Zhang Xuan opened the battle report and read it, in fact, he had already received Lu Zhuo's Flying Eagle message yesterday, and there was only one sentence on the letter, 'Chen Ling is willing to take up the post of secretary of the Ministry of Rites', so he was not surprised by Jiangdu's emergency military report at this time.

However, this battle report was sent by Laihu'er, and the content in it was more detailed, including the handover of the army that Zhang Xuan was concerned about, as well as the specific situation of the 30,000 Sui army, and Zhang Xuan looked at it very carefully.

At the end of the report, Lai Hu'er mentioned the food plight in Jiangdu and Chen Ling's suggestion that Li Qingming be the commander of Jiangdu County, and that the Sui cavalry was almost attacked by Du Fuwei's army in Gaoyou County.

These three things made Zhang Xuan's brows furrow slightly, at this time, he felt that someone was gently pulling his clothes, and when he turned around, it was Su Wei next to him, he smiled and pointed to the child in Zhang Xuan's arms, Zhang Xuan lowered his head, only to find that the little guy was lying on his stomach and falling asleep.

Zhang Xuan hurriedly handed the general newspaper to Su Wei, and he carefully picked up his son and walked to the carriage not far away, at this time, the nurse in the carriage greeted him, Zhang Xuan sighed, put his son into the carriage to sleep, and instructed the nurse: "Don't need him to pick up wheat anymore, I'll go back later, let him sleep well." ”

"Don't worry, sir! I'll be optimistic about Childe. ”

The nurse got into the carriage, Zhang Xuan closed the door, and then returned to Su Wei to sit down, at this time, Su Wei had finished reading the military report, and smiled at Zhang Xuan: "Your Highness must be very concerned about the last three things!" ”

"Indeed!"

Zhang Xuan smiled bitterly and said, "Come and give me a problem when the general comes!" ”

"Actually, that's expected, isn't it? When everyone discussed Jiangdu matters before, these questions were mentioned, and Li Shangshu of the household department proposed that Lu Shangshu was not suitable to serve as Jiangdu, does Your Highness still remember? ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, of course he remembered that Li Gang clearly opposed Lu Zhuo as the Taishou of Jiangdu at that time, on the grounds that Lu Zhuo was suitable for a stable county, not for a county like Jiangdu that had just been recovered, and he could not cope with all kinds of severe challenges.

It's just that Zhang Xuan wanted to transfer Lu Zhuo as far away from Hebei as possible, so he didn't accept Li Gang's opinion, he thought about it and said: "Then accept Chen Ling's suggestion and transfer Qingming to Jiangdu as a county leader, he does have the ability to solve all kinds of problems in Jiangdu." ”

Su Wei smiled faintly, "Does Your Highness think he can use his hands and feet under Lu Zhuo?" ”

Lu Zhuo is Li Qingming's elder, they are both Hebei scholars, with Lu Zhuo's character, Li Qingming is indeed difficult to exert his hands and feet, and he has to be suppressed by Lu Zhuo everywhere, Zhang Xuan is a little embarrassed for a while.

"What about Xiangguo's suggestion?" Jang Hyun kicked the ball to Su Wei.

Su Wei smiled: "I have a solution. ”

"Sangkook, please!"

"We can emulate the Tang Dynasty, I heard that Li Yuan set up the Bashu Shangshu Xingtai in Shu County, and the counties of Bashu were temporarily controlled by the Shangshu Xingtai, and the Shangshu Shangshu Xingtai will be disbanded after the unification of the world, and we can also follow suit, and set up the Huainan Shangshu Xingtai in Jianghuai, Lu Zhuo changed his appointment as the Xingtai Shangshu, and controlled the six Jianghuai counties such as Lujiang, Liyang, Huainan, Zhongli, Tong'an, and Jiangdu, but Jiangdu City does not belong to the jurisdiction of Huainan Shangshu Xingtai, because Jiangdu City was established as the southern capital of the Great Sui, so it should be directly governed by Zhongdu, to protect the children and let Jiangdu stay, Li Qingming is the chief of history, to protect the children in charge of the army, Li Qingming is in charge of the government, what does His Royal Highness think of this plan? ”

Zhang Xuan secretly admired that Su Wei was worthy of being cunning, on the one hand, he restored Lu Zhuo's position as Shangshu and satisfied Lu Zhuo's dignity, on the other hand, he transferred power and stripped Jiangdu City from Lu Zhuo's hands, and even more wonderfully let Laihu'er stay behind, so he separated Li Qingming from Lu Zhuo, Li Qingming belonged to the military, and Lu Zhuo could not interfere in Li Qingming's Jiangdu affairs by leapfrogging.

