For the people of Luoyang City, Ye Chang's victory is not news, but not winning is news.

Since returning to Luoyang, Ye Chang has walked from one victory to another, as if he has never failed.

They naturally don't know how much intrigue is hidden behind these victories, let alone when Ye Chang will start to lay out for these victories.

Naturally, there is no shortage of discerning people.

"Ye Gong is really a stroke of genius...... Recruit miners as soldiers, tsk, if I were the head of the thief, I am afraid that I will be dizzy by his methods. ”

The Grand View Garden is now very quiet, because of the war, almost no foreign merchants come here, and the local scholars are concerned about the war outside the city, and would rather go to some smaller, more inconspicuous places.

Therefore, at this time, it was Du Fu and Liu Changqing who were talking in the Grand View Garden.

At this time, Du Fu was already famous all over the world, and the influence of "Minbao" was unique in Datang, although Yang Guozhong also tried to run several newspapers and wanted to manipulate public opinion, but compared with Du Fu's manpower ability, there was a gap between his choice of manpower and Du Fu, and more importantly, he did not have the determination to fully support the development of the newspaper like Ye Chang

Liu Changqing's praise did not let Du Fu's tightly knit brows disperse.

"Zimei, what are you worried about? Once Yuan Ying was captured, the Central Plains would be worry-free, and just wait for an order from the imperial court, Ye Gong could supervise the army to go south to quell the chaos. After Yuan Chao and other thieves are also captured, they will be beheaded in Beijing, and the world will return to peace, just around the corner."

Du Fu looked at Liu Changqing and smiled bitterly.

"Zimei has something on her mind?"

Du Fu did have something in his heart, but he was hesitating whether to say what was in his heart.

Liu Changqing has a slightly big mouth, but he is not a good person to talk to, Du Fu prefers to be an old friend like Gao Shi or Cen Shen, but these two are on the border.

It's all on the border...... So their own doubts, are they also involved?

Under Liu Changqing's repeated urging, Du Fu finally spoke.

"Liu Gong only saw Ye Gong sweeping through the rebels, but he never saw the damage that the rebels had caused. I went from Chang'an to Luoyang this time, and what I saw along the way was really miserable, although it was not so that the bones were exposed in the wilderness and there was no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, but it was also a depression, and the people's livelihood was embarrassed and almost desperate...... Ye Gong has veterans in his hands and can recruit miners as soldiers, with his ability, he can put down the rebellion long ago, and the people can return to Taiping a long time ago. However, Ye Gong was slow to act, allowing thieves to ravage the people and stay. At this time, the people who moved to Liaodong went to Liaodong, but Ye Gong was very active......"

"Silence" Liu Changqing was angry and angry, jumped from the chair, and glared at Du Fu, with some gasps in his mouth.

Du Fu lowered his head, a wry smile on his face, and his expression was solemn. In this room, there was silence for a while, only the sound of Liu Changqing's heavy breathing.

Du Fu's words are not so much doubts as accusations. Liu Changqing initially thought that he was just the president of "Minbao", and he specially came to Luoyang to feel the atmosphere of the war so that he could write better articles, but he never thought that he was actually here to accuse Ye Chang.

Although Liu Changqing has not been in Ye Chang's staff for a short time, his physical discomfort has also made him not very good at his current position, but he is very happy. Working under Ye Chang's curtain and having almost complete autonomy, Ye Chang's rules and regulations are very obvious, and there are words in advance, as long as you follow these rules and regulations, you can do things happily, and there is no such complicated interpersonal relationship in the court.

Therefore, Liu Changqing has completely tied his future to Ye Chang.

"Ye Gong is loyal to the country, every day can be seen, he runs back and forth on the battlefield, racking his brains in the military camp, these things, Liu Mou has seen him with his own eyes, but some people do not treat him with sincerity, sitting in this grand view garden, accusing him is simple after all - I think of Ye Gong once said that it is always easy to criticize others"

Du Fu didn't raise his eyebrows, and said a little stubbornly: "He can do better and let the people suffer less." ”

"Who can do better than him" Liu Changqing was furious: "Du Zimei, you broke off your friendship with Ye Gong at the beginning, and then you were attached to Ye Gong, and so on, and so on, ...... repeatedly"

Du Fu didn't wait for him to finish, he got up and was about to leave, but at this moment, the door was pushed open.

Li Ye walked in slowly, holding a plate in his hand, and smiled at Du Fu. Du Fu just wanted to confess, but Li Ye said: "Du Gong is so anxious, the female stream of Jilan Boudoir is shallow and ugly, and she can listen to the dispute between the two dukes, but she also has a little bit of gain, and she is willing to listen to Du Gong." ”

"Please advise."

