Li Longji didn't understand: "...... What happened to me? ”

"You ......" Yang Yuhuan immediately raised his head, and his eyes were already red, "You let me have a relationship with the Yang family and the border general, as if it were ...... It's like you're going to entrust us, I don't like it anyway, brother and sister, don't you want to entrust me to others! ”

Li Longji hurriedly grabbed Yang Yuhuan and laughed softly: "That's what the general told you?" I don't know how you guys got to this point, she probably said it on purpose, but not me. Even if I want to find someone to take care of you and the Yang family after a hundred years, I won't find a general who is far away on the frontier. When I was there, you were his stepmother, and when I wasn't, it wasn't necessarily. ”

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Yang Yuhuan said angrily.

"Okay, good, I'm talking nonsense, I don't dare anymore." Li Longji smiled, "So...... What exactly did you all talk about? ”

Knowing that Yang Yuhuan and the three wives of the country were going to hold a baptism ceremony for An Lushan, Li Longji raised his forehead and laughed: "This is what the general can come up with, she hasn't been like this for many years." Do it well, even if you need to mention it to the general, you have fun, and let the general have fun, and you must not let this well-informed Hu Er underestimate it. ”

On the day of the three baptisms, An Lushan was pushed out by the three ladies of the country and a group of charming and lovely palace people, and pressed directly into an open-air hot spring pool. The pool was covered with all kinds of gold and silver treasures, and it was so bright that people could not open their eyes to the sun and the gurgling water.

Yang Yuhuan always stood beside Xiao Jiangyuan, looking at this huge posture dumbfounded, and when An Lushan finally walked in front of her in swaddling clothes and knelt down to call his mother, he came back to his senses, took out a handkerchief, and carefully wiped the water droplets on An Lushan's face.

"Don't make a fuss, it's still winter, after all. Go to the house and change your clothes, don't catch a cold. I'll have someone salvage the things in that pool, and there's not a single one missing. ”

Yang Yuhuan's concerned expression made An Lushan, who had been laughing, stunned.

An Lushan originally thought that his task today was to accept and coax this group of noisy and snobbish women in Beijing to be happy, and it was also the favor of Bo Shengren, but he didn't want to have unexpected surprises.

It wasn't the first time he had seen Yang Yuhuan. In the past, he only thought that Yang Yuhuan was a saint's woman, although she was stunning in the world, but he didn't dare to take a few more looks, so it wasn't until this moment that he saw that she was not quite the same as other women. She looked at him with no ridicule or contempt in his eyes, no ridicule or flattery. She looked at herself like she was looking at someone like her. He suddenly realized that she really cared about his body and really regarded him as hers...... Yoshiko.

He couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Such a beautiful and kind, simple and beautiful little woman like the breeze and the moon, probably only the lord of the world deserves to have.

He became more and more envious of the saint who was on high above.

On this day, Li Long basically wanted to come to watch the ceremony, but there was a temporary change, so he had to send Xiao Jiangyuan to go on his behalf.

Xiao Jiangyuan had Li Longji in his heart, so he didn't stay long, and after An Lushan went to change clothes, he rushed back.

At this time, in the Hall of Eternal Life, Li Longji, Li Linfu, the new Left Prime Minister Chen Xilie, Wang and Yang Zhao and others were all there, and the atmosphere was solemn and silent.

Xiao Jiangyuan couldn't help but be surprised, beckoned Bian Lingcheng to come over and ask, and saw Bian Lingcheng write a person's name Wang Zhongsi in her palm.

Wang Zhonghei, originally known as Wang Xun, is the orphan of the martyred general Wang Haibin, who has been raised in the palace by Li Longji since he was nine years old, and is given the name Zhonghei, and can be regarded as one of the children that Xiao Jiangyuan watched grow up. After coming of age, Wang Zhonghei was an upright, heroic and steady man, and he was a good general in the future on which Li Longji had high hopes.

He did not disappoint Li Longji, after joining the army in middle age, he did many miraculous feats, and in the last years of Kaiyuan, he was already the envoy of the two towns of Hedong and Shuofang, which can be described as the leading general of the Tang Dynasty. After Huangfu Weiming was degraded, he also took over as the envoy of Hexi and Longyoujie, and since then he has worn the seal of four generals, controlled thousands of miles, and the strong soldiers and towns have all been mastered, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there has never been. He also once made it possible to be outside the fortress, and the captives did not dare to enter, so he was crowned General Zuo Wuwei.

What is rare is that he is good at fighting but not warlike, and always feels that war can only be done if necessary, not as a means of fighting for fame and fortune, and not to become a disaster that consumes soldiers' lives and national strength, so he has always been defense-oriented, and when necessary, he will take the initiative to attack in a well-prepared situation, and basically win all battles.

Although Xiao Jiangyuan didn't know much about military affairs, he knew that Wang Zhonghe's idea was correct, but it was a pity that Li Longji, who was regarded by Wang Zhongsi as his own father, didn't think so.

To add insult to injury, at the same time, Wang Zhongsi is also facing another threat, in fact, in the past few years, what Li Linfu is most afraid of is not Li Shizhi and Yang Shenjin, or even the crown prince, but this victorious general who was born in a loyal and brave family and is in the prime of life.

