Early the next morning, a shocking news broke out inside and outside the government and the opposition, the Son of Heaven dismissed the prince from his post as the commander of the prince and the deputy marshal of the Seed Master Dao because of his ineffective efforts to suppress the Liangshan bandits, and ordered him to hand over the military power to Zhang Shuye for the time being, and immediately return to Beijing to report on his work.

Only an hour later, several decrees were issued one after another, appointing Tong Guan as the envoy of the Privy Council, pacifying the envoys of the two roads in Beijing and west, and sentenced the military of Yunzhou, with full responsibility for exterminating the Liangshan bandits, and ordered him to set off immediately and go to Yunzhou to take over the military power.

A series of wills caused a sensation in the government and the opposition, the layman looked at the excitement, the insider looked at the doorway, and the discerning people knew that the removal of the master and Gao Shen was false, and the prince's dismissal from military post was the key, I don't know what happened in the palace, and the prince's position was a little unstable.

At noon, Zhang Bangchang and Yu Shen hurried to Cai Jing's mansion and reported the important news to Cai Jing.

Although Cai Jing has been deposed, he has not returned to his hometown, he still lives in the capital, and uses Zhang Bangchang, Yu Shen and other henchmen to continue to influence the politics of the Great Song Dynasty, so some people in the court jokingly call him the wild minister.

In the study, Cai Jing listened to Zhang Bangchang and Yu Shen's reports expressionlessly, he picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of tea, and then said with a faint smile: "The official family asked the prince to be the commander of the bandits, and if he was smarter, he should have ignored it, but he cared so much about the army, and he really regarded himself as the commander." ”

"Gong Cai thinks this is the official family warning the prince?"

"Of course, it's a warning, remove Gao Shen and the Seed Master, crack down on the prince's forces, depose Concubine Zheng, cut off the prince's financial resources, if the prince is not honest, then it is really possible to change the prince."

"Wouldn't it be bad for us to reactivate Tongguan?" Yu Shen asked a little worriedly.

Cai Jing laughed, "Don't worry about this, Tong Guan is in my expectation, he is just a castration, if he doesn't agree, how can the official family use him again?" This Tong Guan is no longer his Tong Guan, I believe that he has learned a lesson, and will honestly implement the intentions of the official family, the biggest loser in this game is Liang Shicheng, if I guess correctly, Wang Hao will soon abandon Liang Shicheng and burn Li Yan's incense instead. ”

After another sip of hot tea, Cai Jing continued: "The cultivator Dao has been removed, I'm afraid that the Liangshan bandit will be unpredictable, I heard that Fang La's side is very tricky, I estimate that the official family will use Song Jiang to demonstrate Fang La, you should pay close attention to the intentions of the official family, and grab the negotiation power in your own hands in time, do you understand what I mean?" ”

Zhang Bangchang and Yu Shen bowed together and saluted, "Xiaguan understands!" ”

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The holy decree of removing the deputy marshal of the seed master was sent to the Yunzhou military camp in the form of an 800-mile express in only one day and one night, and the camp was shocked for a while, and the superb strategy of the seed master and the generosity of treating the soldiers like a son made the army up and down all respectful to him, and when he heard that the seed marshal was dismissed, many soldiers were so sad that they cried bitterly.

More soldiers poured into front of the big tent of the Chinese army, struggling to keep the seed master Dao to stay, but the seed master Tao calmly accepted the holy decree and transferred the military power to Zhang Shuye, he has experienced the vicissitudes of the world, how can he not understand the truth, in fact, it is the prince who was dismissed, and he is just implicated.

He simply packed his luggage, and got up with a dozen entourage, and the generals kept sending the seed master out of the camp, and the teacher once again instructed Uncle Zhang, "The Liangshan army has no food, and the morale has been weakened, as long as they strictly guard without fighting, at most a month, they will not be able to hold the city, and then they can defeat it in a battle, but you must remember that you must not let Song Jiang go to Liangshan again, otherwise you will let the tiger return to the mountain, remember!" Remember! ”

"Don't worry, Uncle Ye will definitely remind Mrs. Tong."

The seed master walked out of the camp, and suddenly saw Li Yanqing standing outside the camp waiting, he beckoned Li Yanqing to come up, sighed and said to him: "I wrote to the Son of Heaven to ask for an increase in the navy, but there was no response, you continue to persuade Tong Guan, let him be sure to increase the navy, without the navy, we will not be able to defeat Liangshan." ”

Li Yanqing nodded silently, changing Tong Guan as the head coach, I'm afraid he won't have a good life, but Li Yanqing is also very helpless, unless he abandons the official and doesn't do it, he can only endure this breath.

The seed master understood Li Yanqing's mood, patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "The eldest husband serves the country, he is worthy of his heart, don't be afraid of setbacks, setbacks when we were young are our best mentors and friends." ”

"The teachings of the great handsome will be remembered in Yanqing."

The breeder laughed and urged the horse away, Li Yanqing looked at his figure and walked away, and there was an indescribable loss in his heart.

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Two days later, Tong Guan led an army of 30,000 to Yunzhou, the first thing he did when he took office was to readjust the army, and depose all his henchmen who planted the teacher's way, the first to bear the brunt of the veteran general Zong Ze, Zong Ze was originally in charge of the logistics of the whole army, Tong Guan cut his position, demoted him to Jeju regimental training, and appointed his henchman Chen Xun as the chief logistics general, and seized the power of Zongze.

