Xue Bai sent Li Qi away, Yang Guozhong came to visit, as soon as they met, Yang Guozhong smiled and said: "I have a good thing to come, Ah Bai might as well guess?" ”

"If you have to give me ten thousand gold, then I will be an official?"

"It's you, just guess."

They are both power-loving people, and when they mention the appointment of officials, they can't help but smile.

Yang Guozhong was not in a hurry to announce, but sat down in the front hall and asked, "I heard that you didn't go to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion recently, and only prepared a congratulatory gift for the concubine's birthday at home?" ”

Xue Bai asked rhetorically, "How can Brother know so well what I'm doing at home?" ”

Yang Guozhong was stunned for a moment, and said: "Of course I inquired, you are a unique figure in Chang'an City, and recently, the craftsmen in the house have been in and out, and they are all guessing that Ling is going to offer something good to the saint this time." ”

"I see." Xue Bai just sent Li Qi out, and he really felt that there were many more stalls outside the door, as if his house was a city with an excellent location.

Yang Guozhong mysteriously took out the official document from his sleeve, neither unfolded it nor gave it to Xue Bai, held it there with one hand, and asked with a smile: "Guess again, what kind of official position is this?" ”

Now that he has a high status, he likes to make things difficult for the officials under him in everything, and he thinks he is interesting, but in fact he is quite annoying. Facing Xue Bai, although it was not intentional, it also showed a little greasy.

"I hope to be a left, or even a member of the Sixth Division." Xue Bai said: "But it must be impossible?" ”

"You don't understand that." Yang Guozhong shook his head, shook the official document in his hand, and said in a teaching tone: "If you do this errand well, what is the outsider?" ”

"And what is this?"

"See for yourself." Yang Guozhong pretended to hand over the official document generously, and said: "They all say that I am seeking an official for the relatives of A-Niang's family, but I don't know that I am really dedicated to you." ”

Xue Bai took it, unfolded it, and saw the word "edict", and was not very satisfied, because this meant that it was the direct will of the saint, and it was said that it was an official seal, but in fact, it was a temporary dispatch and did not belong to the official order of the imperial court.

Looking at the content behind, it is nothing more than to set up an amusement envoy, who is specifically responsible for thinking of fun literary games, and Xue Bai is on the job.

Li Longji always likes to bypass the imperial court and assign this kind of temporary official position. For example, Yao Siyi, who died a while ago, is a feeding envoy, collecting delicacies outside the palace for Li Longji; Yang Guozhong has dozens of envoys, many of whom are sent directly for the saints. In addition, there are charcoal envoys, flower and bird envoys, lychee envoys, etc., which are dazzling.

Even one time, he suddenly wanted to eat sugar crabs in Pingyuan County, and he could easily set up a sugar crab transfer envoy.

Xue Bai's good palace servant Yushi was replaced by such a dispatch, just as Yan Yan said yesterday, and turned back into a minister.

He did not hide this disappointment, and rolled up the official document casually.

"Ah Bai is not satisfied?" Yang Guozhong was surprised, and said with a smile: "Don't you underestimate this art envoy, do you know how I was promoted to a third-grade high-ranking official in just a few years?" It's nothing more than doing things for the saint, and when the matter is done, can the saint still treat you badly? This is the hand-picked of the saints, who dares to disobey the officials, and how much oil and water is there? You don't know how many people break their heads every time they send out. ”

The wood has already been completed, and it is impossible for Xue Bai to refuse, so he just made a statement, and responded: "Thank you Brother for your words." ”

Yang Guozhong didn't see him happy, and said, "You still don't understand how beneficial this dispatch is, like this." I myself will teach you how to exercise this art and exercise authority. ”

Usually, one or two sentences from him are worth 10,000 gold, but today's words and deeds are naturally amazing.

"Ah Bai, tell me first, what kind of congratulatory gift do you plan to give on the concubine's birthday this time?" Yang Guozhong said: "I heard that An Lushan's miscellaneous Hu sent an envoy to Beijing to give gifts again, and you and my brother must not be compared to him." Oh, don't worry, tell me that I will not be greedy for your work. ”

Xue Bai responded generously: "How can there be any credit, it is nothing more than some games that can't be elegant......

Even if he said it, Yang Guozhong couldn't understand it.

But it doesn't matter, just like writing a story, as long as Xue Bai starts, he can follow suit. Of course, it is very smart to be able to come up with ideas, and it is Xue Bai who deserves to be famous all over the world, but he can insist on serving the saint well, this is the credit, and what Yang Guozhong wants is the credit that comes later.

"You say, in order to accomplish this, which government offices must cooperate?"

