In the wax moon season, the weather is getting colder and colder.

Li Xuan hugged Xia Niang, who was wrapped in only a pair of eyes, and walked back and forth in the backyard.

The little one babbled and danced.

Half a day later, Li Xuan took Xiaoxia Niang back to the house and carried her to the stove to roast the fire.

Liu Jinyu sat in front of the paper window to settle the accounts, and all the expenses of the Nanchang Palace this year must be calculated clearly.

"This year's drought has spread to Shandong, although His Majesty and the Queen of Heaven have allocated a large amount of food for disaster relief, but there are still many people who have become displaced people, most of these displaced people have gathered in Luoyang, and many have run hundreds of miles to come to Chang'an, and the family has porridge sheds in Luoyang and Chang'an, but the soup soup is not much, but it is enough for hundreds of people to live." Liu Jinyu casually confessed some recent things.

"The princes and nobles of Chang'an City have the habit of giving soup porridge every New Year, so it's good to come according to the convention." Li Xuan sat aside and said in a low voice: "If there is another disaster next year, the situation will be difficult to control." ”

Liu Jinyu stopped writing and looked at Li Xuan in disbelief: "Will there be any disasters next year?" ”

"I don't know." Li Xuan shook his head and said with some hesitation: "Whether there will be a drought next year, the only criterion that can be judged at the moment is how much snow will fall this winter, many rivers come from mountain snow water, if there is not much snow this winter, then it is easy to affect next year's irrigation." ”

After a slight pause, Li Xuan continued: "Another way is to see how the snowfall is in Mobei this winter, if even Mobei has a snowfall problem, then there will inevitably be a drought next year, no matter what, it is necessary to stock up a batch of grain and grass from the south in advance." ”

"There's still next year's war." Liu Jinyu looked at Li Xuan worriedly, if there is still a disaster next year, then the first one affected must be Li Xuan.

Li Xuan shook his head slightly, and said: "Next year's war, as long as you don't want to rush forward, then the scale of the battle situation can be controlled. ”

"How do you lead troops?"

"yes!" Li Xuan sighed lightly and said: "If the transfer to the assassin at the end of the year goes well, then there are only 3,000 state soldiers left in the husband's military power, and unless he can check the left guard general at the same time, he can only use 3,000 state soldiers to be responsible for the safety of Xinzhou." ”

"If it is only used to defend the city, with Lang Jun's ability, three thousand state soldiers are enough, but if you want to attack Tubo, Your Majesty will inevitably transfer another three thousand people to Lang Jun, if you want to reuse it, I am afraid you will have to send another three thousand." Liu Jinyu raised her head and looked at Li Xuan, and said with a smile: "What does Lang Jun think Your Majesty will do?" ”

"Your Majesty is Your Majesty, but the ministers of the court and the central government will not give your husband such a big chance." Li Xuan sighed lightly.

Nowadays, what he is most worried about is the control of the DPRK and the central government, once the coercion is too large, many things will become very inconvenient.

"It depends on what happens to Logic?" Liu Jinyu shook her head calmly, and broke the key point with one word.

"I don't know, since I handed over some things to the secret guards, I haven't cared much about my husband." After a slight pause, Li Xuan thought seriously and said: "Tubo is too big, even if one or two states raise troops and rebel, it will affect a small area at most.

On Qinling's control of the center, military power, and the Gar family for decades, even if someone rebelled unexpectedly, one winter would be enough for him to calm down.

However, next year, there will not be too many troops transferred to the front line in Tibet, after all, after this incident, the death of Mangsong Mangzan cannot be hidden.

The country is in danger, and the people's hearts are in turmoil, unless Datang himself makes a mistake, it is a foregone conclusion that he will lose his land step by step. ”

"So, we should have to reduce the number of troops next year." Liu Jinyu nodded abruptly.

"That's what my husband thinks, but what Your Majesty thinks is not something that others can predict." Li Xuan shook his head slightly, and said softly: "Since you are a thorn history, you have to consider governing the place, but these are things for the future." ”

"Hmm!" Liu Jinyu nodded.

