The next morning, the sky cleared, and the snow reflected the light of the sun, and the whole world seemed to be very bright.

Li Chengqian got up in the morning, and when he went out of the door, he couldn't open his eyes because of Xue Guangyao, so he hurriedly asked Liu Kui to find a black veil to cover his eyes before he could go out.

Dejing County is also a county of the Tang Dynasty anyway, and since the rebellion has been quelled, the crown prince naturally has to come forward to calm the people, and as for the punishment afterwards, it is another matter.

Li Chengqian walked out of the Dejing County Ya and saw Wang Fangyi leading people to shovel snow on the street, and Li Chengqian also saw some old people in the county also come out with shoddy tools to help Tang Jun clear the snow.

Nodding slightly, he said secretly: It is the desire of the people.

When the people who shoveled snow saw Li Chengqian's guard of honor come out, they all hurriedly knelt down to salute.

Li Chengqian looked at everyone and nodded with a smile: "Flat!" ”

After everyone got up, Li Chengqian continued to walk forward, Dejing County said that it was a county seat, but it was actually a larger Tuweizi.

It was only in the past two years that the Mi Bao clan had the support of the imperial court to build the surrounding city walls a little more decently, and the defensive power had been verified by Li Chengqian yesterday.

In the city, except for Mi Tu Duoge and Po Chao, who lived in brick and stone houses, the others were all mud-walled and grass-roofed houses, which shows that these people were not rich under their Qiang autonomy.

Li Chengqian shook his head while walking, and said in his heart: There are barren grasses that are taller than people everywhere outside the city, obviously there are few people grazing here, and the people are so poor, it can't be because the people here are too lazy, right?

Li Chengqian was thinking that a few women suddenly broke out of the alley, lying on the snow in front of the road, and cried loudly: "Wronged! ”

Li Chengqian saw that these women were old and young, but they were all skinny, all wearing thin clothes, and they were all heartbroken.

I thought to myself: Is it the one who sued Mi Bao?

Motioned to Xu Jingzong to ask what was going on?

In this Qiang county town that had just put down the rebellion, Li Chengqian did not dare to get too close to the local people.

Xu Jingzong stepped forward and took a few women aside for questioning, while Li Chengqian continued to make his rounds.

Walking around the county town, Li Chengqian walked very comfortably with sweat, but he was hungry.

Li Chengqian, who felt hungry, remembered that he had been walking around the county town for more than an hour, but he didn't see a single family get up to make breakfast.

I can't help but secretly say in my heart: this summer in the north is not dry, this can also be known by looking at the lush wild grass outside the city. Even if you don't graze at home, don't you go outside the city to hunt some wild animals?

If the people here are short of food and clothing, if they don't build houses with mud, I'm afraid that this heavy snow will make the entire Dejing county immediately become disaster victims.

Li Chengqian was thinking about this when he saw Xu Jingzong coming over.

Xu Jingzong walked up to Li Chengqian, looked at Li Chengqian with a somewhat embarrassed expression, and didn't dare to speak.

Li Chengqian was feeling uncomfortable for a while, and when he saw him like this, he said angrily: "What do you have to say?"

After that, he should go to the county government first, and he will go back to eat something first.

Seeing this, Xu Jingzong knew that Li Chengqian was unhappy, so he hurriedly followed and whispered to Li Chengqian why those women were blocking the way.

It turned out that the husbands and sons of these women were all following Yeli Haojie in the valley to ambush Li Chengqian's Qiang army.

Yesterday's valley was bombarded by hundreds of bags of explosives, although there were no deaths, but these Qiang troops were frightened by the momentum of the explosives explosion, and they ran around in panic but trampled a lot to death.

There are more than 10,000 Qiang troops who surrendered to this day, and these women's sons and husbands are among them, and they stopped Li Chengqian's way to beg Li Chengqian to spare their sons and husbands.

Xu Jingzong had seen how Li Chengqian dealt with the rebels of the Lanshan Department and Yeli Village, although he felt sorry for them, he thought that Li Chengqian would not let go of these people, and he was even more afraid that Li Chengqian would get angry and deal with these women together, so he felt very embarrassed.

After Xu Jingzong finished speaking, he saw that the expression on Li Chengqian's face remained unchanged, so he boldly said: "Although these people have bad intentions, in the end they are all ignorant villagers who are coerced by the Mi Bao clan......"

