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

Chapter 909 Di Renjie VS North Gate Bachelor
In the twelfth lunar month, the weather is getting colder and colder.

Li Xuan held Xia Niang, who was wrapped up with only one pair of eyes left, and walked back and forth in the backyard.

The little guy was babbling and dancing.

After half a day, Li Xuan carried Xiaoxia Niang back to the house and held her in front of the stove to warm herself.

Liu Jinyu sat in front of the paper window to calculate all the expenses of the Nanchang Palace this year.

"This year's drought has affected Shandong. Although His Majesty and the Queen of Heaven have allocated a large amount of food for disaster relief, many people still become refugees. Most of these refugees gathered in Luoyang, and many traveled hundreds of miles to Chang'an. The family has porridge sheds in Luoyang and Chang'an, but the porridge is not a lot, but it is enough for hundreds of people to survive." Liu Jinyu casually explained some recent events.

"The princes and nobles of Chang'an City have the habit of giving porridge every Chinese New Year. Just follow the custom." Li Xuan sat aside and whispered: "If there is another disaster next year, the situation will be difficult to control."

Liu Jinyu stopped writing and looked at Li Xuan in disbelief: "Will there be another disaster next year?"

"I don't know." Li Xuan shook her head and said hesitantly: "The only criterion for judging whether there will be a drought next year is how much snow will fall this winter. Many rivers come from mountain snow. If there is no snow this winter, If there are too many, it will easily affect next year’s irrigation.”

After a slight pause, Li Xuan continued: "Another way is to see how the snowfall in Mobei is this winter. If even Mobei has snowfall problems, then there will definitely be a drought next year. No matter what, we can stock up on a batch of grain and grass from the south in advance. necessary."

"There will still be war next year." Liu Jinyu looked at Li Xuan worriedly. If there is still a disaster next year, then the first one affected will definitely be Li Xuan.

Li Xuan shook his head slightly and said: "Next year's war, as long as we don't try to make any rash advances, the scale of the battle can be controlled. If you are on the front line, even if there is no big victory, there will be no big defeat. In this case, it depends on How many troops can your husband lead?"

"How many troops to lead?"

"Yes!" Li Xuan sighed softly and said: "If the transfer to governor at the end of the year goes smoothly, then my husband's military power will only be [-] state soldiers. Unless the left guard general can be inspected at the same time, he will only be able to use [-] state soldiers. The state soldiers are responsible for the safety of the new state."

"If they are only used for city defense, given Lang Jun's ability, three thousand state soldiers are enough. But if you want to attack Tubo, Your Majesty will inevitably have to transfer 3000 more troops to Lang Jun. If you want to reuse them, I am afraid you will have to send three more soldiers." Thousands." Liu Jinyu raised her head and looked at Li Xuan, and said with a half-smile: "What do you think your majesty will do?"

"Your Majesty is your Majesty, but the ministers in the court will not give me such a big chance." Li Xuan sighed softly.

Now, what he is most worried about is the control of the Central Government on him. Once the threat is too great, many things will become very inconvenient.

"It depends on the situation of logic?" Liu Jinyu shook his head calmly and pointed out the key point in one sentence.

"I don't know. My husband has not cared much about logical matters since they were handed over to the secret guards." After a slight pause, Li Xuan thought seriously and said: "Tubo is too big, even if one or two states raise troops and cause chaos. , at most it only affects a small area.

Qin Ling controls the center, military power, and has been the prime minister of the Gar family for decades. Even if someone unexpectedly rebels, one winter is enough for him to put it down.

However, next year, Tubo will not transfer too many troops to the front line. After all, after this incident, the death of Mansong Mangzan can no longer be concealed.

The young country is in danger and people's hearts are in turmoil. Unless the Tang Dynasty makes mistakes, it is a foregone conclusion that it will lose ground step by step. "

"So, we should reduce the number of troops next year." Liu Jinyu nodded somewhat suddenly.

