When Xiao Qubing prepared a large number of material gifts in Eryuan and sent people to communicate and publicize the barbarians entrenched in Jianchuan, the former king of Yunnan named Mengge Luofeng arrived in Chang'an under the escort of a hundred Tiance soldiers.

Two days after the exhibition in Chang'an City, he was ordered by Li Longji to be beheaded in public, and his head was hung outside the Kaiyuan Gate for ten days.

Li Longji was very happy, although he had been deceived by Yang Guozhong, he was happy every day, drunk and dreamed of death, and almost didn't care about state affairs, but in fact, he still knew in his heart that the Tang army had been defeating in Nanzhao before, and the Tang army had suffered heavy losses.

Before, he was also rare to be confused and selectively avoided, but occasionally remembered or heard people mention it, but there was no trace of worry in it, but now it is okay, Nanzhao is decided by a war, not only do you not have to worry about it anymore, but the vanity and sense of glory are supremely satisfied!

In my hands, the Tang Dynasty created the peak of the prosperity of Kaiyuan Tianbao, and now Chang'an City is extremely prosperous, extremely rich in goods, all kinds of entertainment and enjoyment of the pattern emerge in endlessly, and ordinary people are also settled and happy, without worrying about food and clothing, and are praised by thousands of people.

And militarily and externally it is also incomparably brilliant and powerful, the Khitan and Xi Erfan, who have plagued the Northeast Frontier for many years, were finally pacified not long ago, and now the rebellion of Nanzhao was also destroyed in a war; The sworn enemy of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo, also under the continuous blows of the two armies of Anxi and Longyou and the two divisions of Subi and Zhangxiong, shrank the defense to less than 1,000 miles of the city.

The two armies of Anxi Longyou and the two divisions of Subi and Zhangxiong have built a city in the hinterland of Tibet to consolidate the existing achievements, according to the report of Gao Xianzhi, the king of Wuwei County, and Ge Shuhan, the king of Xiping County, in less than a year. Tibet will perish!

Even the Bohai Kingdom north of Pinglu Town. also took the initiative to send Chang'an at this time. request to change the previous suzerain-vassal relationship and change the vassal state to internal attachment; And in the south of Datang, it has opened up the land and sea frontier thousands of miles away!

Now the Tang Dynasty Buwu Quartet, those who follow the prosperity and those who oppose it die, my achievements far exceed those of the ancestors, and the strength and wealth of the Tang Dynasty are also unprecedented! I am the past and the present. The first among the emperors!

Thinking of this, even though Li Longji has been ignoring state affairs for many years, his nature of rejoicing has not changed, and Li Longji is so excited that he can't sleep for several days. I have already planned in my heart that after Tubo is pacified and the world is settled, I will come to Zen Mount Tai again, so as to comfort the heavens and ancestors for my achievements, and remember the merits.

For this reason, he also specially issued an edict to recruit Li Bai from Tiance Mansion and write a sacrificial text for him to seal Zen. At the same time, he played and sang many side poems in Daming Palace for two consecutive days. Among them, the most sung are Xiao Quai's three songs: "Plugged Song", "Plugged Down Song", and "Yanmen is too guarded".

"Fubo only wishes that the body will be returned. Why does Dingyuan need to be born to enter the customs; I wish to serve the country with this length, why should I be born in the Jade Gate Pass; repay the king's will on the golden platform, and carry the jade dragon to die for the king. "I didn't expect that the assistant minister was not only a good hand at fighting and making money, but also a brilliant writer, and what was even more rare was the heart of loyalty to the monarch and serving the country.

Li Longji was very happy, and even happier than Li Longji were the families of those who had been conscripted before in Gyeonggi Province and Guannai Province, and they knew in their hearts that if it weren't for the fact that the King of Lanling was anxious about what they were anxious about, he took the initiative to ask for war, and if they went to Nanzhao, they would have died.

