First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 44 Bad News

43. Bad news

After the two of them changed into clean clothes, tidied up their appearance, and took their seats.

Before Li Shimin and Li Shimin could speak, Fang Xuanling got up and bowed, "Fang Qiao has met the second son, this gentleman is very polite."

Li Shimin was taken aback when he heard the words, and asked in surprise, "Sir, how do you know that I am Li Shimin?" Then he opened his mouth and looked at Gao Chong, "Are all of you scholars so clever?"

Gao Chong covered his face when he heard the words, "I called your second son just now."

Li Shimin was stunned.

Fang Xuanling was also surprised and said: "It turns out that your honor is the second son of Tang Guogong?".

"Sir, you also know Weiming?" Li Shimin was delighted, without any affectation.

"No one knows the name of the second son in this land of the Three Jins." Fang Xuanling said with a calm smile: "Some time ago, I even heard that the second son personally apologized and compensated the farmers for stealing peaches by his soldiers. admire".

After finishing speaking, he looked at Gao Chong, "Dare to ask this gentleman Gao's name?"

Gao Chong laughed when he heard the words, "I really have the surname Gao".

Fang Xuanling was stunned for a moment, but Gao Chong saluted and said: "Bohai Gao Chong, the word Youzhi, I have seen brother Xuanling."

Seeing that Gao Chong was so funny, everyone laughed, and the atmosphere was very relaxed for a while.

Fang Xuanling was a little puzzled, "How did Youzhi know my calligraphy?"

Gao Chong looked at Li Shimin, and said sternly: "To tell you the truth, I waited for the rain to come here because of Brother Xuanling."

After all, Li Shimin continued tacitly, "Youzhi recommended Brother Xuanling to me, saying that Qinghefang Xuanling is resourceful, knowledgeable and talented. Now that the world is in chaos, I will follow my father's Xingyi Army to hunt for thieves. I beseech you, sir, to help me."

Fang Xuanling was a little dumbfounded when he heard that, he was indeed inquiring about news about Li Yuan in Taiyuan, and he probably guessed Li Yuan's strategic intention of "taking advantage of the emptiness and going straight to Guanzhong", and he also felt that there was a lot to do, and he was looking for an opportunity to join him, but he failed Thinking that these two young masters came to recruit in the rain, I was a little suspicious.

"Fang Qiao's talent is low, I'm afraid I'll make a mistake," Fang Xuanling said humbly, and looked at Gao Chong again, "I don't know where Youzhi heard the name, such praise, Qiao is ashamed."

Gao Chong had been prepared for a long time, and said directly: "I have a friend who once traveled to Shandong. He heard about the family history of the Fang family in Qinghe. They are all familiar with literature and history, especially Brother Xuanling, who is eighteen years old and promoted as a Jinshi. It is really amazing."

"Sir, the Sui Dynasty is in decline, the people are suffering, and the people of the world are not talented. They want to extend righteousness to the world, but their wisdom is short. I hope that you will not abandon your stupidity and give you lessons." Li Shimin stood up and gave Fang Xuanling a deep respect Bye, sincerely.

Seeing this, Gao Chong also got up, "Brother Xuanling has the talent to deal with the world, how can he grow old under Lin Quan, I hope that Brother Xuanling will read that the second son will come to visit in the rain, and he will come out to help you with sincerity." long thanks.

Fang Xuanling was startled, and quickly helped the two of them up, "You two are serious", he was very moved, and immediately made up his mind, straightened his clothes, and bowed to Li Shimin on the ground.

"Since the second son does not give up, Fang Qiao is willing to do the work of a dog and a horse."

Li Shimin was overjoyed, and immediately sat down with Fang Xuanling holding hands, and at the same time did not forget to pull Gao Chong.

"You, Xuanling and the two sages help each other, so why not worry about the failure of the big event", Li Shimin held the other with both hands, with high ambition.

As the night fell, Fang Xuanling took out rough agricultural food, and the three of them ate it, and then talked at night by candlelight. The deeper the conversation, the more Li Shimin believed that Gao Chong's words were true, and that Fang Xuanling was indeed a great talent.

That night, Li Shimin directly appointed Fang Xuanling as the secretary of the right leader's office to join the army, and entrusted him with important responsibilities.

At the same time, he was also grateful to Gao Chong who recommended him. Although Gao Chong was 20 years older, after some conversation, Fang Xuanling also understood why Li Shimin valued Gao Chong so much.

The next day, when the sky was bright, Fang Xuanling packed his bags and followed Li Shimin and others back to the camp.

Not long after returning to the camp, Li Shimin was about to report to Li Yuan about Fang Xuanling, but he saw Li Yuan's personal guard commander Qian Jiulong came to look for him in person.

"Second son, Mr. Tang ordered you to go to the big tent of the Chinese army as soon as possible."

Li Shimin was a little puzzled, why did Qian Jiulong need to deliver the order personally, and was very curious in his heart, "Yongye, what's the matter?"

Qian Jiulong was born as a general, proficient in riding and shooting, and quite powerful. After being convicted and exiled as a slave, he was taken in by Li Yuan. From then on, he stayed by Li Yuan's side as the commander of the personal guard. It must be no small matter.

Qian Jiulong shook his head when he heard the words, "I didn't know that I was guarding outside the tent, but the eldest son and others are all there, and I saw my eldest grandson Wuji."

Li Shimin was overjoyed when he heard the words, "Auxiliary machine is here?", he hastened to go to the big tent of the Chinese army.

After entering the tent of the Chinese army, Li Shimin immediately saw a white and fat man.

Immediately overjoyed, he stepped forward and hugged him fiercely, "Auxiliary machine, you can count it here, there is no news for more than a month, I am very worried." This white and fat man is Li Shimin's eldest brother-in-law, eldest grandson Wuji.

"Erlang, don't come here without any problems", Changsun Wuji was also quite moved.

Seeing that the two were just reminiscing about the old days, Li Yuan just said: "Shimin, there are two bad news from Chang'an, one is that your fifth brother and fifth brother-in-law's family have been imprisoned.

One is that Yang You has ordered Huyalang to serve Song Laosheng as the prefect of Linfen with an army of [-] to garrison Huoyi, and General Zuo Xiaowei Qu Tutong to be the prefect of Hedong with an army of [-] to garrison Yongji."

He said and looked at Changsun Wuji, "In addition, the auxiliary plane came from Luoyang via Hedong, and found that Cheng Yaojunsu of Hedong County was recruiting troops to strengthen the city defense, and was always ready to fight my Taiyuan Rebel Army."

Then he took a deep breath, "These three news are all extremely unfavorable to us, what do you think?"

Even when Li Shimin heard the news, he couldn't help being a little surprised. After thinking for a while, he murmured: "Now I can't wait, the fifth brother is young after all, we can only see if the fifth brother-in-law can save the day, and Chang'an and Hedong There will be some deployments, this is what we expected, but we didn't expect that it would be two veterans, Song Laosheng and Qu Tutong."

The others nodded in agreement after hearing this, but they all felt that it was extremely difficult.

The safety of Li Zhiyun, Zhao Cijing and others is beyond reach, and there is nothing they can do to help them. To put it bluntly, even if the Sui Dynasty threatened the lives of these two people, it is impossible for the army to retreat because of this. After all, rebellion would not take the lives of one or two people into consideration , let alone just the bastard and son-in-law.

But Song Laosheng and Qu Tutong are really difficult to deal with. Everyone here has heard of the reputation of these two veterans. Both of them are experienced battlefield veterans, and they are also the few remaining generals of the Sui Dynasty. The second is far from what Gao Deru and his ilk can compare.

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