readx; At this time, Li Yu was worried not about how to deal with Li Qing'an, but because the emperor interfered in politics, he had been Li Heng's staff for a period of time, and he knew Li Heng's desire for power very well, it stands to reason that since his son Li Yu has ascended the throne, then as a father, Li Heng should retreat behind the scenes and no longer care about political affairs, but Li Heng did not retreat, but interfered in the government under various names, especially he took away the power to recruit soldiers, which is even more disturbing. Of course, he is a father, and it is natural for him to care about his son, but Li Mi always felt that Li Heng's hand was too long, and Li Mi did not agree with his strategy of attacking Anxi first, he always felt that Li Heng had other plans." And what about His Majesty's thoughts? Li Yu was not in a hurry to object, he wanted to hear Li Yu's thoughts. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"I really want to take Hexi back and block Li Qingan in Anxi."

"But Your Majesty has not thought about it, according to the strategy of the Emperor Taishang, reset the Hexi Jiedu, and appoint Guo Ziyi as the Jiedu envoy, which will not only break the trust of Li Qingan, but His Majesty personally promised to assign the four states of Hexi to Anxi, and the courtiers already know that this will also lose trust in the courtiers and the world, but let Li Qingan get the sympathy of the people in the world, Your Majesty, it's not wise!"

"Then what can the master do, not only can I get back to Hexi, but also lose my credit."

Li Yu was a little speechless, Li Yu was good at everything, thrifty and diligent, hardworking, not greedy for women, not close to eunuchs, he was the master of Zhongxing in the Tang Dynasty, but he also had a little bit of a bad idea, that is, he couldn't make up his mind on matters related to principles, originally they had decided to use the strategy of distant friendship and close attack to encircle Li Qing'an, and take Hedong and Jingzhou first, but Li Yu changed his mind again at the instigation of his father, and wanted to weaken Li Qing'an and destroy the trust relationship that he and Li Qing'an had established with great difficulty. This is a fatal weakness of Li Yu!

Li Mi had the heart to persuade again, but he also knew that persuading too much would make him distrust himself, and he could only use sparseness to this emperor with insufficient political experience, but not blocking.

"Does Your Majesty want to take Hexi back like that?"

"Yes!" Li Yu's tone was very affirmative, "I really want to take back Hexi, I admit that I made a mistake at the beginning, but at that time it was also to appease Li Qing'an, but now Li Qing'an Chen Bing Hexi, let his Anxi silver dollar become the currency of the Tang Dynasty, I can't sleep at night." ”

Li Mi pondered for a long time, and said: "It's better to be like this, Your Majesty still uses the method of flanking to seize the real power of Hexi, and does not move the nominal system, Hexi is divided into Longyou and Anxi, Your Majesty has already told the world, there is no need to change it, Guo Ziyi does not need to be appointed as the envoy of Hexi Jiedu, but reappointed as the idle stable envoy, in charge of Hexi Ma Zheng, the Hexi garrison originally came from Hedong, and it was not long when it was attached to Li Qing'an, and it was not yet returned, and Li Qing'an did not transfer them to Anxi, it can be seen that Li Qing'an also had doubts about this army and did not dare to let them enter Anxi. Therefore, as long as Your Majesty allows them to be high-ranking officials, and then rely on the prestige of General Guo, it is not impossible to regain the military power in Hexi, and let Li Qingan suffer a dumb loss, but it is not easy to make a noise, Your Majesty, this is a safe and effective way. ”

"Good! Brilliant. Li Yu was so excited that he clapped his hands and praised: "The master's strategy is really difficult for ordinary people to reach, so he will act according to the master's strategy." ”

Li Yu became excited, he immediately took a piece of letter and prepared to write a handwritten letter to Guo Ziyi, at this time, Li Yu said again: "Your Majesty, minister.... And one more suggestion. ”

"Master, just say."

"It's about the Emperor."

"What's wrong with the Emperor?" Li Yu put down the pen.

