The grassland in April is the season when all things grow, the grass is fresh and tender, the riverside is a new and delicate green grass color, in the dense grass, full of blue horse orchids, pink trumpet flowers, small petals of cat's eye flowers and plain wild chrysanthemums, as well as wolf tail grass to provoke a small flag, a gust of wind blows, flowers and grass have nodded and bowed, here is the Jianhe River in Mobei, the lush grassland is endless, stretching like the sea, everywhere you can see a group of cattle and sheep in the bow of the head leisurely grazing.

Suddenly, the grassland sounded the sound of horses' hooves like thunder, only to see a large black cloud floating in the north, covering the sky and the earth, the black cloud approaching, this is actually a cavalry team of more than 10,000 people, densely packed and unable to see the edge, for a black flag, the big red characters on it are like splashing blood, it is actually written in Chinese characters, and the three big characters of the Yellow Banner are invisible.

The Jianhe River is today's Yenisei River, here is the land where the Hui people have lived for generations, decades ago he was driven by the Hui to the barren land north of Yibohai, but in the fifth year of Dazhi, the Tang Army armed the Huang Gansi people seized the opportunity of the Hui attempt to march south, returned to the Jianhe River Valley, and defeated the Hui army that came to encircle and suppress, regained a firm foothold in the ancestral land, several years of hard work, the Hujia once again appeared a prosperous situation of people and animals, but last year's snow disaster also brought them huge losses.

The army slowly slowed down the pace of advancement, for the general is the Hung Si Zhongxiong Khan Sudaro, he is nearly fifty years old, still wearing a suit of armor, under the iron helmet is a pair of cold eyes, three days ago, he received the Tang Emperor ordered him to send troops to Han Erbali, although he did not want to send troops in the spring, but he could not find a reason to refuse, in desperation, he could only personally lead 10,000 cavalry south, he also knew that this 10,000 cavalry had no effect, but at least he could explain to the Tang Emperor.

Since the Gang soldiers have been trapped in Han's ears for eight miles. After defeating the encirclement and suppression of the Uighurs, Sudaro gradually became arrogant, and he no longer paid attention to the weakening Uighurs, and often sent troops to attack the scattered tribes of the Uighurs, and plundered a large number of Uighur herdsmen as slaves, especially after occupying Lake Baikal in Xiaohai last year, Sudaro's ambitions were suddenly magnified. He began to aspire to rule Mobei and replace the Hui as the master of the grasslands.

Su Daluo is like a beggar who suddenly gets ten thousand family wealth, a distorted, tyrannical mentality makes him untouchable, he is no longer as grateful to Datang as before, and begins to look at the benefactors who have selflessly helped them with a prickly eye, he no longer thinks that it is a kindness, he thinks that it is just Datang's use of them. Using them to contain the Hui Hui, they and Datang should have an equal relationship of mutual use.

The other general beside Sudaro was also in iron helmet, burly, imposing, and with a large sword in the saddle, this person was Kurband, who had married Gu Dai's other two sisters. Now he is the confidant general of Sudarodi.

"Khan, do we have too few troops?" Kurband looked a little worried, and he said to Sudaro: "I am afraid that 10,000 men will not be able to defeat the Hui army. ”

Su Daluo glanced at him, and snorted softly: "10,000 people is already a lot, now is the season for cattle and sheep to give birth, if the army goes to the south, who will take care of the cattle and sheep, and then we are not going to really fight back to the people." Go to the vicinity of Han'er Bali and go back, and you can also deal with the Tang Emperor. ”

"But

Kurband wanted to say that he should repay the kindness of Datang, but when the words came to his mouth, he was forced by Su Daluo's blazing gaze, and he couldn't say a word.

Su Daluo seemed to understand his thoughts, and he said coldly: "Do you want to say that Datang has a favor for us, and we should know that Entu is right?" ”

Kurband lowered his head, and what he wanted to say was indeed this sentence.

"You know!" Su Daluo's throat suddenly thickened, "Do you think Da Tang is a fool?" Will you give me something for nothing? If we don't have a use value. Will they give? You use your brain to think about it. How to maximize the interests of our people is the most fundamental thing. Since Datang will use us, we must also learn to make full use of Datang. Got it? ”

Kurband was scolded so much that he didn't dare to say a word, although he didn't agree with the khan's idea, but he didn't dare to refute either, Sudaro saw that Kurband didn't dare to talk back, he raised his head arrogantly, and looked into the depths of the steppe in the south, he was waiting for the scouts who went to investigate the intelligence, since he sent troops, he didn't want to go back for nothing, at least he had to take a few Hui tribes back to compensate for his troops.

