The south of the Yangtze River is beautiful, and the scenery is old. The sunrise, the flowers are redder than the fire, and the river water is as green as blue in spring. How can you not remember the south of the Yangtze River?

In February of the seventh year of Tianbao, the spring breeze had already blown green on both sides of the Caohe River. Groups of egrets flew over the river. The water was filled with smoke and white air rolled on the river. On the ridges in the distance, you could occasionally see melting streams flowing down from the cliffs, forming a gurgling stream flowing into the Caohe River. The branches that were blown by the spring breeze sometimes made a dry sound and fell into the river. The roots of the old tree were suspended in the air. The wind blew from the east, and the branches swayed westward. The sound of spring collided with each other in the air.

On the Caohe River, a group of ships loaded with cargo and passengers headed south along the Tongji Canal. From time to time, passengers walked to the deck and pointed to the ridges in the distance and whispered. On the deck of a passenger ship, Li Qingan stood with his hands behind his back, admiring the charming spring scenery of Jiangnan.

He officially left Beijing on the ninth day of the lunar month. He rode a horse to Bianzhou and then sailed south from Bianzhou. On that day, he had arrived in Gaoyou County, Yangzhou. It was only a few dozen miles away from his destination, Jiangdu. Today, the journey was a whole month. In fact, if he was rushing, he could arrive in Yangzhou in just half a month. The key was that he wanted to visit the scenery of the Tang Dynasty and refused to leave quickly, and the Ministry of War did not specify the time for him to take office.

At this time, a fishing boat passed by him. A pretty little girl at the stern of the boat was busy cooking. Her fair hands were peeling spring bamboo shoots. Li Qing'an was in a good mood and couldn't help but shake her head and chant: "The people around her are like the moon, and her white wrists are condensed in frost and snow."

He smiled and asked loudly, "Miss, may I ask my name, have you ever married?"

The little girl glared at him fiercely, picked up the curtain and went into the cabin. Her father, who was standing at the bow of the boat, laughed and said, "This Jun Ye, the little girl has promised her, which has disappointed Jun Ye."

Li Qingan smiled and bowed, "Brother-in-law, I just admire the most beautiful scenery in the river, and I have no other intentions."

The old fisherman also smiled kindly, waved at him, and pushed the boat away with a oar.

"Qilang, you are in great interest!" Li Fei Shouyu walked out of the cabin and said with a smile.

"That's it! After seeing the yellow sand desert for too much, I suddenly came to this clear and pleasing river bank, and I felt a little confused about Anxi."

Li Qing'an chanted with enthusiasm: "Everyone says that Jiangnan is good, tourists only live in the old Jiangnan. The spring water is blue in the sky, and the painting boat is sleeping with the rain."

"Good sentence!" someone suddenly praised next to him.

I saw a man in a thin green shirt walking over from the other side of the deck, bowing to Li Qing'an and saying, "I didn't expect that the people in the army could have such literary talent. Li Qinglian, who was traveling around the Tang Dynasty, was disturbed by listening to his brother's wonderful poems."

Li Qingan was not interested in him. If a beautiful Jiangnan woman came forward, he might chant the river and waves to wash them all out, winning the hearts of beautiful women, but he was a middle-aged man with a somewhat down-and-out appearance.

"Haha! Li Qing'an, who is downtown, went to Yangzhou to work. He was bored and recited a few wrong poems, which made the brother laugh."

The man was surprised, "You are Li Qing'an, the hero of the Battle of Xiao Bolu, and the first arrow of Anxi who was appointed as the General of the Central Army."

Li Qingan was a little surprised. Unexpectedly, someone in Yangzhou, thousands of miles away, knew about him. You should know that the transportation in the Tang Dynasty was inconvenient and the news was very closed. However, this man knew what happened two months ago. Seeing the man's face was shocked, Li Qingan couldn't help but satisfy his vanity. He immediately felt a little favor for the man.

"It's just that we never meet in life. I still have a jar of Jiaohe wine. Please give me a drink from Brother Qinglian."

For some reason, he always felt that he had heard of the name Qinglian somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a moment.

"Well said, where will we meet in life? I have drunk General Li's wine."

The man's eyes lit up when he heard that there was Jiaohe wine.

