Since the current saint ascended the throne in the Tang Dynasty, the power of eunuchs has become increasingly powerful. Beiyuan, Ziyijian and Shence Army belong to the three major eunuch forces. Although they have their own strengths, they have formed the most powerful eunuch force in the Tang Dynasty.
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Compared to the Ziyi Supervisors and the Shence Army, the power of the Beiyuan is mainly distributed among the supervisors and soldiers from various places.
The saints had extraordinary trust in the eunuchs, and the eunuchs had the palace as their backer and always had considerable power.
Among the nearly 100 supervisors in the empire, Gao Rang, the supervisor of the Western Liao Dynasty, has no real power in his hands just like the supervisors of the other three counties in the Northeast. He is just a few supervisors sent to the northeast by the imperial court for the sake of face. In fact,
It has no influence on local military power.
Before Long Rui's army entered the city, Gao Rang could hardly mobilize any soldiers.
However, according to the laws of the Tang Empire, when the top military officials of local states and counties are unable to exercise power, the supervisory army can exercise military power on his behalf. Although Gao Rang does not have real power in his hands, according to the laws of the empire, there is a problem with the county captain.
The supervisory army has the right to mobilize all troops and horses in the entire Liaoxi County.
Without the support of Long Ruijun, even if something went wrong with the governor Qiao Mingshui, it would not be Gao Rang's turn to take charge of the military.
But now there is Long Ruijun behind Gao Rang, and the military supervisor has directly transferred the military power of Guangning City to Qin Xiao. In other words, Qin Xiao can take charge of the military power in western Liaoning with the help of the power that Gao Rang should have. This
The officials in Guangning City could not have expected this at first hand.
Qin Xiao received Gao Rang's authorization and was not polite. First of all, in the name of protecting the scene of the crime, he transferred all the guards from the Sheriff's Mansion. Zhao Shengtai led the troops to change the defense and completely controlled the Sheriff's Mansion.
In addition, in addition to the armory and granary being defended by Long Rui's army, all four gates of Guangning City were also defended by Long Rui's army.
As for the more than 2,000 good soldiers and horses in the city, they were transferred back to the garrison barracks in the south of the city, and all weapons were confiscated.
Although all this was ordered by Qin Xiao, it was issued in the name of Gao Rang, the supervisor of the army.
The Lord Supervisor made it very clear when he ordered the weapons to be collected. There had been two consecutive incidents of robberies of official silver, and hundreds of people escorting the silver team were killed. This was a blatant rebellion. He presided over these two incidents.
The action was carried out by Lieutenant Qiao Mingshui, and hundreds of Guangning troops were involved. In this case, although it does not mean that all Guangning troops are rebels, there must be many rebels lurking among them. In order to avoid the rebels challenging
If chaos breaks out, the weapons can only be temporarily confiscated, waiting for the imperial court to send personnel to conduct a thorough investigation.
Qiao Mingshui was imprisoned, and all the soldiers who defended the city saw that the official silver was looted in Yingzui Gorge, and hundreds of people were killed. This murderous case had actually spread in the Northeast for a long time, but most of the officers and soldiers of the Guangning Army did not expect that this matter turned out to be
This is what the Lord Commander and his men did.
Qiao Mingshui was arrested as the main culprit. It is said that more than 200 Guangning soldiers who participated in the operation were arrested alive or dead. This also made the morale of the Guangning army low. In this situation without a leader, they could only disarm. Not only did most of the officers and soldiers not fight with the dragon
Instead of thinking of fighting to the death, Rui Jun was worried that he would be implicated and eventually be labeled as a traitor by the court.
Fortunately, Gao Rang also told the Guangning Army that most of the officers and soldiers of the Guangning Army, including Chu Hua, who ordered the city gate to be opened, were loyal to the court, and the court would never implicate innocent people.
Those who are clean will clean themselves up and will soon return to their posts.
Guangning City changed almost overnight.
