Zhang Tongru, who stayed in Xijing, lived in the imperial city of Taichang Temple, which was convenient for him to mobilize the soldiers and horses in the city. Sun Xiaozhe lived in the mansion of the sixteen kings of Yongfufang on the side of Daming Palace, which was convenient for him to search for the children of the clan who were living among the people. Although An Lushan was far away in Luoyang, they still didn't dare to go to the palace to have a good time, because such an arrogant behavior reached the ears of Emperor An, and eight heads were not enough for them to cut off.

There must always be a wicked person in a team who does dirty work, and Sun Xiaozhe is the leader of this evil. Because of his mother's fornication with An Lushan, he became the most favored of all the righteous sons of An Lushan.

Since Sun Xiaozhe entered Chang'an, he has bestowed the treasures of the Luo palace and killed the children of the royal family, but most of the clans that Li Longji did not take away when he fled did not escape his poisonous hands. Although he didn't dare to live in Daming Palace, the women and concubines of the clan who were confined in Daming Palace were sent to Luoyang. Every day, he was taken by the eunuchs to the palace of Yongfu Fang for him to enjoy.

Zhang Tongru, who stayed in Xijing, was also afraid of Sun's power, and everything had to be discussed with him first.

On this day, Zhang Tongru came to the inner hall of Sun Xiaozhe's temporary mansion, Sun was lying on the Hu bed, and a maid with a pearl head knelt on the ground to wash his feet.

"Oh, Zhang Liushou is here, and he is washing his feet, please forgive me for not being careful."

Zhang Tongru smiled slightly embarrassedly, sat down on the Hu bed opposite him, arched his hands and said, "General Sun, I came today for the matter of Zuo Zangku. When the Dog Emperor fled, our army had not yet entered Chang'an, and the people took advantage of the chaos to loot the left treasury of the inner garden. Now General Sun sent soldiers to go door to door to pursue and torture at every turn, causing the people to complain about our army, which is not conducive to our guarding the imperial pass. ”

Sun Xiaozhe did not answer his words, but suddenly pulled out his right foot from the water and kicked it on the face of the foot-washing maid: "Don't hide! Dare to dodge and pull out and kill him. ”

The maid had a delicate face, but her face was expressionless as if she was rigid, and there seemed to be no life in her pupils.

Sun Xiaozhe patted her face with his feet and asked Zhang Tongru, "Do you know who this is?" This is the third daughter of the son of Li Ye, the younger brother of the old emperor, although not as expensive as the princess of the county, but she is also full of royal blood. ”

"Lick my feet clean, hey ho ho."

……

"Oh, that's comfortable."

Zhang Tongru couldn't bear to look at it, so he had to turn his head and say: "It doesn't matter if you attack the royal family and dignitaries, but don't harm the people and provoke public anger, after all, this thousand-mile embankment was destroyed in an anthill." ”

Sun Xiaozhe's feet fell into the copper basin suddenly, and the water splashed everywhere, and the maid lost her balance and sat on the ground, holding the carpet with both hands and turning her head to look to the side, her eyes like ink.

"Zhang Liushou, you didn't understand what I just said." Sun Xiaozhe was paralyzed and lying on the Hu bed, reminiscing bitterly: "I think that my father-in-law was just a small sheep seller in Youzhou, and I was just the son of a butcher's concubine who sold pork, and no one looked down on us when I was down!" But now my stepfather is already the emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty! And I'm now the supervisor of the temple of the three grades! When I was kicked and beaten in rags in Youzhou City, I would never have thought that today, the noblewoman Li Tang, who is tall and beautiful, with golden branches and jade leaves, would kneel in front of me and toss and turn, as a slave and a maid! ”

He bent down and reached out and pinched the maid's chin, and the corners of his mouth smirked, but the maid still had a stiff face in front of him, and threw her face aside.

"I say this just to tell you, what is really supreme under the sky? It's fists, it's knives and guns, it's violence! When you really master them, even the most honorable people will bow their heads before me. What are the people? It's just mediocrity, a plate of scattered sand, only worship the powerful, worship the strong, who is strong and who follows whom! Now they are just begging for a small amount of money, how dare they resist? ”

Zhang Tongru sighed and said: "Having said that, if the coercion is too much, it will only be reversed, although the Tang army has lost the battle, it will soon make a comeback." Before Emperor Shengwu pacifies the Central Plains, he will definitely not increase his troops in Guanzhong......"

"Okay, okay," Sun Xiaozhe waved his hand again and again: "Now I will collect another sum and prepare a copy for my godbrother Niu Tingjie stationed in Tongguan." When he first broke Tong Pass into Chang'an, his father-in-law personally promised that all the generals participating in the war could get a piece of the pie in the city, and Cui Qianyou took the share in his hand and transferred to Hedong, and you and I also made a lot of money. ”

"But you can't forget the Niu Tingjie guarding Tongguan, so that everyone can't even drink the soup when they eat meat. I've already begun to get my men to prepare twenty cartloads of belongings. Now it is late autumn, and the Guangyun Canal is beginning to dry up, so people are sent from the post road to Tongguan. ”

Yuan Li, the eunuch who was serving Sun Xiaozhe, came to the door, and when he heard that the master was meeting guests, he hurriedly flashed aside, but Sun Xiaozhe saw him and scolded loudly: "What are you doing sneakily!" Come in!"

