The luncheon was held in the Lu Mansion, Li Mi didn't play well at all, and several "quite musical" musicians performed programs, the key was the half-old who had no charm, and Li Mi was so disappointed. During the banquet, a group of literati talked clearly, and Li Mi said that he had also engraved books on books, but he couldn't interject, and he didn't know what use they had in talking about those mysteries. He drank for a while and couldn't help but say, "Fade out of the bird." ”

One sentence exposed that this Li Mi was originally a layman, but he didn't expect him to be vulgar like this, and Lu Gong couldn't help but show disdain, that look was not only despising Li Mi, but also despising the entire Xue Chongxun regime. Originally, I saw that this imperial history had to be reused at a young age, and I thought it was a bit of cultural cultivation, but I said things like "fade out of the bird" in public, and it was just a military general, and this guy was obviously a civil official.

However, Wang Xian of Changshi already had an idea, and in the afternoon, he took Li Mi out of the Lu Mansion and went to the state government in the name of assisting the imperial history office. In the evening, a dinner was held among the official prostitutes set up under the state government, and Li Mi returned to his place of stay with great pleasure.

The two servant girls who served him at night were plump and exposed, and Li Mi felt that he often flattered him, so he was not polite, and raped them until dawn.

However, he was still worried about something serious during the day, and he got up early in the morning, and two women came naked to entangle him, but Li Mi's attitude changed suddenly, where was the tenderness and sweetness of last night, and kicked one of them over, hitting his head at the foot of the bed and bleeding nonstop.

When I went to the state government to see Changshi and others, I unexpectedly treated each other with wine, and every time I mentioned that I was inspecting various places, they looked left and turned to him. It was like this for three days in a row, Li Mi was afraid that the entourage who came with him would go back and say bad things, and he remembered that Huang En was promoted unusually, and he couldn't sit still after three days.

At the luncheon one day, he mentioned that he would first inspect the army, and then inspect the governance of the land where the Han people and the young people lived, and Wang Xianzhi and others still diverted the topic and only talked about the things that Li Mi was interested in. This time, Li Mi was furious, suddenly lifted the food table, and shouted: "What are you hiding and covering?" ”

The ground was in a mess, the Youzhou officials looked at each other, and Wang Xianzhi of Changshi calmed down and said: "Li Yushi said that he laughed, where are we covering up?" The imperial history led the emperor's holy decree from the capital, let's treat it with courtesy, as a sign of admiration, why is the imperial history angry? ”

After lifting the food table, Li Mi's anger disappeared mostly, and at this time, he also thought that the Youzhou officials really had no place to slacken, and they also found women to play every night, and besides, if they wanted to do their errands well, they had to rely on the cooperation of the local officials, otherwise he Li Mi would bring a few people to come, and the huge and complicated Youzhou military and government would be clear in what year and month?

Li Mi said: "Wang Changshi and the others have received their kindness, but they can't set up endless banquets, songs and dances all day long, from today onwards, every day from midnight to unitary time for office time, you should try your best to assist me in inspecting military and political affairs, so that I can return to report to the emperor as soon as possible." The luncheon was also saved, and I appointed my entourage to bring food boxes to deal with it. ”

Youzhou officials agreed. Li Mi walked around the Jin Palace, and was also affected by the style of doing things, without saying a word, he asked the Governor of Youzhou to send someone to assist him in inspecting the official soldiers stationed near Youzhou City that afternoon: the standing army directly under the central government, except for the government soldiers who exist in name only, this is the current first-class imperial regular army; Then there were the border troops stationed in the border towns for a long time. Guan Jian was a professional soldier who received the emperor's rations completely, and the border army actually had their families close to the station, and although they also received supplies, their families would engage in other economies.

Li Mi saw that the military discipline in the camp was strict, and the armor and ordnance were complete. The stubborn and stubborn soldiers look pretty good, but Governor Zhao Qu is not exactly a drunkard. But Li Mi immediately asked the accompanying governor's bureaucrats: "How many people are here?" All the soldiers of the governor of Youzhou are in the camp? ”

The accompanying officials were nervous, and they didn't dare to talk nonsense, if they said that they were sent elsewhere, then Li Mi might ask where they went, maybe they had to go to see it, the governor's military power was limited, and when there was no strict military situation, he couldn't transfer the army too far, and it was not too difficult to see it on the spot. The official said, "All of them are here, about 3,000 people." ”

Li Mi said in a fierce voice: "About? How much is more than three thousand? ”

The official hurriedly called someone to go to the governor's mansion to get the roster, and cold sweat flowed. Dare to love Li Mi's good wine, good meat, and lustful hospitality these days are all in vain?

After the roster was brought in, Li Mi flipped through it and said: "Before I left, I checked the file of the military department, and it was clear that there were 8,342 officers and soldiers in Youzhou, and there were only so many governors with the 'army' as the system?" Where are more than half of the places, and you are paid empty? On the one hand, the Khitan wants to oppose the urgency of the military situation, and on the other hand, it cuts off the actual number of soldiers, what is the intention? ”

After a while, Zhao Qu also hurried over and explained to Li Mi: "There is a truth in this, Li Yushi didn't figure it out. Youzhou soldiers turned out to be more than 8,000 people, but when the emperor personally recruited the Turks, he transferred troops from Youzhou, and we didn't dare to fill the number with the old and weak, so we first cut off a part, and half of the Youzhou soldiers were killed and wounded on the battlefield in Monan, and the wounded could not be incorporated into the governor's mansion. After that, there are only more than 3,000 people left, and the official health belongs to the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, and we have no right to recruit soldiers without authorization, and the result is that the list that Li Yushi has seen now, the Governor's Office has copied a copy and submitted it to the Ministry of War. If we deceived Chang'an and ate empty salaries, where did Li Yushi's roster come from? We dare not say that the delivery of the new volume to Chang'an is well documented, and we will never dare to believe it. ”

