The two guards of Dragon and Tiger are the most appropriate helpers for Zhao Yue when he travels, and the two of them have successfully completed the task and come back, and Zhao Yue's idea of thinking is even firmer.

After a little chat, I knew that Tang Bin's father and son were fine...... Zhao Yue was relieved, and he didn't ask much, and was about to ask the two of them to go down and take a good bath, and after a good meal, they would sleep peacefully and recuperate. At this time, the carved dragon took out a piece of paper from his pocket and said with a smile: "When I came over, I happened to meet a telegraph operator who was going out, and I brought the telegram over by the way, from Qingzhou." ”

Zhao Yue took the telegram and was not in a hurry to read it, but first called the tired two who came back from rushing to go down to rest quickly, and beckoned: "Xiao Pan, Xiao Cheng, go to the kitchen to arrange meals for the two of them to have a good meal, and prepare hot water for them to take a good bath to relieve their fatigue." ”

Pan Jinlian and Miss Cheng were in the adjacent house, and when they heard that the second general was back, they were prepared, and when they heard the greeting, they hurriedly smiled and agreed.

Zhao Yue greeted again: "Little sweet girl,"

But he didn't hear a response, so he couldn't help laughing and scolding: "Where did this stinky girl go to play again?" ”

Before the sound fell, the little sweet girl came through the door next door, still blinking and giggling with innocent eyes as always.

Zhao Yue deliberately said with a calm face: "Little bun, naughty again? Hurry up and find someone to burn the kang in their room, spread the futon and warm it up. ”

Xiao Tianniu was not afraid of Zhao Laoer, rolled her eyes and made a grimace, and deliberately made a strange noise, but then ran out of the door with a smile to find someone to work. caused the dragon and tiger duo and He Xuantong to laugh.

The little girl is young and active, she likes to run fast, not Pan Jinlian and Miss Cheng, who consciously pay attention to her demeanor and appearance, can compare, running errands and finding someone to do work, this kind of thing is usually a little sweet girl's business, this blink of an eye, the little girl will run away.

After the carved dragon and embroidered tiger greeted the military advisor, Zhao Yue unfolded the telegram, glanced at it, and handed the telegram to He Xuantong with a smile.

He Xuantong took it and took a quick look, and couldn't help but pat his thigh: "Gao Wow." The eldest prince's hand is really wonderful. ”

It turned out that the four military states of Cangbei selected warrior monks from hundreds of thousands of monks to supplement the border army at that time, and those civil and military officials sent by the emperor and the imperial court to monitor Zhao Gonglian and other military and political officials in Cangbei suddenly saw the opportunity, thought about it, and started a demon moth after a secret consultation in private.

These officials are either the chief officials of Liucao who do not have to fight, and they are in charge of transporting and storing military salaries, money, food and materials...... As for the generals sent by the DPRK and China in a vain attempt to directly control the army and want to directly monitor and threaten Zhao Gonglian and the entire Cangbei Department of the Four Military Prefectures by force, the Four Military Prefectures did not transfer them to the front line to guard the border passes, so they let these people stay in the state capital without taking risks and convenient for monitoring......

These people either have secret orders or secret orders, the emperor and the master of the court have the right to rely on the mountain, and they come to the border pass to share the gold plate of the repeated achievements of the brave Cangbei army, and complete the secret mission by the way, one by one is full of superiority, the waist is hard, and they also get relevant preferential treatment when they come to Cangbei, and they don't have to endure hardships and hardships on weekdays, and they don't have to make dangers to patrol the border and fight...... It's just like the emperor, that mentality is so beautiful that it's about to bubble, although he doesn't dare to wantonly expose it for the secret mission, and strives to maintain the posture that an ordinary official should have, and can't be high-profile and suspicious, but his words and deeds still inevitably reveal the arrogance and arrogance of the superior officials who dominate the life and death of the officials of the four military states and anyone.

Of course, there is also a very unsatisfactory side.

