Chapter 459: Arresting the Spies
readx; Lin Jian was born in the Yulin Army, and was the confidant of Chen Xuanli, the former general of the Yulin Army, he was able to sit in the fourth position of the Guanzhong Army, he was not a reckless and stupid person, how could he not know that Pei's Mansion was full of powerful people at this time, and he was too arrogant to offend many people, but he was ordered by Li Heng to smash the Pei family's field, and Lin Jian had to rush into Pei's Mansion. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
But in front of Li Qing'an, Lin Jian still felt a void in his heart, he realized that he had said the wrong thing just now, in front of Li Qing'an's own soldiers, how dare he say that he would kill him, how did Meng Yun die, he was standing next to him, and he never forgot the tragic situation of Meng Yun being killed.
Lin Jian hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted: "Back to the general, my humble position is to come to arrest and destroy Xi on the order of His Royal Highness the Prison State, I am anxious, and my words are inappropriate, please forgive the general!" ”
"Annihilation?"
Li Qingan slowly walked to the door of the lobby and snorted, "Who is Jianxi?" ”
"Returning to the general, Wei Jiansu, the squire of the military department, is a fine annihilation!"
As soon as he said this, there was an uproar in the hall, and all eyes turned to Wei Jiansu, Wei Jiansu sat in the first column in the middle of the hall, sitting with his wife, he sweated on his forehead from the moment Lin Jian appeared, and he faintly felt that Lin Jian was talking about himself, could it be that Steward Liu had an accident?
Until Lin Jian named his name, Wei Jiansu's face suddenly turned pale, his head lowered deeply, and there was a whisper in the lobby. Whose annihilation will it be? At that time, it was Li Longji's annihilation.
At this time, the faces of several core figures of the Pei family sitting next to Pei Kuan were extremely invisible, at the most critical moment of Pei Kuan's birthday, Guan Zhongjun came to smash the field, which was undoubtedly a slap in the face to the Pei family, Pei Min was furious, he was about to get up, but Pei Zunqing held him down.
"Don't come forward, let Zhen'er go!"
Jiang is worthy of being old and spicy, Pei Zunqing reacted very quickly, Pei Min is the right minister, he will be suspected of using his power to obstruct military affairs, so it is best for Pei Zhen to come forward.
Pei Zhen nodded, walked out of the lobby quickly, he walked to Li Qing'an's side, and said to Lin Jian: "General Lin, today is my father's seventy-fifth birthday, can you give the Pei family a face, and then arrest people after the birthday ceremony is over." ”
He didn't wait for Lin Jian's reply, so he immediately ordered: "Come here, add a seat to General Lin." ”
"This ......"
Lin Jian was very embarrassed, he was ordered to smash the Pei family's birthday, of course he would not give the Pei family face, but Li Qingan stood aside! He didn't dare to mess around.
Li Qingan was silent, looked at this person coldly, to see how he dared to arrest people in front of him, he only talked to Wei Jian in the morning, and Li Heng was going to arrest Wei Jiansu in the afternoon, this is for Li Qing'an, to give him a resounding slap in front of thousands of major courtiers, don't you Li Qingan want to support the Pei family? I'm going to smash the Pei family's yard.
Lin Jian didn't dare to be presumptuous in front of Li Qing'an, he was about to borrow Pei Zhen's words to step down, but at this moment, Wang Heng walked up and said, "General Lin, this annihilation is not who you say with red mouth and white teeth, what evidence do you have?" ”
"Evidence? Yes! Yes! ”
Lin Jian hurriedly took out a letter and said: "This is a handwritten letter written by Wei Jiansu to the emperor of Chengdu, and we have also intercepted the information of the Guanzhong army that he is going to send to Chengdu, which are all confidential in the army, and the evidence is conclusive!" ”
With a wave of his hand, several soldiers lifted the box up and opened it, and it was full of materials, and there were two Wei Jiansu's butlers and grooms tied up next to it.
"How?"
Wang Heng frowned, and said to Li Qing'an: "General, this evidence is conclusive, I can't stop it." ”
Li Qingan sneered and said: "Since the evidence is conclusive, even if you arrest people, I am just an envoy of Anxi Festival, and I can't manage the affairs of Chang'an, isn't it, Wang Xiangguo?" ”
After speaking, he gave the pro-soldier lieutenant a look, and the pro-soldiers immediately dodged away, gave way out, and made it clear that Lin Jian would arrest him, Lin Jian didn't dare to act rashly, he looked at Wang Heng in embarrassment, Wang Heng was also a little hesitant in his heart, if Li Qingan forcibly came out and prevented the arrest of Wei Jiansu, he could have let Lin Jian forcibly arrest people, but Li Qingan got out of the way and let him arrest, which made Wang Heng have a little concern in his heart, but if he gave in at this time, he would not be able to achieve the goal of striking Li Qing'an to win over the family, and he would not be able to hit the Pei family, and he must be arrested.
