Outside Li Qing'an's mansion, Yang Fengche looked at the sky in a daze worriedly, for more than ten years, he had never felt so tormented as tonight, although he knew that there might be such a day, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly, so urgently, and he was asked to make the biggest choice in his life overnight.

If Li Qing'an is a temptation, then Cheng Qianli is a threat, and the successive visits of the two make him face a choice, either to cooperate with Cheng Qianli, or to throw himself to Li Qing'an, he has no other choice.

'Yang Duhu, how did you get the two hectares of land on the north bank of the Jinman River, we all know it.

'Yang Duhu, have you forgotten last year's Gaochang witch's child-seeking stone incident? ’

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Cheng Qianli's words still echoed in his ears, Yang Fengche's vest was soaked, these two things were his handles, at a critical time, he was sacrificed by Cheng Qianli, this is the threat of **naked, if he dares to cooperate with Li Qingan, then don't blame him Cheng Qianli is ruthless, but the question is, these handles Li Qingan will not know? The answer is no, as long as he investigates these things a little, the truth will be revealed immediately, and Li Qingan will also use these handles to beat him.

These days, Yang Fengche has been thinking about this matter repeatedly, and it is difficult to make up his mind, but today's threat from Cheng Qianli made him finally make a decision, rather than hiding and tucking it and being pinched in the end, it is better to poke it out first, should return and compensate, and ask for the surname to end it.

"Yang Duhu, I was about to send someone to bring you tea, could it be that Yang Duhu was already impatient?" Li Qingan laughed and greeted him.

Yang Fengche smiled bitterly and bowed his hand: "General Li, I have something urgent to talk to you about, I don't know if I have time?" ”

Li Qingan smiled slightly, nodded and said, "Please come to my study, and we will talk in detail." ”

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In the study, Rushi came over with a tea tray, served tea to the two of them, and slowly retreated, Li Qingan picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, his eyes glanced at Yang Fengche, only to see him looking at the teacup in a daze, looking preoccupied, and then smiled slightly: "Isn't Yang Duhu in a hurry?" ”

"Alas!" Yang Fengche sighed and said, "General Li walked on the front foot just now, and Cheng Qianli came on the back foot." ”

Li Qingan was stunned, this Cheng Qianli is quite fast! Yang Fengche shook his head and said, "He threatened me with a few things I did the year before and last year, and forbade me to cooperate with General Li. ”

Li Qingan's eyes narrowed slightly, this Yang Fengche is going to bargain with himself!

"Yang Duhu might as well talk about it, what are you caught by him?"

Yang Fengche was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "I have three things that are a little difficult to say. ”

"Yang Duhu, but it doesn't hurt to talk about it."

"First, in May of the previous year, a Sogdian merchant died unexpectedly, and I single-handedly handled his funeral, and when I was sorting out his inheritance, I found that he had two acres of land deeds on the north bank of the Jinman River, which I did not hand over to his family, but, but I took possession."

Yang Fengche had beads of sweat rolling on his forehead, and kept wiping his sweat with a handkerchief, he glanced at Li Qing'an, and saw that he had no expression on his face, so he had to sigh and say: "There is also a Gaochang witch last year, she has a discerning stone in her hand, she can distinguish the surname of the fetus in the womb, it is said that if you get this discerning stone, you can also prosper your descendants, this discerning stone is now in my study, and the witch committed suicide in prison last year." ”

Li Qingan nodded, "I know, what about the third thing?" ”

"The third thing is that my shop was purchased from a Hu merchant three years ago, who was accused of being a gangster, and he also died in prison the year before last, and I have not paid the money to buy the shop."

Yang Fengche said the third thing, he thought he was already very frank, but Li Qingan knew that Yang Fengche did more than these three evil things, but these three things were already widely known.

