The year is generally also the day when the courtiers say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, end the old year's grudges, work, in order to make the year go smoothly, but An Lushan took the opposite road, on the first day of the new year, he beat Yang Guozhong's three sons, and sent people to Chang'an's restaurant teahouse to make a big splash, but I am afraid that the people do not know, the people in the market are originally interested in scandals, for a while in Chang'an City about An Yang's grudge is said to be all over the sky, there is said that An Lushan is stupid and unreachable, jealous people rise and go sideways, it is really a reckless man; It is also said that Yang Guozhong committed a military disaster, and was beaten by two major warlords one after the other.

Judging from appearance, almost no one likes An Lushan, with short limbs, a fat body with a big pumpkin-like head, and a pair of small slitted eyes on his wide face, but men can't look at their appearance, and it is no accident that this warlord in history almost overthrew the most powerful Tang Dynasty.

Some people say that An Lushan is good at drilling camps, coaxing Li Longji and Yang Guifei to be happy and obedient, and only then does he sit big step by step, but this is only one aspect, An Lushan's real success lies in his ability to use people, whether it is Shi Siming, Cui Youqian or Cai Xide, Tian Qianzhen, Tian Chengsi, Li Guiren, Sun Xiaozhe, etc., these are all famous generals in Hebei who have made great achievements.

Secondly, he has two henchmen Yan Zhuang and noble, Yan Zhuang is good at handling politics, under his deployment, to ensure Hebei's huge military horse grain and grass expenses and sufficient strategic material preparation, and noble is good at seeking power, it is his strategy that enables An Lushan to escape the worry of the rotation of border generals again and again, and climb to the high position again and again.

This time, it was a noble strategy to let An Lushan beat Yang Xiao with a stick and publicize it widely, and at this moment, in An Lushan's study, this thin middle-aged scribe was explaining his intention to An Lushan in detail.

"Can you know why Li Longji wants to use Yang Guozhong as his prime minister?"

"Why?" An Lushan blurted out, this is also what he has been puzzled about, he has dealt with Yang Guozhong several times. This person is mediocre, immoral, unlearned, and unskilled. To put it bluntly, it is a straw bag, such a person actually became the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, is there really no one available in the dignified Heavenly Dynasty? Of course not, the answer is not, which of those Shangshu and squire who came up from the state and county are not shrewd and capable, and even his An Lushan is much stronger than Yang Guozhong?

Now that Gao Shang said this, there must be a deep meaning, An Lushan pondered for a while and said: "I thought this was not just as simple as nepotism, Mr. thought it was right?" ”

"Not bad. So that you can see this step, the vision is already very human"

Gao Shang slowly walked to the window, lightly twisted the goat's beard and sighed: "In the hundred years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Li Dynasty has been plagued by two major diseases, one is that the power of the family is too big to fall, and the major families in Hedong and Shandong take turns to control the government. The world has accounted for seven points; The second is that the power of the prime minister is too strong, from the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the present, the monarch and the prime minister exert their own power, and the barriers are clear, but it can be seen from what Li Longji did in the late Kaiyuan period. He has been breaking these two stubborn diseases, using Li Linfu as the prime minister is to expand the monarch's power, in fact, he has also succeeded, the prince has not been established for three years, and no one dares to admonish directly, so now he must keep this achievement. ”

Speaking of which. Gao Shang turned his head to look at An Lushan, his eyes flashed with expectation, he had almost said that this last thin layer of window paper was left for An Lushan to pierce.

"Monarchy, family!" An Lushan muttered to himself, and suddenly his face suddenly realized, it turned out that Yang Guozhong was used for this purpose, and after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help but sigh for Li Longji's plan to kill two birds with one stone. is indeed clever, but he still doesn't quite understand the true intention of Gao Shang to let him beat Yang Xiao and publicize it widely. With a puzzled look, An Lushan once again looked at the noble.

