Chapter 227: Limited Support(1/2)
The weather is getting colder and colder, and Li Fang, who was transferred to Kuizhou Road, doesn't want to go out anymore.
After all, I am getting older, and I have been wandering around Kuizhou Road for more than ten years. After I won the Jinshi, I started as a clerk and joined the army. For more than ten years, I have not left this place. I have been here until now.
The highest officer of Kuizhou Road and the transfer envoy of Kuizhou Road.
Kuizhou Road has never been a safe place.
Fighting and killing have never stopped.
However, these years have become calmer and quieter year by year, which is the credit of Li Fang.
This is also what he is most proud of.
Although he was sitting in a warm room, his old cold legs still made Li Fang feel a little painful. This was the sequelae of more than ten years of hard work on the Kuizhou road.
Li Fang didn't want to go anywhere else. He just wanted to stay in the position of transfer envoy on Kuizhou Road until he was seventy years old and return to his hometown.
He's used to it here.
Now even if he is given a position as a pacifier or even allowed to enter the two mansions, he is not willing to go.
Because a new place represents a new circle, and it also means that he is very old and still has to fight and compete.
It’s boring!
He beat his legs hard and shook his head.
How great it is now!
The door was gently pushed open, and Chen Qun and Chen Zigong, the secretary in charge, walked in.
"Is there anything difficult to solve?" Li Fang asked, pointing to the chair in front of him. Most of the affairs of the transfer envoy are now actually handled by Chen Qun, and he will only turn to Li Fang when he is in trouble.
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With Chen Qun's talent, there were very few things that could stump him on Kuizhou Road, so Li Fang was a little surprised.
"Document sent from Qianzhou!" Chen Qun handed the document in his hand to Li Fang: "Mr. Li, this matter is full of weirdness!"
This is a document sent from Qianzhou regarding the appointment and removal of some officials. It is stamped with the seal of the magistrate and the seal of the judgment. Generally speaking, such a document that both the governor and deputy of a state agree on will not be accepted.
If such a low-level official encounters difficulties, the superiors along the way can already make the decision.
Yes, in the eyes of people like Li Fang and Chen Qun, those who join the army in a state are just low-level officials.
After reading the document quickly, Li Fang frowned slightly.
"Chu Xiang is fine. This man is arrogant and domineering. He behaves recklessly just because he is a local snake and has a relationship with Wang Wenzheng. It will be a matter of time before he is taken down. But this Song Jia is too unusual. As far as the official knows, this person
He is a direct descendant of Ma Zhizhou!" Chen Qun was puzzled, "How could Ma Zhizhou just watch Song Jia being taken down? This is obviously against him!"
Li Fang laughed a few times: "Zigong, what don't you understand? This can only mean one thing. The eighteen-year-old signing who just went to Qianzhou is amazing. In his fight with Ma Liang
Among them, he has achieved a comprehensive victory, Ma Liang lost, he lost completely!"
Chen Qun was stunned for a while and then said: "Although the official also knows that Xiao Chongwen is extraordinary, how long has it been? How many days has he been in Qianzhou? And how many years has Ma Liang been operating in Qianzhou? How could this happen?
Why did you lose so miserably?"
"You'll know if you look at these people who are about to appear!" Li Fang said: "Yang Quan, a descendant of the Yang family in Bozhou, Tian Yi, a descendant of the Tian family in Sizhou, one will be appointed as the commander of Qianzhou to join the army, and the other will join the army.
He took office as the manager of Qianzhou and joined the army. Xiao Chongwen colluded with these two families, and he calculated with his heart but not his heart. How can Ma Liang be invincible? "
"Ma Liang is too confused." Chen Qun was a little annoyed: "Mr. Li, this is exactly what I am worried about, so I have to come to find you. Whether it is the Tian family or the Yang family, they are going to stretch their hands.
Out of Sizhou, Bozhou! Their power is already strong enough. If they are allowed to stretch out their hands again, wouldn't it be more difficult to control them in the future? This Xiao Chongwen does not know the depth and leads the wolf into the house. He is simply extremely confused! Mr. Li, this document
, I will dismiss it."
Li Fang smiled and said: "These two candidates have been rejected. Are you going to appoint two people?"
"That's exactly what I thought!" Chen Qun said.
Li Fang shook his head and said: "Believe it or not, no one dares to go. Even if someone dares to go, he may not live long."
"Xiao Chongwen is from a famous family. How dare he do such a thing?" Chen Qun didn't believe it.
"He can't do it, but it doesn't mean that the Tian family and the Yang family don't dare to do it!" Li Fang said: "We finally stretched out our hands, how do you think it would be possible for them to retract them? Moreover, even if the people you sent will be fine,
They will only be framed and can't accomplish anything. Just like Ma Liang now, they will probably be nothing more than human-shaped stamps or clay Buddha statues in the future."
"Li Gong, we can't just watch the Tian and Yang families expand their power! How much effort have you put in over the years to trap them in Sizhou and Bozhou!"
"They really know how to seize the opportunity!" Li Fang said with a smile: "I hit it off with Xiao Chongwen. However, Xiao Chongwen is not easy to get along with. It depends on his methods in the northwest. Whether the Tian family and the Yang family can finally occupy
It’s so cheap!”