"What are you worried about? Did Cheng Qianli have your evidence? ”

"Nope! He has no evidence. Yang Fengche hurriedly said: "In fact, no one has any evidence, but there are some things that are all golden, if the imperial court comes to investigate, I am afraid it will be unfavorable to me." ”

Li Qingan smiled faintly and said, "Don't worry! I am the middle of the imperial history, I have the right to supervise the North Court, the imperial court will not come over and send someone to investigate, if you really want to investigate, I will also investigate, I just need to say that there is no such thing, and the imperial history platform will eliminate the case. ”

Yang Fengche was overjoyed, he actually forgot that Li Qing'an was the middle of the imperial history, as long as Li Qing'an said a word, who could check him again, of course, he knew how to make Li Qing'an let him go.

"General Li, although Cheng Qianli was transferred to Beiting last year, but in fact, he began to lay out in Beiting two years ago, the governor of Xizhou, Zhao Tingyu, the envoy of the Tianshan Army, is his marriage, Zhao Tingyu is from Qizhou, and his younger brother is married to Cheng Qianli's daughter, at this time it is extremely secretive, and most people have no way of knowing, and I only found out by chance last year."

After speaking, Yang Fengche took out a piece of paper from his arms, put it on the table, and pushed it to Li Qingan: "These dozen or so people are Cheng Qianli's henchmen in Beiting, and I know it. ”

Li Qingan picked up the list, and the first person in front of him was Zhao Tingyu, he couldn't help sneering, no wonder Zhao Tingyi has no news so far, it is estimated that he is synchronized with Cheng Qianli.

The next person was Chen Zhonghe, the county magistrate of Jinman County, Li Qingan couldn't help but be stunned, why is he also Cheng Qianli's person?

Yang Fengche hurriedly explained: "Chen Zhonghe's family is poor and has no money to bring his mother to Anxi, so Cheng Qianli sent someone to Jingzhao Mansion to bring his mother, and because of gratitude, Chen Zhonghe took refuge in Cheng Qianli. ”

Li Qingan put the list away and said with a smile: "Yang Duhu starts tonight, you can forget about the past and sleep peacefully!" ”

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Yang Fengche left, Li Qingan stood up and smiled at Rushi who was cleaning up the teacup: "Don't be busy collecting it first, accompany me to the East Courtyard to take a look at those bronzes, I've been waiting for them for a long time." ”

"Those are just some bronze objects, why does Brother value them so much."

"They're no ordinary bronze objects! You'll find out if you come with me. ”

Saying that, he hugged Rushi's waist and kissed her cherry lips, but his hand unhonestly reached into her skirt, and Rushi pushed him away with a shyly face, "Brother, don't make trouble, let's go to the East Courtyard first!" ”

"Alright! Let's go to the East Courtyard first. ”

Li Qingan reluctantly stroked her **, and then smiled and took her to the east courtyard.

The five large courtyards of Li Qing'an's mansion, the front yard is for his family and servants, the west courtyard is his personal soldier station, the middle courtyard is his family's usual living place, and the east courtyard is empty, and it will be prepared as a guest room in the future. ”

Li Qingan couldn't help but sigh with a wry smile: "I have so many friends that I don't have time to look at my wealth." ”

"Then let's take a look!"

Yan Zhuang laughed at the far gate, and saw Li Qing'an's four personal soldiers walking in with a soft sedan chair, Yan Zhuang sat inside, he opened the sedan curtain, and laughed: "If I guess correctly, your wealth should come from your trip to Yangzhou." ”

"It seems that everything cannot be hidden from you old fox."

Li Qingan smiled and said to Rushi: "Rushi, let's go!" Lead the way ahead. ”

Rushi had seen Yan Zhuang before, and a look of surprise flashed in her eyes, she didn't expect that Master An's first staff would be in Beiting, and it seemed that she had a very good relationship with her eldest brother.

She didn't dare to say anything, so she agreed softly, picked a lantern and walked towards the east courtyard.

"General, I heard that Yang Fengche has been here?" Yan Zhuang asked with a smile.

"That's right, a lot of interesting things happened tonight, and it was very rewarding."

