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"Bastard thing!" Zhao Yu slapped the table in front of him suddenly, the teacup jumped up, fell to the ground with a crisp sound, and when it turned to the side, he still scolded angrily.

"Your Majesty is angry!" Yan Fengming hurriedly picked up the teacup and saluted.

"This guy is so greedy, he really lives up to my heart for him." Zhao Yu waved his hand to indicate that there was nothing to do, and motioned for him to sit down. And he himself tried to suppress the anger in his chest, sighed, and finally swallowed the words that he wanted to kill him back into his stomach.

The situation that Yan Fengming just reported just confirmed Zhao Yu's worries. In that year, the forbidden army recruited the Northern Army to establish a base area in Fujian and Guangzhou, and used it to contain the Fujian and Jiangxi base areas at that time, so as to successfully complete the incorporation of Mrs. Xu's department. This task is to shoulder two places on one shoulder, not only to complete the establishment of the base area, but also to resist the Yuan court's purge, which can be described as an arduous task, which requires the selection of a strong leader to preside.

At that time, Liu Zhixue, the commander of the Second Division, recommended Qin Linfeng to stay behind, saying that he was born in the Shuaifu Army, had a flexible mind, fought bravely, and had the skills of his subordinates, and would definitely be able to assist Xie Ao in completing the important task of establishing the Fujian-Guangzhou base area. After Zhao Yu summoned him, the countermeasures were very satisfactory to him, so he made him the commander of the Weisheng Army. In the early days of its establishment, it did incorporate the remnants of Chen Hangyan in just over a year, and completed the reorganization of the Wasion Army.

However, during this period, it was also reflected that Qin Linfeng was fond of killing, and killed or drove the generals of the rebel army who did not obey his orders, and even his colleagues who disagreed, to establish his own authority. After all, Xie Ao, who presided over the military administration of Fujian and Guangzhou, was young, lacked experience in struggle, and was helpless against his behavior, and was in a marginalized position.

Considering that it is not easy to create a base area, and a strong figure is also needed to control the Fujian and Guangzhou regions, it is also necessary to use some radical means, so he accommodated Qin Linfeng's actions, and the bureau did not find that he was disloyal to the imperial court. Since then, the Fujian and Guangzhou regions have also stabilized, and the situation has developed well, so Zhao Yu put the matter aside and did not ask any more questions.

Until this time, I stumbled upon the discovery that Qin Linfeng at that time was no longer Qin Linfeng at that time. Under this question, it was found that the situation was serious, and he not only killed dissidents in the name of rectification, but also wantonly amassed wealth. resold the salt allocated by the imperial court for the distribution of soldiers' salaries at a higher price, and also deducted it on the grounds of the court's financial difficulties to enrich his own pockets; In the name of tuntian, fertile land was intercepted and leased to local farmers to make profits; Then there is the destruction of the tax system, the unauthorized imposition of poll tax, causing the people to flee, etc.; In addition, his life is becoming more and more corrupt, his eating and drinking expenses are far beyond the regulations, and he also keeps concubines privately......

What made Zhao Yu most intolerable was that Qin Linfeng, this kid, also knew that there must be the emperor's eyes around him, so he either used bribery to take them for his own use, or used the war to secretly remove them and get rid of his own surveillance. If Zheng Huchen hadn't discovered that there was something wrong with the Minguang Intelligence Station, and sent Yan Fengming to rebuild the organization and conduct an investigation secretly, maybe he would have heard a lot of praise for it, and his problems would still not be revealed.

"Has Xie Ao been in the same league with him?" Zhao Yu took a sip of tea and asked again.