After Long Ruijun entered the city, although he quickly controlled some key places and even some important officials, he did not harm the people. The officers and soldiers of Long Ruijun did not even wander around the city. When the people in the city discovered Long Ruijun
Without any malice, many people opened the door and took to the streets. They found that Guangning City seemed to be undergoing a sudden change, but nothing seemed to have changed. Some shops tentatively opened their doors for business, but no one came to harass them. In just two days,
After that, the people's panic quickly disappeared, and everything seemed to be back to normal.
People were surprised that Long Ruijun had no fault in Qiu, but soon began to spread in the city that Long Ruijun's military regulations were extremely strict. The Qin general Long Ruijun was strict in running the army. After entering the city, he set strict
According to military regulations, I heard that Captain Long Rui had his leg broken in accordance with military regulations just for knocking on the door of a house to ask for a drink of water.
As a result, such legends became more and more mysterious. It was also said that when two cavalrymen of the Long Rui Army passed by on the street, they glanced at a young woman. After General Qin knew about this, he directly ordered her to be beheaded out.
caught the eyes of the two cavalrymen.
There were also several Long Ruijun soldiers who ate a few sesame cakes from the sesame cake stall and were given less money. When Long Ruijun found out, they not only sent people to beat those soldiers with whips until they were half alive, but also
He sent someone to double the money for the sesame cakes and delivered it to the sesame cake stall.
Although these things made many people feel that Long Ruijun's military discipline was too harsh, of course the people in the city were overjoyed by such strict military discipline.
Many of the statements are suspicious and seem to be based on rumors, but Mr. You, who is very prestigious in the city, has personally told people that people from the Long Rui Army came to ask for stuttering, but they were whipped on the spot for trespassing into people's houses. Mr. You was
A decent person is also a person with prestige and virtue from a wealthy family. The words spoken by such a person will naturally not be false.
As a result, the people in the city no longer worried about being tortured by Long Rui's army, and some even felt that compared to the previous defenders in the city, it was the people's blessing that Long Rui's army was stationed in Guangning City.
After all, it was common for the former Guangning garrison to eat and drink for free. If they don't squeeze some money out of you before leaving after eating and drinking, then they are already good people.
Zhao Shengtai is in charge of the county governor's mansion, but Qin Xiao is temporarily living in the county captain's mansion.
Qiao Mingshui was the most powerful person in Liaoxi County. He held military power in western Liaoning. Although he was Gongsun Shang's subordinate, he still had military power. There were many of his cronies in the Guangning army. Even Gongsun Shang, the governor of the county,
I should give him seven points of face on weekdays.
This Lieutenant Qiao was from the Liaodong Army, and he also occupied a lot of fertile land in Liaoxi County. The Lieutenant's Mansion was also magnificent, and the scale was not as large as that of the Sheriff's Mansion.
Qin Xiao was not polite to Qiao Mingshui's family. After entering the city and taking over the defense of the county governor's house, he immediately ordered people to take control of Qiao Mingshui's house. He distributed settlement allowances to the servants of the county guard's house and dismissed them directly. However, Qiao Mingshui's family members
, they directly found a place to temporarily detain them under house arrest. Although they did not embarrass Qiao Mingshui's family members too much, and they were provided with food and drink, they would not be allowed to leave until the investigating officers sent by the imperial court arrived.
After the silver robbery incident occurred in Yingzui Gorge, Yu Wen Huaiqian of the Armament Department had already sent someone to report directly to the court, and begged the court to send someone to investigate. After Qin Xiao came back from the grassland, he learned the details and also sent someone to make a report.
, directly requested the imperial court to send people from Dali Temple to conduct a thorough investigation.
When Qin Xiao was in Kyoto, his relationship with the Ministry of Punishment was incompatible, and he did not want the case here to be thoroughly investigated by people from the Ministry of Punishment. However, most of the officials from Dali Temple were on good terms with him, and Dali Temple sent people to investigate him.
It is even more beneficial.
