Chapter 541 Chang'an's Means

In the third month after the Youzhou Rebellion subsided, the imperial court's disposition of Youzhou finally came down: first, Yingzhou was divided into three: Yingzhou and Mo were divided into one, and Yingmo was set up as an observer, and Wang Tingcuo was used as an observer to manage the Neidu branch and Yingtian; The two prefectures of the division of the camp and the ping are together, and the camp is set up to observe the envoy, and the observation envoy is also in charge of the internal branch and the camp field; Youzhou, Fuzhou, Zhuozhou, Danzhou, and Jizhou are together, and Youzhou Jiedu envoys are set up, and the Jiedu manages the armies and the envoys such as observation, degree, camping, and vassal.

Second, Zhang Hongjing made meritorious contributions to quelling the rebellion, and entered the court as the secretary of the ministry, and added the prince Taibao; Shangshu of the Ministry of Inspection, Prince Shaobao Li Mao transferred to Youzhou, and Xue Rong, Si Nongqing, took over Liaodong; Yan Qin was appointed as the assassin of Yanzhou, and the soldiers and horses of the department were changed to Zuo Shence, and Yan Qin concurrently served as the soldiers and horses of Zuo Shence's capital town and town of Yanzhou.

Li Mao praised this arrangement, and Youzhou, one of the three powerful feudal domains of Hebei, was divided into three, greatly weakening the foundation of its rebellion. Transferring Li Mao out of Youzhou, suppressing the head snake of Lu Longjun with the strong dragon of Liaodong, and restraining it with the momentum of Lu Longjun, so that they can contain each other, which can not only prevent Li Mao from separating himself from Liaodong, but also put a tight spell on the head of Lu Longjun.

And with Xue Rong out of Liaodong, Li Mao's move to Youzhou is undoubtedly a clever move.

Youzhou now has three bright and two dark five forces, the surface is calm, but in fact it is a torrent of undercurrents, from Chang'an to send any minister to be the Jiedu envoy, there is a danger of collapse at any time, can be Youzhou Jiedu envoy is actually only the local powerful faction, Wang Chengyuan, Tian Hongzheng, Manor, Cheng Weigong, Li Mao, Wang Tingcuo these people.

Tian Hongzheng and Wang Chengyuan each have their own foundations, but the foundations are not very stable, once the tiger goes down the mountain, whether they can come back in the future is a big problem, how can they do such a stupid thing as picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons.

The manor is Li Mao's puppet, and Cheng Weigong, Wang Tingcuo and Zhu Wei are raccoon dogs and cannot be trusted.

Only Li Mao, who has the strength to sit firmly in Youzhou, has no worries, and has a strong desire to expand, and moves it to Youzhou, he himself is willing, and all forces in the court can accept it, after all, he is quite obedient to the imperial court, at least the surface work is impeccable.

In a word, Li Mao is by no means the best candidate for the envoy of Youzhou Festival, but he is currently the most suitable candidate.

As for the ** kingdom built by Li Mao in Liaodong, whoever is the envoy of the festival is the life of being played with in the air, and if you transfer a person who does not deal with Li Mao, you will have to roll up and get out of the house in less than three months. Xue Rong is different, Xue Rong is Li Mao's benefactor, brother-in-law, and an important minister and loyal minister of the imperial court, sending him to Liaodong can at least emotionally restrain Li Mao.

Regarding whether to go to Youzhou to take office, Liaodong's internal opinions are very unanimous, you should go, why not go, Liaodong is an iron country, whoever comes is a puppet, although you go to Youzhou with Lu Longjun to contain, but the Jiedu envoy is the Jiedu envoy, and the official level crushes people to death, which really has a wonderful effect on how to seek Youzhou.

Li Mao decided to go out of Youzhou, and the last thing he did in his appointment as the envoy of Liaodong Jiedu was to appoint Zheng Xiaozhang as the governor of Liaozhou and the envoy of soldiers and horses in Liaodong City, and appoint the clerk Cheng as the assassin of Dongzhou; recommended Xie Biao as the deputy envoy of Yingping Observation, and Wang Jian was also the envoy of Yingping Duzhi to assist Luo Ke to guard Yingping.

