"If you take over others like this, it is a common thing nowadays."
Li Xia suddenly thought of this poem again.
At that time, I just bought a copy of "Lingchuan Collected Works" and happened to find it. I thought it was good, so I wrote it on the wall with Chi Na's blood.
When I think about it recently, I feel more and more that this poem is philosophical.
He reined in the reins, pointed to Dongxin Street in front of him, and said to Liu Yuanzhen: "This is a good place for an assassination."
"Is this all Lian Xixian can do?"
Li Xia said: "When Zhongmin stole the book, he also thought that I only had that little means."
Liu Yuanzhen showed disdain on his face. Hearing this, he couldn't help but sigh and said helplessly: "Can't the commander not just mention this matter?"
"The fact that you brought me up means that you haven't repented yet...send the people away."
Yang Ben immediately gave the order, then looked around and said, "The assassin may be hiding in a house. Do you want to search?"
"No need. If you make people uneasy, you've fallen into the opponent's trap."
After waiting for a while, Li Xia saw that the soldiers had dispersed the people along the way. He raised his head and glanced at it, and said to himself: "Administration in Guanzhong is the business, there is no need to waste time."
"Give it to me."
He drove his horse and galloped straight into Dongxin Street...
In the attic, Hu Zhiyun was already there, stunned.
He arranged for dozens of dead soldiers to hide in the crowd, and when he was about to take action, he blocked Dongxin Street, but was driven away.
Only dozens of dead soldiers were left hiding in civilian houses.
Li Xia must have expected the assassin, and even glanced this way.
Because the view from here on the whole street is the best.
The chances of it happening are too low.
Hu Zhiyun turned his head, glanced at the brazier next to him, then raised his hand and blew the whistle...
As soon as the whistle sounded, dead soldiers immediately appeared on the walls and windows on both sides of the long street, picking up crossbows and aiming at Li Xia.
At the same time, thunderbolt cannons were thrown.
However, the Song army was well prepared and quickly raised their shields.
"Swish, swish, swish..."
"Peng..."
The Mongolian thunder cannons did not rely on the power of explosions to injure people. Iron fragments were fired randomly, and they hit the shields and armor of the Song army together with the missing arrows.
"Kill the assassin!"
Seeing this situation, the dead soldiers knew that their opportunity was lost, so they jumped out one after another, raised their swords and started to kill Li Xia.
In the chaos, only a horse neighed, and Li Xia jumped out of the horse, holding a long spear and rushing forward.
He was not afraid on the battlefield. At this time, the opponent's assassin was still not wearing armor, but he was fully armed and was just practicing his skills.
And you don’t have to be busy with command, which is more refreshing than the battlefield.
"Puff puff……"
The horses ran across the street, and Changsha stabbed several people in a row, showing an unstoppable force.
Behind him, Liu Yuanzhen and Yang Ben were unwilling to be outdone and led their troops to kill...
In the attic, Hu Zhiyun opened his mouth slightly, shocked by Li Xia's fierceness.
The failure of the first assassination was expected, but Li Xia's disdainful attitude still made him feel frustrated.
He closed his eyes, blew the whistle again, and ordered the dead soldiers to evacuate. Then, without stopping, he turned around and left the place.
Just half an hour later, soldiers came in and searched. When they saw that there was no danger, they asked Liu Yuanzhen to come out.
"That's all."
Liu Yuanzhen glanced at the furnishings in the room and shook his head.
Finally, he looked at the brazier, picked up the saber and fiddled with it, and suddenly saw some unburned letters scattered in it.
Liu Yuanzhen leaned back and frowned, thinking of Liu Yuanli's theft of books, and resisted a little.
Finally, he mumbled something.
"Let's see how you deal with it this time."
Liu Yuanzhen finally leaned over and picked up the broken letter.
However, after watching it for a while, his expression became a little strange.
Half an hour later, Liu Yuanzhen walked into the Jingzhao Mansion Yamen.
I saw Li Xia standing in the public room, looking a little embarrassed.
"Lian Xixian has emptied all the registers."
"I never knew he was so despicable." Liu Yuanzhen was not interested in the book, so he took out the broken letter and asked, "Does the commander want to see it?"
