People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne
Chapter 398 1 sing 1 tie, the Qian family donates and loses
Chapter 398 One singing and one harmony, the Qian family donates and loses
Inside the state government office, Li Xuan stood on the left side of the case, with his hands bound, and watched calmly.
Wang Fanglin once asked the affairs of Hucao, Facao, Bingcao, Shicao, Gongcao, and Cangcao all over again, and after a little treatment, he looked up at Li Xuan and Zhang Yi: "You two gentlemen, what are you doing?" Is there anything to add?"
Li Xuan took a deep breath, took a step forward, cupped her hands and said, "Report to the envoy, I have one more thing to do!"
"Sir, please tell me." Wang Fanglin looked at Li Xuan very politely.
Li Xuan stopped, and then said with a serious face: "This time when the Tianyin rebels attacked the city, many of them participated in the rebellion, either actively or passively, and they were killed or killed according to the law. There is only one matter, please let the envoy rule, that is, how to deal with the properties of these people's homes?"
Last night's Tianyin Sect attacked the city, and in Dingxingfang alone, nearly a thousand people responded to the Tianyin Sect's siege outside.
But in the entire Wuzhou City, those people were not the only ones who made moves last night.
In other workshops, there were also many people who rose up to respond to the Tianyin Sect to attack the city, but unfortunately, these people were too small to accomplish anything, and they were arrested by the Fangzheng of each workshop as soon as they rushed into the street.
"Field property!" Wang Fanglin looked Li Xuan up and down.
He knew that the reason why Li Xuan was able to successfully and quickly put down the Tianyin Sect's siege this time was nothing more than two things that played the biggest role.
One is to prohibit officials from exorbitantly deducting taxes and food from the people, and the other is to open up wasteland and grant land.
Here, the former stabilized the local residents of Wuzhou, and the latter appeased thousands of Muzhou immigrants.
It is precisely because the Ding Zhuang of these thousands of Muzhou immigrant families were all cut off from the Tianyin Sect by means of Li Xuan, and arranged to go to other counties to grab taxes and food, which finally led to the Tianyin Sect attacking At the time of the city, few Tianyin sects in the city were incited.
These are Li Xuan's greatest contributions.
Prohibiting officials from exorbitantly deducting taxes and food from the people is now in full swing. Apart from the temporary damage to the interests of officials, there are no other disadvantages for the time being.
However, opening up wasteland and granting land is more troublesome.
Not to mention one Wuzhou, even the whole world, this field is always not enough.
During this period of time, Li Xuan has tried his best to maintain the granting of land by confiscating the hidden land, confiscating the family, and donating money from aristocratic families, so that the people can return to their hearts.
Now, although Li Xuan was talking about the property belonging to the family of Tianyin believers who were suspected of rebellion, what he really wanted to talk about was the follow-up of the matter of granting the land.
Wang Fanglin was the governor of Wuzhou, and when Li Xuan was about to leave the city, such matters had to be dealt with by the source.
Even from now on, Wang Fanglin will be responsible for all the matters of receiving and granting land.
Naturally, he was also responsible for finding the missing fields.
Li Xuan herself just escaped from this crater.
Wang Fanglin smiled faintly, how could an old fox like him take such a trap so easily.
Looking at Li Xuan, Wang Fanglin thought about it and said: "For the matter of the state city, please Du Canjun handle it according to the law. In the future, if there are other similar matters, you can handle them by reference, such as Lanxi."
Wang Fanglin lightly changed the topic to Lanxi, looked at Li Xuan, and said seriously: "Lanxi has the most immigrants from Muzhou in the whole Wuzhou, and many of them are not even in the official records. The next time I went to Lanxi, among the immigrants from Muzhou, I am afraid that there are many people involved in treason, so my lord is like Zhaozhou City, and he has full authority to handle it."
But the number of granted land is not enough, so find it.
Muzhou immigrants in Lanxi, whoever is involved in treason, will have their land confiscated and then used as land grants.
Li Xuan thought for a while, then cupped her hands and said, "Follow the order."
Involvement in treason must naturally be dealt with according to the law.
Although cruel, there is no way.
