readx; At the end of the meeting, the three of them said goodbye and left, Li Qing'an sat quietly in the room alone, he needed to sort out the Hexi countermeasures again, on the way back from Xinde, he had been thinking about this matter, the Hexi incident was an unexpected event in his ascent process, although this incident caused him losses, lost the two states of Gansu and Su and 20,000 troops, and also bankrupted his plan to plunder Tianzhu, but this incident was a mirror, reflecting his weakest link. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

His bureaucratic base was too weak to effectively control the locality, and everything was controlled by the military, so much so that when he was not in Anxi, the power apparatus in Anxi lost control of Hexi, and now the danger of Hexi has broken out, where will it be next? Beiting, Qiuzi or the river, Li Qingan actually had a feeling of powerlessness.

This inability is not that his military strength is not enough, on the contrary, his military strength is enough, but his soft power is not enough, with a figurative analogy, he is like a strong man, looks tall and burly, muscular, but the inner physique is extremely poor, can not sustain strength, eye and ear cooperation and flexibility are not enough, once someone catches the weakness, he can not deal with it.

This time Li Yu played very beautifully, he replaced the chief general of Hexi as an emperor, and replaced the unknown Lifei Shouyu with Cheng Qianli with an Anxi background, everything has not changed, Hexi still belongs to Anxi nominally, and belongs to him Li Qing'an in charge, but the actual control has changed, so there is a voice of support inside and outside the court, and public opinion is biased towards Li Yu, and his administrative authority has no power to fight back in this Hexi incident, and even has his own wife to come forward.

They did not effectively control Hexi, this is the weakest point of Li Qing'an, there is no strong administrative power body, relying on force alone to maintain, is not a long-term plan, both internal and external cultivation is the king.

What he lacks most now is talent, after Li Yu ascended the throne, many seconded mainland officials and scholars have returned to the Central Plains one after another, most of their reasons are missing their families, Anxi is too far away from the Central Plains, life is inconvenient, etc., Li Qingan also knows that Anxi is remote and cannot attract talents, this is actually just a appearance, in essence, his legal surname is insufficient, although his army is the most powerful, although he is the king of Tang Zhao, although he is built, but this is just Li Yu is afraid of his strength and forced to admit his identity, Rather than a matter of course, his influence on the Central Plains scholars was not strong enough, and the bureaucracy and traditional powerful forces of the imperial court had not yet been able to truly accept him.

This is the real reason why there has never been a large number of Central Plains talents to defect to him, his legal surname is insufficient, unable to attract a large number of outstanding intellectuals to Anxi, there are rumors that it is because of Yan Zhuang jealousy and jealousy, can not tolerate talented people, so that talents do not come to Anxi, this statement Li Qing'an does not agree, a strict is not able to stop the enthusiasm of scholars to join him, Liu Yan is the best example, the fundamental reason is that the Central Plains people do not believe in him, and they are prejudiced against him in Anxi.

From this point of view, he is grateful for this incident, which allowed him to calm down and reflect on his own shortcomings and weaknesses, otherwise, he doesn't know when he will find out his problems, however, the situation of talent shortage can not be changed in a day or two, it will take a period of time, especially when he enters the center of power in the Tang Dynasty to eliminate the prejudice of the world against him.

This can only be put in the future, the top priority, he needs to teach Li Yu a lesson before the large-scale counterattack of the Great Food Army, he must let Li Yu understand that offending himself will make him achieve nothing.

Teach Li Yu a plan, he has already considered it on the road, and now is the time to implement it.

Li Qing'an took a thick booklet casually, this is Anxi's latest coinage report, since the seizure of the Boxishan silver mine, Li Qing'an ordered the expansion of the coinage furnace, the number of coinage furnaces from the initial three leaps to 58, recruited hundreds of skilled craftsmen from the mainland, plus apprentices and laborers, the number of people involved in the coinage has exceeded 4,000 people, for this purpose also set up a special coinage bureau, is Anxi's second only to the Ordnance Department of functional departments.

Hundreds of thousands of catties of silver transported from Boxi Mountain were turned into pieces of beautifully made Anxi silver dollars here, and then exported to the Central Plains in exchange for countless various materials.

In the past two years, the silver dollars exported to the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty have reached as many as 1.5 million, more than half of which have flowed into the market, and more than 400,000 are still stored in the Anxi cabinets in various places, and there are nearly one million silver dollars in the broken leaf vault.

At this time, he asked his relatives to report: "General, the Changfu order is here." ”

"Let him in!"

The door opened, Chang Jin walked into Li Qing'an's room, last year, Li Qing'an set up Anxi's intelligence agency - Anxi Internal Affairs Office, which was directly managed by him, and the Anxi Internal Affairs Office was actually transformed from the Han and Tang Societies, after Li Huichun's death, Li Qing'an completely reorganized the Han and Tang Societies, from a non-governmental secret organization, turned around and changed to the official functional departments of Anxi, and the Hidden Dragon Society did not interfere with Li Qing'an's reorganization, on the contrary, they supported the Han and Tang Societies to play a greater role, of course, the premise is that the Han and Tang Societies must serve Li Qing'an.

