Chapter 442: Battle Clouds Gather
Xiao Yao's several suggestions made Dewey start to look at Xiao Yao differently, but Dewey never asked Peng Shan about visiting Xiao Yao, and Xiao Yao didn't mention it, this was a tacit understanding between each other.
Dewey's work efficiency is still very high, after a brief discussion with Xiao Yao about the specific methods, he immediately as the head of the guard of the Qin Mission, ordered people to send more than a dozen official documents in a row, respectively to the main Tusi, Huzhou Xingyuan, Xizhou garrison general, Huzhou governor and others, and made an abridgement and reported to the imperial court.
Soon, from the Xizhou general's station outside the city, more than a dozen guards from the original Qincha Xingyuan came, turning the post station into a temporary Qincha Xingyuan.
According to the regulations of the imperial court, the place where the Qin Cha is stationed is the Qin Cha Xingyuan, although there is no Qin Cha now, but Dewey still organized this temporary Qin Cha Xing Yuan with the regulations of the Qin Cha, although the Peng Tusi Mansion did not recognize it at all, and the nearby Xizhou general, Huzhou Governor, and Jiangnan Daying Governor also did not admit it, but no one openly objected.
Xiao Yao saw this point, so he built Yì Dewey to do this, and in this way, Dewey had the name of being able to absorb those who were still stranded in the hinterland of Miao Jiang among the original Qin Mission's attachés, but the Miao King and the four Miao descendants would let them out alive, which was not something that Dewey could control.
Dewey was only the leader of the forbidden army of the fourth grade, and the gap between them and King Miao was too big, and if he didn't do anything in the name of Qin Cha Xingyuan, he couldn't do anything at all.
Xiao Yao didn't want Dewey to be busy alone, so he asked Wang Lu to come over to help, anyway, he originally belonged to the Qin Cha Xingyuan, and he just took advantage of this opportunity to come back, and it was not suitable for him to be directly involved.
So Xiao Yao watched Dewey and them busy, while carefully reading the latest Di Bao.
From the newspaper of the palace in these days, as well as the news brought back by Hu Yiyi, Xiao Yao basically understood the current situation in Miaojiang and the imperial court.
Since the Phoenix Mountain Rebellion, the Witch God Temple has been closed. Due to the damage of the Miao King's strength, he has returned to his Bai Miao territory, and the current Phoenix Mountain is jointly managed by the four Miao descendants.
The Phoenix Ceremony was not held, but the tea trade and grain trade were recently held in Phoenix. It was only because the imperial court restricted trade in Xizhou that the trade could not be realized for the time being.
Within Miao Jiang, the envoys are the four major Miao descendants, and they are very dissatisfied with King Miao's inability to protect the Witch Temple, and the main forces in Miao Jiang are inclined to force King Miao to take the initiative to abdicate.
Peng's toast's joint performance has been supported by many toasts, and now the four Miao descendants and the three major toasts have been sparse again, asking the imperial court to resume normal Xizhou trade and water transportation.
The Witch Clothes Sect has not made any movement now, and the Ghost Face has seen the rudder of the Xizhou Witch Clothes Sect, but it has long been empty, and it has been for a while.
There was nothing unusual about the Poison Dragon Sect, and Hu Yiyi didn't know where the sect leader was. The Wei family and the Wu family of the ghost path were closed, and the Zhong family and the people of the Wuliu faction in Xichuan were also missing.
In short, after the Phoenix Mountain Rebellion, all the forces were dormant, and Xiao Yao didn't think that they had left Miao Jiang.
It is estimated that the people of the Zhong family have already left, because their two sect leaders are dead. But the Wuliu faction is just dead on the one hand, and it is difficult to say whether they will leave Miao Jiang, and even if they leave Miao Jiang, they will leave secretly, so it is difficult to find out their whereabouts at all.
The Wuyi faction was criticized by the entire Miao Jiang and would not show its head for the time being, and now everyone is watching what King Miao will do next.
This time, the various forces in Miao Jiang reshuffled, and the biggest winners were none other than the Poison Dragon Sect and the Ghost Dao, these three parties are estimated to gradually come to the forefront, and why the Witch God Temple is not coming out of the mountain, which makes Xiao Yao very concerned.
Could it be that the first witch god and the third witch god want to impact the transformation realm? Although they recovered the jade stone stele, it was not so easy to impact the transformation realm.
And if the Miaojiang forces are reorganized, aren't they worried about being marginalized?
The eldest lady's condition has been cured, and she has been playing around the city with Hu Yiyi for the past few days, and as for the miracle doctor, she stayed in the inn and never went out.
Xiao Yao left the ghost face to be responsible for guarding the inn, and now that the witch clothes faction has disappeared, the ghost face has completely thrown himself into Xiao Yao.
It's just that the next few quick reports made Xiao Yao very concerned, although Dewey was not enough to read this newspaper at all, but the imperial court still sent a fast report to Qin Cha Xingyuan as usual. This in itself is a signal that the imperial court still agrees with Dewey's disposition.
The content of the newspaper was somewhat unexpected by Xiao Yao, first of all, the imperial court set up a joint investigation team by the Li Fan Yuan, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to jointly investigate the issue of the impeachment of Kang Qincha by the Tusi Shangshu, and then the imperial court really relaxed the trade control of Miao Jiang, although iron is still restricted, but the restrictions on the trade of grain, salt and tea are directly canceled.
