In Ji Wen's eyes, Yang Guozhong is a selfish person who is not smart enough. Many of us like to talk about the pattern, saying that whoever has a bigger pattern will be more likely to succeed. But associating people like Yang Guozhong with the pattern is a reflection of the pattern.
Two words of humiliation.
He had forgotten the content of Li Linfu's conversation with him before his death, and even if he remembered it, he would have scorned it. He could not understand why the emperor ordered Li Siye to rule the three towns of Longyou. Even if An Lushan was to be checked and balanced, he should be the one taking the lead.
Let Li Siye, Ge Shuhan and An Sishun form a small military alliance headed by him.
This is the misperception caused by people who are not aware of it. They think that they can twist three conflicting generals together and make them obey. Who does he think he is? He must have half the ability of Li Linfu to control
Li Siye, An Sishun, and Ge Shuhan are fine. But he doesn't even have half of his abilities.
If we follow the development of history, we can fully understand the limitations of Yang Guozhong's abilities, not to mention that because he was unable to overwhelm An Lushan, his personal conflict with An Lushan developed into the fuse of An Lushan's rebellion.
Even after An Lushan's rebellion, he could not handle the conflicts in the northwest military group well, which led Ge Shuhan to falsely accuse An Sishun of killing An Sishun, which aroused the anger of the Shuofang army.
At the same time, the relationship between him and Ge Shuhan also developed to the point of mutual suspicion. He once believed that Ge Shuhan wanted to use pressure to force the emperor to kill him, so he mistook Ge Shuhan's persistence in the Battle of Tongguan as a kind of politics.
Oppression. So he presented slander to the emperor and asked Ge Shuhan to lead the Gyeonggi garrison with low combat effectiveness to take the initiative to attack, which resulted in the disastrous defeat of the Battle of Tongguan.
Time returned to the present, Ji Wen was sitting quietly indoors, the lights outside the window swayed, the steward's voice greeted the guests, and the steward of Fan Yangjinzouyuan had just left Ji's mansion.
He is still hesitating at this moment, hesitating to choose between Yang Guozhong and An Lushan. This is not only a matter of emotion when choosing friends, but also a kind of power alignment. If he chooses to favor An Lushan, then he must
Help him instigate and worsen the relationship between Yang Guozhong and Li Siye, so that he can sit back and watch the fight between tigers and benefit from it. If he chooses to favor Yang Guozhong, then he must help him see through An Lushan's conspiracy and use the northwest feudal town and Anlu
The conflict between mountains maximizes Yang Guozhong's interests.
But the problem now is that although Yang Guozhong is in a high position, he is not easy to get along with and his abilities are limited. Being his younger brother is more thankless. It is more comfortable to get along with An Lushan. This person is committed to morality and speaks well.
, even if you are being used by him, you can always feel that you are valued.
Now there is another choice, and that is Li Siye. Although he started late, his momentum is also very strong. Now he has become the number one boss in the northwest feudal town. But he is not very familiar with Li Siye, and I don’t know what his character is. For the time being,
Don't think about it.
In fact, he really hopes to put his roots in Chang'an. After all, he has lived in Chang'an for a long time and has a lot of room for improvement. If An Lushan and Li Siye meet again, they will not be able to quench their thirst. But Yang Guozhong...
It would be better for him not to rush to take sides, but to wait and see who is more helpful to him.
Thinking of this, he walked to the door of the room, opened the partition door, stuck his head out and shouted to the side room: "Ji Asan, prepare a gift tomorrow. I want to visit Prime Minister Yang's house."
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At the entrance of Yangjia Alley in Kaihuafang, Ji Wen got off his maroon horse, and the steward Ji Asan followed behind him, holding a red wooden brocade box in his hand.
There were already many people asking for an audience at the gate of Yang's Mansion. Most of them were officials who had returned to Beijing from other places, as well as some ministers from various ministries in the DPRK and Central Government who had connections with the newly appointed Youxiang.
The steward of Yang Mansion's concierge was quite familiar with Ji Wen, so he smiled and crossed his hands from all the way away and said: "The birthday boy is not resting at home, why did he run out and walk around?"
Ji Wen always felt that this old name was a bit off-putting, but he still smiled and said: "There are some things in my heart that I am worried about, so I came to see Yang Xiang."
After saying that, he strode into the side door. The steward hurriedly caught up with him, bent down to stop him and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, Ji Zhongcheng, you have to hand over the greeting card first."
Ji Wen was a little dumbfounded: "How many times have I entered and exited this door, and I still need a greeting?"
