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Chapter 539: Henan Province is in Chaos!
Henan was in chaos again, and news of An Qingxu's comeback reached Taiyuan Mansion.

Shi Siming, who was basking in the sun in the yard, got the news almost at the same time as Emperor Datang.

Shi Siming, who closed his eyes and rested his mind, jumped up from the reclining chair when he heard the report from his subordinates.

Seeing the detailed defeat, Shi Siming was as dumbfounded as the Tang emperor.

No one expected that An Qingxu, who was considered a bereaved dog, would make such a big fight in the blink of an eye.

Soon Shi Siming's youngest son Shi Chaoqing strode into the courtyard and said to Shi Siming:

"Father! An Qingxu is making trouble again, what should we do?"

For Shi Siming's surrender to the Tang Dynasty, Shi Chaoqing and other young factions were dissatisfied.

In their view, the royal family of Li and Tang, who lost even the ancestral mausoleum and Chang'an Luoyang, are pure waste snacks.

If it weren't for the incompetence of An Qingxu, a patricide and usurper who was afraid of Shi Siming's prestige, and transferred Shi Siming back to Hedong, the Tang Dynasty would have been defeated long ago.

His father surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and the Shi family father and son only received two envoys. In the eyes of young men like Shi Chaoqing, Shi Siming was too cowardly.

As soon as An Qingxu broke out, Shi Chaoqing came to Shi Siming immediately when he got the news, just to make Shi Siming also raise troops to respond to An Qingxu and send his troops south to attack the second capital of the Tang Dynasty again!
Shi Siming raised his hand and said, "I know what you are going to say, but now is not the time."

Shi Chaoqing couldn't help but said: "Father commander! Isn't now the best time? Taking advantage of the emptiness of Luoyang's defense in the Tang Dynasty, we will go south with An Qingxu's army and capture Luoyang again!"

Shi Siming said: "No, we just surrendered to Datang. Now that the hearts of the people in Hedong are not in harmony, it is not the time to raise troops!"

"Then when is the time to raise troops?"

There was an old fox-like smile on Shi Siming's face. He looked at this frizzy little son, and he also thought of giving him advice, so he said:

"Wait two o'clock."

"An Qingxu raised his troops in a hurry. Winter has just passed, and Xiangzhou has not had spring plowing yet. Even if it had been plowed in spring, it would not be able to harvest food right now. The Yan army must be short of food."

"An Qingxu will definitely ask for food from his father. It is the best policy to give him some food and grass for him and Tang Jun to consume."

"Secondly, the Tang court must deal with An Qingxu's rebellion. As long as the Tang court orders the Hedong army to dispatch the rebellion, then we can stir up the morale of the army and go south again!"

Shi Chaoqing now understood what his father meant.

Hedong Siding, Shi Siming accepted Datang's recruitment because the Hedong army didn't want to continue fighting endlessly.

The An Lushan rebellion took away all the young and strong elites of the three towns in Hedong, and also drained the wealth of the three towns in Hedong.

Shi Siming was able to sit firmly in Taiyuan Jiedushi because he followed the morale of the army and the people.

If there is another rebellion at this time, not only the people in Hedong will not support him, but even the army in Taiyuan may not support him.

But when Datang ordered the Hedong Army to suppress the rebellion, the situation was different.

Anyway, if there is going to be a war, instead of being used as a knife by the Tang court, it is better to turn it back again!

Shi Chaoqing sighed again that Jiang is still old and spicy, since his father is not going to be Datang's dog, then Shi Chaoqing is relieved.

Watching his younger son leave the yard, Shi Siming sighed.

This youngest son is actually inferior to the eldest son Shi Chaoyi in terms of temperament and talent.

But the old man prefers the younger son, and sometimes the ignorance of the younger son will not make Shi Siming feel threatened.

On the contrary, every time he sees the eldest son in his prime, Shi Siming always feels inexplicable anger.

As Shi Siming expected, the Tang court also quarreled over the East Palace and King Qi's counter-insurgency strategy.

Cui Yuan, the prime minister who persuaded Shi Siming to surrender as an envoy, wrote a letter with fierce words, thinking that Shi Siming had just surrendered, and now letting Hedong go to quell An Qingxu's rebellion is tantamount to forcing Shi Siming to rebel again.

Obviously, Cui Yuan, who held the credit for persuading Shi Siming to surrender, was tied to Shi Siming politically.

If Shi Siming rebelled again, it would be a devastating blow to Cui Yuan's political life, and he would have to resign as a minister.

In the entire Tang court, the prime minister was the one who least wanted Shi Siming to rebel.

Cui Yuan knew very well that Hedong didn't really belong to Datang, but the situation forced him to surrender.

Now the Tang court ordered Hedong to fight An Qingxu, isn't that treating others as fools?

Such an obvious drive to drive away wolves and tigers, can Shi Siming, an old fox, take the bait?

However, Prime Minister Pei Mian strongly opposed the mobilization of the Longyou army to enter the pass. He wrote a letter saying that Tubo was attacking Xichuan fiercely, and that Longyou in the east of the river might also be attacked. At this time, the Longyou army should not be mobilized to enter the pass.

Two suggestions, permuted and combined to produce four results.

These four plans kept arguing in the emperor's ears, and Li Heng was upset.

It's also so difficult for me to be the emperor!

