Not long after, Han Jiangchun and Xi Xiangling soldiers split into two routes, one went to the north of Yanshan, and the other went to Chang'an.

The northern border of the Tang Dynasty is often invaded by the nomadic tribes of the grassland, especially during the period from autumn to spring, the grass on the grassland is withered, the ice and snow are frozen, and the nomadic life cannot be sustained. This was a shameless act of banditry, and the robbers themselves put gold on their faces and cheered them up, but some of the shameless or mediocre literati among the victims also coaxed and helped to glorify the robbers, calling them bloody and wolf-like, beautifying the bloody robbery and looting as heroic acts, reducing their own fellow villagers to cowardly and damned sheep, treating their suffering and death as deserved, and using them as after-dinner conversations, and proclaiming them with flying eyebrows.

However, since the Anshi Rebellion, after the division of Hebei, the Youzhou area, the local military is strong, often out of the fortress to counterattack, Huma easily did not dare to cross the Yanshan to go south, but the imperial court has strong control of Hedong, Zhenwu, Fengzhou, Lingwu, and even Fengxiang, Jingyuan and other places, often bullied by foreign forces, the imperial court spends huge manpower and material resources every year, but because of the different orders, the local army will be tied hand and foot, it has been difficult to make a big difference, conservative and difficult, let alone enterprising.

Since Li Mao went out of Youzhou to destroy the Khitan, the nomadic tribes along the border of the disaster no longer exist, at least they did not dare to blatantly plunder, they have changed into new vests, turned into lawless horse bandits, dressed in the coat of bandits, and continued to do a good business left by the ancestors.

The internal strife in the governor's mansion of the three capitals of Yanbei was in full swing, and no one cared about the life or death of the people, which led to the arrogance of the horse bandits becoming more and more arrogant, and the people in the border areas had no choice but to leave their hometowns and wander around.

However, according to common sense, they generally go to Hedong or Youzhou, and there are many people who go to Hedong in the past, and now they go to Youzhou more, and it is very rare to travel thousands of miles to Luoyang and Chang'an.

But at the turn of the autumn and winter of the second year of Changqing, a large number of border people poured into Chang'an and Luoyang, especially Chang'an, as far as the eye could see, the streets were all over, they were ragged, their eyes were dull, they spoke with a cold and hard Yanbei accent, and they begged along the street with a pottery bowl that was missing the edge.

If you ask where it comes from, it is said that it is the north of Yanshan. Add another sentence: The bandits did evil, the government was slack, and there was no way to live, so they had to come to Chang'an to fight.

When the official in Beijing learned of this, he was overjoyed, and for a moment he became angry, and attacked the governor of the three prefectures, impeaching Li Mao and others for dereliction of duty and slackness of government, regardless of the life and death of the people.

Although Li Heng was greedy for fun, he also knew that this matter was tricky, so he deliberately took half an hour to discuss countermeasures with the prime ministers, Pei Du and Li Fengji both suggested acting cautiously, and the imperial court would not express its position until the matter was clarified.

Li Fengji suggested that Yousi be instructed to send people to Yanbei to inspect the site. This point Pei Du also agrees.

Yanbei was recovered by Li Mao from the hands of the Khitans, and the actual control has been in the hands of Li Mao.

Such a strategic arrangement was to leave an opening for the imperial court to solve the secession of Hebei feudal towns in the future: it is better to use troops on both sides to take Youzhou than to attack it on the other. It is a pity that Emperor Yuanhe died before his ambition was paid, and his son inherited his throne but did not inherit his ambition.

This incident came from a strange situation, so both the scheming Pei Du and the scheming Li Fengji adopted a cautious attitude and carefully avoided becoming a sinner who caused chaos in the world.

A month later, the three of them came back from Yanbei and brought back the same news: the officials of the Sandu Governor's Office were busy with party disputes and had no time to take care of government affairs. The local people had no way to complain, so they took the risk and went to the capital to sue the royal court, but the palace was forbidden to the forest, and they had no way to enter the small people in the border fields, and the entanglement they carried was exhausted, so they could only wander and beg on the street.

Li Fengji sighed and informed Wang Shoucheng of the results of the investigation on the second day.

Wang Shoucheng sneered: "His eyes are red, he wants a piece of the pie." Hey, that's interesting. ”

Li Fengji said: "Yes, being in a hurry to remove the thorn in the eye can be regarded as a rainy day." People have already made a move, how can we deal with it" Wang Shoucheng said: "The timing is just right, we have to drink this cup of bitter wine if we don't drink it." Li Fengji said: "I just hope that after drinking this cup of bitter wine, I can be a friend." Wang Shoucheng said with a smile: "Friends can't do it, and if you can do it well, you won't be satisfied with the river water." Li Fengji said: "We don't care about the officials of the three governments, so as not to cause a commotion." Wang Shoucheng said: "Gao Jian, it is he who benefits, he has to do this dirty work himself, we have no reason to get our hands dirty." ”

The two of them smiled heartily and revealed the matter.

Wang Shoucheng said: "Lieutenant Liang is going to return to his hometown, who will be the successor, do you have a count in your hearts?" Li Fengji said: "The forbidden army is the soldier of the Son of Heaven, and the selection of the lieutenant of the guard army is not allowed to be ignored." Wang Shoucheng said: "Reason is such a reason, but we all know, you also know, due to interest, when I ask you, you don't answer."

Li Fengji said: "Whoever the prime minister likes only commands, and everything is only the prime minister." ”

Wang Shoucheng said: "Ma Cunliang, Ma Jiming, what do you think?"

Li Fengji said: "Okay, loyal to the country, not the party or the group, high prestige, old qualifications, no one can find fault." ”

The two laughed again, and the matter was decided.

Since Li Heng canonized Li Zhan as the crown prince, Liang Shouqian knew that the general trend had gone, and if he couldn't retreat bravely, not only would he be in trouble, but he was afraid that his family would be affected, so he took the initiative to return to his hometown.

The lieutenant of the Shence Army is called the supervising army, but in fact he is the supreme commander of the army, how important his position is, after Liang Shouqian goes to the position, there will be a dragon and tiger fight around this critical position, in this matter Wang Shoucheng and Li Fengji decided to move steadily, some time ago in order to canonize Li Zhan has spent too much energy on them, and they have formed too many grievances, and now they can only retreat as advance, as long as they support a person who is not specifically working against themselves, there is no need to raise a cronie up, that will only make a big splash and become the target of the public, It will end up in a bad death.

Ma Cunliang is a good person because he is not a party or a group, he neither helps me nor others, he is old, has a high reputation, is loyal and brave, and can accept it from top to bottom

There is another thing, which gave Wang Shoucheng and Li Fengji a surprise, Pei Du suggested that the Yanbei Sandu Governor's Mansion be downgraded to a state, set up Yanbei Jiedu Envoy, and recommended Zhu Kerong, the former general of Youzhou, as the Jiedu Envoy.

Zhu Kerong was driven to Chang'an by Li Mao, Pei Du recommended him to make a comeback, and he took charge of the core sensitive area of Yanbei, which is tantamount to openly turning his face with Li Mao.

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