After Lord Yuan Li entered the door, he hurriedly knelt on the ground: "The slave maid meets the two generals." ”

Sun Xiaozhe raised his feet to let the maid dry, put on a foot bag and poked it into his ** boots, clapped his hands and asked, "Have you prepared some big cars?"

Yuan Li said with his hand: "General Qiyu, you are all ready. ”

"It's so good, within six days, the goods are all ready to load and set off, and that's it for this year. Zhang Shoubei, don't bother me again. ”

Sun Xiaozhe waved his hand at Eunuch Yuan and said, "You can retreat." ”

Lord Yuan Li glanced at the clan maid kneeling on the ground with pity, and hurriedly retired and left the mansion. He hunched his shoulders and walked out of the heavily armed Sixteen Princes' Mansion, where the streets were lined with rebels patrolling in formations. But whenever there were soldiers to check, he took out the waist card given to him by Sun Xiaozhe, and came to a shop with closed doors and windows in Dongshi so unimpeded.

Cao Anding sat alone in the store, heard two long and one short knocks on the door, walked over with an oil lamp, and quietly opened a gap before letting him in.

The two sat in front of the long case, Yuan Lizhu rubbed his hands and whispered, "Within six days, the car will definitely be escorted, and these belongings are all for the Tong Guan guard, Niu Tingjie, who has written several times to urge, and it seems that these belongings are extremely important." ”

Cao An nodded and asked, "What about my people?"

Eunuch Yuan said with a bitter face: "I have already arranged for your people to be their husbands, and you can contact them in the future." I've come to you at the risk of being killed, and you must never contact me again. ”

After saying that, he turned around and walked to the door, Cao Anding put his Sogdian pointed felt hat on his head, hesitated for a moment, and whistled to Yuan Lizhu, who was about to go out, and said: "Chang'an will inevitably return to the hands of the imperial court this winter, and when the time comes, they will definitely liquidate you people who bend their knees to serve the rebels, and you better find a way to get out early." ”

Lord Yuan nodded silently, turned around and walked out of the store.

Cao Anding did not delay for a moment, and immediately led the camel out of the backyard, went out of the Dongshi Fangmen, and went to the Chunming Gate along the street. The rebels guarding the gates of the city simply searched the camels, and since An Lushan was Sogdian, they were also lenient with Sogdian traders.

After leading the camel three or four miles away from the city gate, he looked behind him and saw that no one was following him, and then he threw away the leather goods, mounted the camel, and whipped up and galloped westward.

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In the dark room of Fengxiang's mansion, Cao Anding took off his hat in front of the lamp, his face was ruddy and sweaty. He fanned the wind with his felt hat, making the light and shadow of the oil lamp flutter, and shining on the face of Li Siye on the opposite side looked gloomy.

"Within six days, the convoy will inevitably depart, and I have already arranged people in the convoy."

Li Siye walked quickly to the door of the door and pushed it open, and the tooth general Kubani stood straight outside the door.

"Go and call General Feng Changqing."

Kubani turned to leave, and after waiting for nearly a pillar of incense, Feng Changqing walked into the dark room, bowed to Li Siye, and glanced at Cao Anding, who was standing in front of the lamp.

Li Siye sat in front of the desk and raised his hand and said: "This was originally Cao Anding, a soldier I sent to the Chang'an Academy, and I will listen to him tell you everything." ”

Cao Anding briefly repeated the source of the information, Feng Changqing pulled his beard and nodded, turned his head and asked Li Siye: "Does the doctor want to order me to lead an army from the north of the Wei River to bypass Chang'an to Tongguan, and then set up an ambush outside Tongguan to hijack the convoy's property, and lead the generals to lead the troops to rescue him, and then I will take advantage of its emptiness to occupy Tongguan?"

Li Siye praised with a smile: "It is worthy of Feng Changqing, and it is very consistent with what I plan, but Fengxiang and Tongguan are located at the east and west ends of the Guanzhong Plain, and you have to travel a long distance to cross the Qinchuan River for eight hundred miles, which is not easy."

"Crossing 800 miles is nothing, think that back then, my Anxi army traveled 2,000 miles from Qiuzi to attack the big and small Bolu, and crossed the green ridge, and its difficulty was far better than Guanzhong? It's just that how many people are stationed in Tongguan now? Who is the defender? What if this person is willing to give up his money and not be fooled?"

Li Siye glanced at Cao Anding, and Cao Anding hurriedly leaned in front of the lamp and said, "I've been listening to Chang'an for so long, so I know a little bit. More than 9,000 people are now stationed in this Tongguan, and the guard is An Lushan's righteous son Niu Tingjie, who has a close relationship with Sun Xiaozhe, the general stationed in Xijing. An Lushan once promised that after breaking Chang'an, the generals who participated in the war could rob a batch of property in the city, and Niu Tingjie was stationed in Tongguan and could not go in person, and he was already anxious. If the general can act as a rogue bandit and rob him of his property near Tongguan, this person will be furious and will lead his troops and horses out of the pass to take back his property. ”