The soldiers brought the person up, and it was Chang Jin, the proprietor of Chang'an Rehaiju, Li Qingan smiled slightly: "Chang Dongzhu, don't come unharmed when you meet an old man in another country!" ”

Chang Jin hurriedly saluted: "General, I actually came from Broken Leaf, after saying goodbye to Chang'an last time, I also returned to Broken Leaf on the third day, and I have something important to report to the general." ”

Li Qingan nodded, "This is not the place to talk, go to the mansion and say." ”

The team went on again, and Chang got on a horse and followed behind, his expression very ambivalent, as if he wanted to say something but did not want to say.

Li Qing'an's mansion was now much more lively, and his soldiers went to the slave markets in Gaochang and Dunhuang to procure a group of domestic servants and maids, nearly 30 of them, most of whom were Han Chinese.

This group of domestic servants was half a month ago, and they have gradually adapted to the life in the house, and their arrival has brought vitality to the house.

Li Qing'an came to the gate of the mansion and saw a carriage parked at the door, and immediately a middle-aged man ran out of the mansion and said with a smile: "Master, it is Yang Duhu's daughter who came to learn the piano from the girl in the dancing clothes." ”

This middle-aged man's surname is Jiang, he is currently the housekeeper of Li Qing'an's house, he is a native of Fengxiang, originally the housekeeper of Zhou Xuan's house in Gyeongju, last year Zhou Xuan was convicted of sitting on stolen goods, and the family was exiled to Xizhou, Jiang Steward and more than a dozen old family members followed the master to Beiting, Zhou Xuan died of illness at the beginning of the year, and his wife disbanded the family, everyone went their own way, Jiang Steward and several family servants were ready to return to the mainland, but they were afraid of the horse bandits in the Hexi corridor, and they happened to hear that the new festival of Beiting was recruiting family members, and the conditions were tolerant, and there was monthly money, After three years, he was able to return to freedom, and everyone entered Li Qing'an's mansion together.

This steward Jiang is very shrewd, capable, and experienced, and he quickly took care of the Li Mansion in an orderly manner, which made Li Qingan deeply satisfied.

Li Qingan nodded, and said to him: "Go and invite Mr. Yan to my outer study!" ”

Steward Jiang agreed, and ran away, everyone entered the house, the soldiers dispersed, and Li Qingan took Chang into the outer study, the outer study is located in the middle courtyard, there is a small door connected to the inner house, and the general high-ranking officials have the inner and outer study, the inner study is the place where the master rests and reads, and it belongs to the man's ** space, and no one is easily allowed to enter, and Li Qingan's inner study is only one person who can enter the inner study of Rushi, and tidy up and clean it for him.

The outer study is a place to deal with some official business and receive important guests, compared with the inner study with only two rooms, the outer study is much more spacious, with four rooms, such as an office, a conference room, a library room, etc., which is actually a small courtyard for reading.

"Proprietor Chang, please feel free to sit down!"

Li Qing'an entered the house and took off his robe, hanging it on the hanger, he and Chang Jin sat down, a maid brought in three cups of tea, at this time, two soldiers carried a rattan chair in, the rattan chair sat solemnly, as soon as he entered the door, he smiled: "I'm soaking my feet!" But they called me. ”

Yan Zhuang currently lives in Li Qing'an's East Courtyard, Li Qing'an specially found him a local famous doctor to treat his leg injury, and the treatment was quite effective for a month, at least he could be supported to move slowly, not paralyzed on the couch like before, unable to move at all, for this reason, Yan Zhuang was full of gratitude to Li Qing'an.

