the Tang Dynasty change from now on, he was afraid that the will of heaven would wipe him out in an instant.

Li Zhi treated Zhang Jiuling only to ensure that he would not die halfway, and even secretly made a contribution when he asserted that An Lushan would rebel.

Perhaps his help can allow Xuanzong to think more about the Tang crisis and reduce casualties on the premise of not changing the course of history, Li Zhi believes that this is already his best effort.

The causes of the Anshi Rebellion were many, and they were a concentrated reflection of various social contradictions, mainly including the contradictions between the ruling class and the people, the contradictions within the rulers, the contradictions between ethnic groups, and the contradictions between the central and local separatist forces.

On this premise, Li Zhicai dared to make a part of the influence, as he is currently doing, not to eradicate Wu Zetian, but to devote himself to the royal family surnamed Li to reduce casualties as much as possible.

When he was thinking about it in his heart, Sun Simiao had already picked up the note and studied it carefully.

After a long time, he said: "It seems that the person who delivered the holy order did not believe in the reliability of the flying pigeon's book, like the beginning only replaced Li Xiangren with Er. ”

Mi Rui was in a good mood at this time, he never asked Li Zhi, and without waiting for him, he launched an action against Li Xiang and his family, whether it was indeed the order of the imperial court in Li Zhi's mouth.

Because he vaguely realized that the imperial court actually did not know what Li Zhi had done, but Mi Rui was convinced that Li Zhi was only dissatisfied with Li Xiang and the reckless behavior of the Guangzhou Assassin Mansion, which was not mixed with selfish thoughts.

Now that he has received a clear reply from the imperial court, his original anxiety has completely stabilized.

He replied with a smile: "Ma Ye's words are very reasonable, that is, I have participated in the actual crusade at this moment, and I can only connect the three words of Shang Fangjian in the literal sense with what happened in Guangzhou City. ”

Li Zhi restrained his thoughts and said casually, "The whole article is one thing, counteract with violence, and don't talk about killing!" Raising private soldiers and respecting oneself is an intention to rebel, and I think the next people who come to the court will be the result of the edict: all those who conspire against and rebel but conspire will be executed regardless of the head and subordinate; Fathers, fathers, sons, grandchildren, brothers, and cohabitants, regardless of surname, uncle, or brother, regardless of nationality, are beheaded, regardless of whether they are sick or disabled! ”

In his previous life, countless costume movies and television had expressed similar content of such edicts, and he could say the general content of it when he opened his mouth at this time.

"That's why I didn't stop you from going on a killing spree before!" Sun Simiao sighed, "Compared to Ling Chi's execution, a sword slash at this time is a preferential treatment, knowing that it can't be avoided, or this kind of death is a good end compared to Ling Chi!" ”

"It is precisely because of this consequence that Li Meng will not hesitate to use any means to find an opportunity to take advantage of the chaos, and those two master-level figures may be used to rescue the people in the cell." Mirui said.

Li Zhi sneered slightly, "Or as an ordinary person, how many people will do this?" Even a fool knows that at present, the Assassin's Mansion is a strictly controlled forbidden area inside and out, and the irrational actions of coming to send him to death will only come from people who have great power and think they are familiar with the rules of officialdom. But I don't know that once it involves rebellion, it will be in vain that even the king of heaven and Lao Tzu comes, I am sure that the so-called so-called in his mouth that someone in the court will help him to relieve him will not be false, but it is only because those people do not know that Li Xiang is an actual crime, once they know the truth, they are at the level of the prince and the prince, and they dare not open their mouths easily. ”

Mi Rui agrees with this reason, "And Li Meng and other elders definitely do not know the slightest bit about the actions of their descendants in Guangzhou City, but some of them have been troubled by the thoughts of courtiers, and always think that they can use their influence to turn big things into small ones." However, it is impossible for them to know that Li Xiang and others are so bold and arrogant, enough to cultivate tens of thousands of diehards, and it is a taboo in officialdom to support the army and respect themselves, but in fact, at the moment when Li Xiang's idea of private soldiers rose, he had already embarked on a road of no return! ”

"Speaking of which, I remembered, text, did you ask Xiang Yun about the secret force outside Magpie Island last night, who instructed it, and what was the intention? After all, Xiang Yun is only an executor, and the main messenger is not Li Xiang. Sun Simiao looked at Li Zhi.