At this time, two small black dots suddenly appeared in the distance, which became extremely clear on the green grassland, it was his scout who came back, and after a while, the two scouts rushed closer, and Su Daluo immediately stepped forward and asked loudly: "What news can you find?" ”

"Back to the Khan, Jiegan Garth personally led an army of 50,000 to the east, and at present, there are only a few thousand people stationed in Han'er Bali."

Thousands of people are stationed there, isn't that an empty city? Sudaro couldn't believe his ears, he stood stunned for a long time, and suddenly turned around in excitement and shouted: "Kurband, you go back and mobilize all our troops at once, go quickly!" ”

Kurband agreed, and led a group of cavalry back to transfer troops, Sudaro looked south, his eyes flashed with greed, Han ears were eight miles, it was a place full of gold, silver and jewels, he waved his hand, and the dark clouds of the Iron Horse rode towards the south.

Chang'an in May is not too hot, fragrant and soft warmth fills every corner of Chang'an City, this is the most intoxicating time before the summer harvest, but the land real-name system promulgated two months ago is like a dark cloud under the sun, shrouded in the sky over Chang'an City, so that the warm May adds a bit of solemnity.

A gorgeous carriage drove into Anyefang under the protection of more than a dozen guards, and came to the front of Pei Youdi's mansion, but it did not stop in front of the gate, but drove to the side door to stop, and two maids came out of the carriage first, and helped a noble lady get out of the carriage and entered the side door directly, this noble lady is Pei Youdi's wife, just returned from Daming Palace, Pei You's original wife died of illness fifteen years ago, this noble lady is his successor, and her maiden name is Qian. It was a big family in Chang'an, and Mrs. Qian walked to Pei You's study when she entered Pei's mansion, her steps were quite hurried, and she was anxious to report to her husband that she had entered the palace and got the news.

A month ago, Pei You had resigned from his position as the secretary of the ministry, quit the political hall, and was reappointed as the crown prince. He is sixty-six years old this year, and he has four years to retire, and he resigned from the position of Xiangguo at the same time as the sixty-seven-year-old Cui Yu, who served as the right servant of Shangshu, and it was not Cui Xian who replaced Cui Yu, but Liu Yan, the supervisor of salt and iron, and it was not Pei Mingyuan who succeeded Pei You Xiangguo. He has served as Jing Zhaoyin twice, and is now Li Gan of Shaanzhou Assassin History, which is indeed unexpected by many people.

However, after the consternation, people have to admire Zhang Huan's insight, Liu Yan is known as the God of Wealth of the Tang Dynasty, and he was in charge of the salt and iron prison for four years. Every year, the imperial court receives as much as 7 million yuan in land revenue from the salt tax, and the price of salt is within the range that the people can afford, mainly thanks to his crackdown on private salt and the clean-up of the gray links in the salt monopoly. And Li Gan is shrewd and skilled, aware of the people's feelings, and has an excellent reputation when he served as Jing Zhaoyin, and he is known for his upright and daring advice, so he is indeed the most suitable person to serve as a servant.

With the Cui and Pei families fading out of the high-level political arena of the Tang Dynasty, this means that the era of the Seven Great Families has officially ended. However, the end of the seven great families does not mean that the power of the family is declining, in fact, the major families still have a strong strength in the local area, they still have an intertwined influence in the court through marriage, protégé and other relationships, the most important thing is that they are strong, and have enough financial and material resources to cultivate the children of the family, Cui, Pei, Wei, Lu, Fang, Wang, Chu, Changsun and other families are like hundred-legged insects, dead but not stiff, in order to completely cut off the foundation of the family, Zhang Huan sacrificed the biggest weapon of the land real-name system. To the horror of the great families. It seems that it has reached the end of the road, more than two months. The major families have secretly connected in tandem to find countermeasures. Pei You is one of the most active of them.