The two pro-soldiers supported him, sat down slowly, and lifted the rattan chair down, Li Qingan smiled apologetically, and introduced Chang Jin to him: "This is what I told my husband, the Chang proprietor of Atami Ju, who just came from Broken Leaves." ”

Yan Zhuang heard Li Qing'an talk about the Broken Leaf Han and Tang Meeting, so he bowed his hand to Chang Dongzhu, "Chang Dongzhu, I have been looking up for a long time." ”

Li Qingan introduced Chang Jin again: "This is my staff Mr. Yan, what does Chang Dong have to say, but it doesn't matter." ”

Chang Jin understood what Li Qing'an meant, and he also returned a salute to Yan Zhuang, and then said to Li Qing'an: "General Li, as soon as I arrived in Shaye, I heard about a major event, there was a serious civil war in Da Shi, and the rebel army in Khorasan had attacked the hinterland of Da Shi. ”

"Abbas!" Li Qing'an blurted out, Chang Jin was stunned for a moment, the leader of the Khorasan rebel army was indeed called Abbasid, how did he know?

"I also heard a little bit about it from a Sogdian merchant not long ago."

Li Qing'an lightly disguised his prophet, and he smiled and said, "Lord Chang meant to let me take the opportunity to seize the broken leaves, right?"

Chang Jin nodded, "Exactly, the Great Food Civil War, they must have no time to take care of the East, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Tang Dynasty to re-enter the west of the Green Ridge, and the general must seize it." ”

"But without the will of the imperial court, I can't be arrogant!"

Chang Jin's heart was in a hurry, he couldn't help but kneel down, kowtowed a few times, and cried: "It has been nearly thirty years since Broken Leaf lost the Tang Dynasty, and the Broken Leaf Han people are looking forward to returning to the Tang Dynasty all the time. ”

Li Qing'an hurriedly helped him up and comforted him: "Lord Chang, please be relieved, since I am the lord of the North Court, it is my duty to recover the broken leaves, and I also know that the opportunity is rare now, but the major event of sending troops to break the leaves must be reported to the court first, but this coming and going, plus the court discussion, will take at least two or three months." ”

"General Li, otherwise you will take advantage of the shortcut of the Han and Tang Dynasties, we have a strict path for flying pigeons, in Guazhou, Ganzhou, Liangzhou, Longyou, Fengxiang are equipped with flying pigeon conversion points, there are special people in charge, from Beiting to Chang'an, the fastest as long as seven days to arrive."

Li Qingan was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Is it only seven days?" ”

"Yes, the fastest one used to be, it only took five days."

At this time, Yan Zhuang next to him asked with a smile: "If we want to pass the book to Yangzhou, can we do it?" ”

"Yes! Even as far away as Guangzhou, you can. ”

"It's really good."

Yan Zhuang glanced at Li Qingan and smiled: "General, my subordinates thought that they could use the path of the Han and Tang Societies to gain time in this way." ”

Li Qing'an understood the meaning of Yan Zhuang, the correspondence between Anxi Xiting and Chang'an was mainly through the post station, and because of the difficulty in establishing the pigeon letter, there was only one at present, which was used by the supervisor Bian Lingcheng to send a secret letter to Li Longji, but he didn't expect that the Han and Tang Dynasties would actually have one, which made Li Qing'an tempted.

"Okay, I'll fix the book."

Li Qingan smiled at Chang Jin: "Not only this time, but I will often use this way in the future to deliver the news of Chang'an for me." ”

"The general is also a member of the Broken Leaf Han and Tang Society, so he can use it as much as he wants."

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Chang Jin retreated, and Yan Zhuang immediately said: "General, I don't think this Han Tang Society wants to restore the broken leaves, but actually set up spy points in various parts of the Tang Dynasty, what is the meaning?" ”

Li Qingan nodded and said, "I feel it too, as if they still have a deeper purpose hidden." ”

He sneered and said, "You want to use me, hum!" Is my Li Qingan so easy to use? If I guessed correctly, this Han Tang Association will have a big action in the North Court, Mr. may wish to pay attention to this matter and dig out the truth for me. ”

"Huh! I like to do this kind of conspiracy the most, leave it to me, no problem. ”

Yan Zhuang smiled and said: "However, the Great Food Civil War is indeed a good opportunity to recover the broken leaves, and the general should seize this opportunity." ”

Li Qingan paced slowly in the room with his hands behind his back, he remembered very well that the replacement of the white-clothed food by the black-clothed Great Food took place in the first year or two of the Battle of Talas, the Battle of Talas was the outbreak of Tianbao in the tenth year, so now the eighth year of Tianbao is indeed the most intense moment of the Great Food Civil War, this is indeed an opportunity, but the time to really send troops has not yet come.