Li Mi is really difficult to speak, this is to provoke the relationship between father and son, but there are some things he has to say, he has to use a subtle and euphemistic tone to say: "The minister means that the emperor is old, and His Majesty should do his best to let him recuperate in his old age, instead of running around for recruitment, you can hand over the matter of recruiting and training to the eldest grandson Quanxu and Wang Sili, who are loyal to Your Majesty, do you understand what the minister means?" ”

Li Yu is a smart man, how can he not hear the meaning of Li Yu's words, this is actually a thing that he is very embarrassed about, recruited 100,000 troops, but in the end it was in the hands of his father, and the original 100,000 Guanzhong Army, which was also controlled by his father, he only had 20,000 troops from Li Qing'an, which made him more or less uncomfortable, but after all, it was his father, Li Yu had to endure it, and now Li Yu proposed this matter again, he didn't know what to do, so he had to sigh and said: "I know, Let's talk about this slowly! ”

Li Mi didn't dare to say more, so he changed the topic and smiled: "Your Majesty, let the minister tell Your Majesty about the new policy of Yanyan!" ”

．．．．．．． Anxi, Li Qingan was on the way back, but one unfavorable news after another had been transmitted to Broken Leaf by the way of flying pigeons, which made the officials who stayed behind by Broken Leaf nervous.

As soon as the morning dawned, Yan Zhuang hurried out in a carriage, his current identity is still Li Qing'an's staff, but everyone in Anxi knows that Yan Zhuang has real power, and even Wang Changling, who is in charge, may not have as much power as him.

In the past few days, Yan Zhuang is also very irritable in his heart, a series of things that happened in the court recently against Anxi caught him off guard, and he was passive step by step, and the voice of dissatisfaction with him in the officialdom of Broken Leaf also appeared, Wang Changling publicly accused him of instigating Li Qing'an's southern expedition, resulting in today's situation that Anxi has no owner, in fact, this matter, Yan Zhuang also has a bitter word, he has also privately persuaded Li Qing'an, after all, Xinde is too far away, I hope he will send a deputy general to the south, instead of his own personal expedition, but Li Qing'an is stubborn, must be pro-Xinde, Yan Zhuang considered that this was the consistent tradition of the envoys of Anxi, so he expressed his support for Li Qing'an's personal Xinde, but now that the matter came out, he took responsibility.

This is not counted, there is a recent saying, also aimed at him, saying that he is jealous of the virtuous and can monopolize the position of Anxi strategist, this statement is also based on evidence, last year Li Qingan set up a recruitment hall in Qiuci, recruiting talents from all over the world, and was supervised by Yan Zhuang, but the final result was to recruit hundreds of skilled craftsmen, and there was no strategist, Li Qingan has been busy outside, and there is no time to ask about this matter, but many Anxi officials have kept it in mind, when Wang Changling publicly accused him, this dissatisfied voice also broke out, Let Yan Zhuang be anxious.

If Wang Changling's accusation is still a little wronged him, then the failure of the Zhaoxian Pavilion, he is indeed to blame, Yan Zhuang does have a little selfishness, this selfishness was actually revealed as early as when he was a staff member to An Lushan, at that time he and Gao Shangming fought secretly, both wanted to kill each other, but in the end, Yan Zhuang failed because of two failures, so that An Lushan lost to Li Qing'an, and was finally abandoned by An Lushan, and later he was reused by Li Qing'an, and became Li Qing'an's first strategist, when a long time, The dark side of jealousy and jealousy in Yan Zhuang's heart was gradually exposed, Li Mi left Li Qing'an, he breathed a long sigh of relief, King Qing's old staff Yan Kai wrote several times to express his willingness to serve Li Qing'an, but he hid the letter and did not tell Li Qing'an.

This time there was a crisis in Anxi, and many voices dissatisfied with him broke out together, including Wang Changling's public accusation against him, which was actually venting his dissatisfaction with him.

Yan Zhuang was aggrieved and annoyed, he didn't dare to go to the Anxi Political Affairs Hall, as soon as he went there, the hot-tempered Wang Changling would find him to slap the table and hit the bench, and the Anxi officials would also poke his backbone from behind, Wang Changling was keen on such innovations and reforms all day long, why didn't they poke Wang Changling's backbone, just because they cut the salary of Anxi officials last year, these guys held a grudge.

Until now, Mr. Yan believes that Mr. Anxi officials are settling his old vendetta against last year's pay cut.

Yan Zhuang can only go to the princess, the crisis in Hexi is getting more and more serious, Guo Ziyi was appointed as an idle stable envoy, in charge of Hexi Ma Zheng, it is said that he has left Lingzhou and went to Ganzhou to take office, and now he can only reduce Anxi's losses as much as possible, and this can only be done by Princess Mingyue.

The carriage was hurrying to Zhao Wangfu, which was built in the past, that is, Mrs. Luo's home, in a sense, it was also Li Qing'an's home, so it was natural for Li Qing'an's family to move into this idle huge house, and it was renamed Zhao Wangfu.