Li Chengqian kept walking forward and didn't look back when he heard the words, and asked directly: "These people are also Qiang?"

Xu Jingzong didn't dare to hide it and replied truthfully: "It is true that they are all Qiang people, and there are a few people from the Mi Bao clan, but they have already separated the Mi Bao clan's stockade and passed by." If Mi Zhu Duoge hadn't made a county order, these people would not have been coerced by him.

Over the years, because Mi Duoge has become a county, their lives have become more and more difficult. ”

Li Chengqian stopped when he heard this, turned his head to look at Xu Jingzong and said, "King Gu knows that Mi Duoge is the county commander of Dejing appointed by the imperial court, so he doesn't plan to catch all his subordinates. ”

"Ugh!" Xu Jingzong looked at Li Chengqian in disbelief.

Li Chengqian smiled indifferently and said: "But you and Wang Qun want to find out who are Mi Bao Duoge's sworn friends, and no one can stay for Mi Bao Duoge's sworn friends, and the rest of the people-" Li Chengqian said this, looked at the nearby mud house, narrowed his eyes, and said: "The rest of the people can be exempted from capital crimes, and living crimes cannot be escaped......

"Ahh Xu Jingzong's face was difficult to see, what is the death penalty can be avoided and the living crime cannot be escaped, and it is not sent to Jiannan to cut wood.

Li Chengqian didn't look at his face and directly ordered: "Since the people in the city are oppressed by the Mi Bao clan, then give them the cattle and sheep fields of the Mi Bao clan, and then tell those Qiang troops to serve the imperial court to atone for their sins......"

As soon as Li Chengqian's words came out, not only Xu Jingzong couldn't believe it, but even Wei Chigong, who was following him, looked at it with wide eyes, I don't know what new plans His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has, didn't he say last time that he wanted Qingzhuang to get rid of him and let the north reunite for ten years?

Li Chengqian ignored them and went straight back to the Dejing County Ya, and when he entered the county Ya, he saw that Wang Fangyi had already returned from outside, and was directing people to dig tunnels between the houses of the county government and repair the earth dragon for warmth.

He stopped and laughed at the people who were digging the tunnel: "Let's eat breakfast first and then do it!" ”

When everyone heard this, they all hurriedly put down the iron milling and other tools in their hands when they saw Li Chengqian, gave Li Chengqian a salute, and then thanked him and went to breakfast.

Li Chengqian called Wang Fangyi when he saw that everyone had dispersed, and took everyone to the county hall for breakfast.

After Li Chengqian and the generals finished breakfast together, all the generals went out to train the officers and men, count the supplies and prisoners, and so on.

In the county hall there were Li Chengqian, Wei Chigong, Qiu Xinggong and a few scribes.

Since the rebellion in Xiazhou was quelled and Liu Lan was captured, it was natural to write a report to Li Shimin and the imperial court, which was Qiu Xinggong's business, but because Li Chengqian was here now and had the power to control the governors of the northern capitals, Qiu Xinggong wrote a note and naturally asked Li Chengqian to look at it before sending it up.

And Li Chengqian's matter is more troublesome, because Li Shimin, who is far away in Chang'an, doesn't know for what reason, he actually wants to cancel the marriage contract between the Tang Dynasty and Xue Yantuo on the grounds that Xue Yantuo Zhenzhu Khan has not come to Lingzhou to meet Li Chengqian.

Moreover, according to the news sent by Qiu Shenji, there is almost no opposition in the DPRK and China, that is, Li Shimin can issue an order to abolish the marriage contract at any time. However, once Li Shimin decreed the abolition of the marriage contract, Li Chengqian had no reason to continue to stay in the north.

Therefore, Li Chengqian wanted to come to the central court, and no one objected to Li Shimin's abolition of the marriage contract between the Tang Dynasty and Xue Yantuo for such an untenable reason, there was only one reason, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty wanted him to return to Chang'an.

Which is more important to control the crown prince or lose his trust in Xue Yantuo, I am afraid that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will choose to control him, the crown prince.

Therefore, Li Chengqian must now inform Li Shimin of the plan to promote the Tang Dynasty to directly govern the northern land, and on the other hand, he must also send people to urge Xue Yantuo to go to Lingzhou.

(End of chapter)