Therefore, after hearing the news that the Tiance Army destroyed Nanzhao in a war, Ge Luofeng was captured to Chang'an, sacrificed the Taimiao, and showed the public, these people were so happy that they were going crazy, and Liang Xiaoshan of Xinfeng County was also so excited that he hugged his head and cried with his wife, crying and laughing.

"I said that the king of Lanling is the god of war in the Tang Dynasty, and sure enough, the first battle pacified Nanzhao, and I heard the military report that more than 80,000 enemies were killed, and there were less than 400 casualties. This is going to change us, and then Yang Guozhong's big straw bag will send someone to command, which will be the end of the fourth annihilation of the whole army. ”

"San Lang, King Lanling is really the reborn benefactor of our family, not only did he go out to Nanzhao for Saburo and these husbands to save everyone's lives, but he was also preparing to open more workshops in Gyeonggi Province and Kannai Province.

Immediately San Lang can enter the workshop to work, the work is not tired, the salary is still high, Lian'er can plant the land at home alone, when the farm is busy, San Lang can take a vacation, and you can also spend money to ask people from Hebei to help, and our family's life will get better and better. ”

Liang Xiaoshan wiped his tears, and then laughed: "Yes, we should really give King Lanling an immortal tablet to bless him with a long life, and we can follow him to live a better life!" ”

With the same mind as Liang Xiaoshan, overnight, the entire Gyeonggi Province and Kannai Province did not know how many families began to secretly set up a longevity tablet for Xiao Quai's illness at home, burned incense and kowtowed, and prayed that Xiao Quai's illness would be blessed and long for a lifetime.

Then these people prayed for Xiao Quai's illness at the same time, and scolded Yang Guozhong in private one by one, for no other reason, if it weren't for Tiance Army's action, these people would have to bring filial piety to their families;

In addition, Yang Guozhong's official reputation is indeed too bad, he is corrupt and bribery, bullying others, and suppressing his superiors and subordinates, except for the people and cronies of the Yang family, there is no one in Gyeonggi Province and even the whole world who does not hate him.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that since last year, a drought broke out in the Guanzhong area, and the imperial court should have released grain relief and collected less taxes, but Yang Guozhong concealed the disaster, not only did not provide relief, but also had a lot of rent and money.

If it weren't for His Majesty the King of Jianning, who organized farmers in the two provinces of Gyeonggi Pass to build water conservancy projects in exchange for work, and then used the grain brought from the South China Sea as wages, many families in the two provinces would not be able to survive last year.

Last year was a drought, this year is a flood, from the beginning of July, the rain has increased, to the end of the Midyear Festival, the sky is like a hole in the sky, all day long, many elders and officials are constantly to the court to play the disaster, I heard that it was also pressed down by Yang Guozhong, open his eyes and said, "Although there is a lot of rain, it does not harm the crops, nor does it harm the riverbank houses." ”

When the people of Gyeonggi Guannai Province scolded Yang Guozhong, Yang Guozhong was also unhappy.

Ge Luofeng was escorted to Chang'an, and after the sacrifice of Taimiao, Xiao Quai's military report was also presented, and the eunuch Jia Qijun also told the story of the battle in detail.

Although the emperor did not explicitly reproach him, let alone punish him, the emperor despised him a lot, saying that the auxiliary ministers can do things and have the ability, and he will only lose the battle!

Losing face in front of the emperor is still secondary. The Emperor had already hinted at him twice. I want him to stop taking care of the military in the future. This made him very unconvinced, and what worried Yang Guozhong the most was that his phase might not be guaranteed.

Xiao Quai's ability is too strong, Yang Guozhong has also been to Luoyang a few times, Luoyang is planned and built very well, although Xiao Qubing has repeatedly told himself that he has no intention of phase, but now the emperor trusts him so much, and the people support him so much. Who knows when he will take his place?

In addition, he still has deep jealousy of Xiao Quai, Xiao Qubing is too profitable, the business in the South China Sea, as well as the gold and silver mines in Japan, are all controlled by Xiao Qubing and the Four Seas Trading Company, although he also has some fishing, but compared to the Four Seas Trading Company, it is only a fraction.

