Because of personal grievances, the envoys of Hexi Jiedu and Pinglu Jiedu want to set up a ring on Suzaku Street outside the imperial city!

This news seemed to have grown wings, like a virus plague, and spread in Chang'an City, causing an uproar!

There are strange things every year, and this year there are a lot of them!

If it were in the past, for this kind of bullshit thing, the officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory would have to say a few words, the last one or something.

This time, however, the gang was all muted.

If any official still can't see that there is a hidden trick in this confrontation, then they don't have to mix with officialdom, and it is better to go back to their hometown to farm.

Tomorrow is the day of the ring, and after the curfew, there will be Jin Wuwei's officers, who organized people to build the ring, and they were busy all night. The platform at this corner is not just a few wooden planks, but also a high platform for the "referee" and VIPs to observe, and the workload is not small at all!

It was already night, and in the courtyard of the Fang family house in Yongjiafang, the female dependents had already slept peacefully. Fang Chongyong, on the other hand, stopped practicing the corner and paced in the courtyard at night, thinking about tomorrow's countermeasures.

On the corner of the ring, this is not only an "exhibition match", but also a "fighting match", the only thing to guard against is to kill An Lushan by mistake, or be killed by An Lushan.

There is a grapevine that the last time An Lushan personally went into battle to kill the enemy was ten years ago!

His strongest skill is not killing people and fighting, but stratagem and foreign languages.

That's right, it's a foreign language.

An Lushan is a rare senior translator who is proficient in at least six languages! Its specialty is to do business, especially the business of making mistakes. A lot of the black work of robbing homes and houses was done by him sending his fellow villager Shi Siming to do it.

An Lushan may be very resistant to beatings because he is fat, but his combat effectiveness can never be very strong! Fang Chongyong suspected that the one who could really fight in the battle array should be Shi Siming.

Moreover, the biggest spectator behind this corner is the son of heaven of the Tang Dynasty and the master of Chang'an: Brother Ji.

What did he want?

Fang Chongyong put his hands behind his back, thinking about Brother Ji's needs in his heart.

The first is control, then vanity, and finally face.

The two major knots make it impossible to stand apart according to Ji Ge's vision, which is the controlling force.

On the horn in the ring, the two high-ranking officials fought to the death like wild beasts, which was vanity.

In front of the whole Chang'an people, he gave a "wonderful" performance, which is face.

Brother Ji is really damned!

Fang Chongyong thought hatefully. But even if this person deserves to die, he has to rely on the other party now.

Life is like a play, it all depends on acting skills, and many plays are not something you can say if you don't act.

Tomorrow, Fang Chongyong will work with An Lushan to perform a big drama for Brother Ji, the magnates of the Tang Dynasty, and the people of Chang'an.

Then take what you need!

As for secretly befriending An Lushan and communicating with each other, don't even think about it. Brother Ji, an old coin, is very thoughtful, and he will probably soon support An Lushan to take the throne, so that this big fat man will also serve as the envoy of the two towns in the northeast.

In this way, he can rest assured that he will lead his troops to sweep the Western Regions!

The more Fang Chongyong thought about it, the more he felt that the general trend of history was unstoppable, full of vitality, and the picture of all things competing was still in front of him.

In his previous life, many scholars believed that the festival envoys of the Tianbao era grasped the military, government, personnel and finances, so that the feudal towns were later divided.

But now it seems that the situation is slightly different from what was imagined, and the cause and effect relationship is completely reversed.

It is not so much that Jiedu makes the power to fish, but that the Tang Dynasty has set up heavy troops on the border, so that the government affairs and finances of the border states and counties have to give priority to serving the military! Strip it from the central finances!

This process is passive, but the effect and impact are more terrible than the festival degree to make the initiative to gain power!

The festival of grabbing power allows the imperial court to be dismissed, but no one can stop the trend of border towns breaking away from the center!

After Fang Chongyong served as the envoy of Hexi Jiedu, he did not exceed his authority, and he did not take the initiative to form a party for personal gain. However, the military power and financial power of the border town took the initiative to come into his hands. The property of the controlled states and counties will not be sent to Chang'an at all.

