In the end, Li Qing helped Li Jingyan to get into the carriage, the coachman pulled a whip, the whip exploded, the carriage started, and galloped towards the place at high speed.

"Li Lang, I escaped!" Li Jingyan suddenly covered her face, and tears flowed from her fingers.

"Don't cry! Don't cry! ”

Li Qing suddenly panicked and hugged her tightly, "Tell me quickly, what happened?" ”

After all the hard work and fear, Li Jingyan finally got the safest protection, she turned around and threw herself into her lover's arms, hugged his waist desperately, and couldn't help crying loudly.

Li Qing stroked her thin shoulders, looked back at the window, and saw Wu Xingsu, who had escorted Li Jingyan all the way to Yangzhou, looking at him, suddenly sighed and shook his head helplessly.

Wu Xingsu has returned, presumably Nanzhao is a trip for nothing, Li Qing has no time to take care of Nanzhao's affairs now, since Li Jingyan is fleeing from Chang'an, it must be something big happened.

He was even more puzzled, and he didn't urge Li Jingyan, just waited for her to vent to her heart's content, and after a long time, Li Jingyan calmed down a little, but she still refused to leave Li Qing's arms, snuggled up to him, and sobbed: "You know what? The day after you left, the Tibetan envoys asked the emperor to marry them Xinzanpu, and the king of Naqing immediately wrote to the emperor and proposed that I be with Tibet. ”

"What!"

Li Qing's eyes shot out two terrifying flashes, and he said word by word: "They want you to make peace with Tibet?" ”

"Yes! The emperor immediately summoned my father to the palace to discuss the matter, but my father refused, and said that I already have a marriage contract with you. ”

"What about Li Linfu? Did he show anything? ”

Li Jingyan shook his head, "He didn't move." ”

"And then?" Li Qingtie asked again with a blushing face.

"Then I heard that King Yong and Yang Guozhong entered the palace one after another, and my father saw that the situation was not good, and after discussing it with Sister Lian'er, he decided to let me flee overnight and come to Yangzhou to find you."

She hugged Li Qing's neck, and couldn't help crying: "Li Lang, what should I do?" I don't want to go to Tibet! ”

At this moment, Li Jingyan was extremely weak and helpless, like a bud that had just been spit out on a willow branch.

Li Qing hugged the wild goose tightly and said categorically: "You don't have to think about this matter, since we have a marriage contract, I will solve this matter." ”

Li Qing took a long breath, first forced himself to calm down, he had already heard some clues from Li Jingyan's words, this is no coincidence, the Tibetan envoy has been in Beijing for more than two months, he walked on the front foot, he proposed marriage on the back foot, and then King Qing wrote a book, this is definitely a conspiracy, is to disrupt his plan in Yangzhou.

'And Yang Guozhong! Li Qing sneered, he didn't expect him to collude with King Qing.

Li Qing quickly thought about various possible outcomes in his mind, and it stands to reason that since Li Longji knew about himself and the wild goose, it was impossible for him not to ignore the implementation of the new salt law, and it was impossible not to consider his own feelings.

In this case, the top priority now is to show some achievements and exchange money for Li Longji's silence.

The sudden incident made Li Qing decide to abandon his original plan to implement the salt law by soft means.

He bowed his head and kissed the cheek of the startling goose, "You have a good rest, in my place, with me to protect you, you don't have to be afraid of anything." ”

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Early the next morning, Li Qing immediately found the fifth Qi, and all night yesterday, dozens of them were sorting out the account books, which should be a bit eyebrow-raising.

"Squire, come on, I'll show you something." Despite a night's hard work, Fifth Qi was still in good spirits and did not feel the slightest tiredness.

Li Qing followed him into the room, only to see that the room was full of account books, which were placed separately in dozens of areas, and it seemed that they were distinguished by year.

"These account books only start from the second year of Kaiyuan, and the previous ones are gone."

Fifth Qi walked to a corner, where more than a dozen account books were placed, he picked up one casually, turned to a page with folded corners, pointed to one line and said with a smile: "Look here, what clues can you find?" ”

Li Qing took a closer look, and he suddenly found that some of its ink was different, obviously newly added, "This has just been changed!" Li Qing blurted out.

"Yes!" Fifth Qi smiled a little proudly: "Look at this seven characters, it is obviously the word 'one' added, in this way, the inventory behind is uneven, less ten thousand stones, we first found that the inventory is uneven, only retrospectively, the other dozen books are the same, as far as we check the account now, a total of 550,000 stone salt is missing." ”

"Yes, you are all good at auditing."

Li Qing patted him on the shoulder, smiled and comforted, "Thank you for your hard work!" ”

He flipped through the other account books, and sure enough, there were fresh traces of alterations, and some of them still had the scent of ink.

"What time period are these?"

"The main collection is from the twenty-third year of Kaiyuan to the fourth year of Tianbao, and there were some before, but the amount was not large, only a few thousand stones."

Li Qing sneered, such a large-scale collection of salt stealing, if there is no King Qing in it

He won't believe it if he dies, since he already has a handle in his hand, he can pick it.