However, the final disposal of this matter falls into his hands, which is better than falling into the hands of others.
Seeing Li Xuan's thoughtful expression, Wang Fanglin smiled, and added: "How about this, Mr. Lang continues to hold the command arrow of this state, and assassinate the history in Lanxi, Feng Canjun, Wang Canjun, you two follow Nanchang Wang went to Lanxi together, and all the taxes and food in Lanxi were all detained in Lanxi to be used as military rations, so Hu Cao sent a person there..."
Before Wang Fanglin finished speaking, Han Jiang was already ready to move.
In the world, nothing can compare to military exploits.
At least in Datang.
Military merit is paramount.
"But my lord, Lanxi's taxes and rations are not much in our hands, how can they be used as military rations?" Li Xuan was a little confused for a moment.
For Lanxi's tax rations, apart from the batch of rations he sent people to harvest a few days ago and left in Lingdong, there was no military rations anywhere else.
"Then please sir, calm down Lanxi as soon as possible, stabilize Lanxi, and then ensure the summer harvest." Wang Fanglin immediately pushed a bunch of things directly.
Li Xuan suddenly became a little anxious. He has always been the one who pushes things to others, so it is not easy for others to push things to him.
"Emissary, please forgive me for being rude." Li Xuan cupped his hands, looked at Wang Fanglin, and said, "Tianyin Sect Muzhou will raise troops, and there will be at least tens of thousands of troops, but no matter how they are allocated, go to Wuzhou There are more than [-] troops in the army, and there are only [-] government soldiers under the subordinate officials, and they are scattered everywhere, how can they withstand the impact of [-] people, please forgive me."
"Hey!" Wang Fanglin waved his hand directly, and said in a very trusting tone: "The military strength of Lang Jun's soldiers is no match for mere Tianyin rebels. It may be an exaggeration to say that one is against a hundred, but one is against ten. But it’s no problem.”
"That's a long way off." Li Xuan stared at Wang Fanglin.
He has no objection to going to Lanxi by himself, but it is absolutely impossible to have only so few people and so little food.
Wang Fanglin pondered for a while, then looked at Xu Jian, the soldier Cao Canjun, and said, "Xu Canjun, I order you to recruit [-] retired veterans within three days, and then send them to Lanxi to be controlled by the King of Nanchang. For the rest, the King of Nanchang can temporarily First recruit in Lanxi.
As for the future, Xu Canjun will collect the soldiers from all counties, and after Dongyang is pacified, all the troops will be dispatched to Muzhou. "
"That's still not enough..." Before Li Xuan finished speaking, a voice behind him couldn't help but rang out: "Aren't there still thousands of servants, you can choose soldiers from among them, and join the prince's command. Is that all right?"
Li Xuan frowned, and was about to turn around, when Wang Fanglin scolded coldly: "Idiot, don't talk nonsense, those people, it's very difficult to ensure that they don't stir up trouble, how can we still hope?" They turned back and fought with their fellow countrymen."
Wang Qin, calligraphy, Zhuowen, Wuzhou Sigong joined the army.
After being scolded by Wang Fanglin, he was a little dazed.
Li Xuan turned around, looked at Wang Qin, and nodded solemnly.
They can indeed select a small number of soldiers who will never deal with the Tianyin Sect to join the soldiers to fight against the Tianyin Sect, just like Qi Guang, but they must not pin all their hopes on this matter .
If you really want to stare at this aspect, it is difficult to gain anything, and it is easy to be taken advantage of by others.
"However, those people can be transferred to serve as soldiers, guarding other counties, and then recruit soldiers from other counties and transfer them to Lanxi." Wang Fanglin came up with a compromise after saying a word.
Li Xuan couldn't help but cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty is wise, but although people are reluctant, there is not enough food; guarding Lanxi requires at least a thousand soldiers in a short period of time. Once a war starts, the consumption will be doubled. How can the people have time to go to the fields to harvest food... ..."
"So, the Qian family is willing to donate part of it for use by the imperial army." The waiter Qian Zhe jumped out suddenly.
