Zhu Wen, who ended the Battle of Luzhou, led an army of 70,000 to return to Bianzhou, recalled Niu Cunjie and other departments, and did not support Xuzhou, but led the army to Yanzhou.

Zhu Wen coerced and defeated Li Keyong's might, and it was menacing, like a tiger returning to the forest, and the beasts were silent.

The rebels in the two towns of Taining and Tianping died down.

The Liang army defeated the Pinglu army and captured all of them. Wang Shifan was newly acquired in Yanzhou, his foundation was unstable, and he did not dare to engage in the war, so he retreated to the territory of Pinglu.

Zhu Wen also did not love war, and turned back to fight in Xuzhou.

Xuzhou has always been an important town in the southeast, and has been operated by Shi Pu for many years, the grain and grass in the city are sufficient, Ge from Zhou retreated into Xuzhou City, immediately organized young and strong people to help defend the city.

The Jianghuai army attacked the city for more than ten days in a row, and the strength of the troops was frustrated.

There were reinforcements from Songzhou in the east, and the Jianghuai army did not dare to let go of the attack. Hearing that Zhu Wen returned to the army so quickly and drove away Wang Shifan in a blink of an eye, Yang Xingmi was dumbfounded, and said with a wry smile: "Before the tenth day, Wang Shifan was still ambitious and had the ambition to annex Shandong, but I didn't expect to retract it so soon. ”

Yuan Xi said: "The moon is full, the sun is full, the day is long, the battle of Qingkou is not enough to shake the foundation of Zhu Wen, now Zhu Wen is returning with a great victory over Shatuo, our army can not fight with, should retreat to Suzhou." ”

Yang Xingmi nodded, he didn't really want to attack Xuzhou, he just wanted to collect the interest for the big victory.

Xuzhou is so strong that it can only go home.

"The king can't, Zhu Wen has been fighting for many years, the division veterans are tired, and our army is flourishing, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to defeat this thief!" Zhu Jin said loudly.

In this Qingkou victory, Zhu Jin contributed the most, charging ahead, first destroying Pang Shigu, and then defeating Ge Congzhou, breaking through Xuzhou, his hometown Yanzhou is in front of him.

Yang Xingmi saw that Li Chengsi and Shi Yan were looking at him expectantly, his eyes flashed, and he laughed and said: "The land of Xuzhou is not good for our army, the sons and daughters are already tired, go back to Suzhou to recuperate, and there will be a chance for the general to take revenge in the future!" ”

"King!" Zhu Jin knelt down and said earnestly, "The rich land of Shandong, if it is obtained by Zhu Wen, it will not take two years to recover its strength, and Huaibei will have no chance at that time!" ”

Yang Xingmi helped Zhu Jin up, although his face was full of smiles, but his eyes were full of coldness, "The general is really Zhang Fei's resurrection." ”

Yuan Xi arched his hand and said: "General Zhu, our army has been in Xuzhou for many days, and has lost the opportunity, now the Songzhou army is on the right, and Zhu Wen's 70,000 army is on the left. ”

This is not a serious matter, Zhu Jin's face was full of cold sweat, and then he remembered that he was not a handsome, but a guest general under the fence.

He immediately arched his hand and said: "The last general will take the liberty of hoping that the king will forgive his sins." ”

Yang Xingmi's eyes warmed up, "What is the general's crime, this great victory, thanks to the general's merits, this king has been on the court to ask for the general's probation of the military festival." ”

At this time, in addition to Xuzhou in the hands of Zhu Wen, Suzhou and Haozhou were all taken by the Jianghuai army.

Zhu Jin's eyes lit up, "The last general will be smeared with liver and brain to repay the king!" ”

The probation army was in the north of the Huai River, facing Zhu Wen's soldiers, although he knew Yang Xingmi's thoughts, Zhu Jin didn't care at all.

The city of Yanzhou was broken, and his wife and children were all obtained by Zhu Wen.

Zhu Wen beheaded his family and accepted his wife, how could Zhu Jin swallow his anger with such hatred?

When Zhu Wen's army had just arrived in Xuzhou, Yang Xingmi had already withdrawn.

