"Boom!"

"No!"

An Lushan woke up suddenly, his eyes widened, but his vision was blurred.

The hazy light of the fire came closer, and he saw that it was Li Zhu'er holding an oil lamp and stepped forward.

"Sage, what's wrong?"

"Shhhh

An Lushan listened attentively, and sure enough, he heard a "booming" explosion.

He hurriedly got off the bed to leave, his festering foot stepped on the ground, and a sharp pain came. He then slapped Li Zhu'er hard and scolded: "You still don't help me?!" ”

"Yes, yes."

Li Zhu'er hurriedly put down the oil lamp, beckoned two attendants, and tried to carry the bulky body of more than 300 catties to the palace gate. Because he has been carrying An Lushan like this all year round, his lumbar spine is very bad, it was only painful at first, and now it is accompanied by a strong stabbing pain. This kind of torture of back pain made him unable to sleep well all night, coupled with the fact that he was on duty to keep vigil for An Lushan, and he couldn't sleep well all year round, which made him extremely mentally exhausted, but at the age of twenty, he looked like he was already in his forties.

He didn't tell An Lushan about this matter before, which was unlucky.

In the middle of the night, Yan Zhuang had already fallen asleep, and his face was very haggard. Tian Qian really deserves to be a young man, although he was seriously injured, his eyes were still shining, like a dog that was ready to hold a mouse for his master at any time.

"Still there?"

"It was the first year of Zhengsheng, the sixteenth day of the first month, Xue Huaiyi, the face of the empress, because of the failure to compete for favor on the night of the first yuan, he was resentful and set fire to heaven. Heaven collapsed and smashed on top of the Ming Hall, and the fire spread. It is rumored that the fire burned until dawn, burning the divine capital of Luoyang as if it were day, and Heaven and Mingtang were reduced to ashes together. ”

"yes." Yan Zhuang sighed, "Compared with the combat strength of officers and soldiers, what is more dangerous at the moment is our military heart." Don't dare to hide from the saints, now it is indeed the fluctuation of people's hearts. ”

The lights in the hall were dim, and the strange thing was that An Lushan did not get angry because of this, but just walked forward. After walking a few steps, Li Zhu'er reacted, it turned out that An Lushan's eyes were about to break.

"Don't! Don't kill me......"

Tian Qianzhen said: "Zhu Xicai is in Xue Bai's army, and there may not be a next Zhu Xicai in Luoyang City." Even, before the saint entered Luoyang, it was hard to guarantee that he did not install people in advance. ”

"What does that mean?" Yan Zhuang said, "I don't believe that Xue Bai can break into Luoyang City and destroy the Ming Hall. ”

Blood flowed all over his body, wet, and then, as if he heard Yang Yan muttering to himself, he put his ear to Yang Yan's mouth in a pool of blood.

Yan Zhuang didn't know what to say, and said in his heart, you Zoroastrians are shouting all day long to burn the sins of the world with the holy flame of light, so why should you be afraid of a shaft?

Tian Qianzhen didn't speak, listened to these conversations, glanced back, and said, "This dream of the saint may be an omen." ”

"The minister must supervise and stabilize the morale of the army."

The two hurriedly entered the palace, and after seeing each other, Yan Zhuang saw that An Lushan's face was full of sweat, and asked, "Sage, but something happened?" ”

An Lushan's eyes were not focused, but his murderous aura did not decrease, and he shouted: "I will let you kill all the people in Luoyang City who may surrender to Xue Bai!" Kill, kill, kill! ”

After that, he lifted Yang Yan's body and covered himself. It was heavy, but it made him feel relieved, thinking that this way the rebels would not cut him.

The "boom" sound was still coming, and when he finally arrived at the door, An Lushan raised his head and looked out.

"This ......"

An Lushan listened, and then realized that the two high halls in the palace were too high, and if any of them collapsed, they might hit him, and he couldn't help but be shocked.

"The righteous storage of grain is taken from the people and used for disaster relief, and as for the Hanjia storage, it is the country's war preparedness, how dare you scavenge it for the sake of one person's heart?"

Yan Zhuang asked, "I don't know how it blew up?" ”

"Xue Huaiyi? Gigolo? Xue Baimo can't be the reincarnation of this person, and he wants to burn the Ming Hall again, right? ”

Yan Zhuang wanted to persuade a sentence or two, but after thinking about it, a person's feet are rotten, his back is rotten, and his eyes are beginning to rot, and he is suffering from such a disease, but he can still support his perseverance and determination not to go completely crazy, and then persuade him to be calm, how is it possible?