Thinking of this, he said slowly: "The day before I left, the Holy Lord summoned me, and it was agreed that I could directly attack Broken Leaf without the consent of the imperial court, but now is not the best time to attack Broken Leaf, the top priority is to take over the military power of Xizhou and truly obtain the military and political power of Beiting." ”

Yan Zhuang's brows furrowed, and he said worriedly: "But I'm worried that Anxi Gao Xianzhi will send troops to break the leaves first and snatch the general's opportunity." ”

Li Qingan smiled faintly and said, "Mr. thinks that Tubo has lost Xiao Bolu, will they be willing to give up Tocharo?" ”

Yan Zhuang was stunned, he didn't understand what Li Qingan meant.

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That night, Li Qing'an repaired a short book on silk silk, put it in a pigeon letterbox, and handed it to his soldiers, so that he could use the intelligence transmission channel of the Han and Tang Societies to send it to Chang'an Gaolis.

Time flies quickly, it will be the end of March in a flash, the annual spring hunting will be approaching, these days, the leaders of the various armies and tribes in Beiting have arrived in Jinman County, Han Zhi, the governor of Yizhou, and Zhao Tingyu, the governor of Xizhou, have also arrived with five hundred troops each, Shatuo Ye Bone Guard, the eldest prince of Gelulu Mou Luo Duo and the second prince Mou Sihan have also arrived in Jinman County with 100 people, in addition, the rest of the ethnic groups, such as the local Wusun people, Turkic people, Qiang people, and Tuqi Shi people in Beiting, as well as the cavalry athletes selected by the counties, Also arrived in Tingzhou one after another, two days before the spring hunting conference, all the people who participated in the spring hunting basically arrived, and nearly 2,000 representatives from all over Jinman County gathered.

Everyone is stationed in the suburbs of Jinman County, Yang Fengche has already demarcated the place, everyone has set up their own tents, more than 1,000 tents are connected together, people shout and neigh, it is magnificent.

In the afternoon of this day, on the official road outside the Beiting City, a team of cavalry came from the east, and in the middle was a bearded man about thirty years old, he was a eunuch, named Wang Tingfang, and was the supervisor of the Beiting Army.

Wang Tingfang entered Beiting City, the city is not allowed to run horses, he dismounted and walked quickly to Li Qing'an's mansion, Wang Tingfang was the first to serve Gao Lishi's small eunuch, is Gao Lishi's henchman, Tianbao was sent to Anxi in five years as a lieutenant judge, is Bian Lingcheng's deputy, this time Gao Lishi designated by Wang Tingfang as the Beiting Supervision Army Envoy, he has been Gao Lishi's secret order, full support Li Qing'an.

Wang Tingfang walked to the door and asked his soldiers, "Is your general here?" ”

"In!"

"Inform your general for me, I have an urgent letter from the Holy Lord."

The soldiers went in, and after a while, they came out and invited Wang Tingfang into the room, Li Qing'an was reviewing the documents, and when he saw him coming in, he stood up and said with a smile: "Did the envoy of the king bring the holy edict?" ”

"Exactly!"

Wang Tingfang bowed his hand, took out Li Longji's hand, and put it on Li Qing'an's table, "General, please see it yourself." ”

The edict is not a holy decree, the holy decree must be printed under the Zhongshu Gate, although Hanlin can also issue a holy decree, but the will involving military affairs must be issued by the Zhongshu Province, so the edict is just a private letter from Li Longji, and has no legal effect, if it is a county in the Central Plains, it can be completely ignored, but the frontier is slightly different, because the Jiedu envoy was appointed by Li Longji, so the edict is equally important.

