Chapter 129: First Sight of An Lushan
It takes three or four hours to charcoal-roast a leg of lamb, and three people can't sit in the tent with big eyes, especially Fujiwara Shuxiong keeps asking himself about the interpretation of the scriptures, which is too difficult for Zhen Qian, how can his half-bottle of vinegar be compared with the ancients who know the Four Books and Five Classics, isn't this an axe?
Zhen Qian naturally had a solution, and they all said that they were demoralized, and they wanted to use chess to continue to confuse the two, but the two of them had been playing chess for a day and could no longer arouse any interest.
Fortunately, Zhen Qian prepared a lot of entertainment projects in order to deal with the unreasonable demands of the two little girls in the family, which was not in full swing under Li Huang and Fujiwara Shuxiong.
Li Huang held a one-foot-long iron skewer in one hand, on which the lamb hind leg meat was skewered with seven points of thin and three points of fat, and a piece of fat meat was sandwiched between every four pieces, each piece of mutton was one inch square, it had been marinated in advance, and a bunch of them were roasted in ten minutes.
"Not bad!"
I don't know if Li Huang is talking about good mutton skewers, or Fujiwara's checkers skills, anyway, the two of them don't bother themselves.
Zhen Qian now has the consciousness of eating public money and eating big households, Luquan County sends several truckloads of ingredients every day, from bleating goats to rare wild vegetables in winter, and the delicacies of the mountains are so delicious that Zhen Qian scolded Feng Wannian for being a loser, but most of these ingredients are cheaper than himself.
With the ingredients that don't need money, Ju Niang and Zhen Qian personally cooked delicious food, and used the food to take the opportunity to win over Li Huang's subordinates, and several beautiful maids were even commensurate with the Ju Niang sisters, in order to steal cooking skills.
Li Huang frowned and looked at the chessboard, a little unsuitable for the way of checkers, the chess pieces that had just been laid were all used by Fujiwara Shuxiong, and he was about to lose this game.
Fujiwara Shuxiong finally has a chance to raise his eyebrows, he can't play Li Huang in chess, can't he play Li Huang in checkers? looked at Li Huang smugly, to see how angry he was!
"Lord Wang...... Over here! ”
As soon as Zhen Qian spoke, Fujiwara Shuxiong immediately jumped up: "Watching chess is silent, and the gentleman is also!" ”
"Lao Tzu is not a righteous gentleman?" Zhen Qian pouted, a bullshit gentleman, bluntly admonished a few people who have a good end, good people don't live long, disasters are happy and happy, Datang food, money and beauty are the three long-cherished wishes of life, and strive for this goal for life to overcome obstacles and move forward.
As soon as the curtain was lifted, a shriveled eunuch's face squeezed in from outside, revealing a head and body outside the tent and not daring to come in: "Lord, An Lushan is here...... Visiting the prince outside the door? ”
As soon as Zhen Qian heard the name An Lushan, his hands shook and he didn't fall into the charcoal fire.
In the Tang Dynasty, the familiar name will not exceed twenty fingers and toes, which is still a lot, ranking second on the historical well-known list, the first place is, of course, the Three Kingdoms period, how to count it will not be less than seventy or eighty, all thanks to the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
After more than a year in the Tang Dynasty, I finally saw a celebrity with my own eyes!
Zhen Qian is not afraid but curious, An Lushan is also a controversial figure in history, and the biggest controversy is why An Lushan rebelled. Rebellion needs a reason, there are those who can't survive, there are those whose ambitions are inflated, there are those whose lives are threatened, there are those who are bewitched by others, etc., An Lushan belongs to that type, and there are different opinions in history.
Rebellion is not only a technically difficult undertaking, but also the risks often outweigh the benefits, especially in the Tang Dynasty, people's hearts are not on the side of the rebels at all, timing is a problem, appeal is also a problem, don't look at the beginning of the Anshi Rebellion was like a bamboo in a short period of time to hit Luoyang, but Tang Xuanzong was not afraid at all.
If it weren't for the fact that Tang Xuanzong made a faint move later, An Lushan would not even have a chance of one in 10,000, history has never been allowed to be assumed, but history is indeed often paradoxical, making people unbelievable, leaving countless mysteries for future generations to understand.
Such a hero actually came to his doorstep, how not to make Zhen Qian both excited and curious.
Li Huang was very calm, stood up and said, "You stay here, I'll go and see you!" ”
Zhen Qian really wanted to go with Li Huang to see An Lushan, but he wanted to follow but couldn't find a reason, Fujiwara Shuxiong walked up to Zhen Qian and whispered: "It's just a vulgar fat man, don't see it!" ”
"Have you seen An Lushan?"
