In the thirteenth year of Datang Tianbao, September 12, Datang Xijing, Chang'an City.

The prosperity and noise of the past, the singing and dancing, the fire cooking oil, and the extremely prosperous scene of flowers and brocade have disappeared, and what is shrouded in Chang'an City inside and outside is a tense and apprehensive mood.

Although since a few months ago, the 270,000 Youzhou troops under the command of An Lushan plundered everywhere in Hebei Province, and actually grabbed the heads of the Fan Yang Lu clan and the Qinghe Cui clan of the five surnames and seven families, and then the whole country shouted, and the whole country said that An Lushan would definitely rebel.

In Chang'an City, up to the ministers and doctors, the rich and powerful, down to the ordinary people, the peddlers and pawns, all of them are between the banquets, after tea and dinner, An Lushan and Youzhou Army as talking points, scolding the wolf of An Lushan in the mountains, and the wolf's ambition will take revenge.

The Tai students of the Guozijian and the young children of the noble family ran up and down and spoke out. When the Qinglou Washe called friends and held a high wine meeting, one by one also pointed out the country and promoted the words.

However, once the court does what they say, or entrusts them with heavy use, it can immediately eliminate the evil spirits, refresh the court program, and clarify the world. The rebellion of the little Youzhou Hu'er is even more peaceful in their eyes, what a point!

But when An Lushan really turned around, except for these conceited and talented scholars, who talked about scholars with empty books, who were proud every day, and shouted more fiercely, everyone else, from the general civil and military ministers to the low-level people, was dumbfounded and had no idea.

All these people have a reaction like "Ah, such a white-eyed wolf is really the opposite......", and then their minds went blank, and there were only two capital words in the blank - confused.

These bureaucrats and ordinary people who have been in peace for a long time. After the bewilderment. Most of them actually had the idea of working with Yang Guozhong and Li Longji. thought that the rebellion was just a rebellion by An Lushan, and it would fail in less than ten days, and then all the Chang'an bureaucrats, family magnates, and low-level people waited every day, waiting for the news of the Youzhou Army Group and the Hui rebels to be destroyed.

It wasn't until soon after that many people from Hebei Province arrived in Dugi Province. Under Li Xian's arrangement, he took the four-wheeled carriage of the Four Seas Trading Company and came all the way to Chang'an City.

After seeing with their own eyes and hearing with their own ears how these Hebei refugees were ruined, how miserable the people of the Han family in Hebei Province were, and how brutal, evil and barbaric the rebels in Youzhou were, these Chang'an magnates and people finally knew that they were afraid and nervous!

But there is still no response, half a century of peaceful days has made these originally most martial nobles and people in Guanzhong forget what swords and guns are. Bloodless, numb and weak.

Most of them are in daily anxiety. Play less cockfighting and horse racing, listen less to some pear orchard silk and bamboo, and have no other way to deal with it except for restlessness.

Coupled with the fact that the most warlike Flying Dragon Forbidden Army in Chang'an City was transferred, this huge and bloated Tang Kingdom with a population of more than two million and slow to respond could almost be captured in one fell swoop with almost only two thousand elite soldiers.

After that, it was suddenly reported that Hedong Road had been breached, and 100,000 Youzhou troops were following the Fenhe Plain, all the way south, and the entire Chang'an City began to panic, the emperor and prime minister were not there, the prince was imprisoned, and the deputy prime minister was still in the military department, and Wei Jiansu, Tongping Zhangshi, and Jingzhao Yin Cui Guangyuan urgently mobilized to close the Chang'an city gate and impose martial law in the whole city.

Almost at the same time, Wei Jiansu and Cui Guangyuan received an 800-mile rush from the Tang Emperor Li Longji, so they opened the treasury, recruited brave soldiers, and posted a recruitment notice.

Because of the plundering of the Four Seas Trading Company overseas in recent years, coupled with the rapid development of the economy, even if there are a group of corrupt officials such as Yang Guozhong, Chang'an's treasury is still full of money.

So the treatment of recruiting soldiers is also extremely high, for a time, the entire Chang'an City, everyone enthusiastically joined the army, trapped in Chang'an scholars, businessmen's children, unemployed vagrants, and market splashers, all joined the army, within three days, 100,000 soldiers were recruited, called the Tianwu Army, half of them were stationed in Chang'an, and they were generally stationed in Bashang.

Ironically, due to the urgency of the matter, these 100,000 recruits did not have a good organization and management, and they kept being noisy and shouting.

On the other hand, the Tiance Mansion Group is also operating urgently, and Li Tianxi, the head of the secret service of Tiance Mansion, rushed to Chang'an on the sixth day of September to personally organize and direct the propaganda work of the storytellers of the Qingxin Tea Society.

