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

Chapter 784 Lanzhou secret message, urgent official document

Fatai Mountain, at the junction of Kangle and Hezheng counties, has beautiful scenery and pleasant scenery.

At the foot of the northeastern mountain, a huge thatched shed was erected on the side of the road. Not far ahead was the Xiaoxia River, and more than a dozen awning boats were parked on the river.

It was late afternoon, and the sound of horse hooves could be heard on the east side of Fatai Mountain.

The right-wing military guards near the hut and the government officials from Hezheng County immediately organized their troops solemnly and stood on one side. In the blink of an eye, thousands of cavalry had arrived.

"Hey!" Li Xuan, dressed in red and gold armor, rode out from behind, looked at a dozen Hezheng County government officials, frowned and asked, "What's going on? Don't the Hezheng County government officials have to do anything? So many people came.”

The army's grain, grass and ordnance were transported. In Hezhou, during wartime, there was a post station every forty miles to provide rest and repair for the soldiers transporting grain. At the same time, they were prepared to guard against sneak attacks on the grain roads. Each post station was guarded by a team of soldiers.

Before the arrival of Li Xuan's right guard cavalry, the right guard's men and horses were responsible for garrisoning here. After the right guard arrived, all the garrison responsibility was handed over to the right guard.

In addition, each county will dispatch some government officials to maintain local security and prevent conflicts between local people and soldiers, which may lead to unrest.

However, there will not be too many of these government officials, only two or three in each place.

But now, there are more than a dozen police officers from Hezheng County here.

At this time, a black horse came up from behind. Huang Yu, the magistrate of Kangle County, rushed to Li Xuan's side, cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, it should be Magistrate Tan from Hezheng County. Magistrate Tan is from Taizhou and was transferred last year." Come to Hezheng County to serve as county magistrate."

"That's it." Li Xuan looked up and saw two officials in green robes leading a dozen people out of the inn gate not far away.

The two of them were wearing official clothes, one was in dark green, the other was in light green, one was of sixth rank, and the other was of seventh rank, and the seventh rank was Tan Yuan, the magistrate of Hezheng County.

Arriving in front of Li Xuan, the two officials saluted at the same time: "Xu Jia, the official of Hezhou County, joined the army, and Tan Yuan, the magistrate of Hezheng County, met the king of Nanchang County."

Li Xuan looked back at Huang Yu. Huang Yu's face was gloomy, but he still nodded slightly.

"Why are Xu Canjun here?" Li Xuan got off his horse and returned the greeting with a calm expression.

Xu Jia bowed his hands and said, "Under the orders of the governor of the Yuan Dynasty, I came to Hezheng to welcome the prince into the city."

"Going to Hezhou City?" Li Xuan frowned, looked at Xu Jia, and said in confusion: "I have official business to do in Hezheng, so why not rush to Hezhou City for a while?"

When Li Xuan came to Hezhou, he didn't just rush to Hezhou City and be fine. He needed to conduct an on-the-spot investigation of the actual road transportation conditions in the counties of Hezhou. If there were any deficiencies, he had to make corrections immediately to ensure smooth transportation of grain and grass. This was time-consuming. Not short.

Not only that, basically everywhere he went, he would use his right guard cavalry to replace the right lead guard soldiers.

Soon the right guard army will be transferred to the front line of Diezhou to prepare for the march to the plateau. However, Li Xuan's right guard will be responsible for the logistics.

Surveying routes and solving problems is what Li Xuan needs to do now.

He had told Li Jinxing all this in advance. What was the purpose of Yuan Ming sending a secretary to join the army?

"The prince behaves casually in Hezhou, and I am just here to accompany the prince." Xu Jia still had a smile on his face, which made people feel disgusted, but he couldn't get angry.

Li Xuan immediately understood in his heart that he was not accompanying him. He was clearly here to monitor him.

I don’t know if I’m worried, or because I think he’s young and looking down on him?

