People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 327 Lanxi Lingdong, piercing the vitals

Don't drive in the official house, the light and shadow are dim.

Standing behind the desk, Li Xuan spread out a piece of rice paper in front of her, holding the slender bamboo tube Cuihao brush in her hand, and then lightly sketched on the rice paper.

Yan Tao stood in front of Li Xuan, holding the document of the recruitment order in his hand, carefully reading every word on it.

After a long time, Yan Tao put down the official documents, and looked at Li Xuan with a serious face: "My lord, in this way, the next official will be transferred to the Kuaiji government soldier after the war is over?"

"Follow you!" Li Xuan shook her head indifferently, without even raising her head to look at Yan Tao, she said in a calm voice, "You are now a soldier of the seventh rank, joining the army. It will be directly superior, and if it can make great achievements, it is not a bad idea to be the captain of the school."

Military career has always been based on military merit, at least in Li Xuan's case.

If Yan Tao doesn't want to transfer to Fubing, he can also be transferred to Shangzhou.

But don't think about Sima Changshi, at most he is just a recorder and joins the army, and this has to be related to him behind the scenes.

Yan Tao looked at the official document in his hand, finally raised his head, looked at Li Xuan, and bowed his hands deeply: "I don't know if the lord wants to take any position?"

"Have you thought it through?" Li Xuan paused the Cuihao brush in his hand, raised his head and looked at Yan Tao: "Do you know the meaning of these words?"

"Xiaguan would like to be attached to Prince Ji." Yan Tao showed a wry smile on his face, cupped his hands and said, "This matter, if you think about it carefully, if you want to pursue it, even if Xiaguan made a special contribution, it is nothing more than a meritorious service at best." Even if you want to improve in the future, it will be difficult to do anything."

"It's rare for you to see it so clearly." Li Xuan looked at Yan Tao in surprise, then nodded, and said, "The assassination of Wang Shishi, if someone is really chasing after you, even if you made a great contribution, I'm afraid you will have to investigate the matter." Leaving Wuzhou, even this sum will be recorded in your official files forever...

If you transfer to Fubing, then no one will care about your things in Wuzhou. If you have someone to help you, you can easily be transferred to another state to serve, and the previous stains will be washed away. "

"So it can be like this." Yan Tao's face showed a hint of bewilderment, and then he said immediately: "The king has said so, how can I have a choice."

Li Xuan lowered her head again, continued to draw on the rice paper on the table, and said at the same time: "Actually, in my opinion, you are not suitable to be a soldier and join the army, because you are lacking in things other than training soldiers and fighting." Sensitive enough, so even if you have served as a soldier for many years, you will be easily infiltrated in the end, but if you go to serve as a soldier, you will not have such worries."

After a short pause, Li Xuan shook his head and said: "Actually, in the eyes of this king, you are more suitable to be a general who charges forward, not a commander who strategizes. If on the battlefield, you encounter someone similar to you. You can easily win against an enemy, but if you encounter someone who is more proficient in conspiracy and calculation than you on the battlefield, you have to be careful."

"The subordinate understands." Yan Tao quickly adjusted his mentality.

Li Xuan nodded, and said: "Under my king's command, there is also a captain of the army who came out of the Xinlin Mansion. He is now leading a team in Dongyang, and now the king wants you to lead a team. , to recruit soldiers in the state city, but your people are going to be stationed here."

As Li Xuan said, she turned the rice paper in her hand.

It was only now that Yan Tao saw clearly that what Li Xuan had sketched on it before turned out to be a detailed map of Wuzhou's rivers and rivers.

"Lingdong Township!" Yan Tao looked at the place where Li Xuan's finger pointed, which was located in Lingdong Township in the northwest of Wuzhou, and his face was immediately full of surprise.

"This place is located at the junction of Lanxi and Jinhua. The inflection of the river here is the most dangerous place after the entire Wujiang River comes out of the mountain. In the future, the official grain from Lanxi will be transported to Wuzhou, so this place is the best place to start." Li Xuan placed the brush in her hand on the inkstone, and then her eyes fell on the river map of Wuzhou again.

The fingers moved up along the Wujiang River to Lanxi, and then moved down to Zhoucheng.

Li Xuan said softly: "Now, the situation in the state city has gradually fallen into the hands of this king. Although the Tianyin Sect has a backup, but its strength is weak, this king guesses that more of their manpower has been transferred from the state city to other places. Subordinate counties."

Li Xuan's face suddenly became serious, all the joints were condensed on one crux at this time, that was Xia Harvest.

Fang Yunxiu is undoubtedly a difficult person to deal with.

Li Xuan has now realized this.

Now he has controlled the four city gates of Wuzhou and the five watchtowers of Wuzhou.

It can be said that as long as Li Xuan walks around the five watchtowers, he can know at a glance how many Tianyin sect cores there are in Wuzhou.

Unfortunately, besides Fang Yunxiu and Ye Wanwan, there are only a few killers in Wuzhou today.

The real main force of Wuzhou Hall of Tianyin Sect has been transferred.

