Fenghou

Chapter 738
Yang Chuian said in a low voice: "I remember very clearly that Wu Jie was controlled by Yue Fei, and now he has become the commander's subordinate, but the defense structure issued by Yue Fei still has Wu Jie's name. Are you doubly ruled?"

Zhang Jun nodded, "Mr. is right, this is indeed an oversight by the court."

Yang Chui'an sneered, "It's not necessarily negligence. Last time when Yue Fei abandoned his official position and kept his filial piety, the officials asked Zhang Jun to make amends and appease him. Zhang Jun is a civil servant. He has always been narrow-minded. How can he not bear hatred for Yue Fei? This time it is obviously Zhang Jun is giving Yue Fei eye drops!"

"And then?" Zhang Jun asked again.

"The commander-in-chief might as well give Wu Jie to Yue Fei, and Wu Jie's vacated seat will be filled by his own people, so that the commander-in-chief won't feel uncomfortable watching him all day long."

Zhang Jun was silent for a moment and said, "I'm afraid Mr. Zhang will be dissatisfied."

"The method is also simple. Transfer him to Guangzhou, and then the general ignores him, and Yue Fei will definitely use him."

Gwangju happens to be the intersection of the middle defense and the west defense. Zhang Jun's defense line and Yue Fei's defense line overlap in this section of Gwangju. Let Wu Jie guard Gwangju, and he can obey both sides. If Zhang Jun doesn't care about him, then Yue Fei will naturally call he.

Zhang Jun pondered for a long time, and finally nodded, "You can give it a try!"

Zhang Jun wants to use his confidant general Zhang Zongyan as the commander of the capital, so that his own people can be used with ease.

In the eyes of others, Li Qiong's annoying behavior, complaining like a resentful woman all day long, actually has a reason for its existence.

For example, a soldier didn't pay his salary for a few months, and the family really had no rice to cook, forcing the soldier's wife to sell herself to support the family. As the coach, did Li Qiong have to ask her superiors for military salary every day?

For another example, his army has more than [-] family members and was resettled in Jianghuai. Zhang Jun gave him a county seat in a mountainous area, and the little land in the county was owned by other people. , must be a plain county with land, so he quarrels with his boss every day, asking for a resettlement county.

For another example, his status in Liu Guangshi's army is higher than that of Wang De, and he has more troops than Wang De. He was the first to surrender to the court and made great contributions to cutting off Liu Guangshi's food and grass. Even when he surrendered, Wang De still hesitated. He refused to surrender.

But in the end, the imperial court appointed Wang Dedu as the governor and himself as the deputy governor, which stunned Li Qiong. No one could accept it. Of course, his mentality would lose balance, and he would certainly feel that the court was unfair to him.But he couldn't respond to his superiors, so it was normal to complain that the court treated him unfairly.

Li Qiong's army is currently in charge of defending Haozhou. Hundreds of thousands of family members of his army are in Dingyuan County, Haozhou, while the army is stationed in Zhongli County.

At noon that day, Li Qiong was sitting alone in the big tent drinking wine. He was in a bad mood. Without food, he had to dig wild vegetables in the fields, and the only son of a Dutou died because of this.

If the military salary is not paid, that's fine, but as far as he knows, Han Shizhong's army in Sizhou next door has been paid three months of military salary more than ten days ago, and he has never even owed the military salary. A military salary of two pennies!

In fact, Li Qiong has also heard that some high-ranking generals use their military salaries to make a lot of money for a few months. Now he doesn't know whether it is because the court discriminated against them, or whether the military salaries were taken away by some people for profit. The reason is that the court itself has no money.

Now there are rumors below that he, Li Qiong, has embezzled his military salary to make money. Such rumors are worse than killing him.

At this time, the soldiers reported at the tent gate, "General, there is a fellow villager looking for you outside the gate of the camp, saying that he is your old friend."

"What's your name?" Li Qiong asked.

"He said it was Liang Sen."

Li Qiong was stunned for a moment, and immediately responded, isn't Liang Sen his neighbor Liang Erlang?His best friend since he was a child was very righteous. When his father passed away, it was Liang Sen who took care of his funeral.

"Bring him in!"

Not long after, a man about thirty-seven or eighteen years old was brought in by the soldiers. It was Li Qiong's friend Liang Sen. Li Qiong was really excited, and she stepped forward to hold his hand and was very happy.

