Chapter 109: Strange goods are in hand

The next morning, Li Qing'an finished his morning training and was carefully checking the resumes and backgrounds of the 500 soldiers in the tent. After four months of training, they each took 500 troops to Beijing for inspection by the Ministry of War and the emperor. For Li Qing'an, these 500 troops were the powerful brigades he trained with hard work, and it was an army that belonged to him. It was a pity to keep them in a fireworks place like Yangzhou. He was thinking about how to take them away.

"General, there is a scholar outside the camp gate asking for a visit!" The sergeant's report came from outside the gate.

"I'll go out now."

Li Qingan quickly sorted out the documents and stood up with a smile. Of course, Li Bai came. After Li Bai woke up early in the morning, he returned to the state yard and returned not long after he went. It was undoubtedly Lu Huan who told him about his aide.

He quickly walked to the gate of the military camp. It was indeed Li Bai. His wine was completely awake. His moon-white robe was clean and integrated. His hair was neatly combed. He wore a flat scarf and cleanly tidy. He was completely free from the unruly appearance after drinking.

Li Bai was a little worried. Early this morning, Lu Huan told him about recommending him to Li Qing'an as an aide. At first, he was a little unwilling. What future would a staff member of a central police officer have, but he couldn't resist Lu Huan's repeated persuasion, saying that Li Qing'an had the backstage of Gao Lishi, and the promotion was just around the corner. Li Bai agreed to give it a try. On the other hand, he was extremely shy and really needed to find a job to do it.

Seeing Li Qingan coming out, Li Bai's face turned slightly red, and he quickly bowed and said, "General Li, I caused you trouble yesterday."

"Brother Taibai is so serious. Brother Taibai and I fell in love with each other at first sight. It's a waste of time, and it's not worth mentioning."

"Thank you General Li, I am willing to give it a try for the staff."

"Okay!" Mr. Li asked in quickly."

Li Qing'an took Li Bai's study room next to Li Bai and smiled and said, "Brother Taibai is famous all over the world, but he is committed to being my aide. Qing'an is ashamed! Please rest assured by Brother Taibai, I will never treat you badly. Not only will I bear your money for alcohol, but you can just speak up."

Li Bai smiled and said, "I won't be polite. General Li doesn't have to worry about this."

He changed his tone and said, "Although General Li is the General of Anxi, he is highly valued by the imperial court. It can be seen from sending the general to train troops in the core areas of Jianghuai. I can assert that within three years, General Li will be expected to be promoted to deputy position in Anxi. I wonder what general's specific plans are?"

Li Qingan glanced at him and smiled and said, "What are my plans? Just an ordinary intermediate officer, who is slowly getting promoted. As for coming to Yangzhou to train troops, it's just a coincidence. Brother Qinglian should not think too much."

"No! A real man should have ambitions of thousands of miles, so that he will not come to the world in vain. I think General Li is also a hero and is willing to be a staff member of General Li. If General Li is short-sighted, how can he become a great man? Qinglian hopes that General Li can have ambitions and must not belittle himself. Since he is a general in Anxi, he should become the governor of Anxi as soon as possible and realize the ambition of a man's real man."

"Qing'an remembers Mr. Qinglian's teachings, come! Please, sir."

Li Bai and Li Qing'an walked into the documentary room. There were already two clerks in the documentary room. Both were sent to assist in handling official documents. The troupe training camp did not have many written affairs, and most of them were trivial. It was nothing more than calculating the daily food and rice consumption, the training results of soldiers, and collecting the accounts. This required a lot of patience. Both clerks were old officials who had been more than ten years and were very skilled in handling various documents. Although these two were dedicated, Li Qing'an was always uncomfortable. Li Feishouyu also reminded him that the two clerks went to the barracks to talk to the soldiers twice last night in the name of checking the training data, which made Li Qing'an feel alert.

At this time, two clerks were writing quickly after the case. Seeing Li Qing'an coming in, both of them stood up and smiled and said, "Gen. Li!"

"Brother, come here! Let me introduce it to you."

Li Qing'an introduced Li Bai to them and said, "This is my aide, Mr. Qinglian. I just arrived from Chang'an. I will leave the training matters to Mr. Qinglian in the future. The two of them only need to calculate the food and rice expenses, so there is no need to be so busy."

The two clerks looked at each other, but they had no choice but to agree: "Assume everything by General Li."

They bowed to Li Bai and said, "I'll ask Mr. Qinglian to take care of him in the future."

Li Bai snorted and glanced at the roof. Li Qing'an smiled and took Li Bai to an empty house. He smiled and said, "Brother Qinglian, you will be here for official business in the future. After the collection of military training records will be handed over to the Ministry of War. It is very important, so please sir. In addition, if there is any important thing, I will discuss it with you."

Li Bai nodded, "General Li, don't worry! I will do my best."

Li Qingan thought for a while and said, "Brother Qinglian, there is an ugly saying that I want to say in front of the military camp. You can drink it, you can only go outside to drink it. If you bring the wine, the military guards will not let you enter the military camp."

