Xue Longxiang told his embarrassment on the issue of Geshuhan, and finally expressed his determination to take Tang Li's decision as the basis. For him, this was not only a means to avoid disaster, but also a way to prove to Tang Li yesterday's "refuge" with practical actions.

Sitting upright on Hu's bench, tapping the desk beside him with his fingers. Tang Li did not speak hastily, but fell into deep thought with the crisp knocking sound. After a long time, he turned sideways to Xue Longxiang and said, "Old Xue, what do you think An Lushan is like?"

"An Lushan! He is so happy to be a meritorious and tyrannical. Although he always looks rough and arrogant in front of His Majesty whenever he comes to Chang'an, he is actually domineering in private and treats Fan Yang as if he is from his family courtyard. Not to mention the other ministries in the imperial city, even the Ministry of War, which I directly manages, will not be poured into." In this regard, Xue Longxiang sighed with regret: "Today's Fan Yang has two-thirds of the military power in the world, and for the court, it has become a big trend. In this regard, if General Geshu can implement this memorial, it will be of great benefit to the court."

"The tail is big and won't fall off!" After murmured and repeated, Tang Li did not answer Xue Longxiang's words, and then asked again: "If I say that An Lushan will rebel one day, what does General Xue think?"

The Tang Dynasty has been peaceful for a hundred years, especially at its peak, so when Xue Longxiang, who kept shaking his head when he just talked about An Lushan, couldn't help but suddenly rise up and said, "Rebel!"

Facing Xue Longxiang's wide eyes, he nodded slightly and said, "That's right! Now An Lushan not only regards Fan Yang as his family courtyard, but also has private equity troops outside the imperial system, but also has many other things that go beyond the rules. From my perspective, his rebellion is only between morning and evening."

"Private equity army? Is this a matter true?" Seeing Tang Lizheng's focus, Xue Longxiang, who knew that he had never lie, turned from shock to deep concern. After a long time, he said: "This matter is really horrifying when I heard it suddenly. I just thought about An Lushan, which is indeed reasonable. However, I really hope that what I don't care about is false news."

"This matter has been confirmed to be true. Lao Xue does not need to be doubted. In total, these private equity soldiers should be between 40,000." Tang Li's further explanation completely destroyed Xue Longxiang's hope.

"Forty thousand!" Xue Longxiang heard this number, his hand holding the desk just now couldn't help but tremble for a while. Although the imperial court also allowed the generals of the border town to recruit soldiers to fill the insufficient military strength due to the corruption of the government military system, private sergeants themselves were like rebellion outside the imperial system. Moreover, the number of recruits was still so large that the military power under Fan Yang accounted for more than one-third of the total military power of the Tang Dynasty. Now, these private soldiers are almost half of the total military power in the country. Wouldn't such news shock Xue Longxiang, who was born in the old military affairs? Especially after learning that An Lushan, who has these military powers, was very likely to rebel, Xue Longxiang, as the minister of the Ministry of War, had the first reaction in his mind was the scene of swords and guns flowing everywhere.

"No, this matter is related to the foundation of the country. You must report to Your Majesty immediately." After a moment of silence with horror on his face, Xue Longxiang, who had just sat down, suddenly said.

Seeing him like this, Tang Li sighed in his heart that he had not seen this person wrongly, but he just smiled faintly and asked: "Based on An Lushan's favor today, the general thinks that Your Majesty will believe what he said? I think the general's trip is not only useless, but he will definitely hurt himself."

Tang Li was really confident about his own judgment. After more than ten years of disguise, the older Xuanzong of Xuanzong trusted Fatty An. After all, in the original history, until An Lushan's rebels had occupied most of Hedong, Xuanzong still did not believe that An Lushan would rebel was an ironclad evidence. Therefore, under the current situation, if Xue Longxiang really made a suggestion, it would not only be difficult to shake An Lushan, but also very likely to trap himself in.

