At noon, Li Yanqing's army arrived in Nanzheng County, Hanzhong Prefecture, and the prefect Liu Shoushan, the general judge Xiao Yun, and the deputy envoy of the regimental training Zhang Tao went out of the city with more than a dozen officials to welcome Li Yanqing's arrival.

Although Hanzhong Mansion administratively belongs to Zizhou Road, but militarily it is under the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Economic and Strategic Embassy, Li Yanqing turned over and dismounted, handed the war horse to his own soldiers, stepped forward and said with a smile: "Governor Liu, Xiao Tongju, we haven't seen each other for a long time!" ”

"It's been a long time, and at that time, Li Jingluo was still Jingzhao Tongzhi, and four years have passed in this flash."

"Thanks to the Hanzhong government and the people of Hanzhong for their support to the Jingzhao Army, this time I went south not only to inspect, but also to thank everyone, and it can be regarded as a thanksgiving trip."

"Lord Jingluo is too polite, as a subordinate, it is our duty to support the Jingzhao Army."

After a few more greetings, Li Yanqing entered the city accompanied by a group of officials, and Hu Qing'er led 500 female soldiers into the Hanzhong military camp.

Li Yanqing came to the inner hall of the government and sat down, a group of officials accompanied both sides, and humbly gave in for a while, and the prefect, the general judge, and the deputy envoy of the regimental training reluctantly sat down, and everyone drank tea while briefly reporting on military and political affairs.

At this time, Li Yanqing asked Zhang Tao, the deputy envoy of the regiment training: "How many Xiang troops are currently in Hanzhong Mansion?" ”

"There are about 1,000 people in the three counties, mainly responsible for suppressing bandits and maintaining order."

Li Yanqing nodded, and asked again: "I remember that last month, the envoy asked the 20,000 Xiang troops from the Bashu Third Road to come to Jingzhao Mansion for training, and some of the Xiang troops from the state capital came, some did not come, and Hanzhong Mansion did not seem to come, why is this?" ”

Zhang Tao's face suddenly showed embarrassment, he looked at the prefect Liu Shoushan, Liu Shoushan hurriedly said: "Zhang Tuanlian was originally going to take the army north to participate in the training, but a group of thieves suddenly appeared in Yangshan County, and Zhang Tuanlian led the army to suppress the bandits, so he didn't succeed." ”

Of course, Li Yanqing knew that this Governor Liu was opening his mouth, and he couldn't make excuses, where would there be any thieves in Yangshan County, it was nothing more than that they were afraid that they would seize the military power of the local chief official, so they would detain the Xiang army and not let them come back.

Li Yanqing didn't say anything, only said lightly: "The training is very good for the soldiers, and the Xiang troops in several states on Kuizhou Road generally responded well after they went back, not only the military discipline has been increased, but the physique and quality of the soldiers are also incomparable with before, it is completely like changing an army, anyway, it is only half a month of intensive training, and it is best for Zhang Tuanlian to lead the troops to set off tomorrow." ”

Zhang Tao glanced at Liu Shoushan again, Liu Shoushan nodded, Zhang Tao hurriedly got up and saluted, "Obey the order, and take the brothers to Jingzhao Mansion for training tomorrow." ”

Li Yanqing then went to the suburbs to visit several families of refugees who had fled from Hedong Road, inquired about their living conditions, and instructed Liu Shoushan and Xiao Yun to care about the fugitives.

As soon as Li Yanqing led the army to leave, Liu Shoushan immediately flew a pigeon letter to Chengdu Mansion.

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Chengdu Mansion is the political center of Bashu region, the land is fertile, the population is large, the products are abundant, Chengdu Mansion Road includes Chengdu Prefecture, Mianzhou, Hanzhou, Maozhou, Jianzhou, Meizhou, Jiazhou and other thirteen state capitals, with a population of millions, it is the tax weight of the Great Song Dynasty at present, second only to Jiangnan East Road and Liangzhejiang Road.

Chengdu prefect is called Zeng Xiulin, born in Pengzhou clan, is the son-in-law of Prime Minister Zhang Dan, Yuan Fu two years of Jinshi and first, in the imperial court is very senior, Zhenghe five years served as the Ministry of Rites, Zhenghe six years in the factional struggle lost, was impeached by Cai Jing, was demoted to Chengdu Mansion as a general judge, Xuanhe two years officially appointed as Chengdu prefect so far.

After Zhao Huan ascended the throne, Tong Guan, Wang Hao, and Li Yan were killed, Cai Jing retired, Liang Shicheng was assigned to Lingnan, and the court had no high-ranking ministers.

Zeng Xiulin's political consciousness is extremely keen, and there are allies in the imperial court, Zuo Xiang Lu Yihao is his political ally, when King Kang Zhao Gou ascended the throne, he was the first batch of local officials in the local government to congratulate him, after Li Gang was deposed, the Son of Heaven Zhao Gou intended to promote him to the deputy minister, but he politely declined, and supported Zhu Shengfei as the prime minister.

And when the Emperor Taishang returned from the Jin Kingdom, he was the first magistrate to write a letter of condolences, Zhao Ji was deeply moved by his loyalty, and he was promoted to the second grade of special advancement.

