Eldest brother! I'm here. Outside the door of the mansion, a young man was working hard and dark to Gao Shang, and he couldn't see his face, but from his voice, Gao Shang heard that he was his own brother Gao Yun, so he walked up quickly, Gao Shang was a Jinshi during the Kaiyuan period, and he couldn't wait for the official, so he took the most common road at that time, and joined the warlords and magnates as his staff, so as to Bo Future, he knew people with his eyes, regardless of the shame of others, and resolutely took refuge in An Lushan, which had not yet developed at that time, and with An Lushan's step by step, he also slowly moved towards the glory of his life.

"Brother Yun, why are you here?" Darkness, there is still a person standing next to his younger brother, carrying luggage, presumably his servant family, Gao Shang did not pay attention for a while, his younger brother is farming in Shangzhou, usually has little contact, how can he be free today, and he is coming to Chang'an instead of Youzhou, Gao Shang is really puzzled.

"I heard that my eldest brother has been promoted, I came to congratulate him!" His younger brother said as he looked at An Lushan's magnificent mansion, and sighed again and again: "This mansion is more magnificent than the state government, and it is good to be an official!" ”

"What did you say?" Gao Shang was stunned for a moment, he saw a smile on the face of the person next to him, not like a subordinate, so he couldn't help but point at him and ask, "Who is this?" ”

"Isn't he Mr. Jia sent by my eldest brother to pick me up?"

"What!" Gao Shang was taken aback, he suddenly reacted, this is deceitful, he yelled, "Someone!" He turned and ran, but it was too late, and the smile of the person next to him had become extremely strange and hideous, and he raised his hand, 'Whoosh!' With a bang, a cold light shot out of his sleeve, sinking into the back of the noble head, and then he ran several steps in succession. Jump down the stairs. By the time the soldier at the door reacted, he had disappeared into the twilight.

When An Lushan's father arrived, there were only two cold corpses on the ground. An Lushan couldn't speak for a long time, one was his most trusted staff, and the other was an assassin who claimed to be his younger brother, and the soldiers at the door insisted that this person was an accomplice.

"Father, what should I do?" The sudden change made An Qingzong panic. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and at last he turned back and shouted, "Brothers, get on your horses, and we will rush out." ”

"Bastard!" An Lushan slapped him hard and shouted angrily: "Go back!" No one is allowed to move without my orders. ”

The soldiers were so frightened that they hurriedly pushed An Qingzong into the door, and at this time, An Lushan slowly walked to the noble corpse, took one last look at him, and sighed. Commanded left and right: "Carry him away and bury him well." ”

He returned to his room and forced himself to calm down first, there was no time to track down the cause of Gao Gao's death. Only leaving Chang'an safely by yourself is the top priority, and now there is still an hour before the city gate is closed. To go or not to go? An Lushan looked at the direction of Xingqing Palace from afar, and the sudden change made his heart full of worries, can he walk tomorrow?

'That's it! That's it! I am already calculated by others, if I don't leave, there will inevitably be changes, and the husband should be decided, go! ’

Thinking of this, An Lushan turned around and walked to the table and wrote a letter to Li Longji, only saying that the Khitan rebellion, the death and injury of the soldiers and civilians in Hebei, he was worried about Sheji, and he had to rush back overnight, too late to ask the emperor for resignation, and next time he would come to ask for guilt.

After writing, he ordered An Qingzong to send it to Li Longji after dawn, and he was escorted by a thousand iron guards, rushing towards the city gate, they had just left, on the roof of the house opposite An Lushan Mansion, a black shadow quickly got up, jumped off the ground gently, and rushed towards the direction of Xingqing Palace.

Coincidentally, An Lushan and his entourage just arrived at Mingdemen, just met the right Jinwu general Gao Xianzhi returned from the northern capital Taiyuan training, Gao Xianzhi has been transferred back to Chang'an for more than a year, the mood has changed from the initial anger, despair to insipid, he has adapted to the current life, although the status of the right Jinwu general is high, but it is an idle position, Gao Xianzhi also with the encounter, and the family lived a peaceful day, gradually, the glory and ambition of the past are consumed in the family trivialities day after day.

He was ordered to go to Taiyuan to train troops a few months ago, and did not return to Beijing until the third day of the first lunar month.