"From outside the city?" An Lushan repeated it again, and finally recovered from the panic, and said, "Go and call Yan Zhuang and Ah Hao." ”

The Tang army attacked night and night, trying to blow open the city gate with explosives, although it was unsuccessful several times, but the deterrence brought to the rebels in Luoyang City was great, and the rebels were panicked at the moment, and Li Zhu'er was actually very scared in his heart, and he didn't dare to show it in front of An Lushan.

"No, Xue Bai is good at using explosives, although his momentum is big." Yan Zhuang responded, glanced at Tian Qianzhen's severed hand, and continued: "However, if you want to use explosives, you always need to ignite the lead rope, and the action is cumbersome and easy to guard against. Moreover, we have strengthened the gates, and he will not be able to enter. ”

An Lushan first asked: "This movement outside the city, Xue Bai won't kill in, right?" ”

An Lushan rubbed his eyes, and finally saw the two high halls standing under the starry sky, he couldn't help but wonder, and muttered, "Where did the thunder come from." ”

As if he had heard a ghost story, An Lushan shrank his head, and his already short neck could not be seen, and exclaimed: "He is really like this?" ”

"Kill!"

~~

It was night, and Da Xixun was also in a nightmare.

He accidentally fell asleep and returned to the day when he worshiped An Lushan in Qianyuanmen. Human life is not even as good as the pigs and sheep in the slaughterhouse, he fled, stepped on the intestines of Yang Yan, the waiter of the household department in Liutai, and slipped and fell to the ground.

Li Zhu'er listened to the meeting and responded: "Sage, that voice is so far away, it should be from outside the city." ”

"It's not a urging, I must kill, kill those who have the intention of harming me." An Lushan gritted his teeth and emphasized.

An Lushan suddenly became angry and said, "That's a dream!" You ask me how it blew up, can I know? He just blew up as soon as he raised his hand, how are you doing?! ”

Yan Zhuang was taught a lesson, lowered his head and thought about it, and said, "Mingtang was indeed destroyed once. ”

"Sage, Mingtang is still there." Li Zhu'er looked at it and saw that although there was no one in Heaven and Mingtang, the lights were still burning, and it was beautiful.

"He can't." Tian Qianzhen gently touched his face with his only remaining hand, and said slowly with a painful lesson: "But what if he rebelled against the generals in the city?" ”

"I had a dream." An Lushan was still a little shocked when he mentioned this, and muttered: "I dreamed that on the day I ascended the throne, Xue Bai suddenly came and blew up the entire Ming Hall. ”

"Yes!" Tian Qianzhen immediately responded.

"Is Mingtang ruined?"

"Whoa!"

Hearing this, Da Xixun suddenly remembered.

That year, Wei Jian transferred 100 large ships from Luoyang in order to seek a phase; In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of opening up sources and reducing expenditure, Li Linfu transferred another 200 ships; Wang said that the money and grain he gave to the saints did not come from taxes; After that, there were the three Yang Shenjin brothers...... Also, there is also Tada Xi Xun, in order to offer relics to his mother, he supported 20,000 yuan from Henan Mansion in the name of running a grange in Shaanxi County for the saint.

In the same year, when the flood in Henan was struck, Yicang was already unable to get food, and they worked together to suppress the matter. Xu Zheng, the champion of the Guiyou Branch and the superintendent of the imperial history, exposed the matter, and they used the Du Youlin case to demote Xu Zheng to Jinjiang County, Quanzhou, and after that, it was he who arranged for personnel to go to Jinjiang County to kill Xu Zheng and throw his body into the sea.

Du Youlin case, Du Youlin is not dead, and the people who dare to speak out in the court, they killed thirty-seven.

In the pool of blood, the waiter of the Tobe who stayed in Taiwan was still chattering.

"You have ruined the foundation of the society for your own selfishness, and you have been able to hide it from the saints, and you will also have the attention of heaven, and what you do will be punished by heaven!"

Da Xixun thought to himself, can he hide it from the saint?

No, the saints know.

It's all looted for the saints, how can the saints not know? The holy decree of Xu Zheng was issued by the saint himself.

Damnation? I didn't see it anyway.

Thinking like this in his heart, Da Xixun suddenly saw a rebel with a hideous face like a ghost rushing over, and slashed at him with a knife......

"No!"

He woke up and sat up on the couch, only to find that he was soaked in sweat. It was a dream, because the squire of the Tobu who stayed in Taiwan was not Yang Yan at all, and Yang Yan was an official who died because he was unwilling to cooperate with them.

