An Lushan is about to be the emperor, and Luoyang City is just a scene of ice and fire. When the city was first broken, ordinary people seemed to have suffered a small loss, but many of them lost the net worth that they had worked hard to accumulate all their lives. What's more, the people of Luoyang, like Chang'an, used to have a sense of superiority at the feet of the Son of Heaven, but now this layer of pride has been completely shattered by the rebels, and even the low-level people on the street who are forced to come out to find work for their livelihood have a miserable face.

The thieves are already about to be crowned emperors, and the court, from the Son of Heaven to the big officials, will they let it go? The family has no food and no money, how to live?

Luoyang South City was once closed, but now it has opened again, but less than half of the merchants in the past have actually opened. Even half of the shops, from the shopkeeper to the guys, are only powerless to open up their business. Everyone knows that even if the door of the store is open, it is only for the convenience of those lieutenant generals who will come and blackmail them at the thought of it. Whatever these people fancie, they take it all with their hands, and never expect to give a penny. As for the Hu merchants who prospered the entire Nanshi in the past, almost none of them are now visible.

Since the rebellion of the rebels, all trade routes have been almost cut off, and those Hu merchants who came from the Western Regions, brought special products from the far west, and bought the goods of the Tang Dynasty at the same time, either fled back to Guanzhong, or hid in the countryside, leaving only these merchants who were doing business locally and were reluctant and too late to escape!

In the Wangyue Attached Shop in a corner of the South City, a middle-aged man is fiddling with an abacus to settle accounts. Although the door was wide open, no one looked back at the rebel officers or non-commissioned officers passing by. But all the merchants in the south of the city, must open a shop, this is a strict regulation, can be from the cabinet shop to the attached shop such as often involving a large amount of money transactions, as early as the first time after the city was broken ushered in the wolf-like rebels, almost robbed clean, here is no exception.

On that day, a total of ten cash boxes were carried out, each of which was a hundred yuan, which was a million dollars, and there were many gold and silver objects, and now there was nothing of value here except for people.

Because of this, when an emaciated man who looked extremely depressed entered the door, he did not arouse anyone's suspicion at all. This person came to the counter when he entered the door, took out a copper mirror with rusty stains from his arms and handed it over, as if he wanted to pledge something, but he whispered in his mouth: "I just got the news, the little junior brother is out of Tongguan." ”

"Hmm." Lu Wangzhi continued to write something in the account book without raising his head, but it was all numbers, and none of the rebels could understand it when they picked it up. After a long time, he raised his head, rubbed his somewhat sore wrist, took the bronze mirror and looked at it over and over, and asked Pei Ning, "How many of them are okay?" ”

"Finally, there is no hunger strike."

Speaking of this, Pei Ning seemed helpless, when he found that Luoyang City could not be protected at all, the city was in chaos, he quietly led people to knock out Li Xi, Lu Yi, Zhang Jieran and other important high-ranking officials, and transferred them all to a private house cellar that had been prepared for a long time, in addition to hiding a part of the resolutely resisting rebels, and instigating some people who had long planned to surrender to embrace Da Xixun to present the city to An Lushan. Sure enough, Da Xixun, a soft bone, immediately surrendered to An Lushan, and Chen Xilie also surrendered after An Lushan's personal visit, and when he sent a few dead soldiers, on the grounds that the prince died in vain, it was said that the people of Luoyang asked An Lushan to call An Lushan the emperor of Tang, An Lushan was in a good mood, and finally did not really slaughter the city.

But it was precisely because Li Xin and the others all survived that these people with strong personalities all decided to go on a hunger strike and martyrdom at first, or he was so good at saying that he would keep his useful body first, turn back to help make internal responses, and retake Luoyang City for this reason, and appeased him in every possible way, and it was easy to pull people back. Of course, the reason why he, a cold-faced person, came forward was because his brother was the famous Pei Kuan, and at the time of Luoyang Chengpo before, his name was better than Du Shiyi, whose whereabouts were unknown when Luoyang fell!

"It's good if you don't go on a hunger strike, An Lushan wants to be the emperor, the people in Luoyang City have already suffered a lot, and now they are forced to kneel on both sides of the road to greet them when they worship in the suburbs in the future, so they naturally hate it even more." Lu Wangzhi pretended to take this bronze mirror and looked left and right, and asked softly after a while, "You came here on purpose today, but what did Xue Langjun say?" ”

Regarding the matter of Xue Chao pretending to be a native of Beibi Mountain, Lu Wangzhi felt angry and funny after hearing about it. However, after all, he is not a child of a young rich family like Xue Chao, and his hatred for the Son of Heaven is not as good as someone's performance, and now seeing that An Lushan is planning to be the emperor after entering Luoyang, and on the other hand, he even let Xue Chao inherit the title of King of Lijie County in a decent manner, he is even more speechless. Fortunately, what he had to do was to ask Pei Ning to send some manuscripts to Xue Chao, and he didn't expect him to listen to the truth in An Lushan's army, and An Lushan was not very wary of Xue Chao, who had no real power, and this line was always kept in contact.

"That's right, it was said that Cui Qianyou and the others were defeated and retreated, An Lushan was furious, and whipped the three generals of the defeated army and the solemn and noble two on the Hanyuan Palace." Pei Ning paused, and then said meaningfully, "Moreover, because Tian Qianzhen and the others are almost out of soldiers, An Lushan instructed them to gather troops and horses and leave Luoyang, and find a way to make up the number of troops under their command." ”

Such news is not a big secret, so Xue Chaofang was able to hear about it. Lu Wangzhi knew that even if he did everything possible to send a letter to Princess Gu'an, and managed to make people swallow the remnants of Cui Qianyou's three people who went out to catch Zhuangding, the help for the overall situation would be very limited, and it would make An Lushan dog jump off the wall in a hurry, but what if he managed to send a part of the volunteers to Cui Qianyou and the three and put them under their command? After exchanging glances with Pei Ning, he knew that the other party wanted to go with him, so he nodded immediately.

