Can Zhongzai also guarantee Helong's countless military expenditures every year? Who will guard the territory and protect the prosperity of Chang'an? The right prime minister is not as unbearable as the world says, so he talked about today's matter. At least he is wise and understands the overall situation."

Ge Shuhan pointed at Xue Bai and said: "As for you, you are still young. Young people see right and wrong in the world very clearly. Military and national affairs cannot be handled like you do."

Xue Bai said: "I didn't expect the general to have such a good eloquence. What would the general suggest me do?"

"You go back to the Youxiang Mansion, admit your mistake to Youxiang, and ask him to protect Yan Gong's reputation, and the matter will be settled." Ge Shuhan said, "As for those Tubo people, I will personally keep an eye on them and test their sincerity.

"

"Then let me say a few words from my heart, okay?"

"good."

"No matter how right General Geshu is, it is only in your interests, or in other words, in the interests of Hexi and Longyou." Xue Bai said: "If I worship the prime minister today, I will not provide a large amount of military expenses like Ge Nu.

Helong, because I think the Tang Dynasty is already strong on the outside and weak on the inside, and I think the people's power can no longer support the saint's great achievements."

"This is not something you should discuss."

"But right is right and wrong is wrong. No matter how much you try to cover up, you can't hide the fact that Ge Nu has brought this prosperous era to collapse. Even he himself has a guilty conscience and persecutes everyone who is more talented than him. If the general only sees

Helong is your duty as the governor of Jiedushi. Then I am committed to the country, so I should see that the Tang Dynasty has many long-standing shortcomings and needs to be changed urgently."

Ge Shuhan was stunned for a moment, then drank a whole bowl of wine and said: "No matter how right you are, it can't change the fact that the Tubo people were not careful and Yan Zhenqing impeached the wrong person."

"I trust my teacher on this matter, and I will prove that the teacher is right."

"Young."

Ge Shuhan said no more and took another jar of wine.

Xue Bai looked at it and couldn't help but advise: "General, it's better to drink less. You are the best drinker I have ever seen."

"Thank you for the compliment." Ge Shuhan raised the wine bowl, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes looked a little proud.

Xue Bai felt for a moment that he could not persuade his brother Shuhan to drink less, just like he could not change the Tang Dynasty.

~~

After leaving Pingkangfang, Xue Bai rubbed his face in the snow and thought about the whole thing.

He believed in Yan Zhenqing even more, not only because of the friendship between master and apprentice, but also because of his general understanding of history.

He didn't know about the Tubo coup. He only knew that perhaps more than ten years later, the Tubo troops attacked Chang'an, causing Emperor Daizong of Tang Dynasty to abandon the capital and flee in panic.

There might be some suing for peace or civil strife in Tubo, but he was deeply wary of it.

Like Yan Zhenqing, he did not think that General Jinwu's private meeting with the Tibetan people was an advantage for the Tang Dynasty.

In this prosperous age of the Tang Dynasty, many people continued to win battles, which made many people take it lightly...

Thinking of this, Xue Bai first went to find Da Xi Yingying.

"But I sent someone to keep an eye on it. How about my teacher?"

"Mr. Yan has returned to his hometown. This kind of lawsuit will not put him in jail." Da Xi Yingying hesitated for a moment and then said: "But I heard that some people want to overturn the case handled by Mr. Yan in Shuofang County."

"Then what?"

"If this is the case, it may damage Duke Yan's reputation."

"The teacher's reputation is good, but he will not be burdened by his reputation."

"yes."

Xue Bai had a lot of things to ask Da Xi Yingying to do, so he couldn't help but ask: "Niang Niang, Niang Niang has sent you a letter. When will you arrive in Chang'an?"

"It's coming soon, it's just a few days."

"Okay." Xue Bai said: "You can help me check a few people..."

~~

Dunhuafang, Yanzhai.

It was already evening when Xue Bai arrived, and he saw two carriages slowly driving away. It seemed that officials were visiting.

When I entered Yan's house, I saw that preparations for the wedding had already begun everywhere.

This actually made Xue Bai a little embarrassed.

He was led to the study to meet Yan Zhenqing.

"teacher."

"You shouldn't come here all the time before you get married." Yan Zhenqing was rummaging through files, making the study a mess.

