The old emperor, who had forgotten the rebel butcher's knife, admired the song of neon clothes and feathers, and reminisced about the journey in the Moon Palace, which was very comfortable.

The hundred officials in the court have no adventures in the middle of the month, let alone the protection of the immortals, Chang'an City, Kyoto, seeing that hundreds of thousands of rebels are about to come in, but the emperor is not in a hurry at all, he is still drinking wine in the main hall to enjoy singing and dancing and listening to stories, reminiscing about the wonderful scene of the night tour of the Moon Palace with Ye Fashan, a good picture of Mount Tai will collapse and the face will not change the bearing, it is really worthy of His Majesty Shengming, but please Your Majesty Shengming, wake up first, what can you do with that mess outside!

On the other hand, on the side of Luoyang, the eastern capital, An Lushan, the new emperor of Dayan, is the opposite.

It stands to reason that at this moment, An Lushan has hundreds of thousands of tigers and wolves, after a few months of butcher knives, nearly half of the counties in the Tang Dynasty territory have been controlled by him, and the tent is even more capable of gathering fierce generals, and the god capital of the empress period has also changed his surname to An at this moment, and the next step can be waved down, break through Tongguan, step on Chang'an, and change the entire Tang Empire to his home in one fell swoop.

But at this juncture when the rebels planned to break through the natural danger of Tongguan, and the location, people and people were all good, someone reminded him that they had forgotten a very critical point, that is, the time of day!

The time, the place, the people. Indispensable.

Especially after entering Luoyang, the capital of the gods, and controlling a number of people left behind during the reign of the empress at that time, An Lushan gradually came into contact with a little bit of the skin of heaven. The truth is what it is, the more you know, the less you know!

In fact, An Lushan is also a legendary, his mother Ashid is a Turkic witch, it is said that Ashid has been married for many years and is infertile, and then often goes to Zha Ju Mountain to pray, hoping that the true god will appear to give a son and a half daughter, but I didn't expect her actions to really have an effect, and she really conceived a child smoothly and gave birth to a male baby, which was later An Lushan. In order to commemorate the experience of Zha Shan Mountain, his mother gave An Lushan the nickname of Zha Shan Mountain, which is known as the God of War among the Turkic tribes. What's even more amazing is that it is rumored that on the night of An Lushan's birth, a red light suddenly appeared in the sky, and the birds and beasts all over the mountain chirped together, and a meteor also fell near the tent where An Lushan was born.

The blood light shines on the vault, the birds and beasts are all screaming, and the demon star is punished by the sky, all of which are great signs, so the people at that time thought that An Lushan was an ominous person, and it must be a catastrophe star that will bring disaster to the country and the people in the future. At that time, when the envoy of Fan Yang Jiedu saw such a bad omen in his fiefdom, he sent men and horses to search the entire tribe, and soon an army broke into An Lushan's birthplace, questioned everyone and wanted to kill him. As a result, An Lushan's mother is by nature, where can he care about what auspicious or fierce, in his heart, this baby is her life, and she must ensure that her baby lives. She saw that the signs were wrong, and before the officers and soldiers arrived, she took the child into the mountains and hid. Zhang Ren was willing to send soldiers to search the tent for half a day without results, so he had to set up a garrison to monitor at all times, but he didn't expect Ashid to be the mother and the strong, and he was just boiling the lives of the mother and son in the bitter cold mountains. In this way, An Lushan's mother and son gave birth secretly for a few months, and Zhang Renyuan himself slowly forgot about it, so that the mother and son were able to secretly return to the tribe. After An Lushan grew up slowly, the people of their tribe all believed in Zoroastrianism, and when he became an adult, his cunning nature began to be revealed, and after learning the vision of his birth, he used the topic to play, and turned a wild seed born of adultery into a "child of light" sent by the gods to the Sogdians, and even mixed it with the sacrifice of Zoroastrianism, and slowly cultivated a group of followers.

As for his cheap father, he was a Sogdian, surnamed Kang, who married a witch and couldn't give birth to a child for many years, and later got the blessing of the god of Zha Zang to give birth to a descendant, but he didn't know until he died, it was actually a wild man on Zha Shan who helped him, whether it was a person or a demon surname, who only the witch herself knew! The sad man soon died, and the witch took the child to marry An Yanyan, the brother of General Hu's An Bozhu, and since then the little baby surnamed Kang named Zha Jushan has changed his surname. In the early years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the Anyan tribe was broken by the opponent, and the general Hu An Dao bought the male filial piety festival, and An Bozhu's sons An Sishun and An Wenzhen, all fled from the Turks, and An Dao bought the second male chastity festival for Lanzhou to collect it. The baby who had been renamed An Lushan from Kang Lushan was almost ten years old that year, and chastity and his brother's filial piety came together, so he became brothers with An Lushan and An Sishun.

