As soon as the day dawned, the officials of Chang'an all took their carriages to the imperial city to rush to the second dynasty, and Li Longji issued a strict order, regardless of the cold or heat in the future, the officials of all ministries should enter the court on time, and the time of entering the court should be delayed for half an hour, so as to alleviate the pain of the officials who had to get up before dawn.

Horse-drawn carriages were drawn one after another, and passers-by on both sides gradually increased, and they all hid on both sides, not daring to argue with the officials. At this time, from the gate of Xuanyi Fang, a fierce sound of horses' hooves came, and hundreds of guards rushed towards Suzaku Street with a gorgeous carriage, stirring up bursts of yellow dust.

Not only the people, but even the ordinary officials hurriedly flashed to both sides, this is Yang Guozhong's carriage coming.

"Lord Xiangguo, the women are wronged!" Suddenly, a woman rushed out from the passers-by, she wore linen and filial piety, knelt on the road and wept bitterly, "Lord Xiangguo, be the master of the people's women!" ”

Yang Guozhong's carriage drove past her like a gust of wind, but the woman did not give up, and ran with Yang Guozhong's carriage, her voice becoming more and more shrill, "Lord Xiangguo, you are the head of a hundred officials in vain, do you regard the people of the world as ants?" ”

Yang Guozhong's carriage rushed out of a hundred paces, and suddenly stopped, and then a majestic horseback guard came back, leaned over and grabbed the woman, like an eagle catching a chicken, and carried it to Yang Guozhong's carriage and ran to the ground.

Yang Guozhong glanced at her through the car window, this is a typical peasant woman, dressed in a linen skirt, with big hands and feet, rough skin, and a dark and translucent face, obviously a person who has been working in the field for many years, but her voice is quite crisp.

"You woman, if you have grievances and hatred, you can go to the county government and the government office to complain, how can you say that I regard the people of the world as ants?"

He was very unhappy, and came out a little late, if he wasted time on her again. I had to be late today, but this woman was covered with a big hat and so many subordinates next to her. He didn't want to lose his reputation.

"Lord Xiangguo, I came from Shangzhou, I heard people all the way that Lord Xiangguo is honest and honest, upright, never fish the people, the villagers all say that the people of the Tang Dynasty will be able to live and work in peace and contentment under your governance, Lord Xiangguo, the people are wronged, please let me be the master!"

The woman's words, though obviously flattering, came from the mouth of a peasant woman at the lowest level. It has a different taste, which makes Yang Guozhong really comfortable to listen to. But he was going to go to the court, and he really didn't have time to spend time with her, so he casually took a famous thorn and handed it to the woman: "Take my sticker to the county office, no one will dare to snub you." ”

"Thank you, Lord Sangkook." The woman took the post from the guard with infinite joy. looked down, and suddenly her face changed greatly, "What, aren't you Geshu Xiangguo?" ”

Yang Guozhong was stunned, the heart boss was not a taste, and the woman made a mistake for a long time. Those flattering words are not for themselves. He restrained the displeasure of his heart. Try to say in a gentle tone: "Geshu Xiangguo is the left Xiangguo, and I am the right Xiangguo." The right is bigger than the left, haven't you heard? Yang Xiangguo in the capital. Yang Guozhong induced this woman, at this time he was a little nervous, she was the first time he had met the people at the bottom of the earth, what was his image in their minds?

Although Yang Guozhong has never taken these low-level people to heart, but it is rare to meet him today, and he actually cares about it, just like a student who never takes the ranking to heart, but when the teacher reads the ranking in public, he becomes nervous again.

The woman shook her head, "We folks only know that Geshu Xiangguo is the biggest official in the capital, and it is also the best official, and we have never heard of any sheep Xiangguo or Niu Xiangguo, I want to find Geshu Xiangguo, I don't want your piece of paper." With that, she returned the thorn to the guard, turned and left.

"Bold! In front of Xiangguo, he dared to be presumptuous. One of the guards raised his whip and was about to whip it at her back.

Yang Guozhong saw that everyone was watching, so he raised his hand to restrain him, "Forget it!" Don't worry about this grass people, you're going to be late, let's hurry! ”

"Drive!" The coachman flicked his whip, and the carriage started, escorted by a group of guards, faster and farther and farther away, and soon disappeared at the end of Suzaku Street.

The woman hurriedly walked into the crowd, and no one noticed that a sneer flashed in her eyes when she looked back at Yang Guozhong's carriage.