"Your Majesty, the subordinates have not found any evidence of the merger of the two." Yan Fengming replied, "Although Xie Fu's actions are weak and not decisive enough, he is honest and has never accepted his gifts. However, it was difficult for him to change the sour temper of the scholars, he took his face too seriously, and realized that the situation was out of control, so he did not report it, nor did he resist, but responded passively, so that the court neglected to supervise, causing it to become more and more domineering. ”

"Well, I know." Zhao Yu nodded and said, "In this northern expedition, the Weisheng army is known as an army of 50,000 and has killed more than 10,000 enemies, but I watched the battle yesterday and couldn't stop the weakest Longxing army, and the enemy sneaked to the front of the formation without noticing, so I can't help but suspect that it is suspected of lying." ”

"Your Majesty." Yan Fengming saluted, "The Weisheng Army is no longer strong and strong at the beginning, officers at all levels are trying to collect money and have no intention of training troops, and their number of soldiers is less than 30,000, and the rest are all false reports. In the Northern Expedition, they have always avoided the important and light, and have not fought a tough battle at all, how can they say that they have annihilated the enemy over 10,000, but they have suffered heavy losses, and they have to recruit bandits and homeless people along the way to be incorporated into the army, so as not to be exposed by the literature. ”

"In this way, the Wasion Army is rotten!" Zhao Yu frowned and said, he didn't expect that the Wei Sheng Army had been eroded to such an extent.

If he turns a blind eye, it is not enough to correct military law, and it is not conducive to the future development of the Weisheng Army, and it may even lead to the spread of corruption. And if Qin Linfeng is severely punished, he has already taken deep roots in the Weisheng army, and rash action is likely to provoke a mutiny, and there will also be a suspicion of killing meritorious heroes, causing panic in the army.

"Your Majesty, it's not so." Yan Fengming shook his head and said, "According to the investigation of his subordinates, although Qin Linfeng has placed his cronies everywhere, his circle is not large, and he is still afraid of the former forbidden army officers who remain there, so he just squeezes them out to the outlying or peripheral cottages, so as to stay away from the core of power, so as to facilitate him to get up and down." In addition, there are also some generals who are afraid of his obscenity, dare to be angry and dare not speak, and take the initiative to distance themselves from him, and do not join him. ”

"Well, you give me a detailed list of these people and their backgrounds, don't let anyone know, and ask our people to closely monitor Qin Linfeng's every move, and if there is any change, inform Yu I immediately, and don't act without authorization, so as not to startle the snake." Zhao Yu said, taking out a waist card from his sleeve and handing it to Yan Fengming.

"Your Majesty, your subordinates will live up to their mission!" Yan Fengming took the waist card with both hands and carefully put it away. He was a little excited, knowing that with this waist card, he could directly face the saint without the need for others to report it, and as far as he knew, Zheng Huchen, the general director of the entire affairs bureau, had this privilege, which also showed that he had won the trust of the little emperor......

The day after the recovery of Ezhou, Wen Tianxiang invited His Majesty to enter the city. Zhao Hao wanted to enter the city quietly as before, but after thinking about why he came, didn't he also want to use his relatives to improve his prestige? Therefore, under his advice, it was decided to arrange the guard of honor and hold a public ceremony to enter the city. However, the scale still exceeded his expectations, not only the ceremony of sacrificing prisoners, but also the ceremony of dedication of the elders and celebrities in the city. The city is full of flags, and the city is also a loess cushion road, clean water splashes the street, the shops along the way are full of lights, and the people kneel to welcome.

In order to ensure the safety of His Majesty, the guards on the way were on guard along the way, with the cavalry of the escort army as the guide, the band played triumphant songs, and the gongs and drums sounded in unison. Zhao Yu rode into the city under the escort of the ministers and generals, the officers and soldiers of the personal guard brigade guarded the front and back, the guard battalion surrounded the holy car, the camel drove slowly, and the team of tens of thousands of people only finished in an hour.

Zhao Yu's palace was set up in the former Song Dynasty's general residence, and after Huan escaped to Ezhou, it served as the palace of Zhennan. Here in the Siemens City, there are many pavilions and pavilions, there are Qingjingtang, Zhengzheng Pavilion, Ying Xuan, Xixuan, Kuanbi, Mei Pavilion, etc., as well as Chuguan Building, Shengchun Building, Qingmei Building, Qushui Pavilion, Arbor Pavilion. There is also the north pavilion set up in the back of the hall and the south building opposite, the Chu Wanglou in the west of the north pavilion can overlook the Yangtze River, in addition, the Chu view on the top of the Yellow Bird Mountain is also built in it, it is indeed a place with pleasant scenery.