What Xiao Yao was most concerned about was that the imperial court did not immediately send a messenger to Miaojiang to investigate directly, and the task force only stayed in the capital and exchanged official documents with Miaojiang, and did not send a new messenger to Miaojiang, let alone revoke the original envoy, which helped Dewey a lot.
In the past few days, more than 30 of the Qin Mission's retinue who had originally stayed in Phoenix City have been sent back one after another, and none of the people on Phoenix Mountain have returned.
The court did not send the Qincha, which made Dewey also a little surprised, although he wore the hat of the Qincha Xingyuan, but he did not have the right to the Qincha, although the Miao King also sent back some of the original Qincha Xingyuan's official documents, but they were some irrelevant documents.
For more than ten days, Xiao Yao accompanied the eldest lady and Hu Yiyi to wander around Xizhou City whenever he was free, and visited all the more interesting places in the city.
From being busy every day to suddenly being free, Xiao Yao was really a little uncomfortable, so he had to continue to cultivate True Qi while helping Dewey from time to time.
However, Peng Shan never came to the door again, and it is estimated that this guy is also very busy.
Dewey was still relatively familiar with official affairs, and without the arrival of the new Qincha, there would be no specific work for the Qincha Xingyuan.
However, under Xiao Yao's advice, Dewey transferred the people and various official documents of Huzhou to the Xizhou general's station, and arranged the people sent back by King Miao there, and temporarily asked for a field there, leaving only a dozen messengers and two confidant officers in the city for correspondence.
Dewey could not leave Xizhou City, because the Qincha Xingyuan could not be set up in the barracks without a holy decree, and Kang Qincha was not granted the military authority to mobilize the army, and if Dewey moved to the barracks, it would be even more unclear.
"Brother Xiao, why didn't you say that the imperial court didn't send a new Qin to Xizhou?" Dewey pulled a chair and sat opposite Xiao Yao, holding the newspaper that had just arrived today.
"Brother Du, every time the imperial court sends a messenger, it has a clear responsibility, and if you don't send a messenger now, it means that the responsibilities of the messenger have not been decided." Xiao Yao took the newspaper handed over by Dewey, and said while reading it.
"So doesn't the imperial court want to investigate the cause of Kang Qincha's death?"
"How can it be, it's just that even if someone is sent now, what can be investigated, the key is that now when Qin is sent to Xizhou, he will have to directly face the problem of those Tusi impeaching Kang Qincha, and the imperial court has been dealing with this problem in the capital, and it is estimated that it is the same plan."
"Could it be that the imperial court wants to drag it over?" Dewey was somewhat unconvinced.
"Of course not, how could the imperial court drag it out on such a big issue, but the imperial court has already made a decision on whether to use force against Miao Jiang. Because once the Qincha was directly sent to Miaojiang, it would be necessary to face the problem of Kangqincha, and if this case was concluded prematurely, the legitimacy of the imperial court's dispatch of troops would be weakened. Xiao Yao said his judgment.
"You mean, the imperial court is ready to send troops to recruit Miao Jiang?" Hearing this, Dewey immediately asked.
"The current situation looks complicated, but in fact it shows that the imperial court has lost its actual authority in Miaojiang, no matter how to investigate the issue of Kang Qincha's bribery, it will not change this status quo, so on the one hand, the imperial court relaxed the material blockade of Miaojiang, and on the other hand, dragged the investigation of Kang Qincha, that is, I hope to have a preparation time, what does the imperial court need time to do, isn't this a self-evident thing?" Xiao Yao explained step by step.
"So what will the four major toasts do, should we leave Xizhou?"
"Of course, the four major toasts are also preparing, they want to take advantage of this period of time to buy more grain, but the grain is transported from the Central Plains by land, or directly along the river by canal, and it will take at least twenty days to transport it to Miaojiang, and it will not quench the thirst at all, and the imperial court only needs to stop the grain outside Xizhou City in the end." Xiao Yao thought as he spoke.
"But if the imperial court secretly prepares several garrisons on the periphery of Miaojiang, as well as the battalions and government soldiers of several provinces in Jianghuai, once the time is ripe, it can encircle Miaojiang in one fell swoop, so we must not leave Xizhou now, and the imperial court will not revoke the Qincha Xingyuan, but also to stabilize the various Tusi of Miaojiang." Xiao Yao looked at Dewey and said this judgment that everyone did not want.
That is, once the imperial court makes a move, it is very likely that it will not notify Dewey in the city, and his own people will become outcasts.
Dewey looked out the window and was silent for a while before he slowly spoke, "What should we do?" Is it just waiting here for war? ”
Hearing Dewey's words, Xiao Yao also sympathized with Dewey's situation, this feeling of being abandoned is really not good, it seems that some people in the court do not want Dewey to go back alive.
Xiao Yao suddenly showed a weird smile at Dewey, "The imperial court didn't say that we couldn't leave, it's just that the imperial court didn't revoke the Qin mission, as for how to leave, it depends on our own wisdom." Do it yourself, have plenty of food and clothing. ”