"look."
Li Xia didn't hesitate too much and took the letter casually, still thinking about the trouble of missing the book.
But when his eyes fell on the letter paper, he froze slightly.
"The commander didn't guess it either, right?" Liu Yuanzhen asked.
"Hmm, I didn't expect that."
Li Xia looked at it for a while, frowning more and more, walked a few steps, sat down next to the eucalyptus, spread out one of the remaining letters, and wrote to try to complete it.
"...Everyone knows about the flaw, and the Zhang family has no secrets... My sister left home in June, and she went to investigate along the way... If she is not in Jingzhao now, where will she be... If my father's ambition has not been fulfilled, his flesh and blood will be gone..."
After being punished... over and over again, I beg you to be considerate and respectful."
The brush was thrown aside. Li Xia squinted, trying to see clearly the words in the gray area, and finally seemed to curse something in a low voice.
He picked up another broken letter and spread it out.
Liu Yuanzhen looked over and said: "Lian Xixian wants to contact Zhang Rou from Kaiping to contact us secretly. He..."
"False." Li Xia said displeased: "Lian Xixian would not frame Zhang Rou at this juncture. He did not want to send this letter to Kaiping. He should have written it to me."
"What's the use?"
"To deliver the news he wanted me to know."
"What?"
"He is telling me that he has evidence of collusion between the Zhang family and me."
Liu Yuanzhen scoffed slightly and asked: "Where is the evidence? There is clearly nothing."
Li Xia was too lazy to pay attention to him.
Liu Yuanzhen had already guessed it, but when he didn't say anything, he leaned forward and asked: "The commander-in-chief doesn't want to marry my daughter from the Liu family. Does he want to save his place to marry the daughter from the Zhang family?"
"It's not like you just knew."
"It's too unfair to favor one thing over another..."
"You can wait until I treat the Zhang family really well before you speak."
"How can I talk then?"
"If you have the ability, don't wait until I've beaten you into a crippled army before you think about marriage."
Liu Yuanzhen paused and was speechless.
After a while, he spoke again: "But if the Zhang family doesn't surrender, they will be beaten..."
"I know what's going on, don't say anything."
Li Xia closed her eyes, leaned on her back, and thought about this matter alone.
The letter should have been written by Zhang Hongdao, and both the handwriting and seal were correct.
In other words, Zhang Wenjing left home in June. Did she come to Hanzhong?
If you don’t dare to go to the Song Dynasty... you can only go through Tongguan.
Have you arrived in Chang'an?
She shouldn't be in Chang'an right now, otherwise she would show up when he goes to the city today.
Was stopped by Shang Ting? That was in Tongguan?
But this is Zhang Hongdao's speculation.
Zhang Hongdao's words were threatening, so he must be very sure.
Not necessarily. If this is the case, Lian Xixian can speak out.
Or Lian Xixian believed that a little girl alone could not threaten him, and he did not dare to offend the Zhang family, so he deliberately threw in some clues to devise a plan.
Why not just put the letter here on the eucalyptus, but leave a residual message after the assassination?
Do you think the assassination can be successful? Or force yourself to investigate the assassination.
Why?
Even if he went to investigate, what would Lian Xixian do?
Or was it just a test? Or did Lian Xixian simply have no more clues? Even Zhang Hongdao's letter didn't mean that at all, so half of it was burned?
…
a long time.
Li Xia opened his eyes, but he still hadn't guessed Lian Xixian's thoughts. He just wanted to understand one thing.
"Lian Xixian asked me to find the chess pieces he buried in Chang'an City."
"Why?"
"Maybe the more I move, the more opportunities he has to kill me."
Liu Yuanzhen asked: "Didn't the commander-in-chief say that we don't have to pay attention to his various tricks and we just need to stabilize Guanzhong?"
"Well, this time it's my private matter."
"Huh? If the commander is killed by him, will you teach me to continue to bring peace to the world?" Liu Yuanzhen asked back, pointed at the table and said: "What's more, if there is a chance to bring the Zhang family into the gang, how can it be the commander's personal matter?"
"It's a private matter... because I suspect Lian Xixian might not have anything in his hands, but just wants to make me uneasy."
