The man who appeared in front of Colliers was slightly pale, his eyes flashed with greed and ambition, and his face had a flattering smile.

An Lushan has no other skills, but the ability to see people is extremely high, and you can guess his mind at a glance by looking at this guy.

"You're noble?"

"A certain hundred noble and high are not dangerous."

"What are you and General Gao?"

"A certain ...... with General Gao" Gao raised his eyes and looked at An Lushan.

He has a letter of recommendation from Gao Lishi in his hand, and with this letter of recommendation, he believes that he can mix up a quiet and wealthy position under An Lushan, and no one in the world except Li Linfu dares not to give Gao Lishi face. Even if Li Linfu really wants to compete head-on with Gaolis, he will find it difficult.

But after he looked at the face of Gao Lishi, who looked honest, he suddenly changed his mind.

Loyal and treacherous, cunning on the outside...... Such a character, could it be said that he would really be a loyal border general of the Tang Dynasty?

"There is nothing to do with General Gao" Thinking of this, Gao Gao arched his hand and said: "It has something to do with the doctor."

"Huh?" An Lushan was stunned, and then Ha Lu Ha Da Lu smiled: "This is funny, Lao Tzu is Hu, you are Han, Lao Tzu's surname is An, and your surname is Gao...... You don't have a relationship with General Gao, how can you have a relationship with Lao Tzu? ”

Gao Shang arched his hand and said: "A certain hometown is Yingzhou, it is under the rule of the doctor, the doctor is a certain parent official, and a certain is the master's people, how can it not matter?" A certain person recommended General Gao, General Gao can't use a certain person, and he is recommended to the doctor, and a certain has been a doctor's servant since then, so naturally he has nothing to do with General Gao. ”

After he finished speaking, An Lushan's wild laughter was immediately stopped.

"There's something interesting about you, a scholar...... You are really from Yingzhou, and you said this in front of me, are you not afraid that I will say that you are ungrateful? ”

"Gao is not in danger and would rather die than bite the grass roots, and seek to live his ears." Gao Shang said: "A certain has been poor since childhood, and has studied hard so far, but he has never met a talent, if the doctor only gives General Gao face and gives him food and clothing, how can it be a certain wish?"

"It's an ambitious ...... However, you didn't come at the right time, and you are going back to Chang'an. An Lushan was a little excited: "After returning to Chang'an this time, I don't know if the imperial court still thinks that Fan Yang and Lu Long are festivals." In this way, why don't I give you an official position first, and you will do it? ”

"Back to Chang'an...... Never."

The noble discoloration shouted, making An Lushan's eyes condense.

"The doctor is a tiger, this Fan Yang and Lu Long are mountains, the tiger roars in the mountains, and all beasts avoid them. But when the doctor returned to Chang'an, it was a tiger falling in Pingyang, and three or two hunting dogs dared to bark at the general."

"This is the intention of the Son of Heaven, how can someone refuse it?"

"Around the Son of Heaven, now there are many villains, the doctor is brave and loyal, and he has merit in the country, it is for the sake of the Son of Heaven, and he should also cherish himself." Noble and Zhengse, but the next sentence, An Lushan was also startled: "The Khitan and Xi people are unstable, and the general should sit here."

"What nonsense are you talking about"

"The court promised to make peace, but the princess did not arrive, so the Khitan and Xi people secretly harbored resentment." Noble eyes opened: "How can the doctor not know the reason for this?"

An Lushan really doesn't know the way.

He only knew that the Xi people and the Khitan people were afraid of the Tang Dynasty, and they were almost bullied by him, if he wanted to take credit, he would go to find a small tribe of the Xi people or the Khitan people to slaughter.

But he understood what noble meant.

At this time, the Khitan and the Xi people turned against each other...... That's a coincidence. ”

"When the doctor wants them to rebel, they will rebel." Gao Shang Dao.

"Okay, you stay in Fan Yang, and after I come back, I will give you an official position. Come on, lead Gao Langjun down, entertain him, Gao Langjun wants anything, food and clothing, gold and silver women, give him whatever he wants"

After Gao Shang was led down, An Lushan turned around and gave two orders in a row, and then he breathed a sigh of relief

These Han people are really cunning......

Northeast of Fanyang, the territory under the jurisdiction of the former Songmo Governor's Mansion is now the territory of the Khitans.

Because of the long contact with the Han people, the Khitan people are not all nomadic now, they also have cultivators, miners and metallurgists, but the number is very small.

"The Khan in the Di Ran group, that group of Tang people is gone?"

