After drinking, the two of them sobered up in the garden of the back hall, and Qingmo Liumo guarded the garden gate with his own knife. Seeing that there was no one around, Li Yacheng's face darkened, and his attitude was very different from that outside.

He sighed and said to Li Mao sadly: "Half a month ago, the festival commander came back from playing on the polo field and suddenly fainted. Gao Mu and Li Gongdu took Mizhou back to the military government without the knowledge of the marshal, and Li Fanghe asked the clan elders to temporarily take charge of military affairs. In only three days and three nights, Yunzhou has changed.

After being treated by Ge Shenhe, the festival commander woke up and turned around, but the power had already fallen. Mizhou said that the status of the Chang'an Jinyuan is important, and you can't fake one person, and you must divide your power into two. The marshal proposed to let you serve as the envoy of the soldiers and horses in front of the ya, but they said that your time in the army was still short, and you had no outstanding military merits, and you were suddenly promoted to a high position, and I was afraid that the soldiers would not accept it. They forced the festival commander to let you go to Liaodong, and the festival commander was afraid that you would be implicated when you went back, so he had to agree against his will. ”

Li Mao said: "The heart of the festival marshal is caring, and Mao Ming feels five things." It's just that...... How could the handsome dragon spirit and tiger's fierce body suddenly faint? How could the two judges, Gao and Li, ......?"

Li Yacheng walked to the edge of a pool, picked up a stone and threw it into the pool, looked at the ripples scattered in a circle, and said casually: "In fact, the commander has always wanted to recover the old land of the Pinglu army, but he has not been able to find a suitable candidate. Now that the matter has come to this, it is also an opportunity, at least we can stand on the righteousness. ”

Li Mao knew that this was not his sincere words, and he waited patiently.

"Liaodong is not as good as Longyou and Anxi, and the Hulu of Liaodong at least admits that he is a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, and Bohai and Silla are still afraid of the Tang Dynasty. The reason why it has not been able to recover for a long time is that the Youzhou place has selfish intentions. And today, the time and place are favorable, and there are all three, and if I don't take it, I will be taken by others. ”

Li Yacheng said again: "Before I left, the marshal instructed me to let you recommend someone to be the assassin of Dengzhou, and I will support you nearby." ”

Li Mao said: "The power of personnel, how dare you put your beak." ”

Li Yacheng said with a smile: "You just suggested, whether it is successful or not, if you say it, it will not be counted, and it will not be counted if I say it, and it will have to be decided by Yunzhou." ”

Li Mao said: "Can Yunzhou still make a decision now? ”

Li Yacheng was silent and continued to say according to his own train of thought: "When you go to that wild place, you must always find someone you can trust and get along, otherwise you will be constrained everywhere, when will it be done?" ”

In Ziqing, the only people who are qualified to serve as a state assassin and talk to Li Mao are Jia Zhiyan, the deputy envoy of the branch, and Zhu Yong, the Marquis of Duyu. The deputy envoy of the branch is ranked as the top minister, very powerful, and is the minister of Li Shigu, even if Li Mao recommends, he may not be willing to let go, and then recommend Jia bluntly as the history of Dengzhou assassination, I am afraid that Jia bluntly said that he is not happy.

In addition to Jia Zhiyan, Li Mao can only think of the current military capital Marquis Zhu Yong who is worthy of this position.

He hesitated for a while, but still reported Zhu Yong's name.

Li Yacheng frowned, but he was secretly happy in his heart. Before he came to Chang'an, Zhu Yong specially came to ask Jia Zhiyan to help persuade Li Mao to recommend him as the assassin of Dengzhou.

Zhu Yong is a person who can do practical things and dare to do things, but his temperament is too upright, and he has offended many people in the appointment of Marquis Duyu.

Now the two brothers are fighting more and more fiercely, he is caught in the middle, in a dilemma, and his life is very sad. Dengzhou is near the sea, with sea salt, trade benefits, and rich places, so it is naturally a good choice to be able to do Dengzhou Thorn History.

After Li Shidao took charge of the real power in Yunzhou, the first knife slashed at Li Changshan, and he used a means of rising and descending secretly, so that Li Changshan replaced Zhang Shuye as the soldier and horse envoy of the Raising Sword Army, and kicked one of them out of the military palace.

