readx; Li Qing'an learned about the visit of Fugu Huai'en's wife and daughter while having dinner with the whole family, and he immediately sensitively linked this incident with the case of selling officials during the day. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After eating, Li Qingan was full of doubts, and no longer chatted with his family, and immediately returned to the military office, he wanted to check the list of those who were promoted in the past two months, generally speaking, the promotion of the Anxi Army has a strict procedure, which is mainly divided into two categories, one is the promotion of military merit, and the other is the promotion of non-military merit, and the promotion of military merit does not need to be repeated, and the promotion of non-military merit is mainly aimed at logistics civilian officials and soldiers who have no opportunity to go to the battlefield, and the difficulty of promotion is far greater than that of those who have military merit, mainly depending on the combination of peacetime evaluation and length of service.

It is mainly reported by the soldiers and horses of each army, and then reviewed by the Sima Department of the Anxi Army, and finally approved by the Jiedu Envoy, if the Jiedu Envoy is not there, it will be approved by the Deputy Envoy of the Jiedu, of which the officials above the rank of captain must be approved by the Jiedu Envoy, and then reported to the Imperial Military Department for the record.

Li Qing'an quickly found Zhao Yu's name in the Han Navy's files, he was a guard at the North City Gate of Luntai County, and he was promoted to the rank of captain last year after serving for five years, and he was not a participant.

Two months ago, it happened to be the annual evaluation and promotion time for non-military meritorious personnel, because Li Qingan was not in Anxi, Feng Changqing, the deputy envoy of the festival, approved the promotion below the captain, and there was a problem here, Feng Changqing could only approve the officers below the captain, and the officers above the captain must be approved by themselves, but Zhao Yu's wife said that she was promoted to captain, which was a little boring, of course, Feng Changqing would not skip the level of approval, so the problem should be on the promotion list reported by the Han Navy.

With the assistance of several officials, they quickly found the thick stack of Han Navy merit list, a total of 327 people, including their resume evaluation, basically all officers below the rank of captain, this list, there are the signatures of the deputy envoy of the Han Navy, Fu Gu Huai'en, and the envoy Nan Jiyun, that is to say, the list was drafted by Fu Gu Huai'en, and the three hundred and twenty-seven people were finally approved by 212 people, and nearly thirty percent were eliminated, which is Feng Changqing's strictness and meticulousness.

Li Qing'an turned the page one by one, almost every page has been rejected, and there are reasons written by Feng Changqing on it, basically the years are insufficient and the evaluation is unqualified, when Li Qingan turned to the fourth page, Zhao Yu's name appeared in front of him, and it was also dismissed, there are two reasons, one is that he was just promoted to the team leader last year, which does not meet the rules of promotion every three years, and the second is that there are only two middle and upper in the six-year evaluation, and at least three middle and upper are not in line with the promotion of brigade commanders.

Li Qingan suddenly found a problem, it was not a school captain, but just a brigade commander, he was stunned for a moment, and immediately ordered his own guard: "Go and find the young woman in the afternoon!" ”

In a moment, the young woman was brought into the room, and she still wore her filial piety, and knelt down timidly, not daring to say a word.

"I want to ask you, are you mistaken, your husband told you that you could buy it, was it a lieutenant or a brigade commander?"

"Back to the general, I am not mistaken, it is indeed a captain, because my husband said that the brigade commander only needs 300 yuan, and the school captain only needs 600 yuan, so I asked him why he didn't buy a cheaper brigade commander, his brigade commander's quota is full, and only one lieutenant seat is still vacant."

"Are you really not mistaken?"

"I'm not mistaken, I don't dare to hide it."

Li Qingan stared at the young woman for a long time, and finally he waved his hand and said, "You go down!" ”

The young woman was taken away, and Li Qingan's thinking returned to this stack of promotion books, and he flipped through the other rejected promotions, most of which were low-level mistakes, either because the number of years was insufficient or the conditions were not enough.

The problem that Feng Changqing examined was obvious, if the superficial mistake of insufficient years and insufficient evaluation was only made by one person, it could be said to be a temporary negligence, but there were so many people who made the same mistake, could it be that as a general who had led the army for many years, would he not know about these problems?

This shows that the phenomenon of buying officials is likely to be not only Zhao Yu, and Zhao Yu is just an iceberg that has surfaced.

Li Qing'an closed the promotion book, he has roughly understood the conspiracy, if it is true that Fugu Huaien sold his official position, then he has done at least two tricks, one is to sell low officials and sell high officials, and sell the official position of the brigade commander to the price of a captain, and secondly, he will not return the money, and the buyer will bear the risk, once the promotion fails, he will not admit it, most people swallow their anger, and Zhao Yu committed suicide in grief and anger because of the bankruptcy of his family.