Upon hearing this, Xue Longxiang sat down depressedly, pondered for a moment before saying, "I understand the meaning of love. Since you have told me so many things, you must agree to send your advice from Fan Yang to Longxi."

"What Lao Xue said is not bad." Tang Li gently tapped the case beside him and said, "However, the specific time for Fan Yang to dispatch troops to Longxi in this comment is worth considering."

"Oh! What do you mean by the love?" Following Tang Li's gesture, Xue Longxiang, who was puzzled, turned sideways gently...

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He personally sent Xue Longxiang out, and Tang Lizhong returned to the study. Seeing him coming, Zhen'er, who was freely packing the tea, smiled and served Tang Lizhong's new tea, and stood behind the new owner to carefully massage him and loosen his shoulder bones.

After all, he has specialized in his profession. Zhen'er's technique is so powerful that he uses even force, making Tang Li feel extremely relaxed with his eyes slightly closed. It was in this relaxation that he slowly fell into deep thought.

Longxi had just experienced a great war, and the lack of troops required the court to increase the adjustment was a good idea, but Ge Shuhan pointed out in this memorial that he wanted to borrow Fan Yang's troops. Such a move was really interesting.

Compared with the intention of Geshuhan's memorial, Tang Li thought more about An Lushan's reaction.

In fact, as long as he finished reading this memorial, Tang Li already knew the result of the military transfer. For An Lushan now, not to mention the 60,000 elite cavalry that had one-third of his military strength, he would not give him even 6,000 people.

Since the result is destined, Tang Li is most concerned about An Lushan's consideration and reaction to this matter. In other words, what he is most worried about is whether this memorial by Geshuhan this time will lead to Fan Yang's early rebellion.

Over the past decade, under the protection of Li Linfu and the favor of Xuanzong, Fatty An, from a small low-level military officer to a prince, has been gradually expanding his power and finally enriching his wings. In the past, because of Li Linfu's existence and the favor of Xuanzong, it was from emperors to prime ministers. The entire court created an extremely relaxed external environment for An Lushan. In such an environment, although An Lushan had a rebellious intention, his rebellious intention would definitely be weak. Even if he wanted to rebel, he lacked an excuse to convince his subordinates and write a "prophet" to raise an army.

However, with the death of Li Linfu and the rise of the party of foreign relatives, the political atmosphere that was originally extremely beneficial to An Lushan in the court was gradually disappearing, especially after Yang Guozhong quickly emerged, this trend became more and more obvious. In fact, Yang Guozhong, who had already hated An Lushan, has begun to act. Fan Yang, who had always been given priority in supply, is now being controlled everywhere in terms of money and food. It is either dragged or pressed, which must be stimulated by Fatty An. If these temporary fashions are tolerated, then when An Lushan finds that his mortal enemy is increasingly favored by His Majesty, and the court even wants to extend his hand to his army and transfer 60,000 elite cavalry, this indirect weakening of military power is very likely the critical point of Fan Yang's outbreak.

Faced with this "Anshi Rebellion" that is very likely to break out in advance, Tang Li was both happy and worried. He was happy that if Fan Yang raised his troops in a hurry in advance because of being forced, his preparations would definitely not be as sufficient as in the original history. In this way, the less disaster he would be, and the less difficult it would be to pacify the court. But he was worried that if An Lushan really raised his troops at this time, he would disrupt many of his arrangements. After all, the arrangements he had prepared in advance would take time to complete.

Previously, due to many objective conditions, Tang Li's defense against An Lushan could only be carried out in secret and could not borrow the power of the court. This determined that although his arrangements were extremely effective, they all took a long time to prepare. Striking the Shanji Warehouse and cutting off the economic source of An Lushan's private soldiers would take time to launch a propaganda offensive, completely eliminate Anshi's name as the "Two Saints" and breaking the worship of the people of the two rivers. This seemingly useless merit will be completely cut off when the battle formation really comes.

