When Shi Miyuan was studying the future crown prince, the current British prince Zhao Kuo, looking for a suitable crown princess, Ye Qing was also in Yangzhou, holding a list of several people in his hand, but compared to Shi Miyuan's focus on the children of officials, Ye Qing's eyes were still on the resumes of these officials.

The short-term alliance with Shi Miyuan, even now, even if the two know that the other party is not well-intentioned, but without touching their own interests, the two will still open the back door to each other with one eye closed.

It's just that now, after Ye Qing won Guanshan and Hetao Sanlu in the first battle, he increased his influence above the court like flying, but it began to make Shi Miyuan feel a lot of pressure.

Therefore, the dispatch documents of the Ministry of Officials will not be as easy to obtain here as they were at the beginning, and if they want to appoint and dismiss the dispatch officials, in addition to the lost land recovered by the Northland, Ye Qing can also be completely in charge, Huainan West Road, Jingnan South Road, and even Jiangnan East Road, Ye Qing can no longer reach out as before.

In front of Ye Qing in the study, there were three people's archives, Hengqiao, the commander of the Guanghua Army on Jingnan Road, but since Han Yanxuan and Yang Jian entered Jingnan Road that year, they have been depressed, and now they have been demoted to a small general.

It is said that this person was the Eastern Jin Dynasty after the official Hengwen, when Ye Qing first started the Northern Expedition, he also advocated the Jingnan Road to send troops to help, but at that time, Han Yanxuan did not have this intention, but was busy preparing to suppress Ziqi and Luodian.

And just when Hengqiao wanted to lead the Guanghua army to go, he was recognized by Yang Jian, and then he was dismissed, and the demotion was out of control, and finally after getting drunk, he shouted out the famous words of the powerful minister Hengwen in his later years: If you can't live for a hundred years, you might as well leave it for ten thousand years.

In addition to this Hengqiao, Ye Qing paid more attention to the fact that Huainan West Road, which is now adjacent to Huainan East Road, the prefect He Chong, and the pacification envoy Sima Jian, in his opinion, if these two people can be brought together now, then what they want to do can basically be fifty to seventy percent sure.

After flipping through the other pile of information given by Bai Chun on hand, Ye Qing patted a few documents on the table with satisfaction, and decided to go to Shouchun Mansion on Huainan West Road in person.

When the Song Dynasty had not moved south to the road for three years, Huainan Road was renamed Huainan Road, under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou, Shouchun and other seventeen states, so the advantage is that the Huainan Road of Nuoda has become more efficient and convenient, and Huainan Road has become a rich road.

In the fifth year of Xining, the imperial court divided Huainan Road into two, demarcated the administrative area of Huainan East Road to govern Yangzhou and Huainan West Road to govern Shouchun, followed by the invasion of the Jin people, Jianyan Nandu, and several states on the east and west roads of Huainan were occupied by the Jin people.

But the Huainan East and West Roads have not been merged again because of the reduction of the cities under their jurisdiction, and now with the territory of the Huainan East and West Roads has been recovered, Ye Qing now not only does not want to lose the Huainan East Road pacification envoy, but he also wants to merge the Huainan East and West Roads again into a unified Huainan Road.

As for Jingnan South Road, which is adjacent to the west of Huainan West Road, Han Cheng and his son have been operating here for many years, and Ye Qing doesn't want to provoke them at this time, but merging Huainan East and West Roads, giving the Han family father and son some warnings and retaliation, and letting them know that the consequences of plotting Huainan East Road are very serious, Ye Qing is still happy to do it.

From the moment he received those three documents, since he set off from Chang'an, Ye Qing has built such a framework in his mind, whether it is Huainan East and West Road, or Jingnan South Road, etc., if he wants to stabilize the rear area dominated by Huainan East Road and make it a close link between himself and the Song Dynasty, then he must continue to expand the influence and importance of Huainan East Road.

Of course, he thought about bringing Jingnan Road over as well, but in a short period of time, and under the current situation, it was obvious that he was not allowed to do so, and he was not able to eat these two roads smoothly.

What's more, whether it is Huainan West Road or Jingnan South Road, it is the territory of the Song Dynasty, and it is not the lost land that was taken away by the Jin people at the beginning, so it is impossible for him to send troops to attack these two roads, the only way is to slowly figure it out, first merge the east and west roads of Huainan into one, and then use the entire Huainan Road to exert pressure on Jingnan South Road.

At the beginning of July in the second year of Shaoxi, the hot sun overhead baked the earth, and the water vapor evaporated by the scorching sunlight was swaying like a ghost not far away.

Occasionally, a few young women passing by the streets and alleys, when they saw Ye Qing standing in the shade, they couldn't help but hurriedly cover their faces with fans, avoided them in a hurry, and trotted away quickly in the hot sun, as if they were afraid that if they took a step slower, they would be eaten alive by Ye Qing and dozens of people.

Bowls of herbal tea were poured into the stomach, and even if the stomach was swollen after drinking, there was still a feeling of thirst and dryness in the throat.

The group led by Ye Qing didn't care about the surprised eyes of the occasional bystanders, ordinary clothes, although no one could recognize them as people from the government, but the soldiers of the flower family behind them, even if they went to that battle casually, gave people a sense of fierceness, so that the people in the past only dared to take a sneak peek in a hurry, and no one would come over stupidly and ask them: What are you people doing!

Jia Shi asked the teahouse guy that this was the Shouchun Mansion Office, and after receiving a satisfactory answer, they had been waiting here for nearly an hour, but they did not see a sedan chair or carriage stopped at the door of the office built of loess and blue bricks.

