Chapter 298: The Wind Blows

At the end of August of the first year of Zhonghe, when the war of the Central Plains had just ended, Zheng Jin, the commander of the Tang Dynasty, the envoy of Fengxiang Jiedu, and the commander of the capital on all sides of the capital, once again organized the "Yellow Alliance" to bring the power of the victory of Longweipo at the end of February, and once again pointed directly at Chang'an.

The defense of Tongzhou made Zhu Wen want to fight to the death, but his generals were very afraid of the Tang army because of the last time they were in Longweipi, and Meng Kai, who was in charge of logistics, did not give enough supplies to Zhu Wen's troops, so Zhu Wen retreated to Chang'an after a battle to the death.

The vanguard of the Yellow Army was Tang Hongfu and Cheng Zongchu, who led their troops to the periphery of Chang'an City in early July to threaten Chang'an.

On July 5, Huang Chao took advantage of Tang Hongfu and Cheng Zongchu's eagerness to lead the crowd to pretend to evacuate Chang'an and stationed on Ba Shang in the east of Chang'an. Cheng Zongchu Tang Hongfu. Tang and Cheng thought that Huang Chao was vulnerable and rushed to enter Chang'an first.

For a time, the complacent Tang and Cheng were full of spirit, and ordered their subordinates to plunder the residents of Chang'an City, and called the elimination of bandits, who knew that Huang Chao was only two people who rushed into Chang'an, but more than 10,000 people, and led the troops back to Chang'an in a rage, and killed Tang and Cheng to the fullest.

Now Zheng Jin, who has returned from defeat, is thinking about it behind closed doors in Fengxiang, because of Zheng Jin's failure, Tian Lingzi, who is far away in Shu, ordered the emperor to issue an edict to reprimand Zheng Zheng and remove Zheng Zheng from the post of commander of the capital on all sides of the capital.

The ups and downs of life are so magical, Zheng Jin just thought he had climbed into the sky, and fell to the ground in a blink of an eye. The distressed Zheng father and son also learned enough lessons from this transformation.

After Li Bao, who was far away in Tubo, received the news of Zheng Jin's defeat, he immediately sent Zhang Zhifang, the No. 3 person of the Ji Kingdom, to join the army as a condolence envoy to Fengxiang to offer condolences.

Zhang Zhifang also brought Li Bao's promise: Weizhou would always support Fengxiang, and proposed that Weizhou Fengxiang resume the alliance, the relationship between the two sides was as always, and the position of the governor of the Ji Kingdom was still reserved for Zheng Ningji.

The disgraced Zheng father and son were also a little moved when they saw that Weizhou could still not leave them, but their dignity as a "family of five surnames" forced them to reject Zhang Zhifang's proposal and was unwilling to bow to Li Bao again, so Zhang Zhifang left Fengxiang with a sigh of anger and a little schadenfreude.

Li Bao, who learned the result, didn't say anything, just looked at the majestic city of Shanzhou (now part of Xining, Ledu, and Huangcheng in Qinghai) in front of him, and said in his heart that this city should be the largest in eastern Tubo.

After Li Bao formulated the strategy for Tubo in Weizhou, he held an implementation briefing, and the whole of Weizhou began to take action and made great efforts for this strategy. However, as the formulator of the strategy, Li Bao was not at ease, so he tried his best to override public opinion and bring the pair to the hinterland of Tibet to implement the plan.

Seeing that it was getting late, Mu Da walked up to Li Bao and said respectfully: "Liulangjun, we have to speed up, it's not early, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to enter the city later." ”

"What Uncle Mu said is, let's go." After speaking, Li Bao clamped the horse's belly between his legs, and the horse under his crotch immediately trotted up, and the convoy behind also accelerated its pace under Mu Da's shouting.

When Li Bao entered Shanzhou City with the convoy of Longmen Dart Bureau, the last glow of the sunset slowly dissipated, and the convoy stayed in the largest inn in the city, the Lijia Inn.

After Mu Da and the others settled down, Li Bao let Yun Fang, who came with him, stay in the room, and he himself beckoned everyone to sit down and have dinner together.

The lobby of the inn is not too big, but forty or fifty square meters, with more than ten tables, Ye Seventeen is getting older and now he has been honed very strong and capable, he looked at the situation in the lobby, and immediately called the guys to ask them to put the tables together and then clean them.

The man knew at a glance that a distinguished guest was coming, and immediately did as he was told. Li Baosui sat down, and then Mu Da and the others sat down in turn.

The guy at the inn was very discerning, and stood respectfully beside Li Bao and asked in proficient Chinese, "I don't know what the nobles want to eat?" In a certain store, there is a well-known river carp, the meat is delicious, and there is no fishy smell. In addition, the beef cooked in our store is also very good, and the self-brewed knives in the store are very strong to warm up, I don't know if you are used to drinking it. ”

Li Bao came to Shanzhou City and found that there were all kinds of people here, and all kinds of languages were mixed, and it was relatively prosperous. But this guy is obviously a Hu man dressed up and speaks fluent Chinese, which is not easy.

So Li Bao smiled and said to him: "Your Chinese language is good, hospitality is good, and there are rewards", and threw him more than a dozen big coins as he spoke.

The guy saw that the customer was so generous, so he greeted him even harder, Li Bao instructed the guy to bring up all the dishes in the store, and also instructed him to bring food to Yun Fang upstairs.

The guy went with a smile, while Li Bao and the others waited for the meal to start discussing things.

"Where is the shopkeeper Zhao settled now?" Li Bao asked.

