readx; Anxi's Tubo campaign ended very early, when Ge Shuhan was still besieging the remnants of the Tubo army in Xingsu Fort, Li Qing'an had already inspected the transfer of the fourth batch of grain in Dashi in a place called Lihe Town in Zhenzhu River, which was also the last batch of grain, from May to September, the large-scale grain delivery was finally coming to an end, Dashi paid a total of 2.5 million stone grain to the Tang army in Anxi in exchange for 30,000 prisoners of war, and the exchange was completed at the end of August, and all 30,000 prisoners of war have been released. Most of the 2.5 million stone grain is stored in Kuzhanti, and it is being transferred back to the broken leaves from there, and the time has reached the beginning of September, and half of the 2.5 million stone grain has been transferred, according to the plan of the Tang army, all the grain will be transported back to the broken leaves before the river freezes at the end of the year. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The grain was carried on the ship from the war, along the Pearl River upstream, and then transported from a tributary to Atami to the Broken Leaf Warehouse, and the junction of the Pearl River and this tributary is Lihe Town, which is a low hilly area, covered with large forests, before the Tang army occupied the broken leaves, only a very small number of Turkic people lived here, but as the Tang army gradually developed westward, the water operation of the Pearl River increased, this transit point gradually became important, in May, a group of about 3,000 Han military households migrated here, They reclaimed the land here, built their homes, and gradually soon formed a new town, because this tributary is called Lihe, so this town is called Lihe Town, because the geographical location here is extremely important, the Anxi army recruited more than 3,000 soldiers from the 3,000 military households to stay here, and sent a thousand troops from the broken leaves, a total of 4,000 troops, formed the Lihe Army.

The soldiers and horses of the Lihe Army are called He Qiusheng, is a young officer who is only twenty-eight years old, born in the Anxi military household, although he is young, but he has eight years of military experience, the earliest is the soldier of Li Qing'an's scout camp, participated in the Battle of Xiaobolu and the Battle of Shibao City, and later became Li Qing'an's personal soldier, and was promoted to Zhonglang General, responsible for guarding Lihe Town, in addition to him, there is also an equally young official, named Su Yi, he is only twenty-nine years old, served as the envoy of the immigration of Lihe Town, Su Yi is a native of Longyou, born in poverty, is the main book of a small countyThis time, the imperial court selected 500 officials to Anxi to assist in the resettlement of immigrants, and he was also selected because he had no background background, and the immigration envoy was actually the founder of the new official government, according to the plan of the broken leaves, Lihe Town will be changed to Lihe County in three years, and at that time, Su Yi will be the first county commander.

Today, Li Qing'an came to inspect the grain transfer situation in Lihe Town, and two officials were his companions, and Li Qing'an accompanied him on the inspection, and there was also a supervision envoy sent from the Anxi Supervision Office to supervise the grain storage and transportation.

In the past few days, Lihe Town has been particularly lively, with the arrival of another batch of grain, there are thousands of slender men and boatmen who come with the boat, nearly a thousand flat-bottomed boats full of grain are docked on the shore, of which there are two hundred boats of grain to stay in Lihe Town, there are more than a dozen huge granaries north of the town, which can store 500,000 stone of grain, the slender man and the boatman are busy unloading grain from the boat, Li Qingan walked by a team of carriages, he saw that He Qiusheng had been preoccupied, and he looked like he wanted to say something to himself, so he smiled: " If you have anything on your mind, just say it! Don't hold it back. ”

He Qiusheng is not very tall, but he looks extremely strong, he blushed and said, "General, I want to be transferred out of here?" ”

"Why? Just now you said that everything here is new and challenging, why do you want to transfer out now? Li Qingan asked with a smile.

"That's what he said, I didn't say it."

He Qiusheng glanced at Su Yi and said, "I feel bored here, I beg the general to transfer me to Beiting or Shule." ”

"Why do you want to go to Shule?"

"I guess the general is going to fight Tocharian next, and I want to make meritorious contributions in Tocharo."

