13. The cause of the hatred
Gao Yue's "blood feud between Chen Shaoyou and Yuan Zai's family" is actually quite simple, and he also learned it from Xue Yaoying:
Before Yuan Zai was executed, when the eldest son Yuan Bohe was demoted to join the army for Yangzhou soldiers Cao because of his crimes, Chen Shaoyou, who had an extremely keen sense of political smell, felt that Yuan Zai was about to be "planted", so he warmly accepted Yuan Bohe on the surface, but in fact he decisively played a secret to Emperor Daizong, saying that Yuan Bohe was trying to rebel - later as soon as Yuan Zai died, Chen Shaoyou detained Yuan Bohe, and almost at the same time Emperor Zong sent an envoy to Yangzhou and gave Yuan Bohe to death.
As a result, Chen Shaoyou continued to be the "loyal minister" of the Tang Dynasty, and the position of Huainan Jiedu and the governor of Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor Shi was as stable as Mount Tai, but he also formed a deep enmity with the Yuan Zai Party because of his treachery, although Yuan Zai and his wife and three sons were all finished, but Yang Yan, the heir of the Yuan Zai career, is now the prime minister.
In addition, Chen Shaoyou certainly knows that Yang Yan is a person who must be repaid.
The two tax laws have been implemented, and the first thing to do is to let the deposed envoys inspect the various provinces, and these dethroned envoys are obviously here to investigate the household registration and unify the tax system, but they also carry an obvious purpose: which dynasty and which generation implement the new policy, how can they also bring out a few unlucky eggs to set an example.
"Chen Shaoyou is very afraid that he will be chosen by the deposed envoy to punish him, because he has betrayed Yuan Zai's eldest son, Yuan Bohe." At this time, Gao Yue pointed to Yangzhou City circled on the map, "Now the gold department and the warehouse department of the household department require the previous transfer envoys and jiedu envoys to hand over the account books of the past years for verification. Yang Yan instructed him to do this, of course, to catch Liu Yan's sore feet, but what we have to do now is to burn this fire so that Yang Yan can't clean it up! β
Lu Qi owed himself and asked, "What about the mutiny in Jingyuan?" β
Gao Yue sighed deeply, and his tone began to become resentful, "I said earlier that Yang Yan's insistence on going his own way was the fundamental reason for the rebellion of the soldiers of the Anxi Xing Battalion. If Yang Yan wasn't so narrow-minded, how could the situation get to where it is today? Then Gao Yue paused and said, "The matter of Yangzhou is urgent, the matter of Jingyuan is postponed, and the matter of Liang Chongyi's rebellion in Shannan is finally done, step by step, if these three moves are good, ......"
Speaking of this, Gao Yue was silent for a while, his eyes were reflected in the candle flame flickering twice, like a lit black jade, and finally said to Cui Ning and Lu Qi: "Then Yang Yan is also finished." β
"What about Yangzhou?" Lu Qi hurriedly asked.
"I have an arrangement with my father." The reason why Gao Yue said this is because there is a student in Taofen Shed, Gu Xiu, a former scholar, who is working as a pusher in Chen Shaoyou's shogunate.
Lu Qi immediately showed a smug smile, "Then I will be in charge of the Western Capital and the Eastern Capital." β
"Gao Lang, you won't be soft-hearted, will you?"
Facing his father-in-law's question, Gao Yue smiled bitterly, shook his head, and thought in his heart: "When I was plotted by Chang Gon and asked Ziting to retest, the reason why Liu Yan protected me, in addition to appreciating me, is probably more important because Liu Yan is a person who abides by the rules. But Yang Yan is not, if I don't change the course of history to protect Liu Yan, then Yang Yan will be the first to break the rules and put him to death. The struggle has reached such a sharp level, who cares about following the rules? There will be no arrow to turn back when the bow is opened, and the situation that I once fantasized about when I saw off Yang Yan at Baqiao Station in the past now seems to be a completely naΓ―ve idea. β
Then Gao Yue took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and couldn't help but sigh:
"I knew that the fifty yuan that Baqiao gave Yang Yan would not have taken out......"