The content of propaganda and agitation is also simple, the first is the tragic experience of Hebei Province and Hedong Province after being invaded by Youzhou rebels, relatives were killed, wives, sisters and daughters were taken away and ruined, and homes were destroyed; At the same time, he also raised questions and discussions about Datang's excessive preferential treatment of the Hu people, luring wolves into the house, and being rebelled by the Hu people many times, but still doing the same for me.

Of course, to be fair, An Lushan's Youzhou clique rebelled, and the Hu people plundered and rebelled, although the biggest reason was the biggest reason, but Li Longji, Yang Guozhong and others were responsible for their stupidity and corruption, arrogance and lasciviousness, and the defects of the temperance system.

All of a sudden, the hatred of Hu in the entire Chang'an soared, and many Hu businessmen in the Western Regions were beaten and robbed, and they almost didn't dare to open their doors.

The second focus of propaganda is the heroic deeds of the soldiers in front of the battle, emphasizing the idea that although the world is safe, forgetting the war will be dangerous; Talk about the bloody nature of soldiers and the sacrificial spirit of soldiers.

Of course, because it is a subsidiary of Tiance Mansion, it knows the deeds of Tiance Mansion the most, and more than sixty percent of them are promoting the heroic deeds of the soldiers of Tiance Mansion.

Sixty-one horsemen outside Raoyang City, sacrificing themselves to save thousands of people's deeds, but also focused on propaganda and praise, Tiance Military Academy Captain Mo Qiufeng also within a day, in Chang'an City became known, everyone talked about this matter, is enthusiastic, loudly praise Tiance soldiers, true heroes!

In the troubled times, this kind of heroic deeds are extremely popular, and under such vigorous publicity, all the teahouses and teahouses under the name of Qingxin Tea Society, and the roadside storytelling shed, are full every day, crowded with people listening to books, and a hot mood is being rendered.

Then there are some people who have such questions, since Tiance Mansion is so desperate to fight bloodily, and Tiance Mansion knows that An Lushan is going to rebel early on, why did it let the Youzhou army fight in the hinterland of Hedong. What about a direct threat to Chang'an's security?

Not at this time. The storyteller of the Qingxin Tea Society. He will tell him bluntly, all because of the stupidity and greed of Du Qianyun made by the Hedong Jiedu, and under the doubts and repeated requests of everyone, he told the battle of Hedong and the loss of Jingcheng Pass and Yanmen Pass one by one.

What's even more vicious is that Li Tianxi also sent people to pretend to be ordinary people, everywhere in restaurants and teahouses, and places with many people. All the black materials that exposed Du Qianyun and Li Fude were exposed, for example, when they were in Jiannan, the two embezzled military salaries, abused soldiers, and plundered soldiers;

During the Battle of Nanzhao, these two people were greedy for life and afraid of death, and fled from the battle, resulting in the annihilation of the 80,000 Tang army. But these are such two people, because they bribed Yang Guozhong, and they are good at meeting horses. was recommended by Yang Guozhong, and one served as the envoy of the Hedong Festival. One served as the general of the right feather Lin Wei.

Originally, since Yang Guozhong gained power, he was arrogant and domineering in Chang'an City to the extreme, and his relatives and servants of the Yang family naturally did evil and bullied others.

And Yang Guozhong was born as a gangster in the casino, and he did things frivolously, he himself knew that many other people looked down on him, not only did he not have real talent and learning, but he also had no good reputation, and the ending was definitely not good, so it was better to have fun in time, so he did things more and more unscrupulously!

In addition, since he came to power, he deceived the emperor, did not save the disaster, sent 200,000 people in Nanzhao, and was also ready to catch strong men in Gyeonggi Province to continue to send. It can be said that in the entire Chang'an, and even in the entire Gyeonggi Province, except for the younger brother who was promoted by him, from the ministers to the common people, there is no one who does not hate and hate Yang Guozhong.

As a result, most of the anger was transferred to Yang Guozhong, but Yang Guozhong's official position was too high and his power was too great, so he dared to be angry and dare not speak;

But to send away 50,000 Hedong troops, lost the two passes of Jingcheng Yanmen, and escaped from the battle, it was not so polite, the angry people of Chang'an, as well as the wealthy families who fled from Hedong on horseback and chariot, surrounded Du Ganyun's mansion in Chang'an, and countless small stones, rotten eggs, and rotten vegetable leaves were smashed inside.

And these small actions of Tiance Mansion finally attracted the attention of Yang Guozhong's subordinates.