What's even more annoying is that now the Four Seas Trading Company has begun to disrespect itself. Pei Hui, the son of Mrs. Qiuguo, used his power to bid for several stores at a low price in Luoyang, and obtained goods from the bottom price of the Sihai Trading Company through his connections. After being discovered, Princess Nalanling dared to ask Pei Hui to compensate for the losses of the Sihai Trading Company and force him to pay taxes, otherwise he would be driven out of Dugi Province by closing the store.

How could it be that the princess of Lanling, who was younger than her daughter, dared to send someone to inform her, asking him to take care of his own people and not break the rules of the Four Seas Trading Company. What else to say, if the people on Yang Xiang's side are short of money, the Four Seas Trading Company can take care of it in other ways, but please also abide by the rules of the Four Seas Trading Company.

Joke, my Yang Guozhong now has a family property of more than 30 million, will I be short of money? What Lao Tzu cares about is not money, what he cares about is privilege, and what you care about is the fear and respect of Lao Tzu from your Four Seas Trading Company!

But fortunately, although Princess Lanling has no respect for herself, Xiao Qubing and Jianning King Li Qi have a good attitude towards themselves, Xiao Qubing has been able to levy Nanzhao, and has already obtained full authority to act cheaply in front of the emperor, but he still secretly found himself and gave the benefit of 300,000 gold coins, just to let himself dissipate his anger and support him more in Nanzhao's affairs.

Of course, he won't support him, and he doesn't need to support himself when he is sick, to put it bluntly, 300,000 gold coins are to buy himself without hindering him, and at the same time, it also shows that he Xiao Quai's value and fear of himself; And after the Pei Hui incident, Li Qi, the king of Jianning, also sent someone to find him, and gave the Yang family a few preferential treatments in the South China Sea trade, with a respectful attitude, which made Yang Guozhong much more comfortable.

Maybe it's because of so much money and the respectful attitude of the two of them, I will be generous and reluctantly forgive him Xiao Quai's illness and Princess Lanling this time.

However, the Anlushan is now clear, and it has raised so many private soldiers, and the soldiers have plundered everywhere in Hebei Province, and even the big families with five surnames and seven families, the big nobles dare to rob, and they have openly become enemies with the scholars and doctors all over the world, and the time of death is not far away.

The most important thing is that Youzhou Hu'er is extremely disrespectful and contemptuous of himself, so let's deal with him first!

Yang Guozhong thought like this, and came to the Nanxun Hall of Xingqing Palace, Li Longji was watching the dancing horses dance, although Yang Guozhong had seen it many times, but every time he saw these dancing horses after dancing, he obediently raised his wine glass, and then bent his knees to offer wine, he still couldn't help but admire: This horse is really obedient, he Li Longji is really good at playing.

When the dancing horse was finished and slowly withdrew, Yang Guozhong seized the opportunity to come to Li Longji before the next show started, and said softly: "Your Majesty, this time the king of Lanling pacified the Southern Zhao, and now he is going to fight fiercely with Tubo. ”

Li Longji didn't think about it: "This is a good thing, I am right." ”

Yang Guozhong said again: "The king of Dongping County, as well as the Fan Yang Lu clan and the Qinghe Cui clan said that the remnants of the snake teeth in Hebei were rampant, plundering the people's families, and the people's grievances were boiling. ”

Li Longji frowned imperceptibly: "Lushan is really, why hasn't a snake tooth remnant been cleaned up yet, it's okay, you can arrange it." ”

At this time, the next show has also begun, so Li Longji hugged the Cui beauty next to him with great interest, and watched it with a smile.

Yang Guozhong glanced at Cui Meiren with a worried face, and saw Li Longji fully engaged in singing and dancing, explaining the beauty of this song to Cui Meiren, sighed imperceptibly, and walked out of the Nanxun Palace.

