Chapter 9: The Messenger of the Son of Heaven
Entering July, even with the heat of Shuzhong, at this time it began to cool down unconsciously, and after the Qixi Festival, although the day was still as spicy, the weather at night began to be cooler than the other.
During this time, Li Xi was not very busy, he only needed to order a mao every time he went to the yamen, and then he also learned from Zheng Shuang and Pei Jun to hide at home, even if there was something, it was only a morning's work to deal with it.
In addition, whether it is the 300,000 acres of vegetables, or the vegetable markets in various places, and even the brewing and sales of Jiannan Yaochun, in fact, a management group headed by the Liu family brothers, the third uncle Li Qiu, A Jin, and Yang Zhao has been formed, so Li Xi, the biggest boss behind the scenes, does not need to be responsible for any specific details, but when they feel that they are not decided, they will gather together to discuss some things, and finally ask Li Xi to give him an idea.
Of course, during this period, it was not that there was nothing at all, for example, at the end of June, there was a case of Yang Zhao embezzling public funds.
Li Xi only knew that Yang Guozhong in history was a great annihilator, and in his mind, how could there be a minister who was not corrupt, so as soon as everything was settled, he thought of it, so he ordered his third uncle Li Qiu to pay extra attention, and sure enough, under Li Qiu's attention, he really found out something.
There is not much greed, only a little more than 90,000 yuan, of course, the money of those dealers he collects privately must be several times this, but even so, this amount is nothing in front of such a huge sales volume as Jiannan Yaochun, and according to Li Qiu, although this Yang Zhao is greedy, in fact, he is very general in handling things, and when he is not there, he only needs him to run freely in sales.
Even at the moment, when Li Qiu has to devote a lot of attention to taking care of vegetables, and has to deal with some big merchants in Chengdu Prefecture, he has become the pillar of Jiannan Yaochun sales, therefore, Li Qiu's opinion is very clear, for this little money, it is not worth messing with the army's heart, that is, a small warning.
But in Li Xi's view, this is a bad sign.
Therefore, although Li Xi also adopted Li Qiu's suggestion, and did not deal with this matter in a big way, he only confiscated his greedy income, and Li Xi didn't see all the income from receiving gifts, but he directly canceled his jurisdiction over the sales area, and directly sent him to the vegetable market in Shuzhou.
However, after learning that Yang Zhao was greedy for ink and received gifts, and a lot of the money he received was taken out and posted with a local name, Li Xi used his brains again, and according to Liu Rong's proposal, he directly paid for the woman named Pei Rou, and then simply gave her to Yang Zhao.
In this way, Pei Rou, who has a good heart, is certainly grateful for something, even Yang Zhao, who was just beaten into the cold palace by Li Xi, is also so grateful that he doesn't know what to say, you know, this Pei Rou is a local official and quite famous, if you want to buy her, it's not just about having money, but he loves this woman again, Li Xi's move is very much a bit of a charcoal in the snow, in contrast, he has beaten himself into the cold palace before, but it is still a trivial matter.
Because through this incident, Yang Zhao knew that although Li Xi had temporarily put himself in the cold palace, it was obvious that his own employer was still ready to continue to use his own.
And in order to show his loyalty to Li Xi, he specially invited Liu Lan to be a matchmaker, Li Qiu and Li Xi's uncle and nephew as witnesses, and on the third day of July, he officially married Pei Rou.
In these years, accepting a name as a concubine is a romantic affair with red sleeves and fragrance, but marrying a person who is a woman with a female background as a wife will be more or less shameful, but in Yang Guozhong's eyes, as long as he can win Li Xi's trust and closeness, it is naturally worth it, not to mention that he has already loved this Pei Rou and is determined to marry her as his wife.
In this way, even if this matter is successfully concluded, Li Xi will transfer him from the vegetable market again, because thinking that Yang Guozhong can definitely become a big official in the original history, so whether he is a minister or a famous minister, he must be a good official hand, so Li Xi simply stopped letting him be in charge of any business matters, but discussed it with Zheng Shuang, the county magistrate of Jinyuan County, and promoted him into the county yamen to be a small official.