After cleaning up the Junwei Mansion, Qin Xiao temporarily moved in, and the Junwei Mansion became the temporary command post of Long Rui's army in Guangning City.
"Mr. Ximen, the two batches of looted silver have been transported into the city." In the county captain's house, Qin Xiao and Ximen Hao sat opposite each other and said with a smile: "Gongsun Shang has put a lot of thought into Gongsun Village. Hua Da
Lili dug an underground warehouse in Gongsunzhuang. All the robbed official silver was stored in the underground warehouse. In addition, more than 200,000 taels of cash were also found inside, as well as a large number of antique calligraphy and paintings.
It’s really shocking that the county governor has amassed so much money.”
Ximen Hao said: "Sir, the gold and silver calligraphy and paintings that Ximen Hao stored in the underground warehouse are just the tip of the iceberg for the Liaodong Army to make money. From General Lang to above, the Liaodong Army has countless fertile fields, and any of them can easily produce hundreds of thousands of taels.
Silver? The four northeastern counties are big granaries with rich products. For so many years, the people have lived in poverty, but the generals of the Liaodong Army are full of money. Adding up the wealth of these people, it is not possible to say that they are as rich as the enemy.
It’s an exaggeration.”
"Two hundred and fifty thousand taels of official silver, I have sent someone directly to the Armament Department." Qin Xiao said: "The stolen goods obtained from the underground warehouse will be temporarily sealed in the prefecture's mansion until the imperial court sends personnel to deal with it. You
I have already asked someone to take care of the one hundred thousand taels of silver lent to me. You can collect it at any time, and I will send someone to escort it to Youzhou, so that Mr. Ximen can repay it in full."
This second batch of official silver shipped out of customs was naturally not arranged by Lin Hong.
Qin Xiao knew that Lin Hong and the Jiangnan family had just raised 250,000 taels of cash from Jiangnan, which was already a great effort. The Lin family had actually suffered a huge blow due to the chaos in Jiangnan. Although Baofenglong still maintained operations,
It is not easy to easily come up with hundreds of thousands of taels of cash.
And in a short period of time, even if Fei Ge sent a letter to Lin Hong, asking him to raise one hundred thousand taels of cash as bait to send out of customs, it would be too difficult. After all, Lin Hong was still managing in Jiangnan, and he would have to rush out in a short time.
It is difficult to collect money in Youzhou and transport it out of customs quickly.
Fortunately, there is also Ximen Hao.
After Ximen Hao came back from the grassland, he did not go back to Jiangnan immediately. Instead, he waited for Qin Xiao to come back. After Qin Xiao came back, he immediately knew about the robbery of official silver. When Ximen Hao learned about this, he knew that the Armaments Department had no silver available.
Instead, he took the initiative to propose to Qin Xiao that he could raise a batch of cash in Youzhou to meet his urgent needs.
Qin Xiao knew that even if Ximen Hao really had cash in hand, he couldn't use it directly. After all, this would still lead to suspicions of military-business collusion. However, Ximen Hao's proposal made Qin Xiao burst out with inspiration, and he immediately and
Gu Baiyi and others discussed carefully and formulated a plan to lure the snake out of the cave.
Ximen Hao's main business is horse trading with the grassland people. He has trading shops in Youzhou and has friendship with many wealthy merchants in Youzhou. It is not difficult to secretly enter the customs to raise one hundred thousand taels of cash. Then he uses his connections to let Youzhou
There, two hundred Youzhou troops were deployed in disguise to escort one hundred thousand taels of cash out of the customs. As for the Youzhou troops who were attacked on the way, they immediately retreated, and then turned their guns and attacked Gongsunzhuang. All this was done by Qin Xiao in advance.
Ximen Hao told the plan to Ximen Hao, but Ximen Hao also ordered the Youzhou Army to proceed accordingly.
This plan was successful, turning a disadvantage into an advantage and turning the situation around in an instant. Ximen Hao can be said to have taken the greatest credit.