Timur hurriedly trained the players and immediately chose to go north to find Ge Luolu's tribe.
At this time, the war situation in the Central Plains changed again.
After An Qingxu killed An Lushan and proclaimed himself emperor, the rebels in the four counties of Hedong who stayed in the two capitals began to miss their hometown.
An Qingxu was far less prestigious than An Lushan. In addition, when An Qingxu committed patricide, he was afraid that his father's close comrade Shi Siming would avenge An Lushan, so he transferred Shi Siming back to his hometown Fan Yang.
Lacking the suppression of the prestige generals, the morale of the rebels in the two capitals was unstable, and they were worried that the Tang army would cut off the return route back to Hedong. The atmosphere in Xijing became even more tense.
An Qingxu also drank and had fun every day, without any ambition at all.
At this time, anyone who has a little understanding of the overall situation of the world knows that the rebels will not be able to hold on for long.
However, the original goal of the West Route Army was to cut off the rebels' retreat, and it was best to capture Yecheng or Taiyuan, so as to completely block the rebels' return to their home base.
However, the officials of Fengxiang Mansion continued to give orders, and Li Chu, the crown prince who was also the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, also arrived at the West Route Army. This time he also brought four thousand elite Uighurs from Prince Yehu of the Uighurs.
After reading out the emperor's imperial edict, Guo Ziyi sighed and had no choice but to go south with the crown prince and start planning to regain the two capitals.
The Tang Dynasty implemented a two-capital system. Chang'an, the western capital, and Luoyang, the eastern capital, were both the capitals of the Tang Dynasty.
During the reign of Emperor Li Longji, he also lived in Luoyang, the eastern capital, for nine years.
Looking further back, during the Wu Zhou Dynasty, Wu Zetian made Luoyang the capital.
Chang'an and Luoyang are the shining pearls of the Tang Dynasty and the largest cities in the world.
However, relatively speaking, the foundation of the Li and Tang royal families was still within the Pass, and Chang'an, as an important town within the Pass, was more important than Luoyang, the eastern capital.
Emperor Gaozong built Dongdu mainly to control the area east of Hedong. Wu Zetian was able to replace Tang with Zhou and also relied on the support of the Hedong family and the common people of Dongdu.
The Hedong aristocratic families are several large aristocratic families inherited from the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
These powerful families not only had poems and books passed down from generation to generation, but also had family-run Confucian classics. The families also had armed forces. Thousands of clan members lived together, and they also had huge influence in the Tang Dynasty.
The common people of Dongdu are the citizen class created by the prosperous economy of Luoyang, the capital of Dongdu.
These officials, businessmen, and children from poor families in the eastern capital successfully ascended to the center of national power through several imperial examinations held by the Wu and Zhou Dynasty. When Wu Zetian made Luoyang the capital, the imperial examination acceptance rate for candidates in Luoyang was three times that of Chang'an, the capital of the West.
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Wu Zetian won over the literary men in Luoyang, and a group of common people in the Eastern Capital who were close to Wu and the Zhou Dynasty was born.
At the end of the Wu Zhou Dynasty, the prime ministers launched the Shenlong Coup and the Li Tang Dynasty was restored. This was a restoration completed by the Guanlong Xungui Group with the help of the Li Tang royal family. After that, the Hedong aristocratic families and the Dongdu common people received vague suppression from the imperial court.
Hedong aristocratic families can also return home to farm, or work as officials in various vassal towns in Hedong.
However, the common people in Dongdu had no way out. They were originally from poor families and middle-low official families. After being gradually squeezed out of the center of the imperial court, they declined rapidly.
Even Luoyang's status has gradually declined.
Therefore, during the Anlushan Rebellion this time, the attitude of the Hedong family was very ambiguous, and the Dongdu common people even expressed support for the Anlushan Rebellion.
Obviously, for this world that is about to be pacified, a political reckoning is about to come.
It is said that the emperor had already drawn up a list of those who needed to be liquidated in Fengxiang Mansion, and Prince Li Chu took over the West Route Army in order to lead this political liquidation.
Guo Ziyi sighed. Although he was a military commander, he also had a clear understanding of the imperial court's behavior.
The only good thing is that the Crown Prince still respects Guo Ziyi's military advice. As long as Guo Ziyi goes to attack the two capitals, the Crown Prince will fully support him.
Then the only option was to attack the two capitals. The mighty 150,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty began to gather towards the two capitals.
At the same time, the Jiannan Road of the Tang Dynasty and the Erhai area.
Ge Luofeng, the lord of Nanzhao, was ordering craftsmen to carve a stone stele. This stone stele was called the Dehua stele.
