Longshou Mountain's reason is located in the Baoning Fang in the south of Chang'an City, hanging the brand of the Dadong Trading Company under the Procurement Office of the Right Weiyuan Army Grain Institute, and now although it is named Long Xiang Army, the sign is still the same as before, the difference is that after the official separation, Li Mao no longer went to Baoning Fang, he moved his shogunate into the right Weiyuan army camp, and the special force that was specifically responsible for clearing the "faceless" in western Beijing also entered the right army camp, named the left wing ranger battalion of the Right Weiyuan Army.

After the separation of Longshoushan, the main body of the intelligence collection system remained in Baoningfang and was placed under Lin Ying's name. The newly formed intelligence collection system and personnel for the "faceless" people in western Beijing, the Tibetans, and the Uighurs moved with Li Mao to the camp of the Right Army.

The work of collecting foreign intelligence has just begun, and it is still very unsystematic, and the personnel are all selected by Li Mao, leaving them little room for choice after the separation.

The four major places of Longshou Mountain are still retained, and they continue to stay in Baoningfang, and Li Mao and Lin Ying both have the right to command the four major places, but in addition to the General Affairs Office, Li Mao's power is gradually shrinking, and he is ready to start anew.

Starting from scratch, the most important thing is to choose people, and Li Mao now has two cadres in his hands: Chang Mucang and Chen Shu. Chang Mucang has been freed from Baoning Fang, and it is naturally no problem to use it, but whether Chen Shu wants to be transferred back is worth considering.

The idea has not yet been decided, but Chen Shu took the initiative to meet Li Mao, he said that he was willing to continue to stay in Baoningfang, Chen Shu had many reasons, but Li Mao did not have the patience to listen, he only started and was interrupted by Li Mao. Li Mao had already figured it out, and it would also be good for him for Chen Shu to stay on Lin Ying's side.

Under the auspices of Chen Shu, the group has developed into a force to be reckoned with in Longshou Mountain, and Li Mao believes that Chen Shu's choice should be respected to a limited extent.

From the very beginning, Chen Shu's body was marked with Li Mao's mark, and it is still today, and staying in Baoningfang at this moment means that his future life will be difficult.

Li Mao would like to hear his views on this point. Chen Shu said: "I have thought about this carefully, if I can't even carry this level, I won't have much use as a person." ”

Li Mao said: "According to the meaning of the saint, Longshou Mountain is divided into two, but after all, it is still a family. When a family eats in a pot, the spoon and the pot will inevitably bump and bump, but if the pot is broken, no one will be able to eat, and you must keep this in mind. ”

Chen Shu said: "I remember. ”

Chen Shu couldn't come over, Li Mao entrusted Chang Mucang with full responsibility, the general affairs office seems to be a trivial matter, trivial and troublesome, and it is difficult to make merits, but for a layman, this is the most effective entry point to get acquainted with an organization. At the beginning, Li Mao put Chang Mucang in that position just for this day.

With Tsunekikura's talents, he should not be bogged down in specific trivialities, he should coordinate the overall situation from a higher and farther perspective.

Li Mao asked him to make an overall plan and set up two institutions, one for screening, tracking, and hunting uninvited guests who got into the Datang Domain, and the other for sending uninvited guests to break through the barriers of other families and infiltrate into the courtyards of other families.

This is undoubtedly a great trust in Tokikura. However, Li Mao was also a little forced to make this decision, he was now helpless, and he didn't have too much energy to spend on these things. He has another important mission to accomplish at the moment.

After Liu Pi's request to lead the envoy was rejected, he changed his tough attitude and pleaded guilty with sincere words. Liu Pi sent an envoy to Beijing, saying that he wanted to return Xichuan's editions, and hinted that he was willing to return Xichuan's power to appoint and dismiss officials to the imperial court.