The night was still very long, and Da Xixun didn't dare to fall asleep again, for fear that he would accidentally return to that hell, so he got up and boiled tea alone, tasting the bitterness.

At this point, it is a pity that the countless treasures looted in the past have completely lost their usefulness.

Suddenly.

There was movement in the front yard, no one was clear, and a group of people had broken into the courtyard.

Although he knew that there would be this day, Da Xixun still shook his hand, and the tea was splashed all over his crotch.

Yan Zhuang entered, looked around, and instructed the entourage behind him: "You go and search." ”

"Whoa."

"Da Xi Gong is good Yaxing, sleepless in the middle of the night, still tasting tea." Yan Zhuang sat down opposite Da Xixun and said, "I still remember the six years of Tianbao, I am just a child, you are already the chief official of the ministry, and now I am qualified to sit opposite you?" ”

"Yan Xiang, I don't know what to do when you come late at night?"

"I suspect you are colluding with Xue Bai."

Da Xixun shook his head and said, "Not really." ”

Yan Zhuang said: "It seems that if you don't need to be punished, you won't be able to recruit anything?" ”

Da Xixun was frightened and muttered: "I am a minister, and you will be unpopular if you treat your ministers like this." ”

"Do you still care about this?"

Yan Zhuang took a bite of the teacup, and his mouth was full of tea foam, which made him look a little bitter. He didn't speak again for a long time, waiting for the results of the search.

The court has been very quiet, Da Xixun saw that everyone couldn't find anything, and felt a little relieved, thinking that he was going to be fine.

However, suddenly, someone came over with a package with soil and said, "Yan Xiang, dug this out." ”

"Digging?" Da Xixun was shocked and said hurriedly: "How can you ...... Wow! ”

Yan Zhuang casually poured the hot tea in the teacup on Da Xixun's face, took the package, and opened it. I saw that there was some gold and silver in it, a large stack of flying money, a small package of wound medicine, and a few letters.

I opened those envelopes and looked at them one by one, and most of them were important ministers of the court who replied to Da Xixun. Among them, there is a letter from home, with beautiful handwriting, telling some things about Chang'an, saying that he sent someone to bring a gift to Grandpa, which should have been written by his daughter. In addition, there is also Fengda Xi Xun's handwriting, presumably because he didn't have time to send it out when the city fell, but it was a flattery to Yang Guozhong.

Suddenly, a drawing fell out of it, and when I picked it up, it was a detailed map of the very old Ziwei Palace, clearly marked the patrol route of the guards, and even the path between the walls and the palace people. Yan Zhuang looked at it, opened the wound medicine bottles again, smelled them carefully, and poured out the contents of several of the porcelain bottles, some of them were pills, but one bottle was filled with water, but the smell of wine was extremely strong. It was the wine used by Xue Bai's generals to pour wounds, and he had seen it outside Shiling Pass. I opened one of the packets of medicinal herbs again, the smell was pungent, and I licked it, and sure enough, it was gunpowder.

"Take it."

"Yan Xiang? I was wronged! These are just for self-defense. ”

Yan Zhuang didn't answer with a cold face, and said to his corporal: "Remember what he said now, and wait for the heavy punishment to see what he says." ”

……

"I'll recruit you."

Half an hour later, Da Xixun sat on the torture instrument of the "Donkey Pony Pulling", tears flowed, and muttered: "Before Luoyang City was broken, I did see Yan Chunqing in Yanshi County. ”

"Yan Chunqing? What is the relationship between this person and Yan Zhenqing and Yan Gaoqing? ”

Now, Yan Zhenqing is the marching Sima under Ge Shuhan, blocking the main force of the rebels at Tongguan. Yan Gaoqing led the army to sit in Yongqiu to prevent the rebels from plundering Jianghuai. Both brothers were great enemies of the rebels. Therefore, as soon as Yan Zhuang heard this name, he immediately became vigilant.

"He and the two are brothers in the clan."

Yan Zhuang said: "Then it is also Xue Bai's in-laws, Ren Yanshi County...... What did he say to you? ”

"I didn't talk to him, really." Da Xixun said: "I just saw him lead hundreds of people from Xiangyong to Luoyang to support, and he has been by Gao Xianzhi's side for two days. By the way, they also brought dozens of cartloads of baggage. ”

"Hundreds of people support Luoyang and still bring baggage? What could it be? Yan said solemnly.

Da Xixun panicked: "Presumably, it must be gunpowder." Oh, I bought those items from Yan Chunqing's subordinates for self-defense. ”

"What about dozens of truckloads of gunpowder?"

