Beginning on March 18, Li Xin sacrificed the banner in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an City to the Northern Expedition to the Turks, the general Li Jing led 300,000 cavalry as the commander of the army, and the famous generals Su Dingfang, Cheng Yanjin, Wang Junkuo, etc., followed by the famous generals Qin Huaiyu, Cheng Tieniu and other more than a dozen generals and the second generation also joined the war.

As a partial division, there was also an army of 50,000 led by Li Xuanba, who would unite with the 70,000 Turkic soldiers led by the Western Turk Khan Ashina Ni on the steppe to launch an attack on the moving Turks.

Li Xin himself only took Wei Chigong to lead 20,000 troops to Taiyuan to supervise the battle, and the so-called supervision of the war was actually just to supervise the transportation of grain and grass. There were quite a few civil officials accompanying him, and Cen Wenwen and others all set off with Li Xin's Luan.

"Your Majesty, Zheng Renji, the prefect of Hedong, is driving ahead." Luan drove across the Yellow River and entered the territory of Hedong, and Song He came over and said.

"People from the Zheng family in Xingyang?" Li Xin frowned, it is undeniable that these five surnames and seven wangs are indeed some capable, at least they can give birth and raise them, and their descendants will be passed down, and by virtue of their relationship, the prefect of Hedong is also a member of the Zheng family.

"Your Majesty, Zheng Renji is a lineage of Xiangcheng Gong, the minister has heard of this person, and this person's official reputation is not bad." On top of the dragon, Cen Wenwen sat opposite Li Xin, holding Yunzi in his hand, and after listening to Li Xin's words, he suddenly smiled and said: "However, Zheng Renji's reputation is very large, but part of it is because of his daughter. ”

"Jung In-ki's daughter? Why, isn't it beautiful? Li Xin suddenly became interested, and said with a smile: "The beauty that can attract Lord Cen must be very good." ”

"Zheng Renji's daughter is called Zheng Liwan, and her appearance is unmatched." Cen Wenwen said with a smile: "Don't say that it is in Hedong, even in the capital, and it is also spread far away, and I heard that there are countless people who come to ask for relatives. Among them, the most promising ones to become the Zheng family's east bed fast son-in-law are only Lu Shuang, Yu Chang and others. ”

"A child of the Jiangnan family, this Zheng Renji is a bit interesting." Li Xin shook his head and said: "Most of the five surnames and seven wangs are intermarried among the five surnames, but this Zheng Renji is looking for a Jiangnan family. ”

"Because of this, the relationship between Zheng Renji and the Zheng family in Xingyang is not very good." Cen Wenwen explained.

Li Xin nodded, what Cen Wenwen said was not very good, in fact, he wanted to tell Li Xin that Zheng Renji could become the prefect of Hedong, but in fact it had little to do with the Zheng family in Xingyang, and immediately threw the Yunzi in his hand aside and said, "Let's go!" Now that we have come to greet us. Then go down and see, this place in Hedong, here, but there have been several big battles! The destruction of the people of Hedong is quite severe, and I don't know how Zheng Renji is governing Hedong here. Let's rest in Hedong for a while! ”

"Yes." Cen Wenwen nodded.

"Minister Zheng Renji to see Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live Long live." Outside Hedong City, Zheng Renji, the prefect of Hedong, led Hedong Wenwu to fall outside the city gate.

"Get up!" Li Xin got out of the carriage and glanced at Zheng Renji. Seeing that the other party is fair-skinned, he is a middle-aged handsome guy, presumably with good genes, otherwise. will not give birth to a beauty like Zheng Liwan, and even Cen Wenwen will praise the other party for her beauty. However, it can be seen that there is more sorrow between the other party's eyebrows. I don't know what bothered the prefect.

"What is the current population of Hedong?" Li Xin looked into the distance, faintly showing a hint of depression, and suddenly asked.

"About 100,000 households. Some people are hiding in the mountains and forests, but the minister has sent people to persuade these people to go down to the mountains to live and work in peace and contentment, after all, the imperial court has no internal enemies, and presumably the population of Hedong will soon increase. Zheng Renji gave the answer after a little thought.

Li Xin nodded, in fact, among the 100,000 households, there is probably still some moisture, and there are many things about large households hiding the population, although Li Xin ordered someone to take stock of the population of the whole country, but sometimes when the imperial court is doing it, the people below may not be serious about it. There are 100,000 households on the bright side of Hedong, which is already very good.

"Not bad. You're a good prefect. After hearing this, Li Xin nodded and said.

"Your Majesty, please call the shots for the villain!" At this time, a man who looked like a squire came out of the back of the line, fell to the ground, and wept loudly.

Li Xin's face was stunned, he glanced at Zheng Renji, but saw that Zheng Renji's face was gloomy, his eyes were full of anger, his heart moved slightly, and he glanced at many ministers in Hedong, but saw that some of them had a good face, some of them had a complicated face, and some of them showed regret, which suddenly made Li Xin curious.

"What have you been wronged about? Why don't you complain to Lord Zheng? Li Xin said in a calm voice. This guy, Zheng Renji may be upset in his heart, that's it! It's just that I didn't expect that this Zheng Renji has not controlled Hedong until now, and there are still people in Hedong City who are against him?

