The Tang Dynasty then led the army and returned to Chang'an.

In his letter of explanation to An Lushan, he said: "The Tang Dynasty of the New Tang Dynasty sent a letter to His Majesty An Lushan, the Emperor of Dayan: In the past, there were a million defenders in Xuzhou, and the armies of the two countries should cooperate to attack. Now Guo Ziyi has been killed by me almost the whole army, and now he has fled in a hurry, there are only 400,000 defenders left in the city, and the food and grass are less than the needs of three months, your country has added 400,000 troops, which is more than twice that of Li Longji. I advocate the ancient style of humility, since at that time His Majesty Dayan led the army to attack Xuzhou first, I will give His Majesty three months. If after March, Your Majesty cannot capture Xuzhou, then the troops will retreat and see that the new Tang Dynasty will take Xuzhou alone. Date. ”

An Lushan read this letter of state from the Tang Dynasty and laughed: "Tang Dynasty Xiao'er, knowing that his strength is not as good as that of the widow, I am afraid that I will destroy Li Longji after killing him, and I have already withdrawn first, just let me occupy Xuzhou alone and dominate the Yellow River, as long as I occupy Lingwu again, the world will be in my control." ”

When the military advisor saw it, he was also very puzzled: What happened to the Tang Dynasty, Xuzhou was surrounded for several months, Li Longji was trapped in the lonely city, Guo Ziyi led the army out to plunder, it was a good opportunity to capture Xuzhou in one go, how to withdraw the troops first?

Shi Siming was overjoyed: "Your Majesty, rest assured, I promise to fight Xuzhou without January!" ”

An Lushan also laughed: "Why use March, of course I want to take Xuzhou as soon as possible." Hum! Huangkou Xiaoer of the Tang Dynasty thought that he would give me this problem, and that Li Longji would be able to keep Xuzhou by defending the danger, which was wishful thinking. ”

Yan Zhuang said at this time: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, the Tang Dynasty would not be such a stupid person, why did he choose to withdraw from the army at this time and give this great credit to Your Majesty in vain?" ”

Shi Siming said: "Yes, this is really a bit abnormal. However, I agree with His Majesty's judgment that the Tang Dynasty was forced by His Majesty's strong military might and feared that His Majesty would deal with him after capturing Xuzhou. ”

"Yes, yes, it must be that Tang Dynasty himself knew that he couldn't do it, so he avoided it first."

"How dare he compare with His Majesty, a disobedient, Your Majesty sent troops to destroy him!"

Suddenly, many generals began to echo Shi Siming.

Sun Xiaozhe said: "Your Majesty, it's not that I'm worried about the sky, but this matter is very unusual. Weichen thought that in addition to stepping up the attack on Li Longji, we should always be on guard against the movements of the Tang Dynasty. After all, since the Tang Dynasty led its troops, there have been few defeats, and what is even more frightening is that he now has 400,000 elite soldiers and more than 100,000 cavalry, and his strength is still above Li Longji. ”

These few words reminded the complacent An Lushan: "Xiaozhe is right, Li Longji hates it, but the Tang Dynasty must not be guarded against." He was able to almost annihilate Guo Ziyi's 3,000 elite soldiers in the battle of Luodian, and his strength should not be underestimated. In this way, you lead 100,000 cavalry back to strengthen the guards of Luoyang, and at the same time concurrently serve as Jing Zhaoyin to manage Luoyang. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Sun Xiaozhe hurriedly agreed. During this period of time, Shi Siming has not concocted him, and his real purpose is to ask him to automatically hand over the command of his 100,000 cavalry.

But Sun Xiaozhe was not a fool, relying on constant writing to An Lushan and other methods to force Shi Siming to admit his control over 100,000 cavalry.

Now once there is a chance, it is natural to stay away from Shi Siming's clutches.

……

New Tang Dynasty, Chang'an, Taiji Palace.

The Tang Dynasty began the rituals of the early dynasty.

A kind of pleasure of dominating the world once again filled Tang Chao's heart, making him extremely excited.

No one was late, the court was solemn, rows of guards with guns and halberds arched above the court, and the ministers bowed respectfully: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

"Flat." Tang Chao said softly.

Although his voice was soft, it was a lofty artistic conception, which was clearly transmitted into the hearts of every courtier.

At such a time, he had a feeling that every thought, every look, and even the subtle movements of his hands and feet were shrouded in his senses, as if he was a transparent person.

At that moment, a former official of the palace shouted: "The next thing is a confidential matter in the army, except for the secretaries of various ministries and people with the rank of general and above, the rest are scattered."

At the moment, the general officials dispersed one after another, and the Tang Dynasty waited for everyone to quiet down again, and said first:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this morning, I will mainly talk about one topic, that is, how to prevent the spread of the epidemic."

"The pandemic?"

The ministers originally thought that it was a great thing, thinking that they were going to talk about military affairs, and some of them had already prepared a draft and wanted to perform well in front of the emperor, but now the Tang Dynasty is talking about the epidemic, which makes them feel disappointed.

