Chapter 19 Biyang
Tang Jiyao was only a small ninth-rank inspector. He usually saw the letters of the Lusi Prefecture Court. How could he know the order of the King of Responsibility and the transfer order of the Privy Council? He was still worried that Xu Huai's letter of edict was fake, so he did not dare to delay after leaving Huaiyuan City. He led a few old soldiers who followed him from the Ministry of Deployment Department and ran all the way to Biyang.
After a quick trip, he rushed to the city of Biyang before dark.
Several good horses foamed at the mouth, and one of them fell to the ground and kicked his hooves, but it was no longer possible when he saw it.
At this time, the sun was hanging on the top of the distant mountain. The dusk gradually rose. The guards were driving away the pedestrians and preparing to close the city gate. When they saw Tang Jiyao wearing an official robe and guarding him with soldiers around him, they were so anxious that they thought that some bandits were killing officials again.
"I am the inspector of Huaiyuan, Tang Jiyao. If you have any questions, please report to the prefecture. The magistrate of the magistrate. Don't stop me!" Tang Jiyao took off his small bronze official seal from his waist and showed it to the soldiers guarding the city. He rushed into the city with his tired horse and rushed to the prefecture.
The entire army of the attacking Yan army was destroyed, Liu Shizhong, Cai Yuanyou, Guo Zhongxiong and others died in battle, Cai Ying and his second son Cai He and others were imprisoned and waiting for trial. Although Dong Cheng, as a member of the Cai faction, has not been dismissed yet, his governor has no use in Biyang City.
Therefore, the letter of edict must be false. The provincial court should send troops to seek rebellion. It was necessary for the magistrate Tong and the Caos to join the army to make an idea. Tang Jiqian also said that he would report to the magistrate Dong Cheng and the magistrate Gu Zhihui at the same time.
However, just a moment before Tang Jiqian rushed to Bieyang City, the envoy of the Military Commission had arrived from Xiangyang Prefecture (Xiangzhou). Dozens of officials from all over the county, including Dong Cheng, Gu Zhihui, Caos, and the magistrate of Biyang County Cheng Lunying, county magistrate Zhu Tong, etc., had all arrived at the prefecture court.
Xu Huai and his team went south from Bianliang without stopping, and they could be said to be traveling day and night along the way, but after all, they still had to care about their horsepower; unlike the postman, they could change from the postman station to a new fast horse every time they walked. Even in the snow and ice, there would be no big problem to walk three or four hundred miles along the postman road a day.
In fact, the imperial edict for the king was issued to Xiangyang Prefecture yesterday.
Jingxi Road is closest to Caizhou. Even though Jingxi Road was not marked and established with the Du Defense Command, Jingxi Road had to bear more than one-quarter of the Southwest Road to serve the king, but also half of the money and grain.
The border prefecture was destroyed and Bianliang was in an emergency. In order to urge the supervisors of the road to serve the king, the envoys who arrived at the governors of the road did not say that they had finished their business and left immediately. At the same time, they also took charge of the supervisors and supervised the implementation of the supervisors of the road.
Jingxi South Road, Jingxi North Road, Jingdong East Road, Jingdong East Road, Jingdong West Road, Huainan West Road, Huainan East Road is closest to Hehuai, and is also a key supervision area. The palaces are all hosts with attendants or direct scholars serving as imperial envoys to rush to these roads to govern the government.
After receiving the imperial edict to serve the king, Gu Fan did not dare to neglect his scrutiny and immediately summoned his subordinates to discuss the matter of serving the king, and dismantled the task of recruiting troops to prefectures and counties.
The southwest Beijing routes to Zhuzhou County, Tangzhou is closest to Caizhou, so the troops, horses, food and fodder are naturally given priority to the Tangzhou school.