In the study, Pei You is explaining some precautions to Pei Sheng, the second son of the assassin who is preparing to go to Guangzhou, Pei Sheng is a jinshi in the fourteenth year of Qingzhi, from the main book, the county Cheng, and the county order step by step to do the assassination history, with rich experience as a magistrate, in accordance with the principle of separation of powers, from the three grades and above officials and the imperial history platform, the squires of the ministries, and the appointment of the assassins of the states belong to the emperor's authority.

However, Pei Sheng was not happy, Guangzhou is located in Lingnan, since ancient times it has been a place of barbaric exile, although there are ports to do trade, but many officials with similar conditions to him have served as the thorn history of Hedong, Hebei, Jianghuai and other rich lands, in comparison, he feels that he has been deposed, and it is a little sad to say goodbye to his father.

"The child is thousands of miles away this time, I don't know when he will be able to return to Chang'an, the child can't serve by his father's side, I hope the father takes care of his body and doesn't let the child worry."

Pei You was also a little sad, but he saw that his son was depressed, and knew that he thought Guangzhou was a barbaric place, and he didn't understand the deep meaning of the emperor's appointment of him as the assassin of Guangzhou, so he patiently enlightened him: "Wu'er don't think that Guangzhou is a barbaric place, in fact, this is a very promising magistrate, but unfortunately Cui Xian's stupid guy doesn't understand this, and he actually did such a long assassination history in Guangzhou, my son can go to Guangzhou as a assassin history, I think this is the emperor's favor, but it is more promising than those assassins who are officials in Jianghuai and Hedong." ”

When he saw that his son was stunned, he continued to smile and enlighten him, "Why do I say that? Mainly because I am about to conclude a peace agreement with the Great Food, as one of the annexes is to encourage the two sides to develop trade, according to the plan of the imperial court, Guangzhou will be the most important port of my Tang Dynasty for the maritime trade of the Great Food, in the future not only the Great Food merchant ships gather in Guangzhou, the imperial court will also encourage my Tang merchants to go to sea to trade, I can imagine that the prosperity of Guangzhou commerce will begin next year, and the prosperity of commerce will be no less than Yangzhou in a few years, the emperor has told me that he has plans to move the city supervisor from the current Yangzhou to Guangzhou, which is one of themIn order to ensure the output of grain in my Tang Dynasty, the emperor has ordered the Lingnan Five Prefectures to implement the military tun, on the other hand, the imperial court is also considering immigrating to Guangzhou, so that Guangzhou can become another granary of my Tang Dynasty, and as the history of Guangzhou Thorn, whether in foreign trade or agriculture, this is a treasure land that is very easy to make political achievements, my son is in the prime of life, and I want to strive to do two thorn history in Guangzhou, which will become the greatest qualification for you to enter the prime minister in the future. ”

His father's words made Pei Sheng suddenly brighten, and there was a strange light in his eyes. At this moment, he couldn't wait to fly to Guangzhou with his wings to realize his ambitions, Pei You saw that his son had been persuaded by himself, he also felt very pleased, and further encouraged him: "Everyone says that Pei Mingyuan is the future of Pei's family, but I don't think so, if I can seize this opportunity." Make outstanding political achievements in Guangzhou and win a good reputation among the people, and your future achievements will not be under your father. ”

Pei Sheng nodded silently, he secretly vowed to impress the family and the world with him, at this time, there was a report from the door, "Master." Madame came. ”

"Oh! Let her in. Pei You hurriedly ordered Mrs. to come in, and he asked Mrs. to bring a letter into the palace to the queen mother early in the morning, and he had been waiting for Mrs. to reply, but he didn't want his son to be involved in this matter, so he said to Pei Sheng: "You go first!" This time, I brought my wife and children with me and had a good rest for a few days. Choose an auspicious day to hit the road. ”

"The boy quit first." Pei Sheng retreated, and met Mrs. Qian who entered the house at the door, so he gave her a salute and walked quickly, Mrs. Qian saw Pei Sheng's back disappear, and then walked into the room, she was the first time to enter her husband's study, but she was a little uncomfortable. She bowed and said, "Master, I have already handed over the letter to the queen." ”

"And how did she reply to you?" Pei You asked impatiently.

