Chapter 459: Arrest of the spy

Lin Jian was born in the Yulin Army and was the confidant general of Chen Xuanli, the former general of the Yulin Army. If he could sit in the fourth position of the Guanzhong Army, he was not a reckless and stupid person. How could he not know that the Pei Mansion was full of powerful people at this time and was too arrogant to offend many people. However, he was ordered by Li Heng to come and smash the Pei family's place. Lin Jian had to bite the bullet and rush into the Pei Mansion.

But in front of Li Qing'an, Lin Jian was still guilty. He realized that he had said the wrong thing just now. In front of Li Qing'an's personal soldiers, how dare he say that he would kill him? How could Meng Yun die? He stood by. He could never forget the tragic situation of Meng Yun being killed.

Lin Jian hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "Report to the general, I am here to arrest the spy under the order of His Highness the Superintendent of the State. I am anxious and I am inappropriate. Please forgive me!"

"spy?"

Li Qingan slowly walked to the door of the lobby and snorted, "Who is the spy?"

"Report to the General, Wei Jiansu, the Minister of War, is a spy!"

As soon as he said this, the whole hall was filled with an uproar, and all his eyes turned to Wei Jiansu. Wei Jiansu was sitting in the first column in the middle of the lobby and sat with his wife. He started to sweat on his forehead since Lin Jian appeared, and he felt vaguely that Lin Jian was talking about himself. Did something happen to Butler Liu?

Until Lin Jian pointed out his name, Wei Jiansu's face was pale and his head lowered deeply. There were whispers in the lobby, "Wei Jiansu is a spy?" Whose spy would it be? It was Li Longji's spy at that time.

At this time, the faces of the core figures of the Pei family sitting next to Pei Kuan were extremely hard to see. At the most critical moment of Pei Kuan's birthday, the Guanzhong army came to smash the scene, which undoubtedly slapped the Pei family hard. Pei Min was furious and was about to get up, but Pei Zunqing held him down.

"Don't come forward, let me go!"

Jiang is worthy of being the old man. Pei Zunqing reacted very quickly. Pei Min is the right prime minister. He would be suspected of using his power to hinder military affairs. It would be best for Pei Xi to come forward.

Pei Xi nodded and walked out of the lobby quickly. He walked to Li Qing'an and bowed to Lin Jian: "General Lin, today is the 75th birthday of my father. Can you give the Pei family a face? Wait until the birthday gift is over before arresting people."

Without waiting for Lin Jian to reply, he immediately ordered: "Come on, add another seat to General Lin."

"this......"

Lin Jian was in a very difficult situation. He was ordered to smash the Pei family's birthday. Of course, he would not give the Pei family face, but Li Qing'an stood aside! He didn't dare to do anything randomly.

Li Qing'an said nothing and looked at this person coldly, seeing how he dared to arrest people in front of him. He had just talked with Wei Huan in the morning, and Li Heng would arrest Wei Jiansu in the afternoon. This is to target Li Qing'an and give him a loud slap in front of thousands of major court officials. Don't you, Li Qing'an, want to support the Pei family? I'll smash the Pei family's place.

Lin Jian did not dare to be arrogant in front of Li Qing'an. He was about to step down by Pei Xi's words, but at this moment, Wang Gong walked up and said, "General Lin, this spy is not someone you say is who you say, what evidence do you have?"

"Evidence? Yes! Yes!"

Lin Jian hurriedly took out a letter and said, "This is a handwritten letter written by Wei Jiansu to the Emperor of Chengdu. We also intercepted the Guanzhong army information he was going to send to Chengdu. They are all confidential military secrets and the evidence is conclusive!"

With a wave of his hand, several soldiers lifted the box up and opened it. It was full of information, and there were two housekeepers and grooms of Wei Jiansu tied them next to them.

"Why do you think this is the case?"

Wang Gong frowned and said to Li Qing'an: "General, the evidence is conclusive, so I can't stop it."

Li Qingan sneered and said, "Since the evidence is conclusive, you can just arrest people. I am just the governor of Anxi and cannot control the affairs of Chang'an. Is it, Wang Prime Minister?"

After saying that, he winked at the captain of the personal soldiers. The soldiers immediately dodged away and gave way out, making it clear that Lin Jian was arrested. Lin Jian did not dare to act rashly. He looked at Wang Gong in embarrassment. Wang Gong was also hesitant. If Li Qing'an forced himself to stand up and prevented Wei Jian from arresting Wei Jiansu, he could let Lin Jian arrest people forcibly, but Li Qing'an gave up and asked him to arrest him. This made Wang Gong feel a little worried. However, if he made concessions at this time, he would not be able to attack Li Qing'an to win over the aristocratic family, nor could he attack the Pei family. People must be arrested.

