[I'm sorry, I've always thought that there was no squire in the six departments of the Tang Dynasty, but I didn't expect it to be...... There is also the position of Zhongcheng in the imperial history, and I personally think that there should be more than one person, because from the information found, in the same time period, many people have been sealed in the imperial history. The previous one has been changed!]

"Master, Wang Zhongcheng has arrived!"

Li Linfu's housekeeper led the middle-aged man in brocade clothes to the outside of the master's study, and then turned around and retreated.

I saw the man trotting to the door, and then he straightened his clothes a little before he stepped inside. He walked in small steps to the front of Li Linfu's case, his body bent down and his feet were parallel, and when his head was raised, he was all smiling when he saw it, and said: "Xiaguan Wang Gong heard the summons to come, please give instructions to the prime minister." ”

Wang Jie, a native of Qi County, Taiyuan, was introduced by Yang Shenjin to the Yushitai because his father Wang Jin and Yang Shenjin were cousins, and later disagreed with Yang Shenjin and switched to Li Linfu. During the Tianbao period, he was the envoy of Beijing and the city, and the envoy of the household registration, and collected a large amount of property into the inner treasury every year for Xuanzong to squander, and was deeply trusted by Xuanzong.

And now Wang Ji has been awarded the title of Household Squire, and at the same time leads the Hebei Province, Gyeonggi Province, and Kannai Province to interview and dispose of the envoys, and has already become Li Linfu's number one subordinate.

Li Linfu leaned on the couch, his brows tightened, after the news that An Lushan was also the envoy of Fan Yangjiedu, Li Linfu was also a little caught off guard, but he didn't make too many moves.

The opposition to An Lushan is only to avoid the possibility of the worst, and this possibility carries a high degree of uncertainty and can never be said on the surface. In the case that An Lushan has already made a bloody investment, it is a little unwise to risk offending hundreds of officials to oppose it, not fear, but not worth it!

For this reason, Li Linfu had no choice but to start elsewhere and try to reduce the likelihood of the worst outcome.

"I remember, it seems that the imperial court still owes Zhang Shouqi a sum of military expenses last year, right?" Li Linfu asked softly with one hand on the couch, rubbing his forehead lightly with the other.

Li Linfu pondered for a long time, but Wang Jie's face did not dare to have half a bit of impatience: "Back to Xiangye's words, the household department did owe Fan Yang Military Town a military fee last year, which was applied to the imperial court before Zhang Shoujue fought abroad, but then the saint ordered to investigate Zhang Shoujue's case, and the household department suppressed it, until Zhang Shouju was demoted at the beginning of this year, and then he simply did not send it." ”

Li Linfu nodded slightly, and then said: "Since this is the case, then don't send it!"

Wang Jiao was slightly stunned, although Zhang Shouqi died, but last year's battle was still led by the deputy general, and it stands to reason that this money should be distributed this year! Although the taxes of the various military towns are collected by the envoys of the festival and then used to offset the military expenses, it is customary that the imperial court should allocate another sum of money and food to the troops participating in the war before and after each major war, so as to encourage and reward them. Can......

Wang Ji couldn't figure it out, and he didn't need to figure it out, so he nodded and replied in a flash: "Xia Guan knows!"

Li Linfu's question is not over: "You are the head of the household department, think about it, is there any way to increase the tax revenue of Fanyang Military Town this year?"

"Huh?" If Li Linfu's question just now could still make Wang Ji a little vague, then this time he simply didn't hide his dislike for An Lushan at all!

Thinking of Li Linfu's attitude towards An Lushan at the court meeting, Wang Ji consciously knew in his heart: "The taxes in the feudal towns are usually collected by the Jiedu envoys themselves, and they only need to report to the household department afterwards.......

Wang Ji didn't go on, but Li Linfu naturally understood that reform has never been simple! So Li Linfu's brows tightened......

"I'm asking you to think of a different solution!" Li Linfu was a little irritable.

When Wang Ji saw this, he hurriedly said: "There is no other way, we can delay the batch of money and grain allocated during each battle on the grounds of lack of food in the household, so as to ......."

Before Wang Ji finished speaking, Li Linfu interrupted him impatiently: "It's too slow! There's no hurry to do this! I want An Lushan's hands to be short of food immediately!"

"What?" Wang Ji was shocked, could it be that the relationship between the right minister and An Lushan has reached the point of incompatibility?

Seeing Wang Jie's puzzled appearance, Li Linfu simply said frankly: "Do you know that the spring tax in the south has not been collected this year?"

Wang Ji nodded: "It is true that the ministry has not received the spring tax from the south this year, but it doesn't mean ......."

