Not only one day, the team successfully arrived in Puzhou, crossed the Yellow River, and entered Hexi, Bu Yunfei finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, it soon became clear that the situation was not optimistic.

Hexi and Hedong, although separated by only one Yellow River, are very different. Hedong is fertile for thousands of miles, rich in products, connected to prefectures and counties, and densely populated. However, in the Hexi area, it is a different scene, the land is barren, the land is vast and sparsely populated, but when you see a vast snowfield, you can't see a person after walking for half a day.

Hedong is Wang Chengye's world, and along the way, Bu Yunfei is cautious, for fear of being seen as flawed, but the team is not worried about eating and drinking. When you arrive in Hexi, it is sparsely populated, and you can rest assured that you can stride forward boldly, but it is difficult to find a place to settle down. Fortunately, Bu Yunfei was prepared, and when he crossed the river in Puzhou, he asked the soldiers to bring dry food for five days, so when he entered the territory of Hexi, he slept in the open along the way, but he was not hungry.

However, all the way south, the team entered the territory of Shaanxi County, and Bu Yunfei found that the situation was not good.

Shaanxi County is a large state capital east of Tongguan, and in fact, Shaanxi County is the largest city on the line from Chang'an to Luoyang. It is also an important strategic support to the east of Tongguan. Shaanxi County is relatively wealthy and a relatively densely populated area.

Bu Yunfei originally judged that the environment in the northwest of Hebei was harsh, while the south was relatively rich, and there should be no problem with the supply of grain and grass, so the team only brought dry food for five days. Who would have thought that after entering Shaanxi County, the situation became worse and worse, and everywhere I passed, the villages were ruined, the fields were barren, and there were few people, and it was desolate. There was no place to get food.

The food problem is still secondary, and Bu Yunfei seriously doubts whether Shaanxi County is still in the hands of the Tang Army!

After An Lushan's rebels captured Luoyang, the next target was Tongguan, and to break through Tongguan, they must first occupy Shaanxi County.

However, according to historical records, An Lushan's rebels should not have reached Shaanxi County so quickly.

In the early stage of the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang army was caught off guard, and the battle of Luoyang was very embarrassing. However, after the Tang army withdrew from Luoyang, it still organized several large-scale counterattacks west of Luoyang, and even achieved several small victories in local battlefields, temporarily blocking the momentum of the rebels. It was precisely because of these small victories that Emperor Tang Ming misjudged the situation, thinking that the rebels were nothing more than a rabble, and the Tang army would be able to recover Luoyang in a few days, so he adopted a wrong attack strategy and ordered the Tang army to counterattack on all fronts.

Therefore, at least in December of the 14th year of Tianbao, the rebels were still fighting with the Tang army in the northwest direction of Luoyang, and Shaanxi County had not yet suffered a military disaster.

Bu Yunfei dared to go west, because he knew that at this time, there was still a time gap, if it was postponed to January of the next year, and the rebels captured Shaanxi County, there would be no chance to advance westward.

And the scene in front of me seems to be that the flames of war have burned to Shaanxi County!

If so, the situation is serious.

Once Shaanxi County fell into the hands of the rebels, the road to the west was blocked! Bu Yunfei's small army fell into the embarrassing situation of losing ground - unable to enter Guanzhong if it advances, and cannot retreat to Hedong, staying in Hexi is equivalent to waiting for death!

Because he was worried about An Lushan's rebels, Bu Yunfei ordered the team to avoid the main road and take the small road. The terrain of Shaanxi County is dominated by mountains and hills, which is the remaining vein of the Qinling Mountains, although it is not as tall and majestic as the Taihang Mountains, but it is also ravines and ravines, rugged and difficult to walk. The team took up the path, and the speed of the march was greatly reduced.

Although this team of 600 people has experienced the ordeal of Cangyan Mountain Jingcheng Pass, the mountain road in front of them is not difficult for them, but because of the long detour, there was only five days of dry food, and it immediately seemed to be overstretched. Although Bu Yunfei adopted the rationing system in time, gathered all the dry food and rationed it, it could only last two more days.

Bu Yunfei led the team of 600 people to trek through the snow field of Linhai, full of dangers, and the road ahead was boundless.

However, what made Yunfei more worried was not the vast snowfields of Shaanxi County, nor the hunger and An Lushan rebels, but the intrigue in the Tang Dynasty and the emperor's overturning!

Daming Palace has the world's unparalleled majesty, and also has the world's unparalleled insidious profundity!

Zhang Tongyou's confession, can it really make the self-righteous emperor change his mind?

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In Daming Palace, the snow falls silently.

Starting from Taizong, after more than 100 years of construction, Daming Palace has become the world's most majestic palace complex, there is no one, it is the only one!

The Roman Empire, the only one in the world that can compete with the Tang Dynasty, has not been able to create a great building like the Daming Palace, which can integrate the majestic and the handsome.

The Romans did not lack wealth, what they lacked was the "world view" peculiar to the Chinese!

Only the idea of taking the world as its own responsibility can create a great building admired by the four seas!

Daming Palace is an organic combination of ambition and wealth! Here, the mind of the world and the independence of the body form an organic whole. The lofty palace of Daming Palace declares to the world that the responsibility and territory of the Tang Dynasty encompass the four seas and reach the whole world. This is the duty of the master of the Daming Palace, and it is also the duty of the Tang Empire!