In addition to Zong Ze, more than a dozen other generals who were specially transferred from Hedong were also demoted, and the rest of the commanders and generals above had to write a letter of allegiance to him, otherwise they would all be deposed, and for a while, people in the official army were panicked.

Outside the camp, Li Yanqing gathered at the foot of a small hill with several friends in the name of patrolling, Tang Huai asked Yue Fei: "I heard that Ding Wenjiang refused to write a letter of allegiance, and was directly demoted from the commander of the capital to the head of the capital, is it true?" ”

Ding Wenjiang is Zong Ze's right-hand man and Yue Fei's boss, Yue Fei nodded silently, "He has already resigned." ”

At this time, Wang Gui couldn't help but ask Li Yanqing, "Today is the last day to hand in the letter of allegiance, don't you really plan to write it?" ”

Li Yanqing snorted coldly, "How can he be virtuous, let me be loyal to him?" ”

Niu Gao was a little anxious, "The other commanders have written, even Liu Jian has also written, offended Tong Guan, you have made so many contributions, isn't it all gone?" ”

Wang Gui was also anxious, "Lao Li, Tong Guan used to be good to you, and he especially wooed you in Tangyin County, I think you should talk to him, sometimes people are under the eaves and have to bow their heads!" ”

Yue Fei said on the side: "Don't persuade Lao Li, I think Lao Li is doing the right thing, the eldest husband should be above board in life, and don't want to get things in exchange for inflammation!" ”

"This is not a trend of inflammation, you know how much credit Lao Li has made, how can you say that there is no more."

Li Yanqing waved his hand to stop the quarrel of several people, and he calmly said to everyone: "The grievances between me and Tong Guan cannot be solved with a letter of allegiance, I write a letter of allegiance to him, I can only bring humiliation on myself, he wants to use me, even if he doesn't write a letter of allegiance, he will reuse it, if he doesn't want to use me, even if I write it, it will be written in vain, I have already seen it, the so-called thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi, sometimes being deposed is not necessarily a bad thing." ”

He smiled at Yue Fei again: "Fifth brother, do you want to stay, or do you want to leave?" ”

Everyone looked at Yue Fei in amazement, and Tang Huai said in surprise: "Fifth brother, are you leaving?" ”

Yue Fei sighed and said, "General Zong asked me to go to Jeju with him, and I have decided to go with General Zong. ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "This is a wise decision. ”

Wang Gui was silent for a moment, and suddenly said, "Lao Li, if you want to leave, I am willing to go with you." ”

Li Yanqing laughed, "I don't know yet!" ”

At this time, a cavalryman in the distance rushed over, it was Li Yanqing's personal guard Yang Guang, he panted and said to Li Yanqing: "General, Captain Tong wants to see you, please hurry up to the handsome tent!" ”

Li Yanqing laughed, "I said it!" The allegiance doesn't mean anything to me, let's go! Let's go back to camp. ”

Everyone urged the horses to go to the camp with their hearts, Li Yanqing entered the camp, and came directly to the handsome tent, and Tong Guan's personal soldiers went in to report for him, and came out after a while: "General Li, please!" ”

Li Yanqing walked into the big tent and saw Tong Guan sitting on the handsome seat of the former cultivator, and several staff members next to him were busy sorting out a bunch of allegiance letters for him.

Li Yanqing stepped forward and saluted, "See the captain for your humble position!" ”

Tong Guan glanced at Li Yanqing with a complicated expression, and asked lightly: "So far, only three generals above the command envoy have not written a letter of allegiance, among them is you, I want to know why you didn't write it?" ”

Li Yanqing groaned, "Humble duty..... It's a bit confusing! ”

"Tell me, what don't you understand?"

"When he was promoted to the commander of the military capital, he had already stated that he would be loyal to the Great Song Dynasty and the Son of Heaven, but now the captain wants to change his allegiance to the object, and he is a little confused, who should he be loyal to?"

Tong Guan's gaze suddenly became cold, and he said coldly for a while: "It's worthy of Tanhua, you are very good at talking!" ”

Li Yanqing glanced at the thick stack of allegiance letters next to him, and said with a faint smile: "What's the point of the Taiwei asking for so many insincere allegiance letters?" Don't be caught by the imperial history, and take a copy of the captain. ”

Tong Guan's face changed slightly, and he remembered that Li Yanqing was appointed as the official servant of the imperial history, but he had the power to supervise impeachment.

"Are you threatening me?"

Li Yanqing shook his head, "The lowly official has a small position, and he doesn't dare to threaten the boss with a hundred guts, I actually just want to tell the captain that the status of the lowly position is relatively special, and it is not good to write any letter of allegiance." ”

Tong Guan stared at Li Yanqing viciously for a long time, and suddenly shouted: "Get out of here!" ”

Li Yanqing bowed, turned around and walked away.

Tong Guan took out an arrow, hesitated for a moment, and finally ordered: "Pass on my military order, abolish the two battalions of Xuanwu and Suzaku, rebuild the heavy armored cavalry battalion, and the cavalry envoy will be Liu Jian as the commander, and the former Xuanwu battalion will command Li Yanqing to serve as the defense of Qizhou." ”

Tong Guan was still a little jealous of Liang Shicheng, and he didn't dare to go too far, but transferred Li Yanqing away from the main battlefield in a flat way and sent him to Qizhou to relax.

As early as the battlefield of Western Xia, Tong Guan had already decided that Li Yanqing was a person who cultivated the Tao of Cultivation, and even if Li Yanqing wrote a hundred letters of allegiance to himself, he would never use them again.