Every year in the first month, Jiangfu is full of guests and friends, from the second day of the new year to come to pay New Year's greetings to relatives and friends, protégés and former officials, celebrities and squires and even ordinary people in an endless stream, Jiang Anyi has to be busy from morning to night, more tired than usual errands. Jiang Anyong, Liu Yixing and others were all pulled by him to help receive guests, and this excitement generally continued after the Shangyuan Festival.

On the sixth day of the new year, Guo Huaili's family and Tian Shaoqiu's family came to pay New Year's greetings, the female dependents were received by Xinfei and Tong'er, several children got together and ran to the backyard to play, Jiang Anyong sat with him for a while, and quietly slipped out to lead the children to set off the firecrackers, the explosion of the guns mixed with the laughter of the children, and reached the ears of several people in the house, and everyone showed a happy smile.

Guo Huaili said: "Xiao Jiang, you quietly married Lin Yizhen, do we also get married, my family is half of your student, you can't favor one over the other." ”

Tian Shaoqiu was also on the side, and said with a smile: "Anyi, my two great-grandsons are also good, do you pick?" Why don't you marry An Yong? ”

Jiang Anyi smiled bitterly and said: "You just spare me, since I married Yunting Xu to Brother Lin's son, this greeting to propose marriage continues, some time ago my mother wrote to say that Master Yu intends to marry me, whether it is to marry or marry, as well as the Li family, the Ning family, Liu Yixing also mentioned, I am afraid, if the tiger head has the ability to get Yun Si and Yun Jing's like, I will naturally not stop it, but if you want me to be assigned, it is better to wait a few more years." ”

After a few jokes, Tian Shaoqiu said solemnly: "Anyi, I have something to tell you this time, do you know that the Annantun army has rebelled." ”

Jiang Anyi was stunned for a moment and said, "Old Man Tian, what did you just say?" ”

"The Annan Tun army rebelled, killed the new Governor of Annan, Zhang Yuanguan, defeated the 40,000 Qing army of the Annan battalion, captured five counties such as Cen Zhu and Yiming, recruited troops to raise a counter-flag, and focused on more than 40,000 people to prepare to fight against the court."

"What?" Jiang Anyi almost couldn't believe his ears, he knew that the Son of Heaven's implementation of the new Tuntian policy would have a certain impact in the Tuntian army, but he never expected to force the Annan Tun army, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Tian Shaoqiu sighed and said: "I don't know the specific situation, I only know that Liu Wei, the commander of Annan Tun, called himself the king of heaven, and sent his subordinate general Yang Sixuan to our Miao village to ask for a meeting with King Miao, and brought two thousand stones of grain and some ordnance as a gift, so that King Miao could open the road for the rebels to enter and exit, King Miao told my senior brother Zhuo Can this time, and I received a letter from Lingxiang Valley two days ago. ”

Jiang Anyi's heart was shocked, although Huazhou and Qianzhou are separated by nearly 2,000 miles, but the rebellion of the Annan Tun army will inevitably cause a shock in the world, causing a series of things. Jiang Anyi said: "Old man Tian, this matter is very important, if there is any news, let An Kai tell me as soon as possible." ”

After dinner, Jiang Anyi called Xin Fei, An Yong, Zhang Keji, Yan Qingze and others to the study, and told them about the rebellion of the Annan Tun army that Tian Shaoqiu had heard. The sound of breathing in the room was heavy, and everyone remembered the rebellion of the Yuantian Sect sixty years ago, and the Zhongxing trend that Emperor Su had painstakingly managed, was about to be buried by this sudden rebellion?

In front of his brother, Jiang Anyong has always been outspoken, and said: "When today's son ascends the throne, he has to build a lot of buildings, and he wants to pay more taxes in various places, which makes it a miasma, Yan'er's last letter didn't say that Xinqi County asked for an extra 3,000 taels of silver from our family in order to pay more taxes, saying that our flower fields have to be calculated according to the first-class fields, and those lands are clearly barren mountains and wastelands that are not wanted." ”

"An Yong, don't complain, let's talk about the matter and talk about the tun army." Xinfei said.

Yan Qingze was accepted by Xin Fei because of Pan Heyi's affairs, because he still had the court's general album hanging on his body, Jiang Anyi asked him to bring his family over, under the pseudonym Zhao Ze, he lived on a street in Jiangfu, adjacent to Zhang Keji, Huazhou Longwei naturally would not trouble him, and occasionally Qin Ziyan came to Jiangfu and bumped into Yan Qingze, but he didn't know him.