"I don't know. Yan Xiang, you believe me, I know everything. ”

Now, Yan Zhuang couldn't trust Da Xixun anymore, and said coldly: "You must have colluded with Xue Bai, who asked you to take out the map of Miyagi?" ”

"No, no collusion. The map had been in my public house before, and I didn't intend to put it in when I was packing it up. ”

Yan Zhuang then let people be tortured again.

The terrible screams filled the cell, Da Xixun couldn't bear the punishment, so he had to confess, his voice was weak and intermittent, but in order not to be punished, he still tried his best to say more.

"In the early years, I adopted a righteous daughter, named Da Xi Yingying, who was originally enshrined in Li Xuan, the king of Shou, but somehow, this woman hooked up with Xue Bai."

"In this way, you are barely the same as Yan Zhenqing and Yan Gaoqing, and you can be regarded as Xue Bai's father-in-law?"

"Nope." Da Xixun was so shocked that he shook his hand again and again, "No, no, no, after Da Xiyingying took refuge in Xue Bai, she broke off with me and became enemies." My son Da Xifu was killed by Xue Bai......"

"Not yet."

"Zhao, after I was demoted, no one was willing to lend a hand. Da Xi Yingying sent someone to find me and arranged for me to go back to Luoyang for the elderly, saying that it was to repay my kindness for raising me back then. ”

Yan Zhuang said: "She asked you to do things for Xue Bai?" ”

"No, it's just for me to build momentum for King Qing Li Cong. In the past year, although the court has been controlled by Yang Guozhong, secretly, Xue Bai has used the name of Li Cong's prince to use money and newspapers as tentacles to win over many state and county officials and border town generals, and I have always been doing these things when I was ordered......"

Da Xixun was hesitant, and he was willing to confess honestly at this time, it turned out that he really took refuge in King Qing's family. As for the revenge of killing his son that he repeatedly promoted, in fact, Xue Bai only deceived Da Xifu, who died because he was involved in the Lishan assassination case, and in the officialdom, in front of real interests, he would not care about the petty grievances in the past.

When he found out that Da Xixun was Xue Bai's person, Yan Zhuang was a little surprised, and when he thought of the influence of the money village and the newspaper, he already felt a little terrible.

"Say! Who else is in Luoyang City who is from the Xue Bai family? ”

"Stay in Taiwan, Lu Yi in the imperial history." Da Xixun said: "Da Xi Yingying relied on his relationship to transfer me back to Luoyang. ”

Yan Zhuang recalled that when he attacked Luoyang, Lu Yi had already been killed because he was unwilling to surrender and scolded An Lushan.

"Lu Yi's official position is not low, why was he co-opted by you?"

"For the sake of long-term consideration, I respect the crown prince. Moreover, Lu Yi agreed with Xue Bai's strategy of dedicating himself to the crown prince. ”

"Huh." Yan Zhuang sneered.

He used to only care about rebellion, but he never thought about how to govern the country after success, and recently he has been thinking about how to sweep away the Tang Dynasty. Of course, this is by no means easy, and with An Lushan's current situation, he can't take care of it at all.

"What can he do?"

"To put it simply, re-examine the acres of land, simplify the tax system, abolish miscellaneous taxes, tax the number of acres of land and property, collect money instead of levying goods, and in addition, introduce commercial taxes, increase the number of places in the imperial examination, and reduce the number of shades...... Its content is cumbersome, with nine volumes and hundreds of thousands of words, packed in a large wooden box, which cannot be described in a word. ”

"Where's the crate?"

"In the hands of Lu Yi, or in his house, or in Luoyang Yushitai."

Yan Zhuang turned his head and shouted, "Go find it!" ”

This time he thought of the situation when he met Xue Bai back then, that is, in the wine shop outside the Guozi Prison, Xue Bai and several contemporary Hongru were very quiet.

Although he didn't admit it, he knew in his heart that Xue Bai was more capable than himself, and he was indeed willing to see the national policy proposed by such a person. It's a pity that An Lushan slaughtered thousands of officials in Luoyang, and it may be difficult for the Great Yan Dynasty to change in a short period of time.

"Continue to recruit, among the Luoyang elders you introduced to the saint, is there a Xue Bai dark line?"

"Nope."

"Do you want to continue to be tortured?"

"I said, I'll be honest." Da Xixun said: "They don't trust me, I really don't know if there are any of them in Luoyang City...... Maybe, but I'm also being used. ”

Yan Zhuang still let people torture him to help him think of something again.