Liu Yuanzhen actually smiled and asked, "Why are you uneasy?"
Li Xia said: "Stabilize the people's hearts as soon as possible. This is business."
"What about outside of business?"
"I'll do it myself."
"What to do?"
"Go to Xinbozhou, capture Tongguan and capture Shang Ting, but Lian Xixian must be on guard... I still have to follow the clues, find the person who burned the letter, and ask for clues. At least I can ask the contents of the letter immediately."
"Commander, I have to remind you." Liu Yuanzhen said: "Stay awake, Mo Dou's eyes are red."
Li Xiadan said calmly: "I am very sober."
Tongjifang.
"Hangua... selling cold melons!"
Lu Ada was squatting on the street hawking. When he turned around, he saw more than twenty Song soldiers surrounding Marshal Li turning into Dongxin Lane.
He was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head.
With a glance, he saw Marshal Li going up to the small attic. He hesitated for a moment, picked up the burden and left.
After walking around two streets, I met an old man carrying manure and water. The two of them knew each other and stood chatting for a while.
"He really went there."
The old man carrying dung and water kept silent and walked for a while. When he arrived at the mule and horse market, he met a salesman.
"He really went there."
Such a simple piece of news spread to countless people, and it wasn’t until more than an hour later that it reached Yelu Youshang’s ears...
This was a small courtyard near Tianshui Well. Yelu Youshang looked around, ordered people to guard the door, went back to the house alone, pushed away the bed, and walked into the secret passage.
After turning for a while, we exited the secret passage and arrived at another small courtyard.
"Brother Shaokai, Li Xia really took the bait!"
Hu Zhiyun felt helpless and sighed: "Boqiang, I got the news half an hour ago... Your method of finding out the news is too slow and will not work."
"No, it's just that they are not familiar with it yet. They will get better and better."
Yelu Youshang was willing to listen to Hu Zhiyuan on everything else, but he was very firm on this matter.
"Brother Shaokai, please trust me."
Hu Zhiyun said: "When it comes to espionage, you and I are like Li Xia's rivals. We are already trying to hit a stone with an egg, but you are looking for a group of ignorant people to make things worse."
"Sun Tzu said, 'You know it because of this. In the hometown, you can get it in the inner world and make use of it.' I used the 'country' method. The people gathered like the sea, and I was like a fish swimming in the sea. Li Xia's plan could not be found."
I, Brother Shaokai, do you know that there are thousands of people in the city who have received great favor from Prime Minister Lian, and everyone can be my eyes and ears..."
Hu Zhiyun was really worried that his whereabouts would be revealed because of Yelu Youshang, so he turned his head and saw that the other party was getting more and more excited.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore... Li Xia has entered the game."
Yelu Youshang nodded, his expression became serious, and said: "I didn't expect that Li Xia really went to find her. I was worried that he didn't care about the Zhang family daughter."
"What he cares about is not just the daughter of the Zhang family, but the opportunity to win over the Zhang family. This is a clear plan. Even if he knows there is a fraud, he wants to pursue it when he sees the letter."
"And if we assassinate him, he will be able to find out the letter." Yelu Youshang said: "An honest Prime Minister can make Li Xia confused, and he has a clever plan."
"It's nothing to Prime Minister Lian. In retrospect, it's simple. It's nothing more than a plan to kill someone."
"But I have never seen anyone with excellent integrity..."
Hu Zhiyun said: "Historical records will only say that Li Xia, a general of the Song Dynasty, entered the Jingzhao Mansion and was trapped and killed by the honest prime minister."
He shook his head and said seriously: "Today is just the first step. Although we can predict that he will go, unfortunately he is still prepared and cannot be assassinated. But as long as we follow our clues, his traces will gradually be revealed to us.
If you have control, there is always a chance to kill him."
"Although the troops in Guanzhong are insufficient, we only need to kill him, and his power will collapse. No wonder he can accomplish things, and his spy skills are of great use."
"Don't forget what Prime Minister Lian said. Spying is a small way. It's easy to kill one person, but it's difficult to rule ten thousand people. Now you have to use this method as a last resort. You can't rely on it." Hu Zhiyun said: "Li Xia is good at this way. You and I can't defeat him.