Fujiwara Shuxiong nodded, looking out of the tent: "I met once at His Majesty's banquet on the Shangyuan Festival this year, I thought it was a world-famous general, but it was better to be famous, but it was really surprising that he was fat, bloated and vulgar...... Such a person can even get a high position, hehe! Datang is really unmanned! ”
Zhen Qian was secretly surprised in his heart, not because he heard Fujiwara's contemptuous words, but because the imperial court's reuse of Hu people as commanders had long caused dissatisfaction among the courtiers, Ge Shuhan was a member of the Western Turkic Geshu tribe, Gao Xianzhi was a Goguryeo, Li Guangbi was a Khitan, An Lushan himself was a Hu person, and his generals were mainly composed of Hu people, and almost all the military power in the border towns was controlled by the Hu people, can you not let the ministers of the court and the central government talk about it?
People's thinking is subjective, if the DPRK and China have no criticism of Hu Weiren, how can Fujiwara Shuxiong belittle An Lushan.
But then again, the three towns under the jurisdiction of An Lushan are still stable and peaceful, there is no tyrannical expropriation and poor livelihood as many people think, and land annexation is not on the head of An Lushan, at most, it is to levy and issue conscription to transport grain and grass to himself, and the conscription system is not created by An Lushan, speaking of which An Lushan is not a real prince now.
Zhen Qian was very curious, listening to Fujiwara Shuxiong introduce himself to An Lushan's interesting story in the court, while paying attention to the movement outside the tent.
Suddenly, I heard a rush of footsteps, the curtain was lifted, and Li Huang walked in with a smile holding a burly fat man: "Zhen Lang, Fujiwara-kun, this king will introduce you to An Shuai......."
Zhen Qian's eyes stayed on the fat man, and he heard that An Lushan was fat and strong in his later years, and his abdomen hung down above his knees, and he lifted his body from side to side with his shoulders in each line before he could move. That is to say, An Lushan is fat and can't walk anymore, and he needs someone to help him? Some people also said that An Lushan had a big belly, and every time he wore a belt, three or four people helped him, two people raised his belly, and Li Zhu'er wore it on his head, and began to take the culottes and tie the belt. That is to say, if you have too much belly, you need help to tie your belt.
An Lushan is indeed very fat, but his figure is burly, with a height of more than 1.8 meters, and he must have been a fierce general who pulled a strong bow with a tiger's back when he was young. Some people say that An Lushan is a Xi person, some people say that An Lushan is a descendant of the surname Zhaowujiu, and some people say that An Lushan is a Sogdian, but Zhen Qian thinks that the latter is more accurate. Blue-eyed, high-nosed, eagle-like gaze swept over the two people in the tent, and finally stayed on Zhen Qian's face, as if he had seen through Zhen Qian.
Zhen Qian was secretly surprised, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his back, worthy of a generation of heroes, a look can make people shudder.
An Lushan was also shocked by Zhen Qian's calmness and indifference, I heard Li Huang say just now that there were two people in the tent, one was the Tang envoy Fujiwara Shuxiong, and the other was the owner of this mansion. Although Fujiwara Shuxiong was wearing Tang clothes, his temperament was not much different from that of Tang Dynasty scholars, but An Lushan still recognized Fujiwara Shuxiong at a glance. But An Lushan's gaze and Zhen Qian's eyes met for a moment, and they found that the other party was also secretly observing themselves, and there was less fear in their eyes, and more calm and wisdom that the Tang people did not have. The two black eyes looked at him, just like passers-by of the same status looked at each other, which made An Lushan can't help but be curious about Zhen Qian.
Drunk and lying on the knees of beauties, waking up and killing human rights, although An Lushan's anger is not as good as the floating corpse of the God Emperor, the civil and military forces under one eye are also trembling, and they snort coldly and even make people slopp and kowtow to the ground and beg for mercy.
Hearsay, sure enough, it is better to see than to hear, the two looked each other up and down, but between the lightning and flint, they already had a judgment in their hearts.
"Zhen Lang! Come and meet An Shuai! ”
"Grass people Zhen Qian has seen An Shuai!"
"Get down on your knees...... Since you are called a grass people, don't you know the etiquette? An Lushan behind a staff member scolded loudly.
Let yourself kneel down and worship An Lushan? Zhen Qian's brain teaser was in a hurry, and Li Huang, who was about to speak, interjected: "An Shuai, don't be surprised...... Although Zhen Lang is known as a grass people, he has an official position, and he doesn't need to pay a big salute! ”
In the court etiquette of the Tang Dynasty, there was no Ming and Qing dynasties of three bows and nine knocks, usually officials were mainly headed and stood, unless Zhen Qian wanted to recognize An Lushan as his godfather, he had to kneel, Zhen Qian was not rude.