Yun Governor Shi Du Shiyi's 600-mile rush to Chang'an soon waited for a response. However, before that, he had already agreed to the request of the Ministry of Internal Inspection, and Ji Hammer to temporarily move inward. Therefore, when Xiao Song, the new Zhongshu scholar promoted after the Zhongshu Order took office, Pei Wanwan rushed to Yunzhong County, the administrative office of Yunzhou, with the imperial court order, Du Shiyi led him to a lookout tower in Beicheng that could overlook the distance and the whole city.

Pei Kuan looked around, and saw that to the south of the faintly visible Great Wall of Wei, the felt tents were endless, but it was roughly estimated that there were at least thousands of tents

"Du Junli, Du Junli, you are really bold"

Pei Kuan's career has been up and down for more than ten years, and he is used to seeing all kinds of people, and he is naturally no stranger to Du Shiyi, the younger brother of his brother Pei Ning, but in the face of such a spectacular scene at this time, he still can't help but sigh with emotion. But after making such a statement, he was ordered to recruit warriors in Hedong Road in order to crusade against the Khitan who dared to turn his back on the Tang Dynasty, but he couldn't help but ask again in a low voice: "The Xi people are also wolf ambitions, Du Changshi placed them north of Yunzhou, so he is not afraid that they will plot against Yunzhou?" ”

"I'm afraid." Du Shiyi nodded directly, and seeing that Pei Kuan was puzzled for a while, he smiled slightly, "However, if it is not only the two Xi tribes that can be coerced, but the five Xi tribes, I am afraid that the pressure on Youzhou will be doubled." Now that Zhao Changshi of Youzhou has lost the other two departments of the Xi clan, Yunzhou has incorporated the Duji Department into his command, but there are many fewer soldiers and horses that can be used. As for Yunzhou's current troops, it is indeed not sufficient, but Yunzhou's successive victories over the three Turkic tribes and the Xi tribe and the prestige of the department are still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the Duji Department, and in recent days, I have ordered the soldiers and horses to be captured in Yunzhong to practice several times in succession, temporarily deterring people with ulterior motives. ”

Pei Kuan knew that the nine surnames of Tiele were beaten backward by the Turks, and many of them were divided, and many people voted for the Tang Dynasty, which is also a large part of the Shuozhou Datong Army and the Ulzhou Hengye Army. Seeing that Du Shiyi still had success, he asked again: "What is the prestige of the Ji Hamer of the Du Ji Ji Clan?" ”

"There are also clan elders in the Duji tribe who want to go to the Turks, Jihamer knows how to make trade-offs, but all half-hearted people, some stayed in the old land of the tribe, and some were killed by him, and now the more than 10,000 people living in the north of Yunzhou are his cronies. And since he has made such a posture, and he knows that Datang has always been generous to foreign vassals who know the current affairs, so as long as Yunzhou is fully prepared for war and gives him enough treatment, he should not easily defect

"That's good." Before Pei Kuan came, he had made a military order for Xiao Song in the middle book, and he couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief at this moment. So, when Du Shiyi proposed to go directly to the Duji Department and his party to see Jihamer, he had successfully entered the sequence of high-ranking officials in the Tang Dynasty and groaned for a while, and finally nodded.

This time he was ordered to recruit warriors in Hedong Province, but in the end, the current Datang military reward cannot move people's hearts, and if it can be said that Xi people can send troops themselves, the chances of success will be much greater

Grazing cattle north of the Great Wall of Wei and temporarily residing south of the Great Wall of Wei, this kind of treatment Jihamer was quite satisfactory, and when Du Shiyi brought the imperial envoy Pei Kuan, a scholar of the Zhongshushe, to visit, he was even more happy. This time, he immediately chose to take the best policy, avoiding the fierce and sudden edge, and the strong man broke his wrist and abandoned those dissidents, but instead made the whole department like an iron plate, which not only preserved his strength, but also eliminated the crisis. Therefore, when Pei Kuanyi proposed that the imperial court would send troops to fight soon, he patted his chest without saying a word.

"If Emperor Bixia of the Tang Dynasty wants to conquer the Khitan traitor, the people of the Duji Department are willing to serve Bixia, and I am willing to personally lead the troops and take every warrior under my account to act as a vanguard" He swore this, glanced at Du Shiyi, and added another sentence, "Yunzhou Du Changshi has always been very generous to the Duji Department, and this time he more generously agreed to my request for refuge, and I am willing to fight under Du Changshi." ”

This guy is really cunning and talkative, does this mean that if he Du Shiyi is not among the generals who go to war, he will not send troops to be cannon fodder for others?

Du Shiyi smiled dumbly, but he was not disgusted by Jihamer's cunning, because he smiled: "Since Pei Zhongshu is recruiting warriors, just count them." ”

With Du Shiyi's words, Pei Kuan was naturally very happy. After he went around Ulzhou, Shuozhou, and Daizhou non-stop, and basically recruited the soldiers and horses needed to use the Khitan at that time, he returned to Taiyuan, and waited for the news that the leading generals had been appointed in the court.

Unexpectedly, the marshal of the march in Hebei Province turned out to be Li Jun, the loyal king, and Li Chaoyin, who was reappointed as the imperial doctor, and Pei Yuxian, the nephew of Pei Yan, who succeeded Huan Chen Fan as Jing Zhaoyin, were used as deputies, and the edict listed eighteen people as the head of the march, and Du Shiyi, the governor of Yunzhou, was also among them. But before the soldiers and horses recruited by the four provinces of Guannei, Hedong, Henan, and Hebei were completely reorganized, Ke Suyu, who directly led the army to attack Pinglu, suffered a big defeat at the hands of Wu Chengbi, the vanguard of Pinglu.