Mrs. Qian shook her head, "The queen didn't say anything, she burned the letter after reading it, and then said that there was something in the palace and beat me out." ”

"Burned!" Pei You actually screamed, he never expected Pei Ying to burn the letter, extreme disappointment surged from his face, this time the impact of the land real-name system on their Pei family was extremely serious. In accordance with the criteria for granting fields. Their Pei family's current 13,000 hectares of land can only be retained 1,200 hectares, and the remaining 10,000 hectares of Shangtian will be confiscated as terra nullius. This is a catastrophe for their Pei family, and there is no land to support them. Their Pei family is like a broken source of living water, only a pool of stagnant water remains, and it will be completely ruined in less than ten years, although some clansmen suggest doing business, but the Pei family has been a family for generations, how can they damage their identity by engaging in business.

As the head of the Pei family, Pei You has been thinking hard for the past two months, looking for all possible ways, he once asked Yang Yanjin to persuade the emperor to open up on the Internet, but Zhang Huan's resolute attitude made him finally realize that the so-called land real-name system is actually aimed at the family, and wanting Zhang Huan to make concessions is undoubtedly a tiger skin, in desperation, he had to turn to Pei Ying to see if she could make Zhang Huan make a little concession to the Pei family, after all, the Pei family is the prince's maternal uncle, but Pei Ying actually burned the letter, this indifferent attitude made him really difficult to accept.

Pei You couldn't say a word for a long time, could he just watch the Pei family's land disappear? Pei Youdi was in a very heavy mood, it was he and Zhang Huan who reached the condition of retaining 10,000 hectares of land at the beginning, and the Pei family disbanded the army, but now how did he face the family's questions.

At this moment, a family member hurriedly ran in with a roll of pigeon letters, "Master, Xiangzhou urgent letter." ”

Pei You hurriedly unfolded the pigeon letter, and he was stunned.

In the harem, Pei Ying is packing up for her husband, in a few days, her husband will leave Chang'an to inspect the broken leaves, and he will not be able to come back until at least half a year later, and after her husband leaves, he will be supervised by the emperor, which makes Pei Ying both sad and happy, and the mood is very complicated, on the one hand, the emperor has grown up, and at the same time it means that he is old, Pei Ying sat on the couch in a daze, she couldn't help but think of the time when the emperor was just born, that day she helped Cui Ning arrange the school with a big belly, and on that day the emperor was born, she was only seventeen years old at that time, is still in Wuwei, but this time is sixteen years have passed, and the years are so short.

Pei Ying sighed softly, lowered her head and folded a few underwear for her husband, her husband spent the night in Pingping today, which also made her breathe a sigh of relief, otherwise, she really couldn't talk to her husband about the Pei family, this morning, the second uncle actually asked her aunt to send him a letter, in which she actually asked her to intercede with the emperor to relax the land scale of the Pei family, Pei Ying of course also knew that this land real-name system would cause the Pei family to suffer a major loss, but this is a plan that her husband has been brewing for several years, it can be seen that he has thought it through, and he is his wife, should support him, not drag him back, besides, as the queen of a country, how can he open this opening for his family, making the world laugh, and more importantly, the emperor has just been canonized as the crown prince, if her husband is disgusted with herself because of this incident, it will definitely endanger the crown prince.

Pei Ying didn't know that Zhang Huan's official canonization of Qi'er as the crown prince was the result of repeated consultations with Xiangguo, considering the future of the Tang Dynasty, and had nothing to do with personal feelings, she always thought that the canonization of the emperor as the crown prince was because Qi'er was the eldest son, and she also knew that Zhang Huan's favorite son among all the children was the second Li, and the favorite princess was his daughter Li Qiu, which was also considered to be on par with Cui Ning, but it was the son who inherited the throne rather than the daughter, a few years ago, Pei Ying was very worried that her husband would make her son the prince, He has said more than once that his son is similar to when he was young, and Pei Ying also admits that he is more courageous, more tenacious, and more persevering than Qi'er, he got up every day before dawn from the age of ten and rode a horse to study and practice swords in the forest of the West Inner Garden, until noon, and has never stopped for several years, but his own Qi'er can't do it, but in the end, her husband canonized Qi'er as the prince, and at the same time added Qi'er as the king of Shaanxi, which makes Pei Ying always have a sense of crisis, Qi'er's position as the prince is not firm, so she is more cautious, So at noon today, the second uncle asked him to intercede for the Pei family, and she would not agree anyway.

However, during the period when her husband was not in Chang'an, would the Pei family do anything stupid? This is something that Pei Ying is extremely worried about.

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