"You're very discerning! I actually know that I want to fight Tocharo, but my answer may disappoint you, I will not easily transfer a general without special circumstances, and it has only been half a year since the formation of the River Army, if you are transferred, it will be very detrimental to the establishment of the River Army. ”

Li Qing'an saw that he was depressed, so he smiled, pointed to several large warehouses and said to him: "You are an eight-year veteran, you should know the importance of these granaries, except for the enemy in the north, any enemy who comes to attack Broken Leaf is the first to occupy these granaries, and you are the first to bear the brunt of the Lihe Army, the strategic position of Lihe Town is important, I don't say that you also know, why let you come to guard here?" Have you thought about it, and I won't hide it from you, I thought about it for a long time before I transferred you here to guard, so you are my confidant for a long time, and you are here to guard me, I can rest assured, but I didn't expect that you didn't want to do it? ”

Speaking of this, Li Qingan's tone gradually became stern, "If you don't want to do it, write me a written request, I will change someone to guard it, if you want to do it here, you will raise my vigilance, and you will not slack off for a moment!" Do you hear that? ”

He Qiusheng's face was full of shame, in fact, he didn't have any idea of transferring away, but a few days ago, he heard that Zhang Yongqing, who had the same qualifications as him, had made great contributions in the Khotanese resistance war and was promoted to general, he was a little unbalanced in his heart, here, when will he have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions? Today, he wanted to take advantage of Li Qing'an's inspection of Lihe Town to make a request for transfer, but he was severely reprimanded by Li Qing'an, which made him ashamed and embarrassed, and he couldn't say a word when he lowered his head.

Li Qing'an saw that he knew his mistake, so his tone eased, patted him on the shoulder and said: "I know you want to make meritorious contributions to start a business, I can understand, but your current duty is also extremely important, if there are enemy spies sneaking into the granary and setting a fire, our hundreds of thousands of stone of grain will be destroyed in one fell swoop, and this blow to Anxi will be fatal, because I know that you can protect this warehouse, so I will choose you to come here to guard, work hard, and train more capable subordinates, I will definitely give you a chance in the future." ”

Li Qing'an's means of subordination, as a party He Qiusheng did not feel it, but it made the civil official Su Yi next to him very emotional, he was a low-level petty official or the first time to contact the lord of Anxi, Li Qing'an's youth certainly surprised him, but Li Qing'an's strictness and tolerance towards his subordinates moved Su Yi even more, and he was just as kind to himself, affirming his efforts and achievements, and he didn't need to say any flattery, which made him and his former boss completely judge the two, which made Su Yi have a desire to serve Li Qing'an.

Su Yi was originally forced to come to Anxi because he had no background background, in his opinion, coming to Anxi is no different from exile, just thinking about being a few years before he wants to be transferred back, but the vitality and integrity of Anxi officialdom surprised him, and many system rules also made him feel fair, for example, he was ordered to build a town in Lihe, and then it will be gradually built into a county seat within three years, and his term of office is five years, that is, he will be the first county magistrate of Lihe County, which gives him a great sense of achievement, not his hard work to build a town, In the end, the county seat was built, but someone else was appointed as the county magistrate, and it was this kind of achievement encouragement and institutional fairness that made him work hard, and today, when he first came into contact with the supreme power of Anxi, he gave birth to a strong desire to bring his wife and children to Anxi and serve Anxi for a long time.

Perhaps this is a kind of leader's temperament, this temperament will change the people around him anytime and anywhere, give them a kind of enlightenment, give them a kind of faith, this is an extremely ordinary thing for Li Qing'an, so ordinary that he himself is not aware of it, but he has changed Su Yi's life.

At this time, a war horse came running from afar, and a cavalryman shouted on the horse: "General, Broken Leaf is urgent!" ”

Li Qing'an saw that the cavalry on the horse was waving a red bamboo letterbox, and he couldn't help but be secretly surprised in his heart, which meant that it was an important matter of 100,000 urgency.

He walked forward quickly, took the letter from the soldier's hand, the letter was transferred from the broken leaf, Li Qingan quickly opened the letter box, took out the letter from it, he was stunned, the letter turned out to be a handwritten letter written by the crown prince Li Yu to him, when he finished reading the content of the letter, his eyes narrowed suddenly, and his clenched fist crumpled the letter into a ball.

What he had been fearing was finally here.

．．．．．．． Ganzhou, a team of more than a dozen knights galloped by, Zhang Ye has been far behind them, this team of knights did not hesitate to gallop forward, at the front of the team is a eunuch, his face is full of dust, tired, but he can not stay at all, his mission is constantly urging forward galloping.

This eunuch surnamed Xia came from the Zhidaming Palace, his destination was Shazhou, thousands of miles away, he was ordered by the Tang Emperor Li Longji to send a secret decree to King Qing who lived in Shazhou, of course, the secret decree was not something he could read, but Li Longji handed over the secret decree to him repeatedly advised, so that he felt the importance of this secret decree.

