Tang's dining table

Wen Wen took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat on his chin and said to Yun Chu: "There is no problem with the Sixteenth Guards of Chang'an. There will always be credible news coming from Luoyang. As for the garrison in other places, it is beyond our ability." of."

Yunchu sighed and said: "In other words, except for Chang'an and Luoyang, the armies in other places may be our enemies, right?"

He nodded softly and said: "Li Ji led the Sixth Army of the Ten Paths of the Tang Dynasty. More than 30% of the generals above the rank of captain in the Tang Dynasty were served under him. You said that except for Chang'an and Luoyang, It makes perfect sense that Li Ji has manpower in all military states."

Di Renjie said: "From this point of view, we are not rivals at all."

Wen Wen said: "A tiger dies with great force, not to mention that this tiger is just old and not dead yet.

However, there are ways to deal with him, such as transferring his old man's glory and power in the army to His Majesty.

It's just that the consequences of doing so are very serious. No matter what Li Ji's fate will be in the future, we will definitely become the victims. "

Di Renjie smiled and said: "It seems that we have encountered a big problem, otherwise the troops will be in danger."

Wen Wen shook his head and said: "It's not worthwhile for us to spend the same age and die together with such an old thief."

Yun Chu smiled and said: "We can't beat the old one, so why can't we beat the younger one? Now we just wait for the old guy to make a move. As long as we are damaged, we must immediately recover it from Xu Jingye."

Di Renjie smiled and said: "Now that I have made up my mind, I will start to support Zhang Jianzhi. He has been suppressed by Xu Jingye recently in the Huangshui River Valley, and his life is very difficult."

Wen Wen frowned and said, "This person has great ambitions. Don't let him become a tiger."

Di Renjie said: "As long as you give him food, he can recruit a lot of Tuyuhun people. The more food you give him, the more Tuyuhun people he will recruit.

What's more, Lou Shide built a huge settlement in Ganzhou, Hexi Province, and used the food there to exchange yaks, war horses, and sheep with Zhang Jianzhi. "

Yun Chu said: "Didn't you say that Zhang Jianzhi's life was difficult? Where did he get the yaks, horses and sheep?"

Di Renjie patted his big belly and said leisurely: "I don't care. If he wants food, he must exchange these things with me."

Wen Wen drank water and shook his head: "He can only rob. In recent years, Chang'an City has attracted all the rich people in Tuyuhun, and also exchanged their cattle, sheep, and horses for houses in Chang'an. , you tell me, where did Zhang Jianzhi go to rob him?"

Di Renjie patted his belly and said: "There will always be sheep. As long as there are sheep, there will be wolves. These two groups have a symbiotic relationship as Yun Chu said.

Zhang Jianzhi is a wolf. If he wants to eat enough and feed more wolves, he can only follow the sheep. Anyway, what we want are yaks, war horses, and sheep. When the time comes, the war horses will pay the debt to the prince, and the cattle will The sheep were left behind to supply Chang'an's insatiable appetite. "

After the three people discussed it for a while, the matter was settled.

Li Ji was a flawless opponent to Yun Chu and the others, but a gentleman could bully him.

Xu Jingye is Li Ji's biggest weakness.

The reason why Li Ji took unprecedented action against Yunchu and the others was because of Xu Jingye.

Xu Jingye was truly discouraged by Yunchu, so he did not dare to develop in the Hexi area.

At the same time, Xu Jingye was discouraged by the famous Tubo general Lun Qinling, and he did not dare to go to the Riyue Mountain and the Guitang River area.

You can also directly enter the Western Regions from Qinghai. Xu Jingye did not choose this route. It seemed that he was deeply afraid of the Anxi Army.

Therefore, this guy chose to cross the wasteland and head south, preparing to explore the desolate edge of Xishu, where there are deep river valleys, plateau grasslands, swamps, and inaccessible forests.

It was completely uninhabited, and at most there were some ancient Qiang and Tubo people living there. Yun Chu didn't understand why Xu Jingye took the initiative to develop it. Could it be that it was because the mountains and rivers there were so high and dangerous that it was difficult for outsiders to enter?

This was obviously an act of preparing to become a hermit, or to occupy the mountain there and become the king. After thinking about it for a long time, Yun Chu, Wen Wen, and Di Renjie decided that it would be really difficult if Xu Jingye went there with his men.

Sending a large army to hunt down such a barren land is completely stupid and has no possibility of recovering the capital.

In the territory of the Tang Dynasty today, there are many such small closed countries. Whether it is in the jungles of Nanzhao, the dense tropical rainforests, or the desolate islands, they all exist. Even on the Central Guizhou Road It is also said that there are one hundred thousand troops in the one hundred thousand mountains. It is just because there is no need for conquest for the Tang Dynasty, so it has to be like this.

Zhang Jianzhi has a messenger stationed in Chang'an, and he has been begging Yun Chu and others to support him. Now, the messenger has received accurate information, and he can't wait until tomorrow and sets out that afternoon.

After Yunchu thought about it, he prepared a gift and sent a greeting note, hoping to have a long talk with Duke Ying.

As a result, the greeting card sent in the morning was sent back at noon. The reason given by the housekeeper was that the British father was not feeling well.