The two walked into the big tent, Li Qiong asked Liang Sen to sit down, and asked the soldiers to bring some side dishes and a pot of wine. He filled Liang Sen with a glass of wine and asked with a smile, "I haven't heard from my virtuous brother for three years. , have been doing well recently!"

"It's not a peaceful and prosperous age. There is nothing to do well. It's all for making a living. If you can support your family, you will be satisfied."

Liang Sen's words aroused Li Qiong's thoughts, and he nodded, "It's really not easy to support a family now!"

"Brother is saying that the soldiers under him have not been paid for three months!"

Li Qiong was taken aback, "How does my brother know?"

"To tell you the truth, brother, I am currently working in the Qi State Intelligence Institute, and I know the situation in the Song Dynasty very well."

"My dear brother, have you surrendered to Qi?"

Liang Sen laughed, "What does it mean to surrender to the Qi State? I have been a Jinbing commoner for ten years. Our entire Xiangzhou, the entire Linzhang County, our village, your second uncle, cousin, my parents and brothers , are the people of the Kingdom of Jin. Isn’t it normal for me to do things for the State of Qi? I want to do things for the Song Dynasty. Whether the Song Dynasty wants me or not is one thing, but what about my family? My parents, wife, children, brothers, nephews are all there Linzhang County, who will support them? Uncle is eagerly looking forward to seeing my brother!"

Li Qiong felt uncomfortable. His father died in Xiangzhou five years ago, but he couldn't go home to see his father for the last time.

"Did Brother Xian come to persuade me to surrender?" Li Qiong asked with a sigh.

Liang Sen shook his head, "This kind of persuasion is the most useless. I don't persuade you brother. I'm here to build a bridge for you. If you want to know about the situation in Jiangbei, I'll contact you. If you want to know about the situation in the Song Dynasty, I can do it too." Find out through the intelligence service."

"That's good!"

Li Qiong nodded and said with a smile: "Young brother, why don't you tell me about the financial situation of the imperial court first, I really want to know."

Liang Sen picked up his wine glass and said slowly, "The imperial court's financial resources start with the officials sending envoys to the Kingdom of Jin to negotiate a peace. Why do they need to negotiate a peace? It sounds complicated, but it's actually very simple. The imperial court has no money, and the war cannot continue."

It has been almost half a month since Chen Qing returned to Jingzhao City. During this half month, two major events occurred in Guanzhong. One was the parade in the five counties of Fengxiang. More than [-] people marched in Jingzhao City in a mighty manner to oppose the land inspection. , This matter is very serious, but Chen Qing always felt that there was something strange, so he sent the inner guard to investigate the matter.

The second incident is the Zhaoling blood stele incident. Five days ago, farmers in front of Zhaoling on Jiujun Mountain in Liquan County dug up a huge stone stele from a wheat field. This stone tablet is two feet long and eight feet wide, with only one mottled Dong character written on it, and the whole body is brownish red, as if it has been soaked in a pool of blood for hundreds of years and then dried.

This blood stele was a bad omen. It caused a sensation in Jingzhao. Various versions were popular in Jingzhao City. One of the most popular versions was that the character on it was actually a Chen character, half of which was corroded.

The blood stele, half old, was obviously alluding to Chen Qing.

The parade incident was gradually forgotten by the common people, but the blood monument was mysterious and filled people's imaginations, so it attracted a lot of attention. Even Lu Xiu and other sisters heard about the blood monument incident.

During the meal, Lu Xiu couldn't help but said to her husband: "Husband, what does the tablet say? Has the government investigated it?"

Chen Qing glanced at his wife and said calmly, "Don't take this kind of nonsense at all. Even if it is an ancient object, it has nothing to do with me at all, let alone he may not be an ancient object."

"What would it be if it wasn't an ancient object?" Lu Xiu asked urgently.

Zhao Qiaoyun said from the side: "It's either ancient or man-made! I just think it's so strange. It only took two days from discovering it to being known all over the city. You know, it takes more time to walk from Liquan County to Jingzhao. Two days!"

Chen Qing smiled slightly: "Is Qiao Yun implying me?"

Zhao Qiaoyun was a little embarrassed and said: "Actually, I think if this matter needs to be investigated, the channel of news transmission is one direction."

Chen Qing nodded, "It makes sense!"

(End of this chapter)