The civil foundation of the Yang rebel army also takes time. As for the infiltration of Ah San into the old subordinates of the Xi tribe, it is a move to remove the firewood from the foundation of An Lushan. Similarly, this also takes time. Others such as Guo Ziyi, who is actively rectifying Hedong defense and military power, also takes time. Now, with Xue Longxiang's identity as the Minister of War, Tang Li can prepare for the Anshi Rebellion on a larger scale. Similarly, such preparations also take time... For Tang Li, what he needs most now is time.

It takes time, but it does not mean that Tang Li can deny Geshuhan's memorial. If he does this, he will not only have a rift with Yang Guozhong, who regards An Lushan as a gangster, but it is also hard to talk to Geshuhan. At the same time, he does not want to delay An Lushan's rebellion time again and again. Based on these two contradictions, Tang Li's most hope is that the "Anshi Rebellion" that is destined to break out can break out at his scheduled time.

To achieve this expected effect and control the time well, there is also a node that can be adjusted. Tang Li used to take great pains to find such a node. Fortunately, no matter what kind of idea Ge Shuhan used to write this memorial, his memorial itself did provide such a node.

Longxi lacks troops, and Fan Yang's nearly 200,000 elite cavalry were idle. There is a basic fact that, afterwards, the advice of Yang Guozhong and Yang Fei, coupled with Xue Longxiang's suggestion, it is no problem to ask Xuanzong to agree to approve Geshuhan's memorial. The biggest problem lies in the choice of the time to mobilize troops, and this specific time to mobilize troops is the node where Tang Li can regulate the "Anshi Rebellion".

With Yang Guozhong's success and suppression of Fan Yang, with such an edict to draw one-third of his military power, it was expected that An Lushan was forced to raise an army. However, the edict stipulated that the last time for the allocation of military power would be the specific time for An Lushan to raise an army.

An Lushan would never hand over his 60,000 people to Geshuhan, but in the face of the emperor's military order, if he refused to be summoned, his behavior would be like a rebellion. But in the same situation as Tang Li, he also needed time and time to prepare. After all, rebellion and rebellion are not a small matter. The mobilization of more than 200,000 people, food and grass preparation, etc. all take time. Unless the edict gives more than one day of buffer time, he will use enough one day as preparation before the uprising. When this deadline comes, that is, Fatty An, who is destined to be summoned, officially raises the army. Tang Li just instructed Xue Longxiang to set this time node and let the bomb destined to explode at the scheduled time.

Of course, this will inevitably give An Lushan more time to prepare consciously, but compared to the harvest, this is indeed a price that has to be paid. Although Tang Li was extremely reluctant, he knew the truth that "what you gain will have to lose something."

"Since you can't stop it, you can only do your best to control it!" Tang Li's murmured to himself indifferently.

"Young Master, what did you say?"

"Nothing!" Tang Li smiled slightly, who opened his eyes, "I mean I haven't seen my uncle for a long time, and it's time to go and see him."

"Young Master, you weren't yesterday..." Tang Li stood up and walked out of the study room with a surprised voice.

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There are many aspects of the current idea that require Yang Guozhong's cooperation. Just as Tang Li was about to go to Yichun's residence, he had just walked out of the study and looked up and saw the familiar figure not far ahead.

"Caughter!" Tang Li, who greeted him with surprise, walked up to him quickly.

When Guagua was happy to see Tang Li, he hadn't had much time to greet him. As soon as the two approached, a smile appeared on her face as a greeting, and then he went straight to the point: "Young Master, there are a few guests in the main hall waiting to see you, go quickly!"

"Guest? Who is it?"

"The representative of the thirteen largest maritime merchants in Yangzhou and Jiangnan East." Guagua explained in a low voice as he walked: "Boss Zhao went back to Yangzhou to raise money and trade in Shilla last time, but the results were very little. At first, I said that these maritime merchants who were used to the world looked down on this 'small business'. Who knew that yesterday they knew that these maritime merchants could not trust Zhao Yangming and had to go to Beijing to personally have an interview with you." In this regard, Guagua added in a low voice: "The number of maritime merchants owned by these thirteen maritime merchants accounts for more than 70% of the total number of overseas trade merchant ships in Datang. You should be more enthusiastic after meeting."