"I've hired a craftsman to make a rough sketch, so that the saint won't have a problem looking good."

"Nope." Yang Guozhong said: "If we want to do it, we have to do the most brilliant." ”

"In this case, the general supervisor and the palace supervisor can help make the scene, and the teaching workshop and the internal service province can assign some personnel......"

Before Xue Bai could finish speaking, Yang Guozhong had already gotten up and said, "Follow me." ”

"Where to go?"

Yang Guozhong didn't look back, stretched out his arms and raised them up, and said in high spirits: "Let me see how much power you have now." ”

~~

The two rode on tall horses and led a group of followers. When he arrived at the imperial city, Yang Guozhong raised his whip and pointed at it, and led Xue Bai directly to Shangshu Province and entered the household department in the east of Taiwan Province.

"Where's the Duzhiro?!"

Yang Guozhong had also held this official position before, in charge of the financial statistics and support of the Tang Dynasty, and at this time, an official immediately greeted him, nodded and led Yang Guozhong to the public office he was most familiar with.

"Whenever the uncle of the country is sent, he sends someone to say that is, he has come in person."

"I'll lead Xue Lang to get acquainted with it......"

Speaking of this, Yang Guozhong turned his head to look at Xue Bai, and said with feeling: "Look at you, you are still a petty official under the seventh grade, let me take you to do these little things." ”

Xue Bai just smiled faintly, and he didn't know what he was laughing at.

When he arrived in front of a public office, a red-robed official greeted him, smiling all over his face, and saluted: "Purple Qi Yingmen, Uncle Guo actually came here in person today." ”

Yang Guozhong was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, and said "optimistic" to Xue Bai, and asked him to take out the edict of the You Yi envoy and ask him to withdraw 500 yuan from the household department.

Du Zhilang did not dare to shirk, and hurriedly sent someone to arrange for it to be transported to Xue Bai's mansion with grain.

Xue Bai frowned.

A while ago, he helped Li Xiu to review the documents in the Right Minister's Mansion, to understand the system of the imperial court's funds, the amount of each government office for a whole year, and at the beginning of the year, the household department will make a budget according to the expenses of previous years and the money and grain on the account, the warehouse and the gold department are responsible for the cashier, the left and right Tibetan offices are responsible for the division of money and grain, and there are also officials responsible for inspection, and occasionally the imperial history is supervised to see if there is any embezzlement.

This is also a rather proud part of Li Linfu's so-called "opening up sources and reducing expenditures."

The officials of the imperial court are doing things, and if they want to withdraw money and food, they don't know how long it will take to approve the official documents. But this amusement makes things work, and it takes only two sentences to put it together.

In addition to this art envoy, Li Longji also did not know how many dispatches were distributed, these envoys spent the state's money and grain, but they escaped from the order of the imperial court, how much expenditure was not planned by the household department, and how much was actually used was not supervised by the imperial history, and directly belonged to the Son of Heaven, and no one could control it......

"Let's go."

Yang Guozhong urged Xue Bai again and took him to the Right Tibetan Office.

The Right Collection Department belongs to the Taifu Temple, which is in charge of the treasury of gold, silver, jewelry, and tribute from the states.

Without waiting for Xue Bai to wonder what to do here, Yang Guozhong had already recruited the agent and asked Xue Bai to take out the edict of the art envoy again and withdraw the money.

"Look again, there are things in the treasury that can be used, as long as they are not too valuable, you can take a few."

Xue Bai asked, "Didn't Fang Cai already withdraw the amount in the household department?" ”

"How?" Yang Guozhong asked disappreciatively: "Can they still compare the accounts?" ”

After saying this, he smiled slightly, and said earnestly: "You remember, you are an art envoy, and you only need to play against the saint in the matter of power, as long as you can present a novel game for the saint." ”

Thinking about it this way, he has dozens of assignments, but I don't know how much money he has saved.

After running these two government offices, Xue Bai probably learned how to run errands, and then went to the general prison, palace prison, and teaching workshop, of course, if you really want to make this congratulatory gift as Yang Guozhong said, the scale must be larger than Xue Bai expected.

In this way, it is impossible to bypass the internal service province.

~~

"General, the new entertainment envoy is asking to see you outside the palace."

"Entertainer?"

On that day, several eunuchs in the Inner Servant Province were pushing dominoes, and when they could hear it, Li Dayi, who was on duty, turned his head and asked, "But Jia Chang?" ”

"It's not a god chicken boy, it's Xue Bai."

"I'll see him right away."

Li Dayi responded like this, but did not get up, but looked back at his cards, hesitated how to play the cards, and one hand wandered above the domino.