He didn't dare to slack off, and galloped all the way, and a fort faintly appeared on the cliff in front of him.

"Grandpa Xia, let's go to the fort for one night!"

The Zhang guard, who was escorting him, suggested loudly: "Didn't the Zhangye defenders say it? It is better not to walk at night, there may be horse bandits. ”

Eunuch Xia looked at the sky, it was still a while before dusk, and it was not far from Shazhou, and there were still five days away.

"It's too early to rest, let's go on another trip, there should be a resting place ahead."

The eunuch refused to rest, and the knights had to escort him on, and galloped for more than half an hour, and the sky gradually darkened, but they never found another house, or a tent, and there was a vast grassland everywhere, and they had a map, and knew that they would go about forty miles further to the border of Ganzhou and Suzhou, where an army was stationed, called the Health Army, but their horses were exhausted, and they were desperately snorting.

"Father-in-law Xia, we can still endure it, but the horse is no longer good, what should we do?"

There was a hint of complaint in the tone of the head of the guard, they are all pampered people in the court, where have they suffered this kind of hardship, if they listened to him just now, now they are already drinking wine and eating meat, but Gonggong Xia is the person around the saint, although he is dissatisfied in his heart, he still has to endure it.

Eunuch Xia also felt that the horse was gone, and he also regretted it a little in his heart, but his face did not show it, he beat the curtain and looked around, and suddenly found that there was a dark shadow in the northwest direction, which seemed to be a forest.

He immediately pointed with his hand and said, "Go there and rest for two hours!" ”

Everyone galloped five miles to the northwest, and sure enough, it was a small black pine forest, standing alone in the grassland of the Hexi Corridor, and everyone had no intention of exploring, the black pine forest only had one or two hundred trees, and there would be no danger hidden.

Everyone turned over and dismounted, and went into the pine forest to find a place to rest, in the pine forest is simply a natural bed, covered with a thick layer of pine leaves, dry and soft, all the attendants are tired, drink a few sips of water, eat two mouthfuls of dry food, feed the horse some forage and water, and then fall asleep.

Eunuch Xia was worried, and from time to time he touched his hand into his arms, where there was a task for his trip, a secret decree from Li Longji, lest it be a little missed.

At this time, the sky was already dark, the night wind increased, whirring through the pine forest, making a strange sound like a woman whispering, creepy, the silence on the grassland was terrible, the sky was covered with dark clouds, there was no starry sky in the sky, and under the pressure of the dark clouds, the grassland seemed to have an indescribable desolation and loneliness.

Although it was said that he was resting for two hours and hurried, everyone was already exhausted, even Eunuch Xia fell asleep, suddenly, he sat up suddenly, and a strange voice woke him up, he stared and listened again, his face changed slightly, and hurriedly pushed the guards around him, "Wake up, everyone!" Hurry up! ”

Everyone was pushed to wake up from their sleep, and their eyes looked a little dazed, and they didn't know what was going on?

"Listen, what is that sound?"

Everyone stopped talking, and even held back their breath, and after a while, everyone jumped up in shock, "It's the sound of horses' hooves, dense horses' hooves, at least hundreds of people are running towards them." ”

At this moment, a dark shadow appeared, indeed a cavalry team, at least three or four hundred people, who let out a strange scream, as if wolves had discovered their prey, and rushed towards the black pine forest.

"Everyone get on the horse and run away, it's a horse bandit!"

Zhang Shou Shou shouted urgently, Eunuch Xia panicked, several times on the horse but failed to step on the horse, and finally was helped on the horse by two guards, they beat the horse and fled, but it was a little late, an arrow volleyed in the air, hit the back of the neck of a guard, a scream, the soldier turned over and fell off the horse.

Everyone was frightened, although they were Yulin Army, but they were all born rich and noble, in Chang'an has always been majestic, death is extremely far away from them, but now someone is dead, they are frightened, scattered and fled, and no one can take care of the eunuch Xia, now the escape is important, the horse bandits are extremely fierce, they chase quickly, the guards are shot to death one by one, none of them are spared, the eunuch Xia was also shot in the back by an arrow, fell off the horse.