Yan Qingze was anxious to show his value in front of Jiang Anyi, and said: "Lord Jiang, the rebellion of the Annan Tun army is just a disease of ringworm, and the vitality of the Annan camp is not injured, which is enough to deal with the situation, and it is not difficult for the court to send a capable general to extinguish the rebellion." On the contrary, the rebellion of the Annan Tun army will make the court wary of the Tun army, and my Anxi Tun army may be implicated. ”

Jiang Anyi nodded, he and Yan Qingze's judgment were the same, the roads in Qianzhou and Shaozhou were rugged, easy to defend and difficult to attack, as long as the court trapped the road to death and defended the city, the Annan Tun army had no other way but to go south to survive.

Yan Qingze was affirmed by Jiang Anyi, and said excitedly: "Judging from the history books, the Central Plains has had many southern expeditions, all of which ended in failure due to unsuitable weather and epidemics. ”

Xin Fei also said: "Qing Ze is reasonable, the court has been painstakingly operated by Emperor Su for more than 20 years, although it cannot be called the country strong and the people are rich, but the people's hearts are in Zheng, the world is stable, and the rebellion of the Annan Tun army cannot shake Sheji." However, when today's son ascends the throne, he will build a lot of construction and increase taxes, so that if the farmers lose their land in a few years, there will be turmoil, so the rebellion of the Annam Tun army will become the foundation of the court today, and the rebellion will continue in the future. ”

"Yes, if the court is not effective, the rebellion of the Annan Tun army will definitely lay the root cause. Once the bandits gather to attack the city and plunder the land, the court civil strife will not stop, and the indifferent people will take advantage of the fire to rob, even if the civil strife can be quelled, the country will become full of holes, the vitality of the court will be greatly damaged, and the people will die in the war. Zhang Keji said in a deep voice.

Everyone in the room was speechless, and Jiang Anyi said: "We are far away in Huazhou, so we can only wait and see what happens, and maintaining stability in the northwest is to help the court." Chen Han sent a letter saying that Rong Miguo intended to gather Weiche and Jusu to move troops against Tian Wei State, because Tian Wei State was an ally of Daqi, Shasu, Qianglan and other countries, and sent an envoy to say that Xiuli State would send troops to clamp down on Shasu and other countries, and this matter should not sit idly by. ”

Not long after Yan Qingze entered Jiang Anyi's tent, he was not clear about the relationship between the countries of the Western Regions and him. After several months of observation, Xin Fei felt that Yan Qingze was sincerely taking refuge, so she whispered to Yan Qingze about the relationship between Jiang Anyi and Long Gai, the head of Shasu Kingdom, as well as the Great Qi Kingdom and Tian Wei Kingdom.

The news revealed by Xinfei Yan Qingze was overwhelmed, he knew that Jiang Anyi had the intention of going west, but if he wanted to use the power of one state, it would be difficult to do it even if he added the Anxi Protectorate, at most he captured a few cities, and then withdrew his troops and returned, and the occupied cities were recaptured by the people of the Western Regions.

Jiang Anyi set up two military towns in the Gobi to train troops to exterminate horse thieves and seize property, Yan Qingze felt that it was just a small fight, and he could not use troops against the Western Regions without more than ten years of preparation. After more than ten years, Jiang Anyi will definitely no longer be in Huazhou, and he will definitely go to politics at that time.

Who would have thought that Long Gai, the lord of Shasu Country, was actually the son of Jiang Anyi, and Gu Taige, the lord of Tian Wei Country, was actually supported by Jiang Anyi in secret, and he didn't expect that Jiang Anyi and the Great Qi State, which had a great enmity of life and death, also had a ditch connection, what Jiang Anyi wanted to do, it was not that he had ill intentions, and he wanted to rebel.

