Chapter Forty-Eight: Eating Meat (It's on the shelves in the afternoon, the last chapter is free, please support it!) )
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When Gou Sheng saw this person, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said:
"Mr. Wang!"
The person who came was Wang Shuwen. He was mourning in Shanyin, and Gou Sheng invited him over in a letter more than ten days ago. Civil officials and eunuchs have always been less than in the same pot, but after all, Gou Sheng and Wang Shuwen fought side by side by Li Yu's side, and Gou Sheng used the name of the emperor, so Wang Shuwen came to Runzhou regardless of his seventy years of age.
After returning to his hometown for more than a year, Wang Shuwen's Wu Yue accent became heavier and heavier, and it was a little difficult to listen to Gou Sheng, but he could barely keep up. Wang Shuwen's first sentence was to ask:
"How is Your Majesty's health?"
Gou Sheng is naturally very good, and asked some about Wang Shuwen's recent situation, Wang Shuwen returned to his hometown for more than a year, but he accepted a lot of students in the township, teaching students to entertain himself every day, plus the identity of the emperor's teacher, the magistrate is very respectful, and the life is still very comfortable, but he has great ambitions but is trapped in the township, and he is embarrassed to see that the limit is approaching.
To be honest, the reason why Li Yu arranged for Gou Shenglai this time was also to find an excuse to reinstate Wang Shuwen, as for the excuse?
Li Qi!
Wang Shuwen said:
"Li Qi will be opposed. He was in western Zhejiang (Li Qi was reappointed as the envoy of Zhenhai Jiedu from the observation envoy of western Zhejiang, and the salt transfer envoy was the handwriting of Wang Shuwen), and he accumulated hundreds of millions of fortunes for the sake of the disaster, how could he really enter the court and be controlled? If the court acquiesces to him, he will continue to stay in Runzhou and be his envoy, if the court does not allow it, he will be forcibly recruited into the court, and he will inevitably raise troops to divide the territory. ”
Gou Sheng asked:
"Mr. Wang is so sure?"
Wang Shuwen nodded and said:
"I'm 80% sure. This is also the reason why His Majesty asked your father-in-law to come to Runzhou. My father-in-law is doing a good job these days. ”
Gou Sheng smiled worriedly and said:
"If Li Qi rebels, what should he do next?"
Wang Shuwen smiled lightly:
"Peaceful."
Since Lu Zhen served as the envoy of Shannan Dongdao as the prime minister, Lu Zhen's affairs were given to Wu Yuanheng in the past, and the right servant Yi Shen was transferred to the secretary of the military department, and the respected position of the right servant was given to Yu Di. Wu Yuanheng said to the emperor with a calm face in the Xuanzheng Palace:
"If Li Qi wants to enter the court, he will enter the court, or he will not enter the court, whether he enters or not, it is up to him to enter or not, where is the prestige of the court?"
Li Yu, who was in the middle of the heart, immediately nodded in agreement, drafted an edict according to Wu Yuanheng's suggestion, and officially issued an edict to recruit Li Qi as the left servant, and enter the court within a time limit, appointing the original Yicheng army festival envoy who was frightened by Li Shigu last year, and the current imperial historian Li Yuan as the new Zhenhai festival envoy.
Prior to this, Li Shidao had already been appointed as he wanted. After Li Shigu's death in leap May, the imperial court delayed issuing an edict to recognize Li Shidao's status according to Lu Zhen's suggestion, but Li Shidao generously did not take it to heart. In July, before and after a dinner, Li Shidao, the newly elected deputy envoy of Ziqing Pinglu Jiedu, wiped his mouth and said to his generals and strategists:
"Autumn is coming, the food is sufficient, the horses are fat, I see that the soldiers are all idle birds, just to fight for recreation, let's walk the horses to the west and south, to welcome the envoys of the court!"
Li Shidao stood for two months, and felt that Li Shidao was the same as Li Shigu, and Gao Mu, who had died early and had a short life, hurriedly stopped:
"It's not okay to be handsome, there is a plan to get the festival seal without raising swords."