He walked around the room a few times with his hands in his hands, and suddenly turned back to the fifth Qi and said categorically: "I now officially appoint you as the Jianghuai Salt and Iron Envoy and Yangzhou Caoyun Judge, you now do three things, first, arrest the official in charge of the salt administration for me first, and then release the wind that found the fake account." 2. I will send troops to cooperate with you to check and seize all the officials and account books of all the government salt warehouses and salt fields in Yangzhou. 3. Post notices in the Jianghuai prefectures, limiting all private salt fields, salt warehouses, and salt merchants to me for the record within three days and five days from other places. ”

The murderous aura exuded by Li Qing made Fifth Qi shudder involuntarily, he wrote them down one by one, turned around and hurriedly went to handle it, Li Qing thought about it, called Liu Yan again, and said to him: "You first drive away all the miscellaneous people in the mansion for me, and then go buy some servants to replace, and then hang out the cards of the Tang Salt and Iron Envoy, and use this mansion as the official office, I will appoint you as the chief of the salt and iron envoy, responsible for all account book management and daily housekeeping in the official office." ”

Subsequently, Li Qing found several backbones, appointed official positions, and distributed the affairs of the monopoly salt one by one, and then he went to the back house to visit Li Jingyan.

Li Jingyan lived in a single courtyard, and she brought a few personal maids to serve, Li Qing sent more than a dozen personal guards to escort her, walking through the courtyard, Li Qing suddenly saw Wu Xingsu and Li Fei brothers talking in the room, only to remember the result of Nanzhao's trip Before asking him, he strode into the room and said with a smile: "You guys are quite lively here!" ”

When the three of them saw Li Qing coming in, they hurriedly stood up, and Li Qing first said to Brother Lifei: "Let's go to Huaiyang Restaurant later, you two go to Mr. Gao first to prepare." ”

Li Fei Shouyu understood, and dragged Li Fei Yuanli out, seeing that the two of them were far away, Li Qingcai turned around and waved his hand at Wu Xingsu and said with a smile: "Sit down and talk first." ”

Wu Xingsu had a complicated expression on his face, he suddenly knelt in front of Li Qing, and said guiltily: "The subordinates of Nanzhao failed to complete the trust of the governor, so I have come to ask for guilt!" ”

"Hurry up!"

Li Qing hurriedly helped him up, pinched his shoulder and said with a smile: "I'm not the governor anymore, you have to change your words!" ”

Wu Xingsu saw that Li Qing did not mean to blame, so he relaxed slightly, he sighed, and said: "We just arrived in Taihe City, we are encountering Nanzhao infighting, the three kings and the four kings each led a group of supporters to fight, many people died in Taihe City, there were corpses everywhere, blood flowed like rivers, the palace was even more heavily guarded, we couldn't pass the message at all, it had been five days, the people of the two kings were almost dead, the army of the palace suddenly dispatched, arrested the two kings and killed them, and then controlled the whole city, and two days later, We heard that the military and people of Nanzhao unanimously supported Miss Awan's accession to the throne, and she became the queen. ”

"Then have you seen Queen Yinan?"

Wu Xingsu nodded, "I saw it, I gave her your letter, but there was no news." ”

Li Qing was silent, it seemed that Queen Yinan didn't plan to let Ah Wan know about it, he suddenly remembered something again, and asked urgently, "What about Ah Wan's child?" Do you know the news? ”

"It's the king, he has been named the crown prince, I heard that his name is Feng Siqing, and all the people of Nanzhao are praying for him."

The meaning of the name 'Feng Siqing' is obviously his Li Qing's son, Li Qing's heart is mixed with all kinds of tastes, he doesn't know whether to be happy or sad, his son actually wants to become the king of Nanzhao.

Li Qingxin couldn't help but shout loudly: "Ah Wan, since you have this heart, why don't you hear from you?" ”

"Governor!"

Wu Xingsu secretly glanced at Li Qing and said: "According to the usual practice, after King Nanzhao ascends the throne, he will go to Chang'an for Hajj and accept the canonization, maybe Miss Awan just wants to come to see you at that time!" ”

"Not bad!" Li Qing's spirits perked, he really forgot about it, maybe it was a thousand things to sort out, so she couldn't come for a while, and he suddenly saw hope again.

After putting down the matter of Nanzhao, Li Qing's train of thought returned to his eyes, he took out a letter from his arms, and said apologetically to Wu Xingsu: "I want to come and go, or you are the most suitable, let me rest assured that I will do things, so I will work hard for you to go back to Chang'an again and send me a letter." ”

Wu Xingsu took the letter, Huo Ran got up and said, "My subordinates will definitely do it!" ”

"Thank you!" Li Qing patted him on the shoulder with a smile, and carefully told him: "You go to Chang'an Xingdaofang and find the old mansion of Princess Taiping, and now you should live in the sister and brother of the concubine, you give this letter to the concubine's younger brother Yang Mo, remember, this letter must be handed over to Yang Mo himself, especially to guard against his sister Yang Huahua, remember?" ”

Wu Xingsu gave a military salute and said in a deep voice: "Please rest assured, your subordinates will definitely handle this matter!" ”

After speaking, he turned around and strode away, Li Qing looked at his back, sneered, and said to himself: "His Royal Highness King Qing, since you are the first, don't blame me for being ruthless!" ”