Chapter 687 Concatenation (for Alliance Leader Li Tianyu
When Wu Xi conquered Shu and rebelled, too many loyal ministers and righteous men of the Song Dynasty emerged to resist.
For example, Xingyuan Prefecture sentenced Yang Zhenzhong.
Yang Zhenzhong was always a man of integrity. When he heard that Wu Xi had set himself up on his own and recruited Da'an troops to quell the rebellion, he said, "I can't refuse because of my strength, so I will die righteously." However, he failed and drank poison and died.
Afterwards, the imperial court gave him the posthumous title of "Jieyi" as his second son, the official of Zhibaomo Pavilion and Yinguan.
Zhong Xingxian is willing to imitate Yang Zhenzhong.
He is not afraid of death and will never follow rebellion.
Facing Li Xia at this time, the more he spoke, the angrier he became, and by the end of his words, his expression was filled with anger.
"Since the right prime minister sincerely invites you to join the court, the fact that you don't go is a clear proof that you have different ambitions! Why should you make any more sophistry? I only advise you not to make mistakes and confess yourself to the court as soon as possible!"
This is one of the purposes of Cheng Yuanfeng's letter to Li Xia, so that officials in Sichuan and Shu can see clearly Li Xia's alien intentions...
Kong Xian stood aside, listening to Zhong Xingxian's scolding, and his murderous intention was gradually rising.
How can we not arrest these rotten trees?
When he was tied up, he could still call him "Li Jieshuai", but as soon as he was loosened, his curses became more and more fierce.
This kind of people, the more polite you are to them, the more they will slap your nose and face.
Thinking of this, Kong Xian's eyes fell on the soldiers at the top of the city, waiting for Li Xia to give the order.
Zhong Xingxian didn't realize it and was still talking to Li Xia.
"Since the Jianyan period, Wu Jie has been guarding the whole of Shu. The three generations of the Wu family have made contributions to the western frontier. They have been favored by the emperor many times, and their titles are higher than those of princes. It is also well-known among the people in Sichuan and Shaanxi and is praised every time. But Wu Xi once rebelled against the country, and his meritorious service lasted for eighty years.
They were all destroyed in one day and wasted in vain! In the past fifty years, the rebellion has not disappeared, and the past is still vivid in our minds. Li Xia and Li Jieshuai have taken care of themselves. Your reputation is not as good as that of Wu Xi, and the current right prime minister is definitely not
Han Kunzhou is a blind person..."
"I can't say whether Cheng Yuanfeng is blind or not."
Li Xia finally spoke.
He waved the letter in his hand and threw it in front of Zhong Xingxian.
"But no matter how impassioned I say it, I'm not rebelling, am I?"
"You obviously just want to..."
"In the laws and regulations of the Song Dynasty, can you convict someone with just the word 'think'?!" Li Xiadi shouted, pointed at Zhong Xingxian, and said, "What's the difference between this and 'unnecessary'? Are you all members of Qin Hui's party?"
He glanced at the other officials who were stunned.
"How decent is it for Cheng Yuanfeng to summon me back to the court with a private letter? If he has evidence of my rebellion, he can take it out and present it directly to the emperor, and issue a gold medal to summon me. Or he can issue a proclamation to summon the people of the world to put down the rebellion and let the loyal people
The officials of Sheji are confident enough to destroy me. An Bing, Li Haoyi, Zhao Yanna and others mobilized troops to kill Wu Xi. You also came to kill me like this. Xiu secretly linked up behind my back. Was it wrong for Kong Fu to catch you?
Who is violating the law?!"
Zhong Xingxian opened his mouth and wanted to say something, "The Prime Minister is afraid that he will turn against you", but he couldn't say it.
This is a secret plan that must not be spoken in public.
It is true that Cheng Yuanfeng did not ask for an edict from the emperor.
The seven officials looked at each other for a moment, not knowing how to step down.
Li Xia said again: "You have neither received the imperial edict nor the order to set up a government, so you gathered together without permission to win over military lieutenant colonels and generals, and recruited strong men. Do you want to kill me? Are you planning to rebel?"
His tone was calm and calm, and the label of rebellion had been slapped on his back, so naturally...
With Kong Xian and soldiers like Pifeng here, the situation on the entire Lizhou West Road is already stable.
Li Xia was willing to talk to these officials in order to save their lives.
There are really too few civil servants under him. Even if each state capital in Sichuan and Sichuan only reduces two or three officials, it will not be possible to dispatch them all in the short term.
Apart from anything else, delaying this year's spring plowing will be very troublesome.
We need people to do something, so we come to persuade.
