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Xian Yuxiang, dressed in a satin cotton suit, looked anxiously to the east through the car window, and when the weather was clear, Chang'an City, which should have filled the field of vision, disappeared in the flying snowflakes.

The wheels of the four-** carriage pressed against the thin snow and creaked non-stop. On the outer wall of the carriage, a carved ginkgo biloba leaf is vivid.

"Haven't you arrived yet?" Xian Yu Xiang saw that the road ahead was confused, and he couldn't see anything clearly, so he couldn't help but ask.

"Jieshuai, count the distance, it should be fast!" The attendant hurriedly answered.

"What a handsome!" Xian Yuxiang shouted: "A certain has already resigned from the post of Jiedu envoy, and now the Jiannan Jiedu envoy is Yang Guozhong." It's almost time to arrive in Chang'an, so be careful! ”

"No!" The six attendants on their horses hurriedly replied. Their costumes, though sumptuous have long since been carefully stripped of any signs that might reveal a dissimilar identity. At a glance, the whole team is ordinary and unsightly.

"Damn Yang Zhao!" Xian Yuxiang, who is nearly sixty years old, lowered the thick curtain of the car window and retracted his head back into the spacious carriage: "In order to please the saint, he even changed his name to 'Guozhong', which is extremely flattering!" ”

Inside the carriage, the incense curls and the hand stove is warm, like a spring, and the ice and snow outside the carriage seem to be two worlds.

A Nanzhao maid served at Xian Yuxiang's side with a transparent glass. The cup is filled with the refreshing aroma of tea, which makes people smell refreshed.

"Suyeju's carriage is really a good thing, and the glasses of Ruyiju are also good, but they are more expensive. Only the cotton clothes and cotton clothes produced in Tingzhou can be called high-quality and cheap. Xian Yuxiang took the glass, took a sip of hot tea, and couldn't help but feel it, and muttered casually, but his thoughts had already flown back to the familiar Jiannan......

In all fairness, he knew that he shouldn't complain about Yang Guozhong. If it weren't for Yang Guozhong's unsparing support, he would never have replaced his old boss Zhang Qiu and Qiong, who died of illness last year, and became the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu on the side of Jiezhen.

The mistake is that the always obedient Nanzhao King Ge Luofeng actually betrayed his promise, rebelled, killed Zhang Qiantuo, the Taishou of Yunnan, and captured 32 Yizhou in the south of Jiannan Province.

Thinking of this, Xian Yuxiang couldn't help but feel a little ashamed in his heart. Because, when he first learned the news of Ge Luofeng's rebellion last year, he was more happy than frightened in his heart.

In the eight years of Tianbao, the Tang Dynasty has been in war one after another. First of all, the Beiting Protector Wang Zhengjian and the four towns of Anxi made Gao Xianzhi join forces to march westward, crusade against the Shi Kingdom without Fan courtesy, defeated the Great Food Army that asked for help from the Shi Kingdom, and threatened the middle of the river; Later, Longyou Jiedu made Ge Shuhan fight bloodily for several days and recaptured the stone fort that the sage had dreamed of from the hands of Tubo.

All three of them have been commended by the saints for their military exploits, and have been rewarded innumerably. Even the deputy capital of the North Court, Ashina Yang, was promoted to the newly established Hezhong Jiedu envoy due to the battle of the Western Expedition.

After that, the wind spread in the court and the opposition, and the heart of the sage was still blazing. In order to encourage the soldiers of the border towns to forge ahead, they intended to open a precedent for this dynasty, and the one who made great achievements in the border generals was the king.

After Xian Yuxiang found out, he asked Yang Guozhong privately when he went to Beijing to meet him. And from Yang Guozhong's deliberate teasing, it is rare to know that this matter is by no means groundless.

Thinking that back then, when Xian Yuxiang participated in the Yuanri Dynasty for the first time, his grandest ideal was

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) is to be a Jiannan Festival envoy.