The handwritten edict was also sent in a pigeon letter, written on a thin silk silk, which Li Qing'an unfolded, and on it was Li Longji's handwritten handwriting, with only one sentence: 'Quasi-use of troops against the Qarluqs. ’

This is a reply to Li Qing'an's secret letter half a month ago, he wrote in the letter at the time: "The minister wants to take broken leaves for His Majesty in the west, but Ge Lulu and Sha Tuo are in constant conflict, affecting the minister's westward expansion plan, the minister thinks that the Celestial Dynasty has appeased Ge Lulu for a long time, so that he is arrogant, and he is slow to treat the Beiting Military Government, and now he is gradually sitting bigger, and he is ambitious about the broken leaves, and the minister wants to weaken Ge Lulu, cut off his ambitions, and hope that His Majesty will give permission!" ’

Seeing that Li Qing'an had accepted the edict, Wang Tingfang asked in a low voice, "General Li really wants to use troops against the Qarluqs?" ”

Li Qing'an nodded and said: "The heart of the Holy Lord to rebuild the Broken Leaf Army Town has been decided, and now the Turbulent Cavalry is declining, and Ge Lulu is gradually becoming stronger, how can it not want to seize the rich land of Broken Leaves, so it will weaken the Ge Lulu people first and destroy its ambitions, but this matter is confidential, except for the two of us, we can't tell anyone, including the border prison army, otherwise it will damage the Holy Lord's big affairs, and we can't afford it." ”

"Our family understands and admires General Li's foresight, and our family is willing to do our best to assist General Li and realize the great plan of the Holy One."

Li Qing'an smiled, "Not only to realize the great plan of the saints, Wang Zhong's envoy has some personal difficulties, I will also try my best to help, I know that Wang Zhong's family is poor, and I have sent someone to Taiyuan to buy a house and land for Wang Zhong's parents, brother and sister-in-law, this is my little heart, Wang Zhong's envoy must not push back." ”

Wang Tingfang was born in poverty, he was forced to enter the palace since he was a child, and his income in the palace was meager, although he had to be released to supervise the army in Anxi, but there was Bian Lingcheng above, and it was not his turn to have benefits, seeing Li Qing'an's public and private affairs, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed and saluted, "Thank you General Li." ”

"The envoy doesn't have to be polite, as long as we don't miss the military affairs, we are loyal to the saints, and it is not necessary to properly consider our personal needs, which is also human nature!"

Wang Tingfang smiled so much that his eyes narrowed into a slit, and Li Qingan said that his heart was on the road, and he gave a thumbs up, "General Li is high!" ”

At this moment, there was a sound of hurried footsteps at the door, and a soldier rushed to report, "General, the big thing is not good, the Shatuo and the Qarluq people are fighting!" ”

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Perhaps it was Yang Fengche's momentary negligence, when he divided the camp, he actually camped close to each other with the Qarluq and Shatuo people, the Shatuo people arrived in Jinman County on March 25, and the Qarlu people arrived two days late, and also stationed the camp, at the beginning, the two Hu just glared angrily, basically peaceful, but because several hunting dogs of the Shatuo people ran to the territory of the Qarlu people and did not return, the Shatuo people came to ask for it, and the result was killed by the Qarlu people in front of the Shatuo people, and killed several hunting dogs with a knife, And insinuated and scolded: "If Shatuo Dog dares to come to Qarlu's territory again, this is the end." ”

The death of the three hounds sparked a bloody clash between the Shatuo and the Qarluqs, and by the time Li Qing'an arrived at the camp, the Tang army had already separated the two tribes, and although there were no deaths, a dozen people on each side had been wounded, and many of them were seriously injured.

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(To be continued)