Gao Xian Zhice immediately stepped forward and said sharply: "What's the noise? ”

The captain guarding the gate knew Gao Xianzhi, and hurriedly stepped forward to report: "Report to General Gao, An Lushan's entourage is leaving Beijing, but they don't have a repatriation order from the military department, and their subordinates don't dare to let them out of the city." ”

At this time, An Lushan's personal soldier captain stepped forward and glared at the captain and said: "My marshal went to Xianyang in the afternoon, and he just sent someone to say that he is not safe there, so we have to rush to the guard, this is our business, what else do we need to pay for the military token?" ”

"I'm not on duty in the afternoon, I don't know." Pushed it to Gao Xianzhi, "Since General Gao is here, we will listen to the general's orders!" ”

"This.

Gao Xianzhi suddenly found himself on the thief ship, no, he would offend An Lushan, yes, and he was afraid that someone would impeach him for ignoring the law, which really made it difficult for him to do, many things are often so wrong, if Gao Xianzhi has been in Chang'an, he will inevitably hear about the rumors of An Lushan's rebellion, and he will not take this risk, he doesn't know the power of this, he just groaned and said: "Since An Shuai is in Xianyang, he really needs someone to escort him, this time the situation is special, let them go!" ”

"The tall general has an order, you can let it go!"

As soon as the captain of the gate guard finished speaking, more than a thousand cavalry surged out, and the iron hooves hit the ground, like thunder, and passed by Gao Xianzhi's side, and suddenly, Gao Xianzhi found that more than a dozen soldiers were hiding

This person covered his face with a black scarf, but his body was extremely fat, it was An Lushan who was stunned in Gao Xianzhi, and the dozen or so people had already rushed over.

"No, that person should be An Lushan." Gao Xianzhi suddenly reacted, where is he going to pick up people, it is clear that An Lushan has left Beijing, and he will leave Beijing when he leaves Beijing, but he has done it so strangely, and there is no order from the Ministry of War, Gao Xianzhi is suspicious.

After thinking about it for a long time, he ran towards Xingqing Palace on a horse, and he had made a mistake by letting An Lushan go without authorization, but concealing it and not reporting it was a mistake on top of a mistake, generally speaking. If a mistake is made, most leaders don't take it to heart. The next correction will be. However, concealment and failure to report it are completely different in nature, and this is a matter of attitude. Therefore, deception has always been a great sin. This has been the case since ancient times.

Gao Xianzhi paced back and forth in front of Xingqing Palace. The news has already spread, if Li Longji orders him to chase An Lushan back, how can this be good? When he was nervous, he saw the eunuch who reported the news hurriedly walked out, holding a brocade box in his hand, Gao Xianzhi hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Father-in-law!" What did the emperor say? ”

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His eunuch glanced at him. He stretched his voice and said, "The emperor said that General Gao has worked hard." I can't reunite with my family during the Chinese New Year. ”

He handed him the brocade box and said, "This is a few treasures that the emperor has given you, so that the general can go back to the house to rest early." ”

Gao Xianzhi was stunned for a moment, his nervous mood immediately relaxed, he thanked the eunuch, and then the brocade box turned around and left, the eunuch rubbed his teeth and rubbed his hands. After a long time, he looked at his back and said hatefully: "I don't even know how to be a person at the very least, no wonder I was dismissed." ”

Let's say that An Lushan rushed out of the city gate, according to the noble plan. After rushing east for a few miles, then turning around and galloping west in the direction of Fengxiang (today's Baoji), the wheels of An Lushan's rebellion could not be stopped.

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The night was already deep. Li Qing sat in the study and explained the Book of Poetry to his daughter. His wife, Zhao Lian'er, sat silently on the side, and her husband was scheduled to be at home for a month. But only a few days later, the emperor issued an edict to drive him back to Anxi, she was indignant, but helpless.

This time Li Qing returned to Anxi, Curtain Er decided to let Li Jingyan go with him to take care of his life, although Li Qing didn't say it, but Curtain Er already knew that he had a woman in Anxi, the source was a letter, a letter with a very humble tone, a nobleman from the Western Regions, and she was not ready to break with her husband about this matter,

Lonely and long in the Western Regions, if there is no woman by the man's side, this is extremely cruel to them, and the kind curtain finally forgave her husband and endured the matter, as long as he still remembers this family, remembers himself and his children, it is enough.

