The development of events exceeded Zhao Huan's expectations, Du Chong was not useless, and Zhong Xiang was killed.

"When Du Cong went south from Cangzhou, he met Kong Yanzhou on the way."

"Kong Yanzhou is a native of Xiangzhou, and he is a fellow villager with Captain Yue. However, this person did a lot of evil, rampant in the countryside, and after being arrested, he took advantage of the moonlight to escape through the city and become a bandit. ”

"When the Jin soldiers went south, Kong Yanzhou threw himself into Du Chong, and went all the way south, robbing and killing residents, burning houses, plundering property, and collecting robbers along the road, and the momentum became louder and louder."

"Then Zhao Gou gave Kong Yanzhou to recruit envoys along the river, and went with Du Chong to go to Yunmengze for eight hundred miles to quell the rebellion.

"He sent someone to negotiate a truce with Zhong Xiang, and secretly sent a spy to infiltrate Zhong Xiang's department in the name of entering the law, and killed Zhong Xiang with the spy as an internal response."

Li Gang explained the cause of Zhong Xiang's death.

But Zhao Huan is still confused, under this Kong Yanzhou's operation, the Dongting Lake incident has been completely calmed down, so why does Zhao Gou still ask him for help?

"Although Zhong Xiang was killed. But Yun Mengze's matter did not subside. Li Gang explained.

"Zhong Xiang is dead, but the rest of Yang Mi, Huang Cheng, Liu Heng, Zhou Lun, Yang Qin, Xia Cheng, Huang Zuo, Yang Hua, Yang Guang, etc. continue to be scattered in nineteen states and counties, but the momentum is getting bigger and bigger."

A spark can start a prairie fire, and where there is oppression, there is resistance.

Zhao Huan had to sigh, this Zhao Gou is really good at this official forcing the people to rebel, and the more peaceful the more rebellious. What was originally a fire has now turned him into a prairie fire.

Suppressing the rebellion and killing a leading Zhong Xiang will not help at all.

"Now Yang Qi has sent his brother Yang Qin to Bianjing, just to take Zhong Xiang's son Zhong Ziang back to Dongting Lake and regroup."

"It's easy to get in this place in Bianjing, but how can it be so easy to get out? Yang Qin and Zhong Ziang were arrested by the inspectors of the Imperial City Division, and under the interrogation of Chen and Zhou Shaoqing, they learned the details behind Zhao Gou's letter. ”

Li Gang bowed his head and said.

Originally, the arrest of Yang Qin was done by the inspectors of the Imperial City Division, but the inspectors of the Imperial City Division did not have the power to interrogate, so the interrogation was done by Li Gang and Wednesday Wei.

"In other words, now Han Ziang and Yang Qin are in prison?" Zhao Huan asked.

Li Gang nodded, and it was time for the official family to make a decision.

One is Zhao Gou's request for help, so that Zhao Huan sent generals to help Zhao Gou quell the rebellion. On the one hand, Yang Qin and Han Ziang are in prison.

It depends on how the official chooses.

To help Zhao Gou and maintain the superficial rule is to agree with Zhao Gou's so-called King Wu to stand on his own, pay taxes on time, and then send military generals to pacify Yang Mi and others.

Helping Zhong Xiang's son Zhong Ziang is something that has never been done in the past. But Li Gang didn't think the official family would choose the latter.

Zhao Huan thought for a while and said, "Zhong Ziang can't let go, he has to stay in Beijing." He is the crown prince of the Chu State. There are no two heavens and no two people, and he Zhong Ziang has to stay in Bianjing. ”

"But Yang Qin can discuss, I decided to recruit Yang Qin, and I can give him a sailor head, the same Yang Mi and others, the same sailor head, are all petty officials from Jiupin, helping me train the sailor in Dongting Lake."

"What does Dazai Lee think?"

Li Gang didn't speak for a long time, Zhong Xiang is a rebellion, this emperor helps the rebels, where is this kind of reason?

However, Li Gang always felt that doing so would be conducive to promoting the reform of the official family.

For the official family, Li Gang finally figured out some taste, in the hearts of the official family, the most important thing is not the nobles and scholars, but the people who eat in the soil.