Cheng Yuanfeng had too many restrictions and worries, and he did not dare to use the Song court to suppress him. He also wanted to eliminate the disaster of the feudal town, and he also had to be safe.
Then just suppress it in name.
This time, these officials risked their lives, but ended up in disgrace. Next time, they will be "failed again and exhausted".
Of course, only a good official who can do things deserves to be like this.
Li Xia is not afraid of killing people either.
He fought his way out of the mountain of corpses and sea of blood. Under his command, there were tens of thousands of corpses. At this moment, murderous intent burst out, and the seven officials in front of him could already feel the danger.
Some people were not afraid, but some were still afraid and turned pale with fear.
"Don't you dare!"
The first person to shout was Jiang Zhengcheng, who joined the army as a recorder.
Jiang Zhengcheng felt that he had been wronged. He knew that the Lizhou garrison general was convinced of Li Xia. When Zhong Xingxian came to contact him, he politely persuaded him not to mess around, but he did not report it to Kong Xian, so he was taken down as an accomplice.
"Forgive me, Commander, but all of my colleagues were bewitched by traitorous ministers..."
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Zhang Wenjing stood on the top of the city with her hands behind her hands. She looked towards Li Xia and saw that he was arranging for people to take the officials down and question them one by one.
She is quite clear about these tricks to win people's hearts. Zhang Rou attacked the city and dealt with countless Jin Dynasty officials. She grew up hearing these things.
Ask separately. Some people who want to be loyal but cannot come down the stairs can say some words of loyalty in private.
Sure enough, after a while, Li Xia took off his cloak and put it on a thinly-clad official who had spoken to him...
Just as I was thinking about this, I suddenly heard Pifon say in the distance, "Bring me a soft stool for the handsome lady."
Zhang Wenjing suddenly remembered something and called two of her guards.
Among the twenty-four guards who followed Li Xia south this time, four of them were brought by her from Bozhou and were female warriors trained by the Zhang family since childhood.
"Sister."
"Go and prepare some gifts for Kong Fu's wife and children. In addition, Mo Luo, the Ningwu military general who just led us into the city, also bring a gift for his wife. Don't seem to be deliberately asking.
What do people like?"
"yes."
Zhang Wenjing thought that it was very useful for the Lieutenant General of Lizhou City to call her Li Xia's wife. Although she was too lazy to argue with Gao Mingyue, she was happy to give her some gifts, so she felt comfortable.
She is rich, much richer than Li Xia.
Although I only took two small boxes with me when I left home, everything inside was priceless. Many of them were items from the palace treasury of the Jin Kingdom. One item could be exchanged for a large box of gold, silver and jewelry.
Although her father and brother were unwilling to arrange the wedding, she was able to purchase Shili Hongzhuang herself.
After waiting for a while, Li Xia turned around and walked over.
"Is it done?"
"Well, why don't you go to the teahouse over there and listen to people talk?"
"It's more interesting to see what you do." Zhang Wenjing said with a smile, "I see an old man left in a huff?"
"Zhong Tongpan?" Li Xia said casually: "He came from Wuming, but he couldn't defeat me, so he abandoned his official position and left."
"Just let it go like this?"
"It's not bad to keep six of them. Letting them go is good for my reputation... You see, Kong Xian has already asked people to publicize this matter."
"Preaching that 'Li Jieshuai argued righteously among the Confucian scholars, and Zhong Tong was ashamed and fled away'?"
"I should ask you to spread the word."
…
In the afternoon, he inspected several fields and water conservancy projects. The next day, Li Xia left Lizhou and rushed back to Chengdu.
At this time of year, even the new grass has not sprouted, and only a few wintersweet trees are still blooming in the cold wind along the official road.
The horse's hooves trampled the frosty soil on the ground, taking his time.
The weather is still cold, there is still some wind, and it is icy and cool.
Zhang Wenjing still rides with Li Xia.
When we first started traveling, we said, "We haven't gotten married yet, so men and women can't be intimate with each other." However, we hugged each other as early as the beginning of their acquaintance. After all, riding together allowed us to talk more.
After traveling three hundred and sixty miles, the two became increasingly close.
Zhang Wenjing was a little sleepy. Taking advantage of the terrain of Jinniu Road where the horses couldn't run, she huddled in Li Xia's arms and squinted back to sleep. She put on a small blanket and wrapped herself tightly, not even revealing her eyes, leaving only
He took a small breath.
She and Gao Mingyue are completely different.
Gao Mingyue looks gentle and demure, weak but can endure hardships and is tough-tempered at heart; Zhang Wenjing looks smart, cunning, lively and active, but a bit spoiled.
