Chapter 483: The appearance of the film (Part 2)

At night, a carriage rushed in front of the mansion of the right prime minister Pei Min and stopped in front of the mansion. Li Yan, the Minister of Justice, walked out of the carriage. Pei Min's eldest son Pei Mingyi had already been waiting in front of the mansion. Seeing Li Yan coming out of the carriage, he hurriedly came up, "Uncle Shi, my father is waiting in the study."

Li Yan seemed a little worried and did not exchange greetings, so he went into the mansion with Pei Mingyi.

"Nephew, do you general have a letter delivered?" When Li Yan walked to the door of the study, he suddenly asked Pei Mingyi.

Pei Mingyi is a Sima of the Anxi Army. He is currently stationed in Chang'an and is in charge of the letters sent by Anxi. He shook his head and said, "There is no official letter from the Anxi Army, but my father received the general's express letter, which was sent from Longyou."

This is what Li Yan wanted to ask. He nodded and went straight into the study.

In the study, Pei Min was reading a quick letter written by Li Qing'an. The letter was written by Li Qing'an from Huangcheng and was delivered in the afternoon. This was the third time he had read it. The reason he had to think about it repeatedly was because he didn't understand some of the contents of the letter. To be precise, he didn't quite understand why Li Qing'an told him to do this.

‘All proposals proposed by the Nationalist Party can be passed.’

At this time, the most critical sentence in the letter, this sentence has no cause or consequence, and is written at the beginning of the letter for no reason. How can he understand it? Will all the proposals be passed? Pei Min felt that this sentence was a bit arbitrary, because the current situation is changing, and Li Qing'an could not understand everything. For example, he didn't know that An Lushan came to Beijing. Can the proposals against An Lushan be passed?

After pondering for a long time, he put down his letter and walked to the window with his hands behind his back. The slightly cool night breeze of Mid-Autumn Festival blew on his face, making his thoughts clearer.

Pei Min sighed secretly. In fact, he understood what Li Qing'an meant and what Li Qing'an didn't say behind him. The words behind him were very simple, just to make them fulfill Li Heng's madness. Perhaps this is the real reason why Li Qing'an left Chang'an.

He also knew very well that Li Qing'an's ultimate goal was. He wanted to ascend the throne as King Zhao. In fact, Li Heng was not his obstacle. Li Shi, who was legal and orthodox, was his biggest obstacle.

But he could not take action to overthrow Li Shi's throne. On the contrary, he had to support Li Shi, so that everyone could feel that Li Qing'an was also supporting the legal and reasonable existence. This was just like Cao Cao in the late Han Dynasty who always supported the Han Dynasty. However, Li Qing'an was different from Cao Cao. He was also a Li clan. So while supporting Li Shi, he had to use Li Heng's hands to overthrow Li Shi.

Pei Min felt that his heart had become dark, and he had touched all these unspeakable thoughts by Li Qing'an. Pei Min was also confused and confused. Supporting Li Shi was for the benefit of the country and the Tang Dynasty, and supporting Li Qing'an was for his Pei family. Which is more important than the family or the country?

In fact, Pei Min has been thinking about this issue for a long time. He is not as clear as Pei Zunqing. His family's interests are above everything else. He has more or less a sense of the country in his heart. His father Pei Yaoqing once participated in the opening of the Kaiyuan prosperity. Before his death, his father only told him one sentence: "We must maintain the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty." This sentence has been remembered by him until now. He understood his father's meaning, that is, to devote himself to the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. Then, can Li Qing'an bring about the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty? This conclusion is obviously ridiculous. In fact, only Li Qing'an can solve the complex situation of separatist vassal states in front of him. Only Li Qing'an can solve it, and only he has the ability to unify the Tang Dynasty.

But he felt that Li Qing'an was a little short of it. Perhaps what he lacked was a kind of orthodox legitimacy! He was not a descendant of Li Shimin.

Pei Min sighed deeply, how difficult is it to really face a choice between the country and the world?

"Father, Shangshu Li is here."

The son's report outside the door interrupted Pei Min's thoughts, and he turned around and said, "Please come in!"

Pei Min put away his feelings and returned to his seat. He specially sent someone to invite Li Yan over to discuss Li Qing'an's letter with him.

The door opened, Li Yan walked in, Pei Min immediately stood up and bowed and smiled, "I'm so sorry to disturb Li Shangshu's rest!"

Li Yan's face looked ugly, without a smile at all. He didn't be polite to Pei Min, so he sat down directly.

"If you have anything, please tell me first!"

Seeing that he looked bad, Pei Min asked carefully: "What happened? Is it because of An Lushan?"

"What's An Lushan? Will I be angry about him?"

"What the hell happened?"

Li Yan was a person who could not hide his words. After Pei Min asked several times, he said hatefully: "In the afternoon, news came from Zichen Palace that Li Heng issued a state-regulatory order to freeze the division of land in Weinan County indefinitely. In fact, it was actually a disguised veto on the intention of the late emperor to divide the land into the imperial village."