"My husband thinks so, but His Majesty's thoughts are beyond what others can predict." Li Xuan shook his head slightly and said softly: "Since you are the governor, you have to consider governing the place, but these are things for the future. ”

"Yeah!" Liu Jinyu nodded.

At this time, Li Zhu came to the door and whispered: "Your Majesty, Di Yushi and Yuan Wailang are here."

"Take them to the study room, and I will change my clothes and go." Li Xuan handed Xianniang to Liu Jinyu and whispered: "Laisui is here because of Chen Jiazi's affairs. Di Renjie may have met Laisui. "

"Di Huaiying doesn't come to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. He must have something to do when he comes." Liu Jinyu instantly judged that Di Renjie's intention was not that simple.

"Take a look first before talking." Li Xuan nodded, then turned around and put on his cloak, left the inner room and headed to the study.

……

In the study, Di Renjie and Lai Sui were enjoying tea. Li Xuan entered from outside the door, and they quickly stood up: "Your Majesty!"

"Brother, Brother Huaiying." Li Xuan returned the courtesy and asked the two of them to sit down. Then he looked at Di Renjie and said with a smile: "Brother Huaiying, you should still be on duty now. With your character, you should You won’t escape the value, right?”

Di Renjie shook his head slightly, first picked up the teacup and took a sip, then looked at Li Xuan and said, "Does Your Majesty still remember the Zhaoling fire?"

"Is there any follow-up to that case?" Li Xuan suddenly became solemn.

"Yes." Di Renjie said with certainty. Li Xuan and Laisui couldn't help being surprised and asked directly: "Who is it?"

"Liu Yizhi." After Di Renjie finished speaking, he raised his head and looked at Li Xuan's expression carefully.

Li Xuan's face was full of disbelief, and she asked in a low voice: "Is this accurate? Is there any evidence? If not, what will Brother Huaiying do?"

"Although North Gate bachelors are powerful, they have always kept a low profile. How could they do such a thing?" Lai Sui's expression became more solemn.

Beimen bachelors were cultivated by Empress Wu to consult on government affairs.

Especially with the support of Empress Wu, their power increased greatly.

"It should be out of control." Di Renjie took a deep breath, shook his head, and said: "Now it is only found out that Liu Yizhi once sent people to Zhaoling to 'destroy the corpses and eliminate traces.' As for who he sent, the result is How, I don’t know.”

"What else could it be like? Of course it was destroyed and all traces of it were destroyed."

Li Xuan shook his head slightly and said: "This case can only be investigated here. If Brother Huaiying wants to follow up, he will submit all the facts, evidence, and his own speculations to His Majesty. Your Majesty will naturally take care of the rest. Ascertained.”

Dali Temple, Yushitai, and the investigation all need evidence, but the emperor does not need it.

Not only that, the only ones that the North Gate bachelor can use are secret guards.Although the Secret Guard was controlled by Empress Wu, in fact, the emperor still knew everything about the Secret Guard.

After all, although the Secret Guards were secretive, their little secret was, in the eyes of the emperor, like reading lines on the palm of his hand.

Once the secret is lost, even if only a hundred Jinwu guards are mobilized, it will be enough to kill them all.

"Huaiying wants to investigate this matter again. I came today just to trouble the prince and take Huaiying to the Prime Minister's Mansion the next day." Di Renjie handed over seriously.

Although Di Renjie has a famous name, he is just a censor now.

If it is the wedding day of the Prime Minister and he goes there to give gifts and have a banquet, there is no problem. But before the wedding, if he comes to the house without any reason, it will be annoying.

How could anything good happen to a censor, even if it was Li Dan?

"There's no problem with that." After a slight pause, Li Xuan said: "Prince Xiang is resolute, decisive, and very smart. If you have something to say, you can tell it directly without beating around the bush... Don't mention the Zhaoling matter, it's easy to get into trouble."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, Huaiying still understands the importance." Di Renjie smiled, then looked at Lai Sui: "Brother Xian came here because of the Chen family's affairs, right?"

