readx; The Tibetan army's attempt to attack Jiuqu was thwarted in an extremely tragic way, and the island was burned to the ground, and the more than 9,000 Tibetan elite soldiers on the island were burned to death or drowned in the water, except for more than 2,000 people who hid in the water on the shore and survived, and the Tang army was only wounded about 30 people in this beautiful interception battle, and none of them were killed, and this brilliant record enabled Li Sheng to win the trust and respect of the Anxi army, so that he could fully command the army of 20,000 people. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The heavy setback of crossing the river also made Ma Chongying temporarily give up his attempt to attack Jiuqu, and he led his army back to Wuhai, while recalling the 20,000 troops who had gone north to Dafeichuan, and at the same time sending people back to Luo to ask Zampu for guilt and ask for help.

At the beginning of September, the wheat in Jiuqu was completely harvested, and Li Sheng ordered people to send a large amount of grain and more than 100,000 farmers and herdsmen living in Jiuqu back to Hehuang, so that only the Tang army was stationed in the Jiuqu area.

At the beginning of September, Li Qing'an was still on his way back to Anxi, but in early September, Chang'an had some unusual changes due to Li Qing'an's temporary departure.

At this time, the pattern of Chang'an was still bounded by Zhuque Street, Jin Wuwei controlled Wannian County, Qianniuwei controlled Chang'an County, and there were 20,000 Anxi troops stationed outside Chang'an City and Xianyang County, and the pattern did not change, but at this time, An Lushan entered Beijing.

An Lushan's entry into Beijing was not sudden, although he failed miserably in Guanneidao, leaving a bad reputation as a rebel usurper of the party, but he did not rebel after all, nor did he forcibly occupy Hebei, except that the imperial army could not enter Hebei, Hebei's government system was still under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and officials in other places except Youzhou were still appointed and dismissed by the imperial court, which was the difference between rebellion and non-rebellion, in addition, An Lushan took the initiative to withdraw from Hedong, and also let some people in the imperial court who had his benefits begin to speak for him, said that An Lushan was just because he was sad about the death of his son, and he entered the Guannai Road in a fit of anger, because he wanted to seek justice for his son, and he did not have the heart to rebel.

At first, only the military servant Lang Jiwen tried his best to excuse him, but soon the subordinate servant Fang Xuan also played to the political affairs hall, An Lushan should not be isolated in this way, and he should be given a chance to reform himself, otherwise if An Lushan colluded with the Southern Tang Dynasty, the situation in Chang'an would be extremely unfavorable, and the left minister Wang Heng also agreed with Fang Xuan's opinion, and suggested that Feng An Lushan be the left servant of Shangshu, but because Zhang Yun abstained, and Cui Lian, the head of the household department, voted against, so that the political hall rejected the proposal of Feng An Lushan for Shangshu's left servant by a vote of four to two.

Although the political hall did not pass, but the prison Li Heng finally issued a statement of the prison state, admitting that An Lushan was still the imperial court's festival envoy, and allowed him to enter Beijing to meet the new emperor, in this way, An Lushan's fate seemed to be running again, he got Li Heng's understanding and endorsement, with 120,000 points of remorse and piety, and waited for the opportunity for Li Qing'an to leave Beijing, with the strong support of the prison party, he once again began to appear in Chang'an.

On the fifth day of the ninth month, An Lushan was escorted by 1,000 personal soldiers, and the carriage he rode arrived at the Mingde Gate in Chang'an, outside the Mingde Gate, entrusted by Li Heng, Wang Heng, the left minister, Fang Xuan, the servant of the door, the Shangshu Jiwen of the Ministry of War, Zhang Yan, the secretary of Taichang Temple, Ling Hufei, the guest of the prince, and more than 50 middle and low-level officials of the Jianguo Party, specially greeted the arrival of An Lushan outside the city.

An Lushan is still the same, with a big pumpkin-like face and a pair of slitted eyes, but his attitude has become very humble, and he stepped forward to bow respectfully to Wang Heng and give a long salute: "Humble An Lushan see Lord Zuo Xiang." ”

In the Tang Dynasty, the word 'adult' was used in person for parents or elders, and it was generally used to address officials as envoys, not adults, but An Lushan actually called Wang Heng an adult, which was obviously deliberately belittling himself and improving Wang Heng.

Wang Heng smiled and replied: "An Shuai doesn't need to be polite, everyone is in the same hall, and if we have the opportunity to go to Hebei in the future, we will also fight An Shuai's autumn breeze!" Do you think so? ”

Everyone laughed, "Zuo Xiang is right, when he goes to Hebei in the future, An Shuai will do his best to be a landlord!" ”

"Definitely! Certain! ”

An Lushan was very moved, and he saluted everyone again and again, "The lower officials will definitely do their best to entertain you with the gift of honorable guests." ”

At this time, An Lushan caught a glimpse of Zhang Yan of Taichang Temple, and he couldn't help but be slightly stunned in his heart, why did he come too?