Jiangxia County, as the government of Ezhou and an important military defense town, not only has the road-level government offices such as the Metropolitan Command Division, the Pacification Division, and the Transshipment Division, but also Jiangxia County and Ezhou Tongzhi are concentrated in the sub-city. The sub-city is close to the west city, and the defense is naturally temporarily taken over by the second brigade of the guard, and the sub-city is taken over by the pro-guard regiment, and only the guard battalion is stationed in the palace. Under the instruction of Zhao Hao, except for one part of the Weisheng Army and the mountain brigade stationed in the Dongcheng military camp, the rest were stationed in Xiakou and Hankou; The main force of the Huai'en army was stationed in the city, responsible for the defense of the north and south cities, and the rest was stationed in the counties under the jurisdiction of Ezhou.

Zhao Hao calculated the time, it was already the twenty-second day of the lunar month, and even if he set off immediately, he would not be able to rush back to Lin'an on New Year's Day, and the matter of the Weisheng Army had not yet been dealt with; On the other hand, after the loss of Ezhou, the enemy army in Jiangling lost its echo and had no intention of fighting again and retreated to Jiangbei, Jiang Cheng took the opportunity to lead the army to pursue and annihilated more than 20,000 enemies. He thought about the two important towns that had been recovered one after another, and the aftermath had not been completed, so after thinking about it again, he decided to celebrate the New Year in Ezhou.

People can't go back, but there are still some things that must be done, he first has to give a congratulatory watch to the Empress Dowager Yang who is still in Qiongzhou, and send gifts. In addition, he revised the book to Ying Jieyan and Liu Huang, informing them of the recent situation of the imperial court, and asked them to prepare to escort the Queen Mother north to Lin'an after the New Year, and prepare to discuss the state together. And in Lin'an, Lu Xiufu also sent a chapter with the official document, and the Chengbei Palace has been repaired, and the ministers and the people are waiting for him. Although he didn't know how much of it was true, he still wrote back to inform him that the war here had ended, but he still needed to deal with some aftermath, and he could not return to Lin'an for the time being, so he could preside over the government first.

The emperor stayed in Ezhou for the New Year, so he naturally had to plan carefully, which was very busy for Wen Tianxiang and others. And when the war is over, and away from the court, the queen mother and the master are not around, it is rare that no one is restrained and idle, and you can have fun. When everyone was so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground, he walked around Ezhou City, visited the ancient times, and paid tribute to the sages.

The most important content of the sacrifice is to worship heaven and earth, mountains and rivers, and sheji. Ezhou has built a shrine, located at the foot of the East Yellow Crane Mountain, in the ninth year of Chunxi according to the government and the five rites painted as four altars, whether as the new master of Jiangnan, or the lord of Zhongxing who restored the old land, Zhao Yun had to go to the sacrifice, inform heaven and earth that there was a new master, he personally led the city's Chinese military officials to pay tribute three days after recovering Ezhou City, praying that heaven and earth would bless him to restore the country as soon as possible, that the wind and rain in Jiangnan would be smooth, and the people would be happy.

Then it is to pay tribute to the gods, Buddhas, ghosts and gods, Zhao Yu is to build a temple to burn incense, and kowtow when he meets a god. Worshiped the iron Buddha in the Kaiyuan Temple built in the Tang Dynasty, and struck the bronze bell weighing 13,000 catties. I also went to the legendary filial son Meng Zong cried his mother and wept bamboo, and the Meng Xiaogan Temple built in Shaoxing. In addition, I visited the Toutuo Temple inscribed by Li Bai, Huang Tingjian and others, saw the sword grinding pool on the top of the mountain, and visited the reading hall. He went to Hongshan Temple to loosen the soil and water the pine trees planted by Yue Fei himself.