When Li Yanjiu, the head of the household department, heard this, he hurriedly played: "Back to Your Majesty, there is no epidemic in the Guanzhong area, how can we prevent the spread of the epidemic?" Please make it clear to the emperor? ”

Tang Dynasty said: "You don't know, under the repeated military disasters, there will be a serious epidemic." Now that summer is coming, it is the time when the epidemic is about to spread. As you can see, there will be a major epidemic in one month at most and ten days at least, and if you don't take precautions at this time, there will definitely be major casualties. ”

"Your Majesty, where did you see this?" Zhang Jiuling began to rely on the old and sell the old to be mad in the Tang Dynasty: "After the war, there will be a serious epidemic. This is one of the reasons, and it must be prevented; Second, when I was besieging Li Longji, I saw that the fields were barren and locusts were planted everywhere, and there would be a major epidemic this summer, with no grain harvest at the least, and diseases spreading everywhere at worst, and a large number of people and animals dying. ”

"Weichen takes the order!" Li Yanjiu didn't think so, but since the Tang Dynasty had a fate, he had to obediently kneel down to receive the order.

Tang Dynasty then said: "When there is a three-third trend today, those who are sympathetic to the military and civilians will surely get the whole world." Guanzhong is a rich place, if there is no epidemic, then when the autumn is high and cool, our army will go out of Yangping Pass, and the rebellion will be suppressed. At that time, no matter what the outcome of An Lushan and Li Longji's stalemate is, I can take advantage of the opportunity of their lack of food to defeat them in one fell swoop and win the world! ”

"The emperor is wise!" The ministers bowed together. However, there are many courtiers who are still wondering, if they want to seize the world, don't they have to buy time, why don't they go out to fight when they return to Guanzhong?

Tang Chao's eyes swept away, knowing that many people were pretending to echo themselves, and immediately said: "Providence! Providence cannot be violated! If we fight in Henan and encounter a plague, not to mention the serious attrition of the army, there is no way to start with food. Li Longji is now holding Xuzhou, although An Lushan is now gathering a large army to besiege it, but with Guo Ziyi coming to the rescue, he may not be able to capture Xuzhou in one go, and the defenders of Xuzhou are actually very good, maybe An Lushan can't be attacked at all. Taking 10,000 steps back, even if An Lushan consumes a lot of troops and really captures Xuzhou, then he may not be able to kill Li Longji, and he will definitely have a decisive battle in Lingwu at that time. According to my judgment, the epidemic will definitely happen at this time, once the situation is favorable, we can wait for the soldiers in the customs to calm the world with one drum, why not? Ladies and gentlemen, although this is my general strategy, but brainstorming is the purpose of this early dynasty, and you Aiqing will speak one by one. ”

Zhang Qiu and Qiong immediately asked: "Your Majesty, now that the situation of besieging Li Longji is very good, Your Majesty suddenly returned to the court, Weichen thinks that this is not a waste of credit to An Lushan?" ”

"Not really. I tell you that the main reason for the class teacher is that I have felt something in the underworld, which indicates that during this month there will be great calamities. If I don't have a teacher, even if I defeat Li Longji and occupy Xuzhou, it will still be useless. ”

"Something in the dark?" This time, not only Zhang Qiu and Qiong, but also Sheva and Zhuan Xin, all showed a strange look on their faces.

Tang Chao smiled majestically: "I know your Aiqing's doubts, if you want me to say, I may not be able to say it clearly, it's better like this, you let me guess a few riddles, you know that I have this ability." ”

"Riddles?" Li Bai's interest was great.

"Good. Li Chenxiang, you lead everyone to discuss it outside the hall first, and let me guess what you just wanted me to guess. After pouring incense, I will come back here, and I will tell you in front of the ministers when the time comes, to see if I can guess correctly? ”

Li Bai hesitated a little: "Your Majesty, this ...... Above the court, it seems that there should be no games? ”

"Prime minister! It's a very serious thing to do! Rest assured, the people around me, at least keep a distance from me now, I won't send anyone to spy on your discussions, go! ”

Li Bai was worried that the Tang Dynasty might deliberately use this method to make the ministers awe of him, and wanted to persuade him, but he didn't expect that the Tang Dynasty had really reached such a point!

I was horrified.

During this time, he stayed in Chang'an and kept everything in order, but his martial arts were a lot more deserted.

Of course, he knows that the highest realm of martial arts is to be in harmony with the Tao, to be able to perceive some things in the underworld, the way of sincerity, can be foreseen, and the autumn wind is not moved by the cicada.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Bai led the ministers out of the hall and discussed it with great interest, and many people wanted Tang Chao to guess something he carried.

In the end, everyone looked at Li Bai: "Lord Minister, are you here to solve the question?" ”

Li Bai smiled: "It's okay, let the emperor guess the one thing we bring with us, you say, which ones are better?" ”

At the moment, the ministers launched three kinds of gossip: papaya, silver wat and a whisk, let Li Bai hide in his sleeve and return to the palace together. They obviously don't believe that no matter how powerful a person is, how can he guess what is quietly put in his sleeve.