"What a brilliant solution!" Jang Hyun praised from the bottom of his heart.

"But this matter still needs to be discussed between His Highness and Lu Zhuo."

"Well, I'll write to him when I get back."

Two days later, Zhang Xuan issued an edict of the regent, the establishment of Huainan Shangshu Xingtai, control the six counties of Jianghuai except Jiangdu City, Xingtai is located in Lujiang County to govern Hefei County, by the former Ministry of Rites Shangshu Lu Zhuo as Xingtai Shangshu, but before the suppression of the bandit Du Fuwei, the Xingtai official office was temporarily stationed in Jiangdu, and began to prepare for various matters related to Xingtai.

Zhang Xuan immediately issued a second edict, declaring Jiangdu City to be directly under the central government, Lai Hu'er was appointed as the Jiangdu guard, and Li Qingming, the military squire, was appointed as the commander of the Jiangdu and Jiangdu.

Li Qingming couldn't have imagined that he had actually returned to Jiangdu, from Jiangdu to Chang'an to Zhongdu, and finally back to Jiangdu, he was like walking a circle.

Although he also wants to go to the local office, increase the experience of local governance, and accumulate contacts for himself, Jiangdu is not his first choice, he wants to go to Qinghe County, and spend ten years to govern this land ravaged by bandits into Hebei Xiongjun, which is his dream, but unfortunately Zhang Xuan did not give him this opportunity and sent him back to Jiangdu.

Li Qingming came to the regent palace, waited on the first floor for a while, Du Ruhui came out and said with a smile: "Your Highness, please go upstairs!" ”

Li Qingming sighed secretly in his heart, and asked in a low voice a little unwillingly: "Brother Du, is this appointment really irretrievable?" ”

Du Ruhui smiled slightly: "What a great opportunity this is, I envy you that it's too late, go ahead!" You won't be disappointed. ”

Du Ruhui's hint made Li Qingming's heart ignite another glimmer of hope, 'Could it be that the King of Qi let him return to Jiangdu have another deep meaning?' He thought to himself.

Li Qingming went up to the second floor, and there was a report at the door, "Your Highness, Li Shilang is here." ”

"Come in!" Jang Hyun's voice came from the room.

Li Qingming tidied up his clothes, and then walked quickly into Zhang Xuan's official room.

In the room, Zhang Xuan was reading a recital paper at the desk, and Li Qingming hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "Weichen see His Royal Highness!" ”

Zhang Xuan pointed to the seat next to him with a pen, "Sit down first!" Wait until I'm done writing this line. ”

Li Qingming sat down, this was the first time he came to the regent's room, he looked at this room, there were many books and scrolls in the room, but they were placed very neatly and orderly, making the room have an indescribable simplicity and elegance, Zhang Xuan couldn't help but nod secretly, concise and neat represent sanity and sobriety, from this point you can see King Qi's calm and rational.

At this time, Zhang Xuan put down his pen and said with a smile: "These scrolls are so busy every day that people are out of breath, and now I am nostalgic for my career as a horseman, and I really want to go to Jiangdu with you." ”

Li Qingming bowed and said: "In fact, His Royal Highness can appropriately delegate power, learn from Chang'an's practices, and set up a multi-phase system, so that His Highness can focus on the military, after all, the military is the foundation of royal power." ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, "I'm also thinking about this, Chang'an does have a lot of systems worth learning from, Shangshu Xingtai is one of them, but we need to come step by step, let's not talk about this matter first, let's talk about Jiangdu!" ”

Zhang Xuan smiled and asked: "When discussing politics in Ziwei Pavilion, Li Shangshu of the household department clearly expressed his opposition to Lu Shangshu as the Taishou of Jiangdu, what do you think?" ”

Li Qingming hesitated and said: "Lu Shangshu is an elder of Weichen, and Weichen does not dare to comment on it. ”

"He's my father-in-law, you can't say it, I can't judge it, but we don't treat things or people, and it's okay to talk about it."