For a while, even if Li Longji let the prince take command, it was originally an ulterior motive, but Concubine Wu Hui didn't want others to sit on the ground to gain prestige, and she had to hint that Li Linfu was not afraid of advocating Khitan rebellion in the court, and that he was tired of using troops and horses every year, and the people were overwhelmed, etc., plus many high-ranking officials and ministers such as Song Jing said that they had continuously used troops over the years, and the treasury expenditure was huge, Li Longji suddenly hesitated. However, the straw that really broke the camel's back was the helpless performance of Pei Yaoqing, the head of the household.

Because of Yu Wenrong's dismissal and denigration, coupled with the chaotic handover of the Du Zhi Copy, countless documents were lost in the entire household department, and Tubo used troops repeatedly in the past few years, and the treasury was almost bottoming out, and he couldn't afford another big war

A penny is hard to kill a hero, although Li Longji has gradually valued his side skills over the years, and he is simply angry that he can suddenly dare to touch the tiger beard of the Tang Dynasty, but it is a fact that the country is insufficient. Therefore, even though the nominal marshal of the loyal king Li Jun had already met with the hundred officials in Guangshunmen, and the selection of generals and soldiers had been completed, he finally ordered the soldiers and horses to slow down on the grounds that the Pinglu army and horses had broken the Khitan. However, this time he was dragged down by the treasury with troops, but he inevitably resented it, and after thinking about it, he complained when he summoned the prime minister later.

"In the past, Yu Wenrong presided over disaster relief and river affairs, and how many assassins did not want to make progress in the face of the predicament, and only knew that waiting for the imperial court to allocate funds to get ideas, which really disappointed me."

Pei Guangting and Xiao Song were stunned at the same time when Li Longji suddenly mentioned the name Yu Wenrong, who knew that the Son of Heaven suddenly changed his words: "Look at the Yunzhou Governor Shi Du Junli, a ruined city that has been abandoned for more than 40 years, I gave Princess Gu'an a thousand silks in front of me, and then allocated him a thousand silks, relying on such a little wealth, he forcibly built a ruined city into a solid city, and built Huairen County on the ground, and now even accommodates the Xi Duji Department, It really lives up to my reputation as Xuanfu makes it famous, if everyone is as good at management as he is, Datang will not be hungry."

Fortunately, it was Du Shiyi, not Yu Wenrong

Pei Guangting breathed a sigh of relief. And Xiao Song praised Du Shiyi because of his henchman Pei Kuan, he loved the house and Wu, and the Son of Heaven had already made his attitude clear, so he smiled and said: "Yes, if it weren't for Yunzhou Du Changshi accepting the Xi Nationality Duji Department this time, and Youzhou Zhao Changshi appeased the Ao Lost Department and the Yuan Qi Folding Department, but suddenly it is feared that Du Changshi will run Yunzhou for more than two years, and now Yunzhou grain is almost self-sufficient, and quarrying charcoal is supplied to Youzhou, and the southern grain is supplied to the states and counties south and north of Taiyuan Prefecture, and the Guannei Road is transferred. It's really a lot of hard work. ”

Although there is no need to squeeze in the same Zhongshu Province with Xiao Song now, Pei Guangting can't get used to Xiao Song's background as a Wenchen but has no talent, and there are many disputes with him, but at this moment, he opposes for the sake of opposition, which inevitably goes against the will of the Son of Heaven. So, he thought that Yunzhou is almost Du Shiyi's world now, and the subordinate officials of Yunzhong County and County Cheng who he selected are about to leave, so he said with a smile: "With Du Junli's talents, I am afraid that a corner of Yunzhou will not be able to show talents." Because of Bixia's trust, the minister is in charge of provincial affairs, and it is very important to give a position in the matter, and now he has only one Xue Kan, and there is still a vacancy to wait, and the minister thinks that Du Junli is just right. ”

At the beginning, what Yuwen Rong promised to Du Shiyi was to give it to the matter, but now Pei Guangting directly gave it to the matter, and Xiao Song, who didn't know why, was stunned. Seeing the two prime ministers looking at each other, Li Longji's heart was as bright as a mirror, but he didn't speak for a long time.

He successively used Yao Chong, Song Jing, Zhang Jiazhen, and Zhang to say that the people who worked with them were all people who were willing to be foils, but since Li Yuan and Du Xian began, he intended to let the two prime ministers check and balance each other. Now that state affairs have been smoothed, compared with the time when one prime minister made up for the shortcomings of another prime minister, so that various decrees could be implemented as soon as possible, this pattern has its own place.

"Du Junli is in the center, but he is just a talented man who picks up luxury, but when he puts it in the place, he can shine even more."

Li Longji ended the argument between the two prime ministers with one sentence, and then said in a deep voice: "I intend to change the military festival degree north of Taiyuan to the Hedong Jiedu envoy, and the northern capital will stay behind, and the Hedong Dao branch will camp the field envoy. Taiyuan Yin Li Liang is old, and Hedong Jiedu is the only one who belongs to him. In this way, with Du Junli as the acting governor, he was sentenced to be the governor of the capital, and the deputy envoy of Hedong Jiedu, and the military envoy of Datong, and supervised Shuozhou, Ulzhou, Daizhou, Yunzhou, Xinzhou, and Lanzhou. As for the governor of Yun, Shi ......"

After careful consideration and consideration, thinking that today's Yunzhou is still in ruins, not to mention that in response to the need for continuity of government decrees, today's Yunzhou can not only be self-sufficient, but also bring benefits to Hedong Prefectures, Li Longji said thoughtfully: "It will be taken over by Sima Wang Ziyu of Yunzhou, and Miao Hanye, the deputy envoy of Xuanfu, will be appointed as Sima of Yunzhou." Yan Gong said that he and Du Junli both looked at haode people, and they were by no means simply good drinkers. ”