readx; Chang'an, Li Longji's northern offense did not cause chaos in Chang'an, except that his "Letter to the World" caused a large number of clan magnates to flee south, Chang'an was chaotic for a time, but as the two armies entered a state of confrontation, the way to escape south was blocked, and the situation in Chang'an gradually returned to calm. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On this morning, a small secret meeting was being held in the meeting room of Li Heng, the supervisor of the Zichen Palace, and the participants were all the backbone ministers of Li Heng's faction, including the three senior members of the political hall, Wang Hui, Fang Xuan and Cui Lian, as well as his military advisor, Ling Hufei, who is currently the guest of the crown prince, Li Yu, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, Chen Xuanli, the general of Jin Wuwei, plus Li Heng, a total of seven people.

Fang Xuan and Cui Jian were originally Li Heng's original members of the East Palace Party, and they have always believed that Li Heng is orthodox, but this time Li Heng became the regent of the prison country, and the status of the two of them also rose, and finally replaced Yang Guozhong and Chen Xilie and entered the political hall.

"In this recruitment, we have recruited a total of 75,000 people, which is lower than the 110,000 people of the Anxi army, but higher than the 40,000 people of the Guannai Shuofang army."

Speaking of Chen Xuanli, he is also a veteran in his sixties, a long-term general of the Yulin Army, and the current deputy marshal of the Guanzhong Army and General Jin Wuwei, and he is fully responsible for the recruitment of new troops in the Guanzhong Army this time.

Chen Xuanli and Li Heng have a very good relationship, as early as when Li Heng was the crown prince, he hinted to Li Heng more than once that he would resolutely support his ascension to the throne, and this time as the general of Jin Wuwei, Li Heng also hoped that he could control Chang'an City for himself.

Chen Xuanli at this meeting, according to Li Heng's arrangement, first reported to several important ministers the military strength of each faction, Chen Xuanli saw that everyone was very concerned, so he continued: "In this way, with the addition of the original Guanzhong Army, Jin Wuwei and Tongguan Defenders, our army will reach as much as 260,000, but according to the information I have obtained, Li Qingan transferred another 60,000 or 70,000 Anxi troops to the Central Plains, plus the new army he recruited and the existing Anxi Army, as well as the army in Hexi, then his army in the Central Plains has reached nearly 300,000, both in terms of combat effectiveness and equipment, We are all far inferior to the Anxi army. ”

"Then how effective is Guo Ziyi's army?" Wang Jue asked.

Chen Xuanli smiled and said: "Don't look at Li Qing'an being respected as a father, but the army that really supports the saint is Guo Ziyi, this time he recruited 40,000 troops, plus his existing army and Yulin army, their faction also has 110,000 people, as for the combat effectiveness, it is mainly based on the 50,000 troops in Guo Ziyi's hands as the main force, and the training of recruits still needs time." ”

After Chen Xuanli finished speaking, he sat down, and then Li Heng said slowly: "The reason why I first asked General Chen to analyze the comparison of the armies of all parties is because the strength of the army will be the key to the distribution of our interests in the future, and there is no doubt that Li Qingan will have an advantage in the distribution of interests in the future, which I do not deny and do not want to avoid." ”

Last night, Li Heng received news that his father had withdrawn his troops to the south, which meant that the situation in Guanzhong would gradually stabilize, and a new round of power struggle and power distribution was about to begin.

Li Heng picked up a letter from the table and said to everyone: "This is a letter that Li Qing'an wrote to me before he went to Yixian, in which he made several requests, some of which I must agree, but some of which I don't want to agree, so I will discuss it with you today." ”

Li Heng took out the letter, handed it to Wang Heng first, and said to everyone: "The first problem he mentioned in the letter is the control scope of the two armies in Guanzhong in the future, I also think this is a major event that must be faced, Guo Ziyi's army has clearly not garrisoned troops in Guanzhong, this is the condition when Li Qing'an returned the Guannei Dao and Shuofang to him, in this way, there are only two armies in Guanzhong, so how to station so that there will be no contradictions, Li Qing'an's proposal is to take Chang'an Zhuque Street as the boundary, and the east of Guanzhong is controlled by our army, The west of Guanzhong is controlled by his army, which means that the east of Wannian County in Chang'an is our territory, and the west of Chang'an County is his territory. ”

"Your Highness, the minister has a question?"