Just as he was drowsy, a big pillow suddenly fell from the sky. How could Tang Li not be happy after hearing this? If these people joined, not to mention that the trade scale of Silla ginseng will expand greatly, he even has enough power to go deep into the Bohai Bay from sea to bypass Yuguan, Beikouguan and Fanyang's sphere of influence, and directly purchase good fur goods from Khitan, Shiwei and other tribe hunters. In this way, under the intersection of ginseng and fur trade, the Shanji warehouse will not fall and lose the largest sect's investment. The 40,000 private troops collected by An Lushan... Thinking of this, the smile on the corner of Tang Li's mouth was particularly bright.

"It's all the God of Wealth, who dares to offend them? Let's go and meet them!" After returning Guaigua's smile, Tang Li took the lead in high spirits.

Walking into the main hall with a spring breeze on his face, Tang Li bowed to the dozens of people sitting, and said with a warm smile: "I don't know that you are here, you will be welcomed by mistake. Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me!"

It only looks like Feng Yi. These merchants with sharp eyes knew that this person must be the famous top scholar Tang Li Tang. The enthusiasm of Tang Li when he first met also made these merchants, who had a huge wealth but not very high social status, feel very fond of each other, and are busy getting up to greet and greet without mentioning them.

While I was just seeing the ceremony, I heard a familiar voice beside me saying: "When I came to the mansion to pay my respects yesterday, I saw the second wife worrying about the cold of the adults. Today, I saw the adults more vigorous than when I left Beijing that day. It's so gratifying!"

When Tang Li looked at him, he saw that the person who was talking was a beautiful blue diamond dressed in costume. At this moment, the grasshopper beside him added with a smile: "Young Master doesn't know anything. Sister Lan is the second wife of Boss Zhao, the female shopkeeper who is well-known in Yangzhou. This time, all the wise men came to Beijing and all rely on Sister Lan to receive her. She said that the young master must be a good boy, thank Sister Lan."

Through the semantics of the grasshopper, Tang Li realized that this meeting was made by Lanzhuan Yaoren. Instead, he was not surprised by the fact that she was Zhao Yangming's second wife. Old Zhao could hand over the store of the Love Building to this person. When Tang Li met Lanzhuan Yaoren for the first time, he knew that her relationship with Zhao Yangming must be quite good, and at this time it was just confirming this conjecture.

There was a beautiful blue diamond in the middle, and Tang Li greeted the guests one by one. He was famous and did not have the obsession of the officials at that time despised the merchants. This sincere friendship naturally attracted the praise of the merchants, and the atmosphere in the hall was extremely warm for a moment.

The narrative lasted for more than an hour before it ended. When Guagua watched the merchants gradually fade away, she finally couldn't help but sigh and said, "80%! It's really a bargain. Judging from their appearance before leaving, I'm afraid they can't stop laughing now!"

"I have other plans for this matter!" Seeing Guaijue's appearance, Tang Li smiled slightly and said, "The capital and ships belong to them. We have nothing to pay and we have a net profit of 20% of the net profit. This is quite small? If everything goes well, a big business like this, the dividends of only one year will be enough for us to eat and use for about ten years. Guaijue, you are too greedy."

"What's nothing? Without the young master walking through the joints of Honglu Temple, can they do this business? Without the young master supporting him, they dare to compete with Shanji Warehouse for this piece of fat? And Dengzhou... "Guogu said this indignantly, but saw Tang Li just looking at him with a smile. He suddenly felt angry and chuckled, and said with anger: "Forget it, this is your money, your love will do whatever you like!"

"Why is it 'my money'? Could it be..." Seeing Guaigu's smile so charmingly and cute, Tang Li was about to make a few more words, but he heard a rippling sound of a carriage. When he turned his head to look, he saw Xiao Li's felt carriage coming from afar...


Chapter completed!