After finally fighting back to Chang'an, just after a new year, why did the front line ruin the city like this?
Thinking of when his father became emperor, An Lushan would dance the Hu dance topless to amuse his father.

This emperor is really more pissed off than the emperor!
But if the imperial court continues to be so noisy, I am afraid that they will not be able to maintain their daily work.

The emperor had no choice but to personally issue an order to suspend the great court debate.

Now that Longyou entered the customs, it was far from being able to quench his thirst. The emperor ordered the king of Yue to reorganize the army in Longyou and obey the imperial court's orders at any time.

Then he ordered the implementation of the recruitment policy of three Ding and one Ding in Guanzhong again. At the same time, Luoyang Duji, Huaibei and other places also recruited troops and sent them to Guo Ziyi and Zhang Xun to guard Luoyang City.

The emperor ordered Li Guangbi, the leader of Xiangzhou's defeat, to be pardoned for his crimes, and ordered him to lead the army again to perform his crimes and make meritorious service.

On Shi Siming's side, the emperor still ordered Hedong to send troops to attack the rebels and assist the Tang army to put down the rebellion.

With the imperial decree, Prime Minister Cui Yuan immediately asked the court to resign from the position.

The emperor went out of formality and consoled Cui Yuan three times in a row, and then ordered Cui Yuan to be the envoy to observe the economic strategy of the East of Lingnan.

The Zhengshitang once again lost a prime minister, and many officials felt warmed up.

After Wei Jiansu dismissed his chancellor, Cui Yuan followed suit.

There are only five prime ministers left in the Zhengshitang, and many people have seen the vacant seats in the Zhengshitang.

Then Guo Ziyi's performance finally did not disappoint Datang. He established a defensive line in Heyin and blocked the first wave of attacks from the false Yan pioneer Cui Youqian.

The puppet Yan army was frustrated in their attack on Luoyang, so they had to form a village opposite Heyin to confront each other.

And the problem of insufficient food in An Qingxu's hands has also begun to be exposed.

An Qingxu had to suspend his military operations and began to ask for food from Hedong.

After the actual beating, An Qingxu was obviously much more down-to-earth than before.

An Qingxu's letter to Shi Siming was very senior, asking Shi Siming for military rations in the tone of his nephew, and even An Qingxu pragmatically proposed to cede Anyang City, the gateway to Henan Province, to Shi Siming in exchange for a batch of military horses.

After An Qingxu's envoy arrived in Taiyuan, Shi Chaoqing immediately took the envoy to see Shi Siming.

He tried his best to appease the envoy Shi Siming, and after arranging the envoy to rest in the back, Shi Siming said:

"Father commander! Since An Qingxu is willing to exchange Anyang City for food and war horses, let's exchange them for him!"

Shi Siming shook his head and said, "I didn't expect An Qingxu to grow so much. It's a pity that you idiot still haven't made progress. As expected, only adversity can sharpen people."

Shi Chaoqing blushed. Before An Lushan raised his troops, he often made comparisons with An Qingxu.

They are all sons without inheritance rights, but Shi Chaoqing is more favored than An Qingxu, and they were all playboys walking birds in a cage in Hedong back then.

It's just that after the An Lushan rebellion swept through Guanzhong, An Qingzong, the heir of the An family, was killed, and An Qingxu became the prince of the Dayan Dynasty.

Immediately after An Lushan died suddenly and An Qingxu ascended the throne as emperor, Shi Chaoqing was quite uncomfortable at that time.

The person who had just glanced at him suddenly turned into an emperor and became the monarch of his own father and brother.

Later An Qingxu lost two capitals and fled to Xiangzhou, Shi Chaoqing was still inexplicably happy.

But hearing his father praise An Qingxu himself, Shi Chaoqing was even more unconvinced, and he asked: "What's so great about An Qingxu, my father is too flattering on him."

Shi Siming smiled and said: "Using an Anyang city to pull me, Shi Siming, into the attack on Datang, this is a good plan for An Qingxu."

"Since this An Qingxu has bad intentions, why don't we kill the envoy and send it to Datang!"

Shi Siming smiled helplessly, and Shi Chaoqing seemed to see the sarcasm in his father's smile, and he quickly said, "Then let's give An Qingxu food and march into Anyang City?"

Shi Siming still shook his head, and Shi Chaoqing said anxiously: "This is not okay, and that is not okay, what the hell is going on!"

Shi Siming said: "You ask someone to reply to the messenger. The food from the east of the river can be delivered to your majesty, and the horses from the east of the river are also lacking. There is really no way to support your majesty."

"This Anyang City was captured by His Majesty. Siming dare not take it, so please keep it."

Shi Chaoqing looked at his father in surprise: "Father, didn't you make a wrong order? We want to give food to An Qingxu, but don't want Anyang City?"

Shi Siming looked at his son, and explained: "The food An Qingxu is given is for him to survive in Xiangzhou."

"The reason for not marching into Anyang City is to not take the initiative to get involved in the war."

"When An Qingxu and the Tang army are almost exhausted, our army will enter the battlefield again, and then we will be able to fight to determine the world!"

After listening to Shi Siming's words, Shi Chaoqing bowed his head in shame. Sure enough, he was far behind his father-in-law!

Just when the eyes of the entire Tang Dynasty were drawn to Henan Road, Yu Chixin, posing as a businessman, came to Yuguan.

(End of this chapter)