Li Xuan and Wang Fanglin looked at each other, and they said at the same time without the slightest hesitation: "Then it will be a lot of trouble for Qian Sikou."
"Don't dare!" After Qian Zhe finished speaking, he quickly retreated.
With his head down, Qian Zhe's heart was filled with slander, as if he couldn't see clearly.
Li Xuan and Wang Fanglin sang together there, and within a very short period of time, almost all the affairs in Wuzhou were settled.
There was no room for others to intervene and refute.
If you want to avoid being liquidated for the things that the Qian family did earlier, you can only take the initiative.
Otherwise, if Wang Fanglin and Li Xuan were to take the initiative, the consequences would be hard to say.
Qian Zhe couldn't help feeling helpless in his heart.
Originally, the king of Nanchang, who was good at plotting and calculating, was already very difficult to deal with, but now he came back with a more sophisticated and vicious Wang Fanglin.
This is simply killing people.
After the ration problem was solved, Li Xuan raised his head, looked at Wang Fanglin and said, "Master, even so, it's still not enough.
Once the Tianyin Sect is blocked from going south to Wuzhou, they will definitely send more people to come. I am afraid that even if all the 1000 people are filled in, it will not be enough. Please send a message to Yuezhou immediately, please The Governor's Mansion of Yuezhou sent troops to quell the rebellion. "
Just now when Li Xuan said that it was still not enough, Qian Zhe's heart almost jumped out.
But when Li Xuan mentioned Yuezhou, Qian Zhe knew that what the King of Nanchang said now was the real solution.
"I also hope that the envoy will go to Yuezhou and send troops to suppress the rebellion immediately."
All the people present counted as one, and at the same time begged for each other.
Among them, except for those aristocratic families, most of the officials are not natives of Wuzhou.
But once Wuzhou was beaten into chaos, it would definitely not be a good thing for them.
In particular, the tacit understanding between them and the Tianyin Sect was completely torn apart by the King of Nanchang long ago, and the two parties even became personal enemies.
"This matter, the state will write immediately, but if you want to send troops to Yuezhou, I am afraid that you have to change the state." Wang Fanglin shook his head, then looked at Li Xuan with a wry smile and said: "Besides, isn't there already a Are the regiment's Kuaiji government soldiers in Wuzhou?"
Li Xuan was taken aback for a moment, and his face darkened immediately.
It turned out that when he was in Hangzhou, he had already been tricked by others.
Li Xuan's face became cold and serious in an instant: "Please also send the crossbows, ordnance, and go to Lanxi. In addition, please give the order, before the army formation, but delays the military aircraft, and those who disturb people's hearts, retreat before the battle." , Those who lose the battle, beheaded!"
A beheading word immediately reminded many Wuzhou officials present that the Nanchang ruler in front of him is not a soft persimmon.
If he really wants to kill people, no matter how many heads there are, they won't be enough for him to cut off.
"That's it." After Wang Fanglin finished speaking, he picked up his pen and ink and wrote a seven-kill order on the spot.
Those who disrespect the commander's orders will be executed!
Delay fighters, behead!
Those who disturb people's hearts, beheaded!
Those who flinch, kill!
Those who lose the battle shall be beheaded!
Rebels who surrender to the enemy, behead!
Those who leak military information, beheaded!
Wang Fanglin stamped the assassin's seal with his own hands, and handed it to Li Xuan face to face.
Li Xuan took it carefully.
I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, with Wang Fanglin on top to withstand the pressure, the things he had to do were much easier.
Li Xuan retreated into the crowd, and everyone present relaxed immediately.
At this moment, who can't see that the governor Wang Fanglin and the Nanchang king are in the same spirit, like dogs of the same feather.
Between the two of them, they arranged everything in Wuzhou, and the others couldn't raise any objections at all.
Qian Zhe's complexion couldn't help but sink slightly. At the beginning, they found someone to assassinate Wang Fanglin. The reason was that they couldn't find anyone who could compete with Wang Fanglin in the entire state government. Now they finally came to Nanchang. Wang, they didn't even seize the opportunity.
But having said that, who would have thought that Wang Fanglin, who was seriously injured and dying, would return at this time.
