Wang Changling, the word Shaobo, a native of Jingzhao Chang'an, was poor in his early years, and he was not confused when he was young. The first secretary of the provincial school Shulang, and later awarded the water captain, because of the depreciation of Lingnan, returned to Chang'an at the end of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, and was awarded Jiang Ningcheng, who was outspoken and outspoken, and then repeatedly degraded, and is now the county of Yibin County.

Li Qing heard that the county was actually the famous poet Wang Changling of the Tang Dynasty, he seemed to have one foot in the air, and it took half a day to take the name card in a daze, and there were three words written on a plain note: Wang Changling.

He has been in the Tang Dynasty for two years, and has seen Yang Guozhong, Mrs. Qiu Guo, Zhang Qiu and Qiong, and Xian Yu Zhongtong, all of whom are famous in history, but they all add up, and they are not as good as the three words "Wang Changling", "Qin Shi Mingyue Han Shiguan", the poem he read in his father's arms when he was a child, and its author actually sent himself a bedding.

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It was already late at night, Li Qing returned from the banquet, he was full of doubts, Tang County Lieutenant's drunken sentence 'Only sour Confucians can be killed', revealed the deep contradiction between him and Wang Changling, what caused the contradiction between the two, why did the county order not care, what made Li Qing even more puzzled was that several henchmen of Tang County Lieutenant, all of whom looked vicious, actually popped up a few underworld cuts from time to time, who are they?

As soon as Li Qing entered the house, the curtain came out, "Why did the son come back, someone is looking for you, in the study, you have been waiting for almost an hour." ”

"Looking for me?" He suddenly woke up and asked urgently: "What kind of person is it, how old is it?" ”

"It's an old man in his fifties, and when I ask him his name, he won't say, he just says you know."

Without waiting for the curtain to finish, Li Qing rushed into the study, it must be him, Wang Changling.

Li Qing's study is next to the guest hall, because there are no bookshelves, the books brought are just messily stacked, Li Qing pushed the door into the house, but saw a person reading under the lamp, his hair was gray, his skin was dark, and his back was slightly hunched.

"Li Qing didn't know that Mr. Yuhu was coming, so Mr. waited for a long time." At a glance, he found that Wang Changling was watching "Zhenguan Political Dignitaries".

The person who came was Wang Changling, because of the loss of control of the land in the letter to the court, which angered the minister Li Linfu, the year before last from Jiangning County Cheng was demoted to Yibin County Cheng, just rushed back from Nanxi County, so he rushed to visit Li Qing, but he was still a step late, and learned that Li Qing had been invited away by Tang Sheng.

Hearing Li Qing call himself Mr. Jade Pot, Wang Changling was slightly stunned, and then reacted, he was quoting his 'piece of ice heart in the jade pot', which was a kind of implicit respect, he smiled and said: "Some people call the old man Changling, some people call it the young uncle, and more people call the old man Wang Jiangning. ”

He got up and arched his hand to Li Qinggong and said, "In Xia Wang Changling, this county is the county Cheng, and I really don't want to disturb Lord Li's rest so late." ”

"You're welcome, sir, please take a seat!"

Li Qing saw that the tea on the table was cold, so he turned around and shouted: "Xiaoyu, make a pot of tea again, and use the Mengding tea I bought last time." ”

After a while, Xiaoyu put the tea on the table and replaced it with the old one.

Li Qing smiled and said: "This is the Mengding tea I brought from Chengdu, sir, please taste the tea and see how it tastes?" ”

Wang Changling's eyes flashed with a hint of brightness, and then he picked up the teacup, blew lightly, took a sip, and praised repeatedly: "Not bad!" Not bad! Sitting together half of the Ou light green, open a few pieces of light yellow, this is the best in the Mengding three tea, I heard that the price in Chengdu is ten through one or two, and there is no price, Li Zhubo really shot extraordinary, this tea I have loved for a long time, but the bag is shy, looking forward to it, I can't imagine that I can drink it here, it is not in vain! Hehe! ”

Li Qingyi smiled: "Although I have silver in my pocket, but I have no knowledge in my belly, this tea has been trampled by me, I have a catty, I am willing to share half a catty with Mr. Jade Pot, I don't know if I am willing to laugh?" ”

Wang Changling laughed, "Such a good thing came to the door, I had the heart to push it away, but my throat was not dry, so I took it!" Accepted! ”

Li Qing hurriedly called Xiaoyu and said, "Take one of my two bottles of covering." ”

He sat down and asked, "I wonder what Mr. has to teach when he comes tonight?" ”

Wang Changling smiled slightly, and said after a moment's silence: "Master Li, do you know why I will accept your tea?" ”

Seeing that Li Qing didn't answer, he casually took "Zhenguan Political Dignitaries", "It's this book, if what I touch is a book of obscene poems, even if you give me a hundred catties of the best, don't want me to accept it." ”

He turned to the chapter of "Ten Thoughts of Emperor Taizong" and said: "The eleventh thought below, 'Tibetan people's wealth' was written by you!" It's very good, it's very good, and it's to the point. ”

Wang Changling put down the book, his face was solemn, and he slowly walked to the window and said: "Everyone in the world says that the Kaiyuan Dynasty is prosperous, a faction sings and praises virtue, but I don't know that the prosperity is only the prosperity of the government, but the suffering of the people below, and then look at the past few years, land annexation, slavery has become a trend, year by year more and more serious, in the long run, the land is owned by a few people, the wealth is occupied by a few people, the government has no money, the people have no food, sooner or later it will cause a catastrophe." ”