He also hired Chang Mucang as the Sima of the Youzhou march, and Qin Mo as the inspector, and went to Youzhou with him.

At home, because Su Ying was pregnant again, she stayed in Liaodong City and did not move, Qin Niang stayed to take care of the family business, and Lan'er and Xue Dingding went to Youzhou together.

Before Li Mao left, he quickly cut through the mess, ordered Xue Qing to retire with an old body, transferred Xue Qingyu to serve as the salt patrol of the Salt and Iron Academy, and Xue Qingnian was assigned to serve in Pyongyang City;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Due to the complicated situation in Youzhou, Li Mao did not wait for Xue Rong in Liaodong, but rushed to Youzhou early in the morning to make a deal with Zhang Hongjing.

Therefore, there was no reservation about Li Mao, the delivery was very smooth, on the day of departure, Zhang Hongjing suddenly proposed to leave Wei Yong and Zhang Zonghou in Youzhou, he claimed that he would return to Beijing to support the elderly, and there would not be much progress in his career, Wei Yong, Zhang Zonghou and others would only delay their future, so they would be left to Li Mao.

This reason is reasonable, and it was suddenly proposed, and Li Mao could only agree.

After sending Zhang Hongjing away for about a month, Xue Rong arrived in Youzhou, he did not enter Youzhou City, but met with Li Mao at the junction of Yingping and Youzhou. As soon as they met, Xue Rong said: "You are making a lot of noise in Liaodong, there are people in the court with red eyes, asking me to come and entangle with you, before parting, the prime minister should let me look at you, I think it is inevitable that some people are worried, do you Li Maohua still have the heart of disobedience?"

Li Mao laughed and said: "People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, I am lying down and also hit the arrow, if I have the heart of disobedience, how can I be willing to fall into your plan to transfer the tiger from the mountain, and run to Youzhou to sit and wait to die"

Xue Rong said: "You don't have to laugh, how many people are watching your every move." If you change the official system in Liaodong without authorization, isn't it the heart of a disobedient person, and the national magic weapon can be moved casually. ”

Li Mao said: "The great injustice, in the past, I came to Liaodong, no name and no point, how easy it is to recover Liaodong, how dare the famous weapons of the imperial court trespass, you can only make some official positions, you are the commander, he is the main thing, otherwise who is willing to work for me, these official offices and official positions created by me are not the same as the imperial court, I am afraid that people will say that I have a heart of disobedience." Later, the imperial court recognized me as the envoy of the Liaodong Festival, didn't I change the official names back one by one, and those official offices were also revoked one by one, but now I am just used to it, and I can't change my mouth for a while. ”

Xue Rong said: "Whether it has been revoked or renamed, you know better than me in your heart, what I want to remind you is that you had better send someone who can speak well to Chang'an in this matter, and make it clear, so as not to let people hold on to it." ”

Li Mao thanked him again and again, and promised to send someone to Chang'an to pay tribute to his son of heaven immediately to seek the understanding of the imperial court.

Xue Rong asked Li Mao again how to be an envoy when he went to Liaodong, Li Mao smiled and said: "I remember that my brother taught me in the old days, governing the people is important in doing nothing, a few years ago I was so strong, I had to take care of everything, but the result was that I didn't manage anything well, the people's grievances were boiling, and there was a rebellion. ”

Xue Rong said: "Governing by inaction is the policy of governing the people after the peace of the world, is your Liaodong a peaceful and prosperous era, I have arrived at your territory, but I look at people and things that are not pleasing to the eye, I still have to take care of it, what do you say?"