Wang Heng waved his hand, and immediately served a table with three glasses of wine on the table, and he smiled at An Lushan: "This is the wine that catches the wind, An Shuai can enter the city after drinking, An Shuai, please!" ”

Saying that, he personally picked up a glass of wine and handed it to An Lushan, An Lushan took the wine glass, where did he dare to drink this wine of unknown origin, but he didn't dare not drink it, his eyes looked at Ji Wen, only to see Ji Wen nodded to him secretly, meaning that this wine can be drunk, despite this, An Lushan still covered the wine glass with his sleeve, poured the wine into his beard, and the wine flowed into his inner armor.

"Good wine! Chang'an's wine is like a woman, so delicate and sweet. ”

The word 'delicate' came out of the mouth of a rough person like An Lushan, everyone laughed, and there were two glasses of wine, at this time, the strategist behind An Lushan stepped forward and said with a smile: "Zuo Xiang, I will have a very serious stomach disease in An Shuai, and the doctor has repeatedly told him not to dip the wine, and I will drink it for him in the next two glasses of wine!" ”

An Lushan waved his hand and said unhappily: "I don't need Mr. for me, even if my stomach hurts again, I have to give Zuo Xiang's face, bring the wine, and I will continue to drink!" ”

Wang Heng hurriedly apologized and said: "I don't know that An Shuai is not in good health, and if he is offended, then the next two glasses of wine will be waived, anyway, it is just a ceremony." ”

He waved his hand again and smiled: "An Shuai, please board the car and enter the city!" ”

The simple welcome ceremony outside the Mingde Gate ended, An Lushan boarded the carriage, and the carriage slowly drove into the Mingde Gate under the strict escort of 300 personal guards.

In the carriage, a concubine wiped the wine stains in An Shuai's inner armor, An Lushan nodded, and said to Gao Shang gratefully: "Thanks to Mr. for breaking the siege in time, otherwise I really don't know what to do with the last two glasses of wine." ”

Gao Shang said with a smile: "Actually, I think there must be no problem in these three glasses of wine, after all, the Prison Party has to rely on the marshal, and it won't start at this time, I just saw that the marshal refused to drink, so I came out to explain." ”

An Lushan waved his hand and asked the concubine to go away, and he said to Gao Shang again: "This time, thanks to Mr. Cun's strategy, he seized the contradiction between the Jianguo Party and the Zhao Wang Party, and took advantage of the opportunity of the Jianguo Party to entrap me, so that I re-entered the court, but I just found Zhang Yan, I don't understand a little, could it be that Zhang Yun and Li Heng also secretly colluded?" Otherwise, how could Zhang Yan come? ”

Gao Shang pondered for a while and said: "To be honest, I'm also a little strange, even if Zhang Yun and Li Heng collude, Zhang Yan will not appear in public, I estimate that this should be Zhang Yan coming by himself, and it has nothing to do with the Prison Party, Zhang Yun's old fox, no one knows what he is thinking?" ”

At this time, An Lushan had already figured it out, he snorted disdainfully and said: "What kind of old fox, it's just grass on the wall, Li Qing'an just left on the front foot, he abstained from voting, he sent his brother to make a appearance, make a gesture, if Li Qing'an is held accountable, he will definitely say again, this is his brother's unauthorized behavior, he has already scolded, isn't Zhang Yun just such a person?" ”

"Well said!" Gao Shang gave a thumbs up and praised: "The handsome man sees that the people have made progress!" ”

An Lushan smiled and said: "Zhang Yun knows him very well, he has been fighting with Li Linfu for so many years, and his qualifications are old enough, why was he still taken away by Yang Guozhong as the right prime minister, in fact, Li Longji also saw through his surname as a wall-to-wall grass, so he didn't need him." ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered something, and said: "It was that Cui Lian who was unexpected, he was a member of the Prison Party, but he vetoed Wang Heng's proposal, which is very strange!" Could it be that he has secretly taken refuge in Li Qing'an? ”

Gao Shang nodded and said with a smile: "I think it should be like this, otherwise how could Li Qingan give up the phase to Li Heng in vain, this is an ambush he buried, but he didn't expect it to be exposed because of the handsome, hehe!" There's a good show to watch now. ”

An Lushan squinted his eyes and thought for a long time and said: "I don't want to just watch the play, I'm thinking, since Li Heng has the intention to win me over, should I give him a heavy gift?" ”

"What does the handsome mean..."

