"Princess, this is the accounts of Nanshi Tea House in the first few months of this year, please take a look at it."

In the Shouwang Mansion, in the front yard account room, a thin man held an account book and respectfully handed it to Xiaoying, who was busy.

"No, don't call me princess." Xiaoying looked around and frowned, but the corners of her mouth were slightly grinning.

"The princess is the concubine of His Royal Highness, so she is naturally the princess." Zhang Xiong said in a slightly stammering tone.

Zhang Xiong is Zhang Wei's nephew, according to Zhang Wei, he is an honest scholar, in fact, it would be wrong to really treat him as an honest person. Since Xiaoying is now managing the money and business of the palace, this Zhang Xiong is equivalent to doing things under her, and she knows a little about this Zhang Xiong. is very good at talking, and honestly has nothing to do with Zhang Xiong.

One thing can prove that Zhang Xiong is not honest. When he came to join Zhang Wei, he was already married and had children, but when he came to Chengdu, he accepted a dusty woman as a concubine every two months. Of course, Zhang Xiong is quite serious about doing things in the tea house, otherwise it would be impossible to stay in the tea house all the time.

Although Xiaoying is not Li Ye's concubine, Zhang Xiong always calls the other party's princess when there are few people, and only calls her 'Ying Niangzi' when there are many people.

Xiaoying did not refute Zhang Xiong's words, but agreed with this statement, briefly looked at the data on the accounts, and then handed it to the bookkeeper on the side to check carefully. The current business of the palace is mainly divided into three parts, namely the Li Tea House, the Li Bookstore and the tea making workshop outside the city.

The printing workshop has now moved next to the tea workshop, but it is integrated with the Lee Bookstore. Because the tea workshop wants to supply He's Tea House, according to Li Ye's meaning, it will come out separately, which is equivalent to a subsidiary of the group in the previous life. The Li Tea House in the city has two shops, respectively in the West Market and the North Market, and Zhang Xiong is the shopkeeper of the shops in the North Market.

"Is there anything else you can do?" After finishing the work in hand, Xiaoying couldn't help but be a little surprised to see Zhang Xiong still standing in front of him.

"Princess, I heard a caravan from the south say something two days ago." Zhang Xiong hesitated for a moment and said.

"What's the matter?"

"I heard that there are people making trouble in Qiongzhou, will this affect the harvest of spring tea in the coming year?"

"Qiongzhou?" Xiaoying was stunned, she didn't know much about these, but Qiongzhou and Yazhou in the south are important sources of their tea, especially Mengding tea in Yazhou, Hefu has already discussed with the tea plantations and tea farmers on Mengding Mountain, "Does Hefu know about this?" If He Fu didn't say anything about it, we wouldn't have to worry about it. ”

"Yes, Princess." Zhang Xiong responded.

In fact, He Fu also got the news that there were people making trouble in Qiongzhou, but he didn't pay much attention to it, after all, there were officers and soldiers there, even if someone made trouble, what would it be. As long as it does not affect the spring tea of the coming year, it has nothing to do with them, and there are still many months before the harvest of spring tea.

It's not just He Mansion and Shouwang Mansion who don't pay attention to it, but Chen Jingxuan also doesn't pay attention to it. In fact, Chen Jingxuan didn't know what happened in Qiongzhou, because the assassins of Qiongzhou didn't take this matter to heart, thinking that it was just an ordinary riot.

However, it was not long before the Qiongzhou assassin realized the seriousness of the riots. Due to the inconvenience of transportation and the slow transmission of news, I thought it was just a small riot at first, but I didn't expect it to turn into thousands of rebels, and defeated Huojing County (now Huojing Town, Qionglai City), killing dozens of officials below the county order.

Qiongzhou, who got the news, was not too surprised at this time, Qiongzhou was already close to Tibet, and the wind of barbarism prevailed, and from time to time there were strongmen who committed rebellion. And now it is an eventful time, and it is normal for some people to be dissatisfied and rebel. Although the thief army numbered in the thousands, the Qiongzhou Assassin still ordered the generals below to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to kill the fire well and defeat the rebels.

As expected by Qiongzhou at this time, the official army defeated the rebels, but failed to kill or capture the rebel leaders alive. Just when the Qiongzhou Assassin thought it was over, the rebels attacked Anren County (now Anren Town, Dayi County) again and conquered the county seat of Anren.

