After a while, Tian Qian took the initiative to let go of his hand, his cheeks were red, and he asked Li Mao: "Have you really thought about it, don't be the master of partiality?" Li Mao said: "Don't do it, do my best to save the people from fire and water." So I hope you can come back and help me. ”

Tian Qian said: "I promise you, but you also have to promise me that in the future, our children will be crowned the king of Bohai, and they will be sealed." Li Mao stared at Tian Yuan's eyes, smiled, measured that there was no room for compromise, and then said, "Okay, I promise you." Tian Qian said: "I want to look into my eyes and say it again." Li Mao hesitated for a moment and did as he did.

Tian Qian seemed to let go of a very heavy matter, and said lightly: "Then I will take office, I need some assistants, and I have to choose these people by myself." ”

Li Mao said: "This is natural, you can use whoever you want, and I will never interfere." But can you take office tomorrow? It's so late today, and you have to choose an auspicious day for this kind of thing. Tian Qian smiled: "What do you want to do?" I'm coming back, so you'll have to let me prepare. ”

Li Mao said yes in a row, when he was waiting for Tian Qing, he received the news that Chen Hongzhi had killed Meng Lian, the deputy gang leader of the Boat Gang, but he didn't care, and only said to Cai Wencai lightly: "Xiang Zhongguo is a talent, I expect that this move must be made by him, and this kind of plan to kill people with a knife Meng Gang Leader can't think of it." ”

Wang Shoucheng was ordered to give office, and was immediately placed under house arrest, and those people in Chang'an City immediately sniffed out the change in the direction of the wind. Chen Hongzhi, who was far away in Yongqiao, was also keenly aware of this change, lamenting that the end was coming, and persuaded him to stay away from overseas, Chen Hongzhi shook his head and refused, his family is in Chang'an, although the husband and wife are not husband and wife, children are not children, but that is his root, people are lonely ghosts wherever they go.

Over the years, he has harmed and been harmed by others, and he is used to seeing the glory and withering of life and death. When the noble Ruyuan and the emperor died, they were also cold relatives, lonely, without a single relative around them, and they were not as old as the mountain village. Chen Hongzhi didn't want that kind of death, he would rather let the executioner's knife cut off his head than be harmed by someone in a daze, abandon his body in the wilderness, and be that lonely ghost.

Of course, although he was not afraid of death, he did not want to be humiliated by the officials before he died, and the thought of walking in that dark public prison before he died, he was chilled and trembled, that was not the place where people should go, and that was not the way to die for decent people. He spent half his life mixing with decency, and he couldn't die without decency.

So he prepared a pot of poisoned wine, prepared to go boating on the river, drank this cup of poisoned wine, and then threw himself into the river to feed the fish and turtles, and accidentally fell into the water and died, wanting to spoil my bones without giving you a chance.

The decision to kill Meng Lian or not is completely his, there is a reason to kill, there is a reason not to kill, there is a reason not to kill, you don't have to care what outsiders think, the important thing is to see what tangible benefits you can bring to yourself.

If you don't kill Meng Lian, if you can show goodwill to the boat gang, then don't kill it, but Meng Lian is Meng Yingchun's opponent, an ungrateful careerist. The master behind Meng Yingchun instructed her to send Meng Lianzhi to Yongqiao, that is, to borrow his hand to get rid of him, if she didn't kill him, wouldn't she offend Meng Yingchun, and her wife and children would still point to her to take care of her in the future.

So Meng Lian must die, Chen Hongzhi gave an order, Meng Lian was sentenced to Ming Zheng in the Suzhou East Market for colluding with bandits to burn warehouses and cargo ships, and the audience was like a cloud, and they gritted their teeth and hated it.

Killed the culprit, Chen Hongzhi announced the closure of the case, released thousands of people in prison, each of them gave a hanging of money and two pieces of bread to make a coil, and sent back to his hometown, the people of Suzhou shouted the blue sky, and even when Chen Hongzhi's merits returned to Chang'an, the people of the four townships gathered by the river, served wine and food, knelt to send the umbrella of the people, and the sound of the blue sky resounded in the sky.

Chen Hongzhi stood at the bow of the boat with tears in his eyes to thank him, because his hand was raised for too long, and he couldn't put it down for a while after returning to the warehouse, and said to the left and right: "I have done a lifetime of lack of virtue, but before I died, I became a blue sky, how can I make sense in this world." "One moment crying, the other moment laughing. At the moment, he took out the benefits of looting in Suzhou and gave them to the left and right, and said goodbye.