They hold all the key powers in the border areas, but they cannot rely on their powerful backers and powers to make money through corruption as they imagined...... Because the border military states are mainly military, the main practice is military law. The military law of the Song Dynasty was formulated very completely, emphasizing literature over military force, and it was necessary to govern the military with literature, and the civilian officials naturally had to rack their brains to display their talents, and the military law was particularly careful and harsh in the formulation of military law, and the military law was strict, and it was easy to lose their heads if they were not careful.

And Zhao Gonglian is the commander of the Cangbei Army, with a high prestige, not only can directly control the military of the four military states, but also in fact directly affect the control of the civil and government affairs of the four military states, manage Cangbei, and is the de facto military and political boss of Cangbei, with a tough and daring style, repeatedly destroying the imperial court discipline that has become a routine for a long time although there are no explicit regulations, challenging and trampling on the various dark traditional unspoken rules that officialdom everyone abides by, and the management of Cangbei is clear and strict, but those who dare to despise and offend must be punished. It doesn't matter what great background you have, what traditional conventions you have, and what excuses you use to try to justify your offense.

There is such a big man who has to let the court Mingli have to be in charge, and there is always such a ruthless and daring sword hanging over his head, these officials with secret missions after careful observation and understanding when they first arrived, saw that some people dared to disobey but were unlucky, how dare they be really bold and presumptuous.

You can't lie on the border army and the border people and indulge in sucking blood, you can't habitually play official authority, play power, eat and take cards, make it difficult for people to procrastinate on official business, make it difficult to take all parties to ask for awe and benefits, you can't rely on the official background to run rampant and domineering, and you can't bully the slaves and mothers-in-law in the family, and you can't bully the market and bully men and women...... It is not allowed for civil officials to play the enthusiastic gathering of crowds, the erosion of drinking banquets, the debauchery of the Qinglou, and other scholars and doctors who are admired and accustomed to being privileged and show their superiority, and they cannot be military attachés who use force and military power to play the true colors of strong, rude, hooligans, and bullies....... This can't be, that can't be allowed, just like officials who are accustomed to all kinds of privileges and indulgences can't stand the boiling complaints and boycotts at all when they are coldly subjected to strict anti-corruption constraints, these officials can't help but be angry, not only complaining, resentment and hatred are directly on the top of their hearts, but no matter how they want to resist resistance, they don't dare to show their true deeds. But this hatred has accumulated, and it is getting stronger and stronger, and it is simply a volcano ready to go.......

Just when they stayed for a long time and became familiar with the situation, they would take advantage of the situation, observe the situation and the direction of the court, and see that Zhao Gonglian was completely out of favor and about to fall, and felt that it was time to do it, and it was time to show the background and power, and dare to try to stretch out his claws to provoke revenge, but Zhao Gonglian suddenly abandoned the official and left the office, these people wanted to clean up Zhao Gonglian, but they were horrified to find that the Qingzhou army only recognized Zhao Gonglian as the leader, and would not listen to their command at all. Let the border army know the insidious intentions of the imperial court towards Zhao Gonglian, and be enraged, I am afraid that I will directly reverse it when I am impulsive...... I didn't dare to do anything at all, so I could only watch Zhao Gonglian trample on the rules of the court again and leave in style.

Worse:

Nearly 100,000 elite Cangbei troops who should have been loyal to the imperial court followed closely after the defected pirates, during this period, naturally there were traces of civil and military affairs with a secret mission and were slaughtered by the disappointed and angry rebels, which was enough to make these people frightened day and night, there was not much left of the Cangbei army, the border air defense was weak, the greedy tyrants and the Jurchens had been fighting for many years, and the Liao Kou, who was short of all kinds of money, food and materials, took the opportunity to call...... They became more and more frightened, and as a precaution, they secretly packed packages and prepared to abandon their officials at any time and fled south......

In a panic but helpless and desperate, Zhao Gonglian, who should have been taken by the imperial court to kill the whole family, actually came back, and the emperor himself condescended to be cheeky...... After coming back, he kept a low profile and didn't pay attention to official business at all, and he was responsible for the grace of God, but the border was safe, and the court could only let it go.