Li Qingming lowered his head and thought about it, and said to Zhang Xuan: "If in terms of connections and qualifications, Lu Shangshu is more than enough to serve as Jiangdu Taishou, and his Shangshu is from the third grade, and Jiangdu Taishou is only the fourth grade, and it is indeed suspected of moving to the left when Lu Shangshu did not make a mistake to serve as Jiangdu Taishou, from this point of view, it is indeed inappropriate for Lu Shangshu to serve as Jiangdu Taishou." ”

"And what about in terms of ability?" Zhang Xuan continued to ask.

Li Qingming was a little difficult to answer, under the gaze of Zhang Xuan's sharp eyes, he had to smile bitterly and said: "Lu Shangshu is from the country and the priest, and he is good at education and selecting talents, compared to Jiangdu County, Weichen feels that Qi County is more suitable for him." ”

Zhang Xuan laughed, this Li Qingming is very good at talking, subtle and tactful, but Zhang Xuan didn't want to let him go because of this, and asked: "Why is Jiang Du not suitable for him?" ”

"Your Royal Highness, Weichen has been in Jiangdu for a year, and knows that Jiangdu is complicated, it is the largest commercial capital in the world, with a population of more than one million, and a large amount of wealth is concentrated here, not only the three religions and nine streams are mixed, but also there are many forces, as large as the Guanlong nobles, as small as a bandit may have a store in Jiangdu, and the weapons hidden by the people in Jiangdu are enough to arm an army of tens of thousands of people, Lu Shangshu is a generous elder, he can't adapt to the cruelty of Jiangdu."

"You are right, Li Shangshu is also so opposed to Lu Shangshu being appointed as the Taishou of Jiangdu, Chen Ling also thinks that he is too weak and not suitable for Jiangdu, Chen Ling strongly recommends you to govern Jiangdu, so I decided to let you go."

Speaking of this, Zhang Xuan said to him with a hint of regret in his tone: "You need to understand one thing, today's Jiangdu is different from when you left. ”

Zhang Xuan stood up and walked to the window, looked out the window with his hands in his hands, and sighed low for a while, "Commerce is withering, the population is plummeting, food prices are skyrocketing, Jiangdu has encountered unprecedented challenges, how to make Jiangdu prosperous again, how to make Jiangdu use it for me, Li Shilang, you have a heavy burden!" ”

"Wechen is not afraid of heavy burdens!"

"Really?"

Zhang Xuan looked back at Li Qingming expectantly, "What are you going to do?" ”

Li Qingming lowered his head and pondered for a moment and said: "Wechen had some ideas when he was in Jiangdu last year, if you want to control Jiangdu, you must control commerce, not to monopolize all commerce, the key is to pinch the lifeline of commerce, Weichen believes that the lifeline of commerce is transportation, so the first thing Wechen did in Jiangdu was to form a huge transport fleet, with a fleet of Sui army escorts, and bring all ships under the control of the government, so that Jiangdu commerce has to rely on us and ask for us, so that we point to the east, and they dare not face west." ”

Zhang Xuan nodded happily, "It seems that Chen Ling is indeed right to recommend you, I will give you five years, I hope that after five years, you can restore Jiangdu to the prosperity of the era of great causes." ”

Although five years is not a short time, Li Qingming still feels a lot of pressure, and he said in a low voice: "The decline of Jiangdu does not lie in Jiangdu itself, but in the deterioration of the external situation. ”

"I know this, after you take office, the elimination of the periphery will be opened, maybe I will come to Jiangdu in person at a critical moment."

Li Qingming stood up and gave a deep salute, "Weichen will never let His Highness down!" ”

Jaung Hyun patted him on the arm and said meaningfully to him: "There are many young people competing for the phase, and I hope you are one of them." (To be continued.) )