Feng Shenwei, who was sitting opposite him, urged, and then said, "Or, I'll go see Xue Bai?" ”

Without waiting for Li Dayi to agree, he had already summoned the eunuch who was accompanying him and ordered: "Let Lieutenant Li think slowly, you will play for me and understand my cards?" ”

"Understood."

Feng Shenwei smiled, secretly thinking that no one in this hall could understand his cards.

He Shi Shiran went out of the palace and saw Xue Bai in the waiting courtyard.

"Congratulations to Xue Lang for getting a good send, it can be said that he lost the east corner and harvested the mulberry elm. General Gao is serving the saint in the palace today, so I have to come to meet Xue Lang. ”

Xue Bai looked at Feng Shenwei's smiling face and thought of Wu Huaishi.

And because Yang Yuhuan also has Feng Shenwei in the name he mentioned, he hopes to have a different result from Feng Shenwei.

"I took the fame test, and I went to the local area to practice, but I didn't expect to return and still be an entertainer." Xue Bai still didn't hide his loss, and shook his hand and said, "It's not worth the general's congratulations." ”

"Xue Lang doesn't have to be too persistent, the official of the imperial decree is also an official, and the lack of the charter of the three provinces and six ministries is not necessarily a bad thing." Feng Shenwei smiled and said, "I don't know if Xue Lang is here today?" ”

"I plan to present a new game for the saint on the birthday of the concubine, called Escape Room, which was originally just a small fight, but now that I have received this errand, I am thinking about transforming a house in the palace."

"Understood." Feng Shenwei immediately bowed his head and said, "This matter must be fine, but let me report to General Gao and let the saint know." ”

"So, thank you General Feng."

The two discussed the matter, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

After Xue Bai said goodbye, Feng Shenwei went to report the matter to Gao Lishi.

To his surprise, when Gao Lishi heard about it, he did not immediately agree, but very cautiously summoned the people of the Inner Servant Province and ordered them to keep an eye on this matter and not to go out of business.

All in all, the safety of the saint is the most important thing.

Although this reaction was also normal, Feng Shenwei originally had some other guesses in his heart, but at this time, he was puzzled, and secretly guessed in his heart what Gao Lishi thought of Xue Bai.

……

That night, when Li Longji heard about this, he beckoned Feng Shenwei and asked, "What do you think of Xue Bai?" ”

"The slave maid thinks that Xue Bai is very popular, and recently Wang Zhongji has interceded for him, and King Jianning also wants to make friends with him, and the strange thing is that General Gao sent people to watch his every move."

"Really?"

Feng Shenwei hurriedly said: "The slave doesn't dare to hide anything. ”

Hearing this, Li Longji suddenly asked, "Do you know what Wu Huai told Xue Bai?" ”

"Slave maid...... Know. ”

"How do you know?"

"General Gao asked me to investigate the matter of King Shou, and King Shou once talked about it."

Li Longji asked, "Do you believe it?" ”

"The slave doesn't believe it." Feng Shenwei said: "If this matter is true, unless General Gao lied, the slave and maid did not believe it." ”

"On Taizhen's birthday, you kept an eye on me. Let me see if Xue Baixian's game is interesting. ”

"Yes."

After Feng Shenwei retreated, Li Longji successively summoned several chamberlains and guards to make similar orders.

He allowed Xue Bai to play games for him, and at the same time sent someone to keep an eye on him. To put it bluntly, I still believe in the loyalty of Colliers, but there are some doubts that remain unsolved......

~~

Two days later, Xue Bai, the entertainer, had already recruited manpower to renovate a row of rooms on the west side of the Taiye Pool in Daming Palace.

It's very close to the concubine's birthday, and their time is very rushed, but fortunately, many puzzles and props Xue Bai has been prepared in advance, and now it is nothing more than the creation of an atmosphere.

To the north of this row of houses is the Cao Canal dug by Wei Jian, which can directly transport the treasures of the south of the Yangtze River into the palace, and in the southwest direction, there is a warehouse in the palace with the right storehouse, which is specially used to store treasures.

On May 26, Xue Bai was teaching a group of servants how to play a good role, when he suddenly heard a commotion in the distance.

"It's coming! The ship is coming! ”

Everyone turned their heads to look, only to see that the ships were sailing along the canal to the Taiye Pool, and the cabin was obviously very deep.

There was a eunuch in a purple robe who was leading people to greet him, and Xue Bai saw that the figure of the purple-robed eunuch was not like Gao Lishi, it should be Yuan Siyi.

