Chapter 689 The four kingdoms teamed up to create a situation. Xu Fengnian commented on the romantic
Yan Wenluan hesitated for a moment, but said, “Prince, I don’t say that there is something I don’t want to hold in my stomach, it’s uncomfortable! Although Chen Zhibao left Beiliang, I, Yan Wenluan, dare to guarantee that he has been in Beiliang for so many years and has never had any rebelliousness. He will definitely be dissatisfied with you, but he definitely has no malice in killing people. I believe he is just waiting. If the general leaves, Xu Fengnian can’t support Beiliang, he will come out and let Beiliang’s surname be Chen. As for what the whole world should be surnamed Murong, Zhao, or Chen in the end, it depends on his Chen Zhibao’s ability.”
Xu Fengnian smiled and said, “I know.”
Yan Wenluan asked in a low voice, “Take it seriously.”
Xu Fengnian turned his head and said, “Then I don’t know.”
Yan Wenluan laughed: “It seems that he really knows that Yan Wenluan judges a gentleman with the heart of a villain.”
Xu Fengnian laughed: “It’s not to curse people.”
Yan Wenluan was stunned at first, and after thinking for a while, the smile in her single-eyed eyes became even stronger, but she deliberately said helplessly: “The verbal words of scholars are just amazing, and they can’t accept it.”
Finally, the commander of the Beiliang Infantry Army who was rushing to the dust suddenly clasped his fists: “Prince, we are leaving! It’s the same thing we said when we met in Youzhou at that time. If we had the chance, even if I, Yan Wenluan, was lying in the coffin, I would carry it to the Beimang Royal Court.”
Before Xu Fengnian could say anything, the old man turned around and walked away. When he passed the table, he stopped, shouted “Catch it”, picked up the wine pot, threw it to Xu Fengnian: “Just treat the last general and invited the prince to drink.”
Xu Fengnian raised his hand to take the wine pot, looked at the back that had crossed the threshold, and looked surprised, saying to himself: “There are also guests who used the owner’s wine to treat him.”
Yan Wenluan walked in the corridor. At that time, he wanted to continue saying “I believe in the general, believe in Mr. Li” after he said, “I didn’t say anything, Xu Fengnian” at that time. At that time, he still refused to say it. At this time, he also said to himself: “General, it’s fun to fight like this. Just like following the general, he was not afraid of anything, but he was afraid of not dying!”
Xu Fengnian, who had not drunk wine from beginning to end, sat back and looked a little solemn.
The gentle fourth prince Zhao Zhuan was really not a good deal after becoming emperor. If Zhang Julu’s death was instructed by his father Zhao Dun, then Yuan Benxi’s silent death was completely his cold-blooded skill. However, Xu Fengnian is not surprised by this. The Zhao family has served three emperors in succession. None of them is an expert in the expert who is a cunning rabbit and a dead dog. This Emperor Liyang, who has just sat on the dragon throne, secretly opened the gateway to Jibei. It was not that he was full and wanted to give military achievements to the two ten thousand masters of Beimang. However, after Liyang and Beiliang changed one heir, Xu Fengnian resisted the imperial edict and took the lead in indicating the bottom line of Beiliang. After Zhao Zhuan ascended the throne, he quickly took advantage of the 10,000 cavalry in Youzhou to break into Jizhou. After Zhao Zhuan ascended the throne, he quickly returned the incident of 10,000 cavalry in Youzhou.With his color, he told him that Xu Fengnian’s bottom line in the imperial court was not low. Yuan Tingshan’s success after “losing” Yinyao City did not disappoint Zhao Zhuan, who was as concerned about Jizhou’s military affairs as his son Zhao Dun. Xu Fengnian just received intelligence and transformed from Yuan Fenggou into General Yuan. In addition to the Jizhou cavalry, he also brought more than 7,000 private cavalry handed over to him by the head of the Yanbao family, one of the two father-in-laws. He waited for the rabbit and fought over the eight thousand cavalry of the Beimang Nabo, Wei and Wang Jingchong, two of the Great Side-Secret Rooms. He handed them to Tai’an City with the good news that “Our side has lost only 3,000, and defeated the enemy and beheaded more than 10,000.” Xu Fengnian naturally knew that the more than 2,000 old cavalry accumulated by the Li family in Yanbao were definitely not among the three thousand. However, after this battle, Zhao Zhuan, who had the border achievements in his new ascendance, would be very happy; the Ministry of War, which was already in trouble in Guangling Road, would be happy; the two Liaos on the eastern front would be encouraged, and the government and the country, especially Shilin, would also greatly improve Yuan Fenggou, who had originally had a bad impression of it. In fact, if it weren’t for Xu Fengnian, who was the biggest target in the world, even if Yuan Tingshan made several times more military achievements, he would have only caused sarcasm and suspicion.
