In the land of the west, the only people who really make Ma Lan jealous are Feng Changqing and Duan Xiushi. Now that the two are dead, Ma Lan has no restraints in his actions.

In front of the giant monument of the Double Holy Temple, Ma Lan stood silently for a long time.

I only hope that today's choice, when he looks back on it, can also be worthy of the words "Shu is almost deserved".

In fact, after the main side of Anxi, there are many talented people among the staff, but the two he relies on the most are Feng Changqing and Duan Xiushi. The reason for this is that the two of them are extremely capable of this, and the other reason why Ma Lan is reluctant to say it is that he needs the existence of the two to suppress his ** for power.

Serve the king for thousands of miles, and ask for nothing. I also know that the wall is bitter, how can I seek it for my wife!

This is Cen Shen's poem, but Master Cen himself is a man of fame and fortune, so he naturally can't "ask for nothing" and not seek for his wife.

People are selfish after all, and Ma Lu himself is the same, so he can't do it, he is not a saint after all.

Yet someone can do it.

Feng Changqing, Duan Xiushi.

They can do it.

People always have **, and the difficulty lies in the suppression of **. Ma Lan's power has reached the end of his ministers, and what he is most worried about is that he will be carried away by power one day and cause chaos in the world for the sake of his family and surname.

It's not impossible, the idea of becoming the first emperor of the ages and completely changing this empire will come to me from time to time. It's not easy to resist such a temptation.

Therefore, he needs Feng Changqing and Duan Xiushi to be in the west, and he needs them to stare at him from the side, and stare at himself and not do anything that cares about the lives and deaths of all the people in the world.

Therefore, although a large number of military and political leaders in the west of the city were replaced by the Shaozhuang faction. The position of the two is as stable as Mount Tai. Because Ma Lan needs these two people to watch from the sidelines. to keep yourself from getting hot-headed.

Yet today. Doctor Feng and Duan Junzi are already dead!

It's not that there are no talents, such as Fang Wenwen and others can be on their own, but there are no more people like Doctor Feng and Duan Junzi.

People are different after all, Doctor Feng Duan Junzi felt that he was going to rebel, and immediately wanted to cut off his head, and if Fang Wen and the others thought that they were going to rebel, I am afraid that they would immediately plan for themselves in advance.

Without these two pairs of eyes watching, his power would be unchecked. Able to control him at this time. He was the only one.

Today, the throne is not out of reach.

Between him and the throne, there is only a sea of blood, which is the blood of all peoples.

If one day, he no longer cares about these things, then the throne is within reach.

So he needs to be vigilant, he needs to keep himself away from this temptation.

Wen Shaobao's belt inscription is what he likes, so he engraved it here.

Doctor Feng and Junzi Duan are brave and loyal, so they naturally deserve these words, and he also needs to use these words to wake himself up. Don't get caught up in power.

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No shackles, no shackles. Although he was extremely sorry for the death of the two in his heart, in terms of action, it was much easier after all.

He had received a lot of information from Chang'an before, but he could only sit in Tingzhou without the slightest action, that was because the news had not yet reached Tingzhou from official channels, and if he did anything, he needed to explain to Duan Junzi.

And now, Duan Junzi is gone, and his subordinates will only obey any orders he issues when they give them, and no one will ask him why.

In the past, all preparations could only be carried out in secret, and they had to deliberately hide from Duan Junzi and Doctor Feng, but now, there is no need for this. According to the information from Chang'an, the west side of the city has been able to react quickly.

It has been half a month since the new emperor ascended the throne, and the edict has not yet arrived in Tingzhou, and the holy decree that asked him to escort the coffin of the former emperor to Chang'an does not know where it has arrived at this time, and it will take longer to reach Tingzhou. If Duan Xiu was real, he could only wait until the edict really arrived before reacting, but now he was making all kinds of preparations according to the information he actually obtained. In this way, things become extremely clear.

On the foundation of the ancestral hall at the back, the craftsmen were busy, but there was no one on the side of the two large tombs. The autumn wind was bleak, the leaves were falling, Ma Ling stood in front of the giant monument outside the Double Holy Temple, and stood lonely for a long time, which prompted Qinghai Cheng to leave slowly.

The death of the two is regrettable, but Qixi has since entered a new era, an era in which he has unlimited power.

Unchecked power is extremely dangerous, and yet this feeling is ...... At least not too bad.

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The autumn grass is slightly yellow, and it is a good time to send troops and horses.

Outside Tingzhou City, more than 10,000 knights with heavy filial piety have already lined up and are waiting for him as the boss. The Hu merchants, who were familiar with the stewards of the Ma family's workshop, had already signed an agreement with the Ma family's workshop, and a large number of convoys had already left the city, ready to set off with the army.

In the center of the army, a large number of personal soldiers surrounded the huge carriage, and in the carriage, the coffin of Li Longji, the son of the Tang Dynasty, was placed in it.

Since this time it was to escort the coffin of the Son of Heaven into Chang'an, rather than to attack and kill the enemy, the speed could not be too fast, and the new army of Anxi only carried two war horses per person, so that the pressure on logistics was much smaller, and the Hu merchants were enough to deal with it.

