Li Shigu knew what Li Mao was doing in Caozhou, but he pretended not to know, and then couldn't help the pressure from many sides, so he had to send the escort Li Yacheng to investigate, Li Yacheng deliberately grinded, and Li Mao's affairs had almost been done before he appeared, and he said to Li Mao: "Caozhou's affairs will be done in Caozhou, don't get involved, otherwise I'm afraid you won't be able to close it." Besides, you did such a big vote without asking for instructions, what should you do if you let the festival marshal, I think you have to be wronged. ”

Li Mao said: "I have no grudge against them, but I have to do this because they are too desperate, this matter started because of me, I will give an explanation to the commander." Li Yacheng twisted his beard and said: "That's good, oh, I have something to go to Songzhou, when will you be able to do something here?" Li Mao replied that it would take another month, and Li Yacheng said: "Let's do it ourselves." ”

Two months after Li Mao's regent Caozhou government affairs, his reputation spread far and wide, and when the new Caozhou assassin Li Jing arrived in Caozhou City, several old women knelt in front of the horse, asking Li Jing to return to Yunzhou and leave Li Mao in Caozhou as the assassin history. It was later found out that these old women received money from a fishmonger and deliberately acted in this place. In addition to the history of assassination, Li Jing's title is also the training envoy of the defense regiment of the state, and he grasps the military and politics, which is the first time in the history of Caozhou. Under Li Mao's recommendation, Zhang Xuan was promoted from deputy general to deputy envoy of the defense regiment, Li Jing did not understand military affairs, and was not interested in military affairs, and Zhang Xuan became the general who actually took charge of the army.

After Li Mao and Li Jing made a settlement, they returned to Yunzhou.

After Su Qing had a big quarrel with Li Mao that day, she went back to Su Nuxiang's house to take care of her sister Su Rong and nephews Wang Yue and Wang Ling. Su Zhen asked Qingmo to bring a message to Li Mao, give Su Qing a while longer, and when she untied the knot, she would send someone to send him to Yunzhou. Li Mao knew that the Su family's business would be greatly affected if Wang Xun left, so he asked Dong He to go to Chengwu County to meet with the Su Zhen brothers.

Tonghutou has agents in each state, which is called the steward internally, and the steward of Caozhou has always been concurrently served by Wang Xun, a staff officer. After the completion of Gushan Town, because of its extraordinary status, Gushan Town was taken out of Caozhou and set up a separate steward, and Dong He became the first steward of Gushan Town. There are many responsibilities in Gushan Town, but there are not many benefits, Dong He had already intended to be transferred, and Li Mao helped him transfer out of Gushan on the condition that he would continue to support the Su family in the future, Dong Hele's promise.

After this meeting, Su Dong moved the idea of remarrying Su Rong to Dong He, but was categorically rejected by his eldest brother Su Zhen, if it weren't for Li Mao's presence, the two brothers would have spoken. Although Dong He promised to support the Su family, but he is different from Wang Xun, the relationship network that the Su family has worked hard to manage for many years has to be reshuffled, which is undoubtedly a big challenge for the Su family, only Li Mao can help them get through the difficulties at this moment, Su Dong took this righteousness to persuade Su Qing to go back to Yunzhou with Li Mao, Su Qing cried silently, but still agreed.

Although people are back, the cold war between husband and wife is still continuing, eating together during the day, sleeping in the same bed at night, and the increasing intimacy of the body cannot be solved by the alienation in the heart.

Caozhou fell into the hands of Li Shigu after Wang Xun's death, so that none of the twelve states of Ziqing was under his control, and the unification situation on the surface of Ziqing after being subjugated to Hualong has been implemented, but Li Mao's official fortunes have encountered a crisis. Although the officialdom of Caozhou has become an independent system, since it is the territory of Ziqing, it is inevitable that it is inextricably linked with all parties in Ziqing, Li Mao turned the officialdom of Caozhou upside down without asking for instructions, and made so many ugliness public, which not only makes the relevant stakeholders lose face, but also blatantly smears Ziqing Dao, and his heart can be punished!

All parties discussed violently, and Li Fang took the lead in making trouble at the clan conference, with righteous remarks, and many responders, Li Shigu had no choice but to dismiss Li Mao Jiedu as the judge and the commander of the right wing of the Yangdao Army, and was reappointed as the judge of the shogunate of the Shogunate.

The decline of the Tang Dynasty made the vassals not as obedient as in the past, and the tribute was still there, but it was already superficial, and the shogunate of the shogunate was ranked after the festival, observation, branch, and camp, and the people of the time called the Ziqing shogunate often said that the four shogunates were the four shogunates, and the shogunate was excluded intentionally or unintentionally, and the officials who served as the shogunate were generally considered to be deprecated.

The power of the pickets of the shogunate who brought Li Mao status and power was also decomposed, and Li Shigu abolished the post of picket discipline officer of the shogunate, and set up the picket account of the two governments instead, and set up the picket officials of the two prefectures under each account, the left judge was in charge of the map and personnel, and the right judge presided over the picket, and the picket official account of the picket of the Jiedu Prefecture picket the army and the Yunzhou shogunate, and the picket of the picket of the observation office. The prison under the former picket shogunate was abolished, and the judges of the two accounts were not allowed to raise private funds, and there were no guards in the two accounts.

Li Mao concurrently served as the left judge of the picket account of the Observation Mansion, Chen Xiangshan served as the right judge, Wang Wenmao of Puzhou Sihu served as the right judge of the picket account of the Jiedu Mansion, and Zhu Yong, the Marquis of Duyu, served as the left judge. In order to calm the doubts of all parties, Li Shigu set a new rule for the pickets of the two prefectures, and all cases were not allowed to be investigated and handled without the permission of the government lord.