"Since the eleventh year of Tianbao, Ye Gong has vigorously recruited people to move to Liaodong, and Liaodong is now rich and not inferior to Gyeonggi Province, but the people are still reluctant to go, so Liaodong is still vast and sparsely populated. It has been calculated that from the eleventh year of Tianbao to the thirteenth year of Tianbao, the average annual population inflow into Liaodong is only 150,000 people. And now, in just one month, there are 200,000 people who have registered in Dugi and Henan provinces and want to go to Liaodong......"

Yuan Ying's rebellion in Tugi and Henan provinces completely bankrupted the already troubled yeoman farmers, who either joined Yuan Ying's rebellion or fled to neighboring counties, registered in front of the offices set up by the Andong Chamber of Commerce and the rest of the chambers of commerce, received a relief ration, and registered to prepare for emigration. Du Fu saw this, so he guessed that Ye Chang did not immediately mobilize and suppress it at the beginning of the rebellion, for the sake of these immigrants.

Therefore, after listening to Li Ye's words, his face became even more gloomy and he didn't say a word.

On the way to Luoyang, he wrote several poems reflecting the displacement of the people.

"If there is no Ye Gong, these 200,000 people will either be thieves or starve to death, will Duke Du admit it or not?" Li Ye asked at this time.

"Yes...... But ......"

"But if Ye Gong had quelled the chaos earlier, they would not have been displaced, Du Gong thought so, right?

"So is it possible for Ye Gong to stay in Luoyang for the rest of his life? Even if Ye Gong pacified Yuan Ying as soon as possible, as long as the traitors in the court were in power, as long as he failed to dominate the world, failed to implement the decrees in all directions, and pacified Yuan Ying, as well as Zhang Ying and Du Ying, Du Gong admitted it or not? ”

Du Fu didn't know where to start. Li Ye's words have some resentment against the imperial court, but not only Li Ye, but Du Fu himself, is not dissatisfied with the imperial court's reuse of Yang Guozhong and ignoring Ye Chang?

The fundamental reason for the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty from the prosperity to the current wind is not Ye Chang, but the imperial court, which is a conclusion that Du Fu has long reached. When he imagined it in private, he also felt that Li Longji had to abdicate and be replaced by an emperor who was more young and powerful and could give Ye Chang more support. Yang Guozhong must go to his post, and it is best that even his party be driven away from the center of the imperial court and rushed to the border where to go to Tuntian. And Ye Chang must enter the court as the prime minister, and he must be alone, and he must be able to dominate the world for 20 years......

In this way, the world will be governed

However, although Li Longji is old and faint, he is not in love, and he has lost his enterprising spirit in domestic affairs, and only his achievements on the border can make him excited. And Yang Guozhong, not only did not care, but was trying to drive Ye Chang out of the court, and even wanted to take Ye Chang's life

"If there is any place in the world that can avoid the shackles of the deaf, it is only Liaodong." Li Ye said again: "The people don't want to go, and Ye Gong doesn't want to persecute either, but someone will persecute them." If Ye Gong is selfish, the more chaotic the Central Plains, the better, and it is best to make millions of people immigrate to Liaodong, but Du Gong, you see, who will put down the rebellion, and who really cares about the people in their hearts? ”

Before the words fell, the door was pushed open again, and a person came in with a panicked expression.

It was Lu Yu who came, he came to Luoyang with Du Fu, but at this time, his expression was very uneasy.

"An Lushan has entered the Central Plains," he said loudly.

"What?" The solemnity on Du Fu's face was replaced by shock, and the same as Li Ye.

They have a close relationship with Ye Chang, and when Ye Chang commented on the characters, he once said that An Lushan was ambitious, and finally the disaster of the Tang Dynasty. In fact, An Lushan now has nearly a quarter of the official elite of the Tang Dynasty in his hands, and also has almost the same number of private troops. Under the pretext of fighting against the Xi, Khitan and other ethnic groups, he needed money and food, and he also controlled the vast majority of civil affairs in Hebei Province. Li Longji and Yang Guozhong, for the purpose of balancing Ye Chang and controlling Liaodong, continued to increase his strength.

With such a force, staying on the frontier is already a great danger for the country, and if it enters the Central Plains, it means that the country's situation is even more dangerous

"How is this possible, who let him enter the Central Plains?" Du Fu said loudly.

