When shaking off your cleverness in front of your leader, you must have a standard. The most appropriate thing is to let your leader see through it at a glance when playing with cleverness, and then you think that your subordinate is so smart. I am the Buddha of Tathagata, and you are just a monkey. No matter how you jump, you can't jump out of my Five Finger Mountain.

If you are a careless little cleverness, your leader will usually show his magnanimity and cultivation, but you will not say it out loud, but you vaguely feel that you can control you, because I can see through your little cleverness at a glance.

If you are a favored subordinate, the leader may even find you very interesting and then generously satisfy your wishes.

For subordinates, a little trick that allows the leader to see through at a glance is actually an alternative flattery. If you pat it well, the leader will value you more.

This is the case with Li Longji and Gu Qing now.

I ask for the fields and ask for my own house, and I am defame and complete. There are too many people playing this kind of trick, but Gu Qing plays it quite fresh and refined.

His freshness and elegance lies in his unconcealment and deliberately imitating Wang Jian in a rather clumsy way, so that Li Longji not only saw through it at a glance, but also thought that he was pretentious and interesting.

What are the benefits of Gu Qing doing this?

The advantage is that this clumsy method can reduce the suspicion in Li Longji's heart and eliminate the threat brought to Li Longji by the powerful Anxi Army.

Why did An Lushan deceive Li Longji for so many years?

Because every year when a fat man with a weight of more than 300 kilograms enters Chang'an to celebrate, he will dance Hu Xuanwu in front of Li Longji. His fat body, clumsy dancing posture, and ridiculous scenes are instantly imprinted into Li Longji's mind. When he thinks about it, he will only think that this fat man is so funny. He completely forgot that this ridiculous fat man has 150,000 elite border troops in his hands, and with a command, the Tang Dynasty can be doomed.

Of course, An Lushan was also lucky, and happened to meet Li Longji, who was foolish in his later years.

If he was born at the wrong time and lived in the Zhenguan period, he would try dancing Hu Xuanwu in front of Li Shimin in this way. After Li Shimin appreciated the dance, he would immediately order him to chop him up. For no other reason, you should die with your deliberately ugly and funny flattering look. Besides, with Li Shimin's shrewdness, it is absolutely impossible for a foreign Hu man to control more than 100,000 elite troops.

Li Longji is different. He just fell into An Lushan's pit, but he still didn't learn the lesson. In a blink of an eye, he fell into Gu Qing's pit.

Don’t you like to play ugly and funny? Gu Qing simply pretended to be ugly and asked Tian and asked the house in a clumsy way, so that Li Longji could fully feel the leader’s far-sighted vision and see through Gu Qing’s intentions at a glance.

Li Longji agreed to Gu Qing's request, but Gao Lishi said in surprise: "Your Majesty, this is not allowed. There are so many generals fighting outside. If this is the case, they will all ask His Majesty for land, money and goods. How can Your Majesty deal with it?"

Li Longji hummed and smiled conceitably, "No one has that courage except Gu Qing. This kid, haha, is still too young. I don't know who has learned some superficial power schemes from. I think that if I follow Wang Jian's impersonation, I can protect myself. Haha, I am not the tyrannical King of Qin, and Gu Qing has not reached the point of being so powerful that I can shock the Lord. Learning to do so in Handan is a gimmick. I might as well satisfy him and dispel his concerns."

After pondering for a while, Li Longji said again: "I will write a decree to Gu Qing and tell him that I will give him whatever he asks me, so that he will not think about it, nor will he learn from Wang Jian anymore, otherwise he will be suspected of blackmailing the emperor and I will punish him."

Gao Lishi responded with a smile.

Li Longji suddenly remembered something and said, "Have you not had a meal today?"

Gao Lishi said: "Concubine Taizhen said this morning that the weather was getting hotter and her appetite was not good, so she did not eat and only drank one cup of water in the morning."

Li Longji sighed, "She is still angry with me. I shouldn't have heard of hurt people. General Gao, Shu brocade, celadon and other tributes from the palace. I choose some precious things to send, and I say that it was rewarded by me."

"yes."

"Also, I also sent someone to tell her about Gu Qing's recovery to make her happy. Her hometown has produced talents, especially those she introduced to me..." Li Longji curled his lips and said softly: "You go in person and tell her, just say that I have said in public that Gu Qing had to enter the court and was valued by me because of my wife's recommendation, so my wife has made contributions to the country."

Gao Lishi smiled: "Yes, I must speak steadily, your Majesty, don't worry."

The victory was not yet digested. The two of them just smiled at each other, but saw an eunuch outside the hall saying anxiously: "Your Majesty, Luoyang Army Newspaper, Geshuhan's Hexi Army was defeated!"

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Gyeongju City.

A few days later, an imperial edict went around and finally fell into Gu Qing's hands.

Gu Qing opened the imperial edict and looked at it, and his face turned pale.

The generals around him were curious, and Chang Zhong came over and said carefully: "Marty, what did the imperial edict say? If we recover Qingzhou, the emperor will not scold us, right?"

Gu Qing looked cold and said in a cold tone: "Is there any reprimand, but the emperor wants our Anxi army to set sail to Luoyang immediately and recover Luoyang City."

The generals took a breath of cold air, looked at each other, and suddenly showed an indignation.

Li Siye had the most anxious temper and blurted out: "Isn't this a nonsense? The heavy troops in Luoyang are stationed, how could my Anxi Army be captured?"