"I'll leave this matter to you. It's not easy to get in and out of Luoyang these days, you have to be careful. In addition, please Xue Langjun must think of a way to keep the newly built Heyang pontoon bridge. I only hope that the soldiers and horses in Hedong will not be cowering in Taiyuan Mansion all the time, and Wang Chengye should also have some responsibility for the Hedong Festival! ”

Pei Ning stretched out his hand to take the bronze mirror from Lu Wangzhi's hand, as if the pledge had been frustrated, and took it back into his arms angrily, but said coldly: "If he doesn't have a burden, then change someone to replace him!" ”

Taiyuan Mansion Hedong Jiedu Embassy, Taiyuan Yin and Hedong Jiedu Envoy Wang Chengye is squinting his eyes to enjoy the singing and dancing of the singers, as if the outside world is not a series of military disasters, but a peaceful and prosperous era. Although the secretary Tian Jian had repeatedly urged and reminded him, he never paid attention. It wasn't until the end of the song that he clapped his hands and motioned for them all to retreat, and then he said to Tian Jian angrily: "What's the hurry, Pei Xiuzhen is just an idler now, seeing that he is the one I gave to the middle family Pei's three points of thin noodles, and I don't see that he is my Hedong Jiedu envoy, what nonsense does he dare to say?" ”

Seeing that Wang Chengye actually used such an impatient contemptuous tone towards Pei Xiuzhen, Tian Jian only felt helpless. However, he still patiently persuaded: "Dashuai, now it is not as good as before." If the thief is still strong, then as long as the marshal can keep the peace of Hedong Road, it will be enough to make His Majesty happy. But now the right minister and Anbei Metropolitan Protector Du Shiyi and Shuo Fang Jiedu envoy Guo Ziyi ......"

Before he finished speaking, Wang Chengye slapped the armrest heavily: "Don't mention Du Shiyi and Guo Ziyi to me!" They sent troops without following the edict, obviously with ulterior motives! His Majesty is helpless against them, I will never listen to them! You send me another letter to urge Yunzhou, and let Du Wangzhi bring Mrs. Jin Guo to see me immediately! If he doesn't come again, don't blame me for his crimes!" ”

How do you treat his crimes, do you dare to send the Heavenly Soldiers to Yunzhou to ask for his crimes?

Tian Jian slandered in his heart, but he knew that Wang Chengye was such a character, so he could only agree, but he made up his mind not to do such a stupid thing that offended people. Du Shiyi is already in the right position, and after he quells the rebellion in the future, he will not be as powerful as Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong? The merits of this counterinsurgency alone were enough for him to gain countless support. I think that Wang Chengye also had the opportunity to achieve the achievements of a generation of famous ministers, as long as he could resolutely send troops to Heluo at that time, maybe he could still relieve the siege of Luoyang, but what did Wang Chengye do?

Just like the attitude towards Tian Jianbiao just now, when Wang Chengye saw Pei Xiuzhen, his attitude was naturally very arrogant. When Pei Xiuzhen opened his mouth to ask him to send troops to Heluo, he was even more furious, and suddenly stood up and said: "If you are not in your position, you are not in your position, you are no longer the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, and you don't have to worry about Hedong military affairs!" The rebels are now entrenched in Luoyang, and there has been an edict ordering Li Yi, the king of Wu, to be the envoy of Henan Jiedu, responsible for resisting the conquest, and my responsibility is to protect Hedong without losing! Someone, send off! ”

Seeing Wang Chengye brushing his sleeves away like this, Pei Xiuzhen just frowned. He was not surprised by this trip in vain, in fact, Wang Chengye was so good back then, and now he is just revealing his true appearance. Although Du Shiyi's letter to him instructed him to agitate the army at the right time, he could not make up his mind, and now it seems that he is too soft-hearted. When Tian Jian came to be in charge of sending off the guests with an embarrassed face, he asked thoughtfully: "I heard that General Cheng Qianli, the deputy envoy of Hedong Jiedu, is still in Taiyuan Mansion, I wonder if Secretary Tian can quietly lead me to see him tonight?" ”

Tian Jian also hopes to befriend this Pei elder who has the right to speak in the Pei clan in the middle family. So, he only hesitated a little, and finally agreed. When sending Pei Xiuzhen out of the Hedong Jiedu Embassy, he thought about it for a while and said in a low voice: "General Cheng was scolded by Wang Dashuai for a while because of the convenient relationship between Yunzhou Daizhou and Anbei soldiers and horses, saying that he, the deputy envoy of Hedong Jiedu, was too slow. ”

Cheng Qianli is a veteran general in the army, he once served as the deputy of Fumeng Lingcha in the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and his status was once above Gao Xianzhi, the current envoy of the Moxi Jiedu, Wang Chengye dared to train people like a grandson?

Pei Xiuzhen sneered in her heart, but her face was more gentle towards Tian Jian. When saying goodbye, he suddenly stretched out his hand, as if to his own son and nephew, and patted Tian Jian lightly on the shoulder.

"Secretary Tian, I heard that you are quite famous in Hedong. With your qualifications, it's a pity to assist a marshal like Wang Chengye. ”