Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 24
Zhaoyi Jiedu envoy Meng Guangyi led an army of [-] troops and wandered around the city of Taiyuan without firing an arrow. When he heard that Li Keyong had returned to his army, he hurried back to Xingzhou.Fortunately, they returned to the city before Li Ke surrounded Xingzhou with his troops.

Li Ke used to fight for a long time under the city of Xingzhou, leaving three or four hundred corpses behind, and returned to Taiyuan angrily.

Huainan was a bit chaotic. Cai thief Sun Ru rebelled against Qin Zongquan, killed Qin Zongquan's younger brother, conquered Yangzhou, and disrupted Huainan.

And after Qin Zongquan was repaired by Zhu Wen a few months ago, he has become a lot more honest recently.He was busy recruiting troops, accumulating strength, and hadn't freed up his hands to provoke a few neighbors around him.

Zhu Wen didn't have any news, but he heard the report from the Heyang Supervising Army that there were more troops in Qi County. It seemed that Zhu Wen was still not at ease with Li Keyong, so he had to be careful.

But the land of Shu was in chaos. Wang Jian and Gu Yanlang, the governor of Dongchuan, joined forces to attack Chengdu. They fought several days, lost troops and lost generals, but failed to win.

Wang Jian called Gu Yanlang and said: "In the old days when the nest thieves invaded Chang'an, the first emperor was lucky to Shu. King Shou walked halfway, exhausted, and sat on a rock to perch. Qi Tian Lingzi walked past. King Shou asked Tian Lingzi for a horse, but Tian Lingzi refused. Instead, he whipped his whip several times, which is disrespectful, I expect the emperor will hate Tian Lingzi deeply, why not ask the court to uphold justice."

Gu Yanlang thought it was true, and hurriedly went to the court to ask the court to pardon Wang Jian's crimes and agree to Wang Jian's crimes and meritorious deeds. At the same time, he asked the court to send ministers to Shu to preside over the plan to crusade against Chen Jingxuan.

When Li Ye received the memorial, he did not send Wei Zhaodu to Xichuan like in the past. Li Ye naturally saw Wang Jian's intention very clearly, which was to annex the surrounding prefectures and counties under the guise of the imperial court.

You must know that Wang Jian was originally one of the five capitals of the Shence Army, and he was also an outsider to Shu, and the locals did not accept him at all.

And if Wei Zhaodu went to Xichuan, it would be the beginning of Wang Jian's rise. In history, not long after Wei Zhaodu went to Xichuan, Wang Jian's soldiers and horses were as strong as a snowball. Quickly pacified the east and west Sichuan, and became the king of Shu.

Naturally, Li Ye would not give this opportunity, and immediately asked Du Rangneng to draw up an order, agreeing to Gu Yanlang's proposal to pardon Wang Jian, and to avoid the loss of life in Dongchuan, he did not agree to the second town's crusade against Chen Jingxuan.

The imperial edict ordered Gu Yanlang and Wang Jian to guard their respective townships, and urged them to send taxes to the capital in time.

Li Ye thought for a while, then asked Du Rangneng, "Does Wang Jian have any children?"

Du Rang said: "There are three sons and three daughters. The eldest son's name is Zongren, and he is afraid that he will be weak in his age."

Li Ye secretly thought, whether to accept Wang Jian's daughter as a concubine, or let Wang Jian's son become the princess, and use this as an opportunity to cede one or two prefectures of Dongchuan to Wang Jian, or promote Wang Jian to be a Jiedu envoy, then Gu Yanlang will be with Wang Jian. Jiansheng disliked it.

Without Gu Yanlang's support, Wang Jian would have been unable to move even an inch in Sichuan.

After thinking about it, Li Ye shook his head, saying that Du Rangneng said: "I want to accept Wang Jian's daughter as my concubine, who should handle this matter."

Du Rang Neng frowned slightly, and said: "Wang Jian is a wolf with ambition, His Majesty has pardoned his crimes, and he can no longer grant the emperor's grace."

Li Ye retreated to the left and right, shook his head slightly, and said, "I don't know Wang Jian's wolfish ambitions, but Gu Yanlang and Wang Jian are in touch with each other. I am afraid that Xichuan will be disadvantaged. If Xichuan loses, the bandits will be established. We should appease Wang Jian's heart first, and cut Dongchuan and Mianzhou from him." Jian, in fact Gu Yanlang and Wang Jian's hearts prevent them from working together."

