readx; Early the next morning, Li Qing'an came to the Anxi Political Affairs Hall, the political affairs hall is the general name of a group of huge buildings, corresponding to the six departments of the imperial court, and set up officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, workers and other six Cao to participate in the military, and there are nine departments such as finance and taxation, prisons, weapons, Sinong, coinage, Chongwen, Li Fan, and craftsmen, as well as supervision and internal affairs, forming a complete set of administrative supervision system, there are more than 200 officials at all levels, the highest military and political official is of course Li Qing'an, but the highest chief executive is Shi Wang Changling, the governor of Jiedu Prefecture, In addition, there was also the judge Cen Shen, who was responsible for auditing and judging, as well as two military officers and two judges' envoys, as assistants to Wang Changling and the judges. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Qing'an's office is next door to the government hall, called the Qinzheng Yuan, which was originally a fully enclosed courtyard and was heavily guarded, but it was adjusted a few months ago and a straight and wide lane was built to lead directly to the government hall.

The news of Li Qing'an's return has spread, early in the morning, more than a dozen officials and soldiers of the Qinzheng Yuan are busy cleaning the room, the officials of the Qinzheng Yuan are different from the officials of the political affairs hall, the officials of the political affairs hall belong to the official local official establishment, in principle, appointed by the imperial court officials, of course, in fact, it is only a formal appointment, and the officials of the Qinzheng Yuan belong to supernumerary personnel, in fact, they are Li Qingan's personal staff, and Li Qingan pays for it out of his own pocket, most of these staff members are well-educated people, mainly responsible for sorting out documents, Writing Li Qing'an's various orders is somewhat similar to the Hanlin scholars of the imperial court, in which Yan Zhuang is the chief of staff.

When Li Qing'an stepped into his bright and spotless room, which had been cleaned, the staff had already started a busy day, and the two high-ranking officials of the political hall, Wang Changling and Cen Shen, had been sitting outside waiting for him for a long time.

"See the General!" When the two saw Li Qingan coming in, they bowed down together.

"I haven't seen you two for a long time, it seems that Wang Changshi has gained a little weight! Isn't it more leisurely lately? ”

Li Qing'an joked with the two affectionately, and Wang Changling smiled: "It's that the general has become dark and thin, and I heard that it is very hot over there in Xinde and the sun is very poisonous." ”

At this time, Cen Shen saw Liu Yan who was following behind Li Qing'an, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned, he felt very familiar, it seemed that he had seen it somewhere?

"General, this is ....."

"I'll introduce you!"

Li Qingan hurriedly pulled Liu Yan over and introduced the two of them: "This is my new staff member Liu Yan, Liu Shi'an of Caozhou, who was originally ordered by the Changping Administration of Xishi, has resigned from his official position and came to Anxi to join me. ”

"You are the god operator Liu Yan!"

Cen Shen suddenly recognized it, known as the first god of Taifu Temple, Liu Yan saw that he recognized himself, and hurriedly smiled back, "It's down." ”

Li Qingan smiled and introduced the two to him: "These two people have followed me for many years, one is Wang Changling, the governor of Jiedu Prefecture, known as Wang Qianniu, and his poems are very good, you should have heard of them!" ”

Liu Yan was in awe, "It turned out to be Mr. Yuhu, I have heard of the name for a long time when I was young, and now I can see it, and I am fortunate to have three lives." ”

Wang Changling listened to his words very sincerely, and couldn't help but feel good about him, and said with a slight smile: "I seem to have heard of Liu Yuanjun's name, in the fourteenth year of Kaiyuan, the first emperor sealed Mount Tai, and there was an eight-year-old young prodigy who dedicated "Song" and was awarded the title of the prince of the secretary province, but are you?" ”

Liu Yan waved his hand a little embarrassedly and smiled: "Young and frivolous, let the seniors laugh." ”

At this time, Liu Yan suddenly recognized Cen Shen and said in surprise: "It turned out to be Brother Cen , we have seen it!" ”

"Not bad! Tianbao's five-year Chengtianmen feast, don't we sit at the same table? Later, I went to Qujiangliu to drink and write poems, but you couldn't write poems, so you got yourself drunk, and slipped away under the pretext of being drunk, I remember. ”

The two talked about the past seven years ago, and couldn't help but feel like they had met an old friend in a foreign country, and they were so excited that they held their hands and laughed.

Li Qingan saw that everyone was familiar with it, and couldn't help laughing: "It turns out that they are all old acquaintances, that's the best." ”

He also said to Wang and Cen: "Liu Yan is temporarily my staff, responsible for planning Anxi money and goods for me, making up the order of the Finance and Taxation Department next month, and concurrently serving as the Anxi transfer envoy." ”

Seeing that Li Qingan trusted him so much, Liu Yan couldn't help but be deeply moved, and hurriedly gave a deep salute, "Thank you for the trust of the general, Liu Yan will do his best to serve Anxi." ”

Li Qingan nodded, and said to Wang and Cen: "You go to the conference room to wait for me first, and I will arrange Mr. Liu, and he will come immediately." ”

"Sir, please come with me."