Li Qingan calculated the money that Fugu Huaien was greedy for, even if he only accepted money from those who did not meet the conditions, even if only Zhao Yu was a low-ranking official and sold highly, then with a hundred people, each of whom was 300 yuan, then Fugu Huaien would earn at least 30,000 yuan by selling officials this time.

That's why he was weak-hearted, asked his wife and daughter to visit his family, and sent a pair of valuable jade unicorns to string these scattered events together, and all doubts were solved.

Li Qingan paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, extremely worried in his heart, he was most worried about whether Nan Jiyun was also involved in the case, and whether other armies in the Anxi Army were also like this, if this was the case, it would be his Li Qingan's dereliction of duty.

At this time, Sima Cen Shen of the Anxi Army hurriedly walked in, holding a promotion summary book in his hand, and saluted Li Qing'an: "See the general!" ”

"I want to find out something, do you know?"

"The lowly position has been understood."

General Cen handed the summary list to Li Qingan and said: "This is the summary report on the promotion submitted by the various armies this year, please check it out with the general." ”

Li Qingan immediately took the general book, quickly flipped through it, and the tense string in his heart suddenly loosened, fortunately, although there are candidates for rejection in each army, most of them are no more than ten people, at most, it is the Hezhong Army of Lifei Yuanli, nearly twenty people were rejected, but he reported more than 400 people, this proportion is still within an acceptable range, if there is a problem, it will also be done by the people below.

Only Han Haijun, the number of rejected people is so dazzling, one hundred and fifteen people, Feng Changqing actually put a question mark on the side with a pen, which shows that he also has a number in his heart, so why didn't he tell himself earlier, but let himself find out? Could it be that Nan Jiyun is really also involved in the case?

At this time, there was a report from the soldiers outside the door, "Mr. Yan is here!" ”

Li Qing'an was in good spirits, he was looking for Yan Zhuang! He came, and hurriedly said, "Please come in!" ”

The door opened, but two people entered, one Yan Zhuang and the other Pei Yu, who was sent by him as an envoy to the Byzantine Empire.

Li Qingan was overjoyed and said to Pei Yu anxiously: "Aren't you going to Talas City?" When did you come back? ”

"I heard that the general had returned, so I hurried back."

"Come on! Come! Please sit down. ”

Li Qing'an affectionately pulled Pei Yu to sit down, and sat down by himself with a solemn smile next to him, not disturbing them to reminisce, Li Qing'an married Dugu Mingyue, and had an in-law relationship with the Pei family, Pei Yu became his clan party, pragmatic and capable, and he will have a bright future in the future.

Pei Yu sat down, Li Qingan poured him another cup of tea, and said with a smile: "If Pei Ge Lao sees his grandson turned into black charcoal, I don't know what he will feel distressed about." ”

Pei Yu also smiled: "This is very convenient, all the way I thought I was a Turk, so I was saved from disguise, and even the Byzantine emperor thought I was a Turk." ”

"Have you seen Leo III of Byzantium?"

Pei Yu shook his head and smiled: "Leo III died in the early years of Tianbao, and now his son Constantine V is on the throne, but although the general wrote the wrong emperor, Constantine V didn't care, he still thought that the Tang Dynasty was still the emperor of Zetian!" ”

Li Qingan laughed, "It's funny, I only made mistakes for ten years, but they made mistakes for fifty years." ”

After laughing, he asked, "And what is his attitude towards the advice in my letter?" ”

The smile on Pei Yu's face also went, and he sighed and said: "Although Constantine V is young, he is very cautious, he said that he does not know much about the situation of the Tang Dynasty, and hopes to communicate more with the Tang Dynasty, and does not mention the matter of jointly attacking Dashi with the Tang Dynasty." ”

Li Qing'an nodded, he could understand the prudence of the Byzantine Emperor, after all, he was not the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and could not represent the will of the Tang Dynasty.

Thinking of this, he asked, "Did he say how to strengthen communication?" Are there any written replies? ”

Pei Yu said: "There is no written reply, but he said that he will send an envoy to break the leaves at the appropriate time, listening to his tone, he seems to hope that Itil City can become a transit trade city between the two countries." ”

'Trade! Li Qing'an nodded, he roughly understood that the Byzantine Empire wanted to trade with the Tang Dynasty, which was also a way of communication.

"What do you think of the Byzantine Empire?"

"Their capital was built on the sea, it was an incomparably strong fortress, I don't know how to conquer it, the city was very prosperous, especially the foreign commerce was very prosperous, the common people were poor, but the nobles profited from foreign business, and lived in luxury, they also raised silkworms and weaved silk, but the quality was very poor, so a silk horse in the Tang Dynasty was sold there for five Byzantine gold coins, and it was still in short supply."