Only when the sun came out completely did she let out a groan and felt Li Xia hug him tightly to prevent her from falling off the horse. Then she pulled off the blanket and showed off her pretty face, but she couldn't open her eyes.
"Where are you?"
"Zhaohua." Li Xia said, "It's so bumpy, did you really fall asleep?"
"I didn't sleep very deeply. I was in a daze. There are so many mountains. I haven't seen as many mountains in my entire life as I have seen in these few days..."
"I have some dried meat in my arms. I can eat it myself."
Zhang Wenjing reached into Li Xia's arms, but did not take out anything. She leaned sideways and lazily against him and said, "I thought I would stay in Lizhou for many days, but I only stayed for one day."
"Lizhou doesn't matter." Li Xia said: "Lizhou has been run by Wang Dechen for ten years. The local gentry and people have long forgotten the Song Dynasty. There are only a few powerless civil servants, so they can't make much noise."
"I see that Ambassador Kong is very respectful to you. I'm afraid it's not so easy in Chengdu, right?"
"Well, Kong Xian used to be under the command of Yu Jie. When he was guarding Yunding City, he experienced a Shu commander like Yu Hui who was incompetent and exhausted the entire army. When he followed me, his official position was also low. In the past two years in Lizhou, he was inevitably influenced by the common people.
; As for Zhang Jue, he leans towards me, but I’m afraid it’s not that easy to make up his mind..."
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The tenth day of the first lunar month.
North of Chengdu, a large flag was erected on the bank of the Mianyuan River, with the words "Song Sichuan pacification system appointed deputy envoy Zhang".
In the lobby of the post house beside the official road, Zhang Jue sat alone, holding a book of war in one hand and a cattail fan in the other, fanning the fire.
The wine was warming on the stove, and a plate of diced rabbits was placed beside the table. He took a sip from time to time, and occasionally put down the cattail leaf fan to eat rabbit meat.
At noon, I finally heard a soldier report: "Commander, Commander Li Jie has arrived."
"Call the deputy commander."
"Yes, Deputy Commander, Commander Li Jie is here."
"Has the beef been delivered? If it's still fresh, go stew it quickly."
"Yes, it's already stewing..."
Zhang Jue put down his book, put a pot of wine on the fire, and then got up and went out to pick him up.
After a while, several people came back again, laughing loudly from time to time.
"If you have a wife who remarries, he will stay for one year and his wife's family will be reduced by one rank. Feiyu is 'knowing the law and breaking the law'."
"Then Brother Jun Yu, why don't you just arrest me and lock me up for a year?"
"Marry as soon as you marry, so what? In the Tang Dynasty, there was also a trend of marrying direct children, but no one was actually captured. "Old Tang Book" records that Mao Zhong and his wife both inherited the gift; An Chongrong married two wives, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty
And he was given a title. I am his legitimate wife or concubine, so it doesn't matter if I 'capture' him, there's no point in thinking about it."
"He is such a sharp-tongued man. He also has the surname Zhang, or he is from the same ancestor as me. I wonder which family of Zhang family he comes from?"
"Asked by Deputy Commander Zhang, is it possible that he wants to become my adoptive brother?"
"Okay! Why not? I have long wanted to marry my sister to Feiyu. Come here, cut off the chicken head and serve rice wine."
"Brother Jun Yu, don't be anxious. How about we wait until you and I have talked about it before we decide whether to take over?"
"Feiyu please go first."
Li Xia sat down at the table first, and Zhang Jue smiled before sitting down opposite him.
Zhang Wenjing sat next to Li Xia, but she stopped talking and seemed quite well-behaved.
As for what he said just now, it was Zhang Jue who took the initiative. There were some things that Li Xia couldn't say, but she could help set the tone of the conversation.
Whether to violate the royal law or not, and whether to follow the royal law of which dynasty and generation, whether to arrest or not to arrest, are nothing more than these issues.
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"During the Chinese New Year, I heard that there was a wild shop selling beef near Longquanyi, so I asked people to check it and bring the meat." Zhang Jue said here, "It is forbidden to kill farm cattle, and it has always been strictly enforced here in western Sichuan.
The meat today was really confiscated, can Feiyu trust it?"
"We will live and die together in Diaoyu City. Do you believe it or not?"
Li Xia responded casually and picked it up to eat.
Zhang Jue did not eat, but drank wine by himself, feeling a little bored.
"There is no need to make insinuations between you and me." Li Xia said, "I do have objections."
Zhang Jue was stunned.
Li Xia's words disrupted all his thoughts.
And the flat tone made him unable to react for a moment.
I had no choice but to pour another glass of wine and take a sip.
