Although noble behavior has been criticized by society, noble and cold heart has been warmed for a long time, but this is not all he wants!

There are four elements that a person needs to succeed.

You yourself have to be very capable, this is the premise;

The country is in dire need of capable people, this is the time of day;

Someone who recognizes your abilities and that this person is more capable than you is human;

With the recommendation and promotion of others, you have the opportunity to use your abilities and make them improve or sublimate, this is the opportunity.

As a low-level official in the empire, although Ling Huchao provided a relatively comfortable living environment for Gao Shang, he was obviously not the key person who could help Gao Gao move towards success.

Noble's restless heart became restless again, because the unfortunate ** that was dormant in his heart did not allow him to stay in the haven any longer, but continued to step on it

The road of pursuit through thick and thin.

The man who changed the noble fate finally appeared. Gao Shang was discovered by the discerning Xinping Taishou Li Qiwu.

Li Qiwu not only introduced Gao Shang to the capital, but also gave him a sum of up to 30,000 yuan for his activities.

Gao Shang came to the coveted capital with a feeling of anxiety and ecstasy. After many activities, he eventually became a doorman under Colliers. Although he was still a flat-headed ordinary man at this time, his career suddenly opened up.

Under the recommendation of Gao Lishi, Gao Shang soon became a small official who joined the army as the left leader Cang Cao, and started his career.

Later, Gao Lishi recommended him to An Lushan, who was the envoy of the Pinglu Festival at the time. An Lushan naturally couldn't help but give face to Gaolis. Gao Shang became the secretary of Pinglu.

The plump An Lushan especially likes to sleep, probably because of his high blood lipids and high blood viscosity.

Whenever An Lushan fell asleep. Gao Shang always stayed up all night with a pen and paper and waited by the bedside. Not only did he have to endure the harassment of drowsiness and the loneliness of the long night. It is even more necessary to endure the earth-shaking snoring sound of An Lushan.

The noble dedication has finally paid off. An Lushan regarded him as his hardcore confidant, and he also chose the dangerous path of rebellion under the instigation of nobles.

The poet Kitajima famously said, "Noble is the epitaph of the noble." Meanness is the pass of the mean. But meanness becomes a pass to nobility. Intrigue became the main theme of his life after that, and he finally fell deeper and deeper into the quagmire of **, and finally couldn't extricate himself!

Gao Shang wanted to become the founding father, and the premise of all this was that An Lushan became the emperor.

This also means that he may lose everything he has now, even his own net worth, so An Lushan fell into painful choices and infinite hesitation.

It is definitely not an easy thing to successfully convince An Lushan, but Gao Shang is not discouraged!

Alone and alone, Noble decides to find an ally. Yan Zhuang finally came into his field of vision, because the ambitious Yan Zhuang was also unwilling to settle for the status quo. The two eventually hit it off, so they carefully concocted a diagram.

This is the meaning of the Divine. We can not listen to the words of the two of us, but we must not disobey the will of God!

An Lushan was finally moved!

Although the remarks about the An Lushan rebellion were loud for a while. However, Li Longji trusted An Lushan as always, because he had self-confident capital.

During the forty years between Kaiyuan and Tianbao, Li Longji appointed a total of 82 Jiedu envoys, and only one had launched a rebellion before.

The rebellion launched by Liu Jian was suppressed by the imperial court in the same month. The impact of this brief rebellion on the political situation was so minimal that the history books are silent about the event, as if the rebellion had never happened.

This is mainly due to the fact that the imperial court has implemented a set of effective management methods for moderation and moderation, and has formed the principle of employing people who are not in office, not being far away, and not being unified. Moreover, "the border commanders all use loyal and famous ministers" ("Zizhi Tongjian").

The term of office of the festival is generally four years, and many of them are transferred before the end of the term. The "immediate" did not give him enough time to cultivate a military force loyal to his own people. In the later period of Li Longji's administration, due to the needs of military struggle, there was a situation in which the temperance and degree were not changed for a long time. An Lushan served as the envoy of the Pinglu Festival for 14 years.

Single-mindedness and non-integration made it impossible for the Jiedu to cultivate a military force to confront the imperial court. In order to facilitate coordinated operations, Li Longji broke the principle of non-conjugation. Wang Zhongsi even once concurrently commanded the four festivals of Longyou, Hexi, Shuofang, and Hedong. Despite this, the number of Jiedu envoys who unified two towns and above accounted for only one-ninth of the total number of Jiedu envoys. Moreover, the time of merger is generally less than three years. Only An Lushan concurrently served as the envoy of the two towns of Pinglu and Fanyang for 12 years, and concurrently served as the envoy of the three towns of Pinglu and Fanyang for four years.

