Duan Yingya, who was promoted by the generals to stay behind, was very aware of his situation, and after it was rumored in Gushan Town that Li Mao would be the lord of Gushan Town, he took the initiative to ask Li Shigu to resign from the post of Gushan Town, and recommended Li Mao to replace him. The resignation was placed on Li Shigu's desk, Li Shigu didn't look at it, and there was an unsigned report with it, which described in detail everything that happened in Gushan Town after Yu Hualong left.

In a high position for many years, Li Shigu has rarely personally read such a long text, in his words, it is a waste of eyes, when encountering matters reported by Junzhou, he will most likely let the secretary or a few staff officers read it first, and choose its essence to report, but he must personally see this seal, this is the investigation report of the copper tiger head on the causes and consequences of the Gushan Town incident, whether it is the secretary Chen Jingsheng or the staff officer Li Gongdu, or even the judge Gao Mu should not read it first.

Li Shigu only spent a cup of tea to read this seal, but it took nearly an hour to think about countermeasures, Gushan Town and the Qing Navy have always been a big problem in his heart, before Haizhou was not settled, he could not spare his hands to solve it, for Hualong and his Qing Navy can only be mainly encircled, try to clamp down.

A year ago, he accepted Zhao Jinglai's suggestion to secretly fund Qiyi to cause a rebellion in Haizhou, and then took the opportunity to send troops to Haizhou under the pretext of quelling the bandits. Three months ago, he accepted Li Gongdu and Gao Mu's suggestion to use the corruption case of Yizhou to assassinate Shi Duxuan and take Yizhou again. After Haizhou and Yizhou were pacified, Li Shidao's forces were tightly confined to a corner of Mizhou, and it was unwise to take advantage of the victory to pursue and take Mizhou, Ziqing Jiedu envoy was he Li Shigu, Ziqing's 100,000 army and 12 states and 73 counties were not all his Li Shigu Ma was the only one, some people in the Li clan were very unaccustomed to his aggressive posture, and his uncles and elders came forward to persuade him to stop, and his half-brother Li Shidao also suddenly opened his mind, no longer screwed with him, he ran from Mizhou to Yunzhou and took the initiative to ask for guilt, claimed that he was willing to resign from his part-time job to study in Yunzhou.

Reading, reading a fart book, this is obviously a retreat as a strategy, he Li Shigu really promised Mizhou to resign from the history of the assassin to come to Yunzhou to relax, a notoriety that cannot tolerate people is ironclad and cannot escape, with this excuse, those who do not deal with him in the Li family do not know how many splendid articles to make.

Li Shigu took a step back, he did not accept Li Shidao's resignation, gave him a generous gift of gold and silk Meiji, and sent him back to Mizhou, Li Shidao left satisfied, temporarily stabilized, and would not toss around again for at least a year or two.

Without any worries, Li Shigu set his sights on Gushan Town, and if he didn't take Yu Hualong at this moment, he really couldn't bear God's gift. There are hidden piles he has planted in advance in the Qing Navy, and the surroundings of Gushan Town are also under his control, as long as this game of chess starts to play, Yu Hualong's defeat is doomed. Wang Zhibang had a little unpleasant trouble with Mi Rulong in Caozhou, which surprised Li Shigu, what he didn't expect was that Mi Rulong, who had always been old in the officialdom, would be so broken and knotted with a bastard boy whose egg hair did not grow, what kind of calculation did this old man have in his stomach, Li Shigu has no interest in knowing, Caozhou is the west gate of Ziqing, and if you want to take Gushan Town, you must first take Caozhou.

Didn't you Mi Rulong have a holiday with Wang Zhibang, okay, I'll avenge you, but before taking revenge, I will borrow your head for use, presumably you won't mind too much, so Mi Rulong's head will be in the hands of Wang Xun and Liang Chengdong, there was a rebellion in Caozhou, and the Qing Navy has the obligation to send troops to quell the chaos. In short, Caozhou, the west gate, cannot allow troops to be stationed in other towns.