Wang Heng was just about to give the order to arrest people, but Wei Jiansu stood up, he sighed and said: "The north is also the Tang Dynasty, and the south is also the Tang Dynasty. ”
After speaking, he walked out and said to Lin Jian: "Let's go!" I'll go with you. ”
Lin Jian glanced at Wang Heng, Wang Heng nodded, and said, "The law of the country does not allow it, so I have to wronged Wei Shilang first." ”
As soon as Lin Jian waved his hand, two soldiers immediately came up, grabbed Wei Jiansu's arm on the left and right, and took him down, Lin Jian bowed to Li Qingan and said, "General, the humble position is just acting on orders, please forgive me." ”
Li Qingan didn't say a word, Lin Jian was uneasy in his heart, so he had to retreat, until they were far away, Li Qingan smiled faintly and said: "I only understand now, it turns out that the army can also arrest ministers." ”
He glanced at Wang Hui mockingly, turned around and said with a smile: "Distinguished guests, a little episode, don't affect Pei Ge Lao's birthday, we suggest that the ministers of the political hall toast Pei Ge Lao collectively, and wait a while, the Holy Lord will also come to congratulate Pei Ge Lao on his birthday, please wait." ”
Zhang Yun stood up first and said with a smile: "The general has a point, Elder Pei Ge is also a veteran of the Political Affairs Hall, we should respect Elder Pei Ge with a glass of wine." ”
As the music sounded, the atmosphere in the lobby became lively again, but Wang Heng's heart was a little heavy, and he was still thinking about what Li Qingan said just now.
'It turns out that the army can also capture ministers!' He suddenly realized that it was a mistake to let Guan Zhongjun arrest Wei Jiansu.
......... The news of the arrest of the Guanzhong army at the Pei family's birthday banquet soon spread throughout Chang'an City, which is undoubtedly a topic of great interest, there are good people who portray the situation at that time wonderfully, thousands of magnates in Chang'an congratulated Pei Kuan on his birthday, at the most ** time, the Guanzhong army led the troops to break in, captured the military department of the squire Wei Jiansu, Li Qingan and Wang Heng had a confrontation, and finally ended the battle with Wei Jiansu surrendering.
Although Pei Kuan's birthday was continued, the young emperor also came to congratulate Pei Kuan on his birthday, and it seems that the Pei family's birthday was not affected, but the discerning people can see that the Guan Zhongjun dared to arrest people during the birthday banquet, which in itself was a slap in the face to the Pei family, and Li Qingan, he failed to keep Wei Jiansu in the end, which is undoubtedly a setback for his reputation, and will discourage many families who are ready to take refuge in Li Qing'an, they will have doubts, how capable is Li Qing'an in politics?
But many people know in their hearts that Wei Jiansu's arrest is only a beginning, not the end, and with Li Qingan's style, he will definitely launch a tough counterattack.
At the beginning of the night, the Pei family's birthday banquet had already ended, but the prelude to Wei Jiansu's arrest had just begun, Quchifang, a carriage slowly drove out of the fangmen, galloping towards the direction of Fuxiamen, in the carriage, Wei Tao looked worried, he came back from Pei Fuzhong not long ago, he got into the carriage again, and went out of the city.
Wei Tao is worried about the future of the Wei family, nearly ten years of ups and downs, the Wei family has suffered repeated setbacks, and today Wei Jiansu was arrested, so that the last high-ranking official of the Wei family in the court also fell, and the Wei family will suffer an unprecedented blow.
After Wei Tao returned home, he immediately found several of Wei Jiansu's henchmen to understand the situation, it should be said that the situation is true, Wei Jiansu does have plans to take refuge in Chengdu, Li Longji Xu gave him the position of Xiangguo, and Wei Jiansu is also ready to send a batch of information about the Guanzhong Army to Chengdu, the problem is serious here, Wei Tao believes that almost half of the ministers in the court will be bribed by Li Longji, and will also secretly communicate with him to leave a way out for himself, on this issue, no one will be absolutely clean.
But like Wei Jiansu, it is very rare to give military secrets to Li Longji, Wei Tao couldn't help but sigh secretly, if it weren't for this, Li Heng wouldn't dare to openly arrest people with a letter, and it is estimated that Wei Jiansu's crime will be confirmed.
But Wei Tao still has a glimmer of hope, when Shoutang arrested people, Li Heng made a mistake, he actually used the Guanzhong Army to arrest people, although the Guanzhong Army is a victim, but they are not qualified to arrest people, it should be Jin Wuwei to arrest people, this loophole is not big, it is not small, if Li Qingan used this loophole to fight back, Wei Jiansu would not have been arrested, but Li Qingan gave up this opportunity.