In the later period of Wei Gao's governance of Xichuan, the appointment and dismissal of officials in the administration was completely decided by him, from the shogunate, the local assassin history, and the county order, down to the book history, Xu officials, Wei Gao made a decision, but the imperial court only issued documents according to the request, and this abnormal state was maintained until Wei Gao's death, and only in his testament did he mention the idea of returning the appointment and dismissal of Xichuan officials to the imperial court.

Knowing that this was a big cake painted by Wei Gao before his death, some people in the court were really happy for a while, and Wei Gao, who had been in Xichuan for 20 years, also concluded that he was a loyal minister.

In Li Mao's view, this is clearly Wei Gao's small insect carving technique before his death, and the intention is nothing more than to anesthetize the imperial court, in order to protect his loyal name, and to help Liu Pi gain a firm foothold in Xichuan.

Li Mao had specially warned Li Chun about this matter, and he had also tactfully reminded Du Huangshang, but the effect was not good, neither Li Chun nor Du Huangshang ignored Li Mao's kind warning and did not pay the necessary attention.

On the other hand, the whole court was busy mythologizing Wei Gao, shaping him into a meritorious and loyal soul of the Tang Dynasty who had guarded the frontier for 20 years.

Now looking at Li Mao's worries, it is not groundless, Wei Zhongchen, who the court has worked hard to establish, has not touched Liu Liuhou, who has different intentions, once Liu Pi has a firm foothold, he is busy singing against the court. His show of weakness was also completely expedient, and his real purpose was to delay time and gain the most precious time for him to use force to solve the Dongchuan and Shannanxi Dao problems.

Lin Ying's intelligence work is mainly concentrated in the hinterland of Chang'an, Luoyang, Wujing, and Guanzhong, and it is easy to produce results and be recognized by the above, but the result of not paying enough attention to hot and sensitive areas is that once these areas trigger sudden changes, Longshou Mountain will appear extremely passive.

The failure to open the eyes of the sky made the government and the opposition blindly optimistic.

Coupled with Liu Biguan's full of ** soup, there are not a few people who are fooled and pretend to be fooled, and the court believes that Liu Pi knows that his mistakes can be corrected, and he is a loyal minister of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, less than three months after the imperial court issued an edict to reprimand Liu Pi for acting as Meng Lang, he officially issued an edict to grant Liu Pi the title of envoy.

But at this moment, only one festival can no longer satisfy Liu Pi's appetite, and he went to the court to ask for both Dongchuan and Shannan West Road, and be the envoy of the Three Towns Festival. At this moment, it is less than half a month before Li Quanzhong's prisoner sacrifice ends.

The princes of the imperial court were furious, and the voices of crusade came and went, but there were also people who had eaten Liu Pi's benefits to make it clear for him, in the name of the difficult and dangerous Shu Road, and the new dynasty was not suitable for crusade at the beginning of the new dynasty, and persuaded the court not to make a big move.

Du Huangshang asked these people: "Liu Pi asked for the envoy of the Three Towns Festival, has there ever been such a precedent in the history of the dynasty?" ”

One person also led the three towns of the festival envoy, in the history of the Tang Dynasty appeared, the most famous is An Lushan, An Lushan before the rebellion had led and led the Pinglu, Fanyang, Hedong three towns of the festival envoy, the male army rode 200,000, the total number of troops accounted for half of the world, the power was overwhelming, so that once the rebellion, no one in the world could control it, resulting in a major disaster that almost overthrew the Tang Dynasty.

Du Huangshang's words no one dared to respond, Liu Bi's request to lead the three towns to make it absurd and ridiculous, the court has no reason to accommodate, if it is not accommodating, it will be started, Liu Pi's Xichuan is far less powerful than the three towns of Fanyang, Pinglu and Hedong, and Liu Pi's crazy scholar is far less scheming than An Lushan, who has a deep heart and means to fight, and it seems that he can win.

However, the Tang Dynasty's previous wars with the feudal towns since Zhenyuan finally came to an end, and the imperial court could only gain more than money and grain and lose face, but all that could be gained was unprincipled and bottomless compromises again and again.

