Chapter 17: The Transformation of Xuanwumen (3)

A symphony of life sounded in Chang'an City, and at dawn, it suddenly stopped, leaving only the aftermath bursts, scattered from Chang'an.

Wei Chi Jingde, Gongsun Wuda died in battle, Zhang Gongjin led his troops to flee to Nanshan, Liu Shili led his troops to the north, Zheng Rentai and Du Junxuan disappeared, and Li Mengwei hanged himself after being arrested. The eldest grandson, Wuji, was captured alive, but was placed under house arrest. There were also more than a dozen ministers belonging to the Qin king's forces in the court who were invited to talk to the court, and all those who persuaded Li Shimin to rebel were disposed of one by one, or put on the sidelines, or sent home, and those who remained relatively neutral or had opposed them were reused.

The properties of these families in Chang'an were also charged into the treasury one by one, and they were transported for three days and three nights, enough to maintain the operation of the imperial court and the army for eight years. Of course, one of them is a dime a dime, and Xu Qing is full of his own pockets, and he doesn't make a profit, which is really not Xu Qing's character. Some of the dark forces of King Qin, taking advantage of the fact that the high-level forces of King Qin were wiped out, Xu Qing secretly let the dark river attack. This attack is not to exterminate it, but to take the money and subdue some people to his own men.

Xu Qing's power in Chang'an City is also getting bigger and bigger, and in that long reward decree, Xu Qing heard that he seems to have the title of a military squire, and he also got a governor of Qinzhou. Anyway, Xu Qing doesn't understand, isn't it useful when he writes a self-introduction in the future.

However, Li Yuan was also quite affordable, and directly threw Xu Qing a few official positions that were really lacking. Xu Qing let Niu eat grass and Wang Shan was also promoted to military attaché, as well as three civil officials, who seemed to be able to give Shangguan Yi and a friend whom Jinling knew. The other one was given to the Luonan County Order. This can be regarded as Xu Qing's great thanksgiving.

As for Xu Qing himself, it is better to slow down first, at least Xu Qing feels that if Old Man Li does not die, he will not be promoted as an official. One is because Xu Qing must guard the Xuanwu Gate, and the other is because Old Man Li's power is too huge for Xu Qing to squeeze into.

It's just that this time, the clan of Longxi has regained its position of victory, and the clan of Shandong, without the support of the DPRK and the central government, is gradually dying under the blow of the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce. The Jiangnan clan, the Sichuan Shu clan, the Central Plains clan and other clans have each gained their own benefits in this turmoil.

The thunder, rain and dew are all the emperor's grace, and the emperor's grace is immense, so that those Qin Wang forces in the local area also got the opportunity to change their flags, and those who did not grasp this opportunity were annihilated in the long river of history.

Zhang Gongjin and Liu Shili both took their headquarters military horses, one went south and the other went north, and the south went to Zhongnan Mountain, I don't know where to go, and the other went to the north, but was cleaned up by a thorn Shi and the troops.

Thanks to Li Shimin's relatively quick mutiny, Xiaoyue and the others didn't stay outside for a few days before they were picked up by Xu Qing. Before giving birth to a child, he was picked up by Xu Qing. In the Xuanwu Gate, Xu Qing once again supplemented the soldiers to replace those who had jumped against him.

As for the Shence Army, it was led by Cheng Biting Jin, Qin Qiong and a few other veteran generals of the Shence Army, but most of the elites among them were transferred, and their status was almost reduced to the level of sixteen guards.

Among the most wronged in this matter, Xu Shiji should be the most wronged. When he learned that Xu Zhen was dead, he took a gun and straddled the horse, so he killed Yu Chigong's family. Maybe it was providence, before Xu Qing copied his house to Wei Chigong's house, Xu Shiji had already slaughtered him. But after this time, Xu Shiji fell seriously ill and was also old.

After more than half a month, the forces in Chang'an City have been replaced, and the government has begun to operate normally. Soon came news that Zhang Gongjin, who had fled to Zhongnan Mountain, was caught by an assassin because his subordinates had launched a rebellion, and although he had been pacified, he had lost the strength to survive on the mountain. And his family is still in Chang'an, in order to save his life, Zhang Gongjin went out of the mountain to surrender. The county order that caught Zhang Gongjin was like picking up a pie that fell from the sky, and he was promoted three levels in a row and sealed the long history.

And the most important person in this matter, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, heard that he was confined in another cold garden in the middle of the palace. Xu Qing went to see it, it was true that this garden was cold, but he had not lost his royal physique, as King Qin said before, but he became an idle king. There are subordinate servants, and they are all selected by himself, and those servants inform Li Shimin of the affairs of the court and the central government every day, but Li Shimin only listens but does not speak.

Every day, Li Chengqian and the eldest grandson can also go in to visit, and Li Shimin will also be invited to attend various meetings of the court and the central government, but there are always a few dragon guards to follow. Li Shimin's place, Xu Qing also went to see it twice, but when Li Shimin saw Xu Qing, he didn't say a word, just looked at Xu Qing.

Xu Qing is also helpless, this emperor of the ages seems to have been ruined by himself. However, this matter is no wonder to Xu Qing, if Li Shimin is killed in Xuanfumen, then Xu Qing's ability is still hopeless. But for some reason, Li Shimin had to make the effort to arrange the final killing place in Xuanwu Gate.