Xu Fengnian sneered: “Compared with my current Prince of Beiliang, who is recognized as having only good fortune, your life in Yuan Tingshan is not bad.”
What really made Xu Fengnian a headache was not Yuan Tingshan and Jizhou, but two things. In fact, Zhao Zhuan did a lot after the beginning of spring, such as the relocation of the Hanlin Academy, and the reorganization of the world’s article proposed by a small official of the Ministry of Revenue into the “small dynasty” of him and the central officials. Compared to the former, which is incompatible with the Feng Niu and Horse in Beiliang, the latter is just handing a knife to Beiliang. Beiliang is temporarily stable. The people of the people who should and can walk have left Beiliang Road, which is mainly concentrated in Lingzhou, without much impact. If the version is changed at this time, it is equivalent to opening a big hole. Even if the military households in Beiliang are large, they involve personal relationships between the people at the bottom and can leave the place of right and wrong. Who would be willing to stay in Beiliang for “waiting for death”? Xu Fengnian closed his eyes: “Yuan Guo, the Minister of Revenue, who is the best at speaking in this matter, keeps silent and does not speak, that is already a very clear statement. Unfortunately, he finally made a comeback and has only been a ‘diguan Situ’ for a few days. He may be thrown into the cold palace again. The Secretariat of the Central Secretariat of Qi Yanglong supported him, while the Menxia Provincial Tantanweng opposed it. The Tianguan Yin Maochun supported it, but said that this matter should be slow or not, and if it is too hasty, it will not be achieved. The wording is really particular. ‘It is not easy to be urgent’, easy but not suitable, it is really exquisite. Zhao Youling, the second-in-commander of the Secretariat of the Central Secretariat, indeed, sang the opposite of Yin Maochun, who is worthy of being in the same year of the imperial examination. Those who are not promising will become allies; those who are promising will become political enemies.”
If this is not an imminent matter, then there is a “small matter” that is hidden among major events, which is a real surprise and urgent need in the entire Beiliangdao.
The unexpected joy was another hidden work by Zhang Julu after his disciple Wei Jingtang. If Liyang canal transportation did not appearXu Fengnian could not guess Zhang Julu’s intentions by following the clues. It turns out that over the years, Zhang Julu and Tantanweng have been focusing on the grain transportation, especially the grain entering Liang. They seem to make things difficult for all kinds of difficulties, but secretly they have made people “privately” stockpile grain. Those granaries in the gray area are all along the Guangling River coast further northwest of Xiangfan City. Xu Fengnian dared to assert that Zhang Julu was waiting. If Beiliang was really willing to fight to the end with the Beimang army, then these grains that originally belonged to Beiliang would be sent to Beiliang smoothly; if Beiliang hid its strength, Xu Xiao and Xu Fengnian were willing to retain their strength to seize the country, then they would not be able to get these grains and grass. Zhang Julu once decided to reform the canal transportation, clerks and Guangling floods, but later died one by one. It may not be that this “selfishness” must be given up. How difficult and complicated is to govern the country. The hidden grain is just about involving a series of tedious appointments by grain officials, and it also involves the royal relatives and the “founding” meritorious contributions of the royal family who are lying on the lifeblood of this country. In the game of interests with these borers and rats, Zhang Julu must not only make the blood in the world run without any hindrance, but also ensure that after the death of Beimang in Beiliang, the court or his chief assistant Zhang Julu can also show sincerity, and also maintain a balance between the emperor and the powerful.
Now Zhao Zhuan has personally made this unexpected joy an urgent matter. The officials of grain arranged by Zhang Julu were taken down in a nutshell, and their official qualities were not high. The dignitaries and nobles didn’t care about these officials who were irrelevant and were not lacking in their own disciples. Maybe without these guys, they would make greater profits in the future. His Majesty the Emperor’s iron fist and determination to “govern corruption” have won praise from the court and the public. After this turmoil, it will only be more difficult for senior officials of the canal transportation to challenge the court to ask for food in Beiliang in the future.
Xu Fengnian bent her fingers and knocked on the table one by one.
With less than 2 million households in North Liang Road, less than 10 million people have to support a total of 300,000 border troops. If there was no Lingzhou, known as the “Northwest Little Guangling”, and the string of Beiliang has been stretched for more than 20 years, let alone archery, it would have been broken by itself. Why was Li Gongde able to become the leader of the civil servants in the Northern Liang Dynasty? He was really good at praising Xu Xiao, but he was just a skill to cling to him, of course it was not. Li Gongde had the right to make money. He can buy food through various shameful channels, and the price is not high. The big shots who received boxes of bribes of silver were of course the royal relatives and meritorious deeds in Liyang. The court lost a lot of money, and they made less than a million taels a year. Their ancestors and parents made great contributions to the unification of the Spring and Autumn Period and made some money. What kind of guilt do they feel guilty?