"I'm only eighteen years old after all!" Chen Qun sighed.
"The party members who died in his hands in Hengshan will definitely not think that he is young. Li Xu, who is now being chased by Xiao Ding to the sky and into the earth, will not think so." Li Fang said: "At the beginning, Xiao Chongwen
When he came to my place, I told him that I needed peace. Now he has done it, seizing the power of Qianzhou quietly, which is his skill."
"I'm afraid he will have to deal with more trouble next time!" Chen Qun said.
"As long as he does things within my tolerance, it doesn't matter!" Li Fang laughed.
"Mr. Li, I'm afraid this guy is going to use weapons in Qianzhou! Things haven't calmed down in Dushan yet!"
Li Fang was stunned for a while and then said: "Zigong, there is something that I have never told you. Those people in Dushan are probably related to Xiao Chongwen. Now it has been confirmed that there are
Quite a few of them come from Xiao's gate wall."
Chen Qun was shocked: "The scholar Xiao Chong hasn't come yet, but he has already taken action?"
"He has already started." Li Fang nodded and said: "So now, he can't stop at all. Go and see him and tell him that no matter what he does in Qianzhou, what I want is to still be calm.
.If he causes civil unrest, then I will not recognize whose son he is, and I will still use him to appease the anger of the people."
"yes!"
"This document is approved with the seal!" Li Fang handed the document to Chen Qun.
Chen Qun stood up, bowed and said: "I understand, I will go to Qianzhou in person tomorrow and see what kind of situation Ma Liang is in!"
"I'm afraid you won't be able to see Ma Liang!" Li Fang waved his hand and closed his eyes.
Chen Qun walked out quietly.
There was a soft popping sound, the fine silver charcoal exploded, and a cloud of sparks flew up. Li Fang opened his eyes, only to find that the lights had been lit in the room, and it was already dark.
After all, as I get older, I feel more and more sleepy.
There was another person sitting next to the charcoal basin. When he saw Li Fang wake up, he quickly stood up.
"Uncle!"
"Mianzhi, you're here!" Li Fang said, "You just happen to have a meal with me in the evening. You haven't eaten yet, right?"
"Yes!" Li Ge and Li Mianzhi smiled and said, "I just arrived at Fengjie today."
"Did this trip go well?"
"It's going well!" Li Ge said: "Who dares not to give you face?"
"I originally thought it would take a few days for you to come back, but I didn't expect it to be earlier. Is there something wrong?" Li Fang could tell at a glance from his nephew's behavior that something was wrong.
The Li family is a typical aristocratic family in the Song Dynasty. The main branch usually has poetry and calligraphy heirs and focuses on officialdom. The side branches focus on business. The two cooperate and complement each other. One is powerful and the other is powerful.
Money, the combination of the two means power and money. People on the main branch don't need to get rich, and officials don't need to scrape the common people's territory. The official reputation will generally be very good. People on the side branches run shopping malls and have a lot of money.
If the people on the main branch take care of them, there will be no disadvantages. Most of the income from the operation will be given to the main branch every year, but there will be no complaints or regrets.
"Uncle, you didn't let me get involved in the trade routes in Qianzhou before. It was really too chaotic there, and some grass-head kings had no rules. It was really hard to do business, so I never did.
Pay attention to the Qianzhou side." Li Ge said thoughtfully.
Li Fang suddenly became interested.
It was really a strange day today. Chen Qun only talked about the changes in officialdom in Qianzhou during the day. In the evening, his nephew came to find him. If he said that this was just a coincidence, Li Fang really didn't believe it.
It can only explain one thing, that is, when Xiao Chongwen was working in Qianzhou, he also had a team of people doing other things, and his nephew was also one of their targets.
"Why do you suddenly want to get involved in the Qianzhou affair?" Li Fang asked with interest.
"Someone has found my nephew!" Li Ge said calmly: "Uncle must already know about Qianzhou, right?"
"So, you understand? Then what else does Xiao Chongwen want to do?"
"My nephew doesn't know Xiao Chongwen. The person who came to look for me was a businessman. He found out that the person in charge of Qianzhou is the Xiao Chongwen you mentioned. According to him, Xiao Dianping is going to be in Qianzhou.
Selling the operating rights of four caravans."
"What do you mean?" Li Fang was stunned.
"That is to say, from now on, the only ones who can carry out large-scale business on the ground in Qianzhou are these four large caravans. Others who want to do business can only do business as local households. From these four caravans,
Get the goods." Li Ge said. "The merchant said that of the four caravans, only one is actually for sale to the outside world, and the other three have owners. One is the Tian family, the other is the Yang family, so Xiao Duanping will definitely need it.
Take one. He knows that he will definitely not be able to get it if he goes up there. If he goes with his nephew, he can be sure of it. He pays 60% of the money, but only needs 40% of the share."
"There are dozens of companies in Qianzhou and Suozhou, and each Caotou King has his own caravan. Is Xiao Chongwen going to be tough?" Li Fang narrowed his eyes, "I'm afraid it won't be that easy, right?"
"It is indeed not that easy, but the Yang family and the Tian family are all involved, and the other people may not dare to object on the surface. Anyone who objects will be an enemy of these families at the same time, and they will be afraid that they will die.
To be continued...