An Lushan has been proud of his witch mother since he was a child, the surname Ashid is second only to the Khan family in the Turkic Khanate, and the status of the nine surnamed Hu people is much higher than that of his cheap father.

But it was not the aristocratic mother he was proud of who made An Lushan what he was proud of, but the Sogdian blood in his body. Although the Sogdians are low-minded, most of them are flexible, very good at observing words and feelings, and are good at doing small business, and their racial skills passed down from generation to generation are to deal with various ethnic groups, so most of the Sogdians are multilingual, which is the so-called "Jiufan language". When An Lushan became an adult, he was able to mix in Yingzhou, a border town of the Tang Dynasty, as a "mutual market Yalang", precisely because of his Sogdian racial talent! In addition, the Hu Xuan Dance and Hu Teng Dance, which were loved by the emperor and the concubine, An Lushan also danced "as fast as the wind", which is also derived from the long skills of the Sogdians.

Long and traitorous cruel, wise, good at human feelings, understanding the Jiufan language, for the Zhufan mutual market Yalang, this is the An Lushan who grew up. As for Shi Siming, who rebelled with him, he was a friend who stole sheep and dogs together when he was also a mutual market! Shi Siming is also a hybrid-hud in Yingzhou, Shi Siming's real name is "Jiaogan", and was later given the name "Siming" by His Majesty Xuanzong. Shi Siming has something in common with An Lushan from birth to growth, "understanding the Liufan language, the same Yalang", he is also an authentic Sogdian.

At that time, the border of the Tang Dynasty, Yingzhou had to face the Khitan and Xi two northeast powers, the two sides were constantly fighting, the Tang Empire in order to facilitate the attack, it adopted Li Linfu's strategy, to raze the country, they used these from the East Turkic Khan, and good at riding and shooting good at fighting the Sogdian Hu people to deal with the two Tibetans, using these Tibetan soldiers to defend against the invasion of Xi and Khitan in the future, An Lushan and Shi Siming and others grew up in the battle with the Northeast and the two Tibetans, and finally grew into an imperial tumor in all kinds of dirt.

As a careerist, An Lushan used the power of religion to the extreme, and he knew that the Sogdians only lived in their own tribe for a long time, and Zoroastrianism was an important link in their reunion, and the Zoroastrian Temple was the center of their religious activities to worship the Zoroastrian gods, and played a spiritual role in uniting the Hu people. Although he hadn't read any books, he knew very well that to deal with these uncivilized Hu people, he had to bewitch, and the best way to bewitch was to pretend to be a ghost, just like those monks who shouted Amitabha Buddha in their mouths and held young girls in their arms.

An Lushan dressed himself as the "god of light" and used the Zoroastrian beliefs of the Sogdians to unite them and make them desperately offer their wealth to him, the "god of light". He not only united the members of the Hu settlement from Liucheng to Youzhou, but also used the commercial trade that the Sogdians were good at to unite the Sogdians scattered all over the country, and amassed millions of treasures and wealth in more than ten years.

To deal with stupid people is to use religious brainwashing, and to deal with smart people you have to rely on money. An Lushan is very willing to spend money, since he entered the army, he used the money he pretended to be a god and deceived the devil up and down, layer by layer, so that to the top of the highest mountain, first the prime minister, and then even the emperor and concubine were bought by him with a huge amount of wealth. On the one hand, the pretended "God of Jackets", on the other hand, is the real "God of Wealth", and when he was full-fledged, he used the mysterious preaching of Zoroastrianism to call on the people to raise troops in the name of "God of Light", and a large number of soldiers and generals followed An Lushan to rebel, I have to say, with these two gods to open the way, how can a big thing be done!

After the rebellion, the soldiers and generals slowly became enlightened, and An Lushan no longer seemed to have to call himself the incarnation of the "God of Light", let alone personally preside over the Zoroastrian sacrifice activities of the Hu in the Sogdian settlements to deceive people's hearts, the stimulation of real money and silver is more confusing than the power of the religion of the "God of Light", people die for money, birds die for food, don't they!

Help me fight the war and give you money and women!