Li Qingan took Liu Yan to the next room, the next room was a big room, it was a clerical room, there were five or six staff members here to sort out the documents, he swept around, but he didn't see Yan Zhuang, so he asked, "Where is Mr. Yan?" ”

One of them stood up and saluted: "Back to the general, Mr. Yan went to He Hunting City to check the military rations, and he will return in the afternoon." ”

Li Qing'an couldn't help but be stunned when he saw that the person who answered him turned out to be King Qing's staff Yan Kai, Yan Kai hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and said in a low voice: "General, I left King Qing a year ago, and I have been teaching and learning in Broken Leaves for a living, and I was so poor that I met Mr. Yan on the street by chance, and Mr. Yan arranged for Mr. Yan to come here to do things. ”

Li Qingan remembered that when he first met Yan Kai in Yangzhou, he was high-spirited at that time, and now he is inferior and down-to-earth, being a small official who sorts out documents, this strong gap makes him feel emotional, so he nodded and said: "Okay! You stay with me, and when I have the opportunity, I will arrange another position for you to express your great talent. ”

Yan Kai was overjoyed, the reason why he was a small official here was to wait for the opportunity to meet Li Qingan, and now although Li Qingan did not explicitly let himself be a strategist, he also admitted that he had talent, so that he would have a chance to get ahead.

He hurriedly bowed deeply, "I am willing to serve the general." ”

Li Qingan comforted him a few more words, and then turned back to Liu Yan and said: "I wanted Mr. to see my advisor Yan Zhuang, but he went out, let's talk about it in the afternoon!" Sir will sit here first. ”

Li Qing'an found a vacant seat for him to sit on, and ordered someone to bring various financial and tax reports from Anxi, a thick stack, and four treasures of the study.

"Sir, take your time, if you need anything, just come to me, I'm next door, no need to be formal."

Liu Yan arched his hand and said: "Although the general is busy, I will arrange myself." ”

Li Qing'an explained a few more words to the others, and then walked back to the conference room, Xiushi also came at this time, Duan Xiucheng served as the deputy envoy of Anxi Jiedu, the governor of Broken Leaf Prefecture, and all the way to Yibohai Castle in the north, it was all under his jurisdiction, and he was now Li Qing'an's confidant and the third person in the Anxi military.

Seeing Li Qingan come in, the three of them stood up together, Li Qingan waved his hand and smiled: "Don't be polite, feel free." ”

Several people sat down, the soldiers served tea, and closed the door again, at this time Wang Changling smiled and said: "General, before the official meeting, I have a change plan that I want to report first." ”

Duan Xiushi and Cen Shen looked at each other, both of them had big heads, Wang Changling did not leave the law in three sentences, the officials in the political hall had been tossed and scared by him, I don't know what tricks he thought of today, Li Qingan smiled: "When I introduced you to Liu Yan just now, I should have called you Wang to change the law, you talk about it, what old law do you want to change?" ”

"You two don't frown like this, I mean it's smooth, it's not actually a change."

Wang Changling glared at Duan Xiushi and Cen Shen, and said to Li Qingan: "It's not a change of law, it's a matter of building a road." ”

"Build roads!"

Li Qingan was very interested, so he smiled and said, "Let's talk about it specifically, what road to build?" ”

"Actually, this is not my whim, a few years ago the merchants and the military have proposed to build two straight roads, starting from broken leaves, one leads to Beiting City, and the other leads to Qiuzi, which can greatly save the time to go to the two places, and closely link Beiting, Anxi and Lingxi, before there was not enough money, food and manpower, and now the conditions are ripe and can be started."

As soon as Wang Changling's voice fell, Li Qingan and the three applauded at the same time, Li Qingan smiled and said: "I will approve this plan now, if the manpower is not enough, I can let Li Guangbi escort a group of Tocharian prisoners of war to be laborers, ask for money for money, ask for people to give people, I just want you to start construction as soon as possible." ”

It had always been Li Qing'an's wish to build a straight road to connect Shaye with Beiting and Anxi, and as he occupied more and more land, it became urgent to build roads to strengthen the connection between regions, and he fully agreed with Wang Changling's road construction plan.

