Seeing Yang Xuan's unkind look, Li Kuo smiled and said, "Master Yang, you don't seem to believe in the identity of these two businessmen."
Yang Xuan raised his jade cup, took a sip of the wine and said, "He acts flamboyantly and is surly and changeable. He doesn't look like a businessman at all. General Li must have noticed it, but he just didn't want to say it clearly."
Li Kuo's idea was revealed by Yang Xuan, and he no longer concealed it: "Yes, I have seen that these two are definitely not businessmen, but they should not be bad people."
"That's impossible to say!" Yang Zhao placed the wine glass on the table and frowned: "It's not peaceful in the west now. If Xiaoxiao takes the opportunity to cause trouble, the consequences will be disastrous. Rumors can kill people much faster than a knife.
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Seeing that the scene was a bit depressing, Yang Xuan smiled lightly and said: "Let's not talk about this anymore. In fact, I asked General Li to come to the banquet today because of my father's request."
Li Kuo's heart sank. This Yang Xuan was indeed appointed by Yang Zhao!
"I see. I wonder if Mr. Zhongcheng, the censor, has something important to entrust to Li?" This Yang Zhao is really weird. He obviously had the opportunity to tell him face to face, but he chose to use his son's mouth.
"Actually, it's not that important. My father heard that General Li moved to a new residence, and it was in Qinrenfang. From now on, we can be regarded as neighbors. No, my father specially invited me to a banquet to show his sincerity.
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"Li is too embarrassed to deserve the great favor of the Imperial Censor Zhongcheng." Li Kuo responded politely by cupping his hands.
"Ahem, General Li is walking at the border. He must not know much about the personnel in the DPRK. Let me introduce him to you." Yang Xuan changed the subject and stood up.
"This is Mr. Cui, the imperial censor Cui Shu. Mr. Cui is the leader of the younger generation of the Cui family in Boling." Yang Xuan walked to Cui Shu and nodded lightly.
"Master Cui, you are polite!" Li Kuo nodded to Cui Shu as a greeting.
"This is Mr. Pei Bei, a doctor of Taixue. Mr. Pei is rich in knowledge and knows a lot about managers. He is a rare Confucian talent in the Tang Dynasty." Wei moved forward a few steps and Yang Xuan patted a middle-aged man.
shoulder, introduced.
"Dr. Pei is polite!"
"As for this person, he is Mr. Dong Ye Dong, the general manager. He is famous for his stubborn temper in Zhongshu Province. Brother, I spent a lot of effort to pull him over." Yang Xuan walked up to him.
A man in brocade robes, about fifty years old, stood beside him and joked with a smile.
"It turns out I'm from Dong's house. I'm so glad to meet you!" Li Kuo didn't dare to express his gratitude and hurriedly raised his hands in salute.
"Hey, when we meet like this, we are all familiar with each other, and we will be more or less friends from now on. Sit down, all sit down." Yang Xuan pointed to the brocade cushions beside everyone and started talking.
Li Kuo lifted up his robe and knelt down, waiting quietly for Yang Xuan's next question.
"What are you all staring at? Eat, eat!" After saying this, Yang Xuan smiled, picked up a piece of roasted venison, and put it into his mouth.
Seeing that Yang Xuan was the first to use his chopsticks, everyone then picked up vegetables and rice and began to eat happily.
"Now that we are all sitting around the same table, it is really enjoyable to have this banquet!" Yang Xuan glanced at the crowd and praised with his hands.
"The officialdom of the Tang Dynasty is like a cannibalistic dining table. If someone eats someone, someone will be eaten. If we don't eat others, we will be eaten by others."
Yang Xuan drank a cup of wine and looked at Li Kuo helplessly.
"Master Yang, if you have anything to say, you might as well say it clearly. Although Li is not talented, he still understands the meaning clearly." Li Kuo couldn't bear to deal with his official talk and pointed it out with one sentence.
"Okay, General Li is indeed a cheerful person!" Yang Xuan said with a hearty smile: "Yang heard that General Gao Xiuyangao has been frequently visiting the mansion in Chang'an recently as a 'hero' and a 'righteous man'. Logically speaking, this is not the case.
It’s not strange, after all, I, the General of the Tang Dynasty, am very happy to be friends with rangers. It’s just that these rangers don’t really look like me from the Central Plains.”
Li Kuo thought for a while and said slowly: "What does Mr. Yang mean by telling this matter?"
"Hahaha, General Li is really interesting. If Yang remembers correctly, General Li and General Gao may not be getting along. Doesn't General Li not want to know the true identity of these rangers who associate with General Gao?
Yang Xuan, however, was not anxious at all and kept teasing Li Kuo.
"I say Mr. Yang, you are a grown man, can you please just stop talking?" Zhang Yanji couldn't stand it any longer and interjected.
"Mr. Zhang, please allow Yang to speak slowly." Yang Xuan stroked his beard and sighed: "My informant recently discovered that Tibetans were coming in and out of Gao Xiuyan's residence, so I suspect that General Gao is probably related to the Tibetan people.
There is a connection."
"What? Are Tubo people coming and going in Gao Xiuyan's mansion?" Zhou Wuxin was shocked and asked.
"That's right! Last year, the Luo Shujue incident caused a huge uproar in Chang'an City, and many ignorant people were bewitched by evil cults and exploited by traitors. Taking advantage of the remaining power of the victory in the Hehuang Battle, Jingzhao Mansion conducted a thorough investigation
It did suppress this evil wind. Unexpectedly, not long after, this group of Tibetan people showed up again in Xijing."
Yang Xuan raised his voice, his face full of sternness.
"Yes, General Li was not in Chang'an last year, so he didn't know about the chaos at that time. Jingzhao Mansion received the sage's order and would rather arrest three thousand people by mistake than let one go. At the most tense time, even a curfew was implemented during the Lantern Festival
, the jail in Jingzhao Mansion is always overcrowded."
Cui Shu nodded and took over the conversation.
"However, this group of monster monks is weird. They seemed to have gotten wind of the news and had withdrawn from Chang'an City before the city was under full martial law in Jingzhao Mansion. What they caught were just rotten fish and shrimps, and none of them were serious.
of."
Dong Ye sighed and added.
Hearing this, Li Kuo had mixed feelings in his heart. Going out to join the army was just a pretense, but he was actually ordered by the Holy Spirit to thoroughly investigate the Luo Shu Jue along the way. But fate played a trick on him, and on the way he encountered the Tubo people who were marching in a hurry to invade the pass.
Long. Only then was he urgently transferred to the Long You Army by Ge Shuhan. As a chess piece in the Hehuang Battle, he played his role.
There is nothing wrong with what Ge Shuhan did when the situation was urgent. After witnessing the cruelty of the Tubo people, the young man was completely inspired by his bloody nature and grew into a real man with his brothers in Tongwuying.
It was a blessing in disguise. Although he missed the golden opportunity to thoroughly investigate the Luoshu Jue, the young man tempered himself through a battle and became more tenacious.
After returning to Chang'an, he also heard about the matter. As the Tubo people lost power in the Hehuang Battle, the clamor about Luoshu Jue gradually subsided in the Tang Dynasty.
However, if what Yang Xuan said is true, will these long-lost Tubo demon monks reappear in the near future? What if Gao Xiuyan really has something to do with the Tubo people?