The no longer frequent court meetings were suddenly postponed, which undoubtedly triggered all kinds of speculations inside and outside the court where every slightest change could cause all sorts of speculations.
On the third day, when the young prefect's visibly pale face appeared in front of the courtiers, many of the suspicions seemed to be confirmed.
The prefect of Li County was injured again.
It has actually been less than a year since the old governor passed away and the new governor came to the throne. In more than half a year, this young governor has brought many shocks to people. At the same time, he has also been attacked and assassinated many times and has repeatedly led the way. The news of the serious injury made many people in Li County, from the court to the people, worried and even frightened.
Everyone knew that his authority was growing, but he was fond of taking risks. Everyone also knew that he had no wife and no heirs.
The meaning of this has different meanings in the eyes of different people.
What was discussed at this day's meeting were roughly three things.
The first thing is around Sichuan City.
Zhao Wuji of the Military Affairs Department explained in public the various military arrangements for Sichuan City to connect Anling and Sancang. This basically confirmed that Sichuan City had no worries in terms of military affairs. In addition, Sichuan City was backed by the Ganshan Mountains. With such a large Tingfeng Pavilion as its backing, even though it was a city in the north of Li County, it was already considered impregnable in a short period of time.
After analyzing the military mobilization of Qingjun, Guangjun and Yongchang County, Zhao Wuji retreated to the train and stopped speaking. However, his words were spoken in the court with a gesture of deciding the overall situation. , in everyone's eyes, even if it was the official end of the Sichuan War, this sudden and rapid victory was the final conclusion from the military level.
At least in the short term, there won't be any changes.
Then, the candidates for the important official positions of the Sichuan County Shoufu Yamen became the focus of fierce competition between the old and new dignitaries of the court, just like the competition for the candidates for the chief officials of the cities in Anling and Sancang. It was like a chessboard where every inch of land must be fought for. Even several important civil servants, including Dou Qiushi and Zhou Zhongqing, couldn't help but personally fight. If it hadn't been for the somewhat listless young prefect who finally spoke out today, it's unlikely that this group of literati would have been able to quarrel. Go there at noon.
Perhaps it was precisely because the young prefect was in low spirits that day that he no longer had the usual interest in watching the situation with a smile, so he divided the four important positions of the three major government officials and county lieutenants in Chuancheng County into two. After handing it over to the old and new factions of civil servants and dignitaries, and then temporarily leaving the two chief positions of the county magistrate and the county magistrate vacant, the matter was considered to have been revealed.
The second thing is about Luo's gift collection.
After Luo Chuan finally nodded, the Luo clan had sent suitable elders to deliver generous gifts to Danyang Peak Tingfeng Pavilion and Taiming City Lu Mansion respectively. Taiming City was much closer, and now the rewards have been received. Lu Dongfeng and the elders of the Lu family appeared together and completed the betrothal ceremony in strict accordance with the clan etiquette. At this point, Lu Dongfeng's daughter Lu Sifan could justifiably move out of the Lu Mansion in Licheng and enter the Luo family, which is closest to the prefect's palace. Living in a separate courtyard.
As for Danyang Peak, they have not arrived yet, but they only reported that Tingfeng Pavilion had sent a Xuanwu flying boat to Liangcang City to greet them, so there should be news soon.
In this regard, Luochuan didn't show any likes or dislikes, still looked listless, and said he understood.
The third thing is about money and food.
In fact, today, the autumn harvest has been completed in various places in Lijun, especially in the land of Sancang, which is relatively low-lying and relatively flat. The harvest harvest was so bountiful that it was beyond the expectations of the civil and military officials of the Lijun court. It was just a Sancang land.
In the land of Cang, in good years, the amount of tax and grain collected by various places is almost as much as that of the entire Lijun Basin, and more than half of the tax and grain collected by Lijun in the past year!
Naturally, there is new land in this. There is no corruption in the official war zone from top to bottom, but it is enough to show how valuable this piece of land is. Yongchang County, which has lost this piece of land, will suffer a huge blow.
How big.
But what followed was another unexpected thing. The land of Anling, which originally had high hopes, due to regional chaos caused by war control and the influx of refugees, the amount of tax grain harvested was far less than expected.
Not only was it unable to cover the entire year's grain expenditure originally planned by the Treasurer's Office in Anling, it even had to transfer grain support from Sancang Land in order to survive this destined to be a difficult winter.
As a result, now that the grain supply from Guang County has been lost and there is no way to buy grain from Jiangzhou via the Yashui of the Han River as before, Li County's grain balance is actually only about average.
This made everyone in the court, who had heard a lot about natural and man-made disasters in various parts of Central Continent in recent years, feel a little uneasy.
At the end of the court meeting, all the courtiers left one after another. The three people who were left by Luo Chuan to accompany him back to the harem for dinner were County Prime Minister Dou Qiushi, County Lieutenant Zhao Wuji, and General Luo Jiang from the city.
Luochuan still looked tired, so he didn't care about the polite corporal. He just left the hall with the help of Gao Shixian and got into the small royal sedan carried by four palace attendants.
The imperial sedan had no roof, no doors or windows, and a thick bottom with a wide field of vision. Luo Chuan had to sit on it and support his head with his hands, which made him look very weak.
Zhao Wuji and the other three followed on both sides of the royal sedan, and the group of people walked toward the harem in a leisurely manner, saying nothing all the way.
When they arrived at the banquet hall located on the water in the harem, Luo Chuan sat alone at the head. After all the meals were served, he left and left, leaving only Gao Shixian beside him. After all the doors and windows in the hall were closed, he finally spoke, with a low voice,
But it was enough for the three people in the hall to hear clearly, "Uncle Zhao, tell them about the latest military report from the north."
Zhao Wuji nodded, raised a glass and drank some tea to moisten his throat, and then said, "The battle between Qingjun and Bahaijun is not over yet, but they still sent an army of 20,000 people to approach the Han River and fight against Chen Jingzhi's army.
Across the river, there were eight thousand cavalry among them."
Luo Jiang was startled and asked, "Eight thousand elite cavalry from Qingjun?"...??m
Zhao Wuji nodded and looked at Luo Jiang, "Everyone is an elite cavalry equipped with a blue water bag."
Luo Jiang frowned, while Dou Qiushi glanced at their reactions and said nothing.
Zhao Wuji continued, "After the reorganization of Yongchang County, the former elite 40,000-strong Northern Army gathered and camped fifty miles west of Yicheng. Together with the Yicheng Army and the Xingcheng Army, they formed a three-point trend, faintly pointing towards Chen Shaoxiong's Shouting." He did not wait.
The other two people reacted and only paused for a moment before adding, "Guangjun Jincheng separated 10,000 Guards troops and stationed in Shuzhou City. The combined force of 30,000 troops was directed towards Sichuan City where Li Mu was stationed."
Luo Jiang's face was already very gloomy, but Dou Qiushi's expression remained as usual.
Luo Chuan glanced at the reactions of the three people, then looked at Dou Qiushi and asked slowly, "Uncle Dou, the situation in the North is tense now, what do you think I should do...when I leave the county?"
Dou Qiushi, who was picking up his rice bowl and preparing to eat something, heard this and put down his rice bowl, bowed his hands towards Luochuan and said, "I think that Li County needs to recuperate at this time, so I will send an envoy to Guang County to meet with the prefect Yun Sanshan...