Wang Gong was about to order the arrest of the person, but Wei Jiansu stood up. He sighed and said, "The north is also the Tang Dynasty, and the south is also the Tang Dynasty. Why do you say that spies? You say I am a spy, I won't argue, I just follow you, don't make things difficult for Mr. Pei's birthday."

After saying that, he walked out and said to Lin Jian: "Let's go! I'll go with you."

Lin Jian glanced at Wang Gong, Wang Gong nodded and said, "The national law does not allow it, so I have to avenge Mr. Wei first."

Lin Jian waved his hand and immediately came up, grabbing Wei Jiansu's arm one left and one right, and took him down. Lin Jian bowed to Li Qing'an and said, "General, I am just doing my orders, please forgive me."

Li Qing'an said nothing, Lin Jian was uneasy and had to retreat. It was not until they walked away that Li Qing'an smiled faintly and said, "I only now understand that the army can also arrest ministers."

He looked at Wang Gong with a sarcastic look, turned around and smiled, "Dear VIPs, a little episode, don't affect Pei Ge Lao's birthday. We suggest that the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall toast Pei Ge Lao collectively. After a while, the emperor will come to celebrate Pei Ge Lao's birthday in person. Please wait."

Zhang Yun first stood up and smiled and said, "The General's words make sense. Mr. Pei Ge is also a veteran of the Political Affairs Hall. We should respect Mr. Pei Ge's glass of wine."

As the music sounded, the atmosphere in the lobby became lively again, but Wang Gong felt a little heavy in his heart. He was still thinking about what Li Qing'an said just now.

'It turns out that the army can also arrest ministers!' He suddenly realized that it was a little wrong to ask the Guanzhong army to arrest Wei Jiansu.

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The news of the Guanzhong army arresting people at the Pei family birthday party soon spread throughout Chang'an City. This is undoubtedly another topic of great interest. Some people who are interested in the situation at that time portrayed the situation wonderfully. Thousands of powerful people in Chang'an celebrated Pei Kuan's birthday. At the climax, the Guanzhong army led their troops in and captured Wei Jiansu, the Minister of War. Li Qing'an and Wang Gong had a confrontation. Finally, Wei Jiansu surrendered himself and ended the fight.

Although Pei Kuan's birthday was continued, the young emperor came to celebrate Pei Kuan's birthday. It seemed that the Pei family's birthday was not affected, but anyone with discerning eyes could see that the Guanzhong army dared to arrest people during the birthday party, which was a slap in the Pei family, and Li Qing'an. He was unable to protect Wei Jiansu in the end. This was undoubtedly a setback for his reputation. It would discourage many families who were preparing to surrender to Li Qing'an. They would have doubts. How capable is Li Qing'an in politics?

But many people know in their hearts that Wei Jiansu's arrest was just the beginning, not the end. With Li Qing'an's style, he will definitely launch a tough counterattack.

As night fell, the Pei family's birthday party had already ended, but the prelude to the case of Wei Jiansu being arrested had just begun. Quchifang, a carriage slowly drove out of the gate of the house and headed towards the Xiamen of the mansion. In the carriage, Wei Tao seemed worried. Not long after he returned from Pei's mansion, he boarded the carriage and headed out of the city.

Wei Tao is worried about the future of the Wei family. In the past ten years, the Wei family has suffered repeated setbacks. Today, Wei Jiansu was arrested, causing the last high-ranking official of the Wei family in the court to fall down, and the Wei family will suffer an unprecedented blow.

After Wei Tao returned home, he immediately found several of Wei Jiansu's confidants to understand the situation. It should be said that the situation was true. Wei Jiansu did plan to surrender to Chengdu. Li Longji promised to give him the position of prime minister, and Wei Jiansu was also preparing to send a batch of Guanzhong army information to Chengdu. The problem was serious. Wei Tao believed that almost half of the ministers in the court would be bought by Li Longji and would secretly communicate with him to leave a way out for himself. On this issue, no one would be absolutely clean.

But it is very rare for Wei Jiansu to give military secrets to Li Longji. Wei Tao couldn't help but sigh secretly. If this were not the case, Li Heng would not dare to arrest people openly with a letter. It is estimated that Wei Jiansu's charge would be confirmed.

But Wei Tao still had a glimmer of hope. When arresting people in the birthday hall, Li Heng made a mistake. He actually used the Guanzhong army to arrest people. Although the Guanzhong army was a victim, they were not qualified to arrest people. It should be the Jinwu Guard to arrest people. This loophole is not big or small. If Li Qing'an used this loophole to counterattack at that time, Wei Jiansu would not have been arrested, but Li Qing'an gave up this opportunity.