"Hurry up!" Yan Zhuang kept urging the coachman, and at this moment, the coachman suddenly stopped.

"Master, someone stopped the car."

"Yan Envoy, I have something to say, please stop."

This voice is somewhat familiar, Yan Zhuang pulled the curtain, only to see a down-and-out middle-aged scholar standing in front of the carriage, the reason why he said down-and-out is that he is still wearing a shabby single shirt, which is summer clothes, and now it is late autumn, it is very cold in the morning and evening, and everyone is wearing jackets.

Yan Zhuang recognized it at once, this person was Yan Kai, King Qing's former staff, I don't know why he was so bad that he couldn't even afford to wear a piece of clothing?

King Qing is now under house arrest in Shiguo, Yan Kai has already left him, he wrote to Li Qing'an several times to express his willingness to serve, but the letter he wrote was like mud into the sea, there was no news, Yan Kai had been in Anxi for more than half a year, he couldn't pick his shoulders, he couldn't lift his hands, he had no capital to do business, and he felt unwilling to be a bookkeeper, so he taught in a school in Broken Leaves, mixed a little grain and rice to spend his money, in fact, he didn't mix so badly, but in order to win sympathy, but also to vent the resentment in his heart, he specially dressed desolate, Come to Li Qing'an's mansion every day to try his luck and see if he can meet Li Qing'an's return, today he happened to see Yan Zhuang, so he couldn't help but come out to block the road.

The literati are light, Yan Zhuang has always looked down on Yan Kai, and he once persuaded Li Qingan not to use this betrayer, but seeing that he was so down-and-out, Yan Zhuang also had a little sympathy in his heart.

"It turned out to be Mr. Yan."

Yan Zhuang stepped out of the carriage and arched his hand and smiled: "I haven't seen you for a long time, I thought Mr. Yan had returned to the Central Plains, and it turned out that he was still in Anxi." ”

Yan Kai was so depressed that little bit of literati arrogance in his heart was gone, he bowed to Yan Zhuang and said, "Yan Envoy, I don't know when His Royal Highness King Zhao will come back?" ”

"This.... I don't know, but I think it's going to be soon! ”

Speaking of this, Yan Zhuang suddenly rolled his eyes, Li Qing'an came back, and the officials in Anxi would inevitably tell Li Qing'an about his recruitment hall, it was better to recruit this Yan Kai first, block the mouths of those officials, and he would have an explanation, and he knew that Li Qing'an did not like this person, and he would not threaten his position.

He immediately frowned, stepped forward and pulled him affectionately, and said with some reproach: "Why didn't Mr. come to me?" I searched everywhere about my husband's whereabouts, and I was finally able to find him. ”

Yan Zhuang was cold and indifferent just now, but now he suddenly became enthusiastic, which really made Yan Kai unacceptable, but enthusiasm is better than coldness, and his heart also became hot, and he couldn't help but hate himself for why he didn't go to Yan Zhuang earlier, and he wouldn't be teased by those little kids all day long.

"I don't know, I've been waiting for His Royal Highness King Zhao."

"You mean the General? I will recommend Mr. to the general, but not today, Mr. might as well go back first, come to me early tomorrow morning, I will arrange a position for you first, and when the general returns, I will recommend it immediately. ”

Yan Kai left with a thousand thanks, Yan Zhuang looked at him and walked away, he finally had a little bottom in his heart, he saw that he was not far from Zhao Wangfu, so he dressed up and walked towards Zhao Wangfu quickly.

．．．．．．． Many things always don't come when they are looking forward to it, but when they don't think about it, things come one after another, Li Qing'an's heir is a typical example, now not only Rushi is eight months pregnant, Mingyue is also pregnant, with four or five months pregnant.

The house added more than a dozen maids and wives for this, the original residence was a little too small, at this time the imperial court will come, officially canonized Li Qing'an as the king of Zhao, canonized Dugu Mingyue as the princess of Zhao, take this opportunity, Anxi political hall will cover an area of 30 acres of huge mansion renovated, officially designated as the palace of the king of Zhao.

Early in the morning, Mingyue was writing a letter to her mother, and suddenly a maid came to report that Mr. Yan was here, and she asked to see the princess on urgent matters.

"Ask him to wait in the guest room, and I'll be right there."

Mingyue put on a robe, and with the support of a maid, she slowly walked towards the outer house, and entered the guest hall, only to see Yan Zhuang sitting there drinking tea, looking preoccupied.

"Why did Mr. Yan think about coming over today?" Mingyue walked out with a smile.