In addition to the Buddhist temples and Taoist temples that are everywhere in Ezhou City, there are also some ancestral temples dedicated to local figures. For example, in the southwest of the city, Lu Daxian Temple, worship Han Lu Jia; Wu'an Wang Temple, worship Guan Yu; The Guan Yu temple of Zhuo Dao Spring also worships Guan Yu, and it is said that Guan Yu tastes Zhuo Dao here, and then sets up a temple on the spring. The Loyal Shrine is to sacrifice when the Northern Song Dynasty Jianyan Jin rode across the river, the county guard Li Yi who stuck to the city, and then was captured by the thief, escaped to the monk temple, the monk was suspicious and killed, the people were sad, and worshiped for the construction of the ancestral hall.

And the parrot island in the southwest of Ezhou City, the legend says that Huang Zu killed You Heng here, and there are Miheng Tomb and Huang Zu Tomb on the continent, which later became the Parrot Temple. In addition, the most common is the temple that worships the god of the river, in addition to the common dragon king temple, there is the Hengjiang Lusu Temple, because it tastes as the general of the Hengjiang River, so the temple is named after it; Three Shenggong Temple, the local people welcome the gods in the Mid-Autumn Festival, very pious, one of the three gods is General Fubo.

Zhao Hao doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, he definitely fools ghosts when he goes to worship! But there is a place that is sincere, that is the martyr's temple, which is located outside the city ten miles east, is the early Southern Song Dynasty civil construction, the people of the state because of the protection of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River at that time Yue Fei contributed to the country, please build a shrine in the imperial court to worship, the edict to give this amount. He admired Yue Fei in his previous life, and after recovering Lin'an, he thought of paying respects at the tomb, but he failed to make the trip, and he didn't expect to meet him in Ezhou.

After the worship, Zhao Yu ordered to renovate the Martyrs' Shrine, and add the repair of the hall and the apse. The martyrs in the battle of Ezhou and Jiangling are enshrined in it, and the stone is remembered, and the inscription is 'loyal to the martyrs through the ages, never forget'. In addition, he ordered the requisition of 100 acres of nearby land to build a cemetery, and buried the bones of the sacrificed soldiers of the Western Route Army in the Northern Expedition.

On the 27th of the lunar month, the aftermath was basically dealt with, and Jiang Cheng and Han Zhen came to Ezhou after receiving the holy decree. Zhao Yu invited the important ministers stationed in Ezhou to accompany them in the name of catching the wind, and when Wen Tianxiang arrived at the palace on time, when he came to Chu Wanglou, he found that only the little emperor was here, and he couldn't figure out what he was going to do under the shock, and he sat down after the ceremony was finished and looked at His Majesty suspiciously.

"Wenxiang, do you know these things?" Zhao Yu said as he pushed a scroll in front of Wen Tianxiang and said.

"Oh, I wonder what Your Majesty is saying?" Wen Tianxiang opened the scroll and looked through the pages as he spoke, his face changed from disbelief to astonishment until he became solemn.

"Wenxiang, what do you think?" Zhao Yu saw his face change several times, took a sip of tea and asked.

"Your Majesty, there are some things in the article that are slightly heard, but most of them are unknown." Wen Tianxiang put down the scroll, and his face became extremely ugly.

"Wen Xiang, this matter is very important, and it was unbelievable when I first learned about it, but after secretly visiting, everything is untrue!" Zhao Hao said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, the minister is guilty of negligence, please surrender." Wen Tianxiang listened and hurriedly pleaded guilty.

"Wen Xiang doesn't have to be like this, the current Weisheng Army has fallen like this, Qin Linfeng can't escape the blame, how to deal with it as a top priority?" Zhao Yu raised his hand to let him get up, and after further investigation, he knew that Wen Tianxiang was not involved in this matter, and as an important minister, he had to talk to Qin Linfeng no matter how he dealt with it, and see his attitude......