If he continues to be injured, their court should send a new governor.
(End of this chapter)
Inside the state government office, Li Xuan stood on the left side of the case, with his hands bound, and watched calmly.
Wang Fanglin once asked the affairs of Hucao, Facao, Bingcao, Shicao, Gongcao, and Cangcao all over again, and after a little treatment, he looked up at Li Xuan and Zhang Yi: "You two gentlemen, what are you doing?" Is there anything to add?"
Li Xuan took a deep breath, took a step forward, cupped her hands and said, "Report to the envoy, I have one more thing to do!"
"Sir, please tell me." Wang Fanglin looked at Li Xuan very politely.
Li Xuan stopped, and then said with a serious face: "This time when the Tianyin rebels attacked the city, many of them participated in the rebellion, either actively or passively, and they were killed or killed according to the law. There is only one matter, please let the envoy rule, that is, how to deal with the properties of these people's homes?"
Last night's Tianyin Sect attacked the city, and in Dingxingfang alone, nearly a thousand people responded to the Tianyin Sect's siege outside.
But in the entire Wuzhou City, those people were not the only ones who made moves last night.
In other workshops, there were also many people who rose up to respond to the Tianyin Sect to attack the city, but unfortunately, these people were too small to accomplish anything, and they were arrested by the Fangzheng of each workshop as soon as they rushed into the street.
"Field property!" Wang Fanglin looked Li Xuan up and down.
He knew that the reason why Li Xuan was able to successfully and quickly put down the Tianyin Sect's siege this time was nothing more than two things that played the biggest role.
One is to prohibit officials from exorbitantly deducting taxes and food from the people, and the other is to open up wasteland and grant land.
Here, the former stabilized the local residents of Wuzhou, and the latter appeased thousands of Muzhou immigrants.
It is precisely because the Ding Zhuang of these thousands of Muzhou immigrant families were all cut off from the Tianyin Sect by means of Li Xuan, and arranged to go to other counties to grab taxes and food, which finally led to the Tianyin Sect attacking At the time of the city, few Tianyin sects in the city were incited.
These are Li Xuan's greatest contributions.
Prohibiting officials from exorbitantly deducting taxes and food from the people is now in full swing. Apart from the temporary damage to the interests of officials, there are no other disadvantages for the time being.
However, opening up wasteland and granting land is more troublesome.
Not to mention one Wuzhou, even the whole world, this field is always not enough.
During this period of time, Li Xuan has tried his best to maintain the granting of land by confiscating the hidden land, confiscating the family, and donating money from aristocratic families, so that the people can return to their hearts.
Now, although Li Xuan was talking about the property belonging to the family of Tianyin believers who were suspected of rebellion, what he really wanted to talk about was the follow-up of the matter of granting the land.
Wang Fanglin was the governor of Wuzhou, and when Li Xuan was about to leave the city, such matters had to be dealt with by the source.
Even from now on, Wang Fanglin will be responsible for all the matters of receiving and granting land.
Naturally, he was also responsible for finding the missing fields.
Li Xuan herself just escaped from this crater.
Wang Fanglin smiled faintly, how could an old fox like him take such a trap so easily.
Looking at Li Xuan, Wang Fanglin thought about it and said: "For the matter of the state city, please Du Canjun handle it according to the law. In the future, if there are other similar matters, you can handle them by reference, such as Lanxi."
Wang Fanglin lightly changed the topic to Lanxi, looked at Li Xuan, and said seriously: "Lanxi has the most immigrants from Muzhou in the whole Wuzhou, and many of them are not even in the official records. The next time I went to Lanxi, among the immigrants from Muzhou, I am afraid that there are many people involved in treason, so my lord is like Zhaozhou City, and he has full authority to handle it."
But the number of granted land is not enough, so find it.
Muzhou immigrants in Lanxi, whoever is involved in treason, will have their land confiscated and then used as land grants.
Li Xuan thought for a while, then cupped her hands and said, "Follow the order."
Involvement in treason must naturally be dealt with according to the law.
Although cruel, there is no way.
However, the final disposal of this matter falls into his hands, which is better than falling into the hands of others.