"Yan Xiang! Believe me, there is an internal response in the city, and the principal must not be me, they can't believe me, this is really the truth! ”

This severe punishment did not make Da Xixun confide in more things, until he was dying, and he didn't come up with any new content to confess, and in the end, his lips trembled, and he muttered two words in a low voice.

"Damnation."

"What?"

"We have destroyed the foundation of the society, and it will also destroy us."

Da Xixun recalled the dream he had tonight, and only then did he realize that today's evil consequences had been planted back then. The persecuted officials' scolding was ridiculous at the time, but now it has finally come true.

The saints can't escape, because the saints are the culprits......

Over there, Yan Zhuang got out of the torture room, didn't think much about it, and directly pointed out the next target he wanted to arrest.

"Let's go, go find Li Yaozhou."

~~

Northwest of Luoyang City, Xuanhui Gate.

Because the palace in Luoyang is not in the middle, it is in the northwest corner, so as long as you break through this gate, you can enter the Ziwei Palace.

Tonight, Xue Bai suddenly attacked Xuanhui Gate and blew open the city gate with explosives, which frightened the rebel generals into panic.

Fortunately, there was still a city inside the city gate, and there was a city gate inside the city, and the rebels had a large number of troops and a heavy garrison, so they could not let the Tang army rush in.

Since the war, An Shouzhong did not dare to sleep at night, and tonight he was playing dominoes with the lamp, and when he heard the movement, he rushed over all night, and ordered the guards to block the city gate at all costs.

"General, Xue Bai handed you a letter."

In the chaos, a general quietly stuffed an arrow letter into An Shouzhong's hand, and when he opened it, his face suddenly sank.

This time, Xue Bai's tone was much harsher than last time, and his tone was threatening, saying that there was not much opportunity left for An Shouzhong to abandon the secret and surrender to the light, if Luoyang City was captured by Wang Shi, An Shouzhong would be beheaded for the crime of rebellion.

"Plug the skin!"

An Shouzhong scolded angrily at first, but he thought that Xue Bai had already broken the door tonight. If the door is broken again next time, and the rebels' forces can't just block it, then Luoyang will really not be able to hold it.

As a result, he couldn't help but feel a little bottomless in his heart.

……

As the night deepened, several rows of rockets shot down from the gates to the outside of the city, flashing in the air and quickly extinguishing after being fired into the snow.

A Tang sergeant came to this side, quickly collected the arrows on the ground, and hurried back to the camp.

Not long after, Jiang Hai quickly rushed into Xue Bai's tent.

Xue Bai was sitting behind the desk in a daze at a map. Jiang Hai accidentally glanced at it, and saw that the map was drawn horizontally and vertically, and the larger words were "Yuanbi City", "Xuanwu City", "Zuozang Palace" and "Ouchi", which seemed to be a map of Miyagi.

"Lang Jun, there's a letter."

"Give it to me." Xue Bai casually stretched out his hand to take the letter and asked, "Just shot down from the city?" ”

"Yes."

Xue Bai opened it and saw that it was written by An Shouzhong, and the content was very simple, only the words "Hui'anmen of the third watch tomorrow night".

Handing the letter to Jiang Hai to look at, Xue Bai asked, "What do you think?" ”

"Only then did the last general understand that the purpose of Lang Jun's sneak attack tonight was not to break the city, but to it." Jiang Hai pointed to the map on the table and said, "But even I don't know, who gave it to Lang Jun, and if there are any other letters." ”

"Go on."

"As for An Shouzhong's letter." Jiang Hai pondered and said, "It's true that when he can't bear it, I don't believe that An Shou is loyal and has the courage to harm Lang Jun." Moreover, at present, Tanma has not yet found the rebels in Shaanxi County to help. ”

"What if the letter wasn't written by An Shouzhong?"

"How?"

Xue Bai groaned, his face flushed with some worry, and said, "I suspect that An Lushan no longer believes in An Shouzhong. ”

"That'...... Is this a bureau? ”

"After entering Hui'an Gate, it is neither a palace city nor an imperial city, but Hanjiacang City, if Hanjiacang has no grain, it is the best ambush place. If An Shouzhong had truly helped me, would he have chosen this place? ”

Jiang Hai's eyes rolled, he thought about it, and asked in a low voice, "Then can we plan it?" Give the dummy? ”

"Hmm."

Let An Shouzhong be suspected, even if Xue Bai's discord plan has succeeded again, with the current situation of the rebels, the discord can be described as a hundred trials.

But on the other hand, An Lushan is so suspicious, I am afraid that the internal response in the city is also very dangerous now, and Xue Bai must also find a way to save it......

(End of chapter)