Emperor Dayan, who sat high in the palace of the Shendu, originally gave an order to his son An Qingxu and the general Cui Qianyou to "as soon as Tongguan is broken, immediately go west and take Chang'an immediately". But just when An Qingxu and Cui Qianyou were resting their troops and preparing to send troops, the eight hundred miles of Luoyang City arrived in a hurry, and the secret order was only eight words:

"The whole army is on standby, temporarily guarding Tongguan!"

The word is his father's word, and the token is also his father's token, An Qingxu didn't distinguish the truth from the fake for a while, and immediately decided to go back in person, and when he saw his father, he asked for an understanding! Cui Qianyou got this order, and he was afraid that the situation would change, so he immediately ordered the army to retreat to Tongguan and wait for it!

An Qingxu returned to Luoyang City in less than two days, entered the palace, and met his father as he wished. But at this time, An Lushan had a strange feeling all over his body, he had both the excitement of breaking through Tongguan, and the faint panic, the heroic man who was brave and ruthless on weekdays became a little timid and suspicious, and his temper was even more incomprehensible, and his eyes faintly revealed the killing intent towards An Qingxu. An Qingxu has not been loved by his father for many years, and he is even more in awe of this father who is already on the throne, and when he finishes his work, he hurriedly escapes from the palace gate!

In fact, An Lushan at this moment is painful! Both body and soul!

He was tormented by poisonous sores all over his body, and his daily dressing and undressing were like being scraped, and his eyes were becoming more and more difficult to see. After suffering such physical torture, An Lushan's temper became more and more manic, and he wanted to kill people at every turn to vent his anger, and only that Mrs. Duan could make him feel comfortable. In his heart, Mrs. Duan, who was willing to take drug sores for him, was true love, and their son An Qingen was the best candidate to inherit his unification. Coupled with the proverb that those people calculated for themselves, he felt that the annoying An Qingxu was as disgusting as his mother, and when Chang'an City was broken, he would find a way to kill this cheap species, and he would affect An Qingen's crown prince in the province!

The torture of the body can still be medicated and endured, but the torture of the soul can be cured. He has a vicious disease, so he is very afraid of death, and now that he has captured Luoyang City, the great cause is about to be completed, and he naturally does not want to die. So he tried his best to live, even if it cost him a lot!

In the past, in order to survive, he pretended to be a god and fooled believers, deceiving them into believing that he had eternal life, but now, he desperately longs for a true God to save him! For this reason, he ordered people to find all the wizards of the Hu tribe, let them do the magic for themselves, and asked people to visit the famous mountains and rivers to find the elixir of the immortals, and for the four warlocks who helped him cast spells to cross the Yellow River, he was even more obedient, and he gave whatever he wanted, just hoping that those people could have the means to make him live for a few more years.

Countless money and resources have been spent, there are no fewer poisonous sores, no less torture, and more and more blind eyes. Damn, they're all bastards, they spent so much money on Lao Tzu, and they don't use the balls, come on, slaughter them all for me. Therefore, there are immortals who are invited back every day in Luoyang City, and there are also gods who are slaughtered every day!

Those four warlocks are actually just as Mo Sheng said, they are still a little bit of a way, but the magic they practice belongs to the category of square skills, borrowing the power of the five elements of heaven and earth, the method of relocation and relocation, belongs to the list of Qimen Dunjia, for An Lushan's urgent need for the method of healing and longevity, it is not very bright, the method of prolonging life and even ascending in the medical scriptures is so clever, their qualifications and understanding are too poor and they have not learned it at all, I won't, that's not my business! An Lushan favored them because of the incident of freezing the Yellow River, and the four of them also soared to the top of the world, gold, silver, jewelry, wine, and beauty, and enjoyed the ultimate wealth in the world, which is a thousand times stronger than the penance in the mountains.

Although the four warlocks are greedy and cruel, they are still very concerned about An Lushan, a parent who eats and eats, and they are also afraid that one of them will accidentally anger each other, let alone enjoy it when the time comes, and their lives will be gone, but they are a living demon, and they can't afford to provoke them. So while they offered some treasured Shimen pills, they returned to Shimen to lure other fellow disciples to be born, and even hollowed out their heads, went to other mountains and rivers to collect medicines and alchemy according to the scriptures and prescriptions, and even did not hesitate to inform An Lushan of some secrets in the world in exchange for trust.

An Lushan also learned through them that there were really gods and immortals, demons and ghosts in this world, and he knew that there were many cultivators in the current Luoyang City. It turns out that in the Taishi Bureau, which is not visible on weekdays, there are many cultivators who have the magic of immortals!

