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

Chapter 369 Guarding Jinhua and Controlling Six Counties

In the study, Li Xuan sat behind the table and looked at Chen Ming carefully.

Some cold morning light spread from outside the door and fell on Chen Ming's feet.

Chen Ming stood still three meters away from the table, bowed his hands to Li Xuan and saluted: "This subordinate has seen the prince."

"You don't need to be too polite. Catcher Chen, please. Is there something important? Why did you come in person?" Li Xuan raised her hand slightly, and then turned to the topic.

Chen Ming stood up straight, took out an official document from his body, stepped forward a few steps, carefully placed it on the table, then backed up a few steps, and stood still again: "Reporting to the lord, Zuo Xiang and others have already asked for a statement. Come down, according to the law, you will be sentenced to hang, please ask the prince to review."

"Mr. Du, it's really thunderous!" Li Xuan nodded in satisfaction.

Although he had issued a whole set of orders in the state capital before, once the tax collection started, it was hard to say how much the government officials and officials would be distracted.

In case they continue to make things difficult for the people and finally lead to civil uprisings, Li Xuan doesn't know where to cry.

So before these state and county tax collectors entered the mountains and fields, Li Xuan needed to use a few bloody heads to wake them up.

Looking down at the document, the tip of his nose twitched slightly.

Li Xuan raised her head in satisfaction, looked at Chen Ming and said, "Well, let's do it quickly."

Li Xuan picked up the pen, and Zhuang Su wrote at the end of the official document: "These three people have committed heinous crimes, and the people are full of grievances. They are sentenced to hang to reassure the people."

Raising his head, Li Xuan directly handed back the official document: "Hurry up and send it to the capital of God as soon as possible, and ask the Dali Temple of the Ministry of Punishment to review it. In addition, the official verdicts should be posted at the gates of all states and counties immediately to alert the world; at the same time, tell the public that these All the people's family property was confiscated into the state government and used to grant land."

Granting the land, Li Xuan was in Wuzhou, and what he thought about all the time was the matter of granting the land.

Use all means to find ways to get more land.

As long as there are continuous land grants, the foundation of Tianyin Sect in Wuzhou will become weaker and weaker day by day.

Chen Ming also understood this point. A trace of worry flashed in the depths of his eyes, but his face did not show it at all, and he directly cupped his hands and said, "Follow the order!"

At the same time, Chen Ming took a step forward and took over the official document.

Just when Chen Ming was about to say goodbye and leave, Li Xuan suddenly said, "Chen Butou."

"The subordinate is here!" Chen Ming hurriedly cupped his hands.

Li Xuan nodded, and said in a gentle voice: "Recently, the prefectures and counties have been busy, and I have troubled Chen Butou to go back and forth. When everything is settled, I will personally write the memorial and ask for credit for the Butou!"

Chen Ming was slightly taken aback, and immediately cupped his hands and said, "This subordinate will definitely do his best, thank you, my lord!"

"En!" Li Xuan nodded gently.

"Subordinates leave!" Chen Ming cupped his hands, then bowed his head and quickly retreated.

I couldn't see the look on his face.

Soon, Chen Ming's figure completely disappeared in the backyard.

"This man!" Li Xuan sighed with emotion, looked at Yu Ze and Wang Bo who were on the side, and said, "The five hundred acres of paddy fields have already bought him... This man really deserves to die!"

"Ah!" Hearing what Li Xuan said, Wang Bo on the side immediately looked at Li Xuan in amazement, and subconsciously said, "Your official thought that the prince wanted to give him a chance to turn his prodigal son back and make meritorious deeds?"

Just now when Li Xuan said to please move for Chen Ming, Wang Bo subconsciously thought that Li Xuan wanted to win over Chen Ming for the last time.

"I can't turn back." Yu Ze stood aside with calm eyes: "Since he leaked the information about the governor Wang, causing the governor and two county magistrates to be seriously injured, the chief minister Li Ai died on the spot, and countless colleagues and subordinates were injured. It is doomed that he will never turn his head back.

Even if his prodigal son turns back now, he will inevitably be twisted. All he can do is to try his best to have a bloodline passed down. "

Li Ai is the clan, he is also the chief historian, as well as Wang Fanglin, the governor, Ning Yi, the county magistrate of Jinhua, Huang Jin, the magistrate of Dongyang county, and countless officials from Wuzhou to arrest him. Chen Ming will bear the countless anger.

"It depends on the situation. If he is willing to turn around and make great contributions to the destruction of the Tianyin Sect, and the impact of the Tianyin Sect's uprising on Wuzhou is negligible, then the court may sentence him to a reduced crime, and his children will not have to Being an official is already extremely lucky."

Hanging, first-class commutation, beheaded.

Children don't have to be officials, but the punishment of exiles is also indispensable, but at least they don't have to be executed.

"Okay, don't mention his affairs, Li Zhu, find someone to keep an eye on his every move in Jinhua, keep an eye on him, even if he is discovered, don't worry about it." Li Xuan gave the order coldly in the blink of an eye .

"Here!" Li Zhu responded respectfully at the door, then turned around and exited the room.

Turning around, Li Xuan took out the rice paper below again, looked at the entire map of Wuzhou, and said in a deep voice: "What I need to care about most now is those people in the Wuzhou Hall of Tianyin Sect. Where did they hide? where?"

"Jinhua must be gone. These days, our people have infiltrated every village and town in Jinhua to help the people harvest summer rice. The people are happy and no one speaks against it, not even a complaint." Wang Bo is a bit dark His face showed a hint of worry.

