Chapter 482: The appearance of the film (Part 1)

The Tubo army's attempt to attack Jiuqu was defeated in an extremely tragic way. The Cymbique Island was burned to a white land. Except for more than 2,000 Tubo elite soldiers on the island were spared from the water hiding on the shore, the remaining nearly 7,000 were either burned or drowned. In this beautiful interception battle, the Tang army was injured by only 30 people, and none of them were killed. This brilliant record allowed Li Sheng to win the trust and respect of the Anxi Army, allowing him to fully command this 20,000 army.

The heavy blow in crossing the river also made Ma Chongying temporarily give up his attempt to attack Jiuqu. He led his army back to Wuhai, recalling the 20,000 troops north of Dafeichuan, while sending people to Apologize to Zamp and ask for help.

In early September, the wheat of Jiuqu was completely harvested, and Li Sheng ordered people to send a large amount of grain and more than 100,000 farmers and herdsmen living in Jiuqu back to Hehuang, leaving only the Tang army stationed in Jiuqu area. At the same time, Li Guangbi personally led 30,000 Tang troops to Dafeichuan, forming a situation where Dafeichuan and Jiuqu complement each other, and opposed the Tubo army in Wuhai, and the two sides entered a state of confrontation.

In early September, Li Qing'an was still on his way back to Anxi, but in early September, Chang'an experienced some unusual changes due to Li Qing'an's temporary departure.

At this time, the Chang'an pattern was still bounded by Zhuque Street. Jinwu Guard controlled Wannian County and Qianniu Guard controlled Chang'an County. There were 20,000 Anxi Army stationed outside Chang'an City and Xianyang County. The pattern did not change, but at this time, An Lushan entered Beijing.

An Lushan entered the capital without a sudden. Although he suffered a tragic failure in Guannei Road, leaving behind a reputation as a rebel minister usurping the party, he did not rebel and did not occupy Hebei. Except for the court's army that could not enter Hebei, Hebei's government affairs system was still under the jurisdiction of the court. Other local officials except Youzhou were appointed and removed by the court. This is the difference between rebellion and not rebellion. In addition, An Lushan took the initiative to withdraw from Hedong, which also made some people who benefited the court start to speak for him, saying that An Lushan just entered Guannei Road because he was sad about his son's death. He was angry and wanted to seek justice for his son, and had no intention of rebellion.

At first, only Ji Wen, the Minister of War, tried his best to excuse him, but soon the minister Fang Guan also submitted a report to the Political Affairs Hall that An Lushan should not be isolated like this and should be given a chance to reform. Otherwise, if An Lushan colluded with the Southern Tang court, it would be extremely unfavorable to the situation in Chang'an. The Left Prime Minister Wang Gong also agreed with Fang Guan's opinion and suggested that An Lushan be appointed as the Minister of Shangshu Zuo Pushe. However, because Zhang Yun abstained from the power, Cui Huan, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, voted against it, and the Political Affairs Hall rejected the proposal of An Lushan as the Minister of Shangshu Zuo Pushe with a four-to-two vote.

Although the Political Affairs Hall was not approved, the governor Li Heng finally issued a governor's statement, acknowledging that An Lushan was still the governor of the court and allowed him to go to Beijing to meet the new emperor. In this way, An Lushan's fate seemed to be moving again. He received Li Heng's understanding and endorsement, with 120,000 regret and piety. When Li Qing'an left Beijing, with the strong support of the governor's party, he began to make a debut in Chang'an again.

On the fifth day of the September 2018, An Lushan, under the escort of a thousand personal soldiers, arrived at Mingde Gate in Chang'an. Outside Mingde Gate, under the entrusted by Li Heng, the left prime minister Wang Gong, the subordinate minister Fang Guan, the Minister of War Ji Wen, the Minister of War Zhang Ye, the Prince's guest Linghu Fei, and more than fifty middle and low-level officials of the State Supervisor Party specially welcomed An Lushan's arrival outside the city.

An Lushan was still the same, with a big pumpkin-like face and a pair of squinting eyes, but his attitude became very respectful. He stepped forward and bowed respectfully to Wang Gong: "I am not aware of the Lord Zuo Prime Minister."

The word "女" was used in the Tang Dynasty for parents or elders. It was usually called the envoy among officials, but not the adults, but An Lushan actually called Wang Gong the master. This was obviously deliberately belittled himself and raised Wang Gong.

Wang Gong laughed and replied, "Ship An doesn't have to be too polite anymore. Everyone is the same palace as the minister. If you have the opportunity to go to Hebei in the future, we will also fight with the Qiufeng of An Shuai! Do you think so?"

Everyone laughed, "The Zuo Prime Minister said it well. In the future, An Shuai will have the full friendship of the landlord!"