Before Li Linfu dominated the court, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty had many generals. Li Linfu once suggested that Li Longji gradually replace the border generals from Han generals to fan generals, because the Tang Dynasty has not yet had Hu people as ministers, so as to cut off the way from generals to the prime ministers and sweep away everything that may threaten his phase.

At present, there are ten towns in the Tang Dynasty, including Pinglu, Fanyang, Hedong, Shuofang, Longyou, Hexi, Anxi, Beiting, Jiannan and Lingnan, of which the head of Lingnan is only the envoy of the five prefectures, and the head of the remaining nine towns are all Jiedu envoys.

Previously, Li Longji let his sons take the throne from afar, but they were not in charge of his government and ignored the military power. Now the nine towns of the festival degree envoy, Hedong, Shuofang, Hexi, Longyou four towns of the festival degree envoy for Wang Zhonghe, Pinglu, Fanyang two towns of the festival degree envoy for An Lushan, Anxi festival degree envoy for the Korean Gao Xianzhi, Beiting Jiedu envoy for Zhang Song, Jiannan Jiedu envoy in the last year or Zhang Qiu and Qiong, is the previous Yang Zhao's boss, through Yang Zhao's kinship to give gifts to the Yang family, now is the household department of Shangshu and the palace supervisor, at this time it is Xian Yu Zhongtong. The generals have already accounted for one-third of them from scratch, and if there is an opportunity in the future, they will only occupy more and more.

The reason why Li Longji agreed with Li Linfu's suggestion is that Hu Zhihu itself is not a stupid trick, and second, he is a little helpless, since the time when Empress Zetian was in power, the Han generals have gradually become more inferior to the generals from the Hu people, regardless of their personal qualities or marching to fight, although there has been a improvement in the Kaiyuan period, but after all, it is irreversible to restore the general trend of the Han people gradually emphasizing literature and light on military force.

Because of this, Li Longji cherishes and loves Wang Zhongji so much.

In Li Linfu's view, this is tantamount to a signal that Wang Zhonghei will enter the phase sooner or later. And once Wang Zhongsi becomes the prime minister, Li Linfu will inevitably have no good fruit to eat, because Wang Zhongsi has another identity: a good brother who grew up with the prince.

Just as Li Longji gets older, the more worried he is that someone will nominate the crown prince and give up on him, Li Linfu has similar uneasiness. He was almost old, and neither his energy nor physical strength could be compared with that of the younger courtiers and generals. His competitiveness gradually diminished with age, and he could only rely on suppressing others to consolidate his power, which made him amused and unwilling, and felt a little sad and helpless.

Even though Li Linfu had long wanted to deal with Wang Zhonghe, Wang Zhonghe's military exploits were impressive, he had a strict management of the army, he never embezzled or accepted bribes, and he never deducted military salaries. Even if Wang Zhongsi and Li Longji disagreed, Li Longji had not yet said anything, and Li Linfu would not act rashly.

It wasn't that long ago that the opportunity finally came.

There is a city called Shibao City in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, which has been fought back and forth by the Tang Dynasty and Tubo since the reign of Emperor Li Zhi. Since the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan, this place was captured by the then Shuofang Jiedu envoy in one fell swoop, it belonged to the Tang Dynasty, and it was not until the end of the twenty-ninth year of Kaiyuan thirteen years later that it was captured by Tubo again.

For several years, Li Longji has been deeply regretful about this matter, and is determined to reintegrate Shibao City into the territory of the Tang Dynasty in his lifetime. In the sixth year of Tianbao, Li Longji felt that the time and strength were ripe, so he gave Wang Zhongsi an order to prepare to seize Shibao City, but he refused to play it, the reason was that Shibao City was a man who could not be opened, and Tubo had a large number of troops and a strong defense, if the Tang Dynasty rashly attacked, it would be necessary to sacrifice the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers, and the gains outweighed the losses.

Li Longji not only did not adopt Wang Zhonghe's opinion, but was also quite dissatisfied with it.

For Li Longji, this stone castle city is a matter of national honor and disgrace, and it is not a matter of one or two days for him to conquer this city. In recent years, he has indeed become more and more enthusiastic about side work, and that is also because he hopes that he will not only rejuvenate the country with civil affairs, but also be able to achieve martial arts to secure the world. He thought that Wang Zhongsi was equivalent to his real righteous son and should understand his thoughts, but he didn't want Wang Zhongsi to disappoint him like this.

At this moment, there was a general who was greedy for merit and took the initiative to ask for help. Li Longji was overjoyed and immediately ordered Wang Zhongsi to allocate tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to that general, and at the same time fully cooperate with the battle.

As a result, Wang Zhongsi repeatedly delayed, but he refused to exchange the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers for a meritorious service, and because of this, he was included in a book by the general, saying that the Shibao City could not be captured as scheduled, and the responsibility was all on him.

The incident that stumbled Li Longji and didn't accompany Yang Yuhuan today was the note handed over by the general.

Li Longji was furious, so that the ministers did not dare to speak.

Xiao Jiangyuan glanced at Li Linfu thoughtfully, and asked Bian Lingcheng to come over: "Go and invite the prince." ”

Bian Lingcheng's expression told her: Can the prince come? When he encountered a major event before, the prince even gave up his wife and concubine, and Wang Zhonghei was not his own brother yet.

Xiao Jiangyuan's voice was extremely low: "You go and invite, as for whether you come or not, that's the prince's business." ”