The people from outside the territory who enter the Daming Palace see not only incomparable wealth and art here, but also the responsibility and obligation to the whole world.

So, they were blown away!

They willingly prostrate at the feet of the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty, just like prostrate at the feet of God!

Daming Palace has performed countless times the grand event of "all nations come to the dynasty, and the world returns to the heart".

Outside the territory of the Tang Dynasty, there is no "country", only "state"!

They are all the "states" of Datang!

However, today, this Daming Palace, which is in the center of the world, is exuding a thick twilight!

The lead cloud in the sky is like a crumbling mountain, which seems to collapse down at any moment, squeezing the magnificent palace to pieces!

The heavy snow that has blown up has covered the dragon and phoenix carvings on the jade steps outside the hall, and also covered the majesty and glitz of Daming Palace!

In the Zichen Palace, Li Longji sat paralyzed in the dragon chair due north, his thin body was very incongruous with the wide dragon chair. His old dragon clock is more like a rural old man who is about to die, rather than a son of heaven who is in charge of the four seas!

Li Longji is really old!

Overnight, he became an empty skin, slumped on the dragon chair.

The majesty of Daming Palace comes from the bearing of his master!

Once the master falls, the light of this palace will also be dimmed!

His Royal Highness, prostrate with the cabinet ministers.

Like their emperors, these old and important ministers who controlled the center of the Tang Dynasty were also like deflated balls, lying on the floor shriveled up.

Zichen is also known as the "North Star"!

Legend has it that the North Star is the star of the emperor! Zichen Hall is the place where the emperor lives!

If Daming Palace is the core of Datang, then Zichen Palace is the core of Daming Palace!

Zichen Hall is the heart of the Tang Empire.

However, this heart is aging!

On the dragon chair, Li Longji, who had been silent for half an hour, finally let out a low groan: "An Lushan is really reversed?" ”

Li Longji's voice was like a dried fish on the shore, not so much talking as moaning!

Until now, he still fantasized that Yuyang Mogu was just a fallacy, and even a slander that his subordinates were jealous of An Lushan!

An Lushan rebelled, and the world shook. For such a major event, the emperor should convene officials from the three provinces and six ministries in the Xuanzheng Hall to discuss countermeasures.

Xuanzheng Hall is known as the "Middle Dynasty", it is the place where the emperor listens to the government, and the left and right sides of the palace are divided into Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, Yushitai and other central institutions of the imperial court. The Xuanzheng Hall is the political center of the Daming Palace, where the highest instructions of the Tang Dynasty are formed, and spread to all directions!

However, in response to An Lushan's rebellious court, Li Longji chose the Zichen Palace!

Zichen Hall is the "Inner Dynasty", strictly speaking, the Inner Dynasty is the emperor's living place, not the place of discussion! Of course, if it is to discuss extremely confidential matters, the emperor can also convene a few ministers in the Zichen Hall to discuss secretly.

The ministers who are prostrate under His Royal Highness Zichen do not include all the officials of the three provinces and six courts, but talk about several cabinet ministers!

Li Longji did this not because of confidentiality, but because of shame!

Li Longji has no face to see the ministers!

For so many years, Li Longji personally shaped An Lushan into the first loyal minister of the Tang Dynasty!

In the past few years, Li Longji has punished countless ministers who impeached An Lushan, and in his opinion, those courtiers who exposed An Lushan's atrocities were narrow-minded villains! They coaxed him into self-destruction of the Great Wall of the Tang Dynasty because of jealousy!

When Yang Guozhong came to Daming Palace with Taiyuan Yin Wang Chengye's recital of An Lushan's rebellion, Li Longji's first reaction was anger!

He was not angry at An Lushan's rebellion, but angry at Wang Chengye for framing loyal ministers!

For Wang Chengye's personality, Li Longji's understanding is still very good, Wang Chengye is narrow-minded, and he is a grass on the wall that sees the wind and steers! A year ago, he also reported Changshan Taishou Yan Gaoqing for rebellion. It turns out that he is nothing more than an official revenge and a false accusation against others!

Li Longji tore Wang Chengye's recital to pieces in front of Yang Guozhong! He even had to send a forbidden army to Taiyuan to bring Wang Chengye lock into Beijing!

However, Wang Chengye's recital was torn apart. Countless reports of An Lushan's rebellion flew like snowflakes to several of his cases!

Changshan fell, and Yuyang iron swept thousands of miles, approaching the eastern capital Luoyang!

An Lushan's army is not playing the banner of the Tang Dynasty, but the banner of the "Eight Pillars of the Heavenly Pole"!

An Lushan regards himself as the maintainer of the cosmic order, and in ancient legends, the status of the "Eight Pillars of Heaven" is higher than that of the Son of Heaven!

An Lushan tore Li Longji's face and made Li Longji, the son of heaven who is in charge of the four seas, a laughing stock in the world!

"Did An Lushan really rebel?" Li Longji muttered to himself.

He hopes that someone will stand up and give a negative answer.

However, His Royal Highness sounded a sharp voice: "An Lushan's rebellion is not the prime minister's fault!" ”

Yang Guozhong, who was prostrate at the head of the ministers' class, gave a disappointing answer!