Hello Chang'an Chapter 661

Chapter 661: Go my own way

Among these two people, one is Xiao Min, who concurrently serves as the envoy of Lingnan Road and Qianzhong Road.

 The other one is Sheep's Purse. Li Suining appointed her as the Jiedushi of Jiannan Road and went to Yizhou.

Shepherd's Purse's military exploits are undoubted, and he has gained prestige in the army. He is courageous, decisive and responsible, both coarse and fine, and has no shortage of military talents. Li Suining needed to pacify the western border to deter Tibet and eliminate Li Yin's remaining strength, so she was relieved to go by Sheeps purse.

Yao Ran selected more than twenty subordinate officials to accompany Shepherd's Purse. They were all scribes selected from a hundred. They were either selected from Jiangdu's counselors, or from the Cui family, the Changsun family, and the Chu family.

Hao Huan also followed shepherd's purse, and they also brought several girls adopted from Jiangdu Shantang. As for dumplings, when they were old, she was kicked by shepherd's purse and sent to the Imperial College to study.

Before leaving, shepherd's purse and Xiao Min entered the palace to bid farewell to His Majesty the Emperor. Shepherd's purse patted her chest and promised: "Your majesty, just rest assured. After I and General Xiao leave, in less than three years, the southwest will be tidied up neatly and submissively." !”

Xiao Min, who has always been calm and conservative, felt a little embarrassed when he heard this - three years is not enough, this eldest sister really dares to say that! Moreover, the eldest sister is responsible for the Jiannan Road, but he has to take care of the Lingnan Road in central Guizhou. Lingnan is so big and difficult... The eldest sister is generous, but she doesn't care about his life or death.

However, His Majesty the Emperor nodded happily.

"..." Xiao Min couldn't stand still. He felt that he had to start quickly. Time was tight and the task was huge.

 After shepherd's purse and Xiao Min left Beijing, the appointment letters of provincial governors were successively issued from the Ministry of Personnel, but the new emperor never mentioned the appointment of other governors.

Li Suining did not want to set up another military envoy. The reason why she appointed shepherd's purse and Xiao Min was because she needed to consolidate the southwest territory.

 After that, when the situation everywhere is settled, she will officially abolish the Jiedushi official system.

As a new emperor who started with military power in hand, Li Suining knows better than anyone the fatal drawbacks of Jieduzhi's ability to control the tail. She will not repeat the mistakes of her predecessors and become a puppet king held hostage by local military power.

Now that the general trend has been determined, no mistakes are allowed on the border. Xiao Min and Shepherd's Purse are guarding and gathering in the southwest, Kangcong and Shiman are in the east, and Shuofang Army and Longyou Army are in the north - and when Li Suining negotiated peace with Beidi, he mentioned The Anbei Protectorate.

Li Suining wants to change the Anbei Protectorate into the Great Protectorate, and establish three more Protectorate in Beidi, under the jurisdiction of the Great Protectorate. Bai Hong has already recommended himself to Beidi to supervise this matter.

Tang Xing had made meritorious service in the Battle of Beidi and deserved a reward, but he was really not used to being stuck in one place for a long time in an official position, so Li Suining gave him the status of a supervisory censor and asked him to inspect the world on behalf of the emperor.

 After that, he had a mission to a foreign country, and Li Suining also planned to hand it over to him as well.

 In addition to the above-mentioned awards for meritorious service, the rest are posthumous awards for those who died in the country.

He Wuhu and other generals were granted posthumous titles. Ordinary soldiers who died in battle and those who had family members and descendants were all given generous pensions.

Since He Wuhu had no family, Qihu received the rewards on his behalf. Qihu thought about it and gave the rewards to Sheepspurse.

Shepherd's Purse took out half of it and gave it to Qi Hu and other brothers who had accompanied He Wuhu from birth to death. The rest was used to care for the families of He Wuhu's men who died in the war. Shepherd's Purse himself didn't leave anything behind - He Wuhu left a small courtyard in Jiangdu. It was left to her, and from the perspective of her heart, it was already very valuable.

Shepherd's Purse will use the two adjacent small courtyards in Jiangdu City to adopt more children.

Luo Guanlin was posthumously named the Crown Prince and Taifu, with the posthumous title of "Zhenxin". He was admitted to the Confucian Temple in his hometown of Prefecture and the Xian Temple in his hometown, and was given the title of Duke of Qi, which was inherited by his descendants.

 His daughter Luo Xi entered the Ministry of Industry to study and gain experience.

His son Luo Ze followed Song Xian, the Minister of Punishment, and temporarily served as chief bookkeeper.

Granny Jin couldn't sit still. She was going to invite herself back to Jiangdu to have a workshop. Yao Ran learned about this and told her that the workshop would not only be built in Jiangdu, but also in Luoyang and other places. Sites were being selected for her elderly family in the future. The place of martial arts.

 Grandma Jin finally agreed and stayed with peace of mind.

Speaking of workshops and workmanship, Shen Sanmao had previously politely refused to become an official in the capital. He had casually suggested in a letter that in a few years, Ache could be trained in the Ministry of Industry. The child was still young and was better behaved than him. The bottom line is that he is a resource that can be made.

