Li Longji twisted his beard and wandered around the hall, hesitating whether to give the Hexi Festival to Li Siye, so that there would be two great feudal forces on the land of China. He was more concerned about whether An Lushan would be awkward, the power of the Three Towns Festival had always been his exclusive possession, and now that there was suddenly one more person with the same power as him, An Fatzi was most likely unhappy in his heart.

He turned his head and asked Gao Lishi: "In this way, what will An Lushan think?" ”

"Your Majesty, what he thinks is his business, and the king should be gracious, and he should not be favored alone. Moreover, with Li Siye's merits, qualifications, connections, and abilities not inferior to him, even if he has grievances in his heart, there is no reason to speak out. Since Li Linfu brought up this matter before his deathbed, this is an opportunity for Li Siye to be promoted to Hexi Jiedu so that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, and His Majesty just goes along with his heart. ”

After thinking about it carefully, Xuanzong finally nodded, and then ordered Chen Xilie, the left minister, to come and draw up a decree to grant Li Siye the envoy of the Hexi Festival. Since Yang Guozhong is not yet the prime minister, it is not his turn to take care of military affairs such as the appointment of the Jiedu envoy.

Chen Xilie was an unassertive echo worm who took a submissive attitude towards the emperor's appointment, and was now reduced to a high-level document inscribed with holy decrees.

After the decree was written, the emperor immediately ordered someone to go to the west with a full set of festival seals, I don't know whether he was afraid that he would have long nights and dreams, or that someone in the court would oppose it.

After the emperor's will was sent out from the Huaqing Palace, Yang Guozhong learned the news, and the news was not obtained from formal channels.

This starts from Yuan Siyi's reading of Li Xiu's performance presented to Xuanzong on behalf of his deceased father, and the eunuch read the content of the music and learned that Li Linfu recommended Li Siye to serve as the envoy of the Hexi Festival. He had to use every piece of information for a eunuch like him who couldn't afford to be early, so he remembered that Li Siye was now an ally of Yang Guozhong, and informed Yang of this good thing in advance to get a cheap favor.

He came to Yang Guozhong's annex in Huaqing Palace, stood outside the side door and asked to see Yang Zhao, and the door of the annex saw that it was the eunuch in the palace, so he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately ran to Ah Lang to report.

Yang Guozhong was playing with the delicate concubine to celebrate Li Linfu's coolness, which called his happy day someone else's death day. Several concubines in the hall were panting and happy, and the door was unknown so they stood outside the threshold, who knew that Guozhong felt out with a pair of big hands, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to move.

"This is Lianxiang? Or is it lotus or apricot? ”

The concubines laughed behind him: "Ah Lang, guess for yourself!" ”

Yang Guozhong touched his chest, he couldn't feel the ups and downs of the curve, and he was suspicious in his heart, and took off the silk scarf covering his face, but when he saw that his groping pig hand was actually touching the chest of the porter, he was immediately annoyed and angry, and flew up and kicked the doorman out of the chest two feet away.

"Dog, didn't the official not let you in when he was resting!"

The porter covered his chest and got up, and hurriedly knocked his head on the ground three or four times with his head, and heard the sympathy in his heart: "Ah Lang spares his life, the little one will not dare anymore." ”

Yang Guozhong waved his hand angrily and said, "Forget it! What are you doing so recklessly? ”

"Qi Qi Ah Lang, Gonggong Yuan in the palace asks to see you."

Yang Guozhong raised his head and pondered: "Yuan Siyi? I have never had anything to do with him, so why did I come to visit suddenly, presumably because I knew that I would be the prime minister, so I came to visit the pier in advance? ”

At this time, he already had a plan, waved his hand and said, "Please let him in!" ”

Yuan Siyi lowered his eyebrows and came to Yang Guozhong's face, after all, he was the emperor's eunuch, so he didn't have to bow to Yang Guozhong, he only bowed his waist and crossed his hands and said: "Yang Gong Wanfu." ”

Yang Guozhong will be the prime minister in the future, and he will have to deal with these eunuchs in the palace, so he is relatively polite: "Gonggong Yuan, you don't have to be polite, you will have to rely on you in the future." ”

"Hehe, it's easy to say, it's easy to say."

Guozhong welcomed him into the inner hall, waved his hand to disperse the concubines who were still waiting to hide and seek, the two sat opposite each other in front of the desk, and asked, "I don't know if Gonggong Yuan is here, what do you think?" ”

"Hey, I'm a slave in the forbidden court, I'm shallow in knowledge, how dare I have any advice, I'm here to say hello to Yang Gonggong."

Yang Guozhong thought that he was talking about being the prime minister, and sneered in his heart, this matter is already well known, you just came to say hello to me, it is a little dull.

He folded his hands behind his back and said proudly: "Isn't it too early to congratulate Daoxi, and it is not too late to congratulate when the prime minister is appointed by His Majesty and conferred the Xiangyin." ”

Yuan Siyi was stunned for a moment, knowing that he had misunderstood, and said with a smile: "Yang Gongrong's ascension to the phase should be celebrated, but there is one thing that should also be celebrated." ”

"What else?" Yang Guozhong asked with a suspicious face.

"Yang Gong doesn't know?" This eunuch is very good at fishing people's appetites, first throwing out a very tempting question to attract his attention, and then waiting for Yang Guozhong to gather his eyes before saying: "Before his death, the right minister submitted a table to His Majesty and recommended Li Siye to serve as the envoy of the Hexi Festival, so that Dr. Li is the second general after An Lushan to concurrently serve as the envoy of the Three Towns Festival. From now on, Yang Gong, you will be the prime minister, and Dr. Li will also be the envoy of the Three Towns, and the two of you will be perfectly combined, and the Tang Dynasty will rely on the two more in the future. ”

Yuan Siyi's expectation of Yang Guozhong's smiling face did not appear, but suddenly gloomy face, Yang Zhao grabbed Yuan Siyi's right side and said, "Is it true that you said this!" Does Your Majesty agree with this traitor's ulterior motives? ”

Gonggong Yuan was taken aback, and hurriedly crossed his hands and said: "Your Majesty has agreed to his recital and sent the holy decree to Hexi, or it won't be long before Dr. Li will receive the decree and will go to Wuwei to serve as the envoy of the Hexi Festival." ”

"Hey!" Yang Guozhong pushed Yuan Siyi a few steps away, and the anger in his heart was hard to dissipate. No wonder on the day Li Siye left Beijing, Li Linfu would go to send him off, it turned out that there was already collusion between the two, and he was deceived by him as a fool.

Yuan Siyi was so frightened that he didn't bother to say goodbye to Yang Guozhong, and fled from the Yang family annex quickly.

The more Yang Guozhong thought about it in his heart, the more angry he became, he hated doing things behind his back the most, was this playing him like a fool! Although Li Linfu is now dead, he does not want to see another festival that is also a three-town festival.

On the one hand, Yang Guozhong is quite proud, but on the other hand, he is a little inferior, and he does not want the strength of his allies to be beyond his control. An Lushan's contempt for him is like a thorn piercing him, and now that Li Siye is beyond the strength, can this person still obey himself as before? Of course not. He would never allow two generals to be more than he could personally.

He originally wanted to go to the emperor now and persuade him to take back Li Siye's Hexi Jiedu envoy. But now he is not the prime minister, and the so-called injustice is not good. It's better to endure it first, and wait until he ascends to the phase, and then take down this Yang family vassal who doesn't know what to do.