Even if Fang Chongyong is unwilling, the five states in the Hexi Corridor, and even the neighboring states and counties, including Lanzhou and other places, will gather their finances in Liangzhou, and the accounts will be sent here.

Because the accounts follow the wealth.

In fact, when these goods were sent to the treasury of Guanzhong, not only was the journey long and the loss was great, but it was also not worth such a stirring up.

The local money and grain supply to the border army is already insufficient, so how can it be fed back to the center in the form of taxes?

Because tens of thousands of elite border troops have to be supplied, the states and counties under the jurisdiction of the Jiedu envoy can only take care of themselves. In order to adapt to this situation, the imperial court also had to decentralize financial power to the local government, stipulating that the border towns and states could supply the border army, and there was no need to report to the imperial court for everything.

In such a situation, in fact, the Jiedu envoy had to take over the management power. Even if the Jiedu envoy does not want to take care of it, its government affairs have to be attached to the Jiedu envoy's yamen, and it needs to be managed by a special person.

After a long time, the center's control over the border towns will definitely be weak, and when the time comes, it will definitely need power and magic means to balance the degree and make it bigger.

For example, now!

Fang Chongyong realized the old and spicy power tricks on Brother Ji's body, and couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine. At the same time, they are helpless against the tide of history.

Fang Youde's "ancestral hometown" is Dunhuang, Shazhou, so Fang Chongyong is about to lead troops on an expedition to the Western Regions. An Lushan was born in the tribe next to the city of Hebei, so he is now the envoy of the Pinglu Festival.

Brother Ji's power tricks are all in line with the times. Now the three towns in the northwest and the two towns in the northeast are hostile to each other, and everything is under his control.

What's more, Chang'an is about to issue Jiaozi, the central finance will gain great liquidity, the deposit effect will begin to start, the deflationary spell that restricts Datang's economic development will be temporarily lifted, and Datang will enter a period of comprehensive economic prosperity from a period of economic recession.

All kinds of low-interest loans will spring up like mushrooms after a rain, and the grains in the granaries of the elites and the silk silk in the treasury will enter circulation on a large scale to release money. In order to unleash productivity, the center's low-interest loans will not make the people at the bottom lack the wealth to cope with basic life.

Fang Chongyong believed that with Li Linfu's wisdom, he would not do such a thing that would benefit and not expense.

After all, if a person dies, money becomes waste paper, and debt becomes headless.

The chains that lock the poor should loosen for a while. The powerful and wealthy will lend them money for consumption, and the interest rate will be very low, the debt will be extended, and the long line will catch big fish!

The wealth plundered from the Western Regions and the sufficient military expenditure brought by the issuance of Jiaozi will allow the border army of the Tang Dynasty to play bravely and continue to expand the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

More leading parties around will yearn for the prosperous Tang Dynasty, take the initiative to take refuge and dependence, and be proud to become the people of the Celestial Empire.

The Khitan in the north, the Tibetan in the west, and the Western Regions, if there are no accidents, these will be realized logically.

With this achievement, Brother Ji should make himself equal to God, arrogant to the point of empty eyes!

Under the rule of Ji Ge's "rule by inaction", Li Linfu, who has abundant central finances, will have more "policy weapons" in his hands, and Datang will also enter an unprecedented super prosperity.

The previous feudal dynasty never existed, and the later feudal dynasty was probably difficult.

In this situation, even if Taizong is reborn, he will kneel down and sing about conquest.

Then all strata of Datang from top to bottom will begin to eat food thoroughly!

The backlash of the deposit effect will come someday in the future! And the entire class of Datang society, which has been accustomed to entering from one prosperity to another, will fall into the endless abyss!

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, it is normal for people!

At that time, the world will be full of anti-thieves who are dissatisfied with reality and support Datang; Everyone is immersed in the prosperity of the past and cannot extricate themselves, in vain to restore the deformed glory of the past, and then in the process of searching for the illusion of the past, it will sink and collapse step by step!

Come out and mix, sooner or later you will have to pay it back! Happiness beyond what you can bear will make death come faster and earlier!

"Brother Ji, Brother Ji, don't die too early."

Looking at the full moon in the sky, Fang Chongyong muttered to himself. If Brother Ji dies when Datang is at its most prosperous, it will be too cheap for him!