Du Rangneng bowed and said: "Your Majesty has thought deeply, and I will do my best to make it happen. I think Pei Shu, the Minister of Rites, can take on this task."

Li Ye nodded, and suggested that Du Rangneng said, "A gentleman is so beautiful."

I want you, Du Rangneng, to explain that the three daughters must be beautiful no matter what.

After Du Rangneng retired, Li Ye ordered his servant Xuan Sun Dezhao to enter the palace to have an audience.

Seeing Sun Dezhao enter, Li Ye said: "Minister of Rites Pei Shu will go to Dongchuan and Lizhou to proclaim an edict. Aiqing can call dozens of people to map the landforms along the way and investigate the military situation of Wang Jian and Gu Yanlang's troops. If this happens, Aiqing You deserve a great contribution, and I will not hesitate to reward you."

Sun Dezhao bowed and said: "I will never disgrace my mission."

Li Ye helped Sun Dezhao up and said, "This is a big matter, don't let it out."

After explaining to Sun Dezhao, Li Ye thought about it, and finally announced Zhang Chengye. The court was running out of money, and most of the fields in the capital would not be planted in time for spring plowing, and they might run out of food before the autumn harvest. This was a big deal.

"Your Majesty, Wei Bo offered a tribute of [-] guan, [-] bolts of silk, [-] shi of salt in the river, [-] guan of money and [-] shi of grain in the south of the mountain. There are still [-] guan of grain in the official storehouse, and more than [-] shi of money. Wanguan, [-] bolts of silk."

More than 4 soldiers need 10,000 guan a month, and the salary of an official in Beijing is no less than [-] guan. The mausoleum for his good brother Tang Xizong spent a lot of money. It costs [-]+ guan a month, tens of thousands of stones of grain, and the palace Duty is the emperor's internal treasury, but not the official warehouse.

But the emperor was poor, and the land treasury in Huangzhuang was donated to the Ministry of Household Affairs. Li Ye couldn't even get a thousand guan in his hands now, so he used the inheritance of his good brother Tang Xizong.

"Your Majesty, the treasury balance can last until September, but Jingzhao's fields are barren, and Jingzhao's taxes alone cannot support the capital."

"What's your plan?"

Zhang Chengye said: "One is that the imperial court should order the feudal towns to turn over taxes to the treasury; the other is to build water conservancy and encourage farming and mulberry farming. This is the foundation; the third is..."

Li Ye said: "How about the three? Aiqing will try to explain it, and I forgive Aiqing for her innocence."

Zhang Chengye said: "Jingzhao Mansion has more than [-] large and small temples such as Yongye, Baima, and Da'an. The land produced by the temples ranges from a few thousand acres to tens of thousands of acres. If it is requisitioned, the officials and the people will not have to worry about famine."

Li Ye's eyes lit up. This is a good way. Although Chang'an experienced military disasters, it didn't have a great impact on the temple. After all, the gods and Buddhas and the rebels also believed in it. They were not helpless. Even Huang Chao and Li Keyong did not attack the temple. idea.

The eighteen levels of hell are quite bluffing.

Li Ye didn't have any psychological pressure, and said: "I will take this matter on my own, and it has nothing to do with Ai Qing. You need to find someone who can do it in three or four cases. The temples investigate illegal things and report them to the imperial court. I will uphold justice. To uphold justice for the people."

His subordinates were quick to handle affairs, so Li Ye would naturally not put Zhang Chengye in the limelight. The emperor's ass is still bigger and can be controlled. It shouldn't be difficult to find some illegal things. If there is a reason, things will be easy to handle.

Zhang Chengye naturally also felt His Majesty's fierce and protective heart, but he was a little worried: "Your Majesty, the late emperor..."

Li Ye's good brother, Tang Xizong, was going to be buried soon, so he probably needed Buddhist services, but Li Ye didn't know about it.Zhang Chengye might be afraid, this matter will cause trouble for the emperor.

Li Ye thought for a while and said, "The Great Tang respects Lao Tzu, what has he to do with the Buddha!"

The state religion of the Tang Dynasty is Taoism, so it is more reliable to ask the gods for blessings, of course, to ask the ancestors of the royal family, Lao Tzu.

(End of this chapter)