The reason why Li Longji broke the long-formed principle of employing people for An Lushan was because he was deceived by An Lushan's false loyalty.

Li Longji felt that he had given An Lushan, a Hu man from a humble background, the supreme honor, so he had no reason to betray him.

Facing the conceited Li Longji. An Lushan can only say, in fact, you don't understand my heart!

An Lushan, who has lived in the border for a long time, really knew what prosperity was after coming to the capital Chang'an. This undoubtedly fueled his strong possessiveness.

He repeatedly traveled back and forth between the capital and Fan Yang, and found that the interior defense was empty. And this undoubtedly fueled his possessiveness.

How could the Tang Empire defend the emptiness?

This is because the collapse of the government military system has quietly undergone major changes in the original military structure.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Tang Empire, the government and military system of "integration of soldiers and people" were adopted. The characteristic of the government soldiers is that "I am a soldier and a common man". They usually work in the fields, and train in the province when they are not working. He takes turns to undertake daily military tasks such as general tasks and temporary military tasks such as conscription and dispatch.

The long-term understanding of "Fanshang" has been influenced by the New Tang Dynasty Book? The influence of "Bingzhi": "The one who is above is just a guard of the Jingshi." In fact, a group of remnants unearthed from the tomb of Munar No. 102 in Turpan clearly recorded: "On the first day of this month, with the west gate of the city"

In fact, as long as it is included in the regular plan of the Ministry of War, the military duty task can be called "Fanshang", which does not mean that the government soldiers must go to the capital to serve no matter how far or near they are. Only the soldiers from the vicinity of Chang'an went to the capital and obeyed the dispatch of the 12 guards of the central military organ.

Golden age. In the Tang Dynasty, there were a total of 633 (one says 634) Zhichong Prefecture, and there were 288 in Guannei Province, where the capital was located. It accounts for 43.9% of the total number of military governments in the country.

The 12 guards with heavy troops can not only protect the safety of the capital, but also go out to maintain the stability of the frontier. It is also possible to suppress rebellions in various places.

The Taizong period was the last glory of the government military system. After that, the government military system gradually declined. This is because the economic foundation on which the government and military system depended was gradually disintegrating.

In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, the lives were devastated, the people were poor, and the fields were barren. After the establishment of the Tang Empire, land was distributed to peasants free of charge, but "there is no free lunch in the world".

Military service is compulsory for men of appropriate age. Military service is not only a time and physical effort, but also an economic burden. When a government soldier travels from his hometown to the place of service, he not only has to bring his own basic weapons, but also has no travel allowance. Travel expenses are generally not reimbursed.

With the intensification of land annexation, the land in the hands of the peasants was gradually concentrated in the hands of powerful landlords. Families who could no longer afford the heavy military service fled. The soldiers of Zhichong Mansion are gradually depleted, and the once glorious Twelve Guards of Nanya are no longer glorious.

While the military system was gradually declining, the military struggle in the frontier was becoming increasingly fierce. In order to stabilize the situation in the frontier, professional recruitment gradually replaced the government soldiers as the main body of the border guards, but the capital and the interior did not quickly fill the military vacuum left by the decline of the government soldiers.

The vast number of inland counties and counties have regular troops stationed only in important areas, while more counties and counties do not have regular troops stationed in them, but only have a certain number of county soldiers, mainly regimental training. Similar to today's reserve forces.

The military pattern of the Tang Empire gradually changed from "heavy on the inside and light on the outside" to "heavy on the outside and light on the inside". The most elite troops of the empire were basically concentrated in the hands of the frontier jiedu envoys.

In An Lushan's eyes, in addition to participating in the coup, the Beiya Forbidden Army, which has no actual combat experience, is just a few people who show off their legs; The declining Nanya Forbidden Army is no longer what it used to be; Those regimental soldiers who could only defend the city were even more of a rabble.

The most important reason why An Lushan took the risk of rebellion was because he considered his future life and even survival.

Although his words of "I only know that there is an emperor but I don't know that there is a prince" won him Li Longji's trust and Li Linfu's appreciation, he deeply offended the prince. Once the elderly Li Longji died. He is likely to be reduced to a political sacrifice for a change of power.