Wang Bo is not idle in Jinhua these days.

The summer rice harvest in Jinhua is mainly divided into three directions, east of the city, north of the city and west of the city.

Li Xuan was in charge of the east of the city, Ning Yi, the magistrate of Jinhua County in the west of Chen, Wang Bo followed him, and Yu Ze followed the county captain Lu Jin in the north of the city.

Each of them has [-] servants under their command, and these people were more or less related to Tianyin Sect.

It is inevitable that there will be believers of Tianyin Sect in the homes of the people in the four fields and eight villages.
Naturally, these servants would talk about Li Xuan's series of policies and measures in Wuzhou.

Whether it's agreement or quarrel, there will always be some people from the Wuzhou branch church.

But alas, nothing.

"Do you feel that those people have already evacuated out of Jinhua as soon as the king's forefoot came to Jinhua?" Li Xuan's sudden words made everyone, including himself, suddenly understand.

Wang Bo and Yu Ze looked at each other, and finally had to admit with a wry smile: "It is indeed very possible."

"If this is a definite fact!" Li Xuan stared carefully at the map on the table and said softly, "Then where are these people now?"

"Withdraw from Jinhua, then there are only three directions to go."

Yu Ze stood on the left side of Li Xuan, pointed at the map, and said in a deep voice: "One is the nearest Yiwu, which has been evacuated to Yiwu, but it is still very close to the state city, and can still attack the state city at critical moments; the other is to evacuate to Yiwu. Lanxi joined the main force of Tianyin Sect; and the last one was withdrawn to Wuyi.

Wuyi is not close to Zhoucheng, although as long as Wuyi River is strangled, they will not be able to advance or retreat, but also, it is a mountainous area, and once Wuyi River is strangled, it means that it will be difficult for us to enter. "

"Wuyi, Yongkang and Pan'an counties, do you want to take over these three counties in one pot?" Li Xuan took a deep breath.

In the early days, he was very willing to see the people of Tianyin Sect enter the mountainous area, because as long as the Wuyi River was blocked, they could be completely blocked.

In this way, Li Xuan can slowly clean up the rebellion of Tianyin Sect.

Just in this way, the summer harvest in the three counties of Wuyi, Yongkang and Pan'an will be messed up.

After thinking for a while, Li Xuan said: "First of all, Lan Xi doesn't think about it. Yan Tao is now in the cave, and Qi Guang will send there immediately. Two teams of one hundred soldiers will guard the main road, unless the opponent is Several times their strength, otherwise no one will even think about coming."

"But my lord, if they really sent so many people." Yu Ze immediately followed up with a reminder.

"That's a good thing, because it means that Lanxi is empty." Li Xuan's eyes fell directly on Lanxi, and then said: "Let Qi Guang bring a letter to Yan Tao, if the enemy is too strong, let them retreat to Jinhua Mountain , Let them join Wang Cishi's men."

After a short pause, Li Xuan said with a gloomy expression: "In case the plan on the side of the king fails, we also have the capital to turn things around, don't we?"

"My lord!" Wang Bo couldn't help but a hint of worry rose on his face.

"My lord is calculating!" Yu Ze grabbed Wang Bo, shook his head, and said, "There are so many people in the Lingdong, it is impossible for the Tianyin Sect to turn a blind eye, so the biggest possibility is that they are firmly restrained. It is difficult to attack the state city with all its strength, and even..."

"What's more?" Wang Bo couldn't help asking.

"Just like the people of Tianyin Sect are worried, Yan Canjun and Qi Guang will lead people to stab Tianyin Sect from behind at the most unexpected timing." Yu Ze gave Li Xuan an angry look.

He is the person who knows Li Xuan best. How can he do things that are useless.

"The next thing to look at is Yiwu." Li Xuan ignored Yu Ze at all, pointed directly to the location of Yiwu on the map, and said solemnly: "Yiwu's threat to the city is only below Jinhua, so we need Send people into Yiwu in the name of assisting in harvesting summer grain."

"I'll go." Yu Ze spoke first, and said, "My identity is more convincing to them. With four hundred servants, not to mention other places, at least this area in the west of Yiwu City, I can touch it. Clearly, even if something happens in the county, I can lead people into the county..."

"No, let Wang Qin go." Li Xuan glanced at Wang Bo, and then said: "Wang Qin is Dongyang's military commander and joins the army. If my guess is correct, those people are not in Yiwu at all now."

"Not in Yiwu?" Li Xuan and Wang Bo were surprised at the same time.

Li Xuan nodded and said: "Actually, whether it is Wuyi or Yiwu, if you want to attack the city, there is always a threat that cannot be ignored, and that is Jinhua. As long as Jinhua is in my hands, no one can easily attack the city. "

Is it true that Li Xuan came to Jinhua to inspect Xiashou just because of safety?

Holding Jinhua tightly, the entire Wuzhou and the six counties in the southeast are all under his control.

"So I guess their real location is Wuyi." Li Xuan moved her finger to the direction of Wuyi on the map, then drew a circle around Wuyi County, and finally clicked directly between a series of mountain peaks. He said affirmatively: "If this king's guess is correct, the members of the Tianyin Sect are not only hiding in Wuyi, they are even hiding in this mountainous area."

Baiyun Mountain.

It is adjacent to Wuyi in the west, Jinhua in the north, Yongkang in the south, and Baiyun Mountain in Dongyang in the east.

(End of this chapter)