He, a clerk, is specially following Li Xi, and with him staring at the county office, first, he can help Li Xi supervise the vegetable planting below so as not to make mistakes, and secondly, if he has some official business, he can directly take it home and let Li Xi handle it, which is naturally a lot easier and more reassuring. Even after only ten days, Li Xi already liked this feeling.
Yang Zhao, if you talk about shortcomings, it must be a lot, but his advantages cannot be erased.
First of all, he is very clever, he is willing to use his brain to do things, and many things only need Li Xi to mention a little, and he can go to the Tao immediately. Secondly, he had been on the street for many years before, and he was very familiar with the three sects and nine streams in the county, and he was also familiar with the world, so putting him in the yamen was simply an all-rounder, no matter what he put him over, it would be able to make some achievements for you immediately.
In this way, Li Xi naturally valued him doubly.
Of course, because the term "annihilation" is too unsteady, Li Xi's defense against him is unmatched, even if it is a big use while guarding against.
In this case, on the 10th of July, Li Xi and Li Qi and Li Qiu sent away the little fat man Li Zao.
In fact, in the final analysis, the reason why Li Xi was in a hurry to send his younger brother to the barracks was not simply to urge him to mature as soon as possible, to some extent, he was just a little afraid of the big turmoil that he didn't know when it would come.
Li Zao is good at martial arts, so before this great turmoil, if he can grow up as soon as possible, not only can he find a rare security for himself and the entire Li family, but in Li Xi's opinion, if it works well, maybe Li Zao can suddenly rise in this war that will come sooner or later.
You know, even if he doesn't know much about history, he knows names such as Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi.
If Ah Zao can become this kind of famous general who can leave a name for eternity...... As long as he thought about it, Li Xi was excited, because that was his younger brother!
Of course, he also knew that it would never be so simple to become a famous general, and to take the opportunity to rise in that cruel war, and even to risk losing his surname, but he felt that since he already knew that there would definitely be such a major event in history where disasters and opportunities coexisted, could he give up so easily because he could take some risks?
His answer was clearly no.
was only twelve years old, and sent Li Zao, a little young tiger, to the military camp, according to Li Xi, this is called forcing the tiger to grow up.
After sending Li Zao away, it had only been a few days since it stopped, Li Xi was preparing to ask the teacher Zhou Qiong to come to the door for him to ask for a job, and then planned to wait for Wan'er to pass the door, and he officially accepted Yang Huahua, but before his plan began to be implemented, the envoy of the Son of Heaven had already been ushered in in the Yanai of Jinyuan County.
Li Xi's rank naturally can't reach the level of giving him a holy decree, it is said that even if there is something, at best, it is enough for the officials to write an official document, but the strange thing is that this time the person who came to the Jinyuan County Ya was actually a small yellow gate in the palace, but this little yellow door came here, and it was just to convey the oracle, and there was no order.
There are three oracles, first, to remove Li Xi from the post of chief secretary of Jinyuan County from Jiupin, and there is no other appointment; second, Li Xi changed from a student member of Jinyuan County to a student member of Chang'an Guozi; After receiving the commandment, you must leave within five days.
It's just such a message, simple and clean.
After the announcement was completed, the little yellow door was taken down to rest, here Li Xi and Yang Zhao looked at each other, while Pei Jun and Jiang An did not hide their joy, compared to them, the uncertainty on Zheng Shuang's face was good.
An edict directly dismissed Li Xi's officials, although the rank of loose officials on his body is still there, but there is no doubt that the loose officials have no power, at best, they just receive some money every month, which is almost useless.
On the contrary, Li Xi actually "transferred" to Chang'an Guozi School for some reason, which was very strange in the eyes of those who did not know.