If it wasn't for the current Li Xuan who is being watched so closely, it would be inconvenient to go to the various counties and towns below to see it. Otherwise, with his means alone, he would be able to find out all the main forces of the Tianyin Sect in the entire Wuzhou, and then Outrageous killing.

These people of Tianyin sect hid very deeply, especially before Li Xuan arrived in Wuzhou, they seemed to have sensed something was wrong, and shifted their main force in time.

This kind of thing happened in Hangzhou.

On the surface, it seems that those people of Tianyin Sect used people from other sects of the Demon Sect to assassinate Li Xuan, but if you think about it carefully, it is hard not to doubt that they have actually mastered something before they can kill Li Xuan. It can be circumvented by various targeted means.

Li Xuan didn't believe that they knew that he had the reminder entry, he believed even more that the Tianyin Cult suspected that there was something wrong with him,
Li Xuan seized the opportunity only when internal problems led to the leakage of secrets, just like that in Dongyang.

The hands were scattered all over the place, but they were easily found by Li Xuan, and they were defeated one by one.

But they didn't dare to concentrate their staff completely, because in fact Li Xuan was not the only one who was watching them secretly.

"Food, as long as the people of Tianyin Sect focus on the food, no matter what we do in Zhoucheng, they will have the ability to turn the situation around." Li Xuan's finger slipped from Zhoucheng to Dongyang, gently I clicked a little bit, and then brought it to Yiwu, Jinhua, Wuyi, Pujiang, Pan'an, Yongkang, and finally landed in Lanxi.

"The other places have either been pacified, or the mountainous terrain is difficult to navigate, or they are surrounded by plains, which are conducive to the movement of the army. Only Lanxi is mixed with mountains and plains, and the Wujiang River flows through the whole territory, and can even go directly to the state. city.

Moreover, Lanxi is the only way for Muzhou to enter Wuzhou, so those Lanxi are extremely important to Tianyin Sect, and if they want to incite the people to revolt, the only thing they can do is to make a fuss about food. "

Li Xuan's breathing became heavy, and her eyes were fixed on Lan Xi.

Yan Tao, who was on the side, swept his eyes across the entire Wuzhou, and finally had to nod and said: "Indeed, the five counties in the southeast, the prince has already pacified Dongyang, and the power can radiate to the nearby counties. The two counties in the southwest are mountainous, and the terrain is complicated. Even if there is a change, it is enough for me to react, and Jinhua is close at hand, so the only one the opponent can attack is Lanxi."

Li Xuan couldn't help but said with a wry smile: "I don't mind if the opponent attacks in other directions, so that the terrain can be used to buy time, but Lanxi, the crux of this place is too serious.

Once the summer harvest begins, the other party takes advantage of us to collect all the food from the people, and then takes it away from us, then we will be passive. "

"That's why the lord ordered the humble officer to lead his people to stay in Lingdong Township, which happens to be the junction of Lanxi and Zhoucheng. No matter where the accident happens, we can deal with it in time."

At this moment, Yan Tao could see Li Xuan's train of thought clearly.

Li Xuan nodded and said: "As long as the taxes and grains are transported to the state city, they will never want to take down the state city with this king around. Grab food in hand.

Once they stand on the opposite side of the common people, their fate is already doomed. "

The Tianyin sect itself raised troops under the slogan of laying down better things for the common people. Once they start collecting food from the common people, no matter what kind of excuse they use, when they start to plunder the few little things in the hands of the common people When the rations are taken, their own foundations will collapse in an instant.

In the end, the so-called rebel army was nothing more than a mess of scattered sand.

"Your Majesty's grand plan and strategy, I admire you." Yan Tao's eyes revealed bursts of solemnity when he heard Li say this.

This is an upright conspiracy. If those people of Tianyin Sect want to rebel, they must fight them head-on.

But when it comes to fighting head-on, Yan Tao also came down from the battlefield after all, and he has the most confidence in such things.

"You just need to know it in your heart." Li Xuan picked up the fine brush again, and then sketched again on the rice paper.

Two or three strokes, the entire city of Wuzhou, including the four gates of the city, five watchtowers, various neighborhoods, the governor's mansion, the four great families, as well as the grain depot and the armory.

Everything, outlined in two or three strokes, fell on the rice paper on Li Xuan's table.

Finally, Li Xuan stopped writing, and the entire Wuzhou City appeared in Li Xuan's pen clearly.

"In the afternoon, you and Ben Wang, Zhang Canjun, and Han Canjun go to inspect the state treasury. At least a small half of the existing food and weapons in the treasury will belong to you in the future. If something goes wrong, you will have to pay for the lives of your soldiers in the future.”

Li Xuan's last words were directly burned into Yan Tao's mind as if they were branded.

Yan Tao suddenly became serious, then looked at Li Xuan, and bowed his hands seriously: "Don't worry, my lord, I know what to do?"

"Yeah!" Li Xuan picked up the towel at the side, wiped her hands lightly, and said, "Let's go, I will have lunch at the state government office with this king, and we will go to inspect the treasury together in the afternoon. I only hope that the treasury will But don’t let anything go wrong.”

(End of this chapter)