Now, the dream that seemed unattainable has come true, and it is seldom expected that he will be satisfied with the status quo. But when he heard that the saint intended to make the king of the festival, Xian Yuxiang was still red and excited.

"Maybe I can be crowned king too!" Xian Yu suddenly felt a hungry desire rise in his heart.

can calm down, and rarely smile bitterly. Although the Jiannan Festival Envoy is also one of the eleven major festival envoys, there are few soldiers and few opportunities for meritorious service. How can I compare with An Lushan, Ge Shuhan, Wang Zhengjian, Gao Xianzhi, An Sishun and others.

Originally, I had done my best to get rid of unrealistic delusions in my mind. But Ge Luofeng's rebellion made Xian Yu feel that heaven and earth were all together when he was born.

"If you capture Taihe City (now Dali City, Yunnan) and conquer Nanzhao Kingdom, this merit should be enough to crown the king!" Xian Yuxiang felt that with the weakness of the national strength of Nanzhao, the Jiannan Army should be able to fight and peace.

Therefore, after obtaining Yang Guozhong's consent, Xian Yuxiang immediately couldn't wait to go to the sage and the political affairs hall, counted the crimes of Ge Luofeng, and asked to transfer troops and send generals to conquer Nanzhao.

And because of the big tree of Yang Guozhong, the sage quickly issued an edict to allow the Jiannan Army to requisition the southern Xinjiang vassal and crusade against Ge Luofeng.

The sage also deliberately created a new position of "recruiting Jiannan athletes", which was held by Yang Guozhong, who was fully responsible for mobilizing people, horses, money and food from all provinces across the country for the southern expedition.

With the full support of Yang Guozhong, Xian Yuxiang quickly gathered 80,000 soldiers and horses and set out in April this year. Not only recaptured the 32 Yizhou occupied by Ge Luofeng, but also entered the territory of Nanzhao in one go, and the troops approached the Xi'er River outside the city of Taihe, the king of Nanzhao.

Thinking of this, Xian Yuxiang was even more annoyed.

After attacking the territory of Nanzhao, Nanzhao King Ge Luofeng sent an envoy to apologize for his sins and ask for peace, expressing his willingness to return the plundered and reattach to the Tang Dynasty.

Li Mi, the soldier and horse envoy of Jiannan who accompanied the army, persuaded Xian Yuxiang to accept Ge Luofeng's surrender and restore stability in southern Xinjiang.

But at that time, Xian Yuxiang, who was determined to be the king, was willing to give up the seemingly low-hanging fruit of war. He couldn't listen to Li Mi's advice at all, and refused Nanzhao's envoys without hesitation.

Before leaving, the envoys of Nanzhao shouted to Xian Yuxiang hatefully: "My king has a word, Ruoer and others insist on attacking our country. My king will return to Tibet, the land of Yunnan, not owned by Tang! ”

After the envoy finished speaking, he threw up his sleeves and left. Li Mi frowned when he heard this, but Xian Yuxiang thought that it was just a helpless expression of anger by the envoys of Nanzhao.

When he was about to attack the Xi'er River, Xian Yuxiang thought that Taihe City was just around the corner, but he was suddenly attacked by the Nanzhao and Tubo coalition forces.

The Tang army, which was caught off guard, was defeated, and if it weren't for Li Mi's desperate rescue, Xian Yuxiang would have died on the bank of the Xi'er River.

Of the 80,000 troops, only a few thousand people could escape back to Jiannan. The dream of being a king suddenly vanished.

Without waiting to return to Yizhou, Xian Yuxiang hurriedly sent someone to report the battle situation to Yang Guozhong, and then waited anxiously for the anger from Chang'an.

More than ten days later, Yang Guozhong wrote to inform him that Xian Yuxiang did not have to worry. Not only did he cover up the defeat in front of the saint, but he also recounted in detail Xian Yuxiang's "exploits" in recapturing the 32 Yizhou, and the saint's reward was imminent.

Great joy and great sorrow, great sorrow and great joy. Xian Yuxiang completely abandoned the unrealistic idea of being crowned.

