"An Lushan is in Youzhou City, it's just that he is hiding from me." Wang Yuan smiled.

"How do you know?" Gongsun Lan, who had rarely spoken, couldn't hold back her curiosity and asked out loud.

Wang Yuan stretched out his hand and stroked his half-dried long hair back in a chic manner, and his black and shiny hair was blown up by a gust of wind, making it a little bad.

Qing Yun'er hurriedly said: "Childe, the slave should help you comb your hair in a bun, it's not good to wear it like this." ”

Liu Jun was anxious to listen to Wang Yuan's explanation, frowned and reprimanded: "What kind of hair is the teacher combing when he wants to speak?" ”

Qingyun'er was stunned, standing awkwardly and not knowing what to do. Gongsun Lan frowned, and said coldly: "Little Master Liu, don't be prestigious, Sister Qing'er is now your teacher, and she is no longer a slave in your house, if you respect your teacher, you should also respect her." Have you forgotten all the three chapters of the covenant with your teacher on the road? If you forget, I can remind you that if you brush up the young master's temper again, don't blame me for being unkind to you. ”

Gongsun Lan said, stretched out her hand and broke off a flower branch from the flower pot next to her, clasped it between her fingers and popped it out, but saw that the flower branch made a sneering sound and shot out, and smashed a flower pot a few feet away with a bang.

Not only were everyone amazed, but there was a magical martial art of flying flowers and picking leaves to hurt people, but no one saw it with their own eyes. Although the flowers and leaves are not hurtful at this moment, the weight of that small flower branch is also very light, and it can break the pottery flower pot several feet away, which is also a miraculous skill.

Liu Jun opened his mouth wide and closed in shock, forgetting that Gongsun Lan was using this trick to deter himself, but jumped up excitedly and said, "I want to learn, I want to learn!" Aunt Cousin's song is very tight, you can teach me. ”

Gongsun Lan said coldly: "Then it depends on whether you are well-behaved or not, if you are still so unruly, don't think I will teach you." If you can be safe and not make trouble, you can consider it. ”

Liu Jun agreed, and immediately got up and said respectfully to Qingyun'er: "Liu Jun is here to accompany his wife." ”

Qing Yun'er was so frightened that she hurriedly returned the salute, and her face turned red with shame.

Wang Yuan and Gongsun Lan glanced at each other and nodded slightly. It seems that the effect of dealing with Liu Jun's so-called agreements such as the three chapters of the law is not great, and Gongsun Lan's hand is definitely more effective. The best way to use what interests Liu Jun is to push him to restrain himself. This is also the way Wang Yuan was able to let Liu Jun settle down and follow him to study, and at this moment, Gongsun Lan is also learning and using it.

"Little boy, don't interrupt, okay? We all want to listen to Wang Qin's envoy talk about business, but we are all off topic because of your interruption. Liu Dehai is a straight man, he doesn't care whether Liu Jun is the young master of the Lady Guo's mansion or not, and he speaks quite directly, and his tone is quite dissatisfied.

If it was usual, Liu Jun would definitely jump up and scold, but he obediently shut up at the moment, and he was not angry at Liu Dehai's words.

"Yes, Erlang, you still tell me how you learned that An Lushan was in the city but hid from you, did you see An Lushan when you entered the city?" Liu Xun asked directly.

Wang Yuan shook his head and said: "I haven't seen him, but some things can be measured without seeing them, as long as you have enough understanding of things and have a smooth understanding of the cause and effect before and after." The reason why I judged An Lushan to just avoid it was based on my inference, not because I saw him. ”

"Please elaborate on Jiro." Liu Xun straightened. The rest of the people also held their breath and listened quietly to Wang Yuan's next words.

"You should know that the role of the deposed envoy is to inspect the performance of the various provincial audit officials and the local tax revenue and expenditure for His Majesty, and this position is the difference between the orders of the emperor, so the power is not small. But this deposed envoy is also an unlikable character, because wherever he goes, once some local things are found out, he will be brought directly back to the capital and sent to His Majesty's ears. For the officials of the Tang Dynasty, as soon as the envoy came, the time came for the people to panic and tremble. Wang Yuan squinted his eyes and said softly.

