After coming out of the government office, the two of them rode horses. Duan Xiushi asked, "When does Your Highness plan to return to Jincheng?"
"Just these two days!"
Li Ye smiled and said: "When the results of the negotiations come out, I will almost be able to return to Jincheng."
After a pause, Li Ye said again: "You must familiarize yourself with the situation here in Bashu as soon as possible. One is Tubo in the west and Nanzhao in the south. In particular, we must break the collusion between Nanzhao and Tubo. This requires time, patience, and decisiveness."
and courage, especially when the opportunity comes, we must seize the opportunity decisively.”
Duan Xiushi pondered for a moment and asked: "What time did His Highness say?"
"The alliance between the two families is broken!"
Li Ye smiled slightly and said: "The Nanzhao War during the Tianbao period forced Nanzhao towards Tubo, but Tubo's desire for expansion is too strong, and sooner or later it will make territorial claims to Nanzhao. The alliance will inevitably break, and Nanzhao will ask us for help.
Of course, this rupture may also occur decades later, so we cannot stick to the rules. The key is to be familiar with the situation and understand it thoroughly. Then you will know when to send troops. The principle is that we pull and fight, pull Nanzhao, and fight.
Tubo is gradually restoring the structure of the first year of Tianbao. It must learn from the lessons of the past. It should neither be too cruel nor too lenient. The right way is to use both soft and hard tactics."
"I understand the humble position!"
Duan Xiushi is not young anymore. He is already forty-five years old. This is the first time for him to take charge of Bashu on his own. He is nominally the deputy envoy of Jiedu, but in fact he is the envoy of Jiedu. Duan Xiushi is also very ambitious and wants to do something great and make his name in history.
Historically, Duan Xiushi spent most of his years in Anxi and the imperial court in obscurity. It was not until Zhu Si's rebellion that he died generously at an old age, which was a moment that became famous in history.
Li Ye and Duan Xiushi came to Cangcheng, which was newly built by Li Lin. It is close to the new palace and covers a vast area of over a thousand acres.
There are nearly a hundred large and small warehouses built inside, and the grain alone contains more than 500,000 dan. This is the grain Li Lin collected from various states, 430,000 guan of copper coins, one million taels of silver and more than 20 taels of silver.
Ten thousand taels of gold, in addition to armor, tents, cloth, silk and satin, medicinal materials, oil, sugar, salt, copper and iron, tea cakes and other large quantities of materials, more than sixty pieces of fine cloth alone were counted
Thousands of horses.
It is said that Bashu is rich, and it can be seen from the wealth and materials they seized. These wealth are just the wealth of the officials from various places, and there is even more huge wealth hidden in the houses of wealthy private families.
Li Ye came to a small warehouse and found that the warehouse was sealed, so he asked Cang Cao, "What's going on with this warehouse?"
Cang Cao joined the army, his name was Pei Bin. He was the second son of Li Ye's uncle Pei Jia. He had always been a civilian official in the army. This time he went south with the army and served as Cang Cao's military officer in Jiannan Jiedu Prefecture.
Pei Bin quickly said: "This warehouse is outside the account books. I just found out about it and am preparing to report to His Highness!"
When Li Ye heard that it was outside the account, he was a little surprised and asked: "What's going on?"
"This is the property of Liu Guang, the largest tea merchant in Sichuan. Last year, because he led the opposition to Li Lin's tea tax incident, Liu Guang's family of 27 was exiled to Rongzhou, and their family property was confiscated. This warehouse was confiscated from his house.
of all property.”
Li Ye saw that Li Lin's seal was still attached to the warehouse, and he was a little unhappy and said: "Li Lin is already a prisoner, why are you still putting his seal on it?"
Pei Bin blushed and said quickly: "I will change the seal now!"
"No need to seal it anymore. Do you have a property inventory?"
"have!"
Pei Bin quickly found an inventory and handed it to Li Ye. Li Ye looked at it and found that there were 140,000 taels of copper coins, 87,000 taels of silver, 9,000 taels of gold, 3,000 pieces of jewelry, and 7,000 taels of fine silk and satin.
There are 64,000 pieces of fine cloth, three houses, 14 shops, 200 hectares of tea gardens, and a farm.
It is estimated that many rare treasures were swallowed up by Li Lin.
Li Ye was secretly surprised that a wealthy businessman had accumulated so much wealth, which showed that the people of Bashu were prosperous. He turned around and asked Duan Xiushi, "Has Liu Guang been released?"