Although An Lushan had hidden the idea of rebellion in his heart, An Lushan, who had a clear conscience, originally wanted to start a rebellion after Li Longji's death.

There is no turning back

As the contradiction between An Lushan and Yang Guozhong became more and more acute, An Lushan felt more and more uneasy. Had to speed up the pace of the rebellion!

In order to completely defeat his political opponents, Yang Guozhong made a proposal to Li Longji. His Majesty summoned An Lushan to Beijing. If he is willing to come, it means that he is loyal to the court; If he refuses to come. It shows that he must have a ghost in his heart. The hesitant Li Longji finally agreed to Yang Guozhong's suggestion.

In the face of Li Longji's call, An Lushan, who was in a dilemma, fell into a huge hesitation!

Preparations for the rebellion were still in full swing, and An Lushan did not dare to break with the imperial court prematurely, but once he reached the dangerous capital, he would become a lamb to be slaughtered.

To go or not to go? It was a life-threatening decision.

An Lushan's undercover agent Ji Wen in the capital provided him with an important piece of information: this is just a test and not a conspiracy!

After some intense psychological struggle, An Lushan finally decided to take a risk, because he felt that with Li Longji's good impression of him and his superb acting skills, he would definitely be able to turn evil into good fortune.

On the fourth day of the first month of the thirteenth year of Tianbao (754 AD), An Lushan, who was in the dust, came to the Huaqing Palace in Lishan. His arrival shattered Yang Guozhong's prophecy!

An Lushan knelt on the ground and said to Li Longji with tears in his eyes: "Weichen is a Hu man, and he doesn't know any words. Thanks to His Majesty, I did not dislike me and entrusted me with a heavy responsibility, but this caused Yang Guozhong's jealousy. He will not give up until he puts me to death! ”

The sad card played by An Lushan really received the expected effect, and Li Longji naturally comforted him with kind words, and even added officials to the knighthood and rewarded them lavishly.

Li Longji's guilty look completely relieved An Lushan, who was still a little scared before, but he didn't accept it when he saw it, but took the opportunity to knock on Li Longji's bamboo bar.

An Lushan asked to serve as an envoy to the idle stable, Longyou herd and so on. This officer is the director of the National Horse Ranch. In ancient times, horses were no less valuable in military value than tanks and armored vehicles today. Li Longji readily agreed without thinking about it, what he didn't expect was that these war horses eventually became An Lushan's weapon to destroy the Tang Empire!

An Lushan Shangjiao asked the generals with military merits among the generals to be promoted. Li Longji readily agreed without even thinking about it. Five hundred generals were promoted to generals. Two thousand generals were promoted to Zhonglang generals, but what he didn't expect was that these officers became An Lushan's accomplices in destroying the Tang Empire!

A satisfied, An Lushan knew that it was time to go, but it was still a big question in his heart to be able to get out of the way!

Although An Lushan could hide the panic and uneasiness in his heart, he was like a frightened bird at this time, as long as he heard a bowstring, he would be frightened. Fortunately, those worries were superfluous, and he finally got his wish and returned to his old nest, Fan Yang.

Yang Guozhong, who lost face, refused to give up easily, since the frontal attack could not work, then he would take a detour from the side!

The Hedong Taishou and Hedong Dao interview made Wei Zhi "elegant and famous", and the call for being the prime minister was very high, so Yang Guozhong has always regarded this potential competitor as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh.

When you are about to be promoted, it is often the easiest time to have an accident, because official positions are scarce, so the struggle is cruel!

At the secret behest of Yang Guozhong, Yushi set out to investigate Wei Zhi's economic problems. This is also the weakness of many officials, and it is also the only law of political struggle.

The frightened Wei Zhi was busy running around for self-preservation, but at this time he was like a person who couldn't swim and suddenly fell into the water, although he used all his strength to wave his arms, but this not only could not save himself, but also affected others to rescue him. At this critical moment of life and death, it is better not to move blindly!

Wei Zhi finally paid a heavy price for his blind movements. He originally wanted to climb to An Lushan, a hot political star, through Cheng Jiwen in the imperial history, because he was one of the few key figures who could influence Li Longji.

But he forgot that his opponent was secretly watching his every move, waiting for him to make a mistake in the difficult situation.

Wei Zhi's crime of bribing Ji Wen was soon revealed, because this was a deliberate trick for him. At this time, Li Longji couldn't deal with them anymore, so he had to demote Wei Zhi to the county magistrate of Guiling County, and Ji Wen to the long history of Liyang. (To be continued......)