Zhu Yong had a premonition that something was wrong, so he took the initiative to ask Jia Zhiyan's subordinates and begged Li Mao to help him get out of the sea of suffering.

When Li Yacheng left Yunzhou, Jia bluntly repeatedly asked him to help Zhu Yong do this, he thought it would take a lot of trouble, but now Li Mao took the initiative to call Zhu Yong's name, which saved him a lot of trouble.

There was something in his heart, Li Yacheng suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, so he invited Li Mao to go to see the hot spring soup house of Qingniyi. Li Mao smiled: "Doesn't someone believe in the Buddha and don't be in the company of that pink skeleton?" Li Yacheng said with a smile: "You Li Maohua is a disciple of Buddhism, why are there groups of wives and concubines at home, and you sleep outside in the willows?" ”

Li Mao said: "I have taken refuge in the Three Qings, and I am now practicing the Taoist method of dual cultivation for men and women. ”

Li Yacheng laughed and said: "Double cultivation is good, double cultivation is better than single practice." ”

Guanzhong is rich in hot springs, and Huaqing Pool is the most famous. The water quality of the hot springs in Qingniyi is average, and it is only because it is close to Chang'an City that it flourishes.

Because of the prosperity of hot springs, Qingniyi Station has also become very prosperous. When night falls, the streets that are still deserted during the day, suddenly there are groups of people, Chang'an has a strict curfew, but here is a place outside the law, a paradise for pleasure all night.

The biggest official residence of Qingniyi is Qingniyi, and the post general Zhang Dashan is definitely a businessman with brains, and under his leadership, the night market in this remote town outside the city is even more lively than Pingkangli in the capital.

The streets and alleys were bustling one after another, and Li Mao and Li Yacheng shuttled through the crowd for a while, and suddenly disappeared, which surprised the people who followed them.

The two flashed into a hot spring restaurant opened by a South Vietnamese person.

A bathhouse is a bathhouse, and a hot spring bathhouse is a bathhouse built using hot spring water, but the hot spring water used in this bathhouse is actually ordinary hot well water.

Of course, the people who come to the bath are not necessarily here to take a bath, so it doesn't matter if it's a real hot spring or a fake hot spring.

Li Mao and Li Yacheng pretended to be looking for visitors, and each picked two favorite women, and acted on the spot, leaving no flaws. Afterwards, the two went to a secluded private room.

In the misty room, Li Mao rewarded the maid with a bag of gold beads and sent everyone to wait next door.

The women rejoiced and withdrew.

"It's difficult to be handsome, we can't sit idly by."

"How?"

"Help the prince ascend the throne and summon Mizhou to the court."

"What if he refuses to be called?"

"Then summon the marshal to the court."

Li Mao said: "The fifth Shouliang and Ju Wenzhen are on the side of King Shu. Without the help of the Left Army, this plan would not have been possible. ”

Li Yacheng said: "What do you want me to do?" ”

"Luo Ling is running around for King Shu, he must know a lot of inside information, I want to know how King Shu will place Yang Zhilian."

Li Yacheng nodded and said, "Understood." ”

He pushed a liuzhen to Li Mao, but there was no wine in it, only a hemp paper letter without a seal.

"This is what the chief manager wants me to give you, and you have to make good use of it."

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Su Zuoming is a busy man now, and it is not easy to ask him to meet him for the second time, and if someone wants to ask him to take a bath in the Qingniyi outside the city, it is tantamount to a fantasy.

But the person who invited him today was unusual, and after thinking about it again, Su Zuoming still asked his godfather's godfather Yang Zhilian for a night off.

It was Li Mao who made an appointment to meet Su Zuoming, and Li Mao begged him to introduce Yang Zhilian for himself.

After the collapse of the military system, more than the sixteen guards of the Southern Ya have existed in name only, although the three guards of Jinwu, Qianniu and Jianmen still have troops, their strength is not as good as before, except for Jinwuwei, they have long been reduced to the vassals of the Northern Ya.

The Sixth Army of the Northern Ya and the Left and Right Shence Army replaced the Sixteen Guards of the Southern Ya to become the mainstay of defending the imperial power, among which the left and right Shence Army was the strongest.