They decided on the spot, and after talking about the road construction, the meeting officially began, Li Qingan said: "First of all, I will tell you about the Southern Expedition, the Battle of Tocharian Li Guangbi has already written a report, I think you have all seen it, I will not say much, specifically talk about the battle of Sindh." ”

Li Qing'an took a sip of tea, and continued: "From the overall situation, there is no suspense in the battle of Sindh, the Great Food Army and our strength are very different, they are lucky to be able to escape back to the Great Food, as for the local army of Sindh and Punjab is even more vulnerable, I almost ignore it, this Battle of Sindh, our purpose is for food, and now preliminary statistics show that there are six million stone stocks of grain in Sindh alone." ”

Wang Changling exclaimed, "Six million stones, that's enough for us to eat in Anxi for five years." ”

Li Qing'an smiled, "Sindh is a land rich in grain, the yield is very high, if we occupy Sindh, there will be at least two million stone grain sources every year, in this way, we can transfer more Anxi people to work in the workshop, so that the imperial court cannot blockade us, and I plan to build a seaport in Punjab for our access to the sea." ”

"But what if it's a long way to go?" Duan Xiushi interjected: "You must know that from Punjab to Broken Leaves, there are at least thousands of miles, and the road is difficult, I don't think it's very realistic." ”

"I have considered this, there is no problem that the hinterland of Sindh is plain, mainly from the north to Tocharo, and the most difficult road is only a few hundred miles, and Xinde has a large number of hard-working laborers, so they can build this section of the road, as long as these hundreds of miles of roads are repaired, then at least half of the time can be saved, just like Wang Changshi just said, build roads to benefit the way."

"What does the General want to do in the harbor?" Cen Shen asked suddenly.

Li Qingan smiled slightly: "For overseas trade, maybe one day in the future, I will take a boat to Datang." ”

At this point, there was no need to go on, and at this time, Wang Changling pulled the topic to another item today.

"General, although the Hexi Revolution has ended, we need to give the imperial court a statement to show Anxi's position on the Hexi matter, and this matter needs to be decided by the general."

Li Qingan pondered for a moment and asked, "What are the opinions of the officials?" ”

"The officials of the political hall have argued about this matter, and many officials think that although the imperial court has recovered the two prefectures of Gansu and Su, the imperial court still recognizes that these two states belong to Anxi, but these two states are no longer controlled by us, everyone thinks that in fact, the imperial court did not tear its face, but just applied a cold trick behind its back, and we can't protest at all, so most officials think that it is best to remain silent, I wonder if the general agrees?"

Li Qingan didn't answer, he asked Duan Xiushi again: "What is the attitude of the military?" ”

"Fight a battle and recapture the two states of Gansu and Suzhou!" Duan Xiushi replied cleanly, "The attitude of the soldiers is very simple. ”

Li Qingan nodded and said: "I have also thought about this matter repeatedly, we are about to face a strong counterattack from the Great Eclipse, in the next half a year, our strategic center is still in the West, not in the East, if we compete with the imperial court, it will undoubtedly affect our preparation for war to a great extent, so my attitude is very clear, we must go all out to prepare for the Great Eclipse." ”

Li Qing'an's statement was a little vague, whether it was to fight or be silent, the three of them glanced at each other, and Cen Shen asked cautiously: "Does the general mean to admit the imperial court's possession of Gansu and Su Prefectures, and keep silent?" ”

"Why be silent?"

Li Qingan sneered and said: "There is a kind of person in this world, if you are kind to him, he thinks that you are currying favor with him, because you are afraid of him, and he will not remember his gratitude; If you are weak, he will deceive you even more and beat you harder. On the contrary, if you behave toughly and beat him hard, he will be afraid, and will not dare to trouble you again, unfortunately, our young emperor is such a person, I supported him on the throne, and blocked An Lushan's army for him in Tongguan, but he not only did not remember his gratitude, but instead of fighting An Lushan, he did not fight King Wu, King Jing, King Shu, and did not fight these people who openly fought against him, but the first person to attack was me, just because I was so bullied? ”

Speaking of this, Li Qing'an stood up and said categorically: "I can not trade with the Central Plains, or I can not send a silver dollar to the Central Plains, but as the envoy of Anxi Jiedu, I do not accept Cheng Qianli as the deputy envoy of Anxi, Meng Yun and Luo Zhengyi led the army to mutiny, murdered the boss, did not get my order, transferred the army without authorization, and should be beheaded according to military regulations, the court must hand over the heads of these two thieves to the Anxi army, otherwise, I will lead troops into Beijing and personally take the heads of these two thieves, this is my attitude." ”

Wang Changling was shocked and hurriedly persuaded: "General, don't do this, in this way, the general will fall into the pretext of rebellion, and will ruin the general's reputation." ”

Duan Xiushi also persuaded: "General, think twice about this matter, don't be reckless, he is the son of the Tang Dynasty after all, and if the general commits a crime, he will fall into injustice." ”

Li Qingan saw that the three of them looked nervous, so he smiled slightly and said: "I am also the king of Zhao of the Tang Dynasty and the envoy of the dignified Anxi Festival, and I have been intriguing for so many years, don't I even understand this truth?" As I said, we must concentrate on preparing for the war now, and I will not send troops to attack Hexi. ”

"What does the general mean ....."

"If you go to war, I will make him come to me in a hurry."

(To be continued)