Don't talk about Xiazhou, it was just an accident, there was a Li Quanzhong in Xiazhou, and Li Mao, who happened to be good at fishing for the wrong door, passed by, and the wind and clouds met to win the surprise attack. There is no Li Quanzhong in Chengdu, and Li Mao did not send an envoy to Nanzhao to pass by, and counting on the civil strife in Xichuan is tantamount to a fool's dream.

If Xichuan is not chaotic, with the hardships and dangers of Shu Road, the imperial court is very sure that it can quell this long-planned rebellion, you Du Huangshang is a good hand at saying big words, can you scare Liu Pi to death by saying a few cruel words? Apparently not.

Although he did not travel the world like his brother Li Jie, and traveled all over the three hundred military states of the Tang Dynasty, he was by no means at home, and he had traveled to Wujing of the Tang Dynasty, Yangzhou, Weizhou, Chengdu and other places.

The road to Shu is difficult and dangerous, and Xichuan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, this truth does not need to be told to him by those chattering ministers in the court, Li Chun knows it very well in his heart.

Liu Bi's unreasonable request Li Chun did not intend to agree, or the last sentence - the imperial court has the discipline of the imperial court, and the envoy of a feudal town without a ruler said that he wanted to take over the three towns, and the imperial court agreed, so if someone wants to take the Jingzhao Mansion in the future, will he also agree to him?

"Liu Piyi is a crazy scholar, Your Majesty must not tolerate and accommodate."

When the monarchs and ministers of Yanying Hall played right, Du Huangshang once again reiterated his opinion, fight, Xichuan This battle must be fought.

In addition to Du Huangsheng, there were two other prime ministers, Jia Tan and Yuan Zi, as well as chief officials of the Duzhi, Transport, and Military Divisions, and Li Mao, the Shaoqing of Honglu, was also allowed to participate in the recital, on the grounds that if the imperial court used troops against Xichuan, it would need to assess the reaction of the Tubo, Nanzhao, and Nanban Tu tribes to the use of troops.

"It is necessary to fight, the current difficulty is how to fight, Li Taibai said that it is difficult to go to the blue sky in Shudao, Liu Bi has lived in Xichuan for many years, is familiar with geography and people's conditions, and has been planning for a long time, what is the certainty of the court to win this battle."

Yuan Zi is a moderate faction, although he also agrees that this battle must be fought, but he is not as optimistic as Du Huangsheng, he stressed that if this battle cannot be avoided, we must make sufficient pre-war preparations, and not like Du Huangshang said to fight, he thought it was too risky.

Yuan Zi's views were agreed by most officials, and everyone said yes, with a small voice, but a very resolute attitude.

Li Chun glanced at Li Mao quietly and asked, "What does Li Shaoqing have to say, is it advocating beating or appeasement?" ”

Li Mao came out of the class and said: "It's best not to fight naturally, Sun Ziyun's soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored." But then again, if this battle is not fought, it will undoubtedly send a very bad signal to the careerists of the world, that is, the court only dares to pick up soft persimmons and pinch them, and the slightly harder persimmons will be helpless. Liu Bi, a scholar with no talent and no virtue, can still lead the three towns at the same time, what do you make those ambitious and ambitious marshals think, if they go to the court and say that I want to lead four towns, five towns, or even six towns and seven towns, do you have to agree to them? If you don't promise them, you will rebel, and if you promise them, it won't be long before the Son of Heaven can point to the land of the two capitals. When the time comes, the money and food will be insufficient, and I am afraid that the princes' salaries will be a problem. So this battle has to be fought, and it has to be fought as soon as it is said, and it is impossible to beat him to steal the bell. ”

Li Mao was not from a high background, and he was not from Shilin, and he suddenly rose to the top of the ranks, and he was a ruffian in the eyes of the scholars and doctors who relied on the door and stood up in the imperial court.

Du Huangshang smiled when he heard this, and secretly praised Li Mao in his heart for having a way.