Wang Kaidao, the imperial envoy who dared to go out to provoke and intercept Zhao Gonglian and abandon the official was retaliated against, Wang Kaidao wanted to lock up and ask for the crime and even directly kill Zhao Gonglian to make a great contribution, and was ordered by Zhao Gonglian lightly, first repeatedly beaten half to death, and then I was afraid that I had to be honest as a grain officer to run around all day long, the wind and the sun were blowing, and the food and the dew were just enough, and I had to be made difficult to rectify by various means of the grain army, and I suffered a lot, fortunately, my life was not lost, and I was not directly played to death.

This incident shows Zhao Gonglian's grandeur, he is still bold, confident and daring, and it proves Zhao Gonglian's supreme authority in Cangbei.

After experiencing the wave of defection, the remaining Cangbei army is undoubtedly the army that is more loyal to Zhao Gonglian, even although he is influenced and commanded by Zhao Gonglian on weekdays, but the military and political chiefs and generals of the other three military states who are loyal to the imperial court are also involved, and in the case of not being able to control the army, they have to concentrate on following Zhao Gonglian's intentions, otherwise there will be another wave of defection, and his life will not be guaranteed, Zhao Gonglian has become the real uncrowned king of Cangbei, but the court is helpless, and he can't care about dealing with the affairs of distant Cangbei at that time.

The lessons did not make these officials wake up again and again, and they only recognized one thing: the Cangbei Army obeyed the orders of Zhao Gonglian alone. I only have a piece of waste paper when I have a holy order.

In this Cangbei, I want to have my life guaranteed, I want to complete my secret mission, and I want to enjoy the treatment of a real official in Cangbei....... What you have is not military power, but Zhao Gonglian, even if he becomes the chief general in the army, it is also false, and no one listens to the command at all. What must be had is a soldier who follows the imperial court and can listen to his command.

Then came the opportunity.

Monks.

These warrior monks were not loyal to Zhao Gonglian, and even listened to the rumors deliberately spread by the imperial court, and were extremely hostile to him.

This is the opportunity, the right people to use.

So in the past, these military attachés who were not guarding the side and were idle and willing to be idle and comfortable were active under the advice and planning of the civil officials, not afraid of getting up early and working hard, and took the initiative to undertake the training of the warrior monks, but during the period, they vigorously educated the warrior monks to be loyal to the court and loyal to the king, and quibbled that the destruction of the Buddha was not the king's original intention, but the unfortunate occurrence of a certain important minister and border officer who bewitched the king and instigated the court, and the crime was in the ill-intentioned man, don't blame the court, as we all know, the king has always been holy and benevolent, It's just that he was blinded by treachery for a while, and he made a wrong decision...... guided the warrior monk to believe the rumors more and hate Zhao Gonglian more.

This is a subtle seizure of military power, but it is not wrong to ask the warrior monks to be loyal to the imperial court.

Those who hate Zhao Gonglian even more, and are more bold and arrogant or eager to achieve things, simply educate and say that the officers and soldiers are loyal to the imperial court is the righteousness and in line with the personal interests of the soldiers, and he is the representative of the imperial court, with a holy order, as long as he listens to his command, if necessary, dare to follow him bravely to kill Zhao Gonglian, a Cangbei marshal to prove his loyalty to the court to the king, and establish great achievements, the warrior monks and even the entire Buddhist personnel in Cangbei have a way out, saying that there is no chance to be pardoned by the imperial court and restore the former status and glory of Buddhism.

They felt that Zhao Gonglian was self-respecting but the righteous and loyal king did not want to rebel, so he did it so recklessly, which was politically correct, although Zhao Gonglian was angry, he couldn't ask them about what to do in this matter. When the whole training has mastered these warrior monks who are not weak in themselves, their strength is larger than that of the original Cangbei Army, and they have an absolute advantage, and at that time, Cangbei is still the final word of the imperial court, and it is they who have a secret mission to have the final say, as for the fate of Zhao Gonglian, hehe.......