As soon as his mind changed, Li Xuan immediately asked: "Why are you here, Bing Cao joins the army, Hu Cao joins the army and Shi Cao joins the army?"

"Reporting to your lord, Bing Cao is currently at the military camp, Hu Cao is inspecting the grain depots in the counties, and Shi Cao is in Liujia Gorge. Transporting grain and grass across the Yellow River is really a hard job." Xu Jia had a wry smile on his face. The battle was about to begin. However, things happened one after another in Hezhou.

"The river transportation is difficult, I have always known it. Soon, I will go to check the actual situation. Now, we need to go to Hezheng County first." Li Xuan turned around, looked at Huang Yu and said: "Huang County Magistrate, you will send Come here, we have reached the county boundary. If you come, leave a group of cavalry to hand over to the brothers of the right guard. The others..."

Before Li Xuan finished speaking, three fast horses were already galloping from the north.

Qianniu Guards and three left Qianniu Guards flew in front of Li Xuan, then quickly stopped their horses, turned over, and handed an official document to Li Xuan: "Your Majesty, a secret letter from Lanzhou, an urgent official document."

Li Xuan solemnly accepted the official document, then opened it directly. After taking a look, his expression changed involuntarily.

Li Xuan immediately looked at Hezheng County Magistrate Tan Yuan and said: "Magistrate Tan, official business is urgent. I need to rush to Hezhou City urgently. I will leave three hundred right guard cavalry to replace the right guard brothers along the transportation road. The others will immediately Follow me to Hezhou."

Li Xuan nodded to Xu Jia, who was looking confused and was a military official in Hezhou. Without saying a word, the next moment, he got off his horse and quickly led the people towards the direction of Hezhou City.

Tan Yuan and Xu Jia stood by the road with bewildered expressions, watching the nine hundred cavalrymen quickly heading towards Hezhou City.

After the cavalry left, a Qianniu Guard in red clothes and golden armor walked out from among the remaining right-guard cavalry, raised his hands to Tan Yuan and said, "The last general, Zhang Huan, has met Magistrate Tan."

"Aren't you leaving the right guard cavalry?" Tan Yuan didn't react for a while.

Zhang Huan smiled softly, cupped his hands and said, "What County Magistrate Tan said is true. It is indeed about the right guard cavalry. The general is responsible for reporting news in Hezheng County. If anything happens, I should report it to the prince immediately."

Tan Yuan immediately understood that Zhang Huan was here to monitor.

Or perhaps, Zhang Huan was the tentacles of the King of Nanchang placed in Hezheng County.In this way, he controlled all the transportation of military supplies and weapons in Hezheng County.

Tan Yuan glanced at Huang Yu subconsciously, and Huang Yu nodded with a bitter look on his face.

The three hundred right-guard cavalry have already taken control of everything in Kangle County.

But no one could refuse, because this was the responsibility of the King of Nanchang.

Compared to Tan Yuan and Huang Yu, who were looking helpless, Xu Jia's eyes were already extremely gloomy.

Compared to the other two, he was the most unlucky. He was ordered to look after Li Xuan, but now not only Li Xuan couldn't bear it, but even Kang Le and He Zheng were directly controlled by the King of Nanchang.

One-third of the city and six counties in Hezhou have fallen into the hands of the King of Nanchang.

If we include Linxia and Yongjing, which were forcibly taken over by Li Jinxing, Hezhou now only has Guanghe in the northeast and Xiahe in the southwest.

"You two, I have to return to the city immediately, so I won't accompany you two." Xu Jia bowed his hands to Tan Yuan and Huang Yu. After the two returned the courtesy, he immediately boarded the clipper on the side. Going down the river, we soon arrived at Hezheng County, and then riding a fast horse back to the city only took half a day.

Seeing Tan Yuan disappearing quickly on the Xiaoxia River, Tan Yuan's face calmed down while standing on the bank. Then he looked at Huang Yu curiously and asked in a low voice: "Brother Huang, what happened over there in Lanzhou?"

