Chapter 1199 Queen Song: I didn’t come to see her on purpose!
Chapter 1,199 Queen Song:...I didn’t come to see her on purpose!
Anhui, Anqing Prefecture
The faces of the Anhui officials who were sitting on the pear-wood chairs were slightly discolored. For a moment, they felt like they were sitting on pins and needles, with cold sweat running down their backs.
Jia Heng's calm face was filled with evil energy. Two sharp eyes scanned the officials of the Third Division of Anhui Province below, and said in a deep voice: "Commander of the Anhui Capital Division, where is Yue Tai?"
At this time, a middle-aged military attache stood up from the pearwood chair. His belly was high and his face was full of fear.
Duke."
Jia Heng looked indifferent and said in a cold voice: "Commander Yue Du, Taiping Prefecture Guard Commander Xie Jian, he invaded the military grain fields and committed lawlessness in the guard post. When Liangjiang Governor's Yamen selected officials to clear out the land,
, allowed his soldiers to injure officials, and when he was being questioned by the governor's office, he knew the law and resisted it. Commander Yue Du, do you know about this?"
Listening to the young man's stern questioning, Yue Tai couldn't help but be shocked in his heart. He clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, Duke of Wei, Xie Jian himself is the commander of the guards. He is in charge of the grain field affairs of the Taiping Prefecture's guards. Even if he wants to clear out his father's land, press
The Ministry of War should also select officials to sort out the affairs."
Having said this, he raised his eyes and observed Jia Heng's expression, and continued: "Previously, the governor's office sent people to clear out the husband's land, but the soldiers were vulgar and quite rude to the officials in the governor's office. Therefore, there was a quarrel between the two sides, and the governor
The Yamen sent people to investigate, because the Wei Office still has a judgment department, and the officials are in charge of criminal matters. We do not intend to shirk it. I also ask the Duke of Wei to investigate clearly and make a good judgment."
Jia Heng pondered for a moment and said sternly: "The governor is in charge of the military and civilian affairs of a province, so he naturally has the right to intervene in the affairs of the military and settlements in the province. Moreover, supervising and supervising the new policies is a national policy. According to the report of the Anhui governor, the Dusi will be the one to interrogate the relevant criminals. Why?
Now the criminal has not been found? Why didn’t Anhui Dusi send a criminal official to accompany the investigation? What is Er Yuetai’s intention?”
Yue Tai's complexion suddenly changed, and he suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. He cupped his hands and said, "I'm going to be the official..."
Jia Heng pondered for a long time and said coldly: "Commander of Yuedu, are you the former commander of the guards of Anqing Mansion?"
At the beginning, after Jiangnan was divided into Anhui Province, among the candidates for the governor and the chiefs of the three departments, because Jia Heng had recommended Li Shouzhong to serve as the governor of the first province, the chief envoy, the inspection envoy, and the commander-in-chief did not intervene. Instead, local officials
Selection step by step.
Therefore, this Yue Tai was not actually a general from the Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps under the command of Jia Heng, but an official selected by the Anhui Dusi system.
Yue Tai was stunned for a moment and said, "Xia Guan was previously the commander of the Anqing Prefecture's guards."
Jia Heng said: "The Anqing Guards have 2,453 hectares of farmland. How much food and salary do they pay to the Ministry of War every year? It's only 20,000 pieces of rice."
Yue Tai said: "Gong Wei, natural disasters have occurred continuously in recent years. I will lower my official position..."
Jia Heng interrupted his words and said in a cold voice: "Yue Tai corrupted the Mo army to occupy the grain fields, connived and protected his subordinates, and was perfunctory in implementing the national policies of the imperial court. Someone came, stripped off his official uniform, and went down to wear a sword!"
"yes."
The guards in Jinyi wearing Feiyu uniforms and embroidered spring knives around their waists looked solemn and agreed loudly.
Then, he came closer and slapped the official hat on Yue Tai's head, and stripped off Yue Tai's military attaché robe.
Jia Heng stared at Li Shouzhong, who had a silent expression, and said secretly, I will only demonstrate once to deal with this kind of people.
In fact, Li Shouzhong had never served as a local official. He was the so-called county magistrate who destroyed his family and the prefect who broke his family.
By the time of Chongping in the Chen Han Dynasty, the governor had gradually become the de facto head of the province. He could ask the king to order flags and coerce the three divisions.