"Years ago, you sent a message asking me to only protect An Tai. I thought it was Cheng Yuanfeng who framed you, but I didn't expect that you really wanted to...sigh."
"I told you not to worry about this matter until I come and explain it to you face to face."
"Really want to rebel?"
"yes."
Li Xia was outspoken, and Zhang Jue became outspoken as well.
He took a long breath and said: "Can you not resist? The imperial court is always suspicious of us, and I am tired of it. I can ignore it. How to fight the war, how to manage the land, from now on I will listen to you.
But if we raise the flag of rebellion, our integrity will be ruined. We will be loyal for a lifetime but then rebel, and we will be infamy for eternity. Furthermore, if you become the emperor, and others will follow your example, how can there be long-term peace and stability?"
Li Xia said: "Brother Jun Yu is a sensible person, but how can there be long-term peace and stability in the Song Dynasty?"
"You don't have to say it, I understand the truth." Zhang Jue said: "I'm just asking you, are you forced to rebel? If so, I won't say anything. But if not, it will be difficult between you and me.
In other words, if we don’t rebel, can we keep the world at peace by being a good minister of the Song Dynasty?"
"It depends on how big the 'world' is. As long as you are willing to cover your eyes, a corner of the south of the Yangtze River can be regarded as the whole world. I won't disagree. Half of the country may have ten more years of peace, but the imperial court is like this. It is impossible to regain its homeland.
Got it. You should know that unification of the world is the most important thing."
Li Xia said and looked at Zhang Wenjing beside her.
"This family member of mine is from the Shuntian Zhang family. I will marry her. When the court finds out, they will not tolerate me."
Zhang Jue didn't ask further questions and just said: "Then don't let the court know."
He is indeed an understanding person, and Li Xia doesn't need to explain most things.
Li Xia said: "What I'm saying is that Zhao and Song abandoned the Central Plains and had no hope of returning to the north."
Zhang Jue thought for a long time while holding the wine glass, frowned, and his eyes became tangled again.
"Can't you just keep your word? Don't you still let me choose, should I be honest or ambitious? When I see you, I just want peace of mind."
"Then you are holding on to illusions. There is no best of both worlds."
"I don't understand. It's just a letter from Cheng Yuanfeng. I know you can deal with him when I receive your reply, so why do you need to fight now? Why do you need to let me make a choice?"
At this point, Zhang Jue took a selfie, patted the table, and said: "You might as well tell me how much money you will give me and how big an official I will be!"
Li Xia smiled and suddenly asked: "Is there any gold and silver guanzi shop in Chengdu?"
Zhang Jue didn't come back to his senses for a moment. He was stunned for a moment and then nodded.
"Before the New Year, there was a big businessman named Yu who set up a bank..."
"That's the problem." Li Xia said slowly: "Cheng Yuanfeng is not scary, he just wants to deal with me. But Jia Sidao is about to take power. Jia Sidao's methods are sharp and crazy. He is using Jin
Yinguanzi, intends to control Sichuan and Shu..."
After explaining the matter first, Li Xia added: "The essence of Song Ting's financial collapse was that it was unable to make ends meet, with increasing expenditures and less and less income. It is almost impossible to reverse it. Changing another currency can only be reshaped in the early stages.
Credit, but the root cause remains unchanged, it will only be counterproductive and make the problem worse."
He didn't know how to explain his thoughts to Zhang Jue for a while, so he stopped and thought about it.
"It's like, Song Ting is a patient, his whole body is starting to rot, and Sichuan Shu is a leg. At the moment, the rotten flesh has not grown over yet, so it needs to be divided... I didn't want to divide it so quickly, but Jia Sidao is here
Using carrion to prevent Sichuan and Shu from becoming self-reliant, he wants Sichuan and Shu to rot together with the Song Dynasty. When the time comes, we must make Sichuan and Shu independent of their currency and tax system, which is urgent."
Zhang Jue didn't understand, but was very moved.
Li Xia has solemnly said: "I need you to support me, so that we can have the confidence to cut off a strong man's wrist."
"But according to the analogy you just made, Sichuan and Shu are the legs." Zhang Jue asked: "Can one leg grow into a person?"
"That's why it's a miracle. You and I can work together to create this miracle..."
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Thanks to the leader of "Li Tianyu" for the reward. I originally wanted to add an update yesterday, but I just finished it now. Thank you leader~~ I still have two chapters for June 5 that I haven't written today, and I have been working hard to write. Old readers of the previous book
You should know that I have always been late day by day, until I stayed up all night, so I adjusted the update time back~~ There are two league leaders who will reward me, I will update it tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, thank you~~