He sighed again and said coldly: "But today's superior is greedy for luxury, so happy, just say that now, to quell a small tribal rebellion, it has consumed half of the warehouse of Jiannan Road, as well as big food, as well as Tubo, and Huifu, even if the people of my Tang Dynasty don't eat or drink, they can't afford to supply millions of armor soldiers!" ”

Li Qing thought that the attack on eastern Yunnan was for the benefit of the country, not a great achievement, but to prevent the southward advance of the Zhao, although the army consumed food and salary, but the country without soldiers, sad for the third generation, all countries worshipped, and a few came to the benevolence of Song Xiang."

Li Qing suddenly thought of the two Song Dynasty, which had been weak for a hundred years, and there were millions of soldiers, and they were also wiped out by foreign races, and the strength of the Tang Dynasty lies in its military strength, and the millions of armored soldiers guarding thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are not much, the key is that it must have the corresponding economic foundation support.

Wang Changling shook his head and said: "You are wrong, it is not that the people of Eastern Yunnan have given too much benevolence and righteousness, on the contrary, if it were not for the brutality of Zhu Lingqian who built the city, would the people of Eastern Yunnan rebel?" Benevolence and righteousness are not applied, the offensive and defensive forces are different, and the people are provoked, but they don't know how to use benevolence to appease, but instead they use swords and soldiers. ”

Li Qing listened to his sharp analysis and unique insights, and admired him in his heart, but his eyes stared at him and said: "Lord Wang is talking so vainly, aren't you afraid of Li Qing's denunciation?" ”

Wang Changling Huo Ran got up, forced to look at Li Qing and said indignantly: "I, Wang Changling, am such a person, I want to say it when I see injustice, so I have been belittled again and again, I don't care anymore, it's a big deal to go home and farm." ”

Li Qing smiled slightly, walked to the door and shouted, "Xiaoyu, bring another bottle too." ”

"Listen to your words, it's better than reading a book for ten years, Li Qing doesn't dare to share this top product with Mr. again, give it all to Mr."

Wang Changling's face softened, patted Li Qing on the shoulder and smiled: "I'm just fierce, but I can't do practical things, I heard that the new chief secretary was originally a businessman in Chengdu, and specially sent someone to Chengdu to inquire, and reported that a slush business war broke out on the streets of Chengdu last year, and the person concerned was Lord Li, what a beautiful means, the old man is ashamed of himself, the old man is very surprised, and he is very happy, if you come, you will definitely be able to open up the situation in Yibin County." ”

Li Qing nodded, "I've only been in Yibin County for two hours, and I have too many questions, please ask Mr. to solve them for me one by one." ”

Wang Changling took another sip of tea, cleared his throat and said slowly: "Yibin County was not like this originally, although it is not as good as Nanxi County, but it also has convenient transportation and prosperous business, but since a person came, all this has changed." ”

"Who is it?"

Wang Changling was really disgusted by this name, and turned a corner and said: "He is the dog thief who invited you to drink today." ”

If Li Qing was sitting in front of an ordinary county magistrate, then he would definitely think that this was just a dog-eat-dog struggle, but the one sitting opposite was Wang Changling, Wang Changling, who 'made Longcheng Feijiang, not Hu Ma cross Yin Mountain'.

Li Qing let out a long breath and said, "Please speak clearly, sir!" ”

"This person was originally a petty officer, but somehow he stammered to Yizhou to assassinate Li Daofu, last year he was awarded the county lieutenant of Yibin County, he is a local, more like a fish in water, more and more powerful in the past year, and more and more arrogant, gradually dominate the land, and later, every store in the county has to pay him a monthly fee."

Li Qing suddenly realized, no wonder the things here are so expensive, it turns out that there is a surtax, but he is just a county lieutenant, a commander, a book, a lieutenant, he is the smallest level, there is a history of thorns, there are also festival envoys, and the imperial court, why doesn't anyone care? He was thinking wildly in his heart, but Wang Changling's words were heard word for word.

"It's just that our county magistrate is a drunkard again, twelve hours a day, four hours to sleep, four hours to drink, four hours to drink, that has time to take care of business, all things fall on me and this person, if he doesn't care, I'm tired and bitter, but he just can't see me doing things, thinking of ways to pit me, I led the villagers to repair the bridge during the day, and he will send someone to tear down the bridge at night; I run an official school, he sent hooligans to make trouble every day, the husband ran away, and the students did not dare to come. ”

"Then why don't you cultivate a little bit of your own power to deal with him?"

Wang Changling sighed, "He has hundreds of thugs under him, who dares to fight with him in the county, and he is protected from above, if I wasn't a little famous, I don't know how many times I have died, speaking of which, Lord Li may not believe it, this county lieutenant of the Tang Dynasty is actually related to the gangsters, and I only recently heard that he has a brother, who is said to be the hall master of your Emei Hall in Chengdu." ”

"What!" Li Qinghuo stood up and shouted, "Emeitang! ”

He suddenly understood why Zhang Qiu and Qiong would put him here to be the main bookkeeper, it turned out that Zhang Qiu and Qiong had no intention of letting himself stop with the Hai family at all.