"The prefect's subordinates killed people, and the prefect was found not guilty, and the villain was weak and did not dare to be the enemy of the prefect, so he was forced to ask His Majesty to call the shots." The squire fell to his knees and said aloud.

"Oh, Jung In-ki, is there such a thing?" Li Xin looked at the squire kneeling on the ground lightly, and then looked at Zheng Renji and said.

"Your Majesty, if the minister's subordinates really kill someone, the minister will never dare to shield this person, but according to the minister's observation, the minister's subordinates did not kill people at all, so how can the minister convict him." Zheng Renji said solemnly: "You can't be innocent because you are a subordinate of the minister, but you have to condemn him." The minister can't do it. ”

"According to the procurator, your presiding officer Hedong is punished, do you know about this matter?" Li Xin looked at an official in a crimson official robe behind Zheng Renji and said.

"Your Majesty, the minister has tried this matter, but there are still some doubts in this matter, and the minister thinks that it should be retried, but Lord Zheng thinks that this case does not need to be tried, it is Xue Li who wronged a good person, and the minister does not know how to be good, and please make it clear to Your Majesty." Xue Chenggui said in a low voice.

"Humph! Lord Xue, is the thing Xue Li said really the charter doing? Zheng Renji glanced at Xue Chenggui with disdain, and there was a hint of ruthlessness in his eyes. sneered: "Lord Xue, what is the relationship between this Xue Li and you, do you still need to say this?" ”

"Alright, let's go back to the city." Li Xin snorted coldly and said: "It's really interesting, the same hall is a minister, attacking each other, making the world laugh, you are also embarrassed to call me the parents of my Tang Dynasty, look at what you are wearing, hum!" ”

Li Xin knew that there must be a problem here, but he didn't know who was right and who was wrong, but his impression of the two people was much worse, Zheng Renji, as the prefect, didn't even have any control over his subordinates, and was attacked by a squire, Xue Chenggui didn't care if what he said was true or not, but one thing was for sure, and the relationship with this Xue Li was also obvious, and it was impossible to say that he was not selfish.

"The dignified prefect of Hedong was actually pinched by his subordinates, what a joke. Is this Zheng Renji really a capable minister? Li Xin got into the carriage and said to Cen Wenwen dissatisfied.

"Your Majesty, the minister took a look this year, the population of Datang is about 2.9 million households, and there are 100,000 households in Hedong alone, Your Majesty, Hedong is recovering very quickly! Although Zheng Renji is who he is, he is from a family. Cen Wenwen said in a low voice: "As a member of the family, but the population of the family has been dug out, how can those places in Hedong be happy." ”

"Do you think Jung In-gi is a good official?" Li Xin hesitated for a while.

"Don't you know, the minister thinks that the relationship between Xue Chenggui and Xue Li is not simple, Xue Chenggui is at least mixed with personal feelings, Your Majesty can let Jinyi Wei check it, maybe there will be some gains." Cen Wenwen whispered.

"Yes, Hedong is a little interesting, partial belief is dark, the two of them have their own words, I have just arrived, and I don't know who is right and who is wrong, so I can only play fifty boards each." Li Xin nodded and said.

"Your Majesty lives in the city?" Cen Wenwen asked.

"Well, let's live in the city!" Li Xin nodded and said, "Can the palace built by Yang Guang back then be cleaned up?" Li Yuan seems to have lived in it! "Yang Guang's biggest feature is to build granaries everywhere, build palaces everywhere, Hedong is an important military town, and there are palaces built by Yang Guang in those years.

"It's been cleaned up, just waiting for Your Majesty to move in, the chamberlains and palace maids inside have been carefully examined, as long as the people who have been in contact with the Li family have already made arrangements, I don't think there is any problem." Cen Wenwen hurriedly said.

"Did you find out?" Li Xin didn't ask about it that day, but after settling down in the camp, he found a palace to rest, and only found Shen Qianqiu to ask early the next morning.

"It didn't be clarified in a short time, but the minister asked the Jinyi Guard in the city, and the feud between Zheng Renji and Xue Chenggui was a recognized matter. Both are a bit wrong. There is no murder in Zheng Renji's family, but there are also bullies on weekdays. Shen Qianqiu explained in a low voice.

"What do they grudge against?" Li Xin asked again.

"At the beginning of the Hedong War, many families and local heroes occupied a lot of fields, causing the people of Hedong to go home, the fields have been occupied by others, after Zheng Renji took office, he helped these people to recapture these fields, which made Hedong Haoqiang very dissatisfied with Zheng Renji. However, many people fell into the hands of the family and became their tenants, and Zheng Renji also killed these powerful clans, which made Hedong increase a lot. But Zheng Renji's methods in Hedong made the family even more dissatisfied with him. And Zheng Renji is undoubtedly much worse in terms of family education, and his strength makes his family members show off their power in Hedong City. That's when people got caught. Shen Qianqiu hurriedly told the news he had found.

"The capable officials think they are capable officials, but this way of dealing with them is a little worse." Li Xin touched his forehead and said.

"Perhaps. Zheng Renji's family background did not bring him much convenience, and even this time, the powerful may know that His Majesty does not like the family, so they will take the opportunity to make trouble. Shen Qianqiu thought for a while and said. (To be continued.) )