"Xiangguo, you don't have to take what this kind of stupid woman says." Seeing that Yang Guozhong had been silent, the accompanying guard chief knew that he was sulking because of the peasant woman's words just now, so he comforted him and said: "The Big Dipper is high, and Geshu carries a knife at night, most of these ordinary people know Geshu Xiangguo, they don't understand the affairs of the imperial court, and Xiangguo doesn't have to worry about them." ”

The more he said about Yang Guozhong, the more unpleasant it was, and finally Yang Guozhong broke off, "Enough!" Stop it. ”

He's bang! He closed the window with a bang, his face was gloomy, his mood was ruined all day today, and the peasant woman's words today were a mirror, which reminded Yang Guozhong from one side that Ge Shuhan had already posed a threat to him, didn't he? Ge Shuhan has now become the leader in the affairs of the Yongwang, and everything depends on his attitude, and he is the one who decides the decision, especially after he takes charge of the army, he no longer discusses anything with him, but directly gives orders to himself.

Yang Guozhong suddenly gave birth to a trace of vigilance, if King Yong ascended the throne, with Ge Shuhan and his closeness, would he still be able to keep the position of the right prime minister? A dark cloud quietly flew into Yang Guozhong's heart.

The carriage entered the Suzaku Gate and continued to walk along the Chengtianmen Street, and he passed through the imperial city, which was more of a symbolic meaning, playing an exemplary role in the hundred officials.

The office of the book province is in Daming Palace, Yang Guozhong needs to go out from Yanxi Gate in the northeast corner, and pass through Yongchang Fang and Guangzhai Fang to Danfeng Gate, but when he first arrived at Yanxi Gate, he heard someone calling him.

"Yang Xiangguo! Yang Xiangguo! He looked out the window of the car, and saw a carriage parked next to the city gate, and a person standing next to the carriage was waving to him, it was Zhang Yi, who had visited him last night.

Yang Guozhong's carriage stopped, he opened the window and said with a smile: "Zhang Shilang, what's wrong?" ”

Zhang Yi ran quickly, bowed down and saluted: "Yang Xiangguo, the carriage under him is broken, can you take a ride along the way?" ”

Yang Guozhong smiled and said, "Zhang Shilang is polite, come up." ”

"It is Zhang Yi's glory to be able to share the car with Xiangguo."

Zhang Yi climbed into the carriage, but glanced at Yang Guozhong, and Yang Guozhong understood. Immediately ordered the coachman to say: "Don't take the old road, never come to the courtyard." ”

The carriage started, and sure enough, it didn't go to Yongchang Fang. And keep driving in the direction of the sparsely populated Laitingfang.

"Xiangguo, this is a letter from His Royal Highness King Yong to you.

In his arms, he took out Li Lu's letter and handed it to him, and the envelope was sealed with fire paint, and there was no trace.

Yang Guozhong tore a hole directly from the side and pulled out the letter, the content of the letter was very simple, there was no royal family stationed in Lingnan, and Yang Guozhong was ordered to ask Li Yu, the king of Chu, to be the envoy of Lingnan Xuanfu. He is stationed in Lingnan for a long time.

Yang Guo was silent for a long time, if it was a day or two earlier. He would definitely agree gladly, but Li Yu had just visited him last night, which made him have the idea of leaving one more way, plus what the peasant woman said just now. At this time, his state of mind had changed subtly, and he had the idea of resisting this order of the eternal king.

"Xiangguo, Yongwang means.

Zhang Yi saw that Yang Guozhong was silent for a long time, so he tested him and said, "Does King Yong have new instructions?" ”

Yang Guozhong casually gave him the letter. "See for yourself!"

Zhang Yi knew the content of this letter for a long time. He pretended to look at it again. Said happily: "Xiangguo, this plan is very good. If Li Yu went to Lingnan, he would not be able to come back within a year and a half, just to give General Geshu time. ”

"It's Goshuhan again!" Yang Guozhong secretly gritted his teeth, he was extremely disgusted with this name at this time, seeing Zhang Yi's excitement overflowing on his face, he couldn't help sneering and said: "If I let him go to Lingnan, will he go to Lingnan?" Has His Royal Highness Yongwang already made sense to the emperor? Hum! There is no shadow of one, what is there to be happy about! ”

Zhang Yi couldn't help but be secretly surprised when he heard Yang Guozhong's bad tone, and corrected his mistake again: "I'm afraid that His Royal Highness wants Xiangguo to talk to the emperor about this, not himself." ”

"I'm going to say?" Yang Guozhong was even more unhappy, he stretched his face and said, "Why do you have to do everything?" I don't have the ability to do that, I have to say it himself. ”

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After speaking, he closed his eyes and ignored Zhang Yi again.

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"Did he really say that I should go and mention this matter to my father?" Yongwang Li Xuan Huo Ran turned his head and stared at Zhang Yi and asked.

