Pei Shiyan shot back without humility or arrogance: "Doctor An, since I have come to comfort the armies of Hebei Province on the order of the saint, since I have a beginning and an end, how can I live up to Your Majesty's appointment." ”

An Lushan raised his eyelids and glanced at him, Pei Shiyan felt a chill on his body, but his duty was to stand with his hands on his chest, and his eyes looked firmly at the top of An Lushan's head three feet.

An Fatzi regained his tired look, and said slowly: "Since the holy envoy wants to comfort the army, how about I call all the generals in Youzhou City over and have a banquet with you to comfort the army?"

"If you are comforting the army, you should patrol all the city defenses and military towns, and wait and see the morale of the soldiers, how can you just have a banquet?"

Ashina Chengqing, who was standing on the side, finally couldn't bear it anymore, raised his hand and pointed at him angrily: "You don't want to get an inch!"

"Presumptuous!" The fat man's roar was like a tiger's roar, and Yan Zhuang, Noble, An Shouzhong and Ashina Chengqing knelt on the ground at the same time, bowed their heads and crossed their hands: "Please forgive the doctor." ”

"As a general of the imperial court, you are favored by the imperial court, and you dare to be disrespectful to the holy envoy! It can be seen that the Holy Envoy represents His Majesty! Come on, pull Ashina Chengqing out and behead him for me!"

Immediately from outside the door, two guards walked in, looking hesitant and walking slowly.

"Pull it out!"

The two walked behind Cheng Qing, and just as they were about to cut off his hands, he had already stood up with his chest up: "I don't need you, I will go myself." ”

Chengqing had just raised his head and had not yet stepped out of the threshold, Yan Zhuang, Shangshang and An Shouzhong hurriedly knelt on the ground and pleaded: "Doctor, Chengqing has made outstanding achievements in battle, and he is also the queen of the Turkic royal family, killing him may make the Turkic soldiers in Youzhou feel cold!"

An Lushan contracted his pupils and looked at Pei Shiyan who was standing on the side in front of him. Pei Shiyan naturally knew that this scene was for him to see, so he turned slightly to the door and ignored it.

An Lushan gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Nian is in your old skills, write down the head first, and give me a hundred military sticks for Chengqing!" Just fight in this yard!"

Seungqing was pulled down, took off his shirt to expose his arms, and hugged his hands on the trunk of a tree in the courtyard. The two executioners waved their whistle sticks, one stick and two sticks, and the skin turned from yellow to blue, from green to red, and blood seeped out along the skin.

Chengqing had a wooden stick in his mouth, his mouth and nose were wheezing violently, his eyes burst out with hatred and fierce light, and he looked at Pei Shiyan who was standing in the hall, and almost turned into a leopard and pounced on him to bite his throat.

"Thirty-one! Thirty-two! Thirty-three! Thirty-four!"

Yan Zhuang, Gao Shang and others looked at each other in pain, and knelt on the ground again to beg for mercy for Chengqing: "Doctor, don't fight!" If you fight Chengqing again, it will be abolished? Should he be able to go into battle and kill the enemy? We must leave a good general for the country. ”

The guards standing outside the door also knelt on the ground in armor with a loud noise: "Please be gracious to the doctor." ”

An Lushan's eyelids trembled, and he couldn't hold on anymore? Turning his head to look at Pei Shiyan? The tone was also a little earnest: "Holy Envoy, you see ......"

Pei Shiyan knows too much? If you are tougher, it is tantamount to pulling hatred for yourself and the court behind you, so she turned around and said: "The law is nothing more than human affection? Since General Chengqing has always made great contributions? The merit can be compromised, and the doctor can stop the punishment. ”

An Lushan immediately raised his hand: "Stop!" Stop!"

Ashina Chengqing in the courtyard was dying, foaming at the mouth with blood, and the blood on his back was flowing on the floor tiles. An Lushan said angrily: "If it weren't for Pei Sheng's sake's intercession for you, these hundred military sticks would definitely not be spared?" Drag him down to heal his wounds. ”

Now Pei Shiyan thinks about the military training again? It was already an unrealistic fantasy, but from the series of half-truths and half-performances just now, he saw An Lushan's true attitude and what he tried his best to hide.

He immediately resigned to An Lushan, returned to the post house to gather his entourage to leave Fanyang, and went south to Chang'an.

……

After Pei Shiyan returned to Chang'an? was the first to report to the mansion of Yang Guozhong, the right minister, after all, he went to Fan Yang as a consolation envoy because of Yang Guozhong's recommendation.