Seeing Li Xuan's thoughtful expression, Wang Fanglin smiled, and added: "How about this, Mr. Lang continues to hold the command arrow of this state, and assassinate the history in Lanxi, Feng Canjun, Wang Canjun, you two follow Nanchang Wang went to Lanxi together, and all the taxes and food in Lanxi were all detained in Lanxi to be used as military rations, so Hu Cao sent a person there..."
Before Wang Fanglin finished speaking, Han Jiang was already ready to move.
In the world, nothing can compare to military exploits.
At least in Datang.
Military merit is paramount.
"But my lord, Lanxi's taxes and rations are not much in our hands, how can they be used as military rations?" Li Xuan was a little confused for a moment.
For Lanxi's tax rations, apart from the batch of rations he sent people to harvest a few days ago and left in Lingdong, there was no military rations anywhere else.
"Then please sir, calm down Lanxi as soon as possible, stabilize Lanxi, and then ensure the summer harvest." Wang Fanglin immediately pushed a bunch of things directly.
Li Xuan suddenly became a little anxious. He has always been the one who pushes things to others, so it is not easy for others to push things to him.
"Emissary, please forgive me for being rude." Li Xuan cupped his hands, looked at Wang Fanglin, and said, "Tianyin Sect Muzhou will raise troops, and there will be at least tens of thousands of troops, but no matter how they are allocated, go to Wuzhou There are more than [-] troops in the army, and there are only [-] government soldiers under the subordinate officials, and they are scattered everywhere, how can they withstand the impact of [-] people, please forgive me."
"Hey!" Wang Fanglin waved his hand directly, and said in a very trusting tone: "The military strength of Lang Jun's soldiers is no match for mere Tianyin rebels. It may be an exaggeration to say that one is against a hundred, but one is against ten. But it’s no problem.”
"That's a long way off." Li Xuan stared at Wang Fanglin.
He has no objection to going to Lanxi by himself, but it is absolutely impossible to have only so few people and so little food.
Wang Fanglin pondered for a while, then looked at Xu Jian, the soldier Cao Canjun, and said, "Xu Canjun, I order you to recruit [-] retired veterans within three days, and then send them to Lanxi to be controlled by the King of Nanchang. For the rest, the King of Nanchang can temporarily First recruit in Lanxi.
As for the future, Xu Canjun will collect the soldiers from all counties, and after Dongyang is pacified, all the troops will be dispatched to Muzhou. "
"That's still not enough..." Before Li Xuan finished speaking, a voice behind him couldn't help but rang out: "Aren't there still thousands of servants, you can choose soldiers from among them, and join the prince's command. Is that all right?"
Li Xuan frowned, and was about to turn around, when Wang Fanglin scolded coldly: "Idiot, don't talk nonsense, those people, it's very difficult to ensure that they don't stir up trouble, how can we still hope?" They turned back and fought with their fellow countrymen."
Wang Qin, calligraphy, Zhuowen, Wuzhou Sigong joined the army.
After being scolded by Wang Fanglin, he was a little dazed.
Li Xuan turned around, looked at Wang Qin, and nodded solemnly.
They can indeed select a small number of soldiers who will never deal with the Tianyin Sect to join the soldiers to fight against the Tianyin Sect, just like Qi Guang, but they must not pin all their hopes on this matter .
If you really want to stare at this aspect, it is difficult to gain anything, and it is easy to be taken advantage of by others.
"However, those people can be transferred to serve as soldiers, guarding other counties, and then recruit soldiers from other counties and transfer them to Lanxi." Wang Fanglin came up with a compromise after saying a word.
Li Xuan couldn't help but cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty is wise, but although people are reluctant, there is not enough food; guarding Lanxi requires at least a thousand soldiers in a short period of time. Once a war starts, the consumption will be doubled. How can the people have time to go to the fields to harvest food... ..."
"So, the Qian family is willing to donate part of it for use by the imperial army." The waiter Qian Zhe jumped out suddenly.
Li Xuan and Wang Fanglin looked at each other, and they said at the same time without the slightest hesitation: "Then it will be a lot of trouble for Qian Sikou."