Before Li Suining had time to think about this matter, Meng Lie had already taken Ah Che to the Tai Tower.

　　When he was in Jiangdu, Ah Che had been working beside Meng Lie, but at some point he caught Meng Lie's eyes.

Ache is down-to-earth and hard-working. More importantly, he has no relatives and has been rescued by His Majesty. He is loyal to His Majesty... This is very similar to Meng Lie back then.

Meng Lie considers himself to be getting older, but the secret intelligence network in his hands cannot be abandoned just because His Majesty ascended the throne. On the contrary, it should be operated more carefully.

Meng Lie needed to find someone who could take over and take him with him to train him carefully, and Ache was the person he chose.

Ah Che followed Meng Lie and learned to take care of the affairs in the building. On this day, Ah Che learned to summarize to Meng Lie the news of recent concern in Gyeonggi. Among them, there were a lot of rumors about the relationship between Zhongyong Hou and the eldest princess Li Rong. Meng Lie was speechless when he heard this, and simply said: "...Ignore anything about these two people."

Now almost everyone in the capital knows that Chang Sui'an is the daughter of the eldest princess Xuan'an. This is an open secret.

After learning about this relationship, some people secretly speculated on the bet - is Zhongyonghou expected to win the honor and become the oldest consort since the beginning of Pangu?

When Chang Kuo heard about this, he was so angry that he didn't go out for several days.

He didn't go out, but the eldest princess Xuan'an came to look for him. Of course, it must be in the name of "coming to see her son."

Chang Sui'an was really busy after returning to Beijing. Whenever she stayed in the city, she would always run between the Marquis's Mansion and the Grand Princess's Mansion, carrying water until she was sweating and doubtful about life.

 Fortunately, after he was awarded the title of General Guide, he spent most of his time handling military affairs in the Xuance barracks outside the city, and could not come back even once every three to five days.

Today, Chang Sui'an is not in the city, but that doesn't stop the drunkard Li Rong from coming to look for him.

It was getting late. Cui Lang, who was waiting outside the imperial city, saw the familiar figure wearing a doctor's robe walking out and hurriedly greeted him: "Mianmian!"

Qiao Yumian is now a medical officer in the Imperial Medical Office.

Qiao Yumian originally wanted to take Master Tuoyouping with him, but Doctor Sun did not dare to enter the palace.

Finally, Dr. Sun agreed to live with Mrs. Chu in a hospital in the suburbs of Beijing, where the mountains and rivers were beautiful, quiet and comfortable. Taifu's body needed a doctor to take care of him, and it was also convenient for Qiao Yumian to consult the master at any time.

At this time, Qiao Yumian glanced at the officials who were looking at him, and asked Cui Lang in a low voice: "What are you waiting for here?"

"My grandma came to visit today..." Cui Lang imitated her and lowered his voice: "After a long afternoon, I sent word that we had a great conversation! Mrs. Wang even stayed with my grandma for dinner, hehe."

Qiao Yumian's face was slightly red, and she did not hide the joy in her eyes. She nodded and said, "My father also praised you the day before yesterday."

Cui Lang quickly asked why he was so complimentary. Qiao Yumian walked forward and said, "I thought it was a bad bamboo shoot, but I didn't expect that after peeling off the skin layer by layer, it would grow into such a straight and good bamboo."

“…” Cui Lang gave a thumbs up: “My father-in-law's eyes are indeed vicious!”

As he spoke, he straightened his back, patted his chest, and said confidently: "I will definitely try to grow straighter in the future!"

Qiao Yumian blushed even more, looked behind her again, and said angrily: "Stop yelling..."

Cui Lang then realized that he had just spoken out what was in his heart, and hurriedly slapped his mouth as a punishment.

The two of them were talking and walking forward together. Cui Langcai asked again: "Has your majesty given any instructions regarding the selection of the emperor's husband?"

Qiao Yumian shook her head: "I haven't heard anything yet, so I can't ask Ning Ning any further."

He said, thought for a while, and said: "But you should know that the old lady was summoned to the palace yesterday? Yao Tingwei also followed him into the palace, I don't know if it was for this reason... But Mrs. Lu asked you to inquire ?”

"That's right." Cui Lang said, "I'm not worried... His Majesty has rewarded all the meritorious ones, but he has not rewarded the eldest brother. Doesn't this mean that he has other plans?"

 In terms of military exploits, no one can surpass his eldest brother except His Majesty himself.

Such a big credit has not been rewarded, not waiting for the position of a emperor, what is it?

There are many people who have the same idea as Cui Lang. Many officials are very worried about this. They try to persuade the Emperor to think twice, but His Majesty does not directly mention the plan; they want to find out something from the general. , but Cui Jing didn't like to interact with others, and still kept to himself as before, leaving them at a loss.

 Wei Shuyi saw the helplessness of the officials, but had to admit that Cui Ling'an was indeed the best candidate.

In the golden autumn of August, envoys from various states arrived in Kyoto to pay tribute to the new emperor of their country.