Chang Jin was the first government commander of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in charge of the 8,000 members of the Han and Tang Societies in various parts of the Tang Dynasty, and was directly under the jurisdiction of Li Qing'an.

"Subordinates, see the general!"

Chang made a salute, Li Qingan put the report back on the table, and said with a smile: "You sent the information from Hexi in a timely manner this time, and you should be commended." ”

Chang Jin was a little ashamed and said: "We didn't get information about Li Yu's secret decree, which led to the rebellion of Meng and Luo in the end, and the subordinates were ashamed of the word 'commendation'. ”

"This is indeed the deficiency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, we need to obtain information from the palace, and An Lushan has done a good job of this, you need to make a little blood."

"If the subordinates obey the order, they will send a letter to Hu Yunpei immediately."

Li Qingan smiled, then took out an order and handed it to Chang Jin, "I have an extremely important matter to be handed over to the Internal Affairs Office, this matter is very important, and it will be implemented one by one according to the requirements in my letter, and there must be no carelessness, let alone a trace of slackness." ”

Chang Jin took the letter, carefully put it in his arms, bowed down and said, "The general has nothing else to do, so his subordinates will retire." ”

"Wait a minute!" Li Qingan stopped him again.

He pondered for a moment and asked, "In the Hidden Dragon Society, is anyone inquiring about Li Jue?" ”

Chang Jin sneered and said: "No one cares about Li Jue's life or death, he killed Li Huichun, even if he dies, he can't atone for his sins, but Luo Pinfang is inquiring about his wife's whereabouts, after all, it is his own daughter, he is very worried." ”

"You tell him for me, she is also my biological mother, I have followed her wishes to place their mother and son in a small city in the south of the Yangtze River, she is living very well, and she is very quiet, she no longer wants to ask about the broken leaves, please don't worry about him."

"Yes! The subordinates will tell Luo Pinfang. ”

After a pause, Chang Jin said in a low voice: "That Li Jue, it's better to get rid of him to avoid future troubles." ”

Li Qingan shook his head, "He's already crazy, there's no point in it, leave him alive and spend his old age with his mother!" ”

Chang Jin secretly sighed and said, "That subordinate farewell!" ”

"Go ahead! The matter which I have given you must be done immediately and without delay. ”

"Yes!" Chang Jin turned around and left.

At this time, Li Qingan took out a silver dollar, turned around on the table, looked at the dripping and rotating silver dollar, Li Qingan's eyes showed a mocking smile, and he said to himself: "Li Yu, you think things are too simple. ”

He immediately wrote another handwritten letter, sealed the envelope, handed it to the soldiers, and said: "Send someone to the North Court immediately and hand it over to Cui Qianyou!" ”

．．．．．．．．． Datang's cabinet is the prototype of the bank, flourishing in the Tang Dynasty, saving money and charging, loan interest, is the most profitable business in Datang, can open the cabinet, have a certain background and background, and the capital is abundant, with a large amount of savings, even when the court is in poverty, it has to borrow money from the cabinet, so although the Tang cabinet is a businessman, its influence on the government should not be underestimated.

There are cabinets all over Datang, but the seven cabinets of Datang, in addition to the Baiji cabinets in Yangzhou and Yangji cabinets in Chengdu, the headquarters of the other five cabinets are in Chang'an, among which Wang Baoji cabinets are the first.

Wang Bao Ji cabinet is Chang'an huge rich Wang Yuanbao opened, rumored to have Zhang Yun family as the background, in the Tang Dynasty 14 big cities have branches, the capital is extremely strong, Wang Bao Ji cabinet is headquartered in the east city, not too far from Anxi cabinet fang.

But Wang Baoji's big proprietor Wang Yuanbao's mansion is located in Pingkangfang, covering an area of 30 acres, the Tang Dynasty has a lot of restrictions on businessmen, such as not allowed to ride horses, not to be officials, not allowed to participate in the imperial examinations, etc., but this is not absolute, the ruling class in order to develop the economy, occasionally to businessmen will also be tolerant, such as Zhenguan years, when Yan Shigu was a secretary and a young eunuch, he once appointed a wealthy businessman as the school secretary, the position of the school secretary, although the status is not high, but it is an important position in the clear stream, and generally the entry is only qualified to serve after the jinshi, and for example, when Wu Zetian was in power, Zhang Yizhi set up a banquet in the inner hall, invited Shu merchant Song Bazi and several other people into the palace to participate in games such as Boyi, although he was later criticized, but after all, he entered the palace, and shook his majesty in front of Wu Zetian, businessmen not only entered the political circles, but also entered the military circles, such as Zhaoyi Jiedu envoy Liu Congzhi had appointed businessmen as the general of the executive office.

