At the beginning of March of the seventh year of the Great Cause, Li Jing of Mayi County was still inspecting the grain storage in warehouses and houses in various places, so that the Mayi households were all trembling.

The other Zhucao are actually not having a good time.

Because since Li Jing took charge of Mayi, he has been quite lazy, except for holding the 3,000 horse infantry soldiers in the Mayi military camp in his hands, he has not done any big moves.

But now it is not done, the emperor wants to conquer Liaodong, as usual, the trouble is known to the world.

Mayi is already close to Hebei, and if you don't rectify it, you will have to find the future account.

Li Jing has been unlucky for nearly 20 years, and he knows the stakes very well, so he doesn't talk about others, just his own brother in Beijing, and his eyes have been staring at his younger brother.

Of course, Li Jing's selfishness is also one of the important reasons.

Speaking of which, Li Jing has also had hardships over the years.

At the beginning, he was also attached to Yang Sumen as an official, but his brother Li Duan was a confidant of the general Shi Wansui.

Yang Su and Gao Gong have been fighting for power for more than ten years, and it is not one or two that have been affected.

At that time, Gao Gong's protégé was born and deceased, all over the government and the opposition, and he really pressed Yang Su.

However, in the end, it was Yang Su who won.

Li Jing saw very clearly that among the important ministers of the court and the central government back then, Gao Gong was undoubtedly unmatched in talent and fame.

Such a famous minister of the emperor was brought down, not because of how powerful his political opponent Yang Su was, but because he was not rewarded for his high merits, and he was feared by the emperor.

In a series of thrilling battles mixed with the struggle for the throne back then, Li Jing's branch, like a boat in a raging storm, was easily overturned.

Shi Wansui died, and Li Duan was cut to the people.

Yang Su won the game, and Li Jing didn't get any benefits, but he left Beijing in disgrace, which was obviously a counterattack from others.

The superior is immovable, but the small fish and shrimp below are the victims.

In the turmoil that year, Li Jing was one of the small fish and shrimp.

After that, he came and went, and in addition to not being promoted, he couldn't return to Beijing, and it seemed that he was affected by his brother, but in fact, this was the price of his party's attachment to Yang Su's line.

has repeatedly obstructed his promotion on the way back to Beijing, and it is estimated that even Niu Hong, the secretary of the ministry, can't tell who they are, and at that time, no one will make a big fight for a little Li Jing.

However, the world is unpredictable.

The crown prince Yang Yong was deposed, Gao Gong was demoted, a generation of famous ministers, and finally came to the end of the Huan Sea, but it can be said that he was relatively lucky, in the last years of Emperor Wen, how many virtuous ministers and good generals who founded the country have broken their homes and destroyed their families, but Gao Gong can still retire safely, it is really not easy.

And Yang Su also won the trust of Emperor Wen Yang Jian and Empress Dugu, and his power increased greatly.

At this point, it should be logical to say that Li Jing will return to Beijing to take up his post.

But the funny thing is that the person who blocked Li Jing's way back to Beijing at this time was not someone else, but his brother Li Duan.

It's good to be an official in Beijing, this sentence is not said in vain.

Li Duanwo was in Chang'an, the Beijing Division, changed the entrance hall, and worshiped under the door of the Beijing Master Yuwen Clan, and was gradually reused, and even the Duke of Yongkang, which was cut back that year.

The blood of compatriots is worthless in the face of fame and fortune.

What's more, although the Li branch is not ranked in Beijing, it is indeed a member of the Chang'an Gate Valve.

With such a big family, in fact, there is no need to be surprised that anything happens.

And Li Duan, as the head of the family, is most afraid of this younger brother, and all along, only this younger brother can compete with him for the position of the head of the family.

If it weren't for the young age of this younger brother back then, maybe the title of Duke of Yongkang County would not have fallen on his head.

Therefore, he will never let this brother return to Beijing.

As a result, Li Jing was bitter by this brother.

It is true that the official was promoted, but he came to a border place like Mayi, and people also said that Li Jing was stained with his brother's light, so that Li Jing would have this promotion, so that Li Jing had to say that he was suffering.

Because at this time, Yang Su was similar to Gao Gong back then, and he was suspicious of the emperor, and he didn't dare to treat it when he heard that he was sick, so he died of illness in office.

It's ridiculous to say that after Yang Su's death, less than a year later, the life of the famous minister Gao Gong also came to an end.

A pair of old enemies almost went on the road together, which also means that the ups and downs of Emperor Wen's last years are completely over.

The ambitious new emperor sat on the throne, looking left and right, full of ambition, and finally relieved, because no one had the courage and prestige to talk to him, thinking that it was a constraint.

At this time, Li Jing painfully found that the people in the court who still remembered him and always thought about him were afraid that there was only one Li Duan left.

A tragic life does not need to be explained.

When he needed help the most, his uncle Han Baohu died.

When he was emerging and wanted to make a difference, he was convicted in the blink of an eye and demoted out of Beijing.

When the new emperor ascended the throne and he just saw some hope, Yang Su died again.

The official was finally promoted, but he came to the ghost place of Mayi.

If you want to make military achievements, the Turks don't come, you want to be promoted to Taishou, but you are held down.

Moreover, this place in Mayi is the place where his brother Li Duan once fought, and there are some old troops here, and Li Jing wants to make a difference here, so he has to ask them if they agree.

It can be said that the first half of Li Jing's life was full of all kinds of tragedies, and he couldn't help himself, so he fell into one pit after another, and it became more and more difficult to get out.

Such a person, do you want him to conscientiously guard the border for the country in Mayi? How is that possible?

However, in the seven years of the great cause, Li Jing, who gradually lost hope, seemed to see a ray of light.

Of course, he also knew that even if he sharpened his head, it would be impossible for him to go with the army to conquer Liaodong.

But this place in Mayi is too close to Hebei, and he is ninety percent sure that the emperor will definitely drive the expedition in person.

Although in his opinion, this is an extremely stupid act, the emperor's great joy has gradually begun to be incomprehensible, and the emperor's character and actions can already be found in the late Jin Dynasty.

But for himself, this was the closest he had come to the emperor in nearly twenty years.

Therefore, he really wanted the emperor to know that there was also a Li Jing in Ma Yi who was praised by the general Han Baohu and said that he was familiar with military affairs.

So, this time Li Jing inspected the warehouse, and he also cheered up 120,000 points.

By March, less than half of the inspection, Ma Yi had already reported to the Yanmen Prefecture Governor's Office for 26 people, in fact, without waiting for Yanmen's reply, the heads here had already landed.

It was an obvious purge.

Most of the people who lost their heads were local officials, and half of them were generals in the army.

Li Jing has already made up his mind to clear out the old department left by his brother Li Duan in Mayi, so as to facilitate his future actions.

At this time, the small fire in Mayi City brought another excuse to Li Jing, who was almost red-eyed......

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