Li Yuanji led his troops north as usual, but this time his purpose was much simpler, just to strengthen the defense of the border pass and prevent the Turks from taking advantage of this opportunity to go south.

When Xu Qing looked at Li Yuan again, it seemed that when he was experiencing such an incident, he suddenly aged a few years and had more gray hair. At the end of July, it was almost the autumn harvest season, and more than a month had passed, and the outside of Chang'an City was golden. Shantianzhuang is also surrounded by this golden ocean.

A cry came from Xu Qing's house:

"Master, master, Madame is born, Madame is born!"

"Really?" Xu Qing let out a sigh of relief, Xiaoyue has only been nine months since she was pregnant, not full-term, Xu Qing was worried that something would happen. But now it seems that the little baby has grown up faster. He looked eagerly at the person who announced the good news and asked, "How is Satsuki?" ”

"Congratulations to the master for making tiles, mother and daughter are safe!"

When Xu Qing heard this, he immediately gave the silver in his arms to the person who reported the good news: "Go and inform the whole family, hold a banquet, and celebrate!" ”

The person who reported the good news held the heavy silver in his hand, and wondered in his heart, didn't he say that the lord must be disappointed, I lost my fist to report this good news, why did the lord reward so much? Could it be that the master doesn't dislike being a girl?

Of course, Xu Qing didn't dislike it.

After Wen Po sorted out the inside, Xu Qing promised to let them go to the housekeeper to receive the reward, twenty taels per person. Under the incredulous gaze of the stable women, Xu Qing walked into the room.

Xiao Yue lay quietly on the bed, and there was a nurse standing next to her, feeding her newborn child with open white. Seeing Xu Qing coming, she didn't shy away from it, at least a little salute. Xu Qing motioned for her to bring the child over, and the nurse accepted Dabai and put the child in Xu Qing's hands.

When Xu Wen was born, Xu Qing saw it for the first time, and he was almost scared and threw it out. The newborn children are all plush and ugly, but Xu Qing hugged the daughter born by Xiaoyue, but looked at it carefully. There are no eyebrows, the nose is small, the eyes are squinted, and it seems that I can't feel my father by my side.

Xiao Yue noticed Xu Qing and called softly: "Young master......"

Xu Qing glanced at the nurse, asked her to go out, and then sat on the edge of the bed with her daughter in her arms. I saw Xiao Yue say: "Young Master, Xiao Yue is sorry for you...... Woo woo, I didn't give birth to a boy, Xiaoyue is useless, young master, you divorce me......"

Xu Qing looked at Xiao Yue and couldn't help but smile, women in ancient times had a very important function, which was to pass on the ancestry. Xiaoyue couldn't give birth to a boy, which is indeed her regret, but Xu Qing doesn't have a particularly strong concept of men and women, especially growing up in the social environment of "women are superior to men" in later generations, Xu Qing even thinks it's better to have a girl. At least you don't have to buy a car or a house, right?

He didn't explain much to Satsuki, but just kissed Satsuki on the lips and said, "Satsuki, my lady, you are great." ”

Xiao Yue looked at Xu Qing like this, and knew that Xu Qing didn't care at all, so she said, "Young master, let Xiao Yue see her ......"

---- Cangzhou

Zhan Zeng, who returned to Cangzhou from Chang'an with a letter of appointment, announced the decree, and Yan Ku took over as the governor of Cangzhou. He told Zhao Luqin everything Xu Qing meant, and then went to Jizhou, a businessman, to assassinate Shi. Seeing that as long as the term of office of Jizhou Assassin expires, he can be promoted to a certain official in South Hebei Province, not necessarily the first leader, at least the third in command.

Even now, Zhan Zeng has become the assassin of Jizhou, he is not idle, when the Xuanwumen Change, he is not very far from Chang'an, knowing that the King of Qin has fallen, and the Shandong family has become a puddle of mud without the support of the imperial court. As soon as he took office, in the name of eliminating redundant personnel, he eliminated all those officials who were not wanted by him. Most of those officials are from the clan, and this time, the clan has also been hit locally.

The benefits of the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce to local officials are obviously greater than those of the clans, and gradually, the local government also stabbed the clans openly and secretly. What is the Qinghe Chamber of Commerce, which is not profitable, did not fulfill any of the promised dividends, but swallowed the goods and principal of the merchants, and completely bankrupted some poor small landlords. In this way, the Qinghe Chamber of Commerce was almost banned by the government.

However, the Qinghe Chamber of Commerce still did something good. He applied Cangzhou's set of commercial tax extraction methods to the entire southern Hebei Province, and achieved great results. At first, Cangzhou, a state bordering the sea, used this method, but it did not achieve a great response. After all, Cangzhou is too small, and there are other tax laws implemented around it, so don't just know that Cangzhou's taxes are good, and you can go to Cangzhou and never go anywhere else. And now, this kind of tax has been implemented throughout southern Hebei, which directly stimulates businessmen, who are willing to sell their goods even when they are making huge profits.

Goods and coins were put into circulation. And in the Central Plains, a thing called the Luoyang Chamber of Commerce was established, and its Dadong was sat by Luonan Yang Wen.

The Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce got Xu Qing's approval, so it contacted Liaodong Bohai State, contributed money together, contributed people together, and targeted Dongying, codenamed landlord. Cangzhou can't build warships on a large scale, but the Bohai State is far away from the Central Plains, and the news generally won't come in, which is conducive to ensuring the smooth and secret progress of the landlords.