Since the emperor became younger, it was good at first, and then it became more and more attentive, although Yang Guifei was still the most favored in the past two years, but she was no longer a special favorite, especially after Yang Guifei became pregnant, because she wanted to be quiet and could not always accompany the emperor, she was even more neglected.

I hope that the concubine will be after giving birth. Able to re-fix pets. It is better that the status of the Yang family should not be affected.

In the drizzle. On a concrete playground on the outskirts of Luoyang City, the horn of the assembly is blowing.

Soon after, the workers who had just finished work braved the rain to rush to the playground, and the furniture workshop employee named Wu Erniu cursed loudly about the weather, and at the same time received a spear and stood in his place.

About ten minutes later. The 3,000 workers were divided into ten phalanxes and stood up, and some people kept complaining that although it was a July day, it was raining all the time, and they still felt cold on their bodies.

The twenty-year-old instructor named Ma Yong strode up to all the queues, tore open his already hoarse voice, and shouted: "I know that you all feel bitter, and I am also bitter, before this, I had led the team to train for two hours. But why train in the rain? Why is it not to protect our families, to protect your wives and children.

These days. Everyone has also seen how many refugees have fled from Hebei Province! The storyteller of the teahouse also told everyone what was going on? There are more than 100,000 private soldiers in Youzhou, and these private soldiers are all barbarian Hu people who have just come down from the grassland, and they are all predators, killing people without blinking.

That Youzhou Hu didn't have so much money and food to support them, so he indulged them to plunder everywhere, but lied to the outside world that it was the snake's tooth traitor, who didn't know which one in the whole world, that Youzhou Hu himself was the head of the snake's tooth, and that Youzhou Hu would rebel sooner or later! Why else would he raise so many private soldiers?

Don't talk about this, let's just say that these Hu barbarians, they have robbed all the land of Hebei, and seeing that our Duji Province is so rich, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not come to rob us. There are more than 200,000 Youzhou soldiers, and our Tiance army is only 10,000 now, if one day, these barbarian beast soldiers from Youzhou come to our Duji Dao, what will happen?

They will rob you of all your money, of all the good things here, of your sisters, of your wives and daughters, of your death, and of your old fathers and mothers. Didn't you hear from those who fled? They started out as just guns, and then they moved on to killing! When they come to Dugi Province, they see so much money, so much food and wine, so many good things, and they don't go crazy, your wives and sisters, all of them are so good-looking, and they haven't been ruined by them!

You say, can you let these barbarian beasts enter our Dugi Tunnel? Can they come and rob you of your money, of your food, and of your wives and sisters, and of your daughters? ”

"Of course not!"

"If they dare to come, kill them all!"

"Fight with them!"

More than 3,000 people were incited with blood boiling and righteous indignation, and most of them had seen these people fleeing from Hebei. Before, he was too oppressed in Hebei and fled to Dugi Dao, and then he was robbed by Youzhou soldiers, and he couldn't stay in Hebei anymore, and then a few days ago, I heard the latest batch of refugees say that those Youzhou soldiers who have robbed red eyes have begun to kill people.

A small half of these people were also displaced people before, and they had a rather bad life, they were displaced, they had no food, and they only lived a good life in Tugi Province; There are also some who are not homeless, but who are also living a hard life, and now they are just living a good life, each of them works in the workshop, and has a good monthly salary every month, and more than half of the family members have also found something to do, and get double or even three cents of silver.

Most families can eat meat almost every day, more than half of the children can go to the school to read and write, and take care of a meal at noon, seeing that life is about to get better and better, why do these Youzhou Hu barbarians come to rob them of money and things, kill their people, and spoil their wives and daughters and sisters?

The storyteller of the teahouse talked every day during this period of time about serving the country and defending the homeland, what country is in danger, they don't know much, but whoever dares to kill Dugi Dao and snatch away their good life must fight with them!