As soon as the 20,000 army swung towards Caozhou, Yu Hualong understood, and those in the Li clan who couldn't get along with him also understood that before Yu Hualong had any dissatisfaction, they made a fuss first, and they encouraged him to fight Yu Hualong immediately. Gushan Town is high and deep, the Qing Navy's 4,000 troops are the elite of a hundred battles, it is not easy to swallow it in one bite, if you want to take Yu Hualong, you can only simmer it in warm water, and slowly exhaust his spirit, and then eat it in one bite when he is exhausted.

Li Shigu suddenly faced great pressure, dismembering the Qing Navy is in line with the common interests of the Li family in Ziqing, but the method is different, Li Shigu has always advocated both soft and hard, the bottom line is to solve the problem that the Qing Navy can not greatly damage his own vitality, he still has to compete with his neighbors, but also to confront the imperial court, but also to suppress all kinds of opponents inside, must not be because of the Qing Navy and greatly hurt the vitality.

But his soft and hard hands are weak in the eyes of the elders of the Li family, their reason is that the Qing Navy and the Pinglu Army have a huge disparity in strength, and in the current situation, there is no need for the Pinglu Army to make peace with Yu Hualong.

Most of those who hold this argument are closer to Li Shidao in Mizhou, and they wish that Li Shigu and Yu Hualong would fight on the battlefield, and it would be better to lose both. Li Shigu saw through their sinister intentions, withstood the pressure, and put pressure on Gushan Town on the one hand, and asked Zhao Jinglai to arrange for Zhao Hede to bring a message to Yu Hualong, asking him to take the initiative to hand over Gushan Town and disband the Qing Navy.

People are like this, they often like to think of the enemy of their enemy as their friend, although this "friend" may be their own confidant. Li Shigu finally deviated from his original intention on the issue of treating the Qing Navy and Yu Hualong, he accepted Yu Hualong's sincerity, and promised that as long as Yu Hualong and Yin Mu left Gushan Town, and the Qing Navy accepted the adaptation, the past grievances would be written off, and Yu Hualong's old department could not only save the lives of the whole family, but also those who were meritorious, virtuous and capable.

The words passed through Zhao Hede, Yu Hualong immediately fulfilled his promise, and took Yin Mu to Yunzhou, he took the initiative to stay in Yunzhou to be a prisoner in a beautiful place, and sent Yin Mu to leave Ziqing and enter Beijing with the angels. Li Shigu is also fulfilling his promise, as the commander of the three armies and twelve states, he can't be untrustworthy, but he now regrets a little in his heart, regretting his judgment of the general situation and the indulgence of Hualong and the Qing navy, so when Zhao Jinglai reported to him that someone in the Tonghu head intended to fund Shang He to launch a mutiny and control Gushan Town, he warned Zhao Jinglai to let it go.

What is the consequence of laissez-faire, Li Shigu doesn't want to think about it, and he doesn't bother to speculate about what those people in the copper tiger head want to achieve. In Ziqing, he thinks that he can already cover the sky with one hand, so why bother to care about all the bullshit that happened in the world.

"Let them toss around and see what tricks they can pull off." Li Shigu once said such things to the three people he trusted the most, and Li Gongdu, Gao Mu, and Li Changshan had different expressions after hearing this, but none of them raised objections.

Gushan Town tossed around, the strength of the Qing Navy was not necessarily greatly damaged, but the morale of the army was seriously bruised, because of the mutiny of Shang Helai, the original factional disputes in the Qing Navy were more superficial, and the current Qing Navy was still a military in name, but in fact it had fallen apart and divided into a number of shares that were not subordinate to each other.

The benefits of indulgence are unexpected, everything is in his absolute control.

"Li Mao, this person is a little interesting, you discuss, can this person be cultivated?"

Li Shigu summoned Li Gongdu and Gao Mu to come over to discuss the matter. Li Changshan is his personal guard, and he has no right to discuss government affairs, but he can observe the whole process, and sometimes Li Shigu will ask for his opinion.