"That's right, when we passed through Weinan County, wasn't that piece of Huangzhuang being measured? I don't think Li Heng should be generous enough to give his land to those poor peasants! ”

He pondered for a moment, and then said: "This matter will be left to Shi Siming to do, and my son's mausoleum must be erected as soon as possible." ”

At this time, there was a burst of Yingyingyan outside the carriage, An Lushan watched a group of beautifully dressed beautiful women walking not far away, and aroused his thoughts, and he said: "I know that she must not be dead, she must be hiding somewhere in Chang'an, this time I must find her, if I don't get her, I swear not to be surnamed An!" ”

．．．．．．．． After Wang Heng presided over the ceremony, he and Ling Hufei hurried to the Zichen Palace, and Li Heng was still waiting for them to reply. In the court room of Zichen Palace, Li Heng is savoring a bowl of bird's nest porridge, since Li Qing'an left Beijing, he has really been relieved for a few days, Pei Min, Li Yan and others have become much more honest because of Li Qing'an's absence, although they still refuse to give in to some things in principle, but some things they are no longer opposed, such as retaining the mansion of the clan, restoring the system of closing the door of the house when Hai, etc., these seemingly inconsequential things, the political affairs hall can be passed smoothly, but these small things are very important to Li Heng.

Now Li Heng is thinking about three major things, to take advantage of Li Qing'an's absence in Chang'an to do them, one thing is to prohibit middle and low-level officials from receiving Anxi's allowance, although this kind of allowance with the normal distribution of Yulu, many officials have refused, but Li Heng knows that there are still many officials who are reluctant to give up the expensive Anxi allowance, taking advantage of others' short-handedness, so they work extremely hard for Anxi, from this preparation for Longyou, it can be seen that the transportation of materials is fast, the mobilization of people is efficient, and the enthusiasm of these officials is unprecedented.

Working hard to prepare for the battle of Longyou, Li Heng did not object, he also hoped that the Tang army could defeat the Tubo army, but these officials could not become the lackeys of Anxi, this was the first major thing.

The second is An Lushan, although it was Ji Wen who first ran and shouted for An Lushan, but it was Fang Xuan who discovered the value of An Lushan, and he Li Heng's subordinates didn't lack a foreign vassal who could confront Li Qing'an? An Lushan is the best candidate, of course he also knows that An Lushan has ambitions, but is Li Qingan different and ambitious? There is also Ge Shuhan, who is also ambitious, Guo Ziyi is old, and if he is twenty years younger, he will also be equally ambitious.

So Li Heng didn't care about An Lushan's ambitions, he believed that he could control this person, as long as he killed Li Qing'an for himself, it was not impossible to make him the king of the Hu country in the Khitan or Turkic in the future.

This is his second big thing, and he must take An Lushan under his account.

The third major thing is land, he opposes his son in his heart to seize the land of the clan, which will seriously weaken the power of the Li clan, and will shake the foundation of the Li clan's rule of the Tang Dynasty, although land annexation is also a big problem, but Li Heng believes that it is more important to maintain the rule of the Li clan over the Tang Dynasty, which is far more important than land annexation, Li Yu has carried out a brutal land seizure of hundreds of clans in a few months, which has greatly weakened the power of the clan, and he must restore the status and property of the clan, although this matter is difficult, but he must do it, at all costs, otherwise he will not get the support of the clan after he ascends the throne in the future.

Li Heng was thinking about three important things in his heart, and at this time, the voice of the guards came from outside the door, "Your Highness, Zuo Xiangguo and the prince's guests are here." ”

"Let them in!"

Li Heng drank the bird's nest in one gulp, put the bowl aside, and saw Wang Heng and Ling Hufei walking in one after the other.

"See Your Highness!"

"Did An Lushan get it?"

"I received it, and now that he has returned to his house, he said that he will come to see His Highness early tomorrow morning, and he will only meet the Holy One in the afternoon."

Li Heng nodded, An Lushan put him in front, he was very satisfied with this attitude, and he asked again: "What is An Lushan's attitude?" Did you get carried away? ”

Wang Jue shook his head and said: "This time An Lushan is very humble, and he is not arrogant and arrogant at all, it can be seen from his words that he has great respect for His Royal Highness, and this defeat of Guannei Dao has beaten him honestly." ”

Li Heng saw that Ling Hufei's expression didn't seem to agree with Wang Hui's opinion, so he asked him, "What does Mr. Ling Hu think?" ”

Ling Hufei smiled and said: "I think An Lushan has become more cunning, his grandson is just pretending, it can be seen from his drinking that he didn't drink at all, but poured the wine into his beard, I can see it clearly next to me, Zuo Xiang may not have noticed." ”

Wang Heng's face turned red, in fact, he didn't know that An Lushan was pretending, what kind of person he was, the left minister of the Tang Dynasty, after so many years of official career, he wouldn't even be able to see this, he knew very well in his heart, but he had received a lot of benefits from An Lushan, and he would get it in the future, so he deliberately spoke for An Lushan, but he didn't expect to be exposed by Ling Hufei, an unreasonable guy.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little embarrassing, Wang Heng coughed dryly, and quickly changed the topic: "There is another thing that is very strange, Zhang Yan actually came, and we didn't invite him." ”

"It's weird!"

Li Heng glanced at Wang Heng dissatisfied, he stood up and walked a few steps with his hands behind his back and said: "Not only is Zhang Yan very strange, but Cui Lian's matter is even more strange, both of these things must be investigated, and they must be investigated!" ”

(To be continued)