In fact, this is really Guo Ying's heart of a villain, the belly of a gentleman, Li Shi re-set up the dethroned envoy, which has nothing to do with what he did, but in order to implement the "two tax laws" to unify the tax system, and at the same time inspect the political achievements of local officials.

Although Hebei Province has actually become a secession, it is still nominally under the rule of the imperial court, so it is natural to send an ambassador to inspect it.

As for why Guo Ying was appointed as the deputy envoy of the deposed city, then we have to talk about this place in Hebei again.

What is the place in Hebei, it is the important land of Kanto.

It has always been hostile to Kansai.

For example, the alliance of princes and Dong Taishi.

This was at the end of the Han Dynasty.

In the Eastern and Western Wei era, the Western Wei and Northern Zhou led by Yuwentai and his heirs, and the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi led by Gao Huan and his heirs, pushed the dispute between the Kanto and Kansai to a white-hot stage.

It's just that at this time, people are no longer accustomed to calling Kanto Kansai, but Shandong and Guanlong.

Later generations called it the Guanlong aristocratic group and the Shandong scholar group.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty built the eastern capital of Luoyang, dug the "Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal", built the Great Wall, Chidao, and conquered Goryeo three times, and swept the ground for soldiers in Hebei, which not only made the people suffer from military service, but also aroused the strong dissatisfaction of the Shandong Shi clan.

Later, Shandong Haojie personally lit the smoke of the collapse of the Sui Dynasty.

By the Tang Dynasty, the confrontation between Shandong and Guanlong intensified, and the land of Hebei was even more intense.

Although in the military duel between the two major groups of Guanlong and Shandong, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, relied on the battle of Tiger Prison Pass to "wipe out" the two major regimes of Dou Xia and Wang Zheng, and completed the feat of capturing two kings in the first war.

However, Li Tang's military victory could not hide his political injustice, and Gaozu Li Yuan was even more because of "Shandong's majesty, his origin, his strength, and his lack of return to his death", and once there was a "proposal to empty Shandong", and he was jealous of Dou Jiande's popularity, and specially ordered the execution of the defeated Dou Jiande, which completely chilled the people of Hebei.

Hebei is the hometown of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the historical feud between the Guanlong Group and the Shandong Group was inspired in the land of Yanzhao at this time.

Dou Jiande's old department was frequently arrested and killed, everyone was panicked, Hebei surrendered and rebelled, Dou Lao's Liu Heimin and others raised troops twice, colluded with the Turks to fight against the center, Tang Shuyi was the commander, until the crown prince Li Jiancheng adopted Wei Zheng's military attack supplemented by political tenderness, and won over the Shandong scholars, and the Hebei rebellion was calmed down.

But that's not all.

By the time of Taizong, the Tang court deliberately implemented a "hard labor policy" for Hebei out of fear of Hebei, and Li Shimin's approach was better than Yang Guang's, and he did not implement Yang Guang's set of sweeping the land as a soldier, but specifically ordered not to add Zhichong Mansion in Hebei.

The result of not adding Zhichong Mansion in Hebei was that when the imperial court used troops in the northeast, because Hebei had insufficient troops, it had to transfer troops from Guanzhong and the southeast, and Hebei, as the rear area, would inevitably have to bear the logistical burden of the army.

However, the generals of the Tang Army and the officials of Hebei often exploited the people in the name of military quartermasters, resulting in Hebei changing from a place with a population of 10 million and a land of misery to a place of misery, and the people were unhappy.

When he arrived in Wu Zhou, the leader of the city soldiers returned to Chengzhou to assassinate Sun Wanrong, and Li Quanzhong, the governor of Songmo Prefecture, bullied Zhao Wenhui, the governor of Yingzhou, and when he rebelled against Zhou, tens of thousands of people in Hebei even joined the rebels.

It shows how unpopular Tang is in Hebei.

After Xuanzong succeeded to the throne, he did not correct this historical problem, but relied more on the armed forces of the Hu tribes, and even regarded these armed forces as a reliable force to resist strong enemies and maintain stability in the frontier, so a large number of Hu soldiers and generals stepped onto the stage of history.

If it is only like this, and the people of Hebei are suffering, then it is actually nothing, the key is that the Hanmen scholars and the Shandong Shu people also have no way to serve the country because of the Guanlongshi clan's control of the rising channel, so these depressed scholars either continue to stay in Beijing and become the doormen of the noble and wealthy clans, chanting poems, expressing their hearts, expressing their talents, or entering the shogunate of the feudal town.

Of course, those scholars who entered the shogunate of the feudal town were unwilling to let the world be controlled by the family gate lords forever, so they began to encourage those border generals with heavy troops to rebel.

Coincidentally, An Lushan and Shi Siming were well-respected in Hebei, and they were ambitious, so they ...... The Anshi Rebellion happened naturally.

Of course, there are also many scholars, doctors, officials, and ordinary people in Hebei who are dedicated to the Tang Dynasty.

It was only in the process of counterinsurgency of the Tang Army that the poor military discipline finally contributed to the convergence of the Hebei Shimin and the Anshi group, and as soon as they merged, the political, military, and economic complementarity was completed.

Datang wants to conquer again, one word, difficult!

And the emperor's purpose in appointing him as the deputy envoy of Hebei Province was also very simple, that is, he wanted him to go to Hebei to Xuanwei with Hong Jinglun, the ambassador of Hebei Province.

By the way, I will feel the military and political situation in the three towns of Heshuo, so as to decide who to fight first.

Of course, these were not realized by Guo Ying himself, but only understood under the advice of Lu Zhen, a scholar from Hanlin.

Lu Zhen, born in Wuxing Shen, is Wei Gao's old friend, twenty-five years old, born with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, gentle and elegant, poetry and writing, especially good at making political theories, the recital, more use of couples, precise organization, smooth writing, can be described as "the past and the present, the eloquent and thoughtful".

Guo Ying has heard of this person, not only in this life, but also in his previous life, because he has worshiped the emperors of the past dynasties as forty meritorious heroes of the past dynasties.

And he is also a rare all-rounder, political, economic, and all-in-one, to be honest, he has the style of Guan Zhong, Zhuge Liang, and Wang Meng.

In Cao Cao's words, that is my son's room.

It's just that this person is now a bachelor of Hanlin, an internal adviser to the secret order, and the Shang Dynasty, and has become the emperor's closest adviser and secretary, with a heavy position, Guo Ying really can't make an appointment with him for a while.

The reason why Lu Zhen said these things was not entirely because of Wei Gao's relationship, but because he realized a method of inspecting the locality, that is, using the "five techniques" to observe the customs and folk conditions, the "eight strategies" to examine the achievements of local officials, the "three departments" to select talented people, the "four endowments" to manage finance, the "six virtues" to stabilize the tired people, and the "five essentials" to reduce officials.

I plan to teach it to Guo Ying to try.

Guo Ying has no reason to be unacceptable, anyway, the emperor has appointed him as the deputy envoy of Dethroned Zhi, so there is definitely no reason to take back his fate, and when the time comes, it is just right to look at the reality of the three towns of Heshuo.

Hearing is false, seeing is believing!

See if the people of Hebei visit Dou Jiande as the history books say, and see if the people of Hebei call An Lushan and Shi Siming the two saints.

Let's take a look at Wei Boya's soldiers, what kind of demeanor Chengde and Lu Longjing are riding on.

Anyway, within a year or two, the imperial court will definitely use soldiers, and Guo Ying thinks that it is always beneficial to know more, so that he will not know anything about the soldiers in the future.