Laisui nodded with a wry smile and said, "If you have to go to Dali Temple to get this matter, you know you can't hide it from Brother Huaiying."

"We're going through Dali Temple, what's going on?" Li Xuan was a little confused. Lieutenant Colonel Chen Jiazijun, his matter can be handled by the Ministry of War, so why does it involve Dali Temple?

"Chen Jiazi died in the desert west of Dunhuang, as did the three hundred sergeants under his command." Laisui looked solemn.

Li Xuan frowned and began to think about the terrain near Dunhuang, and finally said: "Is it a sand bandit?"

"Yes." Lai Sui said directly.

"But the army is stationed in Dunhuang, and no matter how rampant the bandits are, they will have to flee thousands of miles away, right?" Li Xuan looked at Lai Sui in confusion.

Shasu Road was one of the important fulcrums of the Tang Dynasty's conquest of Tibet. What's more, there were Tibetans watching over the Qilian Mountains, so Dunhuang had to have at least [-] troops garrisoned.

Under the large army, if the sand bandits dare to participate in the war between the two countries, then Datang will use all its strength to strangle the sand bandits.

Although the desert is vast and the sky is dark, as long as we are human, we have weaknesses.

Capturing a few, forcing them out of the location, and then using coercion, inducement, leaking secrets, and betrayal are all the easiest methods.

Although these cannot kill all the sand bandits, they are enough to cause [-]% to [-]% loss to the sand bandits in the desert.

Under this situation, the leader behind all this did not need the garrison to take action, the bandits themselves would destroy them.

"According to the military report, it was Chen Jiazi who led his army privately to the desert, and was eventually ambushed and killed by the sand bandits. Later, the army just sent a message and five hundred heads were sent to the desert. Those people used the quicksand to trap and kill them. Three hundred soldiers." Laisui briefly explained the situation.

"Five hundred heads?"

"Only a hundred of them were bandits, and the others were women, old and children from their lairs. They were all surrounded and killed by the bandits themselves." After a slight pause, Lai Sui said: "People from the Zifang Division went to investigate in person, and finally verified that it was indeed Those people moved their hands and the war was imminent, so the army stopped pursuing them."

"So in the first place, why did Chen Jiazi mobilize his troops to the desert privately? Didn't he know that doing so was against military regulations?" Di Renjie would not let go of such an obvious loophole.

"Yes." Li Xuan sighed softly and said, "The Chen family is in the Fujian area and governs the place by military law. The Chen family will not fail to understand these things."

"People from the Staff Department of the Ministry of War speculated that these should be related to the sale of stolen goods by the bandits." Lai Sui said the most terrible thing.

"The Duke of Dunhuang is also the governor of Shazhou, Duguqi." Li Xuan immediately understood what was going on.

Dugu Qi is the governor of Shazhou, and the Dunhuang guard is his subordinate. The sand bandits will definitely not avoid the Dugu family when selling their stolen goods.

But this is not a serious crime, and the bandits cannot be killed.

If the Dugu family controls the channels through which the bandits sell their stolen goods, then the court can control the bandits.

It's just that people have died in the army now, and it was before the war. This matter was so silent, I am afraid that Ming Chongyan's people helped to suppress it.

This matter has already involved Li Dan and the Dugu family.

Li Xuan raised his head, looked at Laisui and Di Renjie, and said, "You two don't have to worry about this matter. I will tell the Chen family everything in a letter and see how the Chen family reacts. If there is no reaction from the Chen family , we have to be careful.”

Laisui and Di Renjie became solemn at the same time.

The Chen family is the master of suffering. If the master of suffering does not move, it will be difficult for others to do what they want to do.

If the other party can even deal with the victim, then it will be easier for others to deal with it.

If you act rashly, you are likely to suffer a joint attack from all parties.

Li Xuan finally looked at Di Renjie and said seriously: "Brother Huaiying, please take a look at the Yushitai first. Is there anyone who wants to impeach, and who is behind it?"

Di Renjie suddenly raised his head.

There is someone who knows the truth better than they do.

Who?
(End of this chapter)