Li Bai was stunned for a while and said helplessly: "Since General Li said that, I will abide by the rules of the military camp."

"Okay, I'll go and tell me below. When my relatives in charge of money will come to you. If you have any needs, just talk to him."

Li Qing'an explained a few words and went to the military camp. Li Bai looked around the house with his hands behind his back. The furnishings in the house were simple, with a seating bed, a book case, and a book shed. The desks were all four treasures on the desk, and the walls were snow-white, which looked clean and tidy. There was also a small house inside, which was where he rested and slept.

At this time, a soldier brought a thick stack of training records. These were all the various achievements recorded by the soldiers themselves. They were very rough and needed to be re-recited and compiled into a book. At the same time, he had to calculate the daily training list as a basis for rewards.

"Sir, this is my general who asked me to send it. Please organize it according to the style. Wang Dalang, the general who asked me to send me some settlement fee first."

As he said that, he placed the two silver ingots of fifty taels of each of the cakes and documents on the table, gave a gift and left.

Li Bai sat down slowly, flipped through the documents casually, and was stunned. Suddenly he sighed to the sky: "Oh! I didn't expect that my banished immortal would fall to this place."

At noon, Li Qing'an was about to have lunch when a guard came to report: "General, the transferee has urgent matters outside the military camp."

"I see."

Li Qing'an quickly walked out of the camp gate, and saw Liu Changyun paced back and forth at the door with his hands behind his back, looking worried.

"Eunuch Liu, is there anything wrong?"

Liu Changyun turned around and saw Li Qing'an coming out. He hurriedly stepped forward and said, "General Li, now I have time. I have urgent matters to find you."

"If anything, just say it."

"It's not convenient here, let me go to Baiyutang Tower!"

Liu Changyun looked around and lowered his voice to Li Qing'an: "The little prince is here, I want to talk to General Li."

"Okay! I'll go with you now."

Li Qingan went back and took the horse, took a few people with him, and followed Liu Changyun to Baiyutang Tower.

In an elegant room in Baiyutang Building, Yan Kai was reporting on the situation in the past two days to Li Qiu, who had just arrived in Yangzhou.

"Little Prince, our people have obtained detailed information from Du Liangshan. The old nest secretly built by the Du family in Du Liangshan has been taken over by Li Qing'an. The Du family's property fell into Li Qing'an's hands. I heard that he had handed over to Lu Huan yesterday. According to the information we collected, Li Qing'an's operation in Du Liangshan was also very accidental. He did not know in advance. However, according to the latest information, after Li Qing'an left Du Liangshan, he did not go back to Yangzhou directly, but crossed the river to the south. I don't know what to do yet. I doubt whether he would get clues about Du Bosheng."

Li Qiu lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and said, "Mr. Yan, it should be very simple to find out these suspicious points. I can at least tell three ways. One is to bribe his soldiers, and then go to inquire along the way. Secondly, you can ask the local government. I don't care which one you use, but you must find out what he did and what secrets he has mastered as soon as possible. This matter is of great importance. You must send someone to do it immediately."

"Don't worry, little prince, I'll send someone to do it now."

"besides!"

Li Qiu raised his hand to stop him, "He was assassinated when he first came. I think this matter is very strange. I have confirmed that this matter was not done by An Lushan, nor by Lu Huan, nor by us. Who did it? Because as soon as Li Qing'an died, the issue of Yangzhou will be paid attention to by the emperor immediately, and my father will be in trouble. This is obviously someone is taking advantage of the troubled waters in the middle, and you must also investigate it clearly."

"Little Prince, I have some clues about this."

"Oh? Tell me."

"After the assassination, I sent someone to search carefully near Tingshuiju. The little prince guessed what I found?"

"What?"

Liu Changyun took out a blue-black bronze ware and placed it on the table, and smiled and said, "Little Prince, what do you think this is?"

"Bandage!" Li Qiu recognized at a glance. It was a crossbow on a military crossbow. He picked it up and looked carefully. It was also engraved with numbers on it."

"What then?" Li Qiu asked with great interest.

"Then I sent someone to check the number on this crossbow machine, and I didn't find the source of this crossbow machine until yesterday."

“Where did it come from?”

"The little prince would not have thought of it. This crossbow machine is owned by the treasury of the Yangzhou Grand Governor's Office. I bribed the minor official and checked the records of the warehouse. This military crossbow was temporarily borrowed by Luo Tao, a military officer a month ago, and later returned it. It was the second day after Li Qing'an was assassinated. However, the crossbow machine on it was inconsistent with the number on the military crossbow, which was exactly the same as this crossbow. This is interesting. Li Qing'an's assassination case was actually related to the Yangzhou Grand Governor's Office. What did the little prince think of?"

Li Qiu thought for a moment, and suddenly his eyes widened, "You mean him."

"Yes, he is the father-in-law of King Di. If someone fishes in the troubled waters of Yangzhou, attracts the attention of the emperor and causes King Qing to suffer, who will be the beneficiary?"
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