Under the light, the daughter's little head was tightly snuggled in her father's arms, remembering the hardships of her birth, remembering that she always had to wrap her favorite fried fish in paper every time she ate, saying that she wanted to leave it to her father, tears gradually welled up in the eyes of the curtain, and the daughter would not see her father for a long time, and I don't know what the scene should be when their father and daughter meet again.

At this time, the voice of the housekeeper came from the door, "Master, Mr. Shao is here, saying that he is looking for you in an emergency." ”

"Satsuki, it's time for you to sleep." The curtain stepped forward and pulled Li Tingyue's wrist, glanced at Li Qing with a forced smile, bowed his head and said to his daughter: "Xiaoyue, daddy still has something to do, let's go first!" ”

Li Tingyue said to her father unwillingly: "Then before Daddy goes to bed, you must come to see me." ”

"Yes, Daddy will definitely come to see you before going to bed." Li Qing put one hand around his wife's thin shoulder, stroked his daughter's head with the other, and said firmly to them: "At most two years, our family can be together forever and never be separated again." ”

Curtain's eyes were red, she nodded to her husband and took her daughter away.

After a while, Shao Tianxing, who looked nervous, hurriedly entered Li Qing's study, bowed and saluted, and without waiting for Li Qing to ask him, he immediately said: "Report to the lord, the matter has been done, and we have got rid of the noble." ”

"Well done!" Li Qing was very excited, getting rid of Gao Shang was to remove An Lushan's most powerful arm, making him unable to make correct judgments on many major matters, he took two steps, and saw that Shao Tianxingdi's expression was still nervous, and he couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Is there anything else going on?" ”

"Not long after Gao Shang died, some of us found that more than 1,000 soldiers of An Lushan had left Mingdemen, and I suspect that An Lushan ran away."

"It must be An Lushan who ran away!" Li Qingyi frowned, "How could the city gate let them out, do they have an order from the military department?" ”

Shao Tianxing shook his head and said, "I don't know the specifics, but I heard that Gao Xianzhi let them go."

"I see, you go first!"

Li Qing sent Shao Tianxing out, and he leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes silently, An Lushan left, Li Longji did not take any measures to control his personal freedom, it can be seen that Li Longji wants him to go, he still intends to plot against An Lushan slowly, and does not want to force him to rebel.

Li Qing sighed, Li Longji's ambiguous attitude made him feel slightly disappointed, and the possibility of pinning his hopes on him to force an anti-An Lushan seemed to be gone.

"It's time for me to go back and prepare."

Looking at the ceiling, Li Qing muttered to himself, "It's okay." Then let history go its way! ”

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The next day, the news of An Lushan's departure from Chang'an did not cause any fluctuations. However, Li Linfu's death caused a sensation in the government and the opposition. Li Longji expressed his deep grief and took a special day off to show his condolences, after the officials in the interior of the imperial city finished their discussions. They all began to go home. None of the household officials left. It's not that they don't want to go back to their homes to express their condolences.

Their old boss, Li Qing, the former head of the household department, asked them to have a plan in two days.

Five days have passed since the New Year. Guan Pingyuan is still immersed in the atmosphere of celebration, the sun is shining, and the warmth shines on people, so that people can't lift their spirits, it is no wonder that the New Year of Tianbao is not over until the end of the Shangyuan Festival.

A group of horseback riders galloped on the vast and fertile Guan Plain, and the spring was cold. But the treetops and branches have begun to turn blue, the river is melting, a few ducks are playing in the water, and the breath of spring is blowing in the face.

"General. In front of it is Gaoling County. Cui Huan, the new household servant, pointed into the distance, and Li Qing's curtain covered the flat sun. A city looms for miles.

Gaoling County is in the north of Chang'an, where the population is dense, it is also the most plastered place of the land, many of the granges of the capital's ministers and magnates are distributed in the county, it is the New Year, there is no one to see in the field, the white mist is thin on the land in the early morning, a soil dog runs on the ridge, from time to time the flocks of foraging birds and finches are startled from the field and fly to another place.