On the one hand, he actively expressed his full support for the Jingzhao Army's resistance to Jin, but on the other hand, he secretly resisted Li Yanqing's implementation of the jurisdiction of the Bashu Three Roads, and it was under his instruction that the governors of the three states of Bashu did not hand over the government affairs report to the Jingluo Mansion, but directly reported to the imperial court, so that Li Yanqing, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Economic Strategy, existed in name only, and still only had the real power of the Shaanxi Economic Strategy.

Zeng Xiulin has been a little uneasy in the past two days, he already knows the news of Li Yanqing's inspection of the south, and he also knows why Li Yanqing went south, the three million yuan of taxes and 700,000 stone grain in the first half of Chengdu Fulu have not been released to Jingzhao Mansion until now, Li Yanqing is nominally here to inspect Bashu, but the real purpose must be to come to Xingshi to ask for guilt!

The tax money and grain are all in the warehouse of Chengdu Prefecture, but Zeng Xiulin does not want to hand it over to Shaanxi Road.

"Who's making things difficult for whom?"

In the official room, Zeng Xiulin took a sip of tea and said coldly to Zhang Ji, the transfer envoy: "We fully support him if he wants to resist Jin, and he will not give him a penny less, but now that Song Jin has signed a five-year contract, and he will support Shaanxi Road like last year, I think it is not necessary, we also have to build bridges and roads, we also have to run schools, and we also have to pay officials, if we give him all the taxes, what should we do?" Therefore, if we want to talk about it, we will only give half of it in the future, and the other half will be given to the imperial court, or it will be better to keep it for our own use, in short, we will no longer be able to support him unconditionally as before. ”

Zhang Ji said with a smile: "The Song-Jin agreement started in May, and this time the money and grain are taxes for the entire first half of the year. ”

"I know, it's okay to give them away, but before giving, you must first talk about the charter, how to give it in the future, and if you don't talk about the future things, I won't give it to him this time."

Zhang Ji sighed secretly in his heart, Li Yanqing is such a strong person, it's not a good thing to offend, the wicked have to do it themselves, and they refuse to give themselves a workaround, things are very tricky!

Zhang Ji hesitated, and then stubbornly said: "I heard that the imperial court sent Wen Yushi to Chengdu, if you don't give the lowly position, it will violate the will of the official family and the imperial court, and I am afraid that the imperial history will impeach the lowly office." ”

"This may be the meaning of the official family, but it may not be the attitude of the imperial court, as far as I know, the imperial court is also arguing about this matter, the opinion of the Zhizheng Hall is three to three, and the emperor hopes that we can abide by the principles."

"The Emperor?"

Zhang Ji was stunned, could it be that the Emperor Taishang also interfered in this matter.

Seeing Zeng Xiulin's eyes showing smugness, he couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Could it be that the Emperor Taishang has a connection with the Mansion Monarch?" ”

Zeng Xiulin smiled proudly, "What do you think?" Otherwise, I will tear my face with him Li Yanqing? ”

Zeng Xiulin got up again and patted Zhang Ji on the shoulder, "Don't worry! I have the Emperor's decree in my hand, and I will not let you be impeached by the imperial history. ”

At this moment, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside, and I saw Xu Qingwei, the general judge of Chengdu Prefecture, walking into the inner hall quickly, and smiled at Zeng Xiulin: "Fujun, the pigeon letter from Hanzhong Mansion has arrived!" ”

Zeng Xiulin perked up and hurriedly said, "Bring it to me!" ”

This must be the pigeon letter given to him by Liu Shoushan, the prefect of Hanzhong, Zeng Xiulin wanted to know what questions Li Yanqing asked in Hanzhong Mansion?

Zeng Xiulin opened the finely written pigeon letter, read it carefully, he nodded and said to Zhang Ji and Xu Qingwei: "He really came to urge money and food, which is what I expected, but he also mentioned that the Xiang army went to Jingzhao Mansion for training, did our Xiang army go?" ”

Xu Qing smiled and said: "I remember that Commander Hong asked the government for advice, and the government said that if other provinces and prefectures went, then Chengdu Mansion could also go." ”

"Did you go to other prefectures?"

"Some of them went, but most of them didn't go, and as far as I know, even the Hanzhong Xiang Army, which is closest to Jingzhao Mansion, didn't go."

Zeng Xiulin laughed, "In this case, what are we anxious about, when the other state capitals are gone, it will not be too late for our Chengdu Mansion to go again!" ”

"But we need to find a reason!" Zhang Ji said cautiously again.

Zeng Xiulin glared at him dissatisfied, this Zhang Ji is good at everything, but he is too timid, what reason is needed, and no time is the best reason.

But he was afraid that Zhang Ji would worry too much, so he said casually: "There are thousands of reasons, don't we need a box army to transport money and grain to the north?" So I can't go to the training camp, what is the reason for this? ”

"Good! Good reason. ”

Xu Qinghui and Zhang Ji praised each other, and the three of them laughed together.

Zeng Xiulin was a little suspicious in his heart, he only took 500 female soldiers to the south, what kind of reputation is this Li Yanqing doing?

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