At this time, Li Zhu came to the door and said in a low voice: "Lord Wang, Di Yushi and the Wailang are here." ”

"Take them to the study, and the king will change his clothes and go." Li Xuan handed Xia Niang to Liu Jinyu and said in a low voice: "I came here for the Chen family's affairs, and Di Renjie may have met with Laisui." ”

"Di Huaiying has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, he must have something to do." Liu Jinyu instantly judged that Di Renjie's intention was not so simple.

"Let's see." Li Xuan nodded, then turned around and put on his cloak, left the inner room, and went to the study.

……

In the study, Di Renjie and Lai Sui were drinking tea, Li Xuan entered from outside the door, and the two quickly stood up: "Lord Wang! ”

"Brother Huaiying." Li Xuan returned the salute and invited the two of them to sit down, and then looked at Di Renjie and said with a smile: "Brother Huaiying, you should still be on duty now, with your character, you shouldn't be able to escape the duty, right?" ”

Di Renjie shook his head slightly, first picked up the teacup and took a sip, then looked at Li Xuan and said, "Do you still remember the Zhaoling fire case at the beginning?" ”

"Is there a follow-up to that case?" Li Xuan suddenly became solemn.

"Yes." Di Renjie said very surely, Li Xuan and Lai Sui couldn't help but be shocked, and asked directly: "Who is it?" ”

"Liu Yizhi." After Di Renjie finished speaking, he looked up at Li Xuan's expression carefully.

Li Xuan's face was full of disbelief, and he whispered slightly, "Is this matter accurate, is there any evidence, if not, what does Brother Huaiying plan to do?" ”

"Although the North Gate Scholars are powerful, they have always kept a low profile, how could they do such a thing?" Laisui's face became more solemn.

The North Gate Bachelor was cultivated by the Empress Wu and used to serve as a staff member of the government.

Especially with the support of the Empress Wu, their power has increased greatly.

"It's supposed to be out of control." Di Renjie took a deep breath, shook his head, and said: "Now it is only found out that Liu Yizhi once sent someone to Zhaoling to 'destroy the corpse and destroy the traces', as for who he sent and what the result was, I don't know." ”

"What else can it be, of course, it will also be destroyed and destroyed."

Li Xuan shook his head slightly, and said: "This case can be found here, if Brother Huaiying wants to follow up, he will report the facts, evidence, and his own guesses to His Majesty, and His Majesty will naturally find out the rest of the matter." ”

Dali Temple, Yushitai, and investigating cases all need evidence, but the emperor does not need it.

Not only that, but the only thing that the North Gate Scholar can use is the secret guard.

Although the secret guard is controlled by the military queen, in fact, the emperor can still know everything about the secret guard.

After all, although the secret guards are secretive, their secrets, in the eyes of the emperor, are like watching the pattern in the palm of the hand.

Once the secret is lost, even if only a hundred gold guards are mobilized, it will be enough to kill them completely.

"This matter, Huaiying still wants to check again, I came today, I just want to trouble the prince, and take Huaiying to the Xiangwang Mansion the day after tomorrow." Di Renjie gave up his hand seriously.

Although Di Renjie is very famous, he is now just a servant of the imperial history.

If it was the wedding day of King Xiang, he would go and have a banquet, no problem, but before the wedding, he would come to the door without anything, and he would be annoying.

How can there be good things in the imperial history, even if it is Li Dan.

"There's no problem with that." After a slight pause, Li Xuan said: "Xiangwang is resolute, decisive, and very intelligent, if you have something to say, you don't have to beat around the bush...... Don't mention the matter of Zhaoling, it is easy to have an accident. ”

"Don't worry, Huaiying still knows the severity." Di Renjie smiled, and then looked at Laisui: "Brother Xian came for the Chen family's affairs, right?" ”

Lai Sui nodded with a wry smile and said, "If this matter has to pass through Dali Temple, I know that I can't hide it from Brother Huaiying." ”

"I've also passed Dali Temple, what's going on?" Li Xuan was a little confused, Lieutenant Colonel Chen Jiazi, his affairs can be handled by the Ministry of War, how can it still involve Dali Temple?