It was night, the moon was bright and the wind was clear, Chen Hongzhi drank alone in the bow of the boat, the poisonous wine entered his intestines, he instantly stiffened, and plunged into the turbid river water. It was found that he had fallen into the water around the morning of the second day, and when he was rescued, his body was already cold, so he reported it to the imperial court.

At that time, Chang'an was encircling and suppressing Wang Shoucheng's henchmen, but Wang Shoucheng himself did not happen, how to deal with Chen Hongzhi's death, everyone had different opinions, Chen Hongzhi was Wang Shoucheng's confidant, if he opened the coffin and killed the corpse and declared the crime, it would be tantamount to telling the world that Wang Shoucheng was going to die, so it would not be fun, the key to playing cat and mouse is in the word "play", and it will be tasteless to bite to death and then eat.

Wang Shoucheng is extremely evil, he must not let him die so easily, he must treat him as a rat, let him watch his henchmen being cut off one by one, so he whimpered one by one, watched his clothes being stripped off one by one, and slowly exposed the ugliest part of his body in front of the world.

For this reason, Chen Hongzhi's death was finally characterized as a martyrdom in the line of duty, and the imperial court affirmed his merits, posthumously awarded the official title, sent an envoy to mourn, and allowed his family to help the soul return to his hometown in Fujian.

The most convenient way to go from Chang'an to Fujian is the waterway, which is also smooth because of the secret protection of the boat gang.

At the end of October of the second year of Yamato, the first batch of rice and grain from the south of the Yangtze River was transported to Chang'an City, which broke the rumor spread by profiteers that there would be a shortage of grain in Guanzhong this winter and that the price of grain would soar.

Li Han enjoyed the praise of his ministers, but he didn't feel good in his heart, obviously the boat gang had the ability to transport the rice and grain from the south of the Yangtze River into Guanzhong on time, why did I still give so many benefits to those giant merchants in Jingluo? Who coaxed me to say that the boat gang did not deal with Wang Shoucheng, and in order to kill Wang Shoucheng, Wang Shoucheng would never transport rice and grain into Chang'an on time?

It is not difficult to find this person, because this person was still whispering in his ear yesterday: Zhaowu Jiu has a huge industry in the heart of Heluo, and the rise and fall of the imperial court determines their honor and disgrace. He also said that the boat gang is a grass gangster, which can be used but cannot be trusted, and even if it is used, it must always be left behind to prevent it from blackmailing the imperial court.

This person is not an outsider, it is his own Wang Shuguang Wang Li Chen.

Li Han thought about it, and asked people to call the new privy envoy to Tutu Chenghua, and said: "According to the draft decree of the Hanlin Academy, revoke the establishment of the protector army in the left and right divine policies; Added the hatred of Shiliang to the left prison guard general; Jia'an Mulong's right prison guard is the general, and the left Shenwu army is promoted to fight the war; used Yu Hongzhi as the lieutenant of the Zuo Shence Protector Army; Ma Cunliang was summoned back to Beijing and appointed as the envoy of Xuanhui. ”

Tutu Chenghua calculated that there were a total of five holy decrees, and the target was one person, Li Chen, the king of light.

Li Chen has always advocated curbing the power of eunuchs, and he suggested that the establishment of lieutenants in the protector army should be abolished, and the central protector army should be used to supervise the army. The military system of the Shence Army combines the characteristics of the feudal town and the guard, and there are also the official positions of generals and generals, and the rank of the general officer is the third rank, which is lower than the lieutenant of the protection army, and it is easy to be controlled. However, the status of the central protector army is low, and the third rank, the third rank, and even the fourth and fifth grades can be filled, which not only facilitates the emperor's employment, but also achieves the purpose of restricting high-ranking officials with lowly officials to achieve the purpose of checking and balancing power within the army, and completely eliminates the possibility of eunuchs specializing in military power.

In the short term, this can weaken Qiu Shiliang's position and prevent him from becoming Wang Shoucheng's second. In the long run, it can completely remove the chronic disease of eunuchs in charge of the army, and return the military power of the forbidden army to the hands of the emperor.

Li Chen believes that the root of Wang Shoucheng's autocratic power lies in his mastery of Zuo Shence, one of the two pillars of the Tang Dynasty. The status quo in which the lieutenant of the Protector is called the superintendent of the army must be improved, otherwise the roots of the tyranny will remain.