Fang Xuan frowned and asked: "Chang'an City has always been responsible for the security of the Twelve Guards, we have Jin Wuwei, who can manage Chang'an City justifiably, but if Chang'an City is divided into two, it can't be the Anxi cavalry patrolling the streets of Chang'an County!" ”

"This is Li Qingan's second request to me, he wants to rebuild Qianniuwei, and in the future, Qianniuwei will be responsible for the security patrol of Chang'an County, to be honest, I have agreed to his two requests, with Zhuque Street as the boundary to divide the entire Guanzhong into two, he is in the west and I am in the east, which means that the defense of the Jiannan Army will be his business in the future, in fact, I do not suffer, but what I want to discuss with you is his third request."

Li Heng walked to the map, he picked up the wooden stick and pointed to the map of Hedong and said: "After An Lushan's fiasco in Guanneidao, he has written to the imperial court, asking to resign from the post of Hedong Jiedu envoy, that is to say, An Lushan will give up the Hedong garrison, and Hedong will be vacant, Li Qing'an's third condition is to take Taiyuan as the boundary, and also divide the garrison power of Hedong into two, the eleven states south of Taiyuan will be garrisoned by me, and the seven states of Beihe, including Taiyuan, will be garrisoned by him, and I will not agree to his request, Because his request has broken through his promise of not being a good one, I would like to discuss it with you. ”

The conference room was quiet, Li Qing'an asked for an equal division of Guanzhong, which was no problem, and everyone could accept it, after all, Li Qingan's army had been stationed in Guanzhong, and he was the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, but Li Qing'an proposed to divide Hedong equally, and everyone felt that it was a bit excessive.

Although it was the Anxi army that defeated An Lushan, they got Longyou as compensation, they had already occupied the vast land west of the Yellow River, and they were not satisfied, and their hands reached into the hinterland again, and they hit the idea of Hedong, which gave people a feeling of winning Longwangshu, and Li Qingan was inevitably too greedy.

What is even more worrying is Li Qing'an's identity, after he became the crown prince, what kind of consequences he would have if he got Taiyuan, the city of Longxing, everyone was full of worries.

At this time, Ling Hufei said: "Your Highness, can you make it clear, which seven states and one government?" ”

"Yes."

Li Heng pointed to the map and introduced them one by one: "Shi, Lan, Xin, Dai, Shuo, Yun, Wei Qizhou, plus Taiyuan Mansion, and I have another news to tell you, in fact, Yunzhou is already in the hands of Li Qing'an, he has appointed Anxi General Lei Wanchun as the governor of Yunzhou, Zhenwu Army Jiedu, I don't know when he sent his men to occupy Yunzhou, I guess it was what happened when he fought with An Lushan." ”

Ling Hufei pondered for a moment and said, "Your Highness, the minister suggested agreeing to Li Qing'an's request. ”

Ling Hufei's suggestion caused an uproar, and several civil officials were still calm, Chen Xuanli stood up and said angrily: "Why did Linghu Envoy Jun agree? If he is allowed to reach out into the east of the river, then he will surround the Guannei Dao from all sides, and he will inevitably eat the Guannei Dao in the next step, so that his control will be connected into one piece, if he eats the Guannei Dao again, then Chang'an can still be saved? Can't Linghu Envoy Jun even see this? ”

Although Li Heng was also a little dissatisfied and surprised by Ling Hufei's suggestion, he knew that Ling Hufei was not a person who spoke falsely, so he waved his hand and said, "Everyone be quiet for a while, please let Linghu Envoy finish speaking." ”

The conference room was quiet again, Ling Hufei glanced at everyone, and said with a faint smile: "I don't want to give Li Qing'an the anointed land in Hedong, in fact, I and His Royal Highness gave up the west of Suzaku Street, but also because of the situation, everyone might as well treat me as Li Qing'an, I now propose to ask for a government in Hedong Seven Prefectures, everyone is against it, okay, I can give up Hedong, I want Henan Road instead, do you give it or not?" ”

Ling Hufei's last sentence made everyone stammer, yes! If Li Qing'an doesn't want Hedong and wants Henan Province instead, will they give it or not? Nominally, Hedong and Henan belong to the imperial court, but who does the imperial court belong to, aren't they these two major forces? Li Heng wants Hedong and Henan again, will Li Qingan agree? According to the principle of reciprocity of interests, Hedong and Henan should each occupy a piece.

After a while, Cui Lian said to Li Heng: "Your Highness, the minister supports Linghu Envoy's suggestion, since Li Qing'an has occupied Yunzhou, then he is bound to win the northeast of He, and he can't withdraw his troops from Yunzhou because of our opposition!" We should be practical in our consideration, and Suo promised Li Qing'an to control the northeast of Hedong, and then we control the southeast of Hedong and Henan Province, so that I can have the strength to compete with the armies of Jiannan, Jingzhou, Yangzhou, etc., and I also happened to hand over the matter of dealing with An Lushan to Li Qing'an, and we will go all out to deal with the armies of Jingzhou and Yangzhou. ”

If Ling Hufei's status is a little lower and his right to speak is still relatively weak, then Cui Lian's statement is much heavier, and then Fang Xuan and Wang Heng also agreed.