Gao Shang has been with An Lushan for more than ten years, the two have already had a tacit understanding, An Lushan first suddenly realized, and then puzzled, Gao Shang knew what he was thinking, so he smiled slightly: "The emperor's art is in the power balance, Li Longji can be said to be the pinnacle of playing this hand, it stands to reason that Yang Guozhong rises, and there should be another powerful minister in the court to confront him, but I haven't seen any signs of Yang Guozhong's opponent so far, so I changed my thinking, will Yang Guozhong monopolize the power of the DPRK, this is actually his Li Longji monopolistic power, But Yang Guozhong must be on the right side, since he is not in the court, he should be outside the court, Li Longji is likely to cultivate a person who can check and balance Yang Guozhong in the local area, and make the king, although this person is not necessarily you, but you must find a way to make this person belong to you. ”

"So you're going to let me have a bad relationship with Yang Guozhong and let Li Longji focus on me?" An Lushan's eyes began to light up, this was indeed a very clever move.

"That's what I wanted to do."

Gao Shang glanced at him, but there was some worry in his eyes, "But I'm worried that there is a person who will compete with the envoy for this position, because this person has already made the first move." ”

An Lushan was shocked, "Do you mean Li Qing?" Then he shook his head again and again, "No! It's impossible, he's too young, he's too far away from Chang'an, it can't be him, and only Ge Shuhan can compete with me. ”

"Although he is young, he has a lot of qualifications." Seeing that An Lushan despised Li Qing, Gao Shang couldn't help but sigh lightly, and said, "Envoy, have you forgotten?" Back then, you said that this person was just unwilling, and once he did, he would

The earth is a strong enemy, and Ge Shuhan is just a brave man, how can he be on a par with the envoy's mention. ”

"This.

Although An Lushan said that Li Qing was his fierce rival, that meant that in the future, now he only positioned Li Qing as a general like Shi Siming and Cai Xide, and he was not qualified to be compared with him, but he had always obeyed noble words, and noble respect for Li Qing made him hesitate.

At this moment, a personal soldier shouted outside the door: "General Liu Bi has an urgent matter to see the marshal." ”

An Lushan was stunned, and Gao Shang immediately said on the side: "It's Yan Qing's business." ”

An Lushan frowned, and said unhappily: "What? Hasn't this matter been resolved yet? ”

"Maybe General Liu Bi already has an eyebrow."

"Useless stuff!" An Lushan snorted coldly and said, "Call him in!" ”

After a while, Liu Luogu hurriedly walked into An Lushan's study, at this moment, he was extremely nervous, he was not very concerned about Li Hu's gun to save Yan Qing, Li Lin was a timid person, as long as he was slightly coerced, he would hand over Yan Qing, but things were beyond Liu Luogu's expectations. I don't know why. Li Hugun actually sent Yan Qing's father and son to Li Qing's mansion, and he suddenly remembered that Li Hugun's sister and the county lord of Pingyang was not married to Li Qing?

Beads of sweat from the soybean earth flowed down Liu Luogu's neck, he half-knelt and performed a military salute, bowed his head and pleaded guilty: "My subordinates are incompetent, I am here to ask for death!" ”

"You mean you didn't find their father and son?"

"I found it, but it was snatched away again, and my subordinates had fewer people, and they couldn't beat them."

Liu Luogu has been operating in the capital for many years. has always been An Lushan's spokesperson, everyone knows it, but he actually dared to interfere, which shows that this person didn't take him to heart at all, An Lushan was extremely angry in his heart, and at this time, the noble man next to him waved his hand in a hurry. made him restrain his anger and stared at Liu Luogu for a long time, and An Lushan said gloomily: "Who is so bold that he dares to go against me An Lushan?" ”

"Returning to the handsome. Yan Qing's father and son are now in Li Qingdi's mansion. ”

"Li Qing?" An Lushan and Gao Shang glanced at each other, but they couldn't hide the shock in their eyes, just as they were talking about him, the matter came.