It was obvious that Li Ji still maintained his previous style, at least, he had no interest in going around in circles with Yun Chu.

Jiang Guizhi is old and spicy, and he is talking about people like Li Ji. From the moment he laid out his carriage and horses to deliver cattle to the prince, he did not hide his intentions. Everything was laid out in the open for you to see clearly.

Even now, some of Yun Chu's doubts are still unresolved - Li Ji, a veteran who has fought for the Tang Dynasty all his life, and the Huanghuang Tang Dynasty is a reflection of his lifelong achievements. Would he really do it for an incompetent person like Xu Jingye? Descendants, should they just give up the name they have fought for all their lives?

With this question in mind, Yunchu planned to find Li Ji's old friends to find out if there were any other possibilities.

So Yunchu sent the gift originally prepared for the British Duke to Liang Jianfang's home together with the greeting card.

Liang Jianfang, who had to drink even though he had one of his legs cut off because of gout, had aged very badly. He barely saw Yun Chu and spent most of his time lying on the brocade couch, breathing heavily.

Seeing him like this, Yun Chu didn't say anything else. He just talked about Liang Ying's future with this stubborn veteran.

This was Liang Jianfang's favorite topic and he never tired of hearing it. Even though it was difficult to breathe, the old guy still told Yun Chu the complete news about Liang Ying's troops' victory in suppressing bandits in the Taihang Mountains.

At that moment, Liang Jianfang's cloudy eyes were extremely bright, as if he had regained his youth at that moment and could travel the world with three thousand armors... However, a mouthful of thick phlegm stuck in his throat, and the maids on both sides slapped him again, It took another suction to save my life.

When Yun Chu said goodbye and left, Liang Jianfang suddenly said: "I have become a useless person. I can't do anything to help you. You can't help me here, and my father-in-law can't help me either. Just treat me as a dead person."

Yun Chu took the old man's hand and said: "No one dares to treat you as a dead person. Now that a certain family has a horse and a horse pole, it can be said that it is invincible in the world. A person like me was also taken over by you back then." The hammer will drive you to the sky with no way, and to the earth with no way, if anyone dares to treat you as a dead person, hit him with eight hundred hammers first."

Liang Jianfang chuckled and said: "It can't be smashed, but if you have something to do, you can go to Lao Su and tell him. He really wants to command thousands of troops and die on the battlefield."

Yun Chu shook his head and said: "Now that the Tang Dynasty is peaceful and the people are safe, there is not much use left. The military affairs of the Tang Dynasty soldiers have changed from resisting foreign invasion, to opening up territories, and now they are only responsible for local security. I don't think so. Come out, there are still useful ones to go to Su Gong’s place."

Liang Jianfang whispered: "Think of a way, that old guy still wants to go to the Western Regions to be the Protector of the Western Regions.

In short, he just didn't want to die of old age in Chang'an, nor Luoyang, nor even anywhere in the pass. He just wanted to be wrapped in horse leather and dragged back by a grain truck for burial. "

Yun Chu nodded silently. Although he didn't know what he could do to send Su Dingfang to the Western Region as the general guardian, he still nodded.

Although Liang Jianfang is almost dying of old age, his head is still very clear. Although the relationship between Li Ji and Su Dingfang does not seem so harmonious on the surface, Li Ji's biggest arm in the army is Su Dingfang.

If Yun Chu had a way to get Su Dingfang to go to the Western Regions to become the Protector of Anxi, then it would definitely be equivalent to cutting off one of Li Ji's arms.

However, this matter still needs to be considered in the long term. If there is no capable traitor in the Western Regions, the emperor will definitely not agree to send out the few remaining invincible commanders in the Tang army.

On the way home, we passed Zhuque Street, where twenty-four bronze bulls shone brightly in the setting sun, especially the location of the bull's eggs, which had been caressed by Chang'an women for a long time.

I don’t know since when, some boring people said that regularly touching the eggs of these sacred cows would help in pregnancy and childbirth.

In Yunchu's view, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is the male symbol of the city of Chang'an, not the Bronze Bull. Even if there is nothing to do there, there will always be large flocks of pigeons flying around the Big Wild Goose Pagoda with pigeon whistles. Flying non-stop.

In August, the city of Chang'an has entered the realm of autumn tigers. The air pressure is very low and the clouds are also very low, which provides the greatest convenience for the emergence of Huoshaoyun.

Therefore, when the sun is about to set on the top of the mountain, the large white clouds will be burned by the sun into fiery red, which is extremely magnificent.

August is also the busiest time for female textile workers. When the sun sets, it happens to be when they get off work. Therefore, on Zhuque Street and even in the surrounding cities, there are people wearing blue cotton dresses and white hats everywhere. Female textile workers either travel together in twos or threes, or go shopping in groups in the market.

Generally speaking, they all have smiles on their faces, and even their voices are louder than the average women in Chang'an City.

Seeing these cheerful women, Yunchu suddenly felt that Li Ji's matter was not a big deal. After all, what he had done was completely reflected on the faces of these women.

I have made great contributions to the society of the Tang Dynasty, who is afraid of me?