"But hasn't the Political Affairs Hall passed the resolution?"

Li Yan glanced at Pei Min and sighed, "The problem lies here. Li Heng said that the resolution passed by our Political Affairs Hall stated that land limited to the royal family was limited to the royal family, and the land of the royal family did not include the imperial village. He seized this point and asked our Land Department to withdraw from the imperial village. All the divided lands must be handed back. He had a very tough attitude."

Pei Min was silent for a moment, then asked him again, "What are you planning?"

Li Yan bit his lips tightly and said, "I am very worried that the Guanzhong army will be unfavorable to the Tianmusi officials in the Huangzhuang. I want to go to Weinan County tomorrow to see the specific situation. If conditions permit, I will spread the land to the people."

"Then have Brother Qiming considered giving in?"

"concession?"

Li Yan snorted heavily, "I can give in to anything else, but I will never give in to land reform. This is the result of the late emperor's life. If I give in, how can I face the late emperor? Whether it is the land of the royal family or the imperial village, only I, Li Yan, will be in one day, and I will resolutely allocate the land to the end. If Pei Xiangguo does not support me, then I will do this alone!"

"Stop the anger! Brother Qiming please calm down!"

Pei Min hurriedly comforted him and said, "It's not that I don't support you, it's because His Highness Zhao has an order to obey the arrangements of the governor during this period."

Li Yan was stunned, and the anger in his heart quickly subsided, and he asked, "Where is the letter? Show me."

Pei Min handed him Li Qing'an's letter, Li Yan opened the letter and looked carefully.

Although Li Yan was also a Zhao Wang Party, he was very different from Pei Min. Pei Min was Li Qing'an's wife and his two sons were civil servants in Li Qing'an's army. He was very loyal to Li Qing'an. Although his views were slightly different from Li Qing'an, he would eventually implement Li Qing'an's orders.

But Li Yan is different. He is loyal to Li Yu, one of the two people Li Yu trusts the most, and has become the pioneer of Li Yu's land reform.

Out of loyalty to Li Yu, Li Yan also firmly supported the current emperor Li Shi. If he was strictly distinguished, he should belong to the royalist faction and was the same faction with Guo Ziyi, Wang Sili and others. However, out of hostility and opposition to Li Heng, he naturally became a member of the Zhao King Party, stood on the front line with Li Qing'an, Pei Min and others, and became a deadly hard-working person who opposed Li Heng. In terms of faction division of the court, he naturally included him in the Zhao King Party.

Because he has a royalist background, Li Qing'an is even more polite to him. Similarly, he will not discuss many core matters with him, such as letting Cui Huan become prime minister again, and Li Yan didn't know that Li Qing'an had reached a secret agreement with the Cui family.

Li Qing'an wrote to Pei Min from Longyou this time, in fact, hoping that Pei Min could convince Li Yan. Pei Min smiled bitterly and said, "Your Highness Zhao means that during the period when he is away, we should try not to conflict with the State Party as much as possible, which will be detrimental to us. In addition, Your Highness Zhao also said that if you feel that your personal safety is threatened, you can go to General Nan Jiyun. He will arrange guards to protect us. Brother Qiming, I also hope that you can calm down. The matters of the imperial village will be temporarily delayed. After Your Highness Zhao returns to the court, we will launch a counterattack."

Although Li Yan is a righteous person, he is not stupid. Pei Min's advice makes sense. It is actually not too late to counterattack after Li Qing'an comes back. Li Heng dared not make it clear that he took back the imperial village. He just wanted them to freeze for a long time, so he would freeze it temporarily.

Thinking of this, Li Yan said, "Then I won't go to Weinan County tomorrow. I will send someone to recall the officials of the imperial village. Tomorrow I will go to Xinfeng County. There is a Baishui Manor there. It turns out that it is the Yang family's land. It's been divided these days. I, like Li Heng, won't even object to it!"

"Will Li Shangshu want military escorts? I'll go and tell Nan Jiyun."

Li Yan smiled and waved his hand and said, "The army is not needed. I have dozens of servants, enough to deal with the little thieves. Besides, Xinfeng County is the territory of the Guanzhong Army. The Anxi Army will be caught by them in the past, so I won't make things difficult for them."

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The next morning, Li Yan, under the escort of dozens of sword servants, and two officials from Tianmusi went to Xinfeng County.

The Land and Land and Land and Land and Land were a department temporarily established by Li Yu to seize the land of the royal family. Dozens of officials were drawn from the Sinong Temple, Taifu Temple, the Censorate and the Ministry of Justice. Li Yan served as the Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land and Land were not operated again after the fifth day of August was determined.

Although Li Yan was the Minister of Justice, in fact, he did not care about the affairs of the Ministry of Justice. His whole body and mind were basically devoted to land redistribution. He had a belief that he would complete the unfulfilled will of the late emperor as soon as possible, and distribute the tens of thousands of hectares of land collected to landless farmers in Guanzhong to alleviate the land annexation in Guanzhong. It is precisely because Li Yan was the pioneer of Li Yu's land collection. When he put away the fields, he looked dark and cold-hearted, and did not care about the friendship of the royal family, so there were many royal family members who hated Li Yan to the core.