Li Linfu waved his hand: "That's all fake news released by Xu Fan and Li Chen! The real situation is that all the southern provinces have missed spring plowing this year, so there is no grain to hand over at all!"

"What?" Wang Jie's surprise this time was much stronger than just now!

"At present, only a few people in the DPRK and China know about this matter, and among them is this An Lushan!" Li Linfu added with a bit of a headache.

Wang Ji was able to win Li Longji's love in terms of finance and taxation, and naturally he didn't rely entirely on sloppy slapping horses and expropriating money arbitrarily, but he still understood some basic knowledge! As soon as Li Linfu said this, Wang Ji immediately realized the severity of the matter: "Don't worry, Xiangye! The lower officials will definitely do their best to make An Lushan unable to get a single grain!"

"Hehe, that's not necessary! He now has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and if he runs out of food and salary, he may not know what to do! The basic military salary should be kept for him!" Li Linfu smiled a rare when he heard Wang Jie's statement.

This was the end of the conversation, and as soon as Wang Ji left the Prime Minister's Mansion, he hurried to the household department. As soon as he entered the yamen, a secretary in the yamen immediately greeted him: "My lord, Yan Zhuang, the new secretary of Fan Yang Jiedu and Pinglu Jiedu Envoy, has been waiting in the living room for a long time!"

"It's coming pretty fast!" Wang Ji thought to himself, but walked towards the living room.

As soon as he entered the living room, Wang Zhuang went straight to the upper seat and sat down, Yan Zhuang had already gotten up before he came in.

"Your Majesty, meet Lord Wang!" The solemn salute was very sufficient, and he couldn't jump out of the slightest problem.

Wang Ji nodded quietly and said, "Secretary Yan, what's the matter here?"

Yan Zhuang still bowed: "My lord, the lower official came to ask for military expenses for Ambassador An this time!"

"Oh, military spending, what military spending?" asked Wang Jie.

"My lord, last year, Fanyang Military Town applied to the imperial court for a military fee for the war, but it has not been allocated until now. Yan solemnly replied.

"Oh! That's what you're talking about!" Wang Ji "suddenly", after smiling, he continued: "This military expenditure is remembered by the official that it was applied for by the criminal minister Zhang Shouqi, but now that Zhang Shouqi has committed suicide in fear of crime, this military expenditure is naturally impossible to talk about!"

"But the military funds are allocated to Fan Yang Military Town for combat purposes, and in the big battle last year, Fan Yang Military Town has already won, if the court does not say anything now, I am afraid that it will chill the hearts of the soldiers!" Yan Zhuang was a little anxious.

This time, in order to win the Fanyang Festival envoy, An Lushan can be said to have given everything he had, so that the original grain purchase plan was at risk of being stranded, and it took Yan Zhuang a long time to learn about the deposit of this military expenditure in a lot of copywriting. As long as you get this military expense, it is equivalent to having start-up funds, and it will not take long to multiply it several times, and it will just make Fan Yang's soldiers wait for a while, anyway, they have been waiting for more than half a year.

If the official remembers correctly, the cause of Zhang Shouqi's case was that he impeached Ambassador Jia'an for killing good and risky merits, and this is what happened later...... You said that Fan Yang Junzhen had won a big victory, but is there any evidence? Can you guarantee that they won't ...... again" Wang Ji looked at Yan Zhuang and chuckled.

However, his appearance of wanting to speak and stopping made Yan Zhuang feel palpitations for no reason, and now An Lushan is equal to falling out with the right minister, and Ji Wen is the right minister's person, when he was in Pinglu, he went to contact Ji Wen, and Ji Wen seemed to have found out something at that time, so it is difficult to guarantee that Ji Wen will not talk about those things now and hand them over to the right minister, and this Wang Ji is also the right minister's person......

Yan Zhuang didn't dare to think about it, since Wang Ji didn't say it thoroughly, it meant that there was still room for turnaround. Yan Zhuang reacted quickly, and replied in a flash: "Since there is none, then the lower official will stay soon!"

After speaking, Yan Zhuang prepared to say goodbye. However, Wang Ji called him out loud: "Don't be in a hurry to leave!"

Seeing that Yan Zhuang was so knowledgeable, Wang Ji was quite satisfied. In fact, Ji Wen didn't tell anyone what he found, Wang Ji was just a temptation made out of his own judgment. He knows Ji Wen, knows Ji Wen's methods and character, Zhang Shouqi's case has a subversive result, to say that there is no trace of greasy in it, Wang Ji doesn't believe it!

I didn't think about it, but I got something, so Wang Ji was more sure of the next requirements!