Li Gongdu wrinkled his brows, and his tone was as serious as usual: "This son participated in the attack on Donghai City as an envoy of the grain institute in Donghai County, Haizhou, and personally led the army to break the city after Uncle Zhang was seriously injured at night, and returned to Gushan Town, he persuaded Yu Hualong to return all the idle land in Gushan Town to the city bureau, and took advantage of the flood and drought disaster in Caozhou to create public opinion, turning pieces of wasteland into heavy cash in the treasury, and raised ten years of military expenses for Yu Hualong in just a few months. In Gushan Town, he appointed the old officials of Chengwu County to set up a Simian Street Detective Office, and his eyes and ears were all over the city, suppressing treachery and evil by harsh means. This time, he teamed up with the Military Supervision Institute to trap Shang Helai in Chunyang Tower, persuaded the garrison to ambush and kill the first evil in the Military Academy, and then recovered the city defense camp and returned to ......the city to quell the chaos.

Li Gongdu paused for a moment, and then said: "As far as I know, he is Ziqing who came with Xue Rong, and he has not heard of a bad thing in the military government so far, can he rest assured that he has put in the hands of such a person a city that he has worked so hard to capture?" ”

Li Shigu smiled, and when he saw that Gao Mu was silent, he asked Li Changshan, "What do you think?" Li Changshan said with a smile: "I heard that he has good kung fu and courage, so instead of staying outside to lead the army, such a person should be transferred to Jiedu Mansion as a guard." ”

Gao Mu said: "Changshan's suggestion is good, you might as well transfer him to the military mansion to be a guard for a few years, if it is really a good material, it will not bury him." ”

Li Gongdu smiled when he heard this, and he also agreed, Li Shigu laughed, and suddenly asked: "There are bandits in Caozhou, what do you think?" ”

When Leng Buding asked this, everyone was not surprised, Li Shigu's thinking was always jumping, and it could not be measured by common sense. Li Gongdu's seniority is old, and when the marshal asks, he usually answers first, but this time he signaled Gao Mu to say first, and Gao Mu did not shirk, so he said: "Tens of thousands of troops are only going to suppress bandits, just to spend military expenses, and to clean up a group of young people, not only can not achieve the purpose of training, but may tire the soldiers out." I thought the army should return to camp immediately. ”

Li Changshan suddenly interjected and asked: "If the army withdraws, who will calm down the place?" Is it possible to sit back and watch them continue to make trouble? ”

Li Changshan's words were asked cleverly, Gao Mu was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood the intention of Li Shigu to ask this, and then looked at Li Gongdu, he was already stroking his beard and smiling. Gao Mu slapped his forehead and said, "I'm so stupid, I haven't heard the sound of Xianggong." ”

Li Shigu laughed and said, "Then let's do it." ”

Half a month after the rebellion in Gushan Town subsided, Li Zhenke, the envoy of Cao, Yan, and Pu Prefectures, announced that the banditry in Caozhou had been quelled, and tens of thousands of troops stationed in Chengwu County immediately withdrew their camp and left the east. Prior to this, Duan Yingya was promoted to the town naval envoy because of his merits, and the Qing Navy moved from Gushan Town to Yunzhou, and Duan Yingya and Chen Yingya, the secretary of the company, were still resident in Yunzhou.

Jiedu (with the army), the Qing Navy Gushan Town Bureau made Li Mao promoted to the Jiedu Guard, the Qing Navy Deputy Envoy and the Gushan Town Town Envoy, the Qing Navy Grain Institute made the clerk Cheng reappointed the Ziqing Jiedu Army and the Gushan Town Marching Sima, the Caozhou Prefecture Army Ten General Li Yingtan was promoted to the Qing Navy Duyu Marquis, Ziqing Jiedu Embassy Confucius Officer Xiao Chengli concurrently served as the Qing Navy Military Material Institute Envoy.

After that, Zhou Yang, the military supervisor of the Qing Navy, was promoted to the post of military envoy of the Ziqing Military Academy, and the judge Zhou Hong succeeded him as the military envoy.