Li Yan also understood this in his heart. He would bring dozens of armed guards to the house when he went out. He was going to the imperial village today, but after Pei Min persuaded him, he gave up his plan to go to the imperial village and instead went to Baishui Manor in Xinfeng County.

Baishui Manor is a manor with an area of ​​over a thousand hectares. It was originally an estate in An Lushan. In the sixth year of Tianbao, the Lady of Guo State, Yang Huahua, gave this manor as a birthday gift to Yang Huahua.

Baishui Manor is located in the southeast of Xinfeng County, about fifteen miles from Mount Li. It is surrounded by beautiful mountains and rivers and has excellent scenery. To the west of the manor, there is a small river called Baishui, hence the name Baishui Manor. A battle to seize the fields broke out here a few months ago. Yang Li, one of the main members of the Yang family, was shot to death with an arrow. Nearly half a year has passed, and the farm has become a property to be distributed. The tenants of the farm are also particularly excited. They will become the first beneficiary of the land distribution.

It is already early September, the autumn weather is clear and the autumn rice is about to mature. The rice fields are golden, and the villages are laughing and laughing everywhere, full of joy of harvest.

At noon, Li Yan was about to arrive in Tianzhuang, less than ten miles away from Tianzhuang, and you could already see Baishui Mountain behind Tianzhuang. They got off the official road and continued along a small path. There were dense rice fields on both sides, and the wind blew, rustling.

Li Yan was in high spirits and smiled at Tian Yunqing, a subordinate who went to Tianzhuang with him, and said, "It will take at least three days to divide the land in Baishui Tianzhuang. If you can't get home in three days, will your wife say you?"

Tian Yunqing was transferred from Sinong Temple. He was a Jinshi in the ninth year of Tianbao. He was young and promising. He had only been married for three months. He rode on his horse and followed Li Yan's carriage. When the Prime Minister asked him, he quickly replied respectfully: "Report to the Prime Minister, he has been away from his low position for the past few months. His wife is used to it, but the salary of the officials is too low, and she often complains."

"Well! Do more while you are young, you can accumulate qualifications for the future. Work hard. I will give you an exam tomorrow. In this way, if you have been in an exam for four years, you can be promoted to another level and your salary will increase. In addition, I will allow you to get the special allowance from Anxi, so that you can also subsidize some household income."

Tian Yunqing was overjoyed. Li Yan had always been strict and upright, and had strict control over his subordinates. As his subordinates, none of them dared to receive special allowances for Anxi. Li Yan was relieved now, and their lives were much more relaxed.

At this time, they arrived at Baishui River and needed to cross a small bridge. A servant suddenly shouted: "Master! Why is the bridge broken?"

Tian Yunqing leaned over and saw that the bridge was indeed broken, "It's strange, it was fine last time, why did it break?"

He said to himself a few words, and then said to Li Yan: "Prime Minister, I know there is an old bridge to the west, but it is also a dangerous bridge. I'll go and take a look. If it doesn't work, I'll think of another way."

"Then you go!"

Tian Yunqing ran west along the field path, but he had just run less than a hundred steps when he suddenly heard a few screams from behind him. When he turned around, his scalp was so scared that he was numb. He saw hundreds of Guanzhong soldiers rushing out of the rice fields, all with long swords and spears, surrounding the carriages, and slashing and killing Li Yan's servants. One of the slightly familiar officers opened his bow and arrow, aiming at him. The bowstring sounded, and an arrow came to him in the blink of an eye. He screamed in fear, and instinctively turned sideways. The arrow hit his shoulder. A severe pain came. He was unsteady on the horse and was about to fall off his horse. But in the moment of life and death, the desire to survive made him hug the horse's neck tightly and run westward without any chance.

Several assassins followed him chased him. Tian Yunqing was in a panic and rushed to the edge of the river. He couldn't hold his horse, so he screamed and rushed into the river with his people and horses. The river water was very fast. Tian Yunqing choked a few mouthfuls of water, and hit a big rock with his head heavily, and fainted suddenly.

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The news that Li Yan, the Minister of Justice, was assassinated to Chang'an in the evening, and the entire Chang'an was shocked. The assassination of the prime minister was the first time since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. The city was full of storms. Li Heng issued a state-regulatory order to strictly investigate the murderer, and said that no matter who was involved, he would be severely punished. However, the news found was frustrating. Li Yan and all his entourage were killed, and no one was alive.

Changan City was talking about whether it was killed by the Guanzhong army or by the royal family who hated him deeply, and there was no consensus that Pei Min urgently sent someone to report this unfortunate news to Li Qing'an.

At this time, the political situation in Chang'an changed again. There was one missing person in the Political Affairs Hall, so who would make up for this shortage became the most concerned thing for all civil and military officials in the court.

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Chapter completed!