At that time, Wang Weld rebelled, Xue Bai had heard An Lushan's secret pile left in the capital mention a "General Yuan", he guessed that it might be Yuan Siyi, but how could the provincial eunuch be bought so easily and exposed so easily?

This matter is more like the news deliberately revealed by An Lushan's people, so as to force Yuan Siyi to oppose him?

On the Taiye Pool, those ships slowly approached the shore, and the eunuchs in the palace began to count the treasures with gift lists.

Gradually, many people on Xue Bai's side began to wander and muttered quietly.

"It's a gift from Fan Yang's envoy."

"Who doesn't say a word of loyalty after watching this battle......"

Everyone originally thought that if they were stained with Xue Bai's light this time, if they made the saints and concubines happy, they would have to be rewarded. At this time, when I saw that I had been compared to others, some people would inevitably be discouraged.

Xue Bai then encouraged them a few words.

"An Lushan gave gifts well, which not only made the saint happy, but the saint also had treasures to reward me at that time, so why don't you hurry up and work?"

Saying this, the morale was really boosted.

On the other hand, the closer we get to the first day of June, this year's lychees have not yet been delivered, and there is a sense of urgency in Chang'an City.

……

In the early morning of May 28, Xue Bai rode a horse and left home to go to Daming Palace, but was stopped by Li Linfu and taken to the right minister's mansion.

I haven't seen him for some days, Li Linfu's face is much uglier, and the rigidity in his eyes has disappeared a lot.

This time, there was no Li Xiu and Li Tengkong present, only an old man and a young man talking secretly in the Yanyue Hall alone.

"I didn't expect you to be safe and sound."

"I didn't expect that either." Xue Bai said: "This matter is unreasonable, maybe I have God's blessing." ”

Li Linfu was silent for a moment, ignoring this sentence.

Although he had hysteria, he hadn't forgotten a conversation with Xue Bai before, but it was hard to mention.

"Zhang Yan has been a lot more honest lately, but it has something to do with you?"

"Princess Ning called me his illegitimate son."

Li Linfu was speechless again, he seemed to be a lot late, and said: "I recruited you today, because the sage gave Taiwan an edict, it is on the table, you can take a look." ”

Xue Bai had already noticed the scroll on the table, and knew that this was definitely not a good thing, if things were easy to deal with, Li Linfu would definitely not look for him to give Li Xiu advice.

He slowly unfolded the scroll.

At the beginning, it is "those who send weight are noble, and those who honor are generous", which is obviously to give people a reward, and the specifications are very high. Li Longji gave him the title of art envoy, and he only had the word "imperial decree".

Behind is a series of official positions, which makes people annoyed.

"Kaifu Yi with the three divisions, and the general of Zuo Yulin, the staff is placed outside the same as the main member, the imperial history doctor, the governor of Fanyang Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, the Taishou of Liucheng County, the festival Fanyang Jiedu, Jingluo, Duzhi, Yingtian, land transport, Zhuliangfan, Bohai, Heishui four prefectures to dispose of and Pinglu Army, Hebei transfer and Yingtian interview envoy, Shangzhu State, Liucheng County Founding Prince."

After the official position, followed by a name, An Lushan.

Behind is a lot of praise for An Lushan's words, such as "the prestige vibrates in the desert, and the defense is better than the Great Wall", praising its victory in battle and conquering it. Tuyu Si Kai, it is advisable to practice Han Peng's rank", closed his eyes, and smoothed his heart.

In short, An Lushan has expanded its territory, and its merits have surpassed Wei Qing, Huo Yunzhi, Han Xin, and Peng Yue.

Therefore, Li Longji gave a reward, "You can be crowned the king of Dongping County, and you can still give 200 households to be sealed, and the first 500 households will be sealed, and the rest will be the same." ”

Xue Bai looked at it over and over again, and carefully recalled the war in the past two years, and really didn't know what kind of big victory An Lushan fought this time, so he asked: "Is the Khitan destroyed?" ”

Li Linfu shook his head.

"Ridiculed?"

Li Linfu didn't bother to pay attention to these boring questions and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Xue Bai threw the scroll away, clapped his palms, and said, "I guess An Lushan wiped out Tubo, or Nanzhao." Wang Zhonghe's battle can be stopped. ”

Li Linfu sighed, but what he sighed was nothing else, but a deep disappointment in Xue Bai.

He should have regretted giving up An Lushan in order to get Xue Bai's support.

One was appointed as a tour artist, and the other was crowned the king of Dongping County; One has passed the top exam but can only turn around in the position of a minister, and the other is strong in the north...... There is a world of difference.

