53. Coptis chinensis into wine

"Yes. Our Zhang family has an embarrassing position in An Lushan's camp, not to mention An Qingxu, even some irrelevant ministers are often suspicious of us, in order to protect ourselves, we often send assassins to inquire about some news, at least in Luoyang City, her skills are no problem. ”

Guo Ziyi and Li Mi couldn't help but smile when they heard this.

Guo Ziyi asked again: "What about the contact method?"

"It's simple. When my eldest brother saw the corpse hanging outside the city gate, he naturally knew that I was safe. If I want to communicate with him, let the officers and soldiers of the scolding array carry my helmet with their spears, and raise it three times every few moments, and he will understand. ”

Zhang Jilin said this, his face couldn't help but be a little proud.

"This method is also what your eldest brother thought, right?" Guo Ziyi asked with a smile.

"Yes, how did Marshal Guo guess?"

"Hahahaha, your eldest brother is really thoughtful, and the old man wants to meet him sooner. ”

"Marshal Guo has won the award, how can these brains of our brothers be compared with Marshal Guo. Although we are in the thief camp, we can enlighten Confucius and Mencius since childhood, and the family education is very strict, and the eldest brother admires you from the bottom of his heart, thinking that you are turning the tide and the society is in the future, this is the real hero. ”

"Hahahaha, that's it, that's it. ”

After chatting for a while, they arranged for Zhang Jilin to go down to rest, waiting for the opportunity to contact the city again.

Guo Ziyi arranged another camp tent and ordered the guards to take Hui Lin down to rest.

Seeing off the two, Li Mi took a few steps closer to Guo Ziyi, and suddenly asked with a smile: "What do you think of this person?"

Guo Ziyi understood what Li Yu meant, because he still had something to do with the Zhang brothers and sisters, and he also admitted it frankly at the moment.

"Hahahaha, it's an innocent and reckless child, timid is a little timid, and people are really not bad. ”

"Now, General Guo can move forward with our plan with confidence, right?"

Guo Ziyi looked at Li Mi and sat back in his place with some unhappiness on his face.

"I don't know what plan the military advisor is talking about?"

"Of course, it is to recruit the Zhang brothers and sisters, and the inside and outside should cooperate with the plan to recover Luoyang. ”

"Hehe, the military advisor thinks that if there is no Zhang brother and sister, our army will not be able to recover Luoyang?"

"Hahahaha, why did Marshal Guo say this. Li Mi smiled awkwardly.

Li Mi's identity is somewhat different from Guo Ziyi, and even compared with the two princes of Guangping and Jianning, they are a little different.

When Li Heng was still in the East Palace, Li Yu began to assist him, until Li Heng succeeded to the throne as the emperor, and the two had a friendship of monarchs and ministers who shared the same bed. If you want to say that in the world of the Tang Dynasty today, apart from Li Fu, who else can make Su Zongyan obey, it is none other than Li Yu.

"Why? Of course, it's from the bottom of my heart. Guo Ziyi said, pretending to pat his chest exaggeratedly.

"Hahahaha" Li Mi smiled, moved a horse and sat down next to Guo Ziyi, "Today, the mountain people have to listen to Marshal Guo's heartfelt words, since the mountain people came to the Luoyang camp, you seem to be holding your stomach." ”

Guo Ziyi calmly poured a glass of wine and handed it to Li Mi.

These days, Li Mi also discovered that Guo Ziyi has a set of his own special wine utensils, and from time to time he will pour a glass alone and taste it slowly.

Although it is just a trivial matter, it is a very abnormal move for Guo Ziyi.

Because Guo Ziyi has always drunk and eaten with the soldiers, even during the truce, the diet will not be opened. Therefore, he also won the trust and support of the officers and men of the whole army.

Of course, Li Mi quickly noticed this small detail. I haven't seen him for half a year, and Lao Guo has also learned to pour himself a drink?

Li Mi took the wine glass and held it in front of him, not in a hurry to drink it all. The color and aroma of the sake are no different from ordinary shochu.

"What's the matter? I'm afraid that the old man will poison you, a bull-nosed old man? Or is it that the prison master has been in the Chang'an Deep Palace for a long time, and he can't get used to drinking this mountain and wild village brew?"

Guo Ziyi saw him raise his glass and look at it, leaning over and looking sideways, and became embarrassed.

Li Mi smiled awkwardly and drank it all.

"Poof-cough-cough-cough-cough-"

Li Mi suddenly spit out all the wine he had drunk, leaned over, patted his chest, and coughed constantly. Li Mi's movements are exaggerated, not without suspicion of being contrived.

Guo Ziyi looked at his witty appearance and snorted with joy.

Li Bi coughed for a while, his face turned red, and he sat back with the table.

"Oh - choke me to death, old Guo, what the hell are you putting in this wine? ”

"Guess what?"

"Coptis chinensis, Coptis chinensis. What are you doing with this? You're not sick, are you?"

"Sick, not sick. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"You spit it all out, and you don't understand what you said. ”

"You-you-good, good, good, good, count you ruthless, count you ruthless. ”

Li Mi said, got up with the wine glass, and simply poured himself a glass. This time, of course, he wouldn't be so drunk.

Li Mi took small sips and sipped, the bitterness of Coptis chinensis and the spicy spicy of soju were mixed together, very choking, in his mouth, throat, and stomach, not to mention how uncomfortable it was.

His mouth was grinning exaggeratedly, his eyebrows were twisted together, his eyes were struggling to open and close, and tears were squeezed out.

"Ahh

"How?"

"It's bitter in the mouth, bitter in the stomach, it's unspeakably bitter. Li Mi said with a smile.