Li Heng was originally hesitant before he wanted to discuss with everyone, since most people agreed to assign the northeastern part of the river to Li Qing'an, Li Heng also obeyed everyone's opinions, and he immediately said to Li Li: "Then Li Shaoqing will make a hard trip, go to Li Qing'an for me, and say that I agree with his three plans." ”

．．．．．．．．． With Li Longjinan's withdrawal to Shuzhong, a crisis was resolved, and the situation in Guanzhong gradually returned to normal order, Guo Ziyi's army returned to Guannei Dao, and Li Qing'an's army marched towards Chang'an.

That night, the army marched to the territory of Xianyang, it was late, Li Qing'an ordered to be stationed on the spot to rest, marched for a day, everyone was hungry and tired, so they immediately buried the pot to cook, set up camp, the camp was busy and noisy, particularly lively.

The big tent of the Chinese army has been settled, Li Qingan is talking about Ge Shuhan with the new staff Wei Qingping, Wei Qingping's details Li Qingan has figured out, he is actually a member of the Wei family of Guanlong, is the nephew of Wei Jiansu, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, grew up in the family, because he was born as a concubine and was bullied by the family, at the age of eighteen, he took his mother to Tongzhou, where there were a few acres of thin fields left by his father, since then he bowed down to study hard, quite a famous poem, and Li Bai Du Fu Cen Shen and others as friends, although usually debauchery, but he has great ambitions, I want to do something big, but unfortunately I can't find the opportunity to defect to the master.

This time Li Qing'an returned to Beijing, he dared to sing on the street, and finally won Li Qing'an's attention, hired him as a staff member, and gave Li Qing'an several big plans one after another, including this time to separate Ge Shuhan and Li Longji, which was also his strategy, but Wei Qingping did not expect that Li Qingan would use Yang Xuan as a messenger, which not only separated Ge Shuhan and Li Longji, but also bribed Yang Guozhong, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone, this result made Wei Qingping admire.

"The general really has a long-term vision and knows how to put a long line to catch big fish, I can't see that in two years, Ge Shuhan will die under Li Longji's knife."

Li Qingan sighed slightly and said: "Actually, I don't care if Ge Shuhan dies or not, what I care about is the 50,000 Longyou Army under him, many people in this army have experience in plateau operations, let them go to the land of fish and rice in the two lakes, it's a pity, they should go back to Longyou to deal with Tubo, fortunately, most of the soldiers' families are in Longyou, we have to think of a way to let these soldiers come back, so I bother Mr. Lao to plan this matter for me." ”

"The general has an order, and his subordinates should obey it, but please give me a few days to think about it."

"Might as well be! Might as well! There is no urgency in this matter, but you can take your time. ”

The two were talking, and suddenly a report from their own soldiers came from outside the tent: "Report to the general, General Nan is here." ”

"Let him in!"

Li Qingan smiled and said to Wei Qingping: "My general is relatively thin-skinned, I will train him later, Mr. will avoid it first!" ”

"Good! I'm leaving. ”

Wei Qingping hurriedly got up and left, and after a while, Nan Jiyun hurriedly walked away from the big tent, knelt down on one knee and saluted: "See the general." ”

This time, Nan Jiyun did not participate in the defense of Yi County, he and Yan Zhuang went to Fengtian County to organize new soldiers, got Li Qing'an's order, and hurried back.

Li Qingan glanced at him and said, "How is the situation of the recruits?" ”

Nan Jiyun's current military position is only a lieutenant general, and Cui Qianyou, who is later than him, is already a general, Lei Wanchun has also become the governor of Yunzhou, from the general of Sanpin Yunlu, and even some of his former subordinates have become generals, this is not that Nan Jiyun is not capable, on the contrary, he has excellent archery skills, has repeatedly made military exploits, and is loyal to Li Qing'an, after the Battle of Talas, he was named the general of Qianniuwei, but because of a major mistake a few years ago, he was demoted to Lang General by Li Qing'an, and he was demoted to three levels.