The name is undecided, the people's hearts are restless, there are already rumors outside that the imperial court will choose a prestigious successor from the Ziqing generals as the Jiedu envoy, and some people say that this is Li Shigu's last words, and some people say that the imperial court intends to divide Ziqing into three towns, led by Li Shidao and the generals in the army, Li Shidao's position is very unstable, so he came up with the idea of looting everywhere to force the imperial court to admit it, and in fact, he did not dare to guarantee that the army would not be bad in the nest, Gao Mu said this, Li Shidao immediately became interested.
What Gao Mu said is actually very simple, that is, like other feudal towns, to give face to the imperial court, we Tang people, don't we want to save face? Let's take a stand, lose two taxes, please stab history, and the imperial court will not naturally admit it as soon as the posture is high? When the time comes, whether you lose or lose taxes, whether you accept the history of assassination or not, isn't it your words?
So when Ziqing's had a seal to the imperial court, Du Huangshang said:
"Your Majesty, it's okay."
The imperial court officially issued an edict appointing Li Shidao as the queen of the festival, that is, the acting envoy of the festival, and the envoy of the festival was led by Li Weiyao, the king of Shao. This is a result that is satisfactory to both sides, Li Shidao got the recognition he wanted, and the imperial court got the name he wanted, and this recognition and reputation are good excuses for fighting in the future.
Returning to the town navy, Wang Tang, who saw that he already had real power after being left behind, finally couldn't help but stuff 5,000 yuan into Gou Sheng's arms, and under the encouragement of Gou Sheng's harmless smile, he began to seize power. Who doesn't have relatives and cronies? Who doesn't have a group of relatives and cronies? Only the new people laugh, who knows that the old people cry?
Li Qi knows. Li Qi said:
"The old man has no choice, the old man is no longer a festival envoy, the edict of the imperial court to recruit the old man to shoot for the left servant has come down, and the old man will leave for the court soon. You have followed the old man for many years, and the old man doesn't want to see this, but the old man is no longer a festival envoy, Lord Wang Tang has his thoughts, everyone, the old man can't help! ”
"Li Monkey, when you are going to starve to death from Guanzhong, who will give you food, clothes to wear, and accept you into Bangqiang (Bangqiang, Fanluo is Li Qi's personal soldier number) to get a high salary?"
"It's Li Dashuai!"
"Uliangha, you were sold as a slave from the grassland, who bought you, removed your slave status for you, and accepted you into the Tibetan Empire?"
"Naturally, it's Li Dashuai."
"Zhang Tietou, you are a fucking Jiang Yang thief, who committed a crime in Luoyang and committed fourteen murders, who saved you?"
"Captain Li, don't talk damn nonsense, say what does the big boss want us to do!"
"Sons, Li Dashuai gave us a lot of copper coins, let us spend it, give us women who can't sleep, enjoy endless wealth, treat us like our own sons, none of us 600 people have not received Li Dashuai's favor, now the court wants to take Li Dashuai, Wang Tang, a dog mongrel, wants to drive away Li Dashuai, can we agree?"
"Of course not, Captain Li, none of our brothers are afraid of death, let's talk about what we want to do! Lao Tzu's hands are itchy. ”
Li Jun smiled strangely and said:
"Dashuai, let's go eat meat."
Gou Sheng and Wang Tang rode to the government office, and Wang Tang confided:
"Father-in-law, Li Shuai is occupying a position and refuses to leave, you have to think of a way, as soon as the officials appointed by the lower officials arrive, they will either be driven away or set aside, Li Qi will not leave, and the subordinates will not listen to me at all. You see, he said he was sick, and he went to the yamen to work today. ”
Gou Sheng is still the same as no one, and said:
"Don't worry, I will speak well of him today."
Everything in the government office is the same as before, except that a large pot is placed in the middle of the courtyard, boiling hot water, and the two of them can't help but be stunned for a moment.