"Let's talk about it, who is the basis for the confrontation between Cheng Qianli and the general?"

"Zhao Tingyu, Mr. can't think of it!"

Yan Zhuang suddenly, it turned out to be him, no wonder! He hurriedly asked again: "Does the general have a countermeasure?" ”

At this time, they had already walked to the front of the room where the bronze utensils were placed, Rushi pushed the door open, and the faint light of the lantern illuminated the huge hall, which was actually a hall that could accommodate hundreds of people, the room was empty, and dozens of large boxes were placed in the middle, one of which damaged a corner, revealing a bronze Buddha.

At this time, in addition to the three of them in the room, there were also four of Li Qing'an's confidants, Li Qing'an stepped forward and simply counted, a total of two [***] boxes, the number of boxes marked with numbers, a total of three hundred and twenty bronzes.

Li Qingan casually took out a Buddha statue from the damaged place and tore off the straw wrapped outside, which turned out to be a Maitreya Buddha who respected about ten catties.

He handed the Buddha statue to Rushi and asked with a smile, "Do you like it?" ”

Rushi Yaoyao didn't answer, pursed her lips and smiled: "If it's a bronze statue of Guanyin, I like it." ”

"There is also a statue of Guanyin inside, I'll find you one later."

He handed the bronze statue to Yan Zhuang again, "Sir, look at my wealth." ”

Yan Zhuang looked left and right by the faint light, how could it be a bronze statue, and there seemed to be no treasure in the stomach, he wondered: "This is the general's wealth?" ”

Li Qingan smiled, pulled out the dagger from his boots, swiped it on the bronze statue, and said, "Sir, look again." ”

The scratch was shining with gold, and there was no red copper, Yan Zhuang was stunned, and he stammered: "This.... This is gold. ”

Rushi's beautiful eyes also widened, staring at the bronze statue incredulously, and muttered, "It seems to be really gold!" ”

"This is my wealth, a total of 50,000 taels of gold, enough to do something."

A bright light flashed in Yan Zhuang's eyes, and he asked with a smile: "What does General Li want to do with this gold, it won't be to buy a farm house for his descendants!" ”

Li Qingan glanced at Rushi and laughed: "Mr. is really joking, I don't even see the shadow of my son now!" ”

He took Maitreya Buddha, stroked its belly and said with a smile: "So much gold can't be used in the North Court for the time being, but in the Great Food, in the Central Plains, this gold can be exchanged for all the materials I need." ”

Yan Zhuang nodded, some things were too early to say, so he smiled and changed the topic and asked, "The general hasn't answered my question yet!" How do you plan to deal with Zhao Tingyu? ”

"No, I haven't figured it out yet."

Li Qingan put the bronze statue back in its place, and suddenly, he stopped his hand, looked back and smiled for a while: "Maybe in the near future, the opportunity will come." ”

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Early the next morning, Li Qing'an left Beiting City under the escort of a thousand cavalry, and began his first inspection tour, Beiting has a vast area, and it will take more than half a year to inspect a circle, but as the head of the military and political affairs in Beiting, it is his duty to go out to patrol all parts of Beiting, so whether it is Anxi or Beiting's new Jiedu envoy, it will generally take a year to understand the situation in various places under his rule.

The first stop Li Qing'an went to was not Gaochang's Tianshan Army, nor did he go west to Yuegong City, let alone inspect the three counties of Tingzhou, but went east to Yizhou, and his first stop was to inspect the Yiwu Army.

The Yiwu army is located in the north of Zheluo Manshan, in the Ganlu River in the northwest of Yizhou, close to the north shore of the Pu Sea, which is today's Balikun Lake, where the terrain is flat, sparsely populated, is an endless vast grassland, and then north is the place where the Shatuo people live.

In March, the grassland is full of life, a clear river flows slowly, large herds of cattle and sheep can be seen everywhere on the rich grassland, shepherds wielding long whips, white clouds in the blue sky, snow-capped mountains in the distance, ice peaks like jewels, shining in the sun.

