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Chapter 5 Jade Pendant

In the late years of the previous dynasty, the traitor was in power and the people were living in poverty. If we talk about the emperor's legitimate rule of the emperor and the throne was famous, Li Jian would be the first to be the king of Tang. Li Jian was granted the title of King of Tang when the previous dynasty was founded. He was hereditary to Jiangnan and belonged to the orthodox royal relatives.

As the saying goes, the name is righteous, and the words are ashamed. Although Li Jian was appointed as the Queen of Jin, he inherited the prince, the orthodox royal family, and his fiefdoms and countless money and food. Of course, there were many generals in the official supervision and generals who had been with him at that time.

Later, when Li Jian was in charge, he killed the traitors and attacked the road, and Lian Shengde Mansion. In addition to his vast family friendship and money and grain delivery, he had a small amount of achievements, relying on the eunuchs in various places in the previous dynasty, and he came to him by the eunuchs who were guarding the throne. Therefore, when Li Jian ascended the throne, he did not abolish the eunuchs like the emperors of the other three dynasties, and still followed the rules of the previous dynasty, divided the eunuchs' power and guarded various places.

However, the eunuchs who are guarding the government have completely lost the power of the military supervisors, seals, generals and generals from the previous dynasty, and are just managing the procurement office and escorting the bank. However, as Li Jian grew older, the Interior Affairs Department was established in the early 9th year of Jiande to take charge of his power and assassinate the secret queen, and the power of the eunuchs became higher.

He Kui, the chief eunuch in charge of the Internal Affairs Department, also led the secret camp and governed the official, and was in charge of secret agents in the world. The military situation was secretly slandered, officials were corrupt, and the kings and princes discussed affairs, and all the secret agents were secretly reported. The powerful ones could be considered kings and princes.

In the tenth year of Jiande, after the yamen of the garrison was in charge of the Internal Affairs Department, the eunuchs in various parts of the Southern Tang Dynasty also increased their status. In addition to being the purchasing managers who were also in charge of the court, they also secretly explored the public, including civil affairs, officials' housework, and royal residences. They all searched for secret reports and stitched holes and needles.

Under the night, Jiangling is gorgeous and colorful. As usual, countless cruise ships and flower boats are docked on the riverside pier and cheers are constantly coming, singing and dancing to peace.

If you stare carefully with your eyes, you can vaguely see sparks flashing in colorful places, delicate and light and dance extremely brightly among the famous flowers. It is the gorgeous scene blooming on the flower boats that are far away from the shore.

Entering several miles along the river bank of the famous flower stream, countless divine towers slowly appeared at the leisurely end of the north of Jiangling City. There was no noisy and bustling scene, nor the noisy pedestrians shouting, and a solemn and silent strange atmosphere, hazy covering the deepest part of the north end of the city.

The pine wood crackled and brittle sounds, slowly spreading a hint of Tsinghua soft pine resin. In the past, the janis guards, which had few people, were brightly lit and silent, as if several times tighter than usual. A large number of Tang soldiers under the jurisdiction of the Sifu, led by countless secret camps and guards, patrolling back and forth between the important roads in the mansion, which was extremely strict.

The more I walked along the outside of the inner palace of the Ministry, the patrol guards inside became more and more strict. When I entered the outer periphery of an inner courtyard, I could see some high-ranking military officers from three to three places, checking posts outside the inner courtyard, walking around and looking around. The guards around the patrol guards were all replaced by those covered with purple ink cloaks, which were directly under the secret camp and under the jurisdiction of the entire patrol guards.

The footsteps of these guards were extremely light. Although they were walking around in rows of patrols, except for making gestures, they were actually surrounded without saying a word and quietly checking and preventing them.

During the Qi period, the inland was peaceful, the people's livelihood was raised, and the business was prosperous. Even when the generals were traveling, they were all in brocade robes and gorgeous clothes, and the inner clothes were talking, and there was no sense of the army of the soldiers of the border. The candlelight in the hall of the inner courtyard was bright, and the figures were slightly swaying. Several men in gorgeous clothes were indulging in their hearts and their words were slightly heavy, which was a unique Jiangnan flavor.

"The war is getting tight ahead, and the marquis suddenly summoned me here in casual clothes. What are the instructions?" The person who spoke was a middle-aged official in his forties. He was thin and dressed in a green jade dress, and he looked a bit Confucian and beautiful.

The python jade brocade robe and a dark gold crown. A purple and cute quilt cloak was flirting with his back shoulder and neck. This was a middle-aged man who looked extremely male charm. A red jade agate ring was lightly put on his left thumb, and a few strands of green beards about inches long floated lightly between his lower forehead. Standing quietly in the screen table cabinet under the candlelight, the man gave people a feeling of a kind of gentle touch. "Eunuch Wang and Governor Zhang have all arrived, so I will tell you a long story short. The Jiangling canal transportation has not yet set off for escort?"