Zhang Keji saw Yan Qingze's frightened expression and chuckled: "Qingze, the lord plans to use razing to defeat raze, and use Tianwei, Shasu and other countries to disperse the energy of Rongmi, Xiuli and other countries, so as to lay the groundwork for the pacification of the Western Regions in the future. The lord's move is to eradicate hundreds of years of trouble for the people of the Central Plains, what does Qing Ze think? ”

The silver mask flashed under the light, Yan Qingze's heart was cold, Xin Fei told himself this secret, he regarded himself as his own person, in the past, he was afraid that he would not be trusted by Jiang Anyi, and this trust came so heavily, in the future, Jiang Anyi really wanted to rebel, and he could only follow. Thinking of Feng Gong's death, Yan Qingze secretly gritted his teeth, only with the help of Jiang Anyi could he avenge Feng Gong, the stronger Jiang Anyi's strength, the greater this hope. Thinking of this, Yan Qingze tidied up his clothes, bowed to Jiang Anyi and said, "Qingze is willing to drive for the lord." ”

After the two words of the lord were spoken, there was no turning back, Jiang Anyi and Zhang Keji glanced at each other and showed a satisfied smile. Yan Qingze's ability is known to both of them these days, this person has a strong sense of the overall situation and is good at grasping the key to the matter, but he just took refuge in Jiang Anyi to avenge Feng Zhong, and the starting point was not to believe in Jiang Anyi, Jiang Anyi and Zhang Keji secretly talked about Yan Qingze a few times, and Zhang Keji advocated finding an opportunity to subdue Yan Qingze. Today, Xin Fei confided in Jiang Anyi's biggest secret, forcing Yan Qingze into a corner, but she didn't expect him to recognize Jiang Anyi as the master.

Jiang Anyi stood up happily, grabbed Yan Qingze's wrist and said, "Mr. Yan is exempt, with your help, Jiang has added another arm." Feng Gong's enmity, Jiang will definitely seek justice for Mr. Yan. ”

Zhang Keji said with a smile: "Brother Yan, the lord has been waiting for you for a long time, and today a stone has finally been implemented." ”

recognized Jiang Anyi as the lord, the estrangement between Yan Qingze and everyone disappeared, Yan Qingze consciously relaxed a lot, spoke a lot more calmly, and said with a smile: "It's Yan who can't let go of himself, and it is Yan's blessing to be able to serve by the lord's side." ”

This polite sentence came out, Yan Qingze realized that there are indeed few better lords than Jiang Anyi in the world, even Feng Zhong is far inferior to him, not to mention that being in the secret guard is contrary to his philosophy, Jiang Anyi is only thirty-six years old this year, such a powerful and capable lord, in addition to avenging Feng Gong, is enough for him to avenge his heart.

Everyone laughed a few words and expressed their welcome to Yan Qingze. Jiang Anyi said: "Mr. Yan, we can't reach the affairs of the Annan Tun Army, but the affairs of the Western Regions are the top priority at hand, and I hope Mr. Yan will help me." ”

"Please make it clear." Yan Qingze was very excited, as soon as he recognized Jiang Anyi as the main one, the heavy responsibility came, the more heavy the responsibility, the more he could reflect his own value, Yan Qingze didn't want to eat and wait for death to spend this life.

A few years ago, Jiang Anyi received a gift from Yan Zefu, and Long Gai mentioned in the letter that Huli Chen soldiers were at the border, and Wei Che intended to regain the lost territory, and Luo Na bluntly said in the letter that Jiang Anyi would help her son.

Jiang Anyi has a sense of guilt for Longgai, but he can't directly send troops to help, the previous time he exterminated the horse thief he received a reprimand from the court, the Taiwei Mansion and the Ministry of War immediately issued a Jun order, strictly stated that it was not the will of the court, and the marshal ordered not to transfer troops and horses, but the Huazhou garrison town is in the Gobi, the situation is special, and a thousand soldiers and horses are allowed to be dispatched under special circumstances, and then report in detail to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, the Military Department and the Taiwei Mansion.

"Mr. Yan, the lord of the Shasu country asked me for help, I intend to let Mr. and Tianhao bring some people to the Shasu country to give advice to the lord of the Shasu country to resist the army of Xiuli, I don't know what Mr. wants?" Jiang Anyi asked.

Yan Qingze stood up and said, "I will definitely live up to the trust of the lord." "Although the Western Regions are foreign countries, Long Gai and Jiang Anyi are father and son, and they will definitely be courteous when they go by themselves, and they can help Shasu Kingdom against Xiuli Kingdom, this is a national war, and being able to become a chess player in a national war is something that I only think of when I dream. The eldest husband was born in heaven and earth, and he can command thousands of troops and horses to establish meritorious deeds, so as to live up to this life.

Thinking like this, Yan Qingze was so excited that he couldn't help himself.