"The criminal minister Kong Fansheng greets His Majesty." Kong Fansheng walked into the room under the leadership of Chu Suiliang and fell to the ground.

"What is Kong Qing doing here?" Li Xin asked curiously.

"The guilty minister, please ask Your Majesty to kill Cui Wanhe." Kong Fansheng said loudly: "Cui Wanhe is loyal on the surface, cunning in his heart, Your Majesty is leading the army here today, this person is obedient on the surface, what he wants is to let His Majesty spare his life, but when His Majesty leaves, this person will rebel again, block the city, and cut off His Majesty's grain route, and ask Your Majesty to be clear." ”

"Oh, isn't Kong Qing too exaggerated, I see that Cui Wanhe is still a smart person, sooner or later the world will fall into my hands, he will cut off my grain at this time, isn't he afraid that I will destroy him?" Li Xin asked curiously.

"The policy adopted by His Majesty in Guanzhong, the landlords reduce rent and interest, the people pay rent and interest, value business rather than agriculture, and suppress the amount of land occupied by the family, which contradicts Cui Wanhe, Cui Wanhe's family has tens of thousands of hectares of land, if it is according to His Majesty's policy, most of Cui Wanhe's land in Fanghe will rush into the imperial court, how can Cui Wanhe agree? What's more, this person is a side branch of the Cui family, and what he hopes is to join the Cui family's main sect and become a courtier of the pseudo-Zhao, which can fully guarantee his interests. Kong Fansheng said loudly.

"I heard that you are also from the Kong clan?" Li Xin said nonchalantly.

"Your Majesty's policy is beneficial to the people of the world, and the ministers who read the books of the sages naturally support Your Majesty." Kong Fansheng said loudly.

"Kong Yingda is now compiling the "Five Classics of Justice" in the court, I see that although you are a scholar, you also have the strength of a scholar, but you are not a good official, you are a side branch of the Kong family, and when you came to Fanghe County, you were actually set up by the county and the county lieutenant. It shows that you are not suitable to be an official for the time being, so let's do it! How about you go to Chang'an first, let your uncle teach you how to be an official, and then come to Fanghe County in the future? Li Xin said with a pleasant face.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. It's just Your Majesty, this side and the city are taken by Your Majesty, if the minister leaves, who will be stationed there? Kong Fansheng hesitated for a while and said.

"Hehe, Kong Qing, do you know that I led an army of 60,000 to Shandong this time, what is the so-called matter?" Li Xin said with a smile: "There are many thieves in Shandong, and they are competing for hegemony, and now they are united with Li Yuan and others. Preparing to deal with me and besieging Bianzhou, I had no choice but to lead a large army to Shandong, in order to disrupt Li Zhao's layout, Li Yuanji led an army of hundreds of thousands, and my army was only 60,000, and it was almost impossible to deal with Li Yuanji. Therefore, although I seized Fanghe, I did not think about occupying Fanghe. Do you understand? ”

Li Xin looked at Kong Fansheng and said, the enemy is close at hand. It is almost impossible to seize Shandong, and perhaps there will be a chance to wait until Li Jing leads the army to come, but now it is impossible.

"I see." Only then did Kong Fansheng understand why Li Xin let him go to Chang'an, in fact, Li Xin did not think about occupying Shandong at this stage. Left behind by Fang He, in the end, it was only the fate of being killed by the enemy.

"Still, I can grant you what you ask, and I'm not afraid to tell you. That's what I want to do. Li Xin said with a smile. He led the army here, except for the grain and grass that could be obtained from Bianzhou before, after entering Shandong, it was difficult to get grain and grass, but fortunately, there were big families all over Shandong, and every time after conquering the city, he looked for a big family with a lot of reputation in the city, killed his life, and took his grain and grass, so that he could meet the needs of the army.

In Fanghe County, Cui Wanhe is the target of his own stranglehold, seizing his fields and grain for his own use. In this way, you can support yourself to do more. Cui Wanhe was just unlucky.

"Is the emperor trying to cause trouble in Shandong?" Kong Fansheng couldn't help but say in surprise.

"In this place of Shandong, there are too many big families, most of them are related to the five surnames and seven wangs, and the corners are all side branches of the five families, or they are related to the five families, for example, isn't this the case with Cui Wanhe today?" Li Xin laughed and said: "So Fang He is just a passerby to me, it's nothing, but if you stay here, I will worry about your safety, so it's better for you to go back to Chang'an first." ”

"Obey." Only then did Kong Fansheng understand why Li Xin said this, it turned out that he didn't want to occupy Fanghe at all, and led the army here to fight the wealthy clan in Shandong. Instead of occupying many cities, it is different from what you think, or many people in the world are different.