The noble thought turned quickly, if Li Qing stabbed this matter to Li Longji, even if An Lushan could get through. But it will affect his own immediate strategy, thinking of this, Gao Shang immediately decided: "Envoy, this matter is not trivial, why don't I accompany Envoy Jun to Li Qingdi's mansion to find out his tone." ”

An Lushan nodded slowly, "That's it!" Without further ado, we'll go now. ”.

Liu Luogu was right. Li Hugun did change his mind temporarily and sent Yan Qing's father and son to Li Qingdi's mansion, although he was mixed in the capital. He knows that with the cowardice and cowardice of his father and brother, they dare not take this kind of thing on their own, at most, they will secretly send Yan Qing and his son away, and then deny to An Lushan that he has seen Yan Qing and his son.

From this, he thought of Li Qing, leaving aside the factors that Li Qing is his brother-in-law and his former boss, Li Qing is also the person Li Hugun admires the most, from when a small businessman actually became the protector of Anxi, the champion general, and has a legendary experience, which is unique among their peers, and they want to follow with reverence, just take this opportunity to get close to him, and find a half-official position under his account.

At this moment, Li Qingzheng was sitting in the study looking at the account books that his subordinates had just taken, he was an expert in this area, only a few pages he saw the clues, the in is obviously greater than the out, and the inventory of some old accounts can be traced back to the early years of Tianbao, which is completely different from the report he saw when he was a household servant in the past.

However, this was also what he expected, if An Lushan had not been prepared for many years, how could he raise troops to rebel.

After roughly flipping through it, Li Qing closed the account book, and smiled at Yan Qing, who was sitting opposite and had been silent: "Yan Senjun cares about my Tang Sheji, and risked his life to come up with evidence that An Lushan wants to rebel, which is admirable and respectable, since someone threatens Yan Senjun's life, then you might as well live in my mansion, forgive him Ten An Lushan will not dare to enter the mansion to arrest people." ”

"Someone!" A soldier then walked in briskly and bowed to the order.

"Go and vacate a courtyard, and then send someone to bring Yan Senjun's family to the army, and call more brothers to guard it, and there must be no mistakes!"

"Yes!" The soldiers saluted, turned and hurried away.

At this time, Yan Qing finally stopped being silent, he stood up and saluted Li Qingshen, his eyes showed a look of emotion, and he said slowly: "Since the general introduced the new salt law back then, I have always had a prejudice against the general, and now it seems that I am pushing people with things, which is biased." ”

Li Qing also sighed, and said with a wry smile: "There are so many people in the world who have prejudices against me, it is no wonder, it was originally a policy for the benefit of the country, but now it has become a law that harms the people, it can be seen that any law still lies in the people, I set the upper limit in the salt law at a bucket of eighty wen, how could I have thought that now it has reached a bucket of five hundred wen, let alone expect that even tea is monopolized, hey!" I don't know how many people in the world are pointing at me and scolding. ”

Speaking of this, Li Qing waved his hand and said continuously: "Don't mention it!" No" Turning the topic back to the ledger, "Since Yan Senjun thinks that it is safe, then you can deduce that according to the current progress, how long will it take for An Lushan to be fully prepared." ”

Yan Qing pondered for a moment and said categorically: "If it is in terms of grain, grass and ordnance, he is already well prepared and can raise troops at any time." But if from his strategic layout. I thought it would be at least three years. ”

Li Qing was very interested, wasn't An Lushan's rebellion exactly three years later in history? He personally filled Yan Qing's teacup and encouraged him: "Yan joins the army, please keep talking, Li Jie listens!" ”

"The key is Hedong!" It has been more than ten years since the envoy was made, and there has been no water there, like an iron wall, but he has only taken over Hedong for more than a year, and Wang Zhonghe's influence is still there, and he must replace the middle and upper generals there. However, he couldn't make the court suspicious, so he could only slowly change it every year, and let the place return to him, which could not be done in two or three years, and besides, he received tens of thousands of stragglers from Li Xianzhong two months ago, and wanted to turn these soldiers into his private army. It also takes time, so I say three years, which is the minimum estimate. ”

"I see! I understand. ”

Li Qing looked at Yan Qing silently, and he analyzed it thoroughly. Let Li Qing remember some historical fragments, the beginning of the An Lushan rebellion in history was not smooth, the problem was in Hedong, he controlled Hedong for too short a time, and the local resistance in the counties of Hedong was fierce, and this Yan Qing was the most famous one. Their rebellion bought time for the imperial court to mobilize men and horses, and also made An Lushan's rear unstable, the Tang Dynasty had the upper hand, but unfortunately Li Longji was instigated by Yang Guozhong, out of the faint move, and finally led to failure.