Wang Hong, the eunuch of Jiangling, has been in office since the nine years since Jiande, and has been kind and kind. He is a master of the best reputation among the eunuchs in various places and has the best relationship with officials. And there are many officials from various prefectures with Jiangling who are good friends with him.

The face is white and delicate, kind and friendly. Although his pair of squinting eyes are not bright and energetic, they can be considered full of energy. Standing not far from Yang Yi, a white-faced eunuch wearing dark red official costumes chuckled and replied: "Mr. Marquis clearly saw that the Huai River has been dying out of the dike, and Hongyans have been flooded by several places in Hongyan, Gan, Yong, Zhejiang, Jiangduojun and other places... If this is the case alone, it would be nothing. In previous years, General Du was responsible for the transportation of the canal from the waterway. Although the Huai River is strong, it will not have much impact. However, the Qi army's navy seems to have...."

Speaking of this, the general standing opposite the Qingyi official, simply took over Wang Hong's words and said: "According to the military situation of each government, the Qi army navy has looted and patrolled the line, including near Yonghua, and several Qi army naval troops have also appeared. At present, the river road is blocked, and the navy under General Du has already gone south to travel. If the grain transportation is from Taihu Lake and then transported to Poyang, it will take too much time and material resources, so Eunuch Wang and the governor discussed and simply started transport by land. I wonder what the Marquis asked about it before, what is his opinion?"

"I mean, this year's canal transportation will not be transported to the capital. From tomorrow onwards, all ships will be shipped and diverted to Jingzhou." As soon as the man finished speaking, the people present, including Wang Hong, were shocked.

Among the local officials who were summoned by Yang Yi to discuss the important matters in the hall, the military officer was headed by Jiangling Governor Zhang Jun, while the civil servant was the beautiful man in green who spoke before, and the governor of Jiangling County Liu Yu was respected. Hearing Yang Yi's strange words, Wang Hong couldn't help but smile with a little embarrassedly, "Mr. Marquis is joking. How can Jiangling transport transport be transported to Jingzhou to unload? What's more, let alone... Our family has not heard of the Marquis' jurisdiction in Jingxiang a few days ago, and there is a plague of water, locust food..."

If ordinary people dared to talk nonsense about the grain transportation, they would have been directly sentenced to prison by the secret camp of the guards and were punished everywhere. What is the grain transportation? Since the founding of the Celestial Empire, no matter which generation of emperors has regarded it as the lifeblood of the grain transportation system.

What do people need most? Apart from the most basic living and the so-called glory and wealth, they are naturally food. Without food, even if you are the Nine-Turn Spiritual Child and the Living Buddha will never be able to survive.

Before the previous dynasty, the southern area was the primary place for grain production. In addition to the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Yangjia territories in the northern part of the Yang family, about half of the people's livelihood in the border areas in the southwest and northwest areas relying on the southern distribution of grain transportation to fill their stomachs.

Although the Nantang Town Guardian Yamen was established in the south like the secret camp, and was spread all over the government and the country. However, they still followed the rule of the early days of the Celestial Dynasty, divided the north and south, and dominated the world. The southern counties from Jiangling were under the jurisdiction of the Nanzhenfusi. Although Yang Yi was a member of the local army town, the geographical situation in the Jingxiang area was complicated. The Jiangxia camp in the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Jiangdong camp in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the Jiangbei camp in the Northern Qi Dynasty formed a three-legged crossing, and the various parties even secretly explored four times, and the exchanges were not extinguished.

Therefore, since Yang Yi was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Secret Camp Nanfu Department. In addition to the secret investigation reports in the hinterland of Jiangnan, military information reports and secret investigations outside Jingxiang were directly under the jurisdiction of Yang Yi.

In terms of position, although Yang Yi is in charge of the outside and the inside, he is nominally the deputy envoy of Wang Hong. In addition, he is a powerful military chief, and among the people present, he still emphasizes the weight of his speech.

Seeing that Liu Yu and Wang Hong were both embarrassed, Zhang Jun was a military officer after all, so he was more confident in speaking: "The war is now in a hurry. The Marquis went to Jiangling to transfer grain. It must be a matter of urgent matters. However, this grain was ordered by the emperor to escort the officials over the years. If the Marquis wants to transfer other places, can it be......... "

"Purple Dragon Jade?" Zhang Jun was just half-speaking, and a few low voices immediately sounded from the hall. A piece of purple-blue all over, bright and moist, with a dragon-shaped jade pendant engraved with two dragons swallowing the sea. It immediately appeared in Yang Yi's palm.
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