About two years ago, Li Qing'an attacked Guanzhong, supported Li Yu's ascension to the throne, at that time recruited 20,000 troops among the displaced people in Chang'an, for the Anxi army stationed in Chang'an's army, when Li Qing'an left Chang'an, handed over this army to Nan Jiyun, repeatedly told him to hold on to this army, but half a year later, Li Yu promoted Nan Jiyun to the general of Zuo Wuwei, Nan Jiyun was confused for a while, and accepted the appointment, and finally led to his power being hollowed out, and the army was taken away by Li Yu. Although Li Qingan forgave Nan Jiyun, he was demoted by three levels and demoted to a general.

This incident gave Nan Jiyun an indelible shame, he was silent from then on, followed Li Qing'an to fight in the south and the north, and once again made a lot of achievements, this time back to Chang'an, Nan Jiyun revisited the old land, mixed feelings.

Nan Jiyun said in a deep voice: "Returning to the general, 110,000 recruits have been assembled in Fengxian County, and they will return to Liangzhou for training in three days." ”

"Do you think this batch of recruits is a little stronger than the 20,000 troops the year before last?" Li Qingan looked at him with a smile and asked.

Nan Jiyun's face swelled red, and when the old things were brought up again, his heart was stabbed again, and he sighed lowly, and said: "Although the 20,000 troops were displaced last time, most of them were government soldiers, and they could fight with a little training, and although there were many government soldiers in this batch of recruits, at least half of them were still ordinary peasants, which was not as good as the 20,000 army. ”

"What are you blushing, is it because of the past, I punished you wrong?"

Nan Jiyun hung his head deeply, and said bitterly: "Back then, I coveted the name and made a big mistake, and the general punished it right, I only hate the general for being punished too lightly, if the general beheads me, I have no complaints." ”

Li Qingan looked at him and said, "Really? I killed you, and you really have no complaints? ”

"There is no complaint about the lowly position!"

"Okay, I'll give you another chance, this time against An Lushan, you have made a great contribution, I will reward you for your merits, promote you to the general of Qianniuwei, and form a new Qianniuwei army of 20,000 troops for me in Chang'an County, if you fall from there, I will give you a chance to get up from there, if you don't do well this time, then you will break it yourself!"

Nan Jiyun was very excited in his heart, his nose was sour, and he couldn't help but say with tears in his eyes: "Humble duty is a liver and brain, and it is difficult to repay the general's kindness." ”

．．．．．．．．．． Nan Jiyun is gone, Li Qingan looked at his distant back, couldn't help but smile and shook his head, he believes that this time Nan Jiyun can do a good job, it is not terrible for a person to make mistakes, what is terrible is that he does not know the mistake and refuses to change, if that is the case, he Li Qingan has seen the wrong person, in the past two years, he knows that Nan Jiyun has been living in pain and self-blame, and he has never been angry because he was demoted to a general, from this point of view, Nan Jiyun really knows that he is wrong, and this person can still be of great use.

Li Qingan also knew that even if he forgave Nan Jiyun, Nan Jiyun would not forgive himself, so the best way was to let him go through the road again, as long as he could pass this level, his heart knot would be untied.

Li Qing'an turned around and was about to go back to the big tent when an officer on duty came to report: "General, there are people outside the camp who ask to see you." ”

"Who is it?"

"It's the same person we drove away last time, and he's here again."

"Li Li!"

Li Qingan reacted suddenly, and said with a slight smile: "Let him come in this time." ”

Li Li's arrival was naturally sent by Li Heng, needless to say, it must be for the sake of those three conditions, and Li Heng has to give himself an answer.

Li Qing'an also knows that there is no problem with the first and second conditions, Li Heng will inevitably agree, the key is the third condition, he wants a government in seven states in the northeast of Hedong, especially Taiyuan Mansion is extremely important, it is related to his identity authenticity, Taiyuan is the land of the Tang Dynasty, there are many articles that can be done, Li Qingan has made up his mind, even if Li Heng does not agree, he will forcibly occupy it.

After a while, Li Li, under the leadership of several personal soldiers, walked into Li Qing'an's big tent nervously, and he hurriedly bowed down and saluted: "Taichang Shaoqing Li Li See His Royal Highness the General King Zhao!" ”

With the lesson of the last time, he didn't dare to get close to Li Qing'an anymore, his attitude became respectful, Li Qing'an nodded and smiled: "Li Shaoqing, please take a seat!" ”

"Thank you, Your Highness, for serving the order of the regent of the prison country to send a letter to the general, and I don't dare to stay for a long time."

"Where is the faith?"

Li Li took out the letter, respectfully handed it to Li Qing'an with both hands, and said, "Last time, His Royal Highness the Great General King Zhao put forward three conditions, and the prison country agreed to all of them. ”

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(To be continued)