Wei Tao believed that Li Qingan must have understood the mistake made by the other party, but he didn't catch it and fight back, what does this mean? This shows that Li Qingan also hopes that Wei Jiansu will be arrested to a certain extent, he may want to use this opportunity to win over the Wei family again, or he may have other plans, but no matter what, Li Qingan will definitely not sit idly by, he must have a backhand, go to him by himself, there should be hope of recovery.
The carriage drove out of Fuxiamen, and after a brief inspection, the carriage drove out of Chang'an City and headed for the camp of the Anxi Army outside the Mingde Gate.
........ Li Qing'an generally lives in the barracks, after the Pei family's birthday banquet, Li Qing'an did not stay in Pei's mansion for a long time, and soon returned to the barracks, as soon as he returned to the barracks, Li Qingan immediately ordered someone to find Cui Guangyuan and Cui Ping.
Cui Guangyuan and Cui Ping are both children of the Cui family in Boling, and the two are also representatives of the Cui family in Li Qing'an's faction, in fact, in addition to the two of them, Anxi also has Cui Yi, who served as the chief supervision officer of the Anxi Supervision Office, and is also a child of the Cui family.
At this moment, Cui Guangyuan and Cui Ping are sitting in the big tent, and Li Qingan is explaining a major decision to them.
"I came to you to tell you clearly that I am going to place the two of you as officials in the local area and leave Chang'an temporarily, I don't know what you two think, where do you want to go? Just tell me, I'll arrange it for you. ”
Li Qing'an saw the puzzled expressions of the two, so he smiled and said: "I know that you may not be able to accept it for a while, but this is indeed an idea that I have had a long time ago, but today I made up my mind, you are all my people, and you will naturally be reused by me in the future, so letting you leave Chang'an is also a temporary measure, at most two or three years, you will return to Chang'an, how about it?" Would you like to listen to my arrangement? ”
Although Cui Guangyuan is several years older than Cui Ping, they are equals, if it is orthodox in blood, Cui Ping is more orthodox than Cui Guangyuan, Cui Guangyuan belongs to the partial family of the Cui family.
The two of them glanced at each other, and they both got up and saluted: "I am willing to listen to the general's arrangement!" ”
"Sit, sit down!"
Li Qingan hurriedly waved his hand and smiled: "I want to listen to your own ideas first, if it is in line with my plan, I will arrange it according to your ideas." ”
He glanced at Cui Guangyuan and said, "Guangyuan let's talk first!" ”
Cui Guangyuan is currently Jing Zhaoyin, but Jing Zhaoyin is also the most difficult and durable official among the court officials, generally not long, easy to offend the powerful, and easy to become a scapegoat for the power struggle, the average tenure is mostly about one year, people who mix well can continue to rise and become local officials, but those who are not good will sink here, and it is difficult to turn over.
Cui Guangyuan has been Jing Zhaoyin for almost a year, with the Anxi Army and the Guanzhong Army equally divided Guanzhong, Jing Zhaoyin is in an awkward role, his power has been hollowed out, do the math, he should also leave office, so during this time Cui Guangyuan has been thinking about a new place, Cui Guangyuan's biggest ideal is not to be a civil official, but to command the three armies, to become a prince, a long time ago, when he was still the commander of Chang'an County, he proposed this idea to Li Qing'an, and now Li Qing'an asked him, he groaned and said: "General, I hope to be transferred to a military position, and I hope to become the governor of a state and command the three armies. ”
Historically, although Cui Guangyuan was an official worship of Jiannan Jiedu envoy, he participated in the battle of An Qingxu, but he was not a very qualified commander, although he had great ambitions in the army, but he was really not suitable for leading troops, what Cui Guangyuan did in history also exposed some of his faults, credulity, impetuousness, low eyesight, of course, Cui Guangyuan may also have his superiority, but the rules of the Anxi Army are' will come out of the battle', it is impossible for a person who has not been baptized by the battle to let him stand alone, although Li Qingan does not know the details of history, he will not break the rules of the Anxi army.
Li Qingan smiled and said: "Your requirements are not high, it should be achievable, but I still hope that you will not transfer to the army for the time being, you go to Taiyuan, serve as Taiyuan Yin, stabilize the situation in Taiyuan for me, resign from Jingzhaoyin tomorrow, go to Taiyuan to take up your post, your appointment letter will reach Taiyuan at the same time as you, of course, I will also meet some of your requirements for joining the army, you can also serve as the Hedong Jiedu camp field envoy, responsible for the grain and grass logistics of the Hedong Army, and can be in charge of part of the logistics army, what do you think?" ”
"Subordinates obey!"