"Sure! Sure!"

An Lushan was very moved, and he saluted everyone repeatedly, "The officials will definitely fulfill their friendship as a landlord and treat you with the gift of a distinguished guest."

At this time, An Lushan glanced at Zhang Ye, the minister of Taichang Temple. He couldn't help but be slightly stunned. Why did he come too?

Wang Gong waved his hand and immediately brought a table from the person with three glasses of wine on it. He smiled at An Lushan and said, "This is a welcome wine. After An Shuai drinks it, you can go to the city. Please, An Shuai!"

As he said that, he personally picked up a glass of wine and handed it to An Lushan. An Lushan took the glass. How dare he drink such wine of unknown origin? But he dared not to drink it. His eyes looked at Ji Wen, and Ji Wen nodded secretly to him, meaning that the wine could be drunk. Despite this, An Lushan covered the glass with his sleeves and poured the wine into his beard, and the wine flowed into his inner armor.

"Good wine! Chang'an wine is like a woman, so delicate and sweet."

The word "delicate" appeared in the mouth of a rough man like An Lushan, and everyone laughed, and there were two glasses of wine. At this time, Gao Shang, the counselor behind An Lushan, walked up and smiled: "Left Prime Minister, I will have a very serious stomach disease. The doctor repeatedly told him not to dip the wine. I will drink the two glasses of wine for him!"

An Lushan waved his hand and said unhappily: "Don't need a sir to do for me. Even if my stomach hurts, I must give Zuo Xiang a face. I will bring the wine and continue drinking!"

Wang Gong quickly apologized: "I don't know that An Shuai is in poor health and Duoduo offended him. Then the next two glasses of wine will be spared. Anyway, it's just a ceremony."

He waved his hand and smiled, "Shishuai An, please get in the car and enter the city!"

The simple welcoming ceremony outside Mingde Gate ended. An Lushan boarded the carriage. Under the strict escort of 300 personal guards, the carriage slowly drove into Mingde Gate.

In the carriage, a concubine wiped the wine stains from An Shuai's inner armor. An Lushan nodded and said gratefully to Gao Shang: "Thanks to the timely rescue, otherwise I really don't know what to do with the last two glasses of wine."

Gao Shang smiled and said, "Actually, I think there is definitely no problem in these three glasses of wine. After all, the Nationalist Party must rely on the Grand Marshal and will not take action at this time. I just came out to explain when the Grand Marshal refused to drink it."

An Lushan waved his hand and asked the concubine to walk away. He said to Gao Shang again: "This time thanks to Mr.'s strategy, he seized the conflict between the General Party and the Zhao Wang Party, and took advantage of the opportunity of the General Party trying to win me to get me back into the country. However, I just discovered Zhang Ye, and I didn't understand. Did Zhang Jun and Li Heng secretly collude? Otherwise, how could Zhang Ye come?"

Gao Shang pondered for a moment and said, "To be honest, I'm a little surprised. Even if Zhang Yun and Li Heng colluded, Zhang Yan would not show up publicly. I guess this should be Zhang Yan coming here by himself, and it has nothing to do with the National Party. No one knows what he is thinking about, that old fox Zhang Yun?"

At this time, An Lushan had figured it out. He snorted disdainfully: "What an old fox, it's just a fence-bearer. As soon as Li Qing'an left, he abstained from his vote. He sent his brother to Liang to appear and make a gesture. If Li Qing'an pursued him, he would definitely say that this was his brother's unauthorized behavior. He had scolded him. Isn't Zhang Yun the only one?"

"Good words!" Gao Shang praised with a thumbs up: "Master, it's up to us to make great progress!"

An Lushan stroked his beard and smiled and said, "I know Zhang Yun very well. He has been fighting with Li Linfu secretly for so many years. He is still old enough to take away the right prime minister by Yang Guozhong? In fact, Li Longji has seen through his fictional nature, so he doesn't need him."

Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered something and said, "It was Cui Huan who unexpectedly rejected Wang Gong's proposal as a national surrogate. This is very strange! Could it be that he has secretly defected to Li Qing'an?"

Gao Shang nodded and smiled, "I think this should be the case, otherwise how could Li Qing'an give up the position to Li Heng for nothing? This is an ambush he buried, but he didn't expect it to be exposed because of the incident of the general. Hehe! There is a good show now."

An Lushan narrowed his eyes and thought for a long time, "I don't want to just watch the show. I was thinking, since Li Heng wanted to win me over, should I give him a heavy gift?"

"Master-in-law means......"

"That's right, when we passed by Weinan County, wasn't that imperial village measuring? I think Li Heng wouldn't be generous enough to give his land to those poor peasants!"

He pondered for a moment and said, "Let this be left to Shi Siming to do, and my son's tomb should be erected as soon as possible."