"Summoned by the secret envoy of the Son of Heaven, and now the court has sent an envoy to greet him" Lu Yu said: "I heard the news from Ye Gong just now, Ye Gong was so angry that he dropped the cup"

Although Ye Chang is not happy and angry, at least Du Fu has not seen him throw things in anger, and from Lu Yu's words, it is not difficult to judge that Ye Chang is really angry

A woman like Li Ye couldn't help but look miserable: "Duke Du, do you still blame Gong Ye?" ”

Du Fu muttered, "No...... I've never blamed it."

Li Longji would never have thought that his act of summoning An Lushan, although it balanced Ye Chang's influence, also made the people around Ye Chang unprecedentedly united, and even made some people who were originally hesitant and wait and see in the middle make up their minds

After Du Fu finished speaking, he finally staggered out of the door slightly, he had a good temperament, but in this case, he also understood how ridiculous it was for him to question Ye Chang.

The imperial court doesn't want these people, and if you don't want this country, what else can Ye Chang do? Being able to save some people as much as possible before the danger that may come is already the limit of what Ye Chang can do.

Out of the Grand View Garden, to the street, although the news of victory has come at this time, but Luoyang is still in the actual street ban, idle people and so on on the street, all have to go through a detailed inspection, the purpose is to find the remnants of the thief meticulously. Du Fu looked at the empty streets, as well as the errand officers patrolling in twos and threes, and was silent for a long time.

At this moment, he heard a sudden sound of urgency in the Grand View Garden, and when he looked back, he saw more than 20 soldiers, surrounding four or five people.

"This is the Grand View Garden, how dare you be presumptuous" One of the besieged people is a Hu person, with obvious beard and gray eyes, but he speaks fluent Chinese. He waved his arms angrily and shouted at the people surrounding them.

Hearing the movement, Li Ye also came down, and she was also a little surprised, how could any soldier dare to arrest people in the Grand View Garden.

"What's going on?" Li Ye asked in a loud voice, "Which general's subordinate are you, and why did you break into the Grand View Garden?" ”

Before she could finish speaking, she saw one of the soldiers raise his face and smile at her.

Li Ye's face changed slightly: Bian Ping

She and Bian Ping, one is in Chang'an, the other is in Luoyang, but it is not without intersection, to a certain extent, Bian Ping is actually her boss, and all kinds of information she collected through Daguanyuan will be transferred to Ye Chang through Bian Ping.

It's just that this guy is not in Chang'an, when did he come to Luoyang?

"Khalid, you've been away for a few years, and now you're not tied up, when will you wait?"

Bian Ping didn't speak, and another person next to him shouted at the Hu man.

Khalid's face changed dramatically, and the fact that the sergeants were able to call out his name proved that he had not been arrested by mistake

He was in Luoyang City, in line with the idea that the most dangerous place is the safest place, and hid in the Grand View Garden, anyway, there are inns in the Grand View Garden, and there are many Hu merchants who live, so it is not very noticeable here. These days, no one even dared to harass him in the Grand View Garden, but he never thought that as soon as the sergeant appeared today, he would be captured.

He muttered, "I ...... I'm just a big food merchant, why did you arrest me? ”

"Yuan Ying has already been arrested, why did you say I arrested you?" The man next to Bian Ping smiled: "I advise you to give up resistance and confess honestly, you can still leave a life." Speaking of which, some of your old friends want to see you. ”

Hearing "Yuan Ying", Khalid knew that he would not be able to escape this catastrophe after all.

He also knew that Yuan Ying had lost, but according to his understanding of the Yuan brothers, Yuan Ying should have prepared a back hand and could get out of Luokoucang. But now listening to the other party's tone, Yuan Ying was actually captured alive.

It's easy for others to do, they may not know his true identity, but Yuan Ying still has some secrets there

But Yuan Ying was captured in front of him, so he came here to do something to him...... It's too fast, too

"Old friend?"

"Although the Great Food General Qi Yade was beheaded at the beginning, most of his subordinates were unharmed, and now most of them are in Liaodong." The man said slowly: "With your sins, you will die, but if you can be honest, maybe Ye Gong will spare you for your capital crimes, but only punish you and your original companions to stay in the Liaodong mine, and after ten or twenty years, maybe you can return to your hometown."

At this point, Khalid didn't know that his details had been dug up

His expression was bleak, and Yuan Ying still expected him to become a hidden short sword, but he didn't know that he had already been discovered. People don't catch him, but they are not in a hurry to close the net, and at this time, the overall situation has been decided, where else can he go

He couldn't help but look southeast, with his arrest, the chess pieces that Yuan Chao fell in the Central Plains were swept away by Ye Chang, in the face of this situation, what would Yuan Chao do?