In other words, because of the policy of controlling the size of the ministers, the chief envoys can still compete with each other to some extent.
Yue Tai's face couldn't help but change suddenly at this moment. He struggled against the Jinyi palace guard who was pressing his shoulders. His face turned red and his neck was thick, and he said: "Mr. Wei, Yue is an official of the imperial court. His official position was granted by the imperial court. What authority do you have?"
My officer?"
Jia Heng's face turned solemn and he said coldly: "I have been ordered by the Holy One to supervise the New Deal with the Emperor's Sword. Anyone who obstructs the New Deal has the responsibility to deal with it as appropriate. When the imperial court implements national policies, you are pushy and perfunctory.
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Yue Tai wanted to struggle a little, but several guards around him held his arms on both sides and quickly led him out of the room while speaking.
The Anhui officials in the hall all had ugly, earth-colored faces.
Looking at the powerful and decisive young Duke, I couldn't help but feel a sense of fear in my heart.
Jia Heng looked at the Anhui officials present, and finally at Dong Qian who was accompanying him, and said in a deep voice: "General Dong, you will temporarily take charge of the troops and horses of the capital."
Dong Qian clasped his fists and said yes.
Under Li Shouzhong's thick eyebrows, he looked at the resolute young man in shock, and his heart was a little shaken.
The governor of a province, but he just said he could take it. What kind of power is this, what kind of power is he using for his own use?
Just like this, maybe there will be an impeachment of the official?
Impeachment is inevitable, but it is totally untenable.
The person in front of me is the Minister of Military and Aircraft. He is directly in charge of the capital, and he has to supervise the power of the New Deal. It is reasonable to take over the capital of a province and then go to Shu for impeachment.
Jia Heng's face was as gloomy as iron, and he said coldly: "The New Deal is the national policy of the imperial court. Since there are countless relatives of the emperor in Jiangsu Province, the imperial relatives can still understand the righteousness of the imperial court, but the local gentry in Anhui are still obstructing the new policy, and even spread to the military.
Farm affairs."
As soon as these words came out, the Anhui officials below couldn't help but feel shocked.
The imperial court is about to mobilize troops to establish a military garrison. Even if the local guards dare to cause trouble, with the presence of the Duke Wei who is good at conquering and fighting, there won't be any big trouble even if he thinks about it.
Jia Heng said: "Recently, in Anhui, local officials have postponed the implementation of the local new policy of clearing the land. Instead, they should concentrate manpower and material resources to first clean up the acres of land in the land of the warden, and identify the hidden and hidden fields."
First, check the military settlements, and then the next step is to use the garrison troops and horses to escort the New Deal.
Before his trip, he also mobilized an elite force from the Jiangnan Battalion, approximately 6,000 strong, to suppress possible unrest among local government guards.
Generally speaking, when the authority of the imperial court is at its peak, local guards officers cannot rebel at all, but they must beware of mutiny.
The officials below Anhui looked silent.
Jia Heng said in a deep voice: "I have sent people to Taiping Mansion to take Xie Jian to Anqing Mansion to interrogate the charges together. The new policy is a national policy and cannot be shaken by anyone."
Seeing that the matter was almost settled, Li Shouzhong calmed down the atmosphere and said, "Mr. Wei Guo, it's getting late. Why don't we go to the side hall to have dinner first."
Jia Heng nodded and said warmly: "Master Li, please."
At this moment, when the local officials in Anhui heard this, they were all frightened and inexplicable.
After the meal in the side hall, all the Anhui officials dispersed with concern, and the news that Jia Heng used thunderous means to deal with Yue Tai, the commander of the Anhui capital, and proposed to rectify the military garrison gradually spread.
Jia Heng and Li Shouzhong entered the study room to talk.
The two of them were seated separately. The servant offered tea, bowed, and then slowly retreated.
Li Shouzhong frowned, with a look of worry on his face, and said: "Zi Yu, just now you dealt with the Anhui Commander-in-Chief in such a thunderous way, will it cause the morale of the local guards to fluctuate, and then cause unrest?"
Jia Heng put down the teacup and said, "Don't worry, uncle. Generals usually bully soldiers at the guard station, but they are mostly unpopular. Even if they really dare to coerce their trusted subordinates into rebellion, there are not many people following behind. This time, when I come here,
I have mobilized warriors from the Jiangnan Camp to prepare means of suppression."