Wei Tao believed that Li Qing'an must have understood the mistakes made by the other party, but he did not seize them to fight back. What does this mean? This shows that Li Qing'an also hoped that Wei Jiansu was captured to some extent. He might want to use this opportunity to win over the Wei family again, or maybe he had no plans, but no matter what, Li Qing'an would definitely not sit idly by. He must have a backup plan. When he went to him, he should still have hope of regaining it.

The carriage drove out of the Fuxia Gate. After a brief inspection, the carriage drove out of Chang'an City and headed towards the camp of the Anxi Army outside Mingde Gate.

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Li Qing'an usually lives in the military camp. After the Pei family's birthday party, Li Qing'an did not stay in the Pei Mansion for a long time and soon returned to the military camp. As soon as he returned to the military camp, Li Qing'an immediately ordered someone to find Cui Guangyuan and Cui Ping.

Cui Guangyuan and Cui Ping are both children of the Cui family in Boling, and they are also representatives of the Cui family in the Li Qing'an faction. In fact, in addition to them, Anxi also has Cui Yi, who serves as the chief inspector of the Anxi Supervision Office and is also a child of the Cui family.

At this moment, Cui Guangyuan and Cui Ping were both sitting in the big tent, and Li Qing'an was giving them a major decision.

"I came to you to tell you clearly that I am going to place you two as local officials and leave Chang'an for the time being. I don't know what you two have and where you want to go? Just tell me, I'll make arrangements for you."

Seeing the two of them confused, Li Qingan smiled and said, "I know you may not be able to accept it for the time being, but I did have an idea for a long time. But today I made up my mind that you are all my people and will naturally be valued by me in the future. So letting you leave Chang'an is also a temporary measure. At most two or three years, you will return to Chang'an. How about it? Are you willing to listen to my arrangements?"

Although Cui Guangyuan is several years older than Cui Ping, they are peers. If it comes to orthodox blood relationships, Cui Ping is a little more orthodox than Cui Guangyuan. Cui Guangyuan belongs to the common people in the Cui family.

The two of them looked at each other, and both stood up and bowed, "I wish to listen to the arrangements of the general!"

"Sit, sit down!"

Li Qingan quickly waved his hand and smiled, "I want to listen to your own ideas first. If it meets my plan, I will arrange it according to your ideas."

He glanced at Cui Guangyuan and said, "Guangyuan will talk first!"

Choi Guangyuan is currently the Jingzhao Yin, but Jingzhao Yin is also the most difficult official position among the imperial officials. He usually does not hold it for a long time, and is prone to offend the powerful and powerful, and is also prone to scapegoats for power struggles. His average term of office is mostly about one year. Those who are good at doing can continue to be promoted and become local officials, but those who are not good at doing will sink into it and will find it difficult to make a comeback again.

Cui Guangyuan has been the Jingzhao Yin for almost a year. As the Anxi Army and the Guanzhong Army split Guanzhong equally, Jingzhao Yin was in an embarrassing role. His power was emptied. After calculation, he should leave his post. Therefore, Cui Guangyuan has been considering a new place to go. Cui Guangyuan's greatest ideal is not to be a civil servant, but to command the three armies and become a prince. A long time ago, when he was the magistrate of Chang'an County, he proposed this idea to Li Qing'an. Now that Li Qing'an asked him, he pondered for a while, and said: "General, I hope to be transferred to a military position, and I hope to become the governor of a state and command the three armies."

In history, although Cui Guangyuan was appointed as the governor of Jiannan and participated in the battle against An Qingxu, he was not a very qualified commander. Although he had great ambitions to join the army, he was indeed not suitable to lead troops. Cui Guangyuan's actions in history also exposed some of his problems, such as credibility, impetuousness, and low-mindedness. Of course, Cui Guangyuan may also have his own advantages, but the rule of the Anxi Army is that "they will come out of the war". People who have not been baptized by the battle cannot let him stand alone. Although Li Qingan does not know the details of history, he will not break the rules of the Anxi Army.

Li Qingan smiled slightly and said, "Your requirements are not high, and it should be possible. However, I still hope that you will not transfer to the army for the time being. You go to Taiyuan and serve as the Taiyuan Yin, stabilize the situation in Taiyuan for me. You will resign from Jingzhao Yin and go to Taiyuan to take up your post. Your appointment letter will reach Taiyuan at the same time as you. Of course, I will also meet some of your requirements for joining the army. You can also serve as the field envoy of the Hedong Jiedu Camp, be responsible for the food and grass logistics of the Hedong Army, and be in charge of part of the logistics army. What do you think?"