Yangzhou, the central city of the entire southeast salt and iron transshipment in the Tang Dynasty, gathered the best treasures in the world, and also gathered the richest people, even at night, it will not implement a curfew like the political center of Chang'an, but the water bridge is adjacent, the city lights are like stars, especially on the prostitution towers by the city gates, from the sunset, the moon rises in the east, thousands of silk yarn lamps are lit in turn, bright like red clouds, reflecting the ten-mile long street like a fairyland.
However, in the military mansion of the Jiedu envoy, Chen Shaoyou constantly wiped the sweat on his forehead and neck with a fine silk cloth, but it was still to no avail.
He wanted to be a festival envoy in the city of Yangzhou forever, and after he died, he would be buried in the Zenzhi Temple, where he liked everything: countless money and treasures, all kinds of artifacts that were ingenious, supreme power, and the beauty of the bright moon......
Chen Shaoyou is not a native of Yangzhou, but he has heard the legend that no matter where the people are, as long as they come to Yangzhou as an official, they will be obsessed with this city for two years, and they will unconsciously become a standard "Weiyang people", and even their thinking will be assimilated - not to mention, Chen Shaoyou has been the envoy of the Huainan Festival since the eighth year of the calendar, and it has been a full seven years.
In fact, less than 20 years ago, Yangzhou was destroyed by the war between Tian Shengong and Liu Zhan, when thousands of Persians and food merchants who did business in this city died in the city, but so what? Less than twenty years later, it was back again, no, more prosperous than before.
Chen Shaoyou occupies the most and the largest and best business mansion in the city, collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in profits every year, in the fourteenth year of the calendar, Daizong also deliberately issued an edict before his death, stipulating that "the army is not allowed to do business" (in the name of purchasing materials for the army, the Jiedu envoys from all over the country compete to set up a purchase residence in Yangzhou, but in fact, the profits generated are flowing into the private pockets of the Jiedu envoys, so Daizong issued an edict prohibiting). After the edict arrived in Yangzhou, Chen Shaoyou pretended to be a tiger and took the opportunity to kill the business residences of other Jiedu envoys and magnates, but kept his own. For a while, the accusations of those whose interests in the court were damaged were very loud about him, and they wanted to eat meat and sleep on him, but Chen Shaoyou didn't care.
But Li Shi ascended the throne, Yang Yan was the prime minister, and Chen Shaoyou panicked!
Just now, Gu Xiu, who was also a Jinshi in the thirteenth year of the Great Calendar, had a conversation with Chen Shaoyou:
"Can you recognize Xuanzhou Thorn Shi Pei Zhou under the festival?"
"Yes."
"Who recommended Pei Zhou in the first place?"
"Li Qiyun, the observer envoy of western Zhejiang, Pei Zhou was the branch envoy of Li Qiyun's shogunate. After Li Qiyun's death, Pei Zhou, as his former official, also escorted Li's coffin back to Luoyang City for burial. At this time, Chen Shaoyou was even more frightened, "Li Qiyun entered the court as the imperial historian, and I once recommended Pei Zhou as the judge of the Huainan shogunate, and I also recommended him to go to Xuanzhou." β
At this time, Gu Xiu clearly told Chen Shaoyou the fate of this Pei Guan: he was impeached by the deposed envoy sent by Yang Yan, and after being tortured terribly, he was forced to confess, and he was demoted to Tingzhou Sima.
Chen Shaoyou trembled, wiped his sweat with a silk silk for a while, and quickly sorted out the causal chain of Pei Zhou's debasement:
Pei Zhou is Li Qiyun's person, and Li Qiyun once fought against Yuan Zai, Yang Yan ascended to the stage to take revenge on all those who offended Yuan Zai, Yang Yan unscrupulous means, even if Li Qiyun is dead, he has to take revenge on Pei Zhou - in fact, Pei Zhou has no fault, but he was mercilessly deposed because of the excuse that his subordinates were greedy and the account books could not be checked.
"No, I can't sit still!" Chen Shaoyou's "Weiyang thinking" broke out, sweating on the one hand, and ruthless on the other.