The Shence army was originally a border army in the northwest, when Tang Xuanzong Ge Shuhan defeated Tubo, Tianbao 13 years put the Shence army in Taozhou Mohuanchuan, with Cheng Ruxuan as the military envoy, commanding the troops to defend the border, to prevent and contain Tubo.

This "Shence Army" is the name of the place, which is a military stronghold.

When the Anshi Rebellion began, Wei Boyu, the general of Cheng Ruxuan's army, led more than 1,000 people to the Central Plains to participate in the war. After that, the hometown of the Shence Army was occupied by Tubo, and the army under the command of Wei Boyu still used the name of the Shence Army, and Boyu was the soldier and horse. Boyu entered the court, and the army returned to Shaanzhou to make Guo Yingyi; Ying Yi entered the court, and the Shence army belonged to Yu Chaoen. During this period, Yu Chaoen merged the army under the jurisdiction of the Shaanzhou Jiedu Envoy into the Shence Army, expanding it to an army of more than 10,000 people.

In the first year of Guangde, Tubo invaded Chang'an, the forbidden army was defeated, Daizong went to Shaanzhou, Yu Chaoen led the Shence army to escort with Luan, and after Jingshi Keping, Yu Chaoen led the Shence army to return to the ban.

In the first year of Yongtai, the Tubo army attacked Guanzhong again, and the Shence army was divided into left and right compartments in the Tunyuan, and officially became the forbidden army of the Son of Heaven.

In the fifth year of the Great Calendar, Yu Chaoen died for his sins, and for more than ten years, he was led by the generals of his army.

In the fourth year of construction, Li Shi took Si Yiqing Bai Zhizhen as the envoy. The change of Jingshi, Dezong ran away. After the matter was decided, Li Shi thought that the civil and military ministers could not be trusted, and in the first year of Xingyuan, he ordered the eunuchs to lead the Shence army, and to know the soldiers and horses for the left and right wings.

In the second year of Zhenyuan, he changed the left and right compartments of the gods to the left and right gods.

In the twelfth year of Zhenyuan, he was placed as a lieutenant of the Shence Army and the commander of the two armies. Dou Wenchang and Huo Xianming led the lieutenants of the two armies.

The Shence Army has the dual nature of both a forbidden army and a field army, and in addition to the Suwei Palace, it is also divided into the fortresses of Jingshi, Jinnai and Guanzhong. In order to facilitate the command, the left and right Shence battalions were set up under the lieutenants of the two guards to command the armies of Gyeonggi and the region.

It was Yang Zhilian who succeeded Dou Wenchang as the lieutenant of the Zuo Shence Army, Yang Zhilian was born in a family of eunuchs, and accompanied Li Shi to take refuge in Fengtian during the change of Jingshi, and never gave up in times of crisis, which won Li Shi's trust.

Shortly after Yang Zhilian took over as a lieutenant of the Left Army, the Fifth Shouliang succeeded Huo Xianming as a lieutenant of the Right Army.

The left and right Shence armies each have two commanders, and they are two products. There is one general, and there are three products; Four generals, from the third grade.

There shall be one lieutenant of the guard, one lieutenant of the middle guard, three judges, two judges, one judge of each sentence, one judge of sentences, one officer of representation, one officer of support, two officers of Confucius, and two officers of drive.

It also imitated the establishment of the Sixteen Guards to set up one person for each of the chief history, the record of the military, the Cangcao military, the soldier Cao to participate in the military, and the military of Xuan Cao, two for each rank, three for each of the middle candidates, five for Si Ge and the halberd, and ten for each of the elders.

Most of the official positions above the general level of the Shence Army are led by senior military generals, and they are not actually in charge of the army, and the real power of the two armies is in the hands of the lieutenants of the protection army.

Unlike Yang Zhilian and Lao Cheng, who are serious and have a different neutral position, the fifth Shouliang behaves a little frivolously, and he fought with King Shu's faction at the beginning. There are forces in the court that want to use the crown prince Li Yu as seriously ill to support Li Yi, the king of Shu, as the crown prince. The reason why this group of people is so fearless is precisely because there is the fifth Shouliang behind him. (Dissertation College)