Chapter 982: Revenge is self-defeating
Qin Jin's words made Zheng Xianli excited, and he suddenly found that the Qin doctor in front of him had become a little unfamiliar, but after blinking his eyes, he felt that this was still the Qin Jin who was a little kind in his depths.
"After all, Liang Zai is the festival envoy of the four towns of Anxi, if you say kill it, I am afraid it will cause adverse effects in Anxi, I think it is better to use Huairou means!"
"Killing Liang Zai is not the goal, the important thing is to deter those feudal officials who are hanging outside, if you think that you can do whatever you want if you are far away from the imperial court, then in the end you can only be defeated by death! The Son of Heaven had intended to let Liang Zai lead the army back to Guanzhong in the first year of Zhide, so as to quell the An Lushan rebellion as soon as possible. But Liang Zai has repeatedly found all kinds of reasons to prevaricate and delay, and now he has even come up with a trumped-up reason, if the imperial court turns a blind eye to this, then the festival envoys in other places will inevitably follow suit!"
In fact, the Jiedu envoy in Jiangnan is not much stronger than Liang Zailai, and he is the same as Yang and Yin to the imperial court, especially after the Shenwu Army took control of the place, he did not take the envoy of the imperial court seriously. Speaking of which, this is all the aftermath of the rebellion of Yongwang Li Lan.
If Li Lan didn't rebel in Jiangnan, Li Heng wouldn't have set up so many jiedu envoys in Jiangnan and Huainan, if there weren't so many jiedu envoys, why would the imperial court face so many constraints now?
Compared with the different places in the south of the Yangtze River, the problem of Anxi is relatively simple, Tubo has just suffered a big injury, Qin Yan also led his troops to enter the side of the Potala Palace, and the threat of Tubo to the Western Regions has been lifted in a short period of time, and the Hui in the north is in the midst of civil strife at this time, even if he has the heart, he does not have the ability. Therefore, now is the best time to solve the Anzai problem, and once it is missed, I don't know when we will have such a good opportunity.
Qin Jin analyzed the details in detail, and Zheng Xianli secretly exclaimed, he couldn't imagine that there were so many implications behind the solution of Anxi's hidden dangers.
However, the situation of Tubo also surprised him a lot, he didn't expect that the once prosperous Tubo would be finished in this short period of more than a month, and the Tang Dynasty garrisoned on the side of Zampu's palace, which is no different from destroying it, right?
"I still have a question, Ma Xiang Zhong Bajie is a hero in the world, how could he make such a serious mistake?"
"Brother Zheng still doesn't know? Ma Xiangzhong Bajie has been beheaded, and his head is still hanging in Chang'an Tonghua Gate!"
Zheng Xianli entered the city from the west early in the morning, so naturally he had never seen the head of Ma Xiang Zhong Bajie, but he also heard Xuzi say it, at first he thought it was the Taoist who often exaggerated and boasted casually, but he didn't want it to be true!
"No wonder, no wonder, when I came back, I heard Xuzi mention that the remnants of Tubo occupied Lingwu, I'm afraid it is the remnants of Ma Xiang Zhong Bajie who have nowhere to go after his death, right?"
This is also the point that Qin Jin is about to mention, Lingwu will never let the Tubo people occupy it, and the reason why he did not react immediately is to consider who should lead the troops. Now that Zheng Xianli is back, of course he has become the best choice. As long as Zheng Xianli has the merit of recovering Lingwu and exterminating the remnants of Tubo, he can justifiably make him the deputy envoy of Anxi, and it will inevitably be logical to clean up Liang Zai.
"If Brother Zheng wants to lead 50,000 troops, how long will it take to recover Lingwu?"
Zheng Xianli thought for a while and stretched out a finger.
"A month?"
"Counting the march, one month is enough, and I don't know how much the doctor is equipped with the latest firearms made by the Ordnance Superintendent?"
Qin Jin waved his hand and said:
"The firearms of the Ordnance Supervisor will be allocated as much as they are used, and they will be supplied in sufficient quantities!"
"In that case, maybe it can be three or five days earlier!"
"Don't seek speed, just stability! Once Lingwu is restored, the books of the deputy envoy of Jiedu will follow, and the army will be transferred directly from Lingwu to Hexi!"
Speaking of this, Qin Jin let out a long sigh, after all, he hadn't slept all night, and he was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes. Everything that should be said was almost done, and Zheng Xianli immediately retired so that Qin Jin could rest.
Out of the Zhongjun Marshal Hall, the Qingxuzi who was waiting for him here is gone, Zheng Xianli is not surprised, this Qingxuzi always has an impetuous energy when he speaks and does things, and it is common for him not to count the words he has said. However, since Doctor Qin is so reusable to use this Taoist priest who is used to pretending to be a ghost, this person must also have his own merits.
He took the reins of the war horse from the hands of his attendants, and was about to get on the horse, when he heard a voice behind him panting and shouting:
"General Zheng go slowly, wait for the poor road ......"
Zheng Xianli looked back, but it was Qingxuzi who appeared out of nowhere.
"Qingxu Zhenren hasn't gone back to rest yet, they have been on the road for most of the night, and they should also relieve their fatigue......"
Qingxuzi said with a smile:
"There is a place to go to relieve fatigue, why doesn't General Zheng follow the poor road to relieve fatigue?"