Yan Zhuang hurriedly got up and saluted: "See the princess!" ”

Like Li Qing'an, Mingyue doesn't like others to call her a princess, but it is customary for Anxi people to call Li Qing'an a general, but there is no ambiguity in the title of Mingyue, everyone calls her a princess, no one calls her Mrs. anymore, Mingyue waved her hand and smiled: "Sir, don't be polite, please take a seat!" ”

Yan Zhuang sat down and said respectfully: "Disturbing the princess's rest, Yan Zhuang is guilty, but the situation is urgent, and Yan Zhuang has to come." ”

Mingyue smiled slightly: "Mr. is serious, what happened?" ”

"The princess doesn't know, I received urgent information last night, the saint appointed Guo Ziyi, the envoy of Shuofang Jiedu, as the envoy of Hexi, it is obvious that Guo Ziyi is going to seize the military power of Hexi, and now the general is still far away in Xinde, I can only come to the princess."

Mingyue was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Although I am the princess, I never ask about military and political affairs, I think Mr. should go to discuss with Wang Changshi and General Duan, I am afraid that I will disappoint Mr. ”

"The princess doesn't know, now the top priority is to transfer the army in Hexi back to Anxi, not to let Guo Ziyi take away the military power, and the right to transfer troops is in the hands of the general, whether Wang Changling or Duan Xiushi, they can't move the army in Hexi, I can't do it, now only the princess on behalf of the general order, temporarily transfer the Hexi army back to Anxi, maybe the Hexi army will follow the princess's order, the situation is urgent, please come forward to coordinate this matter."

Mingyue was very embarrassed, when she came to Anxi with Li Qing'an, Li Qing'an had three chapters with her, she was not allowed to ask about the military and political affairs of Anxi, especially her mother was the daughter of the Pei family of the famous Tang Dynasty, and she herself was the daughter of the Dugu family, this identity made her more cautious, never asked about Anxi, but now Yan Zhuang let her exercise power on behalf of her husband, how can this be? But Mingyue also knew that the situation was urgent, so she thought about it and said, "That's it!" Sir can consult with Wang Changshi and General Duan, you jointly propose that the Hexi Army be withdrawn, and I can sign it behind you as proof, if I am asked to give a separate order, I may not be able to do it, please understand me. ”

Yan Zhuang pondered for a long time, he really had to do this, although he didn't want to go to Wang Changling, but the situation was urgent, he immediately got up and said, "Okay! I will go and take counsel with them. ”

．．．．．．． Yan Zhuang turned to the political hall again, as soon as he entered the door, he immediately felt the dissatisfied eyes of the officials of the political hall cast on him, and the cold gaze was like a stick, hitting his backbone, this feeling of offending everyone was indeed very uncomfortable.

"It's just a staff member, so jealous of the virtuous, villain!"

"Humph! I see that not only is his leg lame, but his heart is also lame. ”

In the whispered discussions, Yan Zhuang came to Wang Changling's court, Wang Changling's official position is the history of the governor of Anxi Jiedu, and he has to be dismissed as the official Yinqing Guanglu doctor, who is in charge of Anxi government affairs from the third rank, which can be said to be the highest administrative officer in Anxi, but Yan Zhuang does not have any official position, he is only Li Qing'an's staff, but he has real power, such as grain allocation, land distribution, and officer promotion judgment, these were originally Li Qing'an's powers, and he had no time to ask, so he handed them over to Yan Zhuang to act on his behalf, which is also in line with the Tang Dynasty system, the staff is often the representative of the public to exercise power.

So to a certain extent, Yan Zhuang and Wang Changling have a little power conflict, plus Wang Changling is an extremely upright person, never hide his dissatisfaction, last October, Wang Changling wanted to increase the monthly grain subsidy for each household of Anxi immigrants, Li Qingan verbally agreed, but the specific approval came to Yan Zhuang, but he changed it to only add three buckets per household, the reason is that military rations are given priority, and Wang Changling has quarreled with Yan Zhuang three times for this matter.

Especially this time, at the government meeting three days ago, Wang Changling publicly accused Yan Zhuang's staff of not being qualified in front of hundreds of officials, and instead of dissuading the general's southern expedition, he supported and instigated the general's southern expedition.

If it weren't for the urgency of the situation, Yan Zhuang would never have come to Wang Changling.