Li Zhi replied: "The conclusion is somewhat unexpected, the main messenger is unknown, and the people on the island only know that the person is not from the East or Li Xiangqi, and they have only heard about it. Moreover, the duty of those people so far, in addition to improving their cultivation, is to go to sea to pretend to be pirates and rob. ”

"That's strange," Mi Rui frowned, "Li Xiang only knows that these people exist, and he can't tell who assigned Xiang Yun." Text, do you find that Xiang Yun is so tough, it doesn't look like he is an officialdom at all, even though he is from a military family! ”

Li Zhi nodded, "Although this person is only a second-level hunter realm, Fu Chen and I have also recorded his cultivation aura, which is not like that possessed by a Tang cultivator, but similar to the aura of some people on the island." And let Fu Chen set a mark at the entrance of that hiding place, as long as someone enters, he can feel it within a few miles! ”

Sun Simiao praised, "I have to say that Fu Chen's tracking technique is also ingenious, and it will be so useful." ”

"His ability is somewhat similar to that of Cry, he is born with it, and he does not have the essence of energy, but he can only know it by induction!"

"As far as I know, the ability of Cry is like the qi in your body, which belongs to external force infusion."

"It's also possible to have some kind of bloodline talent, but it needs to be activated."

"None of this is important at the moment," Sun Simiao led the topic away, probably not wanting Mi Rui to know too much, "Go and find Bei Zheng, I want to ask him something!" ”

Mi Rui did not call the government soldiers, but went out to look for them himself.

"This man is very smart, understands things, understands reason, knows official ways, and is good at observing words and feelings!" Sun Simiao looked at the disappearing Mirui Road.

Li Zhi had no objection, "Uncle Qingqi is very optimistic about him, and he has been cooperating with this person for more than 20 years, and King Ming intends to promote him in a timely manner." ”

Not long after, Bei Zheng arrived with Mi Rui, and Sun Simiao asked, "What can you find out about the Gu Liangcai mentioned by Fu Chen?" ”

Fu Chen's follow-up on Li Yi last night was due to his late father's friend Fan Chengshuang, and Fan Chengshuang was an ordinary person, and he had no problem in itself, and he was asked by another person named Zhuo Shan.

Zhuo Shan is the owner of a certain restaurant, although he has cultivation, he is just an ordinary low-level hunter, and he was requested by a person named Gu Liangcai.

The process is a bit complicated, in short, last night under a certain family, the person who secretly communicated with Fu Chen was that Gu Liangcai, and after Fu Chen left without saying hello, he quietly disappeared.

Before leaving for the suburbs, Sun Simiao instructed Bei Zheng to go back to Bei's house to inquire about this person, and only got three words from Gu Liangcai, and the family that this person mixed into didn't even know that this person existed.

Before dinner, Bei Zheng was sent back to Bei, and the head of the Pei family had already launched a large-scale search for this person.

Bei Zheng replied: "It's still just some scattered news, but it has been confirmed that the name Gu Liangcai has been used for a few years, at least since he appeared in Guangzhou. This person is a first-class master realm, it is said that he comes from Liaodong, and he is a businessman on the surface, and he has indeed been doing some business in recent years, mainly to transport the European and Western Regions specialties unloaded on the dock back to the north for sale. ”

"This information is very common, and it doesn't seem to be of much use!" Li Zhinian muttered.

"There is a piece of news that I don't know if it's useful, this person seems to be picking up some smuggled goods, and the Bei family is currently looking for some gang members on the dock to investigate. The source said that he had been seen in contact with a returning smuggling vessel in the middle of the night. ”

"What does this mean?" Sun Simiao asked.

"Ma Ye didn't know that there was an agreement between the seven wharves in Guangzhou Port, and smuggling ships were not allowed to trade directly with merchants, and they had to go through the wharf gangs, because they had to take commissions. Moreover, the smuggling ship can only go to sea or return at night, and it is strictly forbidden for merchants to approach during that time period, and there is a special person to take care of it! ”

Li Zhi quickly realized the strangeness: "Does it mean that there are only two situations that the two sides can get in touch." One is that there is an old acquaintance between them, and that Gu Liang has a way to blend in with the ranks of smugglers; The second is that he himself belongs to the gang, otherwise he would not be recognized by the smugglers just by buying off the caretaker. ”

Bei Zheng nodded, "There is another possibility, he is the owner of the smuggling ship or the person involved in the smuggling." ”