"Hehe, it's better to be bitter in your mouth and bitter in your stomach than to be bitter in your heart. ”

"Hey. Lao Guo, the mountain people know that it is not easy for you, a letter of invitation to war is sent to Chang'an every day, you not only have to appease many soldiers, I am afraid that the king of Jianning will not give you any less anger, his temper mountain people know. ”

"Not only the king of Jianning, the military aircraft is not a momentary mood, nearly 200,000 troops are surrounded here, the daily military resources and grain and grass are consumed hugely, the siege is long, the soldiers are depressed, and it is easy to give the enemy a chance to breathe, which is a taboo in military warfare. Why didn't the old man want to start a war as soon as possible and recover Luoyang. ”

“......”

"Speaking of King Jianning, I don't know what's going on, the old man always has an ominous premonition. Several times I wrote to inquire, but the court didn't say a word. ”

"Yes. Speaking of which, I'm also worried. With his temperament, I really don't know what he will do. It's also too coincidental, as soon as the mountain man came out of Chang'an, he went back overnight, and the fork in the road was rare, otherwise he could also be comforted. ”

"Chang'an, what's the situation now?"

"There are undercurrents and dangers. ”

"But the more this is the case, the more we must speed up the counterinsurgency, isn't it the emperor to us-"

"People only think that the emperor is the Son of Heaven, but the Son of Heaven is also a human being. In the royal palace, there are many rights and wrongs. What's more, the emperor has spent so many years walking on thin ice when he was in the East Palace, and now that he is in the world, in the face of such a chaotic situation, it is inevitable to be cautious and hesitant. ”

"I've also heard of some of them, King Jianning seems to have had a lot of festivals with Li Fuguo and Empress Zhang. ”

Li Mi shook his head with a wry smile, took the initiative to pour himself a glass of coptis wine, and drank it slowly.

"What's the matter? Everyone knows that you are the prime minister of Buyi, although you have no rank and official position, but you are deeply respected by the emperor, and if you want to be the prime minister, isn't it just a matter of saying such a word to the emperor. What are you suffering for?" asked Guo Ziyi.

"The mountain man is not talented, although he has some talent, he is by no means a person who can be an official. As for what Marshal Guo said, the mountain people are helpless. Moreover, some things are not a matter of grievances and grievances, but a struggle for power. Needless to say, the King of Jianning, who is far away from Chang'an, is me and the King of Guangping, who are in the imperial city, and now it is very difficult to see the emperor. ”

"How so?"

"Li Fuguo, Empress Zhang, are not to be underestimated. Needless to say, although she does not have the ability of Empress Zetian and Princess Taiping, she will do everything for the sake of her son. And that Li Fuguo, you have been fighting outside for the past two years, do you know about the affairs of his inspection hall?"

"I heard a long time ago that this person has raised a group of little eunuchs and people in the rivers and lakes, specializing in spying and stalking, why do you still have a prosecutor's hall now?"

"It's those little eunuchs, those people in the rivers and lakes are in the dark, and the little eunuchs simply formed a prosecutor's hall, blatantly monitoring hundreds of officials, fabricating false accusations, and putting everyone in danger. ”

"This—the emperor did the same by him?"

In fact, the matter of Li Fuguo and the prosecutor's office has long been mentioned by Guo Yao in his letter, and Guo Ziyi knows about it to some extent.

"The emperor trusts me, just because the emperor can't trust others. Moreover, the mountain people believe that there seems to be some secret between the emperor and Li Fuguo, and even the mountain people do not know. ”

"That's fine. That's fine. ”

"It's not just Lao Guo and King Jianning who are in a hurry, but King Guangping and Shanren are not in a hurry when they see a letter of invitation from you in Chang'an. The cost of military funds is huge, and it is not the mountain people who are raising money everywhere to urge? King Guangping and I are also grinding hard and hard in the military department every day, and we have no choice but to make this decision, and the military department cannot make this decision, and we meet the emperor once in a few days, and the emperor also cares about him. ”

"Then what should we do next? An army of more than 100,000 can't just be consumed, right?"

"Continue to advance the plan to recruit the Zhang brothers and sisters. ”

"Yes. Went around in circles and came back again. ”

Guo Ziyi shook her head helplessly when she heard Li Mi pull it on the Zhang brothers and sisters again.

Although one of them is An Lushan's favorite concubine and the other is An Lushan's brother-in-law, their actual influence in An Lushan's group is far from enough, and even under An Qingxu's exclusion, it is difficult to protect themselves.

In Guo Ziyi's view, the Zhang brothers and sisters cannot be the key to recovering Luoyang.

"According to the current situation, it is not difficult to recover Luoyang, the real headache is how to protect the safety of the people in the city, as well as the countless houses, temples, and palaces in Luoyang City. Marshal Guo won't forget the scene of recovering Chang'an in the first place, right?"

Oh, yes. Although the decisive battle to recover Chang'an was carried out outside the city, when the rebels broke through and escaped from Chang'an, they used tens of thousands of innocent people as a human wall, forcing them to retreat safely, and in the end, the rebels still ruthlessly shot a large number of people.

Not only that, but the rebels also set fire everywhere in the palace, the imperial city, and even the whole of Chang'an. When the ** invaded Chang'an City, the former prosperous and magnificent capital of the Celestial Empire was devastated and devastated, and it was like a hell on earth.

After this catastrophe, the prosperous era of Chang'an, there is no one in ten.

Guo Ziyi, as a witness to the recovery of Chang'an, will naturally not forget the heart-wrenching tragedy.

Guo Ziyi didn't answer Li Mi directly, and he didn't have to answer, he silently picked up the wine glass and continued to drink the bitter wine in the cup.