"Then it stands to reason that An Lushan should be respectful and considerate to the envoy, why should he give Erlang a closed door?" Liu Dehai asked puzzled.

Wang Yuan smiled and said, "Just listen to me." As we all know, Hebei Province governs the two towns of Fanyang Pinglu, and the festivals of these two towns are exactly An Lushan. Listen to An Lushan's name, and you will know how favored he is now. Fan Yang Jiedu envoy and Pinglu Jiedu envoy, and also led the vacant position of the imperial historian, and also served as an important position such as the Hebei Provincial Interview Envoy. It can be said that Hebei Province is the world of An Lushan, and to put it mildly, he is the emperor of the soil here. ”

Everyone nodded in unison, these things are not secrets, although they know that what Wang Yuan said is true.

"Before this, none of the people who served as the deposed envoys of Hebei Province had a good end, my predecessor Xi Jianhou died for no reason, and Xi Jianhou's predecessor Meng Xianrong also died in office, and the four or five deposed envoys went back to the past and did not end well. Therefore, for more than half a year after the death of Xi Jianhou, the envoy of Hebei Province, no one dared to take office. It is conceivable that everyone is afraid to come to An Lushan's territory to take up this position. If there is any Qincha in the world, which is the most terrible and the most unpleasant, it is the envoy of Hebei Province. ”

"What Erlang means is that An Lushan doesn't want to be controlled by the imperial court at all, and he doesn't want someone to get in the way?" Liu Xunzhi frowned and asked.

"Yan Zhizhi is righteous, An Lushan is indeed willing to be a son, and there is a court around him to hinder him, even if he is openly court, he is not willing. The previous envoys were all recommended by Li Linfu, and the relationship between Li Linfu and An Lushan has always been good, but even so, these people still died in various accidents for various reasons, and those who understand understand it, and those who don't understand it don't understand the reasons. Wang Yuan nodded.

"An Lushan, what is this going to do? With such audacity, doesn't Your Majesty know these things? And you will not punish him? Liu Dehai clenched his fists and shouted.

Wang Yuan smiled and said, "General Liu, what you think is too simple. Do you think An Lushan will publicly cut off the heads of these people? The cause of Xi Jianhou's death was the martyrdom of the Khitan rangers, how did the imperial court blame An Lushan? In addition, His Majesty is extremely fond of An Lushan, in addition to An Lushan, have you ever seen anyone in the border town of the Tang Dynasty who leads the position of the envoy of the two major festivals, and has nearly 110,000 soldiers and horses under his jurisdiction? Have you ever seen His Majesty's decree that all the materials and military expenses for the defense of Hedong should not be allocated for a reason? ”

Everyone was silent, this is a fact, it is not a secret that An Lushan is winning the favor of Xuanzong, it is said that when he enters Beijing, he can enter and leave the palace at will, and even the Huaqing Pond dedicated to His Majesty and the concubine allows him to go in and take a bath. Folk legend also says that Xuanzong asked the concubine to accept An Lushan as his godson.

"An Lushan is indeed a fierce general in the northeast border of the Tang Dynasty. In the five years he has been in Hebei Province, it is indeed difficult for the Xi people and the Khitan people to cross the Lei Chi by half a step, which is also a fact. Part of the reason His Majesty favored him was because of this. Ande warriors are guarding all directions, and what king doesn't want a fierce general to be stationed on the border to let himself sit back and relax? ”

"Erlang means that An Lushan is showing Erlang's face. Disdain to be respectful to Erlang? Liu Xun said straight.