The group of Khan Diran, who was riding a horse, looked at the horse team that was leaving in the distance, heard the words behind him, and nodded: "Let's go."

"The Han people are hateful, that is, you have to treat them so kindly"

"No matter how hateful the Han people are, there is no lackey to hate, as long as the old fat dog in An Lushan can make trouble for him, I am willing to do it"

"But if he knew about ......"

"Could it be worse than it is now? He has taken our livestock, taken our warriors, and slaughtered our tribes...... Hateful, hateful, doesn't the Khan of the Tang Dynasty know about the evil deeds of An Lushan?"

"The Khan of the Tang Dynasty is also a liar, he clearly said that he would give another princess to make peace, but so far there is nothing Li Huaixiu except for the name, phew, is this name better than in the Di Yuan group

Di Yuan Zhuli, whose Han name is Li Huaixiu, glanced at his companion: "Don't talk about this, is there any movement on the Yaguan's side?" ”

"Yaguan said that he will support all the decisions of the Great Khan, but in the past few decades, we have always advanced and retreated together with the Xi people, the Xi people are closer to An Lushan, and An Lushan is a feud, if the Great Khan really wants to oppose the Tang Dynasty, then we must ally with the Xi people In addition, the Tang Dynasty is strong, not that we can rival it, we must also have allies......"

"I know the way, I know the way... As long as the war starts, I will move my army to the east, this is too close to the Tang Dynasty, I will go to the land of Liaodong, to the place that the Han people said......"

"Liaodong, aren't those Han people over there?"

"Yes, it's because those Han people are over there, so I'm going, although some of us can farm, and some people can mine and metallurgy, but it's not enough, we need more Han farmers and craftsmen Di Lie, you remember, tell the tooth officer, if we Khitan people want to become strong, we must have more Han farmers and craftsmen, let him kill less, grab more"

Nominally, he is the leader of the Khitan Eight Divisions, and he was named the Governor of Songmo and the King of Chongshun by the Tang Dynasty, but he does not have much power in his hands, he can only control his own one, that is, he gives orders to the Eight Divisions, and he also has his own officials to do it for him.

The team sent by Di Yuan's group was Shanzhi and Ye Ying.

Shen Xi only provided a map, and it was a map from twenty years ago, but now the situation has changed a lot, and more importantly, there is no record of what products are in the places they pass through.

The map that Shen Xi regarded as a treasure and even enshrined was actually worth less than half of what he imagined.

"Okay, Song Mo has also been here, and the Khitans here are quite polite, and even their khans have personally come out to meet us." Ye Ying let out a long sigh and looked back at his back: "It's a hospitable person, so I don't know how much of what he said is true." ”

Shanzhi sighed mournfully, and his gaze rested on a box on horseback.

They went north, a total of 20 people when they set out, with ten horses and goods, but now there are more people, more than 40 people, but of the 20 people when they traveled, there are already five people who have only ashes left. The danger of this road can be imagined. These five people were all the soldiers brought out by Ye Chang from Xiuwu, and their casualties made it difficult for Shanzhi to explain in front of Ye Chang.

"Good straight master, I don't blame you for this matter, life and death are fate, since you have chosen this matter, you have to take such a risk.

After a long journey, four months of trekking, and dozens of fierce battles, Ye Ying has made great progress, he sighed, and opened up the good straight way.

"I'm just afraid that it won't be good to see the fifth brother."

"Eleven Lang won't complain about you, he has been mentally prepared." Looking left and right, Ye Ying said in a low voice: "When he came, Shiyi Lang asked us, saying that this trip was extremely dangerous, if it was not voluntary, don't go, he will recruit other people." He also said that after this trip, we can return to the capital, and we can all be on our own...... It's only a few months, can it be said that Ye Ting is floating on the sea, so there is no danger? ”

"That's what you said."

"The eldest husband was born in the world, if he is ignorant, he can still fly and dog, but after following Shiyi Lang for so long, which of us is willing to live a life in peace?" Ye Ying said again: "Eleven Lang will rarely be a marquis in the future, at that time, we, the children of the Ye family, why should we be supported by him, don't we only rely on being an ancestor a hundred years ago?" ”

"Well, that's what you're talking about." Shanzhi answered again.

He and Ye Chang formed a righteous relationship, and the two had a lifelong friendship, but if they wanted to release the religion in Ye Chang's hands, it was not enough to rely on their previous friendship.

Cheering up, they searched for their way down, and because it was back to the main road to the north, it was much smoother. It took more than a month to travel north, and now it is only more than 20 days, and I arrived at Beisha City.