Zhang Yi hurriedly bowed down and replied, "That's right! He said this, and it could be seen that he was very unhappy, and disdained His Highness's plan. ”

"Dismissive?" Li Lan sneered, "It's not that he is disdainful, but his heart is no longer in me, it seems that my temptation is right, he really colluded with Li Yu last night." ”

"Your Highness, do we immediately inform Brother Shuhan of this matter!"

Li Lan didn't answer, he paced slowly in the room with his hands behind his back, his heart was quickly evaluating the impact of this matter, last night he thought about it all night, Ge Shuhan's words were right, there was no year and a half, he couldn't control the military power in his hands, and he couldn't carry out military advice, if he acted rashly, I was afraid that Guan would be in chaos, and then An Lushan would be cheap in vain.

But Li Luan thought deeper, if Ge Shuhan really mastered the army, and he sent troops to abolish his father, would he definitely support himself as emperor? Or is he just a puppet, or even he himself replaces Li Tang, it's very likely! At that time, it was easy for him to add a yellow robe.

"Nope! Can't fully trust Goshuhan. In contrast, he would rather believe Yang Guozhong, after all, he can't be called emperor, Li Lan has realized that if Yang Guozhong doesn't support him, the loss will be far greater than that of Ge Shuhan, "Li Yu only visited Yang Guozhong for the first time last night, and there should be a chance to redeem it." ”

Thinking of this, he immediately walked to the table and picked up the pen to write a letter to Ge Shuhan, but he hesitated when he picked up the pen, and he didn't know how to speak, he guessed that Yang Guozhong must be worried that his right minister was not guaranteed, so he had doubts about himself, but he had indeed promised Ge Shuhan the position of right minister, and he had to promise to give this position to Yang Guozhong, so that he could go to Yang Guozhong and talk deeply about it, and officially give him this position.

Although he hesitated to write, but the matter had to be solved like this, Li Lan wrote a letter to Ge Shuhan vaguely, and did not directly say that he should give way, but told Li Yu about visiting Yang Guozhong, and asked him to persuade Yang Guozhong to turn back, after all, Yang Guozhong was pulled by him to himself, and of course he should be responsible for it to the end.

After writing, Li Lan found a confidant and ordered him to go to Tongguan as soon as possible and hand over the letter to Ge Shuhan.

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Two days later, Tongguan, Ge Shuhan has been serving as the generalissimo of the expedition to the east for more than a month, although his motive for obtaining the post of generalissimo is not pure, but the defense of An Lushan is still the first priority, coupled with the supervision of the army Bian Lingcheng, he did not dare to slack off, as soon as he took office, he personally supervised the work to strengthen the pass, and ordered the generals Wei Boyu and Wang Sili to train soldiers day and night, especially the soldiers who had no combat experience, and the time was arranged very tightly.

During this period, An Lushan sent Cui Qianyou several times to try to attack Tongguan, but all returned in vain, Ge Shuhan is a general after all, he knows that An Lushan's subordinates are almost all Fan soldiers and generals, these people can attack the city and plunder the people for a short time, if they want to stay in the principle for a long time, it is difficult to return to their hearts, once the Hedong Shuofang army captures Hebei, these Hu people will immediately be scattered, and collapse without a fight, so Ge Shuhan resolutely guards Tongguan and does not fight.

That night, he was discussing with his henchman General Huo Bao Guiren about the installation of cronies in the army, when he suddenly received a letter from Li Lu, saying that Yang Guozhong had deviated from his intentions, and asked him to persuade Yang Guozhong not to be half-hearted.

"Dashuai, I've always had an idea, I don't know if to talk about it?" The general Huo Turen is Ge Shuhan's hardcore henchman, as early as when Ge Shuhan was still a general under Wang Zhonghe, he followed Ge Shuhan, and he has always been his right and left hand.

"If there's anything you can't talk about here, you just say it, don't spit out."

Huo Diao Guiren saw that there was no one left and right, and said in a low voice: "Dashuai, why do you want to support what Yongwang to ascend the throne, you simply abolish the Li family, and ascend the throne as the emperor yourself, An Lushan can be called the Eastern Emperor, and the Great Shuai is the Western Emperor, with Tongguan as the boundary, the mountains and rivers to the west are the land of the Great Shuai, and the Great Shuai has 300,000 troops in hand, and he cares what they do!" ”

"Don't talk nonsense! Let people hear that you and I are both ruined. At the door of the tent, the probe looked out of the tent, and saw that there was indeed no movement, so he was a little relieved, and turned back to complain to him: "Do you think that 300,000 will listen to me?" If I rebel, at least half of the soldiers will defect to the court, and then you and I will die without a place to bury. ”

"What are you going to do?"

Ge Shuhan walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, sighed and said, "I'd better write a letter to persuade Yang Guozhong!" He is ordered to be loyal to the Yongwang with peace of mind, and if the Yongwang ascends the throne in the future, I will give him the right minister. ”