In addition, Huaiyuan was to be demolished from Tangzhou and went to Caizhou. Tangzhou was also the only way for the southwest to transfer troops and horses and food to Caizhou. Considering the attack on the south, Jingxi Road was also to strengthen defense in Fangcheng County north of Tangzhou. Gu Fan discussed with the envoys of the Finance Department, Cangsi and Xianshi Department. Finally, Ning Ci, deputy envoy of the Transportation Transportation, led a wing of the imperial guards to Tang first.
The prefecture is in charge of Zhibiyang.
There was no horse army stationed on the southwest road of Jingxi Road. More than 2,000 infantrymen walked slowly from Xiangyang to Biyang. Deng Gui, the military officer of Ning Cizhidu Deployment Department, once served as the Huaiyuan Inspection Department. He was familiar with the local situation and led dozens of cavalry to follow him to Biyang first.
Tang Jiyao walked into the prefecture courtyard. Ning Ci, Dong Cheng, Gu Zhihui, Cheng Lunying, Zhu Tong and Deng Gui all sat on the yamen hall to discuss recruiting troops and raising food and grass.
After hearing Tang Jiyao come in and report that Xu Huai had taken over the Huaiyuan Inspection Office, someone in the hall was unhappy and complained: "What do you think? How could this dude leave Zhixin County? Besides, even if the court has decided to transfer Huaiyuan into Caizhou, we should not stop the matter of serving the king, but this dude must first go to Biyang, and the provincial court will determine the boundary and then hand over the matters such as the Dingguan Office. Only then can the rules be followed. Bianliang is now in crisis, but there are still rules so that everyone can organize the work of serving the king in an orderly manner, so as not to become a mess of sand?"
"The court also uses extraordinary people at extraordinary times, not to mention that the court uses Wang Xiang to preside over the defense of the capital, and sends Xu Huai back to Tongbai Mountain and leaves Zhixin County, which must also have an intention." Cheng Lunying, the magistrate of Biyang, persuaded.
How could Cheng Lunying know that Xu Huai could return to Huaiyuan? It was Hu Kai's efforts to promote it?
In his opinion, Cai Ying lost power and was imprisoned, and Wang Bing was in charge of the defence of the capital this time, and he was even more in power. He returned to Tongbai Mountain and broke the previous rumors that Xu Huai was in Wang Bing and Wang Fan and his son were dissatisfied with each other.
Therefore, even if Xu Huai is reckless, they should cooperate.
After hearing Cheng Lunying say this, no one complained anymore, so he discussed the issue of military and food distribution. When it comes to this, everyone complained again, and Cheng Lunying complained even more.
It has only been two years since Biyang experienced the great disaster of bandits, and other counties in Tangzhou have also been affected.
Now Huaiyuan is deducted from Tangzhou again. Although there are not many taxes on land in the mountains, the Tongbai Mountain Road runs through Huainan West Road and Jingxi South Road. Passing the tax requires Caizhou to intervene in and poach a piece. Tangzhou alone has to collect 30,000 to 40,000 jin of money and grain every year.
The troops and money and grain distributed in Tangzhou are not only not reduced or exempted, but also because they are closest to Caizhou, they are entrusted with more. Gu Zhihui, Cheng Lunying and others are complaining.
Although they were officials of the court, on the one hand, they knew that the lower level would strongly resist. On the other hand, they squeezed out all the reserves of prefectures and counties. Where do they want to use oil and water to eat?
They are all young and old, and they can’t really rely on the court’s salary to live with enough food and clothing.
"If you don't talk about anything else, Huaiyuan has established a county and merged it into Caizhou. Tangzhou needs to remit the land tax and tax that have not been escorted to Beijing last year to be used for consumption by Huaiyuan. Isn't this reasonable? Huaiyuan has to consume money and grain, so Caizhou has to allocate it. We have to pay without hindering it, so we are already righteous enough!"
"I'm not afraid of anything else, but I'm still worried that this reckless guy is difficult to deal with - I heard that this reckless guy has to come up with a three-point reason when he was unreasonable. Besides, he has the support of Wang Xiang behind him at this time. If he really wants someone to ask for money and food, how should we swear?"