Li Shouzhong relaxed his head slightly and said: "Although Ziyu can suppress and pacify him, once there is chaos in the local guard station, it may hinder the view."
This is the perspective of civil servants. The most important thing in managing politics is reputation. When encountering trouble, they first try to cover it up and try not to cause trouble to the superiors.
Jia Heng said: "Uncle, please relax, there will be great order after great chaos."
Li Shouzhong looked thoughtful and said: "Then the local gentry should stop clearing the land for their father-in-law's land, and clear the land for the army's land first, and there may be less resistance."
Jia Heng nodded and said warmly: "The number of acres of military farmland in Anhui Province is actually not very large. It will not take long to find out. At that time, the reorganized soldiers and horses of the guard station will be used to help clear the land of the people. At that time, we will
The trouble can be resolved invisible."
Li Shou was suddenly enlightened and said: "Zi Yu, this is the army camp first and then the people's fields. However, the military camp involves the guard station, so we should take it slow."
Jia Heng said: "My uncle is just worried that the powerful gentry and the guardsmen will collude to cause trouble and cause trouble. However, the investigation of military camps does not happen overnight and will not be spread across the country at once."
If it spread across the country, it would indeed be easy to cause trouble, because not every local executive officer could mobilize the entire Han Dynasty's "military and police officers" like him, and not every local guard officer could be arrested without hesitation.
In fact, he doesn't really agree with Emperor Chongping's sudden rollout of new policies across the country, but the imperial newspaper published Emperor Chongping's decree and even specially promoted Gao Zhongping to the cabinet.
And solving Anhui first and stabilizing Jiangnan is also an idea of promoting the overall situation first.
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Anhui, Taiping Prefecture, Wei Command Yamen——
The hall in the backyard of the government office was crowded with people and the atmosphere was lively. Several military generals exchanged cups and cups, making it very lively.
Xie Jian, the commander of the Taiping Guard, was having a banquet with several guests. He held a charming and charming woman in his arms. From time to time, his big hands reached into the skirt of the woman's clothes, which sometimes caused the woman to become angry and angry.
"Drink, it's freezing cold today, let's have some wine together, drink!" Xie Jian picked up a wine cup in his hand and invited the generals of Zhou Fang's Taiping Guards.
"Commander, the commander-in-chief said the day before yesterday that Mr. Li went to Jinling to file a complaint, and that Duke Wei might come to Anqing Mansion in person, so we should be more careful recently." Commander Wei on the side is Guan Zhongli, Xiong Guo,
The square face was filled with worry, and he advised.
"No matter how powerful Duke Wei is, he can still control my Taiping Mansion?" Xie Jian opened his mouth and said loudly, smelling of alcohol.
Qianhu Shi Bozhang on the other side couldn't help but hesitate for a moment, and said loudly: "Commander, do you want to hand over the person who beat him?"
Xie Jian scolded coldly, and Shen He interrupted: "Fart!"
In fact, the primary school student who beat him was a member of the Baihu household in Taiping Prefecture. Because he gave birth to a beautiful sister, he married his sister to Xie Jian as his concubine. He had previously blocked the governor's office in Anhui from clearing the land.
Because those acres are grain fields in his name.
In the hundred years since the founding of the Chen and Han Dynasties, the system of military garrisoning had actually been completely ruined, and the generals in the garrison had actually become military landlords.
Xie Jian's face was as steely as he said coldly: "The clerk in the governor's office is not dead yet, so I'll pay him some more money, that's all, let's just say that the Judgment Department has already dealt with the relevant criminals."
"I'm afraid that Li Zhongcheng won't give up." Commander Wei said worriedly because it was related to Zhongli.
"He is a poor scholar with no power. If he really refuses to let me go..." Xie Jian had a ruthless look in his eyes, which made the two subordinates tremble.
This is a second-rank official of the imperial court, a provincial official!
At this moment, there was a commotion in the streets paved with bluestones, like the sound of horse hooves, people roaring and horses neighing.
I saw cavalry galloping on the spacious and clean streets, the clatter of horse hooves crossing the bluestone road, and a large number of cavalrymen with red flags rushing over.
"It's Jinyi Tiqi." Seeing this, the vendors placing things on the roadside started talking, but most of them quickly dispersed to the side as if they were avoiding the plague snakes and scorpions.
Under the leadership of Liu Jixian, the dark Jinyi Tiqi arrived at the gate of Xie's Mansion not long after.
The leader was none other than Liu Jixian.