Cui Guangyuan hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Then I don't know who the envoy of Hedong Jiedu is?" ”
Li Qingan pointed to himself and said with a smile: "The Jiedu envoy is me, but I am only a remote leader, but I ask about specific military affairs, and the specific military affairs are in charge of Lei Wanchun, the governor of Yunzhou, and he is also the deputy envoy of Hedong Jiedu." ”
"My subordinates understand, I'll leave tomorrow."
Li Qingan nodded and said with a smile: "You go home and pack your things first!" I'll talk to Cui Ping again. ”
Cui Guangyuan made a salute and went out, only Li Qingan and Cui Ping were left in the big tent, Cui Ping walked through Li Qing'an's back door in order to buy a house, and was transferred to Xuyi County to do the real lack of county order, and it didn't take long for Li Qing'an to recommend him and be promoted to Sizhou Taishou, unconsciously, he became one of Li Qing'an's henchmen, and Li Qing'an's friendship, he even surpassed Cui Guangyuan, and now Cui Ping's official worship department waiter, can be regarded as a middle and high-level official.
Cui Ping is Cui Qiao's nephew, is the authentic descendant of the Boling Cui family, but his status in the Cui family is not high, and because he and Li Qing'an are closer, he was also excluded by the Cui family, last year Cui's ancestor worship, he was not invited, can not participate in the ancestor worship, it can be said to be a very serious punishment, for this reason, Cui Ping has been depressed, he knows that the problem is that he and Li Qing'an are too close, despite this, Cui Ping insisted on his principle, that is, to hug Li Qing'an's thigh, He believed that he would turn over one day.
The big tent quieted down, Li Qingan took a sip of tea, and said with a smile: "I heard that you didn't participate in the ancestor worship last year, are you very disappointed?" ”
Cui Ping nodded and sighed: "I can't participate in the ancestor worship, this is a punishment that only those who commit crimes can only be punished, I really don't understand how they can treat me like this, I'm really disappointed." ”
"The so-called thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi, there is no immutable thing, you have to believe in your choice, don't look at the Cui family today you are not allowed to worship your ancestors, but one day, the Cui family will respectfully invite you back and let you preside over the ancestor worship ceremony, and this day will not be too far away."
Speaking of this, Li Qingan said again: "The reason why I asked you and Cui Guangyuan to leave Chang'an today is because I have to do something, and it will be detrimental to you if you stay in Chang'an, I can't tell you what it is for the time being, but you will know soon." ”
Cui Ping nodded silently, "I understand." ”
"Alright! First of all, what do you want to do? ”
Cui Ping pondered for a while, and then said, "I want to go to Anxi as an official." ”
Li Qing'an was stunned, he immediately laughed, and said: "Sure enough, I have a vision, I have similar arrangements for you, you are temporarily the pacification envoy of Hexi and the governor of Hexi Jiedu, in charge of Hexi government affairs, especially now, you have full responsibility for the safe arrival of the first batch of 50,000 immigrants from Henan Province to Anxi." ”
"The lowly job understands, and the lowly job will set off for Hexi tomorrow."
"Nope! If you don't have to rush to Hexi, go to Huazhou first, I just got the news, the first batch of immigrants about 7,000 households have arrived in Huazhou, these people are actually disaster victims, from Zheng, Bian, Song, Chen four prefectures, they are not easy to come from Henan, although there are government help along the way, but I am worried that the old and weak among them may not be able to hold on to the long journey, a few years ago Hedong immigrants died on the road a lot of old and weak, you have a very heavy responsibility on your shoulders, can send these 50,000 immigrants to Anxi safely, I will count you as a great achievement. ”
Cui Ping bowed and said sincerely: "I understand my humble duties!" ”
Li patted him on the shoulder and smiled, "Go ahead!" Remember my words, if the mountains don't turn around, the Cui family will definitely regret the decision not to allow you to participate in ancestor worship. ”
Cui Ping left, Li Qingan picked up the teacup and drank tea slowly, sorting out the next step in his mind, today Li Heng arrested Wei Jiansu in front of him, and regardless of whether Wei Jiansu took refuge in Li Longji or not, but the purpose of Li Heng and others is obvious, that is, to teach the Pei family to take refuge in themselves, and also to deter other families by attacking the Wei family, if he Li Qingan really ignores it, then he will be too disappointing.
The counterattack is certain, the key is how to fight back, patience, waiting, ruthlessness, if you don't fight back, it's enough, once you fight back, Li Heng will scream in pain.
At this time, the voice of the pro-soldier came from outside the door, "General Qiqi, Wei Tao asks to see!" ”
(To be continued)