"Subordinate to obey the order!"

Cui Guangyuan hesitated for a moment and asked again: "Who is the Hedong Jiedushi?"

Li Qing'an pointed at himself and smiled and said, "I am the governor, but I am just a remote leader. I don't care about the specific military affairs. The specific military affairs will be led by Lei Wanchun, the governor of Yunzhou, who is also the deputy envoy of the governor of Hedong."

"I understand, I'll leave tomorrow."

Li Qing'an clicked a little and said with a smile: "You go home and pack up your things first! I'll talk to Cui Ping again."

Cui Guangyuan bowed and went out. Only Li Qing'an and Cui Ping were left in the tent. Cui Ping left Li Qing'an's back door in order to buy a house and was transferred to Xuyi County to be the magistrate of Shique County. Not long after, he was recommended by Li Qing'an and promoted to Sizhou Prefecture. Before he knew it, he became one of Li Qing'an's confidants. He even surpassed Cui Guangyuan in his friendship with Li Qing'an. Now Cui Ping is appointed as the Minister of Works and is also considered a middle- and high-level official.

Cui Ping is Cui Qiao's nephew and the authentic direct descendant of the Cui family in Boling, but his status in the Cui family is not high. Moreover, because he is close to Li Qing'an, he is also excluded by the Cui family. Last year, Cui's family worships his ancestors, but he was not invited to participate in the worship of his ancestors. This can be said to be a very serious punishment. For this reason, Cui Ping has been depressed. He knew that the problem was because he was too close to Li Qing'an. Despite this, Cui Ping insisted on his principle, that is, to hold Li Qing'an's thighs tightly, and he believed that he would turn over.

The tent was quiet, and Li Qing'an took a sip of tea and smiled and said, "I heard that you were not able to participate in the ancestor worship last year. Are you very disappointed?"

Cui Ping nodded and sighed: "You can't participate in the worship of ancestors. This is a punishment that only criminals can get. I really don't understand how they can treat me like this. I'm really disappointed."

"The so-called thirty years of Hedong and thirty years of Hexi, there is nothing unchanging. You have to believe in your choice. Don't look at the Cui family that does not allow you to worship your ancestors today, but one day, the Cui family will respectfully invite you back and let you preside over the ancestor worship ceremony, and this day will not be too far away."

Speaking of this, Li Qing'an said again: "The reason why I asked you and Cui Guangyuan to leave Chang'an today is that I want to do something. It will be detrimental to you when you stay in Chang'an. I can't tell you what it is, but you will know soon."

Cui Ping nodded silently, "I can understand."

"Okay! Let's talk about your thoughts first, what do you want to do?"

Cui Ping pondered for a moment and said, "I want to be an official in Anxi."

Li Qingan was stunned, and then smiled and said, "As a matter of vision, I have the same arrangements for you. You are temporarily the sanction of Hexi and the chief of the Hexi Jiedu Prefecture, in charge of Hexi government affairs. Especially now, you have to be fully responsible for the first 50,000 immigrants from Henan Road arrived in Anxi safely."

"I understand, I will set out to Hexi tomorrow."

"No! You don't have to rush to Hexi, go to Huazhou first. I just got the news that the first batch of immigrants has arrived in Huazhou. These people are actually victims of disasters, from Zheng, Bian, Song and Chen. It is not easy for them to come from Henan. Although there are government assistance along the way, I am worried that the old and weak among them may not be able to hold on to the long journey. A few years ago, many old and weak people died on the road. The responsibility on your shoulders is very heavy. If you can send these 50,000 immigrants to Anxi safely, I will be a great achievement."

Cui Ping bowed and said sincerely: "I understand the humble position!"

Li patted his shoulder and smiled and said, "Go! Remember my words, if the mountains and rivers do not turn, the Cui family will definitely regret not allowing you to participate in the ancestor worship."

Cui Ping left, Li Qing'an picked up the teacup and drank the tea slowly. He sorted out the next thoughts in his mind. Today, Li Heng captured Wei Jiansu in front of him. Regardless of whether Wei Jiansu had defected to Li Longji, the purpose of Li Heng and others was very obvious. He was to teach the Pei family to defect to him a lesson, and to shock other aristocratic families by attacking the Wei family. If Li Qing'an really ignores him, then he would be too disappointing.

The counterattack is certain. The key is how to fight back, be patient, wait, be ruthless, and if you don’t fight back, you will be able to scream in pain once you fight back.
Chapter completed!