The Han Navy stayed in Tingzhou, Gu Yuanqin naturally stayed here, and the new army athletes did not stay, and all of them went out of Tingzhou City.

Since the coffin is to be escorted into Chang'an sooner or later, it is better to see Zhang Xun earlier, so that Zhang Xun can be seen earlier, and the status of Qixi will be determined earlier.

If Duan Junzi was still alive, he would have to wait until the edict arrived before he could leave, and now there were no such restrictions. The other generals would only do so, and would not ask the reason, that is, he really led them to rebel, and they dared to follow him to take Chang'an City.

Seeing Ma Lan galloping over, the athletes all bowed their hands and shouted, "General! "The voice is very neat.

"Let's go!" Ma Ling furrowed his brows, and no longer glanced at Tingzhou City, turned the horse's head and rode away first.

The army marched slowly along the post road in the direction of Yizhou.

Zhang Xunjiao's edict ordered Ma Lan to escort the coffin of the former emperor into Beijing, but the edict did not say how many people Ma Lan would bring, so he naturally would not have thought that Ma Lan would bring 10,000 new troops from Anxi at once. In fact, Ma Lan himself didn't expect to use so many people to negotiate with Zhang Xun, three thousand people are enough. The reason why so many people were brought was because there was new news from Mi Xue in Chang'an.

Li Jing, it's the other way around!

Such a big event happened, and as the sharpest knife of the Tang Empire, the Anxi Army had to be dispatched. This is probably unavoidable, after all, Li Jing is the deputy envoy of Pinglu Jiedu, and he is still the nominal Pinglu Jiedu envoy, Li Jing is still his subordinate, this rebellion, he has to pacify the Tang Dynasty after all.

In this case, instead of dispatching troops after receiving orders in the future, it is better to bring troops directly, and there will be no trouble at that time.

Hearing the news of Li Jing's rebellion was actually an accident. At this moment, in Chang'an City, this big news has not been known, after Mi Xue arrived in Chang'an to gain a firm foothold, because Ma Ling said that the falcon used in the Persian Temple is from Liaodong, so he sent a few spies to Liaodong with money to buy this kind of treasure, but after the spies arrived in Xincheng, they heard the news that Li Jing established himself as the emperor, and then used Haidongqing to spread the news to Chang'an City.

This time, Li Jing's self-reliance was actually extremely secretive, and he did not issue a proclamation to the world in Longquan Mansion, the capital of the Bohai State, after his subordinates were purged, and he did not issue a proclamation to the world, which was quite low-key, and then directly led his troops to attack Silla, without directly attacking the Central Plains at all. Because Li Jing did not spread the news to the world, the news was not transmitted quickly, and it is estimated that at this time, it will probably be able to spread to Fanyang. Fan Yang is Guo Ziyi's territory, and after the news arrives in Fan Yang, someone will probably report to Chang'an quickly, but that will be ten days later.

Speaking of Li Jing's self-reliance, although it is shocking, it is not difficult to understand his mind when you think about it. Li Longji can not care about the identity of Prince Zhang Huai's descendant, but the emperor after him obviously can't tolerate him, a child of a clan with the same noble blood, it is really an extremely dangerous thing to be a general at the border pass. Therefore, after the new emperor ascended the throne, Li Jing had no future in the Tang Empire. And he is only in his early twenties, and he has just gained the hot power, how can he be willing to give up easily.

It's just that his choice is still a bit unexpected. Judging from Li Jing's performance in recent years, the 50,000 Pinglu army plus the 100,000 Goguryeo vassal army are very likely to defeat Silla.

Li Jing also had self-knowledge, and secretly claimed that the emperor did not send a letter and did not send troops to the Central Plains, but attacked the Silla people. If he didn't do this and led his troops south, Guo Ziyi and Li Siye would be enough for him to eat a pot, and after killing Silla, he could temporarily gain a foothold in Liaodong and become the hero of the party.

The army of white clothes and white armor walked slowly on the post road to protect the coffin, and a large number of caravans carrying supplies followed.

Li Jing is called the emperor, but he is just a monkey and a crown. Prince Zhang Huai has become history, no matter how noble the bloodline is, it has become a side branch, and no one in Chang'an City will recognize this Jiade Son of Heaven. Li Jing could not get any support in the Central Plains, so he could only rely on his own little people, and calling the emperor was just a joke.

Of course, the most important thing is that he can't get his own approval, so even if he captures Silla, it will be in vain. Although we can understand the reasons for Li Jing's choice, it does not mean that Li Jing's behavior can be indulged. Since Li Jing has made such a choice, it is to go to a dead end.

This time, the whole army left Tingzhou for the sake of Li Jing's rebellion. Zhang Xun is already anxious now, and if he knows about this in a few days, he doesn't know how to feel. Under such great pressure, I don't know if this loyal minister will fall.

Ma Xuan naturally didn't want him to fall, after all, this was the most suitable negotiation opponent and the most likely to accept his terms. (To be continued......)