The government office is very simple, and even has a dilapidated atmosphere, not to mention compared with the Yangzhou government office, even compared with the mansions of some famous families or rich families after they entered Shouchun Mansion, the government office on Huainan West Road is too shabby.

"Do all the prefects come to the government office on weekdays to run errands?" The sweat towel in Ye Qing's hand was wet in his hand, and there was still a dense layer of fine sweat on his forehead at this time, and the thin clothes on his body were already wet and sticking to his body at this time, making people want to jump into the pond immediately and have a good time.

The teahouse guy looked at the leader of these dozens of people, and finally spoke in person, so he nodded hurriedly and said: "Come on, come on, come to the government office every day to do errands, but today...... I don't know why the little one hasn't come so late today. ”

After the guy finished speaking, he instinctively wanted to ask the people in front of him who made him tremble: Are you from the government? Or are you soldiers and guards of the prefect?

But looking at the man who had been smiling with an easy-going smile on the corner of his mouth, after he smiled at him after he finished speaking, he didn't know why, he suddenly lost the confidence to be close to others.

And at this moment, a sedan chair slowly drove over in the distance, which relieved the embarrassment of the teahouse guys, scratched his head and hurriedly said: "That's the sedan chair of He Zhifu, it's here, it's estimated that it's mostly because of something, so I delayed coming to the government office, hehe." ”

Ye Qing looked in the direction of the teahouse guy's finger, and saw a four-person sedan chair slowly walking towards this side, looking at the four sedan chair men, which were not very heavy, on the contrary, they were a little light, but when there were obviously people sitting in the sedan chair, Ye Qing smiled and said to Jia Shi next to him: "It seems that this Lord He is not a fat man with a fat head and big ears, otherwise, the sedan chair man will not be so easy, go over." ”

After finishing speaking, Ye Qing went straight to the door of the government office, Jia Shi first took out the silver for the teahouse guys, and then watched dozens of people follow the man with an easy-going smile, standing at the door of the government office exposed to the sun.

The small door of the government office, as Ye Qing and the others stood still, suddenly became more crowded, and the few sedan chair men not far away, looking at Hula, there was a lot more at the door of the government office in an instant, although it was not a fierce god, but at first glance it was not easy to mess with the queen, and involuntarily slowed down, and then looked at Ye Qing and others when they looked at the sedan chair, they mustered up the courage to continue to rub forward two steps, and then stopped abruptly.

The officials in the government office also began to run out of it at this time, looking at the door of the government office surrounded by a group of people, and just wanted to scold loudly, when they saw the cold eyes, they were instantly frightened and swallowed their saliva, and turned the words of reprimand into a gentle tone: "I don't know what is the important thing for you to come here?" ”

The soldiers of the Flower Planter Army just silently glanced at the few officials who stopped in the courtyard, and then turned their heads without saying a word, and looked at Ye Qing's signal, Jia Shi quickly ran to the sedan chair not far away.

As Jia Shi ran towards the sedan chair, the two sedan chair drivers in front of him not only ignored He Chong's inquiries in the sedan chair, but actually put down the sedan chair and turned around and ran, and after running a few steps, they began to shout: Adult, adult, be careful, there is an assassin .......

Ye Qing smiled helplessly, he didn't want to make a big deal out of it, not to mention that this time he still came secretly, he was afraid that because it was too official and official, Lin'an would know about it at the first time and detect his intentions.

The people in the sedan chair were not as panicked as those sedan chair drivers, one hand calmly lifted the sedan curtain, and happened to see Jia Shi walking in front of the sedan chair, quickly looked up and down at Jia She, who was dusty and sweaty, and frowned: "Who are you, why are you blocking this official?" ”

Jia Shi smiled and saluted He Chong, who had a thin face, and then said slowly: "The last general, Jia She, Huainan East Road appeases Lord Ye's personal guards, and is here to greet Lord He for Lord Ye." ”

After Jia Shi finished speaking, he turned sideways and pointed to Ye Qing, who was standing at the door of the government office and was looking at Ye Qing with a smile at this time.

He ...... Is he Ye Qing? He Chong was stunned for a moment, asked Jia She, and then walked out of the sedan chair, and the four sedan chair drivers behind him were nervously watching from a distance at the moment, and the teahouse guys not far away, as well as the rest of the shops, also quietly retreated into the shops at this time, and stretched their necks through the open windows to look at them.

"Yes, I'm Ye Qing, I came in a bit of a hurry, and I didn't have time to report to Lord He, so I had to take the liberty of waiting for Lord He here." Ye Qing's posture was very flat, although he was now close to a minister, but in front of the prefect of Huainan West Road who was adjacent to him, Ye Qing still tried his best to talk to He Chong as a pacification envoy of Huainan East Road.

"Lord Ye is here, but there is something important?" He Chong didn't even check the fish bag handed over by Ye Qing, and asked with an extremely calm look on his emaciated cheeks.

Ye Qing smiled first, then looked at the hot sunshine that was still in the sky, and said with a smile: "Could it be that Lord He's hospitality is ......." ”

"Rude, rude, Lord Ye, please, ......please, please, please, please, He Chong was stunned, and hurriedly asked Ye Qing to go to the government office to talk about it.

As Ye Qing and He Chong went to the government office, whether it was the sedan chair drivers or the people in the shops opposite, they couldn't help but widen their eyes one by one, and began to whisper, who are these menacing strangers? Especially that easy-going man, how could he be so big and able to lead him in the prefect's house?