That is to say, last year, Nanzhao had just defeated the 70,000 infantry led by Li Mi after Jian Nanliu.
The Tang army went on an expedition and advanced to Taihe City, the capital of Nanzhao. They were ambushed and the entire army was wiped out.
After this, Datang completely lost control of Nanzhao.
This stone tablet erected by Ge Luofeng, the leader of Nanzhao, writes the discussion of the war between Tang Dynasty, Nanzhao and Tubo by the leader of Nanzhao. It shows that the founding of Nanzhao was just a "forced self-defense counterattack".
At the same time, Ge Luofeng hypocritically expressed his desire to reconcile with the Tang Dynasty on the monument.
The inscription was written by Zheng Hui, a Qingping official in Nanzhao. Zheng Hui was originally a Jinshi of the Tang Dynasty. After he was captured in the war with Nanzhao, Ge Luofeng, the leader of Nanzhao, worshiped him as his teacher and appointed him as Nanzhao's minister.
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Qingpingguan, equivalent to the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, was the first person under the lord of Nanzhao.
After the construction of the stele was completed, Ge Luofeng took Qingping official Zheng Hui and said: "The day before yesterday, Tubo sent another envoy to canonize me as Zanpu Zhong. This is the intention of Zanpu's brother. Master Zheng, how should we respond?"
In private, Ge Luofeng always called Zheng Hui as Master Zheng, and the system of Nanzhao was also established by Zheng Hui after the system of the Tang Dynasty.
Zheng Hui sighed and said: "Your Majesty, now that the Tang Dynasty has not recovered, it will be good if Jiannan Road can resist the Tibetan attack. This is a great opportunity for our development in Nanzhao."
"I didn't expect that Tubo Zampu, who had just succeeded to the throne, would have such means. If he continues to refuse the canonization of Tubo, I am afraid that the Tubo army will come to investigate."
Ge Luofeng also sighed heavily. He looked at the Dehua Monument that was about to be completed. Although the Tang expeditionary army was annihilated last year, Nanzhao also suffered heavy losses.
Today's Nanzhao is really unable to resist the Tibetan advance.
In fact, according to Zheng Hui's design, it would be best for a small country like Nanzhao to jump back and forth between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, taking advantage of both sides.
However, Li Mi, the military envoy of Jiannan in the Tang Dynasty, was eager to perform meritorious service and sent troops to attack Nanzhao many times. In the end, without even asking the court, he mobilized the best of the Jiannan army and wanted to kill Nanzhao first and then destroy Nanzhao.
In the end, Li Mi was completely wiped out because he underestimated the enemy, and there was no room for maneuver between Datang and Nanzhao.
If they completely fall to Tibet, Nanzhao and Tang Dynasty will become life-and-death enemies.
And Tubo would definitely use Nanzhao to contain the Tang Dynasty, which Ge Luofeng did not want to see.
Zheng Hui also sighed and said: "I hope that by erecting this Dehua Monument, there will be a chance to reconcile with the Tang Dynasty in the future."
The Tubo Zampu whom the two were talking about was sitting high in the Zamp Palace. The young Zamp looked expressionless as he watched the weird dance of the Bon wizards twitching all over under the smoke.
Finally, when the sacrifice was over and the Bon wizard wearing a strange mask withdrew, young Zanpu looked at the respectful ministers on both sides and announced an important order.
Zanpu decided to increase the quota of "Shang Lun".
Originally, there were five great commentators in Tubo.
There was an assistant in the Zanpu Palace, Zuo Zanpu, who was a counselor on important military affairs. He was also the prime minister of Tubo.
He also established Da Lun in the four directions, which is the Four Directions Da Lun, which is equivalent to having the title of prime minister and entrusting governors to various places.
However, the big talk in Zamp's palace often turned into a power that overridden Zamp. Even when Zamp was still the heir, he was almost abolished by the old Zamp's big talk.
Therefore, the young Zanpu decided to expand the number of Da Lun from five to nine. In addition to maintaining the same four-party Da Lun, four more Da Lun were established in Zan Pu Palace.
In this way, the main body of the Zanpu Palace changed from one person to five people, which is equivalent to changing from a single-phase system to a group-phase system.
Naturally, the Tubo aristocrats welcomed such a decree. The increased position of the lecture meant that everyone had new opportunities.
Although the authority of the big talk has been dispersed, it is still a big talk!
In order to compete for the four extra positions, the major families in Tubo started fighting again.
Young Zamp looked at the bait he threw with a smile on his face, and sat firmly on Zamp's throne.
The chaotic second year of virtue finally came to the end of April.
After a long journey, Fang Guan finally led a large team of staff to Wuwei City and officially took office as the governor of Hexi Province.