"The minister thinks that Yang Qi and Yang Qin can be given higher official positions, such as the commander of the water division?" Li Gang tried to ask.

Zhao Huan thought about it, an official from the ninth grade, is still a little smaller, this group of rebels with their heads pinned to the waistband of their trousers, since they have decided to recruit An, they can't be so stingy, it's just two controls.

Command is an official position under the old military system, and it is a dispatch.

"Yang Qi and Yang Qin can be the commander, each of them has a seven-rank official, and then several other people, all of whom are sect heads, from the ninth grade, are responsible for training sailors for me in Dongting Lake. If Yang Qin is unwilling, then follow Zhong Ziang and lock him up in prison. Zhao Huan told Li Gang of his decision.

He has a preference for this group of desperate people who have no way out and have to rise up, but the law of the court cannot be messed up.

The two seven-rank officials are already the biggest officials that Zhao Huan can come up with.

They are in vain, and they are rising, and they are sorry for the soldiers who forgot to die in the border land.

Therefore, Zhao Huan granted the old official positions, all of which were too small to be small, and for the new military lord, it was the most important means for Zhao Huan to control the army, and it was useless.

This is also when the master Dao handed over to Zhao Huan the new military system, he repeatedly emphasized and told Zhao Huan the precautions of this military system.

Li Gang bowed his head and said: "The minister is ordered, and Yang Qin will agree if he disagrees." ”

Zhao Huan said hesitantly: "You talk to Yuwen Xuzhong about this, let him and Shen Cong sum it up, and send the inspector of the Imperial City Division to keep an eye on it." ”

The reason why he hesitated was that the army in his hands did not promote the supervision army, no matter which unit it was, Zhao Huan did not have the habit of sending a supervision army.

But now that this group of people is a thief, they still send some inspectors to supervise them, and they have nothing to do ideological work, so it is more secure.

"Commandment." Li Gang replied.

Although Yuwen Xuzhong is now the Imperial History Zhongcheng and is in charge of the Taiwan Advice, Yuwen Xuzhong also has an identity and is the supervisor of the Imperial City Division of the Jin Kingdom, so this matter is naturally done by Shen Cong and Yuwen Xuzhong.

Zhao Huan's idea is actually to let Yuwen Xuzhong, the imperial historian, play his role, this policy, whether it is good or bad, he has no bottom in his heart, after all, the emperor's support for the rebels is a bit strange no matter how you look at it.

Li Gang did not object, and if Yuwen Xuzhong did not object, Zhao Huan decided to do so.

When Li Gangzhi walked out of the Wende Palace, he saw Zhao Ding, the newly appointed Zhongshu scholar, who was walking cautiously from outside the palace step by step.

"Zhao Shaoqing, are you measuring the distance from Dongye Gate to Wende Palace?" Li Gang looked at Zhao Ding's appearance and asked with a smile.

Because Zhao Ding stepped on the stone bricks at every step, every step was extremely solid, and the distance of each step was about the same.

Zhao Ding first saluted Li Gang, and then bowed his head and said: "I have seen Li Dazai, and I will do things by His Majesty's side in the future, and I must be careful in everything, and be careful not to make mistakes." Nature starts everywhere. ”

Li Gang circled around Zhao Ding a few times, and then turned a few times backwards and said, "Huo Guangchuan must be read!" Zhao Shaoqing. ”

After Li Gang finished speaking, he shook his head, flicked his sleeves and left.

Instead, Zhao Ding's whole body trembled twice, stood up straight, wiped the sweat on his head, turned his head and ran after Li Gang, and said, "Li Dazai, Li Dazai, wait so." ”

Zhao Ding said with a wry smile: "Li Dazai, what you said just now, where to start, please don't hesitate to advise." So-and-so was very stupid and didn't understand why Dazai taught so-and-so. ”

Li Gang shook his head and said, "You! Why did you chase after you and walk away without stepping on the stone bricks? ”

"So-and-so is doing things next to the official's family, be careful, this is also wrong?" Zhao Ding asked with some confusion.