Especially after the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the economy was prosperous, and Li Longji was also more tolerant of businessmen, like the giant merchant Wang Yuanbao was originally not qualified to live in a huge mansion with 30 acres of land, Li Longji approved him to move in, and he also donated money to get a captain on the light car.

In the evening of this day, Wei Jinsheng, the big shopkeeper of Wang Baoji Cabinet Workshop in Dongshi, hurried to Wang Yuanbao's house, he brought a surprising news, his buddies found that Anxi Cabinet Workshop was secretly moving items, every night, large boxes of items were transported on the ship, which has lasted for several days, although the scale of Anxi Cabinet Workshop is not large, but it exclusively issues Anxi silver dollars, so it has been recognized as the second largest cabinet in the Tang Dynasty, it has an abnormal situation, Wei Jinsheng attaches great importance to it.

Wang Yuanbao is about sixty years old, his skin is very dark, he is extremely fat, and he is quite tall, he looks like a huge black bear from afar, although his appearance is not good, but he is an extremely shrewd person, while enjoying life in luxury, he is good at making a lot of money, so that he can always be rich, and his family is very rich.

And he is very willing to spend money to find the backstage, Zhang Yun's mother celebrated her seventieth birthday, he sent a statue of Guanyin that is one zhang high, carved with the best jasper, only the lotus throne of Guanyin, built with hundreds of catties of gold, and consumed five buckets of high-grade jewelry inlay, priceless, it is Zhang Yun's care, so that Wang Yuanbao although the tree is big, but not popular, officials around his cabinet are in awe, four years ago, Li Linfu for the concubine's birthday, Zuo Zang is embarrassed, the court can not come up with money, Li Linfu borrowed 300,000 yuan from Wang Baoji Cabinet in the name of the imperial court, and later returned it within the agreed time, which shows the influence of Wang Yuanbao.

Wang Yuanbao is under the service of a concubine, slowly drinking a bowl of bird's nest porridge, listening to the report of the big shopkeeper, if he thinks, he also got a little inside information of the court, the court is seizing Gan and Su Prefectures, has blocked the road to the east of Anxi silver dollars, it is said that this is to prepare for the imperial court to issue 80,000 pieces of silver, one money is fifty, this is four million dollars, is it, is Anxi cabinet for this to carry items?

"Do you know what they're moving?"

The big shopkeeper Wei Jinsheng hurriedly said: "It should be a thing of money, and the guy saw a copper coin rolling out of the wooden box." ”

"And where did they go?"

"Back to the owner, I sent people to follow them, and found that they had left the city along the Cao River, and their whereabouts were unknown."

Wang Yuanbao thought for a while and said, "Don't worry about this matter, we can't afford to mess with Anxi, so let's treat it as if nothing happened." ”

"But I'm worried about the imperial court issuing silver money, I have received news from the Shaofu Supervisor, the new silver money is originally silver and copper nine, and then the copper is insufficient, and it is changed to silver one copper six lead three, almost a layer of silver plating, such money has to be one as fifty, the consequences are serious! Are we going to take countermeasures too? Wei Jinsheng said worriedly.

Wang Yuanbao is also very worried, how the imperial court issued silver money, it is nothing more than to issue it to officials to make money, or take it to Jianghuai to buy grain, and then it is forced to exchange copper money with the cabinet, let the cabinet lend out, or exchange the money stored in the cabinet for 1:50 for silver money, if it is the latter, his Wang Baoji cabinet will bear the brunt, but he has no good way, unless it is closed, but that will cause a run, and his cabinet will be finished.

At this time, a family member came to report: "Master, Xing Sanye is here, I want to see my master." ”

Xing Sanye is Xing Xuan, the Chang'an tycoon who was rescued by Li Qing'an, he and Wang Yuanbao are sworn brothers, and opened the largest tea shop in Chang'an in Xishi, with Wang Heng as the backstage, and he is also a well-known figure in Chang'an.

"Let him in!"

The family hesitated for a moment and said, "But Xing Sanye also brought a guest." ”

"What guest?" Wang Yuanbao asked strangely, Xing Wei never brings inexplicable people here, and even if he does, he will inform him in advance, what is going on today?

"The villain asked, but Xing Sanye refused to say, only said that it was very important, and the guests also covered their faces and couldn't see clearly."

"Important!" Wang Yuanbao's heart moved, it must not be easy for someone to come, and he immediately ordered: "Take it to the guest room, I will be there immediately." ”

He said to Wei Jinsheng again: "You go back first, you must continue to pay attention to the situation in Anxi Cabinet, but don't get too close, if there is any change, you must report to me at any time." ”

Wang Yuanbao sat in a soft sedan chair and went to the guest room.

(To be continued)