The concierge smiled reluctantly: "In the past, our Alang was just Yang Yushi, Yang Zhongcheng, and Yang Zhengqing. Now he has become Yang Xiang. Naturally, the rules at the door have to change. To tell you the truth, even the left prime minister Chen Xilie
When he comes to visit Yang Mansion, he also has to hand over a greeting card."
Ha, look at the performance of this person, it is even bigger than that of Li Linfu during his lifetime. When I, Ji Wen, first entered and left the Youxiang Mansion in Pingkangfang, I did not even hand over a greeting card.
"I came out in a hurry. What should I do if I didn't bring a greeting card?"
"It doesn't matter if you don't bring it. As long as Ji Zhongcheng you come up with something that can prove your identity."
Ji Wen had no choice but to take off the fish charm bag from his belt with a mustache, handed it to the steward, and said in a sinister tone: "Go and report to Prime Minister Yang quickly, and ask Ji Wen to see you."
"Okay, please wait."
After a while, the chief steward of the Yang family came out to greet Ji Wen, which made him feel a little more comfortable. Compared with these officials who waited like frozen dogs under the eaves after sending in the invitations, he still had some privileges.
At the invitation of the chief steward, he walked through the two spans of the courtyard and then across the pond and covered bridge. Behind the green shade, the cornices of the pavilion protruded from the dense green, the four corridors on the roof were suspended, and the hollow gauze curtains were flying.
, the sound of silk and bamboo is melodious. Yang Guozhong can be vaguely seen sitting on the Hu bed in the corridor. Two maids kneel beside him, pinching his legs and beating his back, and two other maids stand behind him and press their shoulders to feed. Opposite there are two women sitting on the ground.
Playing the pipa and konghou.
Ji Wen stood under the pavilion, raised his hands above his head, and said loudly: "Censor Ji Wen wants to see Prime Minister Yang."
Yang Guozhong straightened up from the bed and glanced down through the gap in the railing: "It turns out to be Ji Wen, coming up to talk."
Ji Wen walked into the ground floor of the attic, went up the stairs against the wall, turned two corners, and came to Yang Guozhong along the corridor outside the building.
He bowed slightly and crossed his hands with a smile: "Mr. Yang."
Yang Guozhong frowned and said, "Don't you think this title is unpleasant? Yang Xiang, fool, I dare you to see me make a fool of myself."
"Ji Wen never meant this. It's just that I don't know how to call you other than this."
"Right Prime Minister, Right Prime Minister! Am I not the Right Prime Minister?"
Ji Wen was a little reluctant, because the title Right Prime Minister once only belonged to one person, and that was the late Li Linfu.
Yang Guozhong lay back, clapped his hands to the two prostitutes who stopped playing, and said, "Why did you stop? Keep playing until you finish the piece."
Jiwen was quite embarrassed standing aside, so he had to pretend to enjoy the music and wait.
When the last note of the pipa was played, Yang Guozhong waved to the two prostitutes. They hugged their instruments and bowed before hurriedly retreating.
However, the four women waiting on his left and right were still kneeling in front of him, gently kneading Yang Guozhong's knees and shoulders with their soft hands. He turned his face to the side and opened his mouth gently, and the maid picked out a dish from the plate.
He picked up a grape, gently bit off the thin skin with his teeth, and then fed it into Yang Guozhong's mouth with a spoon. Yang Xiang squirmed his jaw to swallow the grape, and gently spit out two seeds. The woman quickly caught it with a kerchief with both hands.
This look of enjoyment looks very unworthy.
If Ji Wen was still hesitant about his side last night, but after a series of witnessing from the moment he entered the door to now, he has now made a decision.
Ji Wen bowed respectfully and smiled and said: "Yang... Right Prime Minister, my subordinates heard that the sage has issued an order for Li Siye to concurrently serve as the governor of Hexi. I don't know what your right Prime Minister has decided."
Yang Guozhong asked him: "Ji Wen, what do you think?"
"In Ji Wen's humble opinion, it is completely unnecessary to grant Li Siye the military governor of the three towns. Longyou is different from Youyan and Hedong. It has a vast territory and stretches thousands of miles. If the three towns of Anxi, Beiting and Hexi are awarded to one person, then he will have control.
The entire west of the Tang Dynasty, this is not a good thing for the imperial court and you, the Right Prime Minister."
Yang Guozhong nodded in agreement: "You are right, but now that His Majesty's decree has been made, there is no reason to take it back. Let's let Li Siye sit in this position first. If he is honest, then so be it.
But if he is dishonest, the truth has ways to deal with him."
"Right Prime Minister, if we wait until Li Siye gets too hot, he will have a stable foundation and it will be difficult to deal with..."