However, this time, the counterinsurgency of the official army did not continue the luck of the last time, not only failed to defeat the rebels, but was ambushed by the rebels and suffered heavy losses. After the defeat of the official army, the rebels occupied Huojing, Anren, and Linxi counties within half a month, gathering tens of thousands of troops.

In this case, the news will naturally not be hidden. Qiongzhou is less than 200 miles away from Chengdu Prefecture, and there is a large-scale rebellion here, can Chengdu Mansion rest assured that this year?

The answer is, naturally not!

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However, the deterioration of the situation in Qiongzhou exceeded that of the imperial court in Chengdu, especially Chen Jingxuan, the envoy of Xichuan Jiedu.

The leader of the rebels, Chen Jingxuan, may not know, but the number two person of the rebels, Chen Jingxuan, is no stranger, that is Guo Qi, who launched a rebellion on the Shangyuan Festival. After the Shangyuan Festival rebellion was quelled, Guo Qi was not captured, but disappeared without a trace, so many people forgot about this former man of the year for a while.

Originally, Chen Jingxuan planned to use Guo Qi's family to lure Guo Qi to appear, but he was unsuccessful. It turned out that after the Shangyuan Festival rebellion, Chen Jingxuan did not fight for Guo Qi's family, and pleaded with Li Yi to save Guo Qi's family. Of course, this is just for others to see, Guo Qi is forced by his third brother Tian Lingzi, will Chen Jingxuan protect Guo Qi's family?

The reason why Chen Jingxuan did this was because of the reorganization of the Yellow Head Army, which could be used to appease the Yellow Head Army; The second is to lure Guo Qi to appear, and then eliminate this trouble. However, Guo Qi has not appeared, and now except for part of the Huangtou Army that was led by Li Ling to Guanzhong to quell the rebellion, the rest have been incorporated into the Xichuan Army, so Guo Qi's family is useless. A few months ago, Guo Qi's family was secretly disposed of by Chen Jingxuan.

Now that Chen Jingxuan and Tian Lingzi are brothers, even if someone knows about this, no one dares to stand up and accuse anything.

Anren, compared to the previous Anren, it is not an exaggeration to say that Anren at this time can be said to be hell. Although it is said that these people who rebelled were all because of all kinds of persecution, they were more like bandits than the army.

In Anren before, although the officials were corrupt, at least the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. But now Anren County is no different from purgatory on earth, there are corpses everywhere on the ground, and the doors of shops and houses along the street are wide open, and the belongings inside have long been looted.

Many rebels also took the opportunity to humiliate women, just like in the middle of the day, in some houses, from time to time there are still women's screams.

Hearing these cries, Qian Neng frowned.

Qian Neng is the leader of the rebels, he was originally a captain in a border town below Qiongzhou, because he offended his boss, he had no choice but to rebel, because there were old subordinates to follow, and soon gathered thousands of people. Although the army has now expanded to tens of thousands, many of them are peasants and bandits, and there is no discipline at all.

Seeing the dissatisfaction in Qian Neng's eyes, Zhang Rong, a staff member next to him, hurriedly said, "General, you have also seen it, if this continues, the people will not support us, and when the time comes, if we don't wait for the officials and soldiers to come, we will have internal problems." If a general wants to succeed, he must rectify military discipline. ”

"Pass the order down, strictly order the looting of property, the bullying of women, and the violators will be beheaded." Qianneng commanded.

With Qianneng's order, the surrounding pro-soldiers quickly moved to arrest all the soldiers who were coming, and in front of the people, Qianneng ordered these violators of military discipline to be beheaded. However, the previous killings had lasted so long, and thousands of people had died in the city, so even if he ordered the rectification of military discipline now, it would not be easy to win the hearts of the people.

"General Qian is indeed a person who has achieved great things, but it is impossible to achieve it by relying on this alone." Guo Qi clapped his hands on the side, and then said with a smile.

"What is the opinion of the military envoy Guo?" Looking at the Guo Qi in front of him, Qian Neng was also secretly vigilant in his heart.

The other party came to him with hundreds of people after his uprising, and now has more than 3,000 troops in his hands, making him the second largest person in this army after himself. Although Guo Qi gave him a lot of help by defeating the counterinsurgency army sent by the assassin in the back, he had heard of the identity of the other party. As the military envoy of the Yellow Head Army, Guo Qi was also a character in the past, and the other party was also an existence that he could look up to.

But now that Guo Qi is willing to succumb to himself, he always feels that there is fraud in this.