The three of them gathered around a table and drank several large glasses of wine in a row. The middle-aged man said happily, "Good wine, good wine is produced by Jiaohe, and the grapes are made of sweet. I haven't drunk it for six or seven years."

Seeing that he had drunk a few more cups, Li Qing'an couldn't help but smile and filled him with another cup, "Brother Qinglian, I don't think you are like an ordinary person, why are you so down and out?"

The middle-aged man did not answer, picked up the wine glass for a while before sighing, "Those who abandon me will not stay yesterday's day; those who disturb my heart will have more worries today."

He drank the wine and raised his head and laughed: "Drawing the knife to cut off the water and water flows even more, raising the glass to relieve sorrow and sorrow; life is not satisfactory, and the Ming Dynasty is spreading a small boat."

Li Qingan was shocked. He suddenly knew who this person was. Mr. Qinglian, wasn’t it Li Bai?

"Brother Li, could you be the one who is Huer going to exchange for fine wine?"

"Not bad! I am Li Langdang, who was given gold by the emperor. Today I received General Li's fine wine. Li Bai thanked me."

In the first year of Tianbao, Li Bai entered Beijing and became famous in the capital. Li Longji invited him to worship him as a Hanlin. However, the literati were despised by Li Bai's jealousy. Zhang Ye, the second son of the former prime minister Zhang Shuo, and the younger brother of Zhang Yun, the Minister of Revenue. He was also a Hanlin. He captured Li Bai's wild character and framed him several times in front of Li Longji. In the end, Li Bai was given gold and returned home. From then on, he traveled all over the Tang Dynasty, spending a lot of money, and became increasingly shy in his pocket. This time he came to Yangzhou to find the prefect Lu Huan to seek his position, and happened to meet Li Qing'an on the boat.

Li Qingan, a poet in history, was very interested and looked at him up and down. Li had a medium figure and slender eyebrows. Due to his long-term excessive drinking, his nose looked a little red and swollen, and there was an indescribable look between his eyebrows and eyes.

Li Qingan suddenly smiled slightly and said, "When I was a child, I was beaten by my father because I couldn't carry the bright moonlight in front of Brother Taibai's bed. At that time, I was thinking that I must beat this poet in the future to extricate my anger. Today I will get what I want."

Li Bai was stunned, "General Li wants to punch me?"

"I changed my fists and feet to fine wine, which made Brother Taibai so drunk that I felt so stuffy."

Li Bai laughed, "Okay! I will let you get what you want today, and never get drunk."

The ship gradually docked at the dock of Jiangdu County. Jiangdu County is the prefecture of Yangzhou. The city has a circumference of dozens of miles and a population of more than 300,000. It is the second largest city in the world after Chang'an and Luoyang. It has a large number of merchants and rich products. In addition, its convenient water and land transportation makes its commerce extremely developed and its overseas trade is extremely prosperous. Its commerce is even more prosperous than that of the capital Chang'an.

Yangzhou is not only the economic center of the Tang Dynasty, but also a military center. One of the five major governors' offices of the Tang Dynasty, the military office of the Yangzhou Grand Governors' Office is located in Jiangdu County. However, after a hundred years of stability, the Grand Governors' Office of the Yangzhou Grand Governors' Office has gradually become a symbol and a false position. Dozens of military offices in the Huainan area are directly under the Ministry of War and are not under the jurisdiction of the Grand Governors' Office.

This time, Li Qing'an was appointed by the Ministry of War to train the five military prefectures stationed in Jiangdu County. His full title is Jiangdu Governor's Training Envoy and Attendant Censor. There are several meanings here, and he served temporarily for a temporary position. Secondly, he was in charge of the Five Military Prefectures of Jiangdu County, and secondly, he had the title of Attendant Censor, and could directly impeach or suspend local officers. To put it simply, he was the highest military chief in Yangzhou who enjoyed real power.

When the ship slowly approached the dock, Liu Changyun, the commander of Jianghuai Metropolitan Transportation, was already waiting at the dock. In addition to military and political affairs, there was another important department in Yangzhou, that is, the commander of Duluo. This is one of the three commanders who controlled the power of the Tang Dynasty. He was responsible for transporting rich materials, grain and copper coins from Jiangnan to the capital. Generally, those who hold this position were senior officials. For example, Pei Yaoqing, the deputy minister of the school, also served as the commander of Jianghuai Metropolitan Transportation. He served for three years and transported 7 million stones of grain, saving 300,000 guan of land transportation commissions.