He couldn't help but think to himself, 'This person is desperate, why not recruit him at this time?' ’

Come to think of it. Li Qing suddenly got up and saluted Yan Qing, and said sincerely: "Mr. Yan has given up his post. I don't know much about An Lushan, and I need Mr. Yan to guide me. ”

Yan Qing hurriedly got up and returned the salute, in the past few days, he has run into walls everywhere, and no one dares to get into trouble, but today Li Qing happily took it, so how can he not be emotional, besides, he really has nowhere to go, it is better to follow him, Yan Qing immediately nodded and agreed, "As long as the general can stop An Lushan's rebellion, I am willing to follow the work of dogs and horses!" ”

However, if he knew that Li Qingdi's original intention was to force An Lushan to rebel earlier, I am afraid that he would not have agreed so simply.

After Yan Qing stepped back, Li Qing carefully looked through the account book again, the records, drawings, and signatures in the account book were very complete, which could be regarded as ironclad evidence, which could be handed over to Li Linfu and let him be used as evidence to impeach An Lushan for rebellion.

At this time, it was already afternoon, Li Qing remembered that he had not eaten lunch, he quickly put away the account books, and was about to go back to the inner house to eat, at this time, the housekeeper came to report with a frightened expression: "Master, An Lushan is asking to see you outside the door." ”

Li Qing saw that his face was flustered and extremely ungraceful, and he couldn't help but reprimand him: "What about An Lushan!" Haven't you seen him more than the earth official? ”

"Master, it's not this, it's a soldier! There were thousands of soldiers, and we surrounded all the gates. ”

"Humph! Trying to threaten me. Li Qing sneered, did An Lushan forget that he was his companion? I'll eat him too.

"Go! Go and tell An Lushan that if his soldiers don't withdraw again, I will regard him as a rebellion, and at that time, don't blame me for being ruthless! ”

After a quarter of an hour, the housekeeper came again to report that none of An Lushan's guards were gone, and only An Lushan and a middle-aged scribe were standing outside, waiting to be received, Li Qing put on a coat and went out to welcome the guests.

"An Dashuai, I haven't seen him for several years, and the handsome face is as beautiful as yesterday, which is really enviable." Li Qing strode out of the mansion gate, and as he walked, he smiled at An Lushan and said, "Are you afraid that if I don't let the marshal enter the mansion, I will bring hundreds of soldiers to prepare to rush in?" ”

When An Lushan saw Li Qing from afar, he apologized and said: "General Hugh wants to blame me, my enemies are all over the world, so there will be some sergeants guarding me, not against your mansion." ”

"I'm just joking, I didn't expect Dashuai to really take it seriously."

Li Qing walked up to him, bowed solemnly again, glanced at Gao Shang and asked, "This gentleman seems to have seen it, forgive Li Qing for forgetting.

An Lushan hurriedly pulled Gao Shang over and introduced: "This is my chief staff, Mr. Gao Gao is also!" ”

"Huh! It turned out to be Mr. Gao, I remembered" and then smiled and made a gesture of please, and said: "Standing at the door and talking, aren't your legs sore?" Come! Two of you, please come in. ”

"Haha! Great General please! ”

Li Qing had just walked into the gate with two guests, but suddenly heard a rush of horses' hooves on the street behind him, and someone shouted loudly on the horse: "The emperor has a decree to order Anxi Jiedu to make Li Qing meet immediately!" ”