Gu Qing said angrily: "Shut up! I criticize you, don't you want to live anymore?"

Duan Wuji, as a strategist, frowned and said, "For no reason, why did Your Majesty order us to recover Luoyang?"

Gu Qing said coldly: "Because Geshuhan suffered a great loss in Luoyang City, the Hexi Army lost more than 8,000. Our Anxi Army won two consecutive victories, which made His Majesty full of confidence in us, and felt that the Anxi Army could recover Luoyang City and avenge the Hexi Army."

Duan Wuji looked at the generals around him with an indignant expression, and then said, "Marty, this is a life-threatening situation, and the Anxi Army cannot accept it!"

Gu Qing sighed and said, "This is an imperial edict, can we bargain? During the war, whoever dares to violate the order will be the end of the head."

Chang Zhong said anxiously: "Mr. Marquis, our Anxi army has only 50,000 troops and 20,000 rebels in Luoyang City. It is absolutely impossible to recover Luoyang. It is impossible to wipe out the entire army."

The generals in the hall agreed, and they were all generals who had been leading troops for many years. Whether a city could be taken down had a full intuitive judgment before the war began.

Luoyang is the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty. The city has a population of nearly one million. The area of ​​the city is also very large. The city walls are tall and strong. The moat is more than two meters deep, and there are 20,000 defenders. If the Anxi Army attacks with such a few troops, the entire army will be almost wiped out after two rounds.

Obviously, Luoyang City cannot be fought, it is almost a life-and-death life, and has no chance of winning.

According to Gu Qing's idea, the Anxi Army played its strengths and avoided its weaknesses, and relied on cavalry to deal with the rebels on the Guanzhong Plain. When encountering the weak, attacked, avoided, retreated, and pursued. This not only preserved its strength to the maximum extent, but also played the role of restraining the rebels and even defeating local rebels.

However, the foolish Li Longji issued a life-and-death imperial edict, ordering the Anxi army to recover Luoyang.

This imperial edict was equivalent to sending the Anxi army into a desperate situation.

In Gu Qing's strategic thinking, he never had a plan to attack a super big city, unless it was an empty city.

Chen Tian sighed and said, "Mr. Marquis, let's jointly submit a memorial to examine the pros and cons in detail. Please take your majesty back and forth. The soldiers cannot die in vain."

The generals agreed, and everyone's faces were filled with anxiety. Without any warning, the Anxi Army was already in the juncture of life and death.

Gu Qing's temple was painful faintly, and he stretched out his hand and rubbed it hard, saying, "Wuji, come and write the memorials clearly, write down the disadvantages of attacking Luoyang, please take it back and make your life."

Duan Wuji should focus on the key points.

While everyone was discussing, a familiar figure suddenly walked into the hall.

Bian Lingcheng's uneven smile appeared in everyone's sight, and the hall suddenly became quiet and no one spoke.

Well, I’m most afraid of the sudden quiet air.

Bian Lingcheng was unaware of the coldness of the crowd. He first smiled and saluted Gu Qing, then pulled over a short stool and sat down, and said with a smile: "I heard that there is an imperial edict in Chang'an. I am still the supervisor of the Anxi Army. What did the imperial edict say? The marquis always tell me, right?"

Gu Qing smiled and said, "The imperial edict said that the Anxi army should be recaptured Luoyang."

Bian Lingcheng was stunned for a moment and said, "Luoyang... OK! If we recover Luoyang, your majesty will be very happy. I might get some rewards."

When the generals heard this, they sneered dissatisfiedly.

Gu Qing still smiled and said, "But the Anxi Army has only 50,000 troops, what should I do if I can't defeat Luoyang? Can the border supervisor lead the way and lead the soldiers to attack the city first? This commander can cheer for the border supervisor in the central army? How about it?"

Bian Lingcheng's smile froze, and the generals in the hall couldn't help laughing.

Bian Lingcheng looked ashamed and did not dare to have an attack in person, so he had to say embarrassedly: "Mr. Gu, don't make fun of me, as I am timid and will be frightened."

Seeing that everyone was silent and looked very serious, Bian Lingcheng said in confusion: "Since the imperial edict wants us to recover Luoyang, we will prepare to send troops. What's wrong with everyone?"

No one pays attention to him. People who don’t understand military affairs and only know how to urge supervision will look down on him from the bottom of their hearts.

Gu Qing sighed: "The Anxi Army cannot recover Luoyang, and the entire army will be wiped out."

Bian Lingcheng said in surprise: "Why can't we recover? Our Anxi army has strong troops and strong horses. Since entering Yumen Pass, we have won many victories. Why can't we recover Luoyang?"

Gu Qing had to patiently explain in straightforward words: "Because Luoyang is very large, the city walls are very high, there are many defenders, and the Anxi army has too few soldiers and horses, do you understand?"

Bian Lingcheng understood, but he still said unwillingly: "But since the imperial edict has allowed us to recover Luoyang, we cannot violate the order and not obey it. No matter how difficult it is to fight, we must fight."

Li Siye said bluntly: "Can the Border Supervisor personally attack the city? The foundation that the Anxi Army has finally accumulated over the years will be defeated in one battle. How can we explain to the 50,000-year-old man?"

Bian Lingcheng's face suddenly became cold. He was also a visionary guy and did not dare to get angry with Gu Qing, but he was not so polite to Li Siye.
Chapter completed!