Over there, Ma Yong continued: "But these Youzhou Hu barbarians are all veterans of a hundred battles, extremely brave, you don't train, how can you fight, even if you fight with them at that time, it is not the share of death, in the end, your money, your things are not to be snatched away by them, and your wives and daughters and sisters are not to be spoiled by them!" ”

"Can't let them in!"

"Instructor Ma, don't talk about it, we train, and we can't let them kill them when the time comes!"

"When will King Lanling come back?"

"The king of Lanling has already destroyed Nanzhao in a battle, but the Tubo barbarians are here again, and the Tubo barbarians are afraid to fight with our Tiance army, and when the Lanling King kills all the 80,000 Tubo troops, he will be able to come back."

Ma Yong took out a copper whistle, blew it hard, and then shouted loudly: "All of them, stand, the training begins ......"

Directly north of Luoyang City, at the foot of Beibi Mountain in the southwest of Tiance Mansion, is the new city of Luoyang, where the Tang Dynasty Martial Arts and Tiance Academy are located, and when the training in Luoyang City is in full swing, classes are still being held in an orderly manner.

The students of the Tang Dynasty Martial Arts, most of them are low-level officers sent to Tiance Mansion to participate in training by the envoys of each section, this is a mandatory order under the emperor and the soldiers, and the envoys of each section also actively cooperate with this, anyway, the cost is covered by the Four Seas Trading Company, and it is said that Xiao Qu is sick to train soldiers and fight wars unparalleled in the world, and there is no harm in learning and studying, of course, Fanyang and Pinglu are exceptions.

There are also a small half of the children of the imperial court, the children of the families who are willing to serve in the army, and some rangers who have passed the assessment and scholars who have written from Rong.

Most of the students under the age of 25 who have not been admitted to the Jinshi examination are no longer Confucian classics, but mechanical engineering, arithmetic, physics, chemistry, and medicine.

During this time, under the instruction of Li Qi and Li Xian, the two schools also began to explain and analyze the situation in Datang in large quantities, and some of the information heard by the internal guards and secret guards was also intended to be disclosed to these students.

Whether it is a martial arts student or a college student, most of them are hot-blooded men, on the one hand, they are loyal to the country, and the country is in danger, on the other hand, they are not allowed to join the army to serve the country, but they are not suffocated, under their repeated requests, they finally won the collective training of every hour, of course, this kind of training Datang martial arts was originally there, this is considered additional training.

For this hard-won training opportunity, these students naturally practiced very hard one by one, stood in an extremely neat queue, shouted slogans all day long, no matter how hard they worked, none of them shouted tired, and when practicing bayonet guns and archery, they all gritted their teeth, and the straw man and the arrow target were used as fat people to stab and shoot.

When everyone was training without emotion, a Tang martial arts student named Ape Fei Jinsan quietly asked the instructor for leave, and came to a small hotel in the new city with An ~ Bei Qingming, who was studying in Tiance Academy.

The two were led to a secret room, and as soon as they entered, they saw a short, fierce-looking Japanese sitting inside, with different expressions, and shouted at the same time: "Fujiwara-kun......"

The person who was called Fujiwara-kun was Fujiwara Nakamaro, the eighth son of Fujiwara Nakamaro, the prime minister of Japan's Ziwei Central Taiwan, Fujiwara Nakamaro was in power in Japan at the moment, and under the two (the emperor and the queen mother), there were more than one million people. At this moment, sending the most trusted Fujiwara Zhiyi to Luoyang is obviously an important matter.

"Father wants me to come and see you, how are you doing in the Tang Martial Arts and Tiance Academy?" After the three of them sat down around a small table, Fujiwara looked at the two of them and said coldly.

"All the courses are excellent, but there is too much knowledge that can be learned in Tiance Academy, and Qingming can only choose mechanical engineering to focus on for the time being." Ann ~ Bei Qingming said modestly.

"I have learned all the methods of training the troops of King Lanling and the seconds of leading the troops to fight." Ape Fei Jinsan is not modest. (To be continued.) )