"Disdain is a good word, he has met with me, knows what my background is, and will naturally have disdain when he sees me coming to be the deposed envoy. But I think he's a little worried. Looking at the successive envoys of Hebei Province, it can be said that they are all people he knows. Of course, the candidate recommended by Li Linfu is to find out the news for Li Linfu, but it is more of a link between Li Linfu and An Lushan. This time, however, my appointment was not recommended by Li Linfu, but by me recommended by Prime Minister Zuo. ”

Qing Yun'er came over with tea and made a cup of tea for everyone. Wang Yuan took a sip of the teacup and cast an approving look at Qingyun'er.

"Everyone knows that I am very close to Zuo Xiang, and he will be very wary of me, because he and Zuo Xiang have never been in harmony. Zuo Xiang has publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with him more than once, and has proposed to His Majesty to audit the details of the materials spent on the construction of Xiongwu City, and during this time, he asked the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households to audit the recent hoarding of war horse materials in Xiongwu City. ”

"This has nothing to do with An Lushan not seeing you, the more so, the more he should want to see you and test your intentions." Gongsun Lan said softly.

Wang Yuan smiled: "It is precisely because he wants to test me that he will avoid it." He just wanted to see how I would react to such indifference. The city gate was greeted by heavy troops, and the soldiers and brand-new flags on the city walls were specially arranged. Even the streets are deliberately washed and cleaned. Don't you see? ”

After Wang Yuan mentioned it, everyone suddenly realized. When I entered the city, I always felt that something was wrong, and the two thousand soldiers and horses that greeted me were already a strange thing. The heavily armed soldiers on the corner towers of the city walls and the brand-new banners waving in the wind were even more strange, and no city would have made such a serious appearance, as if the enemy was at present. Hebei Province is generally stable, and even if there is a war, it is on the border more than a hundred miles away from the north and northeast, and there is no need to do this in Youzhou. Not to mention the spotless appearance of the clean and wet streets, which have obviously been swept through the streets.

"He's not in the city, who gave these orders to show me? He just wanted to secretly observe my reaction, to find out what kind of person I was, so that he could deal with me. That's one of the reasons I think he's in the city. Wang Yuan said with a smile.

"Is there a second reason?" Liu Xun asked directly.

"Of course, how can I be confident if there are no doubts? The second reason is An Lushan's consistent style. Before I came, I had a special talk with Zuo about An Lushan. Zuo knew An Lushan thoroughly, and he told me some things about An Lushan. An Lushan was obese, and since the second year of Tianbao, he rarely went out of Youzhou City. Even when there was a war on the border, he rarely supervised it himself. He has a lot of fierce generals, and he doesn't need to go out in person at all. Coupled with his obesity, it is impossible for him to personally go to inspect the border for the so-called small war in Chongzhou, and he is not so hands-on. Therefore, An Qingzong and An Qingxu are lying. Thinking about it from another angle, if An Lushan really went to inspect the border, An Qingzong and An Qingxu were his sons and his generals, how could they take care of them differently? ”

"It makes sense, An Lu Mountain is patrolling the border in the cold on the top, how can his son not follow, isn't this unfilial? I heard that An Lushan's sons are competing for favor fiercely, and it is impossible not to follow to show filial piety. Liu Xun nodded straightly.

"There is a third reason that is not very important, but it can be used for reference, that is, there are boring officials who secretly gossip that since An Lushan was favored by His Majesty, he would dry them when the court officials arrived in Youzhou to frustrate their spirit. On the one hand, it is to set up a score, and on the other hand, it is also because of arrogance, and they don't let them go at all. A lot of people are unhappy behind their backs, but I think it's in line with An Lushan's way of doing things. So although this third reason is not credible, I think that since there is a rumor, there must be a reason. To sum up the above three points, I concluded that An Lushan was in Youzhou City, and maybe he would see me tonight. Wang Yuan said with a smile.

After thinking about it, although they had doubts in their hearts, they had to admire Wang Yuan's observation and reasoning ability. Everyone didn't think of this question at all, but Wang Yuan thought about it so much, so carefully. How can there be such a big gap between people and people?