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In the days after the Huangchao army left, it was really a big stone in my heart that finally went, and the New Year added a good atmosphere. ≧, the joy of the people in Chang'an City is palpable.

Now that the New Year is approaching, although people are living a hard life, but under the guard of Li Bao, the king of Ji, Chang'an is as stable as Mount Tai under the pressure of the 500,000 army of Huangchao thieves, and this kind of determination and strength is by no means obtained by luck.

Xingyuan City, the capital of Shannan West Road, was also full of joy, and the Tang Emperor who fled west temporarily settled here. Shannan West Road Jiedu made Zhang Qingping warmly entertain the emperor and Tian Lingzi.

Emperor Xingyuan slowly learned of Li Baocheng's exploits, the emperor was very happy, but Tian Lingzi was quite complaining about this, Li Bao was able to defeat Huang Chao so well, it can be seen that the rice buckets he arranged when he left must have failed.

But now that they are under Zhang Qingping's hands, he doesn't dare to be too presumptuous. At present, the national Zuo and national fortunes of the Tang Dynasty are still alive, and all of this is the credit of Li Bao, the king of Ji.

Zhang Qingping has been busy recently, and the most he does every day is to inquire about the news in Chang'an City, but he is far away in Shannan and can't get too specific information. However, he was very relieved of Li Bao, after all, Li Bao's insight was better than anyone in this world.

Besides, he values his own character name the most, and he will definitely not be brave for a moment and play with his life. Besides, he had been prepared for a long time.

Since the establishment of Weizhou, it has been producing artillery and gunpowder with all its might, and he asked Zhang Chengen to hoard this weapon as if it was for this Chang'an defense battle.

The results of the battle are remarkable, the king of Ji Li Bao is famous all over the world in the first battle, and his name has become the most dazzling existence in the Tang Dynasty, and the once illustrious "Falling Eagle Servant" Gao Biao has just become the most stark contrast. This self-respecting warlord has become the laughing stock of the world.

Also ridiculed is the scholar "Huang Chao", this guy has been attacking Chang'an for a long time, and he actually has an addiction to being the emperor, in the henchmen and strategists Shang Rang, Zhao Zhang, Meng Kai, Huang Ye, Lin Yan and other generals under the support, Huang Chao in the first year of Guangming on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month in Luoyang called the emperor.

It is said that because of the hurry, there was not much yellow silk in Luoyang, and the peasant army had to replace it with red silk, and the peasant army that lacked ritual weapons had to be replaced by big drums. Huang Chao was called the emperor, the founding of the Great Qi, and the Yuan Jintong was changed.

In order to reward Shang Rang and others for their support, Shang Rang was canonized as a lieutenant and Zhongshu Ling, Zhao Zhang was a servant, Meng Kai and others were generals, Huang Chao's younger brother Huang Ye Huang Cun and others were also crowned princes, and nephew Lin Yan was the envoy of the same state.

This time, Huang Chao not only sealed his old brothers, but even the Tang Dynasty officials who surrendered to him were also sealed, but this seal was only a false position, and there was no money to take.

Emperor Huang Chao of Great Qi was still waiting for his courtiers to offer him food, so Wang Chucun and others, who surrendered to Huang Chao in the morning, were blackmailed by Emperor Great Qi and became poor ghosts, but they also dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.

At the same time, the high-ranking officials of the Tang Dynasty who escaped from Chang'an, as if they were traveling collectively, chased Xingyuan leisurely. It was a group of Tang monarchs and ministers who gathered in the Xingyuan Mansion, which was embarrassing.

Since the emperor and the high-ranking officials were there, they left according to the normal procedure, so the early dynasty had to continue, and Emperor Li Yi fled for more than half a month, eating badly and sleeping even less soundly. After a few days of peace of mind, these courtiers came to make noise again.

Therefore, the pouting Emperor of the Tang Dynasty sat on a high seat, facing the full house of civil and military, and his heart was full of resentment, but the most important thing at this time was to reward King Ji and meritorious soldiers in Chang'an City for meritorious service.

After all, this is the practice of the Tang Dynasty, the soldiers used to have to get the opening fee before they set off, but now the emperor is in a hurry, he has no money with him, and the treasury is still in Chang'an City.

Therefore, this reward, how to reward it depends on whether King Ji is happy or not. Tian Lingzi hated it when he thought of so much wealth in the treasury, but there was no way to call him cowardly.

Xu Anwen, the secretary of Dali Temple, played again and again, saying that King Ji's merits can be compared to mending the sky, and he must be rewarded well to thank him for his great merits. The emperor had no objection to this, but many ministers were very vigilant, thinking that King Ji could give more money, but it was not appropriate to reward too much. After all, where is the ancestral system?

But Zhang Qingping doesn't care, at this time, even if Li Bao is the emperor's younger brother, he won't care, the throne of the Tang Dynasty is not as valuable to him as a penny.

Zhang Qingping remembered that Li Bao once drank too much wine, and the two of them were bold, Li Bao said at the time: "What's so good about this bullshit throne, if you want power or not, you don't have the right to ask for people, it's not as good as my idle prince." If the man's husband wants to be the emperor of the whole world, what is the use of this little king of Chang'an? ”

Since then, Zhang Qingping has kept Li Bao's words in his heart, and plans to accompany Li Bao to work hard, wanting to lay a big world with him and become the man who matches the greatest king, which is not in vain.

So he no longer cares about the rights and wrongs of the Xingyuan small court, as long as these people are honest and don't make small moves in his territory, and don't prevent him from going to Chang'an to save people.