"Chen Jiazi died in the desert west of Dunhuang, as did the three hundred soldiers under his command." Lai's expression became solemn.

Li Xuan frowned, began to think about the terrain near Dunhuang, and finally spoke: "It's a sand bandit?" ”

"Yes." Lai Sui said it very directly.

"But the army is stationed in Dunhuang, even if the sand bandits are rampant, I'm afraid they will have to travel thousands of miles, right?" Li Xuan looked at him suspiciously.

The Tang Dynasty conquered Tibet, and Shasu Road was one of the important fulcrums, not to mention, there were Tubo people watching on Qilian Mountain, so Dunhuang had at least 5,000 garrisons.

Under the army, if the sand bandits dare to participate in the war between the two countries, then after that, Datang will use all his strength to strangle the sand bandits.

Although the desert is vast and there is no light in sight, as long as it is human, it has weaknesses.

Grab a few, then force out the location, and then coercion, inducement, leak and betrayal, are the easiest means.

Although these can't kill the sand bandits, they are enough to make the sand bandits in the desert lose six or seven percent.

In this way, the leaders behind all this do not need to be done by the garrison at all, and the sand bandits themselves will destroy them.

"According to the military report, it was Chen Jiazi who led the army to the desert without permission, and was finally ambushed and exterminated by the sand bandits. Lai Sui briefly explained the situation.

"Five hundred heads?"

"Only a hundred of them were sand bandits, and the rest were women and children from their old nest, and all of them were besieged and killed by the sand bandits themselves." After a slight pause, Lai Sui said: "The people from the Ministry Division personally went to investigate, and finally verified that it was indeed those people who did it, and the war was imminent, and the army did not continue to investigate." ”

"So at the beginning, why did Chen Jiazi transfer troops to the desert without permission, didn't he know that it was against military discipline to do so?" Di Renjie would not let go of such an obvious loophole.

"yes." Li Xuan sighed lightly and said: "The Chen family is in the Fujian area, and the local government is governed by military law, and the Chen family will not understand these things." ”

"The people in the Ministry of War have guessed that these should be related to the sale of stolen goods by the bandits." He said the most terrible thing.

"The prince of Dunhuang County, concurrently the governor of Shazhou, is a lonely weapon." Li Xuan immediately understood what was going on.

Dugu is the governor of Shazhou, and the Dunhuang guard is his subordinate, and the sand bandits sell stolen goods, and they will definitely not be able to avoid Dugu's family.

But it's not a big crime, and the sand bandits can't be killed.

There is a Dugu family that controls the channels for the sand bandits to sell stolen goods, so the imperial court can control the sand bandits.

It's just that now there are dead people in the army, and it was before the big war, this matter is so silent, I'm afraid it was Ming Chongyan's people who helped to suppress it.

This matter has already involved Li Dan and the Dugu family.

Li Xuan raised his head, looked at Lai Sui and Di Renjie, and said: "Don't worry about this matter, this king will tell the Chen family all the ins and outs by submitting a letter, and see what the Chen family's reaction is, if the Chen family doesn't react, we have to be careful." ”

Lai Sui and Di Renjie stood up at the same time.

The Chen family is the bitter master, if the bitter master does not move, it will be difficult for others to do anything.

If the other party is even more even, then it will be easier for others to settle down.

If you make a rash move, it is very likely that you will suffer a joint attack from all sides.

Li Xuan finally looked at Di Renjie and said heavily: "Brother Huaiying, please take a look at Yushitai first, is there anyone who wants to be impeached, and who is behind it?" ”

Di Renjie raised his head suddenly.

There are people who know the truth better than they do.

Who?

(End of chapter)