Groups of Jinyi cavalry wearing flying fish uniforms and embroidered spring knives at their waists immediately surrounded the headquarters of the Taiping Guard commander.
"Who are you? What are you going to do?" When the soldiers at the gate of Xie's Mansion saw this, they were shocked and asked in a trembling voice, holding the Yanling knife on their waists and taking courage.
Liu Jixian shouted: "On the order of the Duke of Wei, we have arrested the commander of the Taiping Guards, Xie Jian, and come to the Yamen of Anqing Mansion for questioning. Come on, go in and take him!"
Following the order, a large number of Jin Yi Ti cavalry bumped into the doorman, without saying a word, and poured into the official office like a tide.
At this moment, looking from a high altitude, all we could see was a square courtyard with two entrances. Jin Yiti riders were holding weapons and began to arrest relevant criminals.
Xie Jian, who was having a banquet in the backyard hall, was drinking with several generals when he heard the noise in the front yard and frowned.
At this time, a soldier broke into the house in panic and said loudly: "Sir, it's not good, there are many Jinyi Tiqi outside."
Xie Jian's face suddenly turned pale, he slowly stood up, and stared at the large number of Jinyi Tiqi who were coming.
"What are you doing!" Xie Jian, perhaps drunk and emboldened, suddenly stood up and shouted.
Before Xie Jian could say anything, a group of soldiers around him had already held Xie Jian and several of his followers firmly, not allowing them to move at all.
After a while, Liu Jixian, surrounded by the guards in Jinyi Palace, slowly entered the hall and looked at Xie Jian and others who were drinking and having fun. His eyes passed over the face of the singer who was shivering like a quail, and he raised a sneer at the corner of his mouth and said
: "Take these people away! Take them to the Taiping Jinyi Thousand Households Office!"
As the commander of Taiping Mansion, Xie Jianhe, and his soldiers were taken away by the guards of Jinyi Mansion, it was like a thunder exploded throughout Taiping Mansion, quickly causing a sensation.
Small places are inherently humane societies, and some vivid sayings are even gradually spreading.
For example, Xie Jian was taken away by Tiqi from Jinyi Mansion while he was sleeping with his concubine in bed.
On the other side, as Jia Heng came to Anqing Mansion, the Anhui Governor's Yamen also sent a large number of officials to clear the grain fields of the military garrison under the Anqing Guards.
You won’t know if you don’t check, but you’ll be shocked if you check.
On this day, Jia Heng was in the official office, looking at the summary of account books that were delivered one after another, and whispered: "Shocking."
The Beijing camp was short of quotas, and the local health offices were not only short of quotas, but actually became powerful landlords, raped women of the people, and engaged in lawlessness. The local government turned a blind eye to this.
Especially in Jiangnan provinces like Anhui, which have been at peace for a long time, the local guards are even more decadent. One guard has 5,600 people, but only two or three thousand people have become personal servants and servants of local generals.
For example, the commander of the Anqing Guards, Yue Tai, who was previously captured by Jia Heng's men, pocketed almost half of the harvest from the fields under the Anqing Mansion.
Li Shouzhong sighed softly and said: "The country has been peaceful for a hundred years, and the evils have been so deep that they have reached the organs and bone marrow. Previously, although Ziyu tried every means to raise money for the country, the local government and the health department spent too much money, and it was still difficult to cure.
fundamental."
Jia Heng said in a deep voice: "What my uncle said is true, but if you take all the baht and use it like sand, if you don't curb the excessive corruption that permeates the upper and lower levels, even if there are ten customs and ten liang Huai salt taxes, the financial resources will be exhausted."
It will be insufficient! And the national funds are spent nearly 20 million taels every year to supply officials and soldiers, and the local people in the local guards turn over the people's taxes to support them. But if there is a big event, no one can use it, and these places are the most profitable.
General."
Li Shouzhong pondered: "What Zi Yu said is true."
Jia Heng was still in Anqing Mansion at the moment. Accompanied by Li Shouzhong and a group of Anhui officials, he inspected the Anhui Dusi's camp, mainly to stabilize the morale of the army.
At this moment, Anhui Dusi’s camp camp——
Dong Qian and his generals have taken over the camp. In the past few days, they have organized camp affairs and personnel. Everything is going on in an orderly manner.