Now that he has been appointed as the envoy of Shannan West Province, what he has to do every day is how to reorganize and train the troops in Shannan West Province. Although Shannan West Road is very vast, it is densely hilly, arable land is scarce, and the people are struggling.

Where there are many natural disasters, the people are very strong, and the people's customs are also very fierce. So the people here have become the best source of soldiers. The conditions for recruiting soldiers in Shannan West Road are very generous, once selected, the settlement fee for each Chinese New Year's Eve, and the food and clothing are warm, and the soldiers are the most complete.

Who wouldn't want to do such a good job? Therefore, the 4,000-person quota booked at the beginning of Shannan West Road had to recruit an additional 1,000 people because there were too many people recruited. In this way, Shannan West Road has 5,000 town soldiers.

These 5,000 town soldiers were completely Zhang Qingping's painstaking efforts, and all the training was copied from the model of the Weizhou New Army.

Of course, in half a year, the rough soldiers do not guarantee much combat power, but the recruits already have the prototype of a strong army, as long as they go to the battlefield and see blood, there will inevitably be qualitative changes.

Although the defense battle of Chang'an came to an end, there were still more than 50,000 peasant troops outside Chang'an at this time, and he had to take advantage of the New Year to relieve Li Bao's siege. At that time, Li Bao and the others will be trapped and die in the city.

Now there is still one day to go is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and Zhang Qingping must go. His soldiers were in good spirits, and their morale was high and every leader was happy to see. Zhang Qingping is very satisfied with the current army.

Li Ying is looking forward to her husband who is about to go to the battlefield, Zhang Qingping looked at his wife, his eyes were full of affection, but the perseverance on his face did not change at all. He stepped forward to hold Li Ying's jade hand and said softly: "After a certain go, the princess must take good care of herself in the mansion, and she will definitely return victorious." ”

Li Yingmei had tears in her eyes, "The concubine used to study and see people parting, and the most painful thing was her relatives, I just had a personal experience today, my husband cherishes it, everything is based on my life, I must return safely!" ”

Xin Niang and Ling'er also looked concerned, and the two of them handed Zhang Qingping a brocade in their hands and dragged him to bring this brocade to Li Bao. The two of them looked forward to Li Bao's safe return every day in Xingyuan. So the two embroidered a brocade as a token of lovesickness.

Zhang Qingping said to Liangshu: "Don't worry, Liulang is a thief, and he will be fine." You are waiting at home for good news. ”

Ling'er and Xinniang nodded in unison, then stepped aside.

Zhang Qingping came to Jing Xiang and Wei Yangzi, and said to the two: "If you go here, I don't know when I will be able to return, and the big and small affairs in Xingyuan Mansion will be troublesome." ”

Jing Xiang has been trained in Weizhou Mansion since his talent slowly revealed, after Zhang Qingping was stationed in Jieshan Nanxi Road, Li Bao transferred Jing Xiang to help Zhang Qingping take care of the government affairs of the Jiedu Mansion. Wei Zhuang and Zhao Wenzhen also stayed in Weizhou to assist Zhang Chengen.

Weiyangzi has now become the head of the Shadow Guard, he has developed many subordinates in the Shannan West Dao Army and the Weizhou Army, and has basically been able to control the two armies, and this person is only loyal to Li Bao, so although Li Bao is in Chang'an City, the loyalty of these two armies to Li Bao is unquestionable.

Therefore, Zhang Qingping left this time, and the political affairs were handed over to Jing Xiang to preside, and the military affairs were handed over to Weiyangzi.

After the explanation, Zhang Qingping said goodbye to his wife Li Ying again, flew on the horse and led the army to slowly disappear at the end of the road.

At the same time, the joyful atmosphere in Chang'an City continued. There are still people flying kites outside the city, flying so high, people rarely care, after all, in the chaotic season, everyone has the heart to care about these small anomalies.

However, there were people in the city who were always paying attention to the kite, and seeing that the kite had reached the sky above Chang'an City, someone immediately shot a bow and arrow at the tall kite.

I don't know if it was because the archers were clever or because the wind was too strong, the kite actually fell straight into the city.

Hu Sanbao immediately commanded people to pick up the fallen kite, and when the attendant got it, Hu Sanbao immediately galloped to King Ji's mansion.

When he arrived at King Ji's mansion, Hu Sanbao said excitedly: "Lang Jun has a letter, a letter from outside the city." ”

After hearing Hu Sanbao's shout, Li Bao put down the paintbrush in his hand, and he was pleasantly surprised: "Got in touch?" That's good, haha. ”

Li Bao turned out the kite in Hu Sanbao's hand, which was full of words, mixed with some numbers, Li Bao ordered Hu Sanbao to transcribe these words, and then he took out a copy of "Journey to the West" he wrote.

The text on this kite is all encoded, and the codebook is "Journey to the West", which was popular in the Tang Dynasty and was available in many places, so it is easy to use as a codebook.

The letter was sent by Yang Siqi, the envoy of the flying dragon, and the content was: "They have already gathered the new army of Weizhou that arrived in advance, and they are still waiting for the upcoming reinforcements from Shannan West Road. And Zheng Jin of Fengxiang Mansion also asked his son Zheng Ningji to come to help with 2,000 soldiers from Fengxiang Town. ”

Seeing so many reinforcements coming, Li Bao's heart was overjoyed, "Haha, Zhu Wen, your good days have arrived!" ”