Xue Bai couldn't help but ask: "What is the teacher looking for?"

"Some records about Tubo... You don't have to worry. I'm just doing my job. They can't do anything to me. The most they can do is let me relocate."

"Moving to other places will also delay the teacher's appointment as prime minister."

"If you don't have enough qualifications, why should you be a minister?"

"Teacher is only four steps away from worshiping the prime minister." Xue Bai stepped forward and said, "The student came here because of the Tubo people. Brother Shuhan said, Li Yanye met the Tubo people on the basis of the saint's secret order?"

"He actually told you?" Yan Zhenqing sighed: "You shouldn't get involved in this matter."

"The students think that the teacher is implicated by the students." Xue Bai said: "Otherwise, Ge Nu can just remind the teacher, and there is no need to force him like this."

"Everything has to do with you, right?"

"When the students came, I saw an official leaving. I wonder who it was?"

"Okay." Yan Zhenqing put down the file in his hand and said, "Luo Xishu is here and persuades me to submit to Ge Nu."

"How to surrender?"

"I said you are of low status and are in trouble. I shouldn't have hired a troublemaker like you as my son-in-law. I should have taken you to make amends to the right prime minister."

"otherwise?"

"I handled Li Yanye's case wrongly. If Zheng Yanzuo's case comes out again and I wrongly accuse him, my official reputation and career will be ruined."

Xue Bai asked: "What does the teacher plan to do?"

Yan Zhenqing stroked his long beard and said, "I told Luo Xixi that I would consider it."

As soon as these words came out, the master and the disciple couldn't help but smile at the same time, looking a little cunning.

"Did the teacher really make a mistake in Li Yanye's case?"

Yan Zhenqing thought deeply and said: "General Geshu did tell me that those Tubo people who met Li Yanye wanted to discuss getting rid of Chidaizhudan. But I still continued to impeach Li Yanye. For one thing, private meetings with foreign ministers are a serious crime, especially

Li Yanye is a general of the Forbidden Army. If everyone comes up with excuses, Chang'an will be in chaos. Secondly, those Tubo people are cunning, and I still doubt their purpose."

"What does the teacher suspect? Are they going to assassinate the saint?"

"no."

Yan Zhenqing pondered and said: "On my way back to Chang'an, I saw those Tubo people in the post house, and I had some bad intuitions..."

Just when he said this, there was a rushing sound outside the study.

"Alang!"

Yan Zhenqing opened the door and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Southern Xinjiang... Mr. Guo died of illness!"

"What?"

"Guo Erlang is right outside the door, please see Alang."

"quick!"

Yan Zhenqing strode to the hall and saw a young man wearing sackcloth and mourning, crying and prostrating on the ground.

"Mr. Yan, my grandfather and brother are all gone..."

~~

The eighth year of Tianbao was about to end, but in the twelfth lunar month, another Shangzhuguo died.

Dr. Yinqing Guanglu, Minister of the Ministry of Inspection and Industry, interview envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, director of the governor's office of Shu County, deputy ambassador of Zhijieduzhiyingtian in Jiannan Jiedu, interviewer and handler of this road and Shannan West Road, on

Zhu Guo, Guo Xuji.

Guo Xuji was born in the Guo family of Taiyuan. He was a soldier all his life. He defeated Tubo, Qiang and Nanzhao successively, guarded Jiannan, and shocked the frontier. Before his death, he had just sent troops from Sichuan and Sichuan, broke through Qianbiao City, captured the Tubo Prime Minister, and

Put down a rebellion in Nanzhao.

He also had a sister who married the saint as Zhaoyi and was known as Guo Shunyi. Guo Shunyi gave birth to the saint's sixteenth son, King Yong Li Lin.

Xue Bai had heard of Guo Xuji's name several times, once from the wealthy businessman Guo Wanjin, who claimed to be a relative of Guo Xuji, and once from Guo Taigong in Guo Town, who also claimed to be related to Guo Xuji.

However, Xue Bai first killed Guo Wanjin and then took the land belonging to Guo Taigong, but did not see the Guo family in Taiyuan come to take revenge.

No matter what, this year, Datang lost another famous general.

…

The person who came to Chang'an to report the news was Guo Xuji's second son Guo Shu, because Guo Xuji's eldest son also died in the border area with him.
To be continued...