Li Mao said: "You are the lord of Liaodong, you can take care of whatever you want, I, the envoy of Youzhou Festival, can't control you." ”

Xue Rong sighed and said: "I'm not the lord of Liaodong, I'm just the envoy of the Tang Dynasty's Son of Heaven, the herdsman officer of the Tang Dynasty and the commander of the army, and I must abide by the rules." ”

Li Mao said: "I have disbanded the shogunate, removed the assassination history of several states, you can manage the affairs of Liaodong according to your own wishes, I will not hinder but only help, in addition, Liaodong faces the enemy on three sides, the military aspect" Xue Rong said: "I don't understand the military, I have no intention of fighting with you for military power, so I will do nothing in the military, I only need to form a direct army, two or three thousand, to maintain law and order, lest people say that I can't even protect the territory and the people." ”

Li Mao said: "There is a ready-made security army, the number of people is five or seven hundred, and the military department has prepared the case, you can put new wine in old bottles, but it saves a lot of trouble." Xue Rong said: "I'll talk about this matter when I get to Liaodong." ”

The two of them sat in the grass pavilion on the side of the post road and talked, seeing that Li Shi who was sitting in the shade of the tree had been lowering his head, gritting his teeth, and having a cold face, Li Mao got up and walked over to worship: "Although the winter in Liaodong is cold and long, but Madame, please rest assured, there are also earth dragons in Liaodong, there are also soft couches, the ice and snow outside the door, the house is warm like spring, and there are also spring and summer with red flowers and willow green, I keep you will like it there at this time next year." ”

Li Shi smiled reluctantly and said: "Maohua, your brother is an honest man, he is used as a pawn to contain you, his original intention is not to embarrass you, you are not allowed to embarrass him." ”

Li Mao said: "Brother I have the grace of recreation, how can I Li Mao be the ungrateful person" Li said: "You don't understand what I mean, he is an old-fashioned gentleman, and he is a big good official, he is not willing to eat a vegetarian meal, and it is inevitable to toss it every time he goes to a place, in Fengzhou, in Si Nongqing, you just let him order, anyway, Sun Monkey can't jump out of the palm of the Buddha's hand, do you say this is not the truth." ”

Li is not familiar with Li Mao, he is usually taciturn, and his face is majestic, and this opening of his mouth pierces the point, which makes Li Mao very embarrassed, and he can only respond as if he is loyal: "Certainly, definitely." ”

In view of the fact that Liaodong is now economically exhausted and there are not many wars, after Li Mao entered Youzhou, the third division of Jiao Shixiong, Song Menglong, Li Hongshui's seventh division, Xue Bihua's ninth division, the first division of the ** fifth division and the slave army were stationed in Youzhou, with a total strength of 13,000 people.

Wang Jian's 8th Division Tunyingzhou and Shanhaiguan, Huang Renfan's 4th Division Tunpingzhou, Yingping Observation Envoy Shogunate was located in Pingzhou, and the rest of the 1st, 2nd, 6th, 10th, and 12th Divisions remained in Liaodong.

Li Mao had disbanded the Liaodong Shogunate before leaving, and he did not recommend anyone to Xue Rong, Xue Rong's shogunate team was set up by him, and Li Mao only helped without hindering.

Xue Rong moved the Liaodong Jiedu envoy from Liaodong City to Liaozhou City, disbanded the security army under the Security Bureau, bottled new wine with old bottles, and formed his own military force, he promised Li Mao that he would only recruit two or three thousand people, but in fact he recruited five thousand people. All the generals he brought from Chang'an, including the sons and daughters of the imperial court and the generals of the forbidden army.

Li Mao clearly instructed the Internal Security Department not to infiltrate the security forces for the time being, and to observe and be vigilant.

Before Zhu Kejian surrendered the city, there was a great chaos in Youzhou City, and the red beads that Qin Mo focused on protecting were also lost in this chaos, and it took him a lot of effort to rescue the red beads from the hands of a defected deacon in the right wing.

The deacon was originally ordered to protect Hongzhu, but he was fascinated by Hongzhu's beauty and elegant temperament, and took advantage of the chaos after Zhu Wei was killed, he rescued Hongzhu and eloped with her.