At the same time, he is also deeply aware that Yang Guozhong has seized the power to call for wind and rain in the court of Chang'an, and he is no longer the prodigal son who was helped by himself. And if he wants to preserve the existing glory and wealth, he can only hug Yang Guozhong's thighs, bow his head like a dog, and obey his orders.

And Yang Guozhong's order came faster than Xian Yu imagined. Last month, in November of the 10th year of Tianbao (751), Yang Guozhong sent a secret letter, asking Xian Yu to take the initiative to resign from the post of envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, and then recommend Yang Guozhong to take this position.

After reading the secret letter, I suddenly realized and smiled bitterly. He thought about it for a long time, escaped death under Taihe City, and it took him a long time to see that someone's desires were better than his own......

Although he was a little reluctant, Xian Yuxiang immediately followed Yang Guozhong's request, quickly submitted the table, and asked to resign from his official position on the grounds of "insufficient talent and difficult responsibility", and vigorously recommended Yang Guozhong to take over.

As soon as the chapter was reported more than ten days ago, the sage's will arrived in Yizhou. Everything was as Yang Guozhong wished.

Fortunately, although there is no envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, the rank and rank of Xian Yu Xiang Congsanpin are not affected, and he is still a Tang Dynasty minister wearing gold and purple.

After receiving the edict, Xian Yuxiang suddenly felt that the saint who lived in the Daming Palace seemed to have become a puppet in the hands of Yang Guozhong, and the name of the country seemed to be decided by the Yang family......

Xian Yu Xiang remembered "Don't be sad when you give birth to a girl, don't like a boy." Men do not seal the marquis as concubines, but women are on the lintel. This folk song that circulated in Shuzhong and Jiannan was extremely impressive.

A few years ago, when Xian Yuxiang rushed to Chang'an to participate in the Yuanri Dynasty Meeting, he had already seen Wuyang's Xuanhe. He thought it was already the middle of the day. And now, the Yang family's wealth is far from the peak.

and the edict before and after, as well as Yang Guozhong's private letter. In the letter, Yang Guozhong asked Xian Yuxiang to enter Beijing as soon as possible, saying that there was something important to discuss.

At the end of the letter, Yang Guozhong also deliberately wrote: "Brother Zhongtong must not be nostalgic for a corner of Jiannan, the central court, there must be a place for Brother to show." ”

Seeing that Yang Guozhong was so earnest, the last trace of unhappiness left in his heart was gone. After he hastily handed over to Cui Yuan, the deputy envoy of Jiannan Jiedu and the governor of the future, he immediately drove lightly and rushed to Chang'an.

Although Yang Guozhong was appointed as the envoy of the Jiannan Festival, he had more than 40 envoys, and he could not leave Chang'an easily. Therefore, the one who actually presides over the overall situation in Jiannan Province is Cui Yuan, who knows what will happen in the future.

After more than 30 days of rapid travel on the road, Xian Yuxiang finally arrived outside Chang'an City. He originally planned to go directly into the city to meet Yang Guozhong, but yesterday he received a message sent by Yang Guozhong, saying that at the beginning of the afternoon of the day, he would meet him at the Ruoxi Inn in Liujia Village in the western suburbs.

Although I don't know why Yang Guozhong is so mysterious, Xian Yuxiang still rushed to Liujia Village as promised.

It's just that the north wind suddenly rose last night, and snowflakes fell early this morning. Although the snow is not heavy, it is getting heavier and heavier. Xian Yuxiang was worried about being late, so he couldn't help but be a little anxious. At this moment, he didn't dare to let Yang Guozhong wait for a long time.

"Ah Lang, it's here!" The clever retinue did not call him "Jie Shuai" anymore.

Xian Yuxiang put on a fox fur, and with the support of the maidservant, he stepped out of the carriage.

In the long wind and snow, I saw a blue wine banner fluttering in the wind, and there were four slightly delicate characters on it: "Ruoxi Inn".

(End of chapter)

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