Pei Yu took out a gold coin from his arms, handed it to Li Qing'an and said with a smile: "This is their gold coin, their name is Jin Soli." ”

Li Qing'an has been paying attention to the coinage for the past two days, he hurriedly took the gold coin and looked at it carefully, the gold coin is not big, a bit like the newly minted silver coin of the Tang Dynasty, it is an irregular circle, the workmanship is relatively rough, there is no hole in the middle, there are graphics on both sides, the front is an image of Christ, the back is like a scepter-like thing, and there is a circle of Roman characters, although rough, but the gold content is very high.

Pei Yu pointed to the statue of Christ and said with a smile: "This is the saint they worship, but the Byzantine emperor is against the worship of the saint, and the army can be seen everywhere destroying the icon and burning the monks, because the situation is too chaotic, I didn't stay long, so I came back." ”

Although he was very concerned about Byzantium, the case of selling officials was imminent, so Li Qingan patted Pei Yu on the shoulder and said with a smile: "You have worked hard all the way, go back and rest first, and I will talk to you about Byzantium in detail tomorrow." ”

Pei Yu knew that Li Qing'an saw that Yan Zhuang had something important, so he got up and said with a smile: "Then I'll leave first." ”

He nodded to Yan Zhuang and retreated, and when Pei Yu left, Li Qing'an temporarily put aside the Byzantine matter and asked Yan Zhuang: "How is the matter of King Qing, is he willing to go to Shazhou?" ”

"The subordinates have talked to Mr. Yan, Mr. Yan said that the problem is not big, King Qing has always been dissatisfied with Qiuzi, as long as we can build a palace in Dunhuang, he will persuade King Qing to go to Dunhuang to have a look, and finally let King Qing live in Dunhuang for a long time."

Li Qing'an was still very satisfied with Yan Zhuang's work efficiency, he knew that Yan Zhuang was brought from Ju Zhan, so he smiled again: "What about the food situation?" ”

Yan Zhuang did not go to the Aman River exchange site, he was arranging grain and water transportation in Juzhanti, and had just returned to Broken Leaf with the first batch of grain from Juzhanti, he smiled and said: "The first batch of 100,000 stone grain has been transported back, everything is going well, I estimate that within two months, we can get 1 million stone of grain, which is enough for us to deal with the migration and the Tubo War." ”

Li Qingan just asked about the grain in passing, he was still concerned about the case of selling officials, and he threw the summary list to Yan Zhuang, "Take a look!" What can be seen? ”

Yan Zhuang was in charge of military supplies in Broken Leaves, and he didn't know much about the shady scenes in the promotion, so he looked at the inventory for a long time, and then said: "It seems that the number of people who have been rejected by the Han Navy is a little too much." ”

"Here's the problem, this afternoon, a military family member came to complain, saying that her husband spent 600 yuan to buy an official, that is, Han Navy, and he committed suicide because he couldn't buy the official and the money was not returned, and Fugu Huaien was most likely the one behind the scenes."

Li Qingan sighed and said, "What I'm most worried about now is that Nan Jiyun is also involved in the case, so I want to hear Mr. Yan's opinion." ”

Yan Zhuang thought for a while and said, "If Nan Jiyun is not involved in the case, and only Fugu Huaien is involved in the case, how is the general going to deal with him?" ”

"Kill this person and order the three armies!"

"No!" Yan Zhuang categorically stopped.

"Why not?" Li Qingan asked strangely.

"General, if it is to kill anyone from the Anxi military department, there is no problem, but Fugu Huaien must not be killed!"

"Sir, do you mean that Fugu Huaien is from the Shuofang Army?"

Yan Zhuang nodded, "That's exactly what I mean, I heard that Fugu Huaien has a high prestige in the Shuofang army, if the general kills this person, I'm worried that the Shuofang army will make trouble, even if it doesn't make trouble, how can the general explain to the saint that the general has ordered the three armies in this matter, how can he not know, will he let go of this opportunity?" The Holy Lord will definitely send Yu Shi to the army, under the pretext of investigating and selling officials, make a big fuss, and eradicate the general's henchmen one by one, this consequence, the general has to think twice! ”

Li Qing'an didn't take this consequence into account, Yan Zhuang said it well, Li Longji would not let go of this opportunity, as soon as the Tubo Battle was over, he would inevitably use this excuse to stir up trouble in the Anxi army, even if he couldn't remove himself, but he could also eradicate his henchmen one by one, so that he could be greatly injured.

"But if you don't kill him, it will be difficult to get rid of the hatred in my heart!" Li Qingan said hatefully.

"General, don't worry, I have a plan to kill two birds with one stone."

(To be continued)