In the past, no matter how arrogant and domineering the right carriage was, Qin Mo could tolerate it, because whether it was Qin Fengmian, who was old and scheming, or Li Guotai, who was arrogant and domineering, or Zeng Zhen, who was loved by thousands of people, they all respected him very much as a nominal commander. In the right compartment, Qin Mo said one, they wouldn't say two, at least not in person.

Since his own interests were not violated, Qin Mo could turn a blind eye to the arrogance of his subordinates, but this incident deeply stimulated him. He clearly remembered that he had personally told Li Guotai to protect Zhang Yuanli's favorite concubine, for no other reason, Hongzhu, a woman born with a gorgeous beauty, Qin Mo was very impressed. Because of his calculations, Zhang Hongjing's family was ruined, and protecting this little woman and giving him a thought can be regarded as a compensation.

The result is good, people are abducted under their noses, and it is still a case done by their own people.

A little deacon dared to ignore his and Li Guotai's words, and did whatever he wanted, which was okay, and it would not be against the sky in the long run

Qin Mo was out of anger this time, under his strict supervision, under the personal auspices of Qin Fengmian, the right wing carried out a large-scale purge operation, with the help of the strength of the left division and the internal security department, more than 30 people were disposed of in one go, and the morale and atmosphere changed.

After the deacon who absconded with the red bead was captured, Qin Mo asked Li Guotai to dig a pit and bury him alive in order to set an example for traitors.

On the day Qin Mo returned the red beads to Zhang Hongjing, Zhang Hongjing saw a ghost and asked for a while: "Didn't you die by throwing yourself into the lake?"

Hongzhu cried: "It's my life that shouldn't be killed, I threw myself into the lake to die, but I couldn't get my wish, Zhu Xun hated me to death, and ordered me to be abandoned outside the city for wild dogs to eat, but the mule cart was bumpy, and I woke up halfway through, rolled in the grass on the side of the road, and escaped." ”

Zhang Hongjing didn't believe this, but after all the calamities, the person is still alive, what more can his husband ask for

With Hongzhu by his side, Zhang Hongjing's spirit improved significantly, and he finally agreed to Qin Mo to bury the pile of bones that could not be spliced, and then he left the secret room and sat back in the court, continuing to be his festival envoy like a puppet.

The scene of Zhang Hongjing holding the red bead and crying like a child was deeply engraved in Qin Mo's mind, and now, Zhang Hongjing has returned to Chang'an with the red bead for many days, and Qin Mo still feels sour every time he thinks of the situation at that time. He thought of Zhu Xiang, who had been married to him for so many years, and there seemed to be nothing else in his memory except for the never-ending anger and fighting.

Now that I think about it, Zhu Xiang is also a very beautiful person, but he never seems to have looked at her seriously, he always likes to light the lamp when he has sex with other women, observing their smiles, but he insists on touching the dark when he is alone with Zhu Xiang, at that time Zhu Xiang is his tool to vent, and he has never really loved her.

In the past two years, as he grew older and had more experience, he suddenly found that Zhu Xiang had taken root in his heart, his voice and smile became clearer and clearer, and his status became more and more important, which made his heart hurt very much every time he thought about it.

The Ransi people have passed away, and no amount of nostalgia is in vain, and he has continued to roll in the flowers in the past two years, intensifying. In the past, he wanted to go to the woman he liked when he saw it, but now he wants to go to it when he sees a woman, and the boundary between man and beast is crossed by him with one foot.

He also thought about finding a woman who loved each other to marry and get rid of this decadence, but in the vast sea of people, that person never appeared. Until one day he entered the back garden of He Hong's house at night.

Qin Mo jumped up and called two close entourage: "He Hong is dead or alive now." ”

The entourage replied: "It's a good life, Zhu Kejian surrendered, he followed and surrendered, the marshal said that those who surrendered to sincerity would not be killed, so he didn't die, but the military power was cut away, and now he is a nominal inspector, I haven't figured out what to inspect." ”

Qin Mo said: "That's an idle eater, you go and call him to the embassy, I have something to ask him." ”

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