"Don't dare!" After Qian Zhe finished speaking, he quickly retreated.
With his head down, Qian Zhe's heart was filled with slander, as if he couldn't see clearly.
Li Xuan and Wang Fanglin sang together there, and within a very short period of time, almost all the affairs in Wuzhou were settled.
There was no room for others to intervene and refute.
If you want to avoid being liquidated for the things that the Qian family did earlier, you can only take the initiative.
Otherwise, if Wang Fanglin and Li Xuan were to take the initiative, the consequences would be hard to say.
Qian Zhe couldn't help feeling helpless in his heart.
Originally, the king of Nanchang, who was good at plotting and calculating, was already very difficult to deal with, but now he came back with a more sophisticated and vicious Wang Fanglin.
This is simply killing people.
After the ration problem was solved, Li Xuan raised his head, looked at Wang Fanglin and said, "Master, even so, it's still not enough.
Once the Tianyin Sect is blocked from going south to Wuzhou, they will definitely send more people to come. I am afraid that even if all the 1000 people are filled in, it will not be enough. Please send a message to Yuezhou immediately, please The Governor's Mansion of Yuezhou sent troops to quell the rebellion. "
Just now when Li Xuan said that it was still not enough, Qian Zhe's heart almost jumped out.
But when Li Xuan mentioned Yuezhou, Qian Zhe knew that what the King of Nanchang said now was the real solution.
"I also hope that the envoy will go to Yuezhou and send troops to suppress the rebellion immediately."
All the people present counted as one, and at the same time begged for each other.
Among them, except for those aristocratic families, most of the officials are not natives of Wuzhou.
But once Wuzhou was beaten into chaos, it would definitely not be a good thing for them.
In particular, the tacit understanding between them and the Tianyin Sect was completely torn apart by the King of Nanchang long ago, and the two parties even became personal enemies.
"This matter, the state will write immediately, but if you want to send troops to Yuezhou, I am afraid that you have to change the state." Wang Fanglin shook his head, then looked at Li Xuan with a wry smile and said: "Besides, isn't there already a Are the regiment's Kuaiji government soldiers in Wuzhou?"
Li Xuan was taken aback for a moment, and his face darkened immediately.
It turned out that when he was in Hangzhou, he had already been tricked by others.
Li Xuan's face became cold and serious in an instant: "Please also send the crossbows, ordnance, and go to Lanxi. In addition, please give the order, before the army formation, but delays the military aircraft, and those who disturb people's hearts, retreat before the battle." , Those who lose the battle, beheaded!"
A beheading word immediately reminded many Wuzhou officials present that the Nanchang ruler in front of him is not a soft persimmon.
If he really wants to kill people, no matter how many heads there are, they won't be enough for him to cut off.
"That's it." After Wang Fanglin finished speaking, he picked up his pen and ink and wrote a seven-kill order on the spot.
Those who disrespect the commander's orders will be executed!
Delay fighters, behead!
Those who disturb people's hearts, beheaded!
Those who flinch, kill!
Those who lose the battle shall be beheaded!
Rebels who surrender to the enemy, behead!
Those who leak military information, beheaded!
Wang Fanglin stamped the assassin's seal with his own hands, and handed it to Li Xuan face to face.
Li Xuan took it carefully.
I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, with Wang Fanglin on top to withstand the pressure, the things he had to do were much easier.
Li Xuan retreated into the crowd, and everyone present relaxed immediately.
At this moment, who can't see that the governor Wang Fanglin and the Nanchang king are in the same spirit, like dogs of the same feather.
Between the two of them, they arranged everything in Wuzhou, and the others couldn't raise any objections at all.
Qian Zhe's complexion couldn't help but sink slightly. At the beginning, they found someone to assassinate Wang Fanglin. The reason was that they couldn't find anyone who could compete with Wang Fanglin in the entire state government. Now they finally came to Nanchang. Wang, they didn't even seize the opportunity.
But having said that, who would have thought that Wang Fanglin, who was seriously injured and dying, would return at this time.
If he continues to be injured, their court should send a new governor.
(End of this chapter)
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