"What I want is not only the heart of the world's scholars, but more importantly, the heart of the people of the world, the people of Shandong have three hardships, one is the warlord, the Shandong warlords are divided, the chaos is endless, I lead the army here, is to exterminate these warlords, end the situation of separation, the second is the land, Shandong has less land, so the harvest is insufficient, how can we support the people of Shandong, the third is the family, there are many families in Shandong, occupy fertile land, and there is a large amount of fertile land in their hands, which is the root cause of Shandong's hardship today, in fact, whether it is a warlord or not, or the land, all the sins of Shandong belong to these families and some heinous gentry, such as Cui Wanhe and the like, if I lead the army next time, these families will probably also kneel to the ground and welcome Wang Shi, at that time, I can't kill him, only today. ”

"The minister will go back and leave Fang He with his family and go to Jingshi." Kong Fansheng hurriedly said.

"First go south, go to Xuzhou, and then go to Jingshi. At this time, Li Yuanji has already followed behind, and I really hope that he and Xu Shiji can unite. That's a good show! Li Xin said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, what should Cui Wanhe do?" Wei Chigong said in a low voice.

"Count their crimes tomorrow, and kill them at the entrance of the vegetable market." Li Xin said very calmly: "After the army takes its grain and grass, Jinyiwei can distribute the grain and grass to Fang and the people. I want to see how Li Zhao faces this situation, whether he is safeguarding the interests of the common people or facing the family. ”

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid this matter has spread in the Li Zhao court." Chu Suiliang said with a smile.

"That's for the best." Li Xin said with a smile: "The Shandong families will only oppose me when they feel hopeful, so that I can have a chance to kill a group of people." ”

Early the next morning, Li Xin ordered the army to arrest Cui Wanhe, and found evidence of his collusion with the surrounding bandits in Cui Wanhe's home, as well as a letter with the Cui family of Qinghe.

All the evidence spread, and the party was shaken. In the afternoon of the same day, Li Xin ordered Cui Wanhe to be killed at the entrance of the vegetable market, and dozens of people were killed with Fang and Cui's family. Including the Cui family, there were more than a dozen households of Fang and local tyrants and inferior gentry, Li Xin either ordered to raid the family and exterminate the clan, or confiscate property, etc., and eliminated as much as eighty percent of the gentry in Fang and the upper and lower levels, and then Li Xin ordered that most of the grain, grass, money and grain obtained were distributed to Fang and the people, and there were countless people in Fang and the county who were grateful to Li Xin. For a time, the hearts of the people of the party and the county were all returned to Li Xin.

Jinxiang is also a small city, but in today's Shandong, it is extremely important, Xu Shiji led an army of more than 100,000 troops stationed in Jinxiang, this place is not much away from Li Xin's Fanghe, even if it is a hundred thousand troops to advance, it will only take two days to kill, but now Xu Shiji is helpless, because he received a letter from Li Yuanji, Li Yuanji is about to lead an army of 30,000 to kill Jinxiang.

The purpose of Li Yuanji's coming Xu Shiji is very clear, obviously he has taken a fancy to Li Xin's head, whether it is in the eyes of Li Yuanji or Xu Shiji, Li Xin, who has only 60,000 troops, is definitely not an opponent of nearly 200,000 troops, as long as Li Xin is surrounded in Shandong, at least Li Xin can be trapped and killed, and finally Li Xin's head can be obtained.

The credit for killing Li Xin is not only Xu Shiji, but Li Yuanji also wants to have it, so after knowing Xu Shiji's location, Li Yuanji began to write to Xu Shiji, at the beginning, the words were much more polite, in recent days, Li Yuanji knew that Xu Shiji's army was constantly approaching, and the wording was a lot harsher, which made Xu Shiji a little more dissatisfied in addition to being annoyed.

Li Zhao is different from Li Xin, Li Zhao's military power is mostly in the hands of the clan, even if it is Xu Shiji, his military power is also under Li Shimin's hands, otherwise, Xingyang's 60,000 army will not be his turn at all. Don't look at the fact that he is now holding a male army, but as long as he says a word, Xu Shiji has to give up his military power, this is the opportunity for the general surnamed Li Zhao to have no chance to master the army at all.

"See! This is Li Zhao. In the camp of Qiyancheng, Liu Lan looked at the big tent in the middle in the distance and said: "Third prince, Li Zhao looks like this, how can he be the opponent of the Tang Emperor, the Tang Emperor has been ravaging Shandong for so long, we are just chasing behind, but we dare not stop it in front." Let Li Xin crisscross Shandong, and beat Shandong to pieces, even if Li Xin leaves, I'm afraid what we get is just a broken Shandong. ”

"Teacher, what should we do now?" Qi Yancheng arched his hand and said: "My father's Beihai County is facing the sea, I think Li Xin will not attack Beihai, that place is the hinterland, if Li Xin goes deep into the hinterland, even if we don't fight him, I'm afraid we can only be trapped in Shandong." ”

Liu Lan's face moved when she heard this, she thought about it, and finally shook her head and said: "If I were the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, I would take advantage of the fact that our army was gathered in my hands, and I would go around in circles with us, and I would never go deep into the hinterland, but this time it was different, I heard that Li Yuanji was coming, Li Yuanji would take power, and I don't know if he would change his mind." ”

"Teacher, even students can guess such a strategy as forcing Li Xin to death, so Xu Shiji is also a generation of famous generals, how can he not know? The disciple always felt that there was some conspiracy in this? Qi Yancheng said with some skepticism. (To be continued......)