Yang Guozhong was lying on the bed of the cabinet of Xiaolou? There are two women wearing tulle middle sheets pinching their shoulders and beating their legs, and Pei Shiyan is standing by the door with his hands crossed? told without omission: "The subordinates just entered Youzhou, and An Lushan avoided it for twenty days at first? I use an excuse to go back to Beijing? He was willing to invite me into the house to meet me. Hebei soldiers? He himself did not practice the courtesy of his ministers, and used his illness as an excuse to obstruct my parade in the army, and he used a bitter trick to dismount me. In the humble opinion of his subordinates, An Lushan is very difficult to control, and he does have the heart of rebellion. It's just that he has never dared to take this step due to various reasons, so he only needs to take strict precautions and strengthen the military strength of the Beijing division in the past one or two years. ”

"I only ask you about the current situation of An Lushan, or whether there is any rebellion, you just need to tell what you have seen and heard honestly. If you don't let yourself judge, why talk too much. The maid picked a grape from the table next to Yang Guozhong and fed it to him. His mouth squirmed, and he looked at Pei Shiyan coldly.

Pei Shiyan suddenly felt depressed in his chest, held back the unhappiness in his heart, lowered his head and crossed his hands, and said, "Huh." ”

"Remember, when you meet Your Majesty in the court tomorrow, you only need to tell what you have seen and heard, and do not mislead the saint by saying what you think. An Lushan's conspiracy and rebellion are related to the danger of the country's society, can you afford a small thing? ”

"Obedience." Pei Shiyan bit his lip and replied.

On the second day, Pei Shiyan did not talk much, between the righteous words and the official position, he reluctantly chose the latter, as soon as possible he told the events of the day in as much detail as possible, and the emperor could not judge his true attitude from An Lushan's words and deeds. He just narrowed his eyes tiredly, and said lightly: "Yang Guozhong, you can handle the matter." ”

Yang Guozhong raised his hands and knelt on the ground: "Minister, obey the order." ”

After Yang Guozhong got the emperor's tacit approval, he immediately ordered Jingzhao Yin Xian Yu Zhongtong to personally lead troops to surround the mansion of the king of Dongping County, enter the mansion and arrest people, and Li Chao, who accompanied his eldest son An Qingzhong to Chang'an, and several other guests were all arrested and sent to Yushitai Prison to be secretly executed. He ordered people to surround Fan Yang's Jinjuan Academy, and went in to arrest Liu Luogu, the intelligence leader, but Liu Luogu had a keen sense of smell and had escaped from Chang'an City two hours ago. He also sent Jiang Yun, the director of Dali Temple, to Duanzhou to put Ji Wen in prison for interrogation of the testimony of colluding with An Lushan to rebel, but Ji Wen did not give in and eventually died in prison.

Most of the cool officials were tortured to death in prison, which can be regarded as a kind of echo of life.

An Qingzhong was very frightened, and he didn't dare to live in his father's mansion anymore, so he took his personal servant to live in the mansion of the lord of Rongyi. He knew that Yang Guozhong could not tolerate his father, and of course he couldn't tolerate himself, so he hurriedly wrote a letter to An Lushan, explaining the situation in the capital and asking him to find a way to take him out.

Yang Guozhong took advantage of this great opportunity, not only cleaned the bright and dark lines laid by An Lushan in Chang'an City, but even some of his help in the court was dismissed or moved to the Lingnan area.

He felt that he had controlled the situation, and thought that An Lushan had only two ways to go, one was to quickly rebel, so that the emperor could really recognize An Lushan and send troops to quell the rebellion. The second is to take the initiative to petition for sin, remove all local official positions, leave only the position of the left servant of the imperial doctor and the monk, and take the initiative to disarm and return to Chang'an, and maybe he can stay for a life until the end of his life.

Of course, Yang Guozhong will not only stare at An Lushan, Li Siye also wants to brush a tiger beard. He ordered Jing Zhaoyin and Dali Temple to send secret agents to monitor the Hexi Jinju Academy and the Xiliang County Prince's Mansion, and report to him any acts of adultery. This move made Cao Anding's channel for secretly buying armor in the capital and transporting it to Hexi temporarily closed, and also made Li Chongyun, who had just met the county lord of Yonghe and had only met a few times, had to suspend his relationship.

An Lushan and Li Siye got the letter from their son in Chang'an one after another, and waved their arms to slap the hard yellow paper in their hands on the desk.

"Yang Zhao'er deceived me too much! Do you want to ask me to be quick? Lao Tzu is worried that he can't find the name of raising an army, and it seems that a traitor like you should raise an army and punish him! ”

"Pigs! Yang Guozhong is a pig! He not only forced An Lushan to rebel quickly, but also cheated me. The early death of this kind of person is the luck of Datang. ”