, the winner will be the honest prime minister who has managed Chang'an for many years, this is the right way."
Yelu Youshang cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Brother Shaokai, for reminding me."
At night, when Li Xia came out of Tongjifang, he met Liu Heima first.
"I invited Liu Gong here to ask about the governance strategy of Chang'an. Now that Lian Xixian has taken away the register, acres of land, and taxes, it is difficult to clear up the taxes. What do you think Liu Gong can do?"
Liu Heima was slightly startled, and then responded: "I thought the commander would ask about Zhang."
"I handle personal matters privately, and I cannot neglect government affairs."
Liu Heima asked again: "I am a warrior, why can the commander ask about government affairs?"
"Liu Gong has the ability to govern the people."
Liu Heima then replied: "I heard that Hanzhong does not collect Ding tax, so I decided to re-register. There are a large number of pastures owned by Mongolian princes and nobles in the suburbs of Chang'an, which can be rented to those who have priority to register but have no land."
Li Xia asked again: "What about taxes? How were the upper, middle and lower fields originally divided? How much grain did each family pay? I don't know whether they owed grain. How about exempting them from the Akita tax today?"
"No, now that the general has entered Chang'an, the people have not contributed. Once this is done, there will be complaints about next year's grain collection. Why not follow the Hanzhong field tax next year? As for the grain owed in previous years, what is owed is Mongolia's grain, so just write it off."
In fact, both parties to the question and answer have a plan in mind, but they just want to have this question and answer.
Li Xia said politely: "The officials I transferred will arrive in a few days. How about asking Mr. Liu to preside over this matter together?"
Liu Heima narrowed his eyes slightly, unable to tell for a moment whether Li Xia was testing him or trying to take advantage of his prestige in Guanzhong.
There was some complaint in my heart.
If I help you manage Guanzhong, you won't have to be sent to Chengdu.
But Li Xia sets an example and does things without asking for anything in return. It doesn't matter if he is not greedy or he is too greedy.
In short, this is not like the Mongolian princes who have been collecting a lot of wealth.
So Liu Heima couldn't express any complaints and stood up to salute.
"Then let me try to see if I have the ability to govern?"
"Thank you Mr. Liu."
…
The two discussed each other for a long time. When Liu Heima left, Li Xia rubbed his face with both hands and felt that there were many clues.
There is a lot to be done at the moment, including stabilizing the situation in Guanzhong, attacking Tongguan later, and adjusting the defenses of Sichuan, Shu and Guanzhong. These are all business matters, but we must first mobilize trustworthy officials.
At the same time, Lian Xixian's informants in Chang'an must be eliminated.
These are things that were expected to happen.
Now there is another personal matter...
"Then let's do it together."
The next day, Liu Yuanzhen walked into the public room and saw a brazier at Li Xia's feet and a pile of files in front of him.
"Commander, have you been up all night?"
"Um."
"Any clues?"
"There are not only those fragments of letters in the brazier, but also other small pieces of paper."
“But if words don’t form sentences, what’s the use?”
"The handwriting, all the small pieces of paper are the handwriting of one person." Li Xia said: "I checked the files and official documents of the government school and various yamen, compared the handwriting, and found the person who burned the letter."
"who?"
"this."
Liu Yuanzhen glanced at the official document and asked, "Hu Zhiyun?"
Hu Zhiyun was opening the courtyard door and welcomed a shrewd and capable spy into the courtyard.
"how?"
"Li Xia checked all the files of Jingzhao Academy last night."
"Then he has found me soon and will definitely go to my home." Hu Zhiyun ordered: "You go and prepare an ambush first, and then burn him to death with a fire."
"yes……"
Hu Zhiyun also thought that Yelu Youshang would not listen to advice and if the news was leaked, he did not tell him, so he disguised himself and led two people out.
This time, he was sure of killing Li Xia.
Thinking about this, several men walked over from the opposite side.
As the two sides passed each other, Hu Zhiyuan suddenly heard the sound of "Winter", felt a pain in the back of his head, and fainted to the ground.
"Ha, when your grandfather went north to Kaifeng with the Marshal, you were still nursing...and were escorted back! The Marshal wanted to interrogate..."
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