And at this time, although he kept their reactions in his heart one by one, Li Xi obviously didn't have the heart to care about them, although he had already prepared in his heart that he might face this kind of dismissal instead of promotion, but when this result came suddenly, Li Xi couldn't help but behave a little at a loss.
After a long time, it was not until he returned to his room with the oracle that Li Xi gradually came back to his senses.
After thinking about this oracle over and over again, he began to gradually come back to the taste, although this oracle robbed him of his official position, but it was obvious that Emperor Xuanzong was not ready to ask himself for the blame, on the contrary, he actually transferred himself to Chang'an by letting himself "transfer" to Guozixue.
So, what exactly does this Emperor Xuanzong mean?
Inspect? Or...... Get yourself to Chang'an and clean it up?
If you think about it carefully, it is estimated that there are still many of them. After all, he is the emperor, if he is really annoyed by that movement, it is not easy to dispose of himself, where is the need to make such a big detour.
Sure enough, just when Li Xi took advantage of the ready-made ones, sorted out the official affairs he was responsible for one by one, went to the room of the county magistrate Zheng Shuang to hand over them one by one, and made an appointment to change the time to get together, he came to Shuzhou to assassinate Shi Yamen, and told Zhou Qiong and Liu Bo the message brought by the Son of Heaven, and the reaction of the two people was also the same word - this is not a demotion of officials!
Although he can't talk about being promoted, it is obvious that Li Xi's recital did not anger His Majesty the current emperor, and according to the weight and sharpness of that recital, as long as it is not angry, things will be promising!
Especially the country where Li Xi went, but he was very particular.
Guozixue, under the rule of Guozijian, is a school that is specifically responsible for recruiting students above the third grade, the descendants of the Guogong, and the great-grandchildren above the second grade, and is the absolute highest institution of learning in the entire Tang Dynasty.
dismissed Li Xi's official, but "transferred" him to Guozijian, what is the meaning here, everyone can't guess, but it is obvious that since His Majesty Emperor Xuanzong did this, there must be his reason in it.
So after thinking about it, Zhou Qiong said: "Since Your Majesty is in a hurry to summon you to Beijing, it must not be as simple as simply letting you go to Guozi to study, well, you come to my house when you go back, I will write a letter for you to bring, and after arriving in Chang'an, I will visit the mansion of the Duke of Jiuling, I think he can give you some ideas." ”
Li Xi nodded yes when he heard this, and then, Zhou Qiong pondered for a long time before he said again: "Actually, think about it, if it is because of you, you will be directly promoted to the court as an official...... That's not like we're on it now, but it's like this right now, well, very good, very good, Zi said, although it's only five days, but all these things at home, you have to properly explain it. Don't worry about the rest, Youweishi and Liu Gong are here, and although you are gone, no one dares to touch your business. ”
Li Xi was about to nod when he heard this, but he smiled again: "It's just that the wedding wine between you and Miss Liu will inevitably be postponed again." ”
When Li Xi heard this, he had no choice but to smile bitterly.
After saying goodbye from the Assassin Shi Yamen, the sun was still blazing outside, but Li Xi's heart gradually quieted down.
After thinking about this oracle carefully, combined with his understanding of Emperor Xuanzong, he gradually began to understand in his heart: Li Yifeng has been stranded in Chang'an and has not returned, presumably he did not know that he was removed from his post and "transferred" to Guozixue, that is to say, although Emperor Xuanzong had sent all the edicts to Shuzhou, but in fact, no one knew about Chang'an, otherwise, Li Yifeng would not be able to come back, at least he would send a message back.
In this way, that piece of music must have been suppressed by Emperor Xuanzong, and it was not shown to anyone. But even if he did the assumption that he might just want not to alarm the ministers in the court, especially those Jiedu envoys, it was only from the fact that he did not get angry and directly dismissed himself from the official position and never hired him, he was not angry.
And now he is so anxious to summon himself to Chang'an...... So, there's a play?
(To be continued)