In the afternoon of this day, a long cavalry of the Tang Army appeared on the grassland east of the Pu Sea, their armor was distinct, majestic, dozens of banners hunted and fluttered in the wind, this was Li Qing'an's patrol team, they were less than 200 miles away from the castle of the Yiwu army.

In addition to some confidant generals, there were also judge Cen Shen and clerk Pei Yu, Li Qingan saw Cen Shen thinking all the way, so he smiled and said: "Judge Cen is a great poem." ”

Cen Shen said with a smile: "There is no poetry now, but I wrote a poem when I came to Beiting, but unfortunately the season is a little wrong." ”

Li Qingan waved his hand and smiled: "You might as well, read it to everyone." ”

"My poem is called Accompanying Deputy Envoy Li to the Western Officers and Army, everyone listen to it."

Everyone laughed and said, "I would like to listen to the masterpiece of the poet Cen." ”

Cen Shen shook his head and read slowly:

"The volcano should be hotter in June, and the Equiting crossing is overwhelmingly pedestrianized.

Knowing that the monarch is accustomed to Qilian City, how can he be sad to see Luntaiyue.

Take off the saddle and temporarily enter the restaurant, and hit Hu with Jun Wanlixi.

Fame is only taken immediately, and he is really a hero husband. ”

"Good poetry!" Everyone applauded, whether they understood it or not, everyone remembered the last sentence, 'What a hero and a husband'.

"General Li, Cen poet is the best in the world!" Someone shouted, and everyone laughed along.

At this time, a personal soldier pointed to the distance and said: "General, it seems that a team of men and horses are coming, not like the Tang Army." ”

Li Qingan put up the curtain and looked over, only to see more than 100 Hu cavalry coming in the distance, all dressed in white cloaks, Li Qingan couldn't help laughing, and said to everyone: "It's an old friend from Yumen Pass." ”

In a moment, the Hu cavalry galloped in, it was the Shatuo people, and the person at the head was the Shatuo Ye Bone Guard.

He saw Li Qing'an from afar, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and without waiting for the war horse to stop, he flew down, walked a few steps, and saluted: "Li Yuanjun, I was about to go to Tingzhou to see you, but I didn't expect to meet here." ”

Li Qingan smiled slightly: "I also plan to visit Ye Hu after inspecting the Yiwu Army, the Shatuo people are also a member of the North Court, I should go to inspect." ”

He turned around and ordered: "The army is encamped, and we will set off tomorrow." ”

The army agreed, jumped off the Ma'an tent and camped, and some soldiers ran to the river to get water, ready to cook, Li Qing'an turned over and dismounted, walked to a big stone and sat down, and asked Gu Luzhi with a smile: "After the last battle at Yumen Pass, did Qianghu come to retaliate?" ”

"Nope!"

Gu Duzhi shook his head and sighed: "Not only did I not retaliate, but even the Qianghu people in the grassland north of Daze didn't dare to go, I knew that they were so bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, why should I bargain with them?" ”

Li Qing'an nodded with a smile and said: "But your children are indeed brave, the Holy Lord has allowed me to expand the Beiting Army by 10,000, and I plan to recruit some warriors from Shatuo to join the army, how many children do you think can enter the Beiting Army?" ”

Gu Duzhi was overjoyed, if Shatuo's disciples could officially enter the Beiting Army, then Li Qing'an would consider the interests of the Shatuo people more in the future, he hurriedly said: "We Shatuo are not many people, two thousand, what does Li Yuanjun think?" ”

"It's similar to what I thought, yes, this matter should be sooner rather than later, next month, I hope that the Shatuo warriors will appear in my Beiting army."

"Then I'll go back and prepare immediately."

"No hurry! No hurry! Li Qingan waved his hand and smiled: "I have other important things to do with you." ”

"General Li, please!"

Li Qing'an pondered for a moment and asked, "I heard that there are some contradictions between the Shatuo people and the Qarlu people, what is going on?" ”

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(To be continued)