Li Mao has been demoted to the Imperial Domain, there is no sign of the judge of moderation, and his confidence in speaking is not as hard as before, and his original power has been divided into four after being slashed, and the so-called left judge is only in name only. Wang Wenmao is just an ordinary state judge, with average qualifications, neither in the military nor in the military, and is very despised. Chen Xiangshan has been a scribe under Gao Mu's account for many years, and the highest official position he has held is the county order, and he was suddenly promoted to this position, and his reputation is insufficient, and he is very despised.

The weakness of the staffing has invisibly lowered the status of the picket officials of the two prefectures. At the same time, Li Shigu appointed four highly respected ministers to serve as state and county inspectors, inspecting Ziqing Prefecture and County in sections, evaluating the quality of officials, and cleaning up unjust prisons.

In the army, Li Shigu issued several orders in succession, which increased the power and responsibility of Marquis Yu, and the power of the military government to picket the accounts was greatly reduced.

This result was originally expected by Li Mao, the rabbit died and the dog cooked, the bird was hidden in the bow, ancient and modern, if it is different, Li Shigu obviously has not completely given up on him, his festival is still retained, although the title of the deputy envoy of the inner court army was deprived, but the title of the deputy envoy of the Yangdao army was added, and after the deputy envoy, the words "know the right compartment" were added.

The gold content of these four words is much higher than the "Commander of the Right Wing of the Raising Sword Army" that he was deprived of, and from this moment on, he has stepped into the territory of the copper tiger head with both feet, and the starting point is not low.

After going through many things, Li Mao has already understood that it is actually the norm in Ziqing officialdom to be unworthy of the name, and those who are in high positions and important names must have no real power, and those who hold real power can only be obscure, and even have to be stained and disgraced.

Power and fame cannot be the same in the hands of one person, I am afraid that this is Li Shigu's ruling technique.

Li Mao made a small request to Li Shigu: pardon Zhu Wan'er and her brother and sister-in-law, and rehabilitate Zhu San. This is actually what Li Shigu is happy to see. Zhu San's unjust death to him was like being forced to swallow a fly, disgusting and unspeakable.

After Li Fang was forced to retreat, Li Mao wanted to take Zhu Wan'er out of the correctional home, but was strongly obstructed by Li Fang's henchmen, who presided over the correctional home were the descendants of the Li family, and the correctional home was one of the few political legacies left by Li Shigu's father Li Na, and Li Mao was powerless to shake it. Although he knew that Zhu Wan'er was tortured in the correctional home, he had to be in a hurry.

He knew very well in his heart that Zhu Wan'er's ordeal was entirely because of him, and in order to relieve her pain, he could only let go.

Wang Xun is just a branch of the Shouzhang Wang family, but even the edge is also the Wang family, his defeat has effectively shocked the Wang family, and also made the entire Ziqing panic, Li Shigu knocked on the Wang family is not news, but even the copper tiger head is also moving, which shows the great determination. moved Wang Xun, but stuffed Li Mao into the head of the copper tiger, people who are well versed in power games will not think that Li Mao has lost trust and power, he is only temporarily tied hands and feet and hidden, his power is not only unaffected, but even more terrifying.

He is like a wolf, although he is very scary when he is in front of the stage, but in the end he can still spy on his whereabouts and be on guard, and now he is lying in the dark, lurking his minions, who can know when he will pounce?

Because of this, after Li Mao was demoted, he was not left behind like Yan Kun, Xue Yingying, Chen Yue and others.

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When Li Mao woke up, his eyes were a little swollen and painful, it was stabbed by the sunlight outside the window, and the pillars of light were as straight as swords, and his heart was beating in horror. The room was empty, Su Qing had long since disappeared, he sat on the bed and was stunned, his mind was blank, he wanted to get up to do something, but suddenly found that he had nothing to do, this felt like a top master with peerless martial arts, walking alone in the desert with yellow sand, standing alone, always walking alone, drawing his sword and looking around at a loss.

He got out of bed slowly, put on a dress casually, put up his hands upside down, lowered his head, and walked aimlessly along the ancient flower path, outside the wall is the red dust of Yunzhou, the purple and red in front of him, the beauty is smiling, but all this can not move his heart, nothing is worthy of his attention, nothing is worth his shot, his heart is empty.

He was completely reduced to an idler.

In these days when he is free, he goes to Jiminsheng Hospital every day to ask about the preparations of the hospital, or goes to Ge Rixiu to ask him for advice on health preservation, and by the way, he plays two more games of chess. Or go out of the city to hunt with Qingmo and Mo Qi Shentong, or linger in the flower street and willow lane all night, drink and listen to music, sleep in flowers and willows, play the world, and never give up without exhausting yourself from tossing.

Su Qing sulked alone for a few days, and then began to get busy. Before the Cold War between husband and wife, Li Mao had discussed with her to relocate the industries of Chengwu County to Yunzhou one after another, and chose the opportunity to expand overseas trade. Su Qing is a doer, what Li Mao described to her was just a castle in the air, but she wanted to put it into reality.

She has a lot of things to do, and she can't wait for me.

Li Mao wanted to help Su Qing secretly, but he didn't know where to start, so he sent Qingmo over to help, and was driven back by Su Qing after a day. Li Mao shook his head, he had to send another good general, Zheng Xiaozhang volunteered to help, Su Qing did not catch up with Zheng Xiaozhang, and entrusted him with a false position, the people she used were all brought from Chengwu County, and they were relatives and villagers.

Who to use and who not to use, she is in charge alone, and never discusses with Li Mao.