At this time, Dong Qian led a group of generals to welcome him out, and he handed back and said: "Commander, there are 3,000 soldiers and horses in the Anqing Guard, and 2,000 soldiers and horses in the capital, totaling 5,000 soldiers. We are currently counting the number of troops and organizing them."
Military Affairs.”
Jia Heng nodded and entered the Chinese army barracks under the welcome of Dong Qian. He said: "The troops and horses related to the Anqing Guard must be replenished in real terms, and military drills will be resumed. In addition to being self-sufficient, all the farmland will be handed over to the Ministry of War for comprehensive management by the governor's Yamen."
Food and wages.”
This is also the full name of the governor, who is also in charge of food and salary, and has its own authority over the military affairs of a province.
In fact, there is another advantage of taking the short quota, that is, the superiors and subordinates do not have to pay military salaries, and there is no need to worry about the soldiers getting into trouble.
Dong Qian nodded and said yes.
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Jinling, Palace Garden, Zhuixia Palace
It is already the twentieth day of the first lunar month in the seventeenth year of Chongping. The weather has become much warmer. The snow in the courtyard of the palace has long melted away. After being washed by the snow, the red eaves and green roofs are clean, slender and spotless. The winding ridges are like
The blue dragon seems to be flying towards the clear blue sky.
It's still that attic. The beauty is wearing a lily-colored cloud-breasted palace dress. Her lush and lush hair seems to be pulled into a beautiful and majestic cloud bun. Her jade-like skin that looks like a hibiscus flower seems to be full of flowers.
With a look of endless sadness, the beauty stood there, looking at the rugged rockery and rocks, lost in thought.
The beauty who returned to her old place glanced at the bronze mirror, as if the scene of that day was still vivid in her mind. Her cheeks were slightly red, and her beautiful eyebrows were furrowed. There was a faint expression in her shining eyes, but there was already some resentment in her heart.
That little fox is really heartless.
Could it be that he felt satisfied after taking advantage of her, and then he got... tired of it?
Men are naturally fond of the new and dislike the old. After all, she is... getting older.
The beauty gently stroked her slightly hot face, and for a moment, her heart was filled with complicated emotions.
Because, since the Shangyuan Festival, Jia Heng seemed to be fine and never entered the palace to pay respects to Empress Song.
This...is like breaking up on a cliff.
It can be said that the beauty who has just "resurrected" is inevitably filled with resentment when she is in bed.
However, Princess Xianning, Li Chanyue, and Song Yan often came to the palace in the morning and dusk to pay their respects and pay their respects.
The beauty's snowy jade face was in a daze, she clenched the handkerchief back and forth, frowned in thought, licked her pink lips and spat softly.
Cursing secretly, this little fox must have done it on purpose.
Deliberately not coming to see her! Then let her talk...
In fact, whenever she closes her eyes these days, the beauty will think of the scenes that gnawed into her heart that day, because in her more than thirty years of life, the beauty has never had such a mysterious encounter.
It seemed like all three souls and six souls were...sucked out.
The beauty's face gradually turned red, and her heart was trembling with trembling, while the graceful and plump eyebrows were full of anger.
At first I thought he was willing to humble himself, but looking at his attitude that day, it was obvious that he was enjoying himself, had been planning for a long time, and had been waiting for this fate for a long time.
This little fox...
She shouldn't have indulged him in the first place!
In that way, it is no different from the "eating" of palace maids and eunuchs that are rumored privately in the palace. How is it different from husband and wife?
At this moment, the female officer Nianyun seemed to interrupt the beauty's thoughts from under the attic. Her soft and sweet voice passed through the screen and curtain: "Your Majesty, Your Highness Xianning is here."
After hearing this, Empress Song turned around with her plump and graceful body, and hurriedly got down from the pavilion and came to the main hall.
Under the beautiful eyebrows, her beautiful eyes stared at Princess Xianning who came in from outside the palace, and fell on the girl's cherry lips. The look in her eyes was slightly frozen, and she quickly avoided it.
"Xianning, here we come." The beauty's snow-skinned face was as bright as the clouds, she chuckled and said.
"Chanyue, Yan'er and I came here to see the queen mother." Princess Xianning, dressed in a blue dress, with a graceful figure and graceful eyebrows, slowly entered the palace and said softly: "Why did the queen come back to Beijing?"
At this moment, Li Chanyue and Song Yan looked at the elegantly dressed beauty. They didn't know if it was an illusion, but they felt that the beauty was more gorgeous, brighter, and almost thrilling.