In the late summer and early autumn of this year, Su Jing came to Youzhou, he completed the three-year examination in the position of Yangzhou Assassin, returned to Beijing to be elected, and came to Youzhou after receiving a letter from his sister Su Qing.

Li Mao is now in short supply of administrative talents here, especially at the level of assassination, there is almost no one available. Su Qing persuaded his brother that instead of slowly working the seniority in Chang'an, it was better to come to Youzhou, and Youzhou has a lot to do.

Li Mao had a long talk with Su Jing, and had a general judgment on his brother's ability and ambition, and he decided to arrange Su Jing to go to Hengzhou as an observation deputy envoy to replace Xue Rong to preside over the administrative affairs of the six states of Chengde.

After Xue put it around the place for a while, Yu Yuan and the end of the Yuan Dynasty returned to Chang'an, and paid a visit to Sinong Shaoqing, who lost his official position last winter because he was impeached by the official for misconduct, and has been idle in Beijing.

Xue Rong did not avoid his relatives, and asked to use his brother, plus Qin Niang made peace from it, which made it difficult for Li Mao to choose. However, Su Qing took the initiative to find Li Mao and proposed to let Su Jing quit, the reason was that Su Jing had only been a Yangzhou assassin for one term, and his political performance during his tenure was ordinary, and he was afraid that he would not be able to handle the government affairs of the six states.

Su Qing's thoughtfulness moved Li Mao very much, and this seemingly intractable situation was solved so easily.

Li Mao and Su Jing talked again, and soon appointed him as the assassin of Shenzhou, hoping to build Shenzhou into a model state and county of Chengde, which would form a certain constraint on the Xue brothers.

As soon as Su Jing arrived in Shenzhou, he implemented to the letter the policy of re-measuring the acres of land formulated by Li Mao, and all the acres of land in Shenzhou were re-measured, the household registration was re-registered, and two taxes were paid according to the actual number of acres of land.

Hidden acres of land were found to be taxed, and it no longer made sense for the wealthy to hide their population, and the population of the Deep State increased by nearly a third overnight.

Most of these people had no place to stand, and were reduced to urban hired hands and tenant farmers of the wealthy.

The re-measurement of acres of land, the collection of taxes according to the actual acres of land, and the re-registration of household registration have greatly eased the financial pressure and lightened the burden on small homesteaders, but land annexation is still acute, and the gap between the rich and the poor has not been thoroughly improved.

The local tyrants who gave up resistance are now also the people of the Tang Dynasty, and instead of confiscating their property, the local government must protect it.

The solution is for the government to take the lead in recruiting landless displaced people for reclamation, and then transfer the raw land to the poor at a price lower than the market price after the raw land becomes mature land.

At the same time, laws and regulations were enacted to regulate land sales and strictly restrict the arbitrary annexation of land by powerful people.

There are large areas of ownerless wasteland in Chengde, and the model of reclamation and helping the people can be maintained for a long time, as for what to do after the land is full of people, Li Mao did not think about it in detail, and Su Jing did not think about it deeply.

None of them are good chess players, they can only stare at the two or three steps in front of them.

The voice of calling for Pei Du to return to the dynasty was higher and higher, and under pressure, Li Heng finally sent an edict to recruit Pei Du to return to the dynasty at the turn of the summer and autumn of the second year of Changqing. Li Fengji suddenly felt the pressure doubled, and in order to counter the pressure that Pei Du brought him, he decided to negotiate a deal with Guo Ren to mend the relationship between the two that was on the verge of being broken.

Back then, Li Quanzhong got the help of Pei Renyong, Pei Renjing, and Pei Renqu to break through Yunzhou City, establish the first crusade against Ziqing, and sit firmly on the throne of the envoy of Yicheng Festival.

The three brothers of the Pei family did not jump the dragon gate because of this carp and were reused, and the three of them came from a small background, and they were only promoted by Li Shidao by chance to get ahead.

When the city was broken, the three of them were all soldiers and horses of the Lu Long Army, one was the soldiers and horses of the backyard army, and the other was the soldiers and horses of the Raising Sword Army, and they were all Ziqing generals.

After the war, how to settle the three people has become a difficult problem, the three people are the last people, suddenly obtained a high position, not worthy of the name, if they are placed according to the status of the high-ranking generals who have been reformed, I am afraid that the people will not be convinced, but if the identity is lowered, according to the placement of ordinary generals, people are clearly and with the title of the head of the capital, soldiers and horses, and it does not conform to the etiquette system.

In addition, Li Quanzhong went away in anger, Pei Du released Huainan, the three of them were like children without a mother, and the situation suddenly became embarrassing.

For a while, they were exhausted, living on the streets, and they made a living by begging, and those who did good deeds compiled the deeds of the three into lyrics, which were passed on as jokes for a while, and this matter was soon learned by Guo Liang.

In the past, there was a flood and drought disaster in Ziqing, and the three brothers of the Pei family and Guo Liang raised troops at the same time, and were pacified by Li Mao, the deputy envoy of the Qing Navy and the town of Gushan Town.