"It's close after Beisha City" Seeing this majestic big black mountain, the accompanying Ye family's disciples said happily: "Finally, the return journey is smooth, Uncle Ying, Shanzhishi, let's rest in Beisha City for two days?" ”

Looking back at the camel caravan, Shanzhi hesitated: "It's better to go back as soon as possible, this is someone else's territory after all."

"What the good straight master said is, so as not to have many dreams at night, just rest and go back to the capital to rest." Ye Ying looked at the city wall on the ridge and muttered in his heart: "The situation in this city is not much different from when we went north."

When they went north, there was no trouble here, and the Goguryeo people on this side of Beisha City were not heavily guarded. But now this is not the case, on the city wall on the ridge, you can occasionally see soldiers wandering, the mountain road into the city, there are several sentry posts, the city gate is also locked, it looks as if it is in wartime.

"Who are you?"

Someone shouted, and the guide stepped forward and saluted: "We are merchants from Datang who went to Bohai Kingdom to receive goods, and now we are back, and there is our Guan Wen ...... here."

As soon as they heard that it was a person from the Tang Dynasty, those guards exchanged glances with each other, and then surrounded them, pointing at everyone with blades in their hands. Ye Ying originally felt that something was wrong, but at this time, she was even more in her heart: there was really a problem here

"Sure enough, it came from the capital"

After reading Guan Wen, those guards surrounded Ye Ying, glanced at Ye Ying, and when they saw Ye Ying shaking his head, he didn't make a move.

"What are they?"

An officer said in a stiff Chinese accent and raised his chin to signal to the horse team.

Beisha City is now controlled by the Goguryeo people, so the officers mostly use the Goguryeo people, and they are the most hostile to the Tang people, and this officer's attitude is like this.

When Ye Ying and his entourage went north, there were more than 20 horses, but now there are more than 50 horses, most of which were taken from fighting with various horse thieves. More than fifty horses had luggage and a lot of items, and under the officer's signal, Ye Ying asked people to unpack their bags and show them to the officer.

Some leather goods, mountain goods, these things are worth a lot of money in the Central Plains, but they are like that in Liaodong, so the officer was not concerned at first. But when he saw that there were more than twenty horses on the bags containing some stones, the officer's color changed slightly: "What are these?" ”

"Master Qiyu, these are goods." The guide saluted respectfully.

"Take these stones as cargo? Are you stupid or am I stupid" The officer roared: "These people must be spies, arrest them"

"Slowly, slowly." As soon as Ye Ying heard his words, he could only step forward and say: "General, the Taoist priests in the Central Plains like alchemy, and they say that they can use strange stones to refine the elixir of immortality, so I specially searched for these stones and them." ”

The officer heard Ye Ying call him "general", and he was slightly happy in his heart, he was just a small city gate official, where is the general. After hearing Ye Ying say that it was the material for the alchemy of the Taoist priests, although his face was still gloomy and terrifying, he finally did not urge the soldiers to arrest everyone.

"You Han people love to do such treacherous things." He commented: "Throw it all down for me"

"General, general, we went north to receive the goods this time, and we didn't receive anything good, so we relied on these stones to sell them at a good price." Ye Ying leaned in with a smile, and pointed to the pottery bowl immediately after the last one: "A lot of people have been damaged, and the ashes have been brought back, and the wives and children of these people's families also have to rely on these stones......

As he spoke, he turned sideways, blocking everyone's view, and shoved a small cloth bag into the officer's hand. The officer took the cloth bag, his face changed suddenly, and the disgust for the Han people that he had just expressed suddenly disappeared: "I see, there is a fate, there is a fate...... Even so, you still need to be searched, there are very few Tang people like you who know how to do things, Ha Lu Ha ......"

Those soldiers began to rummage through everyone's luggage, stuffing some of the things they liked into their arms and taking them away, and Ye Ying and the others could only watch. Ye Ying saw that the officer had accepted the bribe, and his expression was obviously much kinder, so he said in a low voice: "General, I have been here before, and I have never seen such a look...... Why is that? ”

"This, there's nothing to do, it's just that I'm afraid of spies." The officer snorted, and then glared again: "Why do you ask so much, do you really want to be a spy?" ”

"Where are we, we are all kind people, the most honest, where will we be spies" Ye Ying smiled: "It's just that this trade route is related to everyone's livelihood, so I inquired about it......

He coped with it in his mouth, but his heart sank, something must have happened, these Goguryeo people...... Surely uneasy and kind