"His Highness has issued a pardon order, and he and his family are also included in the pardon order. Although he is already on his way back, his property will be determined by His Highness."
Of course, Li Ye would not be so pedantic as to return all the property. He immediately ordered: "The houses, shops, tea gardens and farms can be returned to them, and other property will be confiscated and put into the army treasury."
"I humbly obey orders!"
Li Ye came to more than a dozen warehouses in the east. This was his focus today. This was the wealth that Emperor Li Longji brought to Bashu. Unlike the historical Li Longji who fled Chang'an in panic, this time Li Longji escaped from Chang'an.
In five days, he transported a large amount of palace treasures to Bashu in two batches.
The first batch shipped 2,600 large boxes, and the second batch included more than 300 boxes of his beloved treasures and curios that he carried with him. The total amount was nearly 3,000 boxes, accounting for about 60% of the entire palace's wealth.
In fact, An Lushan did not grab much wealth in Chang'an. The wealth he grabbed mainly came from Luoyang.
By coincidence, I happened to meet Chang Shi Cui Yuan in front of the warehouse. Cui Yuan is no longer the governor of Yizhou and was appointed by Li Ye as the chief historian of Jiannan Jiedu Prefecture. The governor of Yizhou was succeeded by Chang Shi Zhonghui.
Zhong Hui was the Sima of the Hezhong Governor's Office at that time. He was Dugu Lie's man. After returning to the court, Dugu Lie was a little dissatisfied with Li Ye because Li Ye went to Jingxiang, so Dugu Lie arranged for Zhong Hui to be the Sima of Yizhou.
The year before last, Zhong Hui was promoted to the governor of Yizhou. Unexpectedly, he met Li Ye again. Li Ye promoted him to the governor of Yizhou. The governor of Yizhou was appointed by Wen Jingnian, who joined the army in Li Ye's former record office.
In addition, the position of governor of Chengdu was also a position that Li Ye valued very much and had to be filled by one of his own. He gave this position to his uncle Pei Jia.
This was actually an additional condition added by Liu Yan during the later negotiations with the imperial court. The officials in Yizhou, Shuzhou and Chengdu were appointed by the King of Qi, and Emperor Li Heng also agreed.
At present, Shuzhou has been merged into Yizhou, so that Yizhou's jurisdiction will be expanded and there will be no overlapping of functions with Chengdu Prefecture.
Cui Yuan walked forward quickly, bowed and said: "See your highness!"
Li Ye smiled slightly and said, "Why is Ambassador Cui also in the warehouse?"
"My humble duty is to come to His Highness!"
"What's the matter?"
"Your Highness returns to Longyou. Should the property you want to take away be transported by water, or should you take the Shu Road north? I have to make arrangements in advance."
Li Ye thought for a while and said: "Originally, I considered taking water transport, but the journey was too far and the road was unsafe, so I decided to take land transport and use camels to carry it north. In addition, the copper coins and grain were left in Bashu and will not be taken away again!"
Duan Xiushi and Cui Yuan were overjoyed and bowed together, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your support!"
Li Ye smiled and said: "Then I want to take away all the gold and silver, as well as the three thousand boxes of treasures from the palace, and nothing else. Of course, I have to ensure that the soldiers are supplied on the road. By the way, I have to bring sugar.
Walk."
Cui Yuan hurriedly said: "Your Highness, don't worry, I will definitely arrange everything for you."
Li Ye remembered something and told Duan Xiushi and Cui Yuandao: "There is one more important thing. The Emperor's coffin is going to Chang'an. I have decided to transport it by water. I must pay special attention to freezing the body. Should there be a special store in Chengdu?"
Cui Yuan quickly said: "There are several of them. They are very experienced. I can gather them all together and send the souls back to Chang'an together."
Li Ye nodded, "If we take the Jingxiang Waterway, I will send 3,000 troops to protect us. I would like to ask Cui Changshi to do his best in this matter!"
"I will definitely handle this matter well."
Li Ye smiled and said: "As for Li Lin and his family, let's escort them by land! We don't want Liang Chongyi to have any ideas about them. Duan Shijun, you can make the arrangements."
Duan Xiushi nodded, "The humble post will be arranged tomorrow. Besides, His Highness is not promising a portion of the palace property."
Li Ye waved his hand disapprovingly, "I'll think about this when I get back, and I'll leave it alone."
Duan Xiushi agreed quickly, and Li Ye knew full well that if he sent a batch of property back at this time, it would most likely be for the Emperor to be buried with him. He did not want to do such a thing.