Guo Liang took the three brothers to the house and treated each other with good wine and food.

The Guo family brothers and sisters are not what they used to be, they are already well-known figures in Chang'an, Guo Ren climbs the dragon and attaches the phoenix, and the two generations of the Son of Heaven have been her ministers under her skirt, Guo Liang used the power of his sister to control the powerful Four Seas Society, calling for wind and rain in Chang'an City.

The court officials and magnates who depended on the two were like carps crossing the river, and their power was so great that even strong people like Li Fengji were quite jealous, and they suppressed them several times, but they finally failed.

What the Guo family brothers and sisters lack now is that they do not have their own power in the army, and if they can promote the Pei family brothers to gain a firm foothold in the army, it will undoubtedly be like a tiger with wings.

Guo Ren accepted his brother's suggestion and set out to run for the Pei family brothers, with the goal of stuffing the three of them into the Shence Army. Li Fengji saw through Guo Ren's intentions and teamed up with Wang Shoucheng to block it.

Wang Shoucheng is seeking the position of lieutenant of the Zuo Shence Army, naturally he doesn't want Guo Ren to stick a lever horizontally, one day while Li Heng is happy, he said that the three members of the Pei family are rebels in the future, their hearts are unpredictable, and it is not suitable to serve in the forbidden army, he suggested to the Son of Heaven that the three brothers of the Pei family be sent to the border, for the country, to measure their loyalty, if it is really loyal, it is not too late to be promoted.

Wang Shoucheng's words hit the sore spot in Li Heng's heart, since Li Mao captured Hengzhou, Youzhou, Ziqing Liancheng, Li Heng felt a deep threat, he was worried that Li Mao would become the second in An Lushan, if he sent troops into the customs, who could resist it

Li Mao thought of these generals of the feudal towns, all of them were capricious, and their loyalty was written wherever they were, and they could not be trusted anywhere.

Just when Li Heng was about to accept Wang Shoucheng's suggestion, Liang Shouqian, the lieutenant of the Right Shence Army, stood up and clearly expressed his disagreement with Wang Shoucheng.

Wang Shoucheng was in charge of secrets, and colluded with Li Fengji to control the government, which had already caused Liang Shouqian's dissatisfaction, and he did not want to see Wang Shoucheng's power too great, so he secretly helped the Guo family brothers and sisters, thinking that it was a balanced strategy.

Like Wang Shoucheng, Liang Shouqian is also a great contributor to the positioning of the dragon, and Li Heng must listen to his words.

Liang Shouqian believes that the three brothers of the Pei family are the generals of the local feudal towns, and they repented, returned to the imperial court, helped the imperial court to recover Yunzhou, and made meritorious contributions to the society. This is one of them.

Sure enough, if you are not at ease with the generals of the feudal towns, you should not send them to the local area, and it is actually more convenient for them to be the generals of the forbidden army. This is the second one.

Liang Shouqian advocated that the three brothers be placed in the Shenwu, Yulin and other armies.

Liang Shouqian and Wang Shoucheng's opinions were diametrically opposed, even-for-tat, Li Heng couldn't weigh it for a while, so he simply left it alone. It's just three rebel generals who have returned to the dynasty, so what if they dry him for a few more days.

The emperor could leave it alone, but Guo Ren and Li Fengji were unwilling to stop there, and both sides instigated a group of courtiers and created public opinion to make the matter boiling, so that both sides were a little difficult to ride a tiger.

Pei Du returned to the court, not only did Li Fengji feel the pressure, but the Guo brothers and sisters were not easy, so Li Fengji took the initiative to show goodwill, hoping to mend the relationship, and the Guo brothers and sisters also accepted it when they saw it, and took it by the way.

The two sides reached a compromise, Pei Renyong first served as the general of the Right Jin Wuwei, Pei Renqu and Pei Renjing served as the generals of the forbidden army, and the generals and generals were transitional, and the goal was to accumulate qualifications to get out of the key points in the town.

In this way, it not only fulfilled the long-cherished wish of the Guo family brothers and sisters to support agents in the army, but also broke off the attempt to use the three of them to get involved in the forbidden army system, which was acceptable to both parties.

Qin Mo immediately sent the inside story of the transaction between the two sides to Li Mao by secret mail, Li Mao was not incapable of doing anything in this matter, the three brothers of the Pei family were not good people in the township, and they were not innocent after becoming officials of the imperial court.

Regarding their shady materials, the copper tiger head has a lot in his hands, if these things are exposed, Li Fengji and Guo Ren's abacus will be completely lost.

Li Mao pondered again and again, and replied to Qin Mo: "Got it." ”

After that, there was no word, Qin Mo did not interfere in the whole matter, and soon thereafter, the three brothers of the Pei family became generals and generals as they wished, and they only waited for the next year to stay up and leave the town after they had enough qualifications.

In the autumn of the second year of Changqing, there was nothing in the world and it was peaceful.

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