"How would I know." Huang Yu shook his head with a wry smile, but even so, he still thought for a moment and said: "It should be the Battle of Taozhou that happened before. Who would have thought that three thousand Tubo soldiers, after so much hardship, It is really unlucky to travel through mountains and ridges to reach Taozhou, only to be directly annihilated by others in the end!"

"If I remember correctly, the bodies of those people should have been sent to Lanzhou, right?" Tan Yuan seemed to have guessed something.

Huang Yu smiled softly and said: "Brother Tan, be careful. Now you and I only need to fulfill the prince's instructions. He is not easy to fool."

After saying that, Huang Yu said goodbye, Tan Yuan returned the greeting, and then watched Huang Yu leave.

Standing where he was, Tan Yuan looked up in the direction of Shanzhou: What happened there?
……

Nine hundred cavalrymen rode quickly and rushed directly to the gate of Hezhou City.

However, Li Xuan did not enter the city immediately. Instead, he first entered the garrison camp at Huangniwan in the south of the city. After placing a group of right-guard cavalry in place, he rushed into Hezhou City from the south gate with a team of Qianniu Guards.

At the south gate of Hezhou City, people were walking on both sides, and the military situation was empty. The Qianniu Guards cavalry rushed past without disturbing the people around them at all.

Thousand Niu Guards are not uncommon in Hezhou City.

Li Jinxing was the deputy marshal of the Taohe Road march and the marching manager. There was also a team of Qianniu Guards beside him.

Li Xuan led a group of Qianniu guards to the Hezhou marching general manager's office and stopped directly in front of the door.

At this moment, a black carriage on the opposite side, escorted by a group of police officers, stopped outside the door.

Wearing a dark crimson official robe, Yuanming, the governor of Hezhou, who was in the fourth rank, stepped down from the carriage.

Yuan Ming did not expect that he would see Li Xuan as soon as he arrived at the Marching Administrator's Mansion.

With a seemingly sincere face full of false politeness, Yuan Ming stood not far away and bowed his hands to Li Xuan who was riding on the horse.

Yuan Ming was the governor of the fourth rank, and Li Xuan was the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, the fourth rank. However, he also inspected the right guard general of the third rank, and his official position was higher than that of Yuan Ming. Not to mention, he himself was The current prince from the first rank.

Yuan Ming will eventually move up a level.

……

In front of the gate of the Governor's Mansion, Yuan Ming stretched out his hand to ask Li Xuan to go first, and then said with a smile: "I never thought that the prince would come so quickly. I should go to the city gate to greet him."

Li Xuan smiled and said as she walked forward: "Xiao Wang never thought that he would come so quickly, but an urgent document came from Lanzhou, so he had to come quickly. Originally, he wanted to stop on the road where food, grass, and ordnance were being transported. I polished it a bit, but I didn’t expect the accident to happen so quickly.”

"Yeah, who would have thought that Pei Shangshu would be so radical in his actions." Yuan Ming did not expect such a change, and the situation on the front line suddenly became tense in an instant.

While the two were talking, they had already walked outside the lobby of the General Manager's Mansion. Li Jinxing, who was in the lobby, saw the two of them at a glance and hurriedly waved and said, "Please come in. The matter now needs to be discussed urgently."

"I've seen the manager!" Li Xuan and Yuan Ming handed over their hands at the same time. Although the matter was urgent, the courtesy should not be discarded.

Li Jinxing quickly waved his hand, and after seeing the two people sitting down, one on the left and the other on the right, he handed over the official document. He looked at the two people and said: "New official documents are coming from Lanzhou. Three days ago, Shangshu Pei sent someone to take ten pieces of Tubo cavalry. The heads were thrown at Fuqi City, and he threatened that if Lun Qinling did not agree to our request, he would send people to throw ten heads there every day."

Ten heads a day, Li Xuan and Yuan Ming's breathing suddenly became tense.

With this move, the situation on the entire Qinghai Lake frontline may become tense.

The pressure on the Tao River has also increased.

(End of this chapter)