After two years of war, the Central Plains ushered in a temporary calm.

Changan.

Li Ye inspected the information sent by Lin Guangyuan, the commander of the Imperial City Division, to the states in Guanzhong.

Huazhou and Tongzhou east of Chang'an are in front of the eyes of the Son of Heaven, which is quite decent, but some remote states are a little spicy-eyed, all of them are greedy and corrupt, such as the history of Fengzhou Thorn, Longzhou Thorn History, Ningzhou Thorn History, it is simply the extent of goose plucking, Li Ye led the Tang army to cross the border, and the Tang army collected military taxes and line taxes, and the Tang army fought Dunfang and Xia Sui, and they collected the Huansheng tax.

But whenever the Tang court makes any moves, their harsh taxes will come.

And it is unscrupulous, Li Ye can also be regarded as having seen what it means to be cleverly established.

After receiving it, I didn't forget to give one to Li Ye and Han Quanhui in an open and honest manner.

Li Ye stared at Zhu Wen and Tang Jun every day, but he didn't know anything about it, and all the money was collected into the inner treasury by Liu Quanli.

If it weren't for the Imperial City Division's secret search for various places, I'm afraid Li Ye would have been kept in the dark.

"Did Liu Quanli accept it personally?" Li Ye had a calm face.

"Back to Your Majesty, Liu Nei didn't take a penny, and all of them were filled into the inner treasury." Lin Guangyuan said in a low voice.

Li Ye was quite happy at first, but then he felt a little chill in his heart, this eunuch doesn't love money, so it's more terrifying.

"Who else reached out?"

Lin Guangyuan was hesitant, "Li, envoy." ”

Li Juchuan was previously named the defense envoy of Quan Fengxiang, and with his identity as Tianxin Pavilion, he was naturally respected as the envoy.

"How do you think these people should be punished?" Li Ye suddenly asked.

Lin Guangyuan knelt on the ground, "The last general, the last general doesn't know." ”

"I know, you go down."

Li Ye stayed alone in Tianxin Pavilion, in such a world at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the gang was often lost, and it must be a fool's dream to expect the officials to have a clean breeze on their sleeves, and this problem will be difficult to completely eradicate even in later generations.

Emperor Hongwu peeled the skin and grass, and some people dared to commit crimes against the wind, let alone now.

But if you don't rectify the rule of officials, let alone revive the Tang Dynasty, even whether you can sit firmly in Guanzhong is a problem.

Guanzhong can have today's weather, it is not easy to come by, Li Ye can't let this newly grown green seedling be destroyed by moths.

The old house of Tang Ting has been renovated, but the place is still the same.

Li Ye has always felt that the feudal era is actually a history of local confrontation with the central court.

Pure murder can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

Li Ye suddenly remembered a person in his mind, "Pass Cui Yuan to see me." ”

After a while, Cui Yuanzhao came sweating profusely.

This is the first time he has entered the Tianxin Pavilion, although his face is calm, but the excitement in his eyes can't be hidden, "Minister, minister Cui Yuanzhao to see Your Majesty." ”

"No courtesy." Li Ye handed him Lin Guangyuan's secret letter, "You take a look first." ”

Cui Yuan glanced at the ten lines, and soon finished reading it, "Dare to ask Your Majesty whether it is a symptom or a root cause?" ”

Li Ye became interested, "Oh, how to treat the symptoms, how to cure the root cause?" ”

"Killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys, selecting other talents, and improving the quality of officials is a symptom." Cui Yuanzhao cautiously glanced at Li Ye, and saw that the expression on Li Ye's face had not changed, and said, "Reopening the imperial examination is the root cause." ”

From Cui Yuanzhao's little eyes, Li Ye knew what he was thinking, now is a chaotic time, how many children from poor families are studying?

As soon as the imperial examination opened, these sons of these families just took advantage of the situation to enter.

Of course, the family gate valve is also dying in this troubled era, but after all, there is still a life, Cui Zhaowei, Wei Zhaodu, Pei Zhen, Cui Yin, etc., are all members of the family.

The disaster of the White Horse Post really eradicated the roots of the family.