The first batch of nearly 3,000 households will be drawn from Hwasju, Yongju, and the Gyeonggi region of Gaoling, Sinfeng, and Wugong counties, and will be resettled in the Zhicheng on the shore of Lake Atami south of the country, which is an extremely fertile land with abundant sunshine and abundant water.

Li Qingming was going to return to Anxi on the next day, and Li Longji gave him 74,000 people according to the standard of Longyou Jiedu, but this was just a quota, and he had to find a way to solve the problem of money, food, and soldiers, as well as the resettlement of immigrants and the construction of cities, all of which required money, and even in distant Anxi, even if he had money, he might not be able to buy the materials he needed.

After a thousand years, it took nearly 100 years to develop the western part of the United States, and it took him at least 10 years to see a little eyebrow, this is a vast and long project, and it can never be accomplished overnight, but fortunately, Wang Changling has been operating in Shazhou for many years, and has laid a good foundation, and he has accumulated good experience in both cadres and development, which can enable him to avoid bad detours.

Thinking about it, the group entered the county seat, and the county magistrate had already gotten the news, and hurriedly led the county magistrate, the county lieutenant, the chief bookkeeper and a group of county officials to greet them, and when they entered the county office, Li Qing stopped them from entertaining them, and said to the county magistrate: "The imperial court has drawn 500 landless tenants in Gaoling County, and the list was copied to you the day before yesterday, I don't know what you are going to do?" ”

The county magistrate looked embarrassed, glanced at the lord Bo, and smiled reluctantly at Li Qing: "Xiaguan has been preparing for the Shangyuan Lantern Festival in the past few days, and I have handed over this matter to the lord Bo to handle, and the lord can ask him directly." ”

The chief secretary of Gaoling County is about thirty years old, surnamed Zhang, is a Tianbao Nian Jinshi, with beautiful eyebrows, speaking and doing things just right, looking very capable, he saw that his boss threw this hot errand to himself, and he smiled bitterly in his heart, but he was already the lowest level official, and there was no one to push, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "The list of officials and the county's household registration book are checked one by one, there is nothing wrong, just, just.

"Just what?" Li Qing heard something and asked him reluctantly.

Master Zhang timidly looked at the county magistrate and asked him if he should say it, but the county magistrate arched his hand and smiled at everyone: "Go and say hello to the kitchen, lunch must not be luxurious, you talk slowly." "Anyway, I didn't care about the bitter appearance of the Lord, I slapped my ass and ran away.

"Say it! I really offended people, I asked the officials to transfer you to the Western Regions and let you be the county commander. Li Qing saw that he didn't prevaricate himself, and couldn't help but have a good impression of him.

Master Zhang wiped the cold sweat from his head before whispering to Li Qing and Cui Huan: "Most of these 500 households are from Shanghe Township, and they are all tenant farmers in my account book, but in fact they have become slaves. ”

At this time, Cui Huan suddenly asked on the side: "Is it that their master's hand slaves have exceeded the upper limit of the slave retention order?" ”

Master Zhang nodded silently, sighed, and said, "In this case, I won't be able to move them west." ”

"It's not as simple as you think."

Cui Huan turned around and explained to Li Qing: "When I was an assassin in Suzhou, I knew that some powerful people did not dare to exceed the upper limit of the slave restriction decree issued by the imperial court, so they adopted the method of not reporting to the government, and actually took the tenant farmers as slaves. ”

"And who is their master?"

Master Zhang's face was extremely bitter, he didn't dare to meet Li Qingjiong's blazing gaze, lowered his eyelids, and said in a low voice like a mosquito: "It's King Qing!" ”

"King Qing!" Cui Huan shouted out in a lost voice, everyone in the court knew that although King Qing did not enter the East Palace, judging from the various public ceremonies in the past few days, he was actually already doing too much, and he was the emperor's chief, if he was mentioned as the prince, no one would object, but how could this matter involve him again.

The situation was very serious, Cui Huan didn't dare to investigate again, he couldn't help but nervously said to Li Qing: "General, why don't we go back first, or go to Wugong County to have a look." ”

Li Qing shook his head gently, King Qing? He sneered secretly, how could he let it go easily, he smiled at Cui Huan quietly and said, "I want to go and see Shanghe Township in person, is Lord Cui willing to go with me?" ”