"What else is going on, my lord?" Yan Zhuang stopped.

This year, the spring tax in the south is still in transit, but the canal in the Yangzhou section has been blocked, so that now the households are short of grain. And Fan Yang is a large grain-producing town, and the official wants to buy some grain for the imperial court to Ambassador An. Don't worry, it's all bought at the market price!" Wang Ji looked at Yan Zhuang with a smile after speaking.

"But......" Yan Zhuang was really anxious this time! He thought quickly, and Yan Zhuang immediately understood Wang Jie's reaction today, and the other party may have noticed their intention to store grain, and if they think more deeply, I am afraid that this time the attitude of the right minister has changed dramatically, and I am afraid that this time the attitude of the right minister may also have something to do with it. But how dare you make Yan Zhuang agree to this kind of request!

Seeing that Yan Zhuang had not answered for a long time, Wang Ji said with some displeasure: "I often hear my colleagues say these days that Ambassador An is a heroic man who is anxious for justice and righteousness, and now that the court is in trouble, if Ambassador An refuses to help even this little bit, I am afraid that it will make those officials who support Ambassador An feel cold......!

Yan Zhuang's forehead was already sweating, and the meaning of Wang Jie's threat was already obvious, if he didn't agree, I was afraid that it wouldn't be long before An Lushan, the new Liangzhen Jiedu, would fall under the endless impeachment of the imperial historians of the Imperial History Tower! You must know that in addition to being a household servant, this Wang Jiao in front of him also bears the name of a royal historian. Although the Yushitai has now completely become Xu Fan's ban, it is necessary for Xu Fan to know that An Lushan has learned about the lack of food in the household, but I am afraid that An Lushan's fate will be even worse by then!

"I don't know how much do you want to buy, adult?" After a painful struggle, Yan Zhuang finally agreed.

"It's not much! It's only 300,000 stones! Get rid of these, and the remaining grain is enough for Fan Yang's army to eat and chew! As for the battle...... A few days ago, the political affairs hall had already ordered that all large-scale battles on the border this year should be stopped, and small battles should be reported to the imperial court before making a decision. Wang Ji said with a smile.

This time, Yan Zhuang did not exclaim. Although this figure is more than half of the annual grain production of Fanyang Military Town......

Yan Zhuang returned to the post station weakly and told An Lushan the results of this trip, including Wang Jie's threat and some of his speculations about the right minister Li Linfu.

An Lushan was a little angry at first, but after Yan Zhuang said that Li Linfu might have known about An Lushan's actions in Zhang Shouqi's case, the whole person was completely quiet.

An Lushan was silent for a long time, and then said gloomily: "Today's humiliation, he will repay it a hundred times more every day!"

Looking at An Lushan's appearance of suppressing his anger, Yan Zhuang cautiously asked: "Lord, what ......is our plan to store grain?"

"Why don't you do it?" An Lushan raised his head, a pair of eyes revealing a terrifying gaze.

"But...... We don't have any food in our hands!" Yan Zhuang didn't dare to look directly at An Lushan's gaze, so he had to lower his head: "Wang Ji has obviously realized our purpose, after selling 300,000 stone of grain, Fan Yang will not be able to leave much, not to mention that we now have almost twice as many soldiers and horses in our hands, and Pinglu's grain and grass in the past also had to rely on buying from other places, this year it can be expected that the price of grain will inevitably rise, and the money in our hands is not enough......"

Ignoring Yan Zhuang's complaints, An Lushan just smiled hideously: "He only said that he wanted to sell grain, and we only agreed to sell it to him, but it is difficult to say when it will be delivered! Since the canal in the south can have problems, why can't the gallop road in the north have some problems?"

Yan Zhuang raised his head and looked at An Lushan with bright eyes: "The lord is smart!"

"However, even so, we still don't have enough food in our hands, and the money that was originally intended to be used to buy food has been spent this time, and we can't hoard enough food, so it can play a very small role!"

"We don't have food in our hands, but the Xi people have food in our hands, and the land outside the gate is much more fertile than inside the gate......"

An Lushan didn't continue, but Yan Zhuang had already understood An Lushan's determination.

An Lushan's visit to Beijing this time has already been completed, and he will rush back to the border town the next day to take office.

The next day, just after dawn, An Lushan, Yan Zhuang, Shi Chaoying and others, with more than a dozen sergeants, walked out of the city.

When An Lushan came, he brought a team, a full 500 elite soldiers. But these five hundred soldiers naturally could not enter the city, and could only be stationed in the barracks that became.

For this reason, the protective force beside An Lushan is the weakest at this moment, and for someone, the distance from the post house to the city gate is also his best and last chance!