The time was noon, and the obscene rain in Chang'an City for more than two months finally stopped not long ago, and it was difficult to find a big sun, and a large teahouse of Qingxin Tea House in Chang'an East City was already crowded with people.

The people who came later could only move a bed to sit or simply stand, the tea was free, the snacks were half price, and everyone was eating while listening to the storyteller telling the story of Mo Qiufeng in Raoyang City.

“…… At that time, the situation was so critical, 5,000 Han people were carrying the soil to fill the trenches, if they didn't shoot with arrows, it wouldn't be long before the mounds could be piled up flush with the city wall, and Youzhou Hugou could directly rush to the city wall, Raoyang would be broken, and the hundreds of thousands of Han people in the city would be killed!

But if you shoot with arrows, it kills your own innocent people and nearby villagers, how can these defenders at the head of the city do it!

At this time, Mo Qiufeng, the captain of the Tiance Army, stood up and wanted to lead sixty Tiance knights to attack the Youzhou Great Array of 20,000 people. Rao Yang Taishou Lu Quancheng said with blood in his eyes, "You are sending you to death", but Mo Qiufeng said, "We are the soldiers of Tiance Mansion, and the mission of Tiance Mansion is to defend Datang, and the soldiers of Tiance Mansion, in order to guard Datang and protect the people of Datang, can die" ......"

"Good! Tiance Army is doing well! What a hero! The people who listened to the book applauded loudly, and the hall burst into applause. At this moment, there was a commotion from outside, but it was a group of Jinwuwei soldiers who squeezed in with this spear, and beat people when they saw them, and soon cleared a large space, and a general walked in.

"It's Pei Shishilang......"

"Yang Guozhong's brother-in-law ......"

"Deliberately came to find fault...... Someone in the audience who was driven to both sides of the lobby recognized the General Jin Wuwei and whispered.

After Pei Shishilang Pei Yu entered the lobby, he looked around the store, held his head high, and said arrogantly: "Evil words confuse the public, nonsense, you Qingxin Tea Society dare to reverse black and white, slander the current prime minister, from today on, all Qingxin Tea Societies are not allowed to talk about books, otherwise they will secretly arrest you." ”

Several employees of the Four Seas Trading Company and two members of the Tiance Secret Guard ran over and looked at each other a few times, and then the storyteller was shocked, looked at Pei Yu, and opened his mouth: "Please also ask General Pei to point out, in the content of the book, which point is nonsense, and which point is reversing black and white?" ”

Some of the listeners also had the courage to ask: "Yes, what this storyteller said is wrong, point it out!" ”

"It's you who turn black and white upside down. The Yang family is really used to it. When Chang'an was opened by your family......"

Pei Yuyang had a head. There was a cold light in his eyes, and he screamed: "Jingcheng Pass and Yanmen Pass will be lost, obviously your Tiance Mansion wants to have ill intentions and want to consume the strength of the Hedong Army, and deliberately put false news to let the Hedong Army send troops to Jingcheng Pass, and then mobilized soldiers to make chaos and drive away the Hedong Jiedu to make Du Qianyun!" ”

"The world's ridiculous!" The storyteller sneered: "What kind of goods is Du Qianyun, don't you know when we are?" You can say this kind of reversal of black and white, do you think everyone will believe it? ”

A refugee from Hebei Province pointed his finger at Pei Yu and scolded loudly: "Let your mother's bullshit!" This world was corrupted by Yang Guozhong. What kind of person is your brother-in-law Yang Guozhong, do you think we don't know? At the beginning of the battle of Nanzhao, he reversed black and white and buried 200,000 troops! ”

Everyone in the store also shouted: "That's it, that's it, he is used to reversing black and white!" ”

"The golden knife is chaotic, the golden knife is chaotic, isn't it Yang Zhao......"

"Your Yang family has caused such a big disaster, and you still want to bully people and do evil......

Such voices came and went, Pei Yu's face couldn't hold back, and he said angrily: "Say that Tiance Mansion is a demon to confuse the public." You have deceived the people with your words, and so many people have been deceived by you! ”

There was a pause. His voice rose three or four degrees again, and he shouted loudly and sharply, "Smash this place!" that you may deceive the people with false words, and turn black and white upside down. ”

Dozens of Jin Wuwei's soldiers began to smash, the table teacups and teapots and saucers fell to the ground, crackling, porcelain shards flew around, and the hot yellow-green tea soup splashed everywhere, and the listeners in the store fled in all directions, talking loudly and running out of the store, while a dozen members of the Tiance Mansion, including the storyteller, just sneered on the side.

Within a day, a similar scene was staged at the same time in all the teahouses and teahouses belonging to the Fresh Tea House in Chang'an City, and all the people of Chang'an began to talk about it.

