November 17 of the first year of Tang Guangming, late at night.

It has been twelve days since Huang Chaobing came to Chang'an.

According to the Gregorian calendar year, it has reached January 28, 881 AD.

Of course, even Li Jie, who studies history, can't be counted, after all, not anyone's brain can be a perpetual calendar.

There was still a lot of discussion in the living room in the backyard of the Tongzhou Defense Envoy, and a few arm-thick candles lit up inch-high fireworks to illuminate the hall.

Now that Li Jie has decided to accept Meng Zhaotu's advice and go north, it is necessary to plan and understand in advance, especially those military town commanders who are more difficult to deal with.

The people in the court generally called the Jiedu envoys "military envoys" or "jiedu", but in the local area, whether it was the tooth soldiers and the tooth generals, or other assassin county commanders who managed the general affairs, most of them called them "jieshuai".

There is a little bit of flattery and sycophancy in it, and the force is a lot higher.

For example, the bad handsome, in fact, the real official title is the commander of the bad people in the state capital.

But how can the commander be handsome?

In the army, even two fires formed a brigade, which was equivalent to a grassroots officer such as a company commander in later generations, was called a "brigade commander".

Li Jie also felt that the title of handsome was better than that of the military envoy, and he immediately used it in his words.

Song Wentong was a little amused when he heard it, after all, he was the envoy of the festival and had nothing but military power.

Zheng Congyan was even more embarrassed, after all, he still had the identity of Tongping Zhangshi, who was qualified to enter the court of the Central People's Republic of China, and the sensible people basically called him "Zheng Xianggong".

But in the face of Shouwang Li Jie, he can only automatically filter out this title in his ears.

At this time, he was seriously reporting to Li Jie the specific situation of the twenty-one large and small military towns in Hedong, from the Jiedu envoy to his troops, the sphere of influence, the character, and what the black history is...

Li Jie kept nodding his head, but he didn't know if he had listened or not.

Meng Zhaotu worked hard to write on the side, recording all of them in detail in case of emergency.

It wasn't until the time of the child that Zheng Congyan simply finished his statement,

Finally, he said: "Hedong is probably these, but it is better not to touch some military towns, they are all from the border army, and they have been stationed in several passes to guard against the party and Tatars, and it is not easy to draw troops." ”

Li Jie nodded, these forces cannot be transferred, otherwise as Li Tang's rear will catch fire again, the consequences will be unimaginable.

As soon as Wang Chongrong died, it was only a day since Song Wentong took over, and the matter there would wait until he saw the history of the Puzhou assassin.

He stood up and stretched his waist, so that he had time to ask Meng Zhaotu about persuading Shang Rang to surrender.

Meng Zhaotu shook his head,

"This person is indeed a great talent, but now he is obsessed with the killing of his brother, and bluntly says that as long as His Royal Highness helps him kill Song Wei, he will willingly return to the Tang Dynasty."

Song Wei.

At the mention of this person, everyone present shook their heads.

It's not easy, or it's impossible.

Because he is the governor of Yangzhou, the in-laws of Gao Biao, the salt and iron transfer envoy, and at the same time, he is also the envoy of the Pinglu Army, one of the top ten military towns in the world during the Xuanzong period!

By the time of Tang Xizong, although there was no longer the power of the original ten military towns, it was still one of the most powerful military town bosses in Hebei Province, and it was on par with Li Keju, the envoy of Lulong Jiedu in Youzhou.

This is completely a problem for Li Zhuo.

Li Jie is also helpless.

"Then let's lock it up first, it's a pity to kill it!"

Before going to bed, he rushed to the city uncomfortably and looked at Deng Tianwang's marching camp again, the lights were bright, it seemed that it was impossible to have a surprise attack on the White Tiger Regiment, and Gao Silun chatted for a while about the experience of defending the city, and slept directly in the city tower.

It's really uncomfortable for him to go back to that mansion to rest.

In the next two days, although he was anxious to go north immediately, he still had to help Gao Silun stabilize the morale of the army in Tongzhou and select available people to fill some positions in the army.

At the same time, he was also frightened by Zheng Congyan's huge staff team.

The deputy envoy of the festival degree is Wang Diao, and Xiantong is a three-year jinshi.

Liu Chonggui, the judge of Jiedu, was a six-year jinshi in Xiantong and served as the secretary of the criminal department.

Push official Liu Chonglu, in the first year of Guangming, that is, last year's Jinshi and the first, Zhang Bang was soon directly asked to leave by Zheng Congyan.

The secretary Li Shu, this is also a Jinshi, and Lao Tzu Li Wei was still Tang Yizong's right servant, school inspection Sikong, and the Ministry of Rites!

....

Anyway, as long as it is an important official under the rule of the Jiedu envoy, and Yishui'er is a Jinshi, it is no wonder that Zheng Congyan was ridiculed by the ministers of the DPRK and China for going to Hedong Jiedu, which is simply taking away a "small court"!

Li Jie was jealous to death.

This king was born and died for more than half a month, and the generals who can fight under his command are not counted, and this clerical job is also a talent who is not worthy of lifting shoes.

So, he thought about poaching the two of them from Zheng Congyan.

Then he touched a nose of ash.

Zheng Congyan was originally based on the future of high-ranking officials, and Qian Silk was a brick to seek these high-end talents, even if Li Jie was the king of Shou, he dared to fight on the basis of reason and resolutely refused to let go.

The handful of rice in the salt pond in the river was not stolen, if even the staff members were broken, he would really dare to turn his face with Li Jie.

It was in this extremely disappointed situation that Li Jie left the north gate of Tongzhou, and for some reason he thought of Lu Yan, who was guarding filial piety at home.

"It's a pity that this black-faced scholar is not a jinshi."

Passing by the already empty military town where Zhu Wen was once stationed, he rode on a horse and finally saw the legendary Pujin Pass!

This Pujin Pass is located on the east bank of the Yellow River, Hedong County of Puzhou, the importance of this pass is not the pass itself, but behind it, the Baniu pontoon bridge erected on the Yellow River, that is, the Pujin Bridge.

The reason why Li Yuan was able to quickly occupy Guanzhong and claim the title of emperor in Chang'an was also because of the reason why the main general of Puzhou surrendered without a fight at that time, otherwise I really don't know if he could rush into Chang'an in front of the other princes.

The bridge is one zhang eight zhang wide and 100 zhang long, and there are 20 huge boats carrying the thick wooden bridge deck below, and the two sides are fixed and pulled by several arm-thick iron chains.

And the most eye-catching thing is the eight huge iron bulls on both sides of the strait.

It is said that each of the eight iron oxen used to fix this bridge weighed 200,000 catties, and the annual iron output of the Tang Dynasty at that time was only more than 600,000 catties.

The bridge was used as an important pass for a long time, until the Yellow River was diverted, and the eight iron oxen were also sealed under the mud and sand, and it was not until more than a thousand years later that they were rediscovered.

There is a more famous place that goes up less than ten miles along the Yellow River from this pass, that is, Fenglingdu.

When Guo Xiang saw Yang, he was wrong for life.

Of course, this is a novel, and now Li Jie can associate these strange places.

At this time, the Yellow River was basically frozen, only some water could still be seen in the center, and the twenty pontoons were basically frozen.

Now walking on the bridge does not feel swaying at all, while he is cranky, while enjoying the crystal clear ice scenery on both sides of the river, he crosses the Yellow River and comes to the boundary of the river in the middle of the river.

His first stop was the nearby city of Puzhou, the capital of the river.

There is only one purpose for going.

That's asking for money!