They also thought that the general judgment of Qingzhou, especially the family of the main general Gao Jiguang and the sons of the founding nobles who were based in the capital and in the imperial court, would support them, and the other three military states were already loyal to the imperial court but had to succumb to Zhao Gong's incorruptible and powerful civil and military forces for a while, and they would support and cooperate with them to split the border army and seize military power.

The significance of this is not simple.

The imperial court has been helpless against Zhao Gonglian's self-respecting fear of rebellion, and so many wise men in the court have no way to make a move, so they can only stare at Zhao Gonglian wantonly challenging the authority of the imperial court, but they have this trick to easily disintegrate Zhao Gonglian's army dependence, this ability is strong, this merit is great, and the appreciation and promotion benefits that can be exchanged are naturally immeasurable...... They are all very excited, and they can't wait to get to that day immediately, when the time comes, the rebels of the original Cangbei army who eat the military salary of the imperial court but are loyal to Zhao Gonglian and dare to disobey the king's orders will be all killed, and Zhao Gonglian, who has no authority for a while, and Zhao Gonglian, who is arrogant and conceited in another way, will be beaten and humiliated at will under his feet in public...... Look at how Zhao Gonglian will be embarrassed and humiliated when he arrives, and see if he dares to be proud and tough.......

If you can torture Zhao Gonglian to beg for mercy in public, break the hardest bones of Cangzhao's most famous in the world, and reveal that the Cangzhao family also has an unbearable nature, hehe, it will be more fun.......

Ruining Cangzhao's reputation as the most influential in the world will make the imperial court more satisfied, and the benefits that come with it will naturally be greater....... It's much more than fame and fortune.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Gonglian really couldn't justifiably ask them about this matter, and he didn't look for trouble to teach them honesty like beating the imperial envoy Wang Kaidao, but he could reasonably and legally transfer them out of the training and transfer them from the state city with normal duties, or arrange errands to leave the city on business.

The four military states suddenly moved in unison.

Before they got up early in the morning, heavy troops surrounded their homes and announced the order, and forcibly detained all the civil and military officials who were lurking in Cangbei with a secret mission, as well as slaves, soldiers, and family members, etc., and forcibly detained all of them, and the Diao slave guards who dared to resist and disobey the order were violently beaten and killed on the spot, and the rest were all "transferred" to the front line of the border pass with their masters, drinking wind and eating sand, and being forcibly escorted in the form of special soldiers to patrol the border and guard the border or cut firewood and sew oars for the border army to repair the village and wash them as coolies, which is equivalent to captivity and slavery, and even the people who serve labor are not as good. There are still all kinds of officials, and they brutally and decisively got rid of the dishonest slaves and thugs, but they didn't kill them in disguise in any way.

At this time, no matter how stupid these people are, they understand that in addition to them, the officials in the entire Cangbei are all people loyal to Zhao Gonglian, including the most unlikely Gao Jiguang.

It's a pity that everything was late.

They have been completely cut off from the opportunity to make trouble and collude with the imperial court to report information, and Zhao Gonglian has long been clear about their secret identities and manpower.

Frightened, but not desperate then.

Zhao Gonglian did not want to rebel, just to consolidate power and strengthen self-preservation, in order to realize the wish of recovering Yanyun, so punishing them was just to teach them to be honest and obedient, so long without news of them, the court will know what happened to them sooner or later, and sooner or later they will have the opportunity to escape from Cangbei, the merit is gone, but at least their lives are there.

But the desperate events that killed them soon followed.

The newly ascended Geng Nanzhong played with his conceited sleeves, spreading rumors to attack and retaliate against Zhao Gonglian.

Their heads fell to the ground along with the rumors...... The corpse was sent to the governor of Gaoyang Guanlu, the governor of the Hejian Mansion, for only one reason, only eight words: inciting the warrior monks to rebel, should be killed.