Speaking of a kind of human sophistication, Wang Changling resolutely promotes the abolition of slavery, and does not allow large families to occupy more servants, usually reprimands his subordinates, mercilessly, it stands to reason, these are very offensive things, but the officials of Anxi do not hold a grudge against Wang Changling, the reason is that he is upright, without a little selfishness, all for the public, for the growth of Anxi, and he himself is the first to show his deeds, there is only him and his wife at home, there is no servant, and there is no land in Anxi, some people want to impeach him, He secretly went to his hometown in Taiyuan, Hedong to inquire, thinking that he would be extravagant in his hometown and have a good land and beautiful house, but his son lived in a few dilapidated old mansions, and the family only had ten acres of thin land, which he bought with Anxi's Yulu, and his son and daughter-in-law also went to the fields to farm in person, which moved the people who wanted to impeach him, and after coming back, he defended and publicized him, so although Wang Changling was ruthless and did a lot of things that offended people, his character made the officials very admired.

On the contrary, Yan Zhuang really offended the officials of Anxi, especially the middle and lower-level officials, and hated him to the bone, last year Li Qingan was ready to give the officials a salary increase of three percent, but Yan Zhuang resolutely objected, the reason is that the income of the Anxi officials themselves is far higher than that of the court officials, and the court officials are still owed wages for three years.

But the problem is that Yan Zhuang himself has to get a fifty percent salary increase, but his words are convincing, he is just a staff member, Li Qingan paid for it himself, and it has nothing to do with the government, so he is not subject to salary increases, and he does what he does not want, but he does it to others, how can people not hate him.

Yan Zhuang walked to the door of Wang Changling's courtroom, and just as Wang Changling walked out like the wind, the two almost collided together.

"It's you!"

Wang Changling saw that it was Yan Zhuang, he suddenly looked angry, and glared: "What are you doing here?" ”

Yan Zhuang hated so much that he wanted to point at his nose and scold, but if he did so, the Hexi Army would really be finished, he strongly restrained the dissatisfaction in his heart, and said with a gloomy face: "I am here for official business, please distinguish between public and private." ”

Wang Changling's style is not right for people, he doesn't like a person, and he never pretends to be sexual, but if it is for official business, even if he hates this person, he will do business and will not affect official affairs for personal emotions.

"Then come in and talk about it!"

Wang Changling turned around and entered the court room, and sat down directly, Yan Zhuang knew Wang Changling's rules, except for Li Qing'an, he would not pour tea for anyone, nor would he invite someone to sit down, he would sit if he wanted to, and he would stand there if he didn't want to sit, so he sat down unceremoniously as soon as he entered the door.

"You know about Guo Ziyi's appointment as an idle stableman!"

Wang Changling nodded, "I just learned this morning that the rumor is to make Guo Ziyi the envoy of the Hexi Festival, how did he become the person in charge of Ma Zheng again, it is really a bit incomprehensible to the intention of the saint." ”

"That's what you don't understand."

Yan Zhuang sneered, "I know very well, this is a clever strategy. ”

"What strategy?"

Unconsciously, Wang Changling had forgotten his dissatisfaction with Yan Zhuang, and he asked with concern: "Tell me quickly, what kind of strategy it is." ”

"Cancel the Hexi Jiedu, divide Hexi into two, this is the Holy issued an oracle, the world knows, if he suddenly cancels the oracle, and then crowns Guo Ziyi as the Hexi Jiedu envoy, this will inevitably lose trust in the world, so he used the appointment of the idle stable envoy to let Guo Ziyi go to Hexi to serve in a dignified manner, at this time, he secretly wooed the senior officials of the Hexi garrison, Lychee Shouyu He can't win over, but Meng Yun, Luo Zhengyi and others, they are not the Anxi faction, if the saint allows them to be the general, and then the high lord, Do you think they will be loyal to Anthy again? Coupled with Guo Ziyi's prestige, the two-pronged approach will not protect the Hexi Army. ”

Yan Zhuang's analysis made Wang Changling feel creepy, and he hurriedly said: "But the general is not in Anxi, and we have no right to mobilize the Hexi army, what can we do?" ”

"That's why I came to Changshi to discuss."

Yan Zhuang saw that Wang Changling seemed to have completely forgotten about offending himself, and he couldn't help but say a little stupidly: "I looked for the princess just now, only the princess came forward at this time, maybe the Hexi army could be ordered to withdraw to Anxi, but the princess was unwilling to give a separate order, let us add General Duan, and the three parties jointly ordered, and she signed behind her back to support ....."

Before he finished speaking, Wang Changling jumped up, "Then what are you waiting for, I'll go find Duan Xiushi!" ”

(To be continued)