At this time, a burly horse bandit rushed to the front, turned over and dismounted, and stretched out his hand to grab the half-cut holy decree in the arms of Eunuch Xia, Eunuch Xia was no longer good, he held down the holy decree to death, and said in a low voice: "This is the will of His Majesty the Emperor, you can't move!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the leader of the horse bandits stabbed him in the heart, and the eunuch Xia screamed and died, the leader of the horse bandits took the holy decree, opened it and looked at it, he nodded, put the holy decree into his arms, and waved his hand and said, "Let's go!" ”

Although he was dressed as a Qiang Hu, he spoke pure Chinese, and they carried the corpse on their horses, and flew north like a gust of wind, and disappeared without a trace in a moment.

．．．．．．．．． A few days later, Li Longji's secret decree appeared on Li Qing'an's table, at this time, Li Qing'an had rushed from the broken leaves to Qiuzi, Li Yu's report told him that Li Longji had decided to seal Qing Wang Cong as the envoy of Anxi Festival, and he Li Qing'an was appointed as the protector of Anxi, only in charge of government affairs, and no longer held military power, but Li Longji did not dare to seize power openly, but gave a secret decree to King Qing, asking him to contact General Anxi and wait for an opportunity to seize power.

This secret decree has been obtained by Li Qing'an, and the content of the decree shocked him greatly, not only to seize his military power, but also to escort him back to Chang'an after seizing power.

'If it's urgent, you can kill it on the spot!' ’

This is the last sentence of Li Longji's secret decree, Li Longji is actually going to kill him, even more ferocious than dealing with Wang Zhonghe, anyway, Wang Zhongji and Huangfu Weiming are secretly executed after a year of dethronement, but Li Qingan doesn't even want the last mask of hypocrisy to deal with him.

Li Qingan couldn't help but sneer, everyone really thought that Li Longji was going to leave him to the crown prince! Even Li Yu believed it, maybe Li Longji had such a plan, but now he doesn't, he really didn't wronged himself, he Li Qingan already has strong ambitions, but Li Longji didn't kill him because he was ambitious, but wanted to rob his woman.

He is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, how can he tolerate a courtier snatching the woman he fancies? This is the reason why he wants to kill himself, it is very simple, the so-called whole world, it is not the people, what is the use of him Li Qing'an's more achievements? If you refuse to give her a woman, you will die.

At this time, Yan Zhuang limped in quickly and said, "General, are you looking for me?" ”

Li Qingan handed him the secret decree, "Take a look!" ”

Yan Zhuang hurriedly looked it up and down, and couldn't help but change his face greatly, although he thought that there would be such a possibility, but he didn't expect that it would come so quickly, and as soon as the Tubo Battle ended, Li Longji would start.

"General, you.... What are you going to do? ”

Yan Zhuang asked very hesitantly, he wanted to know if Li Qingan had made up his mind, Li Qingan stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, staring out the window for a long time, although he didn't want to face it, but now, he had no way out, even if he fled to the West, the new Anxi Jiedu envoy would also arrest him back, Li Longji had decided to kill him, there was no room for relaxation.

"What else can I do now?"

Li Qing'an's tone had a bitterness, and he said: "I originally planned to start a war constantly, so that he couldn't make up his mind, but I still underestimated his determination to kill me, maybe he wanted to kill me in Chang'an, and it was thanks to Ge Shuhan who saved my life." ”

Yan Zhuang also heard Li Qing'an's determination, he didn't hesitate anymore, and said: "The general doesn't need to worry, the matter has not yet reached the worst step, since he is using a secret decree to King Qing, it means that he is still a bit of a mouse-thrower, in this case, I have a plan, and I can still buy the general at least half a year." ”

Li Qing'an turned around suddenly and said with great joy: "Sir, please speak!" ”

Yan Zhuang lightly stroked the rat's whiskers and said with a smile: "This plan still falls on King Qing, the general might as well give him a false holy decree, and when he replies to the letter, change his reply, just say that this matter is confidential, there are eyebrows, you can't startle the snake, do it slowly, and then move King Qing back to Qiuzi, so that King Qing has acted according to his will, and in this way, plus the time for King Qing to act, so that at least half a year has passed, and the general is almost ready at that time." ”

"This plan is really clever!"

Li Qingan patted his leg and praised, but his brows immediately furrowed, and he regretted it a little in his heart, he knew that he would not have to kill the messenger, and now that the envoys are dead, how can he explain this?

Yan Zhuang understood Li Qing'an's thoughts, he smiled slightly: "This is easy to solve, add another sentence to King Qing's letter, just say that there is no one around, leave the guards and Father-in-law Xia by your side, and then ask Bian Lingcheng to send a letter, and this loophole will be filled." ”

(To be continued)