"An Qingzong is about to marry the county lord, and An Lushan is also preparing to send troops to destroy the Khitan." Li Linfu finally spoke: "I want to ask you, what is the strength of King Qing?" ”

Being able to ask this kind of question shows that he is still very jealous.

On the contrary, Xue Bai, although he sneered twice, he was actually calm and calm, and asked rhetorically: "Don't you remember that there are still Wang Zhongsi and Ge Shuhan in the world?" ”

No matter how capable Li Linfu is, he is essentially a courtier who follows the emperor in everything. Xue Bai never expected this kind of ally to be firm in the face of setbacks, so he didn't bother to say more and went out of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion.

~~

On the way to Daming Palace, Xue Bai thought a lot, and the words "King of Dongping County" brought him a strong sense of urgency.

In the past few years, he can already be said to be very smooth, he is young, his official position is not small, and the forces in the secret have faintly taken shape. It's just that compared to An Lushan, the gap is indeed too big.

Xue Bai actually didn't mind the official rank as much as he said, he knew that on Yang Yuhuan's birthday this time, as long as the congratulatory gift was good, he could open his mouth to ask Li Longji for an official.

What kind of official are you asking for?

In the past, I always hoped that the official would be able to control the government or make a festival envoy, which was the most powerful and rapidly growing in strength, but if it was too slow, then it was time to make up for the shortcomings as soon as possible.

The shortcomings are also obvious, military power.

There is no clear distinction between the civil and military official positions in the Tang Dynasty, and there are opportunities to make meritorious contributions to Longyou or Nanzhao.

But with his current qualifications, he can't control much military power when he goes to the army, but it only adds to the danger. In addition, jumping out of the most convenient way to promotion, once you encounter a setback, you may never be able to move again......

was thinking about these all the way, and when passing through Yongxingfang, Xue Bai happened to meet Li Qi again.

"Xue Lang."

"King Jianning."

Xue Bai looked at it, and saw Li Qi riding a horse from the west gate, wearing a military robe and carrying a bow and arrows, he should be preparing to go out of the city to hunt, looking heroic.

Come to think of it, if you can't stop An Lushan's rebellion and the world is in chaos, an emperor like Li Qi should have the opportunity to lead the army to power.

Xue Bai had to admit that he was a little envious.

At this moment, he thought that if he pretended to be the emperor's grandson first, he might be able to get a similar opportunity at that time. For example, in this congratulatory gift, while Li Longji was happy, he accidentally exposed his life experience and saved his life under the intercession of Gao Lishi. After all, Wu Huaishi's tricky behavior didn't kill him, maybe he could find someone else to sue, such as Feng Shenwei.

This is another way, a shortcut, with huge risks and huge benefits...... was frightened by An Lushan's knighthood and disrupted the rhythm, so it was possible to do it recklessly.

Xue Bai shook his head, if this was the case, it meant that he was panicked.

At this time, Li Qice immediately stepped forward and said, "We are preparing to go out of the city to hunt, hunt a good fur, and congratulate the concubine on her birthday, Xue Lang wants to go together." ”

"If I neglect to ride and shoot, I won't be ugly in front of King Jianning." Xue Bai politely refused.

Li Qi was different from his brother Li Li, seeing that Xue Bai refused, he didn't force it, straddled the horse and hugged his fists to say goodbye, and left with his companions.

Xue Bai turned his head and could still faintly hear their conversation.

"It's a pity that I'm still detained, if only I could get farther away from Chang'an."

"The family order is worried about the safety of King Jianning."

Li Qi looked at the sky outside Chang'an City and said, "Men should have more experience......

Xue Bai looked at Li Qi's vigorous back for a while, retracted his gaze, and continued to gallop towards Daming Palace.

The magnificent palace city appeared in front of him again, he took out the edict of the art envoy, and under the guidance of the palace people's nodding and bowing, he walked through the long corridor, only to see that the treasures were still being counted by the Taiye Pool.

"The entertainer is here, listen to the soundtrack."

Soon, the sound of glamour sounded.

Xue Bai listened to the soundtrack, thinking about his frustrations in the imperial history, the authority in the role of the entertainment envoy, and also thought of the edict of the king of Dongping County, and the vitality of the king of Jianning County.

He asked himself in his heart, how can he keep this prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty?

~~

This day passed quickly, and there was only one last day left before Yang Yuhuan's birthday.

Fortunately, when Xue Bai left Daming Palace, he suddenly heard the sound of rapid horses' hooves from the other side of the long street.

He looked back and saw the valiant and tired knight running towards Miyagi.

Cheers rang out above Miyagi.

"Finally caught up!"

"The lychee has arrived, it is the lychee that has arrived......"

(End of chapter)