Jin Chengyuan has not left yet. He plans to stay for a long time. Recently, he is taking Dongluo officials to learn about Dasheng culture. The person in charge of this is Cui Lang, who works in the Ministry of Rites.

After all the envoys from various states arrived, the Dasheng court held a banquet in honor of them.

But just before the morning court the next day, a major event happened that all civil and military officials did not expect.

 When the world was first settled, the new monarch made many changes related to the military and political system. The officials had different opinions. Cui Jing, as the leader of the generals, firmly supported all the decisions of the new monarch.

The attitude of Qiao Yang, Minister of the Ministry of War, is not as roundabout as Cui Jing's, but his position is also obvious. He is also a supporter of the New Deal. He is now and will be in the future.

Most of the officials in Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province also held a similar position to Qiao Yang. Under this situation, the resistance to the new emperor's implementation of the New Deal was almost equal to no resistance.

After the conservative officials clearly saw this, all they could do was compromise and make supplements as much as possible to make the new policies as smooth and gentle as possible.

These government affairs that have been discussed for many days are no longer enough to stir up the emotions of the officials. What made them unexpectedly uproar was the action of the general.

Cui Jing took the initiative to hand over Xuance's military talisman and invited himself to take the position of general in Xuance's mansion.

Xuance's army, which had grown stronger due to recruiting troops during the Northern War, was like a sharp sword hanging over the new dynasty in the hearts of many officials... This was also the biggest reason why most officials opposed Cui Jing as the emperor's wife.

The word power is so complicated and dangerous. Such a heavy power can destabilize the country. Even if Cui Jing has no dissent for a while, he will become the best sword in the eyes of those with dissent. With such a presence, it is bound to breed and encourage more dissidents. - Under this premise, if he becomes the emperor's wife again, just below one person, is it really a good thing for the country and the people?

 Officials' concerns are far from unfounded.

There is no child's play in the country. Crisis and chaos arise from carelessness. In the face of the safety of the world, the theory of love is too illusory. This has nothing to do with the distinction between men and women. This is the imperial power and the government. Even if the emperor today is a man, a man with such a heavy army in his hands They also dare not accept the female queen.

They thought about relinquishing Cui Jing's military power, but this was also too dangerous. If they were not careful, it would backfire and cause catastrophe... So they were anxious and could only try to persuade the new king to choose another good mate.

 But no one expected... Cui Jing, who had never said anything, would take the initiative to hand over military power!

This huge unexpected surprise made many officials subconsciously question it, but they did not dare to be careless and credulous - handing over the position of general to their confidants with the left hand instead of the right hand? To dispel their wariness? Fraudulently seizing the position of royal husband?

However, what Cui Jing said next once again exceeded their expectations.

Cui Jing proposed that Xuance's military talismans would only be in charge of the emperor from now on. The general position in Xuance's mansion would be removed and only standing generals would be appointed. During war, the emperor would appoint generals to lead the army, and the talisman would be returned to the emperor after the war.

This proposal to "remove the post of general in Xuance's Mansion" caused the Hanyuan Hall to suddenly become silent.

In the main hall, only the calm and calm voice of the purple-robed young man could be heard. He raised his hand and held a salute, almost as a remonstrance, clarifying the shortcomings of the position of general of the Xuance Army.

He said that the Xuance Army was originally founded by the former crown prince Li Shang. It is understandable that such a magical army should be in the hands of a country's crown prince. However, if someone else takes over, there is a danger of shaking the country.

The existence of the Xuance Army is now too large. If the position of general is continued, it will be like a huge amount of wealth being exposed, which will continue to attract dissatisfaction, which is not conducive to the stability of the people of the country.

The sword that protects the country should not become the blade that threatens the country, otherwise the original intention of the former prince to create this army will be lost.

After finishing speaking, Cui Jing held the ceremony and asked again: "Therefore, Cui Jing implores your majesty to remove the position of general in Xuance Mansion, so as to eliminate the source of danger for the country!"

 In the impression of all the ministers, this was the first time that the powerful Governor Cui had publicly asked for advice in this hall.

Cui Jing is a loner and a rebellious person. He has never followed the arrangements of the Cui clan and has never participated in political affairs or party politics in the court. He has always only trained his soldiers and fought his own battles. If If there is a request, he will write a memorial and submit it. If the court shirks the empress and refuses to agree, he will write another one. If it is refused again, he will no longer insist -

 But do you think he has compromised on this?

 No, he turned around and did it on his own...

 Otherwise, how did the tens of thousands of cavalry suddenly appear in Bingzhou come from?

The court that originally rejected his proposal to expand the cavalry was completely unaware of this!

　　In fact, I just go my own way and are lawless.

The advantages of this kind of person are undeniable. He has vision, ability, and independent opinions but only insists on his opinions. Such people will not obey discipline. Because of this, all officials feel great intimidation and oppression.

But no one expected that the first time such a person made a speech to the emperor was to hand over his military power and ask the emperor to completely remove the post of general.

 In the main hall, people's hearts were shaken.

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