Zhao Qu also explained: "The Governor's Mansion is not enough soldiers, and we can't add names to the roster without authorization before the Ministry of War (the imperial court pays salaries), in order to stabilize the defense of Youzhou, the Governor's Mansion uses the method of increasing town soldiers and local regimental training to solve the problem, and the border areas are composed of castle guard arrangements with strong soldiers in the city, town soldiers, and regimental training township soldiers. ”

After Zhao Qu pleaded out, Li Mi no longer blamed, and only said that he would inspect the site in two days.

After Li Mi went back in the evening, his entourage persuaded him: "Ming Gong is just ordered to see the situation, and he quietly reads the report clearly, so why bother not to go with them locally?" After all, this territory is managed by Wang and Zhao. ”

"Are you afraid, do they dare to disagree with me?" Li Mi said coldly, "Even if I die, I will be considered to have completed my mission, and the imperial court will make its own decision." ”

His attendants stopped admonishing him.

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Changshi Wang Xianzhi and Governor Zhao Qu also met privately to care about Li Mi's affairs. It stands to reason that under the local pattern of the Jin Dynasty, Wang and Zhao were fundamentally two people, and the place where there was military activity at this time was the separation of military and government. The governor is in charge of a place of soldiers and horses, including the imperial court soldiers and various local miscellaneous armies; In order to prevent the warlords from separating the territory, Xue Chongxun revoked the real power of the Jiedu envoy before he ascended the throne and became an honorary title, and the same status as the previous governor, for example, Cheng Qianli, the secretary of the military department, hung the official title of the envoy of Longyou, in fact, others in Beijing could not manage anything in Longyou. The envoy is not allowed to interfere in military affairs, and can only manage civil affairs, finance, prisons, etc., and compared with the Tang Dynasty, the name has not changed much, and the substance has changed a lot.

Yushi Wang and Zhao are in charge of the army and the government, that is, there are not many people who have intersecting powers, but they have close contacts, often participate in various banquets and activities together, and have a good relationship on weekdays.

Wang Xianzhi, who was wide and fat, looked generous and unresponsive, but at this time he already sensed that something was wrong, and said to Zhao Qu: "Look at Li Mi's matter, I'm afraid the situation is not good." The imperial court did not send him to check the Khitan military situation, but to check on us, Chang'an must have suspected us first before sending such a person down. ”

Zhao Qu's expression was not very optimistic, three vertical lines formed between his eyebrows, and he pondered for a long time before saying: "Even if you are suspicious, it doesn't matter, we don't have much to grasp at the moment." ”

"What does General Zhao mean to sit and wait to be killed?" Wang Xianzhi said unhappily, "The imperial court has already begun to suspect us, if Li Mi goes back and says two unfavorable words, what does General Zhao think will happen to us?" ”

Zhao Qu Zhengse said: "We don't have real evidence to get Chang'an, what can we do?" It's a big deal to transfer to another place and continue to be an official, can Chang'an still arrest local officials and send them to prison for some reason? ”

Wang Xianzhi said: "You think lightly, if you don't know what to do, maybe our business in Youzhou has already been secretly reported to Chang'an, transfer a place?" It's just right, you can get you whatever you want when you leave the Youzhou territory. ”

"Aren't the governors and the long history all rogue officials? You really regard Youzhou as your own territory. What was the idea for us to join forces? Seeing that the Xue clan ascended the throne in a hurry, they had no strength in their hands to prevent the world from being in chaos, isn't there no chaos in the world now? What we can do, what you want to do! Zhao is a Beijing official, and his family is in Chang'an; It's good that you have taken root in Youzhou. What should I do if something happens to Zhao's family, Wang Minggong, you don't have a backache when you stand and talk. ”

Wang Xianzhi said: "Thinking about your wife and children all day long, is it a way to do big things?" ”

Zhao Qu said: "If your Wang Changshi's family is also in Chang'an, and you say this to me again, I will obey you." ”

"I'm doing this for your own good, too." Wang Xianzhi sighed, "Do you think that people will check whether there is any vacant salary, and how much oil and water is in the salary of thousands of soldiers?" General Zhao's biggest problem was the town soldiers and regimental training. ”

"What's the problem?" Zhao Qu was puzzled.

"You have raised too many Khitan, Xi and other non-ethnic people." Wang Xianzhi said, "General Zhao only marches and arranges the formation, can you know that the attitude of the emperor to the minister in the temples of the Great Jin Dynasty is extremely distrustful of the barbarians? What they say is that they are not of our race, and their hearts must be different, and there is also the Huayi distinction that has been discussed endlessly in recent years, what do you think is going on? Su Jin supported the emperor in Monan, and the reason for finding it was that the Xue family was a Han with strong roots. That's it, you really don't understand? ”

Zhao Quqiang argued: "Those people I recruited can fight, and besides, there are still few Hu people in Youzhou, what is the way to expand the source of troops in Youzhou?" If you are not young enough, do you have to give up the skilled Hu'er and fill the old Han people? ”

Wang Xianzhi only sighed, looking very mysterious. G