Zheng Xianli saw that he was playing tricks, thinking that he had nowhere to go for the time being, and the house must have been tossed after the Tubo people occupied Chang'an, so Suo Xing followed Qingxuzi to see what he said.
Qing Xuzi waved to the entourage behind Zheng Xianli again:
"Brothers, go with us!"
The two rode away from the gate of the Chinese army, but were seen by a middle-aged purple-robed official, who frowned lightly and asked the general on duty for his identity, but after getting the answer, his brows furrowed even tighter.
Qin Jin had just laid down, and the military officials came to report again, and the fifth Qi asked to see him.
Fifth Qi only ensured yesterday that the matter of salt and iron would be properly handled, and he came to see him in a hurry early this morning, could it be that he already had a result?
Unexpectedly, after the fifth Qi met, the first sentence mentioned Zheng Xianli and Qing Xuzi was the same. These two men violated the curfew regulations by arranging their horses in the streets, and should be punished according to the law.
Fifth Qi came to see Qin Jin early this morning, and it was this matter that Qing Xuzi and Zheng Xianli did not know very well the rules of strictly prohibiting people other than patrol soldiers from running horses on the street during the curfew in Chang'an City, and the two of them not only ran away, but also swaggered straight into the military marshal hall of the Shenwu Army.
After getting the report, Fifth Qi felt that this matter must not be tolerated and must be severely punished, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable. Knowing that the prime minister came in a hurry early in the morning just for this matter, Qin Jin couldn't cry or laugh a little, but he also realized that Qing Xuzi and Zheng Xianli had indeed violated the temporary public security regulations, and punishment was inevitable.
However, Qin Jin has experienced too many political struggles, and his keen intuition that he has long developed tells him that there may be someone behind this incident who is deliberately fueling the troubles, otherwise it would not be possible for the two of them to be sued in the political hall as soon as they returned to Chang'an. He stared at Fifth Qi carefully to determine whether this person was deliberately finding fault with Qing Xuzi and Zheng Xianli, and after a while, he still gave up this scrutiny.
Fifth Qi is also a person who has been in the officialdom for more than ten years, even if he has any schemes, how can he easily show his feet?
"It's not a big deal, how to deal with it is to be dealt with in accordance with the regulations, even if Qin has a lot of importance to them, it is not a reason to violate the regulations and be exempted from punishment!"
"The doctor is wise! In this case, he will not disturb the doctor's rest......"
"Wait!"
Qin Jin stopped Fifth Qi, who was about to retire.
"Qin wants to know, who reported Qingxuzi and Zheng Xianli?"
Fifth Qi replied without thinking:
"Li Kaifang, a member of the military department"
Qin Jin felt strange, he had never heard of this person named Li Kaifang, and he had never heard that Zheng Xianli and Qing Xuzi had made enemies in Chang'an.
"At that time, the curfew was still there, with this Li Kaifang's rank, I am afraid that he has no qualifications, and there is no official business to pass on the streets, how did he know?"
Fifth Qi was stunned when he was asked, and immediately asked:
"Could it be that the doctor intends to shield these two?"
Qin Jin smiled and shook his head.
"Qin doesn't have this intention, but if someone behind him deliberately fuels the trouble, he must find out this person......"
To put it bluntly, he will not shield Zheng Xianli and Qing Xuzi, and being a horse on the street is just a whip, not a fatal punishment, but the person behind this matter who is afraid that the world will not be chaotic will also pay the corresponding price.
Li Kaifang has been in charge of cleaning up the treasury soldiers in the past few days, and he is on duty in the middle of the night, and he returned home after the shift this morning, and happened to bump into him!"
Qin Jin squinted his eyes and nodded:
"This Li Kaifang is jealous, very good, very good!"
After this matter was revealed, Qin Jin didn't ask how the matter of the Fifth Qi Salt and Iron * was done, he believed that he might not even be able to figure out the clue after just a day or two, and he adhered to the attitude of employing people without doubt, and did not ask repeatedly before the Fifth Qi made a special report.
After the fifth Qi returned to the political affairs hall, his face had been gloomy, and he suddenly realized that he might have become a knife in the hands of some people, and he originally wanted to show his face in front of Doctor Qin to show his justice, but he didn't want to slap the horse's hooves. Obviously, Doctor Qin was very concerned about the weapons supervisor named Zheng Xianli, and he was annoyed that he hadn't investigated the details of these two people before this?
Initially, Fifth Qi felt that there were no two people in the list of meritorious service awards for the Shenwu Army, so he wishfully believed that they were not Qin Jin's cronies, and it would not hurt to use them as stepping stones.
"Li Kaifang, Li Kaifang, don't blame a certain ruthless, only blame you for not opening your eyes and offending people who shouldn't be offended!"
This person who should not be offended is Qin Jin, the most powerful person in Chang'an City. Fifth Qi originally valued Li Kaifang quite a lot, and planned to promote him to Lang Zhong of the Third Division of the Military Department after a while, but now everything is in vain, and if you want to blame him, you can only blame him for being too narrow. Zheng Xianli and the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Justice, thinking that he did not offend Li Kaifang very much in official business, and was remembered for his revenge, and the fifth Qi was well versed in these pickled things in the officialdom. Although Doctor Qin did not mention the idea of cleaning up Li Kaifang, Fifth Qi felt that he had to think about being in front of Doctor Qin......
As soon as he thought of this, a dead and cold smile appeared on Fifth Qi's face!