At this time, there was a sound of singing singing from outside the carriage. An Lushan watched a group of beautiful women in gorgeous clothes walk by not far away, and then aroused his thoughts. He said, "I know she must not be dead, so I must hide somewhere in Chang'an. This time I must find her. If I don't get her, I will not be surnamed An!"

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After Wang Gong presided over the ceremony, he hurried to Zichen Palace with Linghu Fei, and Li Heng was still waiting for them to reply.

In the Zichen Hall, Li Heng was savoring a bowl of bird's nest porridge carefully. Since Li Qing'an left Beijing, he has lived a few days of ease. Pei Min, Li Yan and others have become much more honest because of Li Qing'an's absence. Although they still refuse to give in to some matters in principle, they no longer object to some things, such as retaining the royal family's mansion, restoring the system of closing the party gate at the time of Hai, etc. These seemingly insignificant things can be passed smoothly, but these small things are very important to Li Heng.

Now Li Heng is considering three major things. He wants to handle them while Li Qing'an is not in Chang'an. One thing is to prohibit middle and low-level officials from collecting Anxi's allowances. Although many officials refused this allowance with the normal payment of salary, Li Heng knew that many officials were reluctant to give up the expensive Anxi allowances and took them short, so they worked very hard for Anxi. From this preparation for Longyou, it can be seen that the rapid transportation of materials and the efficient mobilization of civil servants, these officials are working harder than ever before.

Li Heng did not object to the efforts to prepare for Longyou. He also hoped that the Tang army could defeat the Tubo army, but these officials could not become Anxi's lackeys, which was the first major event.

The second is An Lushan. Although the first person to run for An Lushan was Ji Wen, the one who found that An Lushan was worth Fang Guan. Doesn’t Li Heng lack a foreign vassal under him who can fight against Li Qing'an? An Lushan is the best candidate. Of course, he also knows that An Lushan has ambitions, but does Li Qing'an have different ambitions? And Ge Shuhan, who also has ambitions. Guo Ziyi is older. If he is twenty years younger, he will be equally ambitious.

So Li Heng didn't care about An Lushan's ambitions. He believed that he could control this person. As long as he killed Li Qing'an for him, it would be impossible to be appointed as the king of the Hu Kingdom in the future in the Khitan or Turkic state.

This is his second major event, and he must take An Lushan under his own account.

The third major event is land. He opposed his son's seizure of the land of the royal family in his heart. That would seriously weaken the power of the Li family and shake the foundation of the Li family's rule over the Tang Dynasty. Although land annexation is also a big problem, Li Heng believes that maintaining the rule of the Li family over the Tang Dynasty is even more important than land annexation. Li Yu cruelly seized hundreds of royal families within a few months, which greatly weakened the power of the royal family. He must restore the status and property of the royal family. Although this matter is difficult, he must do it at all costs, otherwise he will not get the support of the royal family after he ascended the throne in the future.

Li Heng was thinking of three major events. At this time, the guards' report came from outside the door, "Your Highness, the Left Prime Minister and the Prince's guests are here."

"Let them in!"

Li Heng drank the bird's nest in one gulp and put the bowl aside. Wang Gong and Linghu Fei walked in one after another.

"See Your Highness!"

"Did An Lushan receive it?"

"I received it. Now he has returned to his mansion. He said that he would come to pay homage to His Highness early this morning and only meet the emperor in the afternoon."

Li Heng nodded, An Lushan put him in front of him, he was very satisfied with this attitude, and he asked again: "What is An Lushan's attitude? Are you so proud?"

Wang Gong shook his head and said, "This time An Lushan is very humble, and he is not as arrogant as before. From his words, he can see that he admires His Highness very much. This time the defeat of the inner Taoism in Guanzhong beat him honestly."

Seeing that Linghu Fei's expression seemed to disagree with Wang Gong's opinion, Li Heng asked him, "What do Mr. Linghu think?"

Linghu Fei smiled and said, "I think An Lushan has become more cunning. His grandson appearance is just pretending. From his drinking, we can see that he did not drink at all, but poured the wine into his beard. I saw it clearly next to him, and the Zuo Xiang might not have noticed it."

Wang Gong's face turned red. Actually, he didn't know who An Lushan was pretending, he was a left prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. After so many years of official career, he wouldn't even be able to see this. He knew very well in his heart, but he had received great benefits from An Lushan and would still get it in the future. So he deliberately spoke to An Lushan, but he didn't expect to be exposed by Linghu Fei, a ignorant guy.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, Wang Gong coughed dryly and quickly changed the topic and said, "There is another strange thing. Zhang Ye actually came too, but we didn't invite him."

"It's very strange!"
Chapter completed!