Fang Chongyong felt that God should not be blind like this.

As for single-handedly bringing out the fierce beast of Jiaozi, Fang Chongyong was also helpless.

The society of the Tang Dynasty was fierce and unrestrained, literary and martial, luxurious and irrepressibly aggressive, which was the situation created by the Tang people.

If you are as restrained as the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, you can certainly give the Tang Dynasty a new life and delay its decline. However, the character of the Tang people would rather die standing and dying violently after being happy than living on their knees!

That's their life choice! Fang Chongyong respects their choice.

"Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs.

Anyway, people are inherently dead, just fly before they die! ”

Fang Chongyong said with a smile. Only care about what you once had, don't care about how long it lasts, this is not a free and easy attitude towards life.

If you want to die, just press your legs happily, and after eighteen years, you will be a good man again, which is nothing bad.

……

"Lux Shi, who will win this battle you say?"

On the tower of the imperial city, Ji Ge knelt on the female wall, pointed to Fang Chongyong and An Lushan, who were preparing to fight in the ring under the city, and asked Gao Lishi beside him.

"Back to the saints, the losers who win are standing, the losers who lose are the lying losers, and the only winners in the end are saints."

Colliers complimented quietly.

"You're getting more and more slippery."

Brother Ji laughed without looking back, and looked at the audience with his eyes intently. He knew that if there was no accident, An Lushan would definitely lose.

The ring was full of people, three layers inside and three layers outside, and some people even climbed the nearby wall to observe. The ring was at least as high as a one-story building, and there were people standing and watching from hundreds of meters away from Suzaku Street.

It is very common for officials to fight for beautiful women, and the two festivals make the ring corner, which is the first time that a big girl has been married!

"Horn Arrival Begins!"

At this moment, Zheng Shuqing on the high platform shouted!

As soon as the words fell, Fang Chongyong rushed over with a brisk step, and used the famous move in Tang Boxing, "Fierce Bull Rushing to the Top", and directly hugged his shoulder and hit An Lushan's shoulder blade!

This blow, including the run-up, he used ten percent of his strength!

An Lushan's hundreds of pounds of body seemed to fall backwards on its own, and after flying out of the air for a few meters, he fell to the ground, and then fainted!

Foaming at the mouth unconscious! I don't even look like I'm going to stand up!

Huh? That's too weak, isn't it?

With a ferocious blow, Fang Chongyong, who was temporarily out of strength, was dumbfounded!

The surrounding melon-eating crowd was stunned!

Brother Ji, who was about to watch a good show upstairs in the Imperial City, was stunned!

I fainted after a hit, isn't it made of paper?

Regarding An Lushan's "weakness", everyone was puzzled.

Some people suspect that Fang Chongyong has been trained since he was a child and has natural divine power, and it is normal to defeat the enemy with one move; Some people also suspect that An Lushan's wine color has been hollowed out of his body, and he is just fat.

Only the party Fang Chongyong knows that with An Lushan's physique, he will definitely not say that he will fall to the ground after eating a Tang fist!

Unless he doesn't want to get up himself.

Fang Chongyong squinted at An Lushan, who was lying on the ground and did not move, a trace of gloom flashed on his face.

"I declare that Fang Chongyong has won!

Come to two medical officers and take An Jieshuai down for treatment. ”

Zheng Shuqing on the high platform shouted, and glanced at Fang Chongyong with a strange expression.

The latter also noticed his eyes, and it was inconvenient for him to talk, so he had to sigh helplessly.

Code, on An Lushan's big dang!

Fang Chongyong stood in the ring with an embarrassed face, his hands clenched into fists with hatred, and secretly scolded himself for being too young.

How can a person who can climb from the bottom to the position of a knotor be a fool?

If he had figured out this layer earlier, he had practiced a hairy Tang fist and Jiao Yu in the past three days, and it was the king to have fun in time before going to Hexi. I knew that I should have been directly on the bed, tossing Dugu Yao to death, and releasing my desire on this beautiful girl.

Maybe this wave of hard work will make her pregnant with her own child and continue the bloodline.

It's not a loss!

Why waste time sharpening your gun and preparing for the corner! Just cooperate with An Lushan to act!

Fang Chongyong shouted in his heart, he was tricked by An Fat, and his intestines were repentant.