Even the most sluggish people reacted at once, these are the two major power groups of Yang Guozhong and Tiance Mansion, openly turning their faces and breaking up, I don't know who wins and who loses in the end, but at least for now, at least more than ninety percent of people hope that Tiance Mansion can win.

The Yang family bullies and acts recklessly, and Yang Guozhong's arrogant appearance of being a villain, we have long been unaccustomed to him......

Pingkangfang, Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

Eight of the Tai students of the Guozijian set up a wine party here, and after taking the wine poured by the prostitute next to them, and after drinking a full glass, some people sighed deeply and made a compassionate appearance.

So a person next to him said: "Brother Liu is compassionate and compassionate, but he is sad for the people of Hebei and Hedong Province?" ”

The name of the Tai student called Brother Liu is Liu Zhi, who is the head of these eight Tai students, who is the best at talking and debating, and his writing is also exquisite and beautiful.

And most of the remarks he made were bookish, blindly retro, thinking that everything was in accordance with the Spring and Autumn Period, and naturally the world was peaceful, and the country and the people were safe.

If Xiao Qu is sick here, he will definitely smell bullshit, or slap him to shut up or run away, but a group of people around him are extremely sought after him, and a group of people drink every day to express their resentment that they have never met in their hearts.

When Liu Zhi heard this, he nodded: "The country is in danger like tired eggs, the society is declining, and the lives are ruined.

Thinking that so many people are being slaughtered by the rebels in Youzhou every day, my heart is like a knife. ”

Another student named Li Yi said: "It's a pity that the imperial court can't use a talent like Brother Liu, otherwise this rebellion will not be peaceful!" ”

Another student named Song Ruosi sighed and said: "That's right, Your Majesty doesn't think about the government, and the traitors in the court are in charge, so Yang Guozhong was originally a casino gangster, he has no talent and five qualities, how can he steal the phase!"

There are also envoys in various towns, which are also useless, after fighting for so long, they can't even quell the rebellion, a group of mediocre people, stealing from high positions, and the corpses are vegetarian, which is really not a blessing for the country. ”

A scholar named Deng Jingshan said: "It should be said that the king of Lanling of Tiance Mansion, the master and apprentice of King Jianning are still good. The 20,000 army of the king of Lanling conquered Nanzhao, and the battle was drawn, and then he broke the 80,000 reinforcements of Tubo, but unfortunately he was killed by traitors. King Jianning defeated the Youzhou army many times, and he also inherited the ability of King Lanling. ”

Liu Zhi sneered: "Then King Jianning really has the ability, how can he still not be able to quell the rebellion until now, and how can he let the Youzhou rebels capture Jingcheng Pass and Yanmen Pass?"

What's even more odious is that now that the national crisis is current, Yang Guozhong and King Jianning are still fighting for power and profit, tearing each other down, and I really don't know when this war will be fought. ”

"Oh, what does Brother Liu mean by this, do you also believe what Yang Guozhong said?"

"Groundless wind may not be without cause. In the past two days, the Qingxin Tea House has been constantly promoting the deeds of Tiance Mansion, how can it not have intentions? That Yang Guozhong is not good, and Tiance Mansion and King Jianning are not necessarily much better. ”

Liu Zhi said hatefully, feeling extremely aggrieved in his heart.

He has always felt that he is too capable, and he is so famous among the students, the emperor does not think about the government, and Yang Guozhong is a treacherous villain, so he wants to enter the Tiance Mansion and display the ambition in his chest.

But waiting and waiting, all kinds of hints and sales, and the king of Lanling of Tiance Mansion did not come to the thatched house of the Three Kingdoms to make friends with him, Liu Zhi had no choice but to put down his body and write a "Zhige Ji" to discuss how to end the war in the world and how to open the way of peace for all generations, thinking that his own method was really good.

But as soon as this article was handed over, it was driven out by Tiance Mansion, saying that the temple of Tiance Mansion was too small to fit your big Buddha, and it was said that it was the King of Jianning who didn't look down on him at that time.

"In my opinion, King Jianning did this because he wanted to learn from Wang Mang, and as soon as His Majesty came back, I would report King Jianning's disobedience to His Majesty!"

As soon as he said this, the other seven people in the audience were stunned and speechless for a long time. A moment later, when Liu Zhi was about to reveal the true face of King Jianning, he heard a great chaos on the street outside the Qinglou.

Everyone hurriedly poked their heads out of the window and asked for a long time, only then did they figure out that it turned out that His Majesty the Emperor had returned from the front line, and Liu Zhi said excitedly: "I want to go up to Your Majesty, which of you wants to join me?" (To be continued.) )