Slowly came into contact with the secret An Lushan was shocked and frightened, he ordered someone to arrest all the personnel of the Luoyang Taishi Bureau, even the janitor and cook, and then he controlled the families of these people, threatening their lives, and letting them show their skills one by one. Pity these dozens of people, there are only so few who really have some skills, and they are all the disciples and descendants of those masters, the masters are either in Chang'an City, or in the Xianshan Cave Mansion, and they also occasionally appear on weekdays, teaching them some methods and disappearing, most of them are cultivating on their own, even if there are really hidden masters in Luoyang City, I am afraid that they have already escaped before An Lushan arrived.

As for those who have real skills, because their family members are coerced, they can't hide, so they can only obey An Lushan's orders and show their skills in front of An Lushan. What pinched fingers to make a fire, lit water into ice, fanned sleeves into the wind, fetched things in the air, and the sword flew. This kind of unbelievable fantasy method may be a small trick in the eyes of the real Dao master, but in the eyes of An Lushan at this moment, it is tantamount to a thunderbolt on a sunny day, recalling that he used to pretend to be a ghost, the more he thought about it, the more scared he became!

These people in the Luoyang Taishi Bureau have different fates, and those who have the ability can say that they can temporarily save their lives if they play tricks, and those who don't have the ability will suffer. The Taishi Bureau was originally a cultural and historical institution, and it was necessary to use a large number of ordinary people to cover it up, and now An Lushan treats everyone as a cultivator with strange arts, and requires everyone to perform spells, and if they can't perform it, they will be buried with their families, and they pity these people, they have suffered such an unjustified disaster, so thousands of people in Luoyang have lost their heads, and there is no place to shout grievances when they die! Later, in order to survive, all kinds of juggling were forced out, those ordinary people just wanted to be able to get by, and they didn't even dare to die, if they committed suicide, An Lushan would destroy their nine clans!

An Lushan was shocked and frightened to eat the pills offered by these cultivators, and every taste of the pills must be tried first, and he would take them again if he was fine. Since An Lushan knew that some of them knew the method of celestial and human induction, and were good at speculating on the future through the method of auspicious disasters and different astrological and qi, he couldn't wait to order these people to calculate the future for themselves.

The art of the Wei Wei has been a doctrine that has begun since the ancient Yanhuang period, and has been passed down for thousands of years, "Hu of the Dead Qin", "Cutting the White Snake, White Snake Chopping", "The rain is sheng, the wheat is dead", "The dead are black-clothed, the black-clothed are in the sky", "After the third Tang Dynasty, the Wuwang Dynasty has the world" and so on, etc., have all been fulfilled, he can't help but believe it, so he looked at the prophecies that those people annotated to himself:

"The deceased monarch is also a thief! The one who died is also a thief! ”

After reading this proverb, An Lushan fell into a long contemplation, who are these two family thieves! After thinking about it, he always felt that his son An Qingxu was the most suspicious, and he would rather kill by mistake than let it go, so he always thought about when and what method to use to get rid of this henchman!

This is why An Qingxu, who returned to Luoyang City, had a back like a thorn, and he had a killing opportunity for a day, and after staying for a little for two days, he found an excuse to hurry to Tongguan!

In fact, there are two core reasons why An Lushan did not dare to attack Chang'an City immediately. First, Chang'an is Chang'an after all, and Datang is that Datang after all. Although the Tongguan Pass has been broken, he doesn't know whether Chang'an City has been deployed for more than six months, and he doesn't know how much he has deployed, although there is no Tongguan natural danger, it seems that Chang'an is no longer defended, but after all, there are still hundreds of miles, and the three walls of Chang'an City are as difficult to climb as a mountain, in case something goes wrong, he can't afford to pay. So he would rather wait and wait and see what happens, it's a big deal to retreat to Tongguan in turn, he first stabilized the situation in Luoyang, left the back road well, and continued to pull, ten days and half a month, one month and half a year, three years and five years, he can also afford to wait! He knew very well that Li Longji would lose because he was too anxious, so he must not be in a hurry, and he couldn't eat the meat of the concubine if he was in a hurry!

For the sake of prudence, on the one hand, on the other hand, An Lushan suddenly received a gift at this time. This gift is also from the Taishi Bureau, and it also costs his life! The gift came mysteriously, he ordered someone to call the people of the Taishi Bureau, and asked them to break the taboo for themselves in person, and as soon as the taboo was broken, the true face of the gift was revealed.

This gift is a jade sword, and it is the most unpredictable time!

The time of the day, the hour set by heaven!