Everything is a play, Brother Ji asked them to act, and An Lushan finished the play in the fastest and most cost-effective way, hinting at his dissatisfaction by the way, as a statement that could not be clearly stated during the negotiation.

In this way, on the one hand, Brother Ji knew that An Lushan would obediently obey and obey his own mercy, and on the other hand, from An Lushan's subtle attitude, he knew that this person was not a person who could be casually rubbed and oppressed.

If the fight in the ring continues, will An Lushan, as a dignified envoy of the Pinglu Festival, really disregard his identity and please the ordinary people of Chang'an City like a monkey show?

Are those people worthy? The meaning is obtained, and I really think that the festival is a sesame petty official! An Lushan is now in a high position, and he is arrogant and cruel. It's okay to dance the Hu Xuan Dance for Brother Ji alone, but it's impossible to dance for the people of Chang'an!

Thinking of this, Fang Chongyong had no joy of winning in his heart. An Lushan's skills in pretending to be stupid are first-class, and now everyone thinks that Fang Chongyong is a young tough guy, and he will be killed by all parties in the future, and he will be roasted on the fire!

It's a big loss!

And the real battle of An Lushan is about to begin. has finished acting in this play, An Lushan faces Brother Ji again, and he should be able to get what he wants smoothly.

Winning first is not fat, and winning later overwhelms the kang!

Fang Chongyong walked out of the ring with some excitement, and in the continuous cheers of the crowd, he walked towards the direction of Yongjiafang.

In this game, he lost and became a prop for An Lushan to play treasure.

Forget it, let's go home and sleep with a girl, and see if we can make up for it.

Fang Chongyong thought stupidly, his mood was extremely bad.

……

"An Qing's fighting skills are not very good, I was knocked down by one move, I am really disappointed!"

In the imperial study room of the diligent government building of Xingqing Palace, Brother Ji arranged for Gao Lishi to make tea, and said with a smile and teasing An Lushan.

"Wechen is ashamed, ashamed."

An Lushan knelt down and saluted Brother Ji and said.

He said that he was ashamed, but in fact, he was extremely proud in his heart. It's rare to play Fang Chongyong once, and I don't know how beautiful it is.

"Jiedu envoy commands the soldiers and horses of the border towns, and there is really no need to personally go into battle to kill the enemy. I can trust your abilities. ”

Brother Ji nodded slightly and said, comforting An Lushan.

Then the two fell silent, except for the cooing of boiling water from the tea stove.

"Pei Kuan's case, I feel that there are still some mysteries in it that have not been solved, and it has made Zheng Shuqing, the head of Dali Temple, continue to pay attention.

There are many affairs in Yingzhou, and it is inconvenient to force Aiqing to stay in Chang'an, and in two days, you will return to Yingzhou to deal with military affairs. ”

Brother Ji waved his hand, which made An Lushan breathe a sigh of relief.

"Thank you, saints!"

An Lushan gave Ji Ge a five-body gift.

Suddenly, Brother Ji seemed to remember something, put away the smile on his face and asked, "Huangfu Wei Mingzhen has other uses, do you think it is better to transfer Fan Yang Jiedu as the envoy?" ”

Wechen thought it was ...... It is better to let Weichen serve as a substitute, and replace Weichen's Pinglu Jiedu envoy. ”

An Lushan bowed with his hands and suggested.

"Well, why is that?"

Brother Ji asked with a pretended confusion.

"Back to the saints, the tribe next to the city where Weichen is located is near Youzhou City, and Weichen can call on them to defend the frontier without the need for the imperial court to spend extra money!"

An Lushan said bluntly like an iron man.

"What you say is not unreasonable.

In this way, you will be transferred to the position of Fan Yang Jiedu Envoy, and temporarily concurrently serve as the Pinglu Jiedu Envoy.

When I find a suitable candidate, I will let him come to Yingzhou to take up his post. The affairs over there in Yingzhou, you take care of it for me first. ”

Brother Ji smiled disapprehantly.

"Thank you, saints! Weichen must be optimistic about the border towns for the saints, and don't let those northern barbarians make trouble! ”

An Lushan kowtowed excitedly, and knocked out a red mark on his forehead!

(End of chapter)