"Deng Junhou was very good at suppressing bandits in Huaiyuan and was also familiar with this rash product. Do you think this rash product will make progress?" Someone asked Deng Gui.
Deng Gui was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Tangzhou Troupe Training Department, but he was given a title of vain
, his job was already related to Tangzhou. At this time, he was the general of the military service as the Chief Deployment Department and the deputy envoy Ning Ci came to Tangzhou with the deputy envoy of the Transportation. His purpose was to inspect the training of troops and horses in the northern part of Tangzhou and the repair of the city gates.
"Ha, oh, this, this, I was not familiar with Xu Huai at first, and I haven't had any contact for more than two years. I really don't know if his temperament has become more lenient!" Deng Gui said with a haha.
At this time, he had nothing to do with Tangzhou and could not do anything, so why bother talking about right and wrong behind the scenes?
If Xu Huaizhen is a good match, how could Zheng Hui, Guo Caoling, Xu Wufu and others die at his hands?
"I heard that this bully is the son of Wang Xiaocheng, and Wang Xiaocheng was killed by Cai Ying for forgery. Is this true?" Someone asked in a gossip.
"This is true," Ning Ci, deputy envoy of Transportation, was familiar with the envoy of the edict, and had a private conversation with some of the latest developments in Bianliang City. He said with a slightly calm face, "At this time, the matter of the capitulation is urgent. There is no holy edict yet. However, regarding Cai Ying's forgery of the edict and the murder of Wang Xiaocheng's wife and children, the Prime Minister has requested the court to investigate thoroughly. Xu Huai was indeed rescued by Wang Xiaocheng's generals Xu Wuxuan, Xu Wuli, Su Laochang and others; not only that, Wang Xiaocheng's seventh brother Wang Ju did not die in prison that year, and was rescued by Fan Yong. Wang Xiang also asked for merit for these people in the memorial, and he also planned to summon Xu Huai to lead his troops to the capital to serve the king, which was blocked by the left prime minister and the deputy envoy of the Privy Councilor Wang Xiang..."
"Is Wang Xiang so confused? This fool cannot be treated with normal feelings. If he is resentful about the old things and asks him to lead his troops into the capital, and finally he can make a huge hole, who can bear it? How can he defend Bianliang?" someone shouted with a frown.
"I heard that Xu Huai was very brave in fighting the enemy in Lanzhou and had accumulated a lot of military achievements. Otherwise, even if Wang Xiang protects him, he was of such an age and was born as a martial artist, how could he be appointed as the magistrate? It would be a bit too conjecture to say that he was resentful..." Cheng Lunying said with some confidence.
Seeing that Cheng Lunying actually defended Xu Huai, Ning Ci said with a calm face:
"The most difficult thing in this world is the hearts of the people - I heard that Xu Huai was unruly and unruly in Xiangyang. He hid in Tongbai Mountain with Xu Wuxuan, Xu Wuli, Xu Wujiang, and Su Laochang for more than ten years without any traces. I would like to ask who can have such tolerance? According to me, Wang Xiang is just a confused person..."
Yesterday, the king's imperial edict was issued to Xiangyang. The commander of the commander, the Constitutional, the Caosi, and the Cangsi were gathered together. Of course, it was impossible to ignore the establishment of Huaiyuan. Xu Huai made a name for the new county. He also talked about the old story of Cai Ying's forgery of the imperial edict and killing Wang Xiaocheng. After talking, he felt that there was something indescribable in the chaos of Tongbai Mountain. Everyone in Tongbai Mountain did not look like good people.
Criticizing the government is a privilege of scholars and ministers. Even if they are dismissed, many people still feel proud, so Ning Ci doesn't think there is anything wrong with criticizing the king here.
However, it would be fine if the prefecture and county officials complained a few times. Ning Ci came on behalf of Lu Shi. Suddenly, he criticized Wang Bing so severely, and was stunned.
Cheng Lunying immediately realized that Lu Shi had a great opinion on Xu Huai's Zhixin County, and he was even more silent and stopped saying anything.
Chapter completed!