"He has now established a relationship in the city lord's mansion, and he has spoken to the city lord's Shang Yuyan. Now that he has bought a house in the rich area in the east of the city, we will send someone to deliver a letter to proprietor Zhao tonight to inform him that Lang Jun has arrived. ”

Li Bao listened to Mu Da's words, nodded immediately, and then closed his mouth and stopped asking, and turned to observe the diners in the lobby.

Although the Li Family Inn is the largest inn in Shanzhou City, it is much inferior to the inns in Weizhou City, not to mention Chang'an Chongrenfang.

The air was filled with the smell of human sweat, leather and all kinds of cattle, sheep, camels and other livestock, all kinds of smells were mixed together, it was very unbearable, Li Bao regretted coming down to eat, he should have stayed upstairs to eat with Yunfang Beauty.

But since Yun Fang came out alone with Li Bao, she has an indifferent attitude towards Li Bao's closeness, which makes Li Bao a little confused, thinking about Zhang Hui's pretty face full of disappointment when he left the city, Li Bao couldn't help but sigh again.

This time out because there is no danger, so Li Bao plans to take Ling'er, Xinniang, Zhang Hui and Yunfang and other beauties out to play together, but Weizhou has a lot of things, Ling'er has to preside over Jiwang's Mansion and is pregnant, Xinniang and Ling'er have always been friends, so they must stay and take care of her, Zhang Hui is secretly happy when he sees that there are fewer competitors this time, and he doesn't want Ling'er to ask her to stay and share the affairs in Jiwang's Mansion.

Li Bao doted on Ling'er very much, and Ling'er lived up to expectations and conceived his first child for him, so he naturally obeyed what she said. Although Zhang Hui is delicate and proactive, Li Bao feels that it doesn't matter if she eats the meat in her mouth early or late, so he left Zhang Hui, who was resentful, and took the goddess of clouds to travel alone.

Li Bao thought that when he came out this time, Yun Fang would be able to let go of his guard and come to his arms as soon as possible, but he was disappointed.

The indifference and rejection of people all day made Li Bao's heart a little cold, and he was also a little aesthetically tired in front of Yun Fang's face, so he found an opportunity to come down and dine with everyone today, but the dining environment was really bad.

But after a while, Li Bao was a little relieved, he had only enjoyed the blessings for a few days, and he forgot his origins as a working person, so he smiled self-deprecatingly, who knew that this smile actually caused some trouble.

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The night is low, and the city of Liangzhou becomes cool after nightfall, and the heat of the day moistens the face with the cool breeze that blows constantly. In the center of the city, the east side of the Jiedu Envoy is the residential area of the officials in the city, and to the west of the Jiedu Envoy is the residential area of the wealthy merchants.

This area is brightly lit even at night, and a large mansion in the city of Anning Fang occupies almost half of the square, which shows how rich and powerful the family is.

This is the richest Ouyang family in Liangzhou City, this Ouyang family has a big business, and the ancestors have always taken root in Liangzhou, whether it is the Tang Dynasty ruling Liangzhou or the Tubo people taking over Liangzhou, and then the Zhang family of the Guiyi Army recaptured Liangzhou from the Tubo people, the Ouyang family has not changed.

The trick of this is that the Ouyang family has always held the power of the trade routes between Liangzhou and the surrounding areas and can unite all the local families in Liangzhou, and the Ouyang family also has a large number of people in their hands, these factors have supported the Ouyang family to stand in Liangzhou for hundreds of years.

The roots of such a big family in the entire Hexi are by no means unimaginable to outsiders, and the successive heads of the Ouyang family are all exquisite figures, and they are very harmonious.

It is said that such a family must be very extravagant, but today there is not a trace of string music in this mansion, but there are bursts of angry rebuke from time to time.

In the lavishly decorated lobby, a bearded man with a beard on his face knelt on the ground trembling, and several richly dressed men sat in the hall.

These people were not young, but the man sitting in the middle was only in his early thirties, and the short mustache on his lips was so thick that it looked like his eyebrows had grown to his lips from a distance.

This person's face is white, his facial features are upright, his face is serious and he can't see joy and anger, and only after a few elders next to him finished speaking, did he speak: "Ouyang Li, a certain Ouyang family doesn't raise idlers, since you missed this time, go back and cut it off yourself." ”

After speaking, he waved his hand, and two men in strong suits came in outside the door, dragging Ouyang Li and walking out. That Ouyang Li hurriedly shouted: "The head of the family spares his life, the head of the family spares his life, give it another chance......

When Ouyang Li was dragged out, an old man in fancy clothes on the side said: "Jiulang, you see that the dragon gate dart game that suddenly appeared now has ruined a lot of our business, we can't sit back and watch this dragon gate dart game become bigger, otherwise our Ouyang family will lose the financial resources of this trade route." ”

The one who is called Jiulang is Ouyang Yunzhong, the head of the Ouyang family, who took the position of the head of the family at a young age, in addition to being the only son of the long house, he also has his personal strategy and courage.

When his father Ouyang Yulin died of illness, all branches of the clan were staring at the position of the head of the family, Ouyang Yunzhong was stunned to rely on his strategy to pass the layers of tests and win the heirs of each house one after another, and won the position of the head of the family, and also relied on his extraordinary courage to calm the chaos of the Ouyang family's team alone.

He wiped the short mustache on his lips with his hand and said in a deep voice: "Let's let go of the matter of this Longmen Dart Bureau first, but we have to take care of the matter of Shanzhou first." ”