Although Liu Changyun is not a prime minister, he is also a high-ranking official in the Tang Dynasty. He once served as King Qing Fu. He was in the third rank. The Jianghuai Transportation Office under his jurisdiction directly controlled the economic lifeline of the Tang Dynasty.

Liu Changyun received news from King Qing half a month ago that Li Qing'an, the general of the Anxi Central Army, took office as the Jiangdu regiment training envoy. After training for half a year, he directly controlled the military power of Jiangdu. This is undoubtedly good news for Liu Changyun, who is confronting the prefect Lu Huan.

The different thing about the regiment training envoy is the power to mobilize troops. The regiment training envoy has no power to mobilize troops. The Ministry of War must approve Fang Xing for more than ten people. The regiment training envoy comes on behalf of the Ministry of War and has a certain power to mobilize troops. Liu Changyun took this interest.

Therefore, when Li Qing'an's ship was still in Gaoyou, he received the news and hurried to the dock to greet him. The Zhechong Commander from five military palaces and ten Guoyi Commander, but the prefect of Yangzhou Lu Huan did not come.

Li Qing'an's boat gradually landed on the dock. Liu Changyun waved his hand and immediately beat drums on the shore. A lion dance team was jubilant. Dozens of music girls invited from the music shop also lined up to play the pipa. More than a dozen yamen runners of the transfer department waved big sticks to drive away the idle boats on the dock.

"The distinguished guest is here, please go away!"

Several small boats were so scared that they hurriedly carried away, leaving a dock, and the passenger ships docked, and more than 20 guests got off the boat. Finally, Li Qing'an and his five-member group came ashore.

Li Bai was drunk and was lying on the boat and was drunk. Li Qing'an had to leave one of his subordinates to take care of him.

Liu Changyun saw Li Qing'an in military uniform at first sight. He greeted him with a smile on his face, "General Li has worked hard all the way. Liu Changyun, the transfer commander of the Yangtze and Huai Capital of Xiajiang and Huai Capital, on behalf of the 500,000 fellow villagers in Yangzhou, I welcome General Li to Yangzhou."

"So you are Liu Envoy, I have long admired you! I have long admired you!" Li Qing'an bowed and smiled. He looked at him briefly. Liu Changyun was about forty years old. He was very well maintained, with delicate skin and slender waist. From the back, he looked very much like a woman. His eyes looked very eager, and he felt like he wanted to melt people, which made Li Qing'an's back get goose bumps.

At this time, the five lieutenants of Zhe Chong stepped forward and bowed and said, "Welcome General Li."

The five Zhechong Mansions in Jiangdu were all upper military mansions, and the commander of the army was the fourth-rank upper-rank, while Li Qing'an's Qianniu Guard General was the fourth-rank lower-rank, and was half a level lower than them. Therefore, in order to allow him to suppress these commanders, the court specially added him the title of Attorney Censor, so he had the power of supervision, which made the Jiangdu Marsorate fear him.

Li Qingan also replied with a smile: "The five generals don't have to be too polite. From today on, we will be colleagues, spend half a year together. I hope we can all cooperate happily."

When the five Zhe Chong commanders heard Li Qing'an speak politely, they couldn't help but feel happy and praised Li Qing'an for being young and promising and having a bright future. Liu Changyun quickly smiled and said, "This is not a place to speak. I booked two tables of banquets for General Li to wash away the dust of General Li, let's go together!"

Li Qingan laughed and said, "It's better to obey your orders than respect, so go to Baiyutang Tower."

Everyone surrounded Li Qing'an and rode their horses towards the city together.

In the prefecture, the prefect of Yangzhou, Lu Huan, was reviewing official documents. Lu Huan is a child of the Lu family, a famous Tang Dynasty family. He is about 40 years old this year. He is elegant and smart and capable. He was born in the Kaiyuan period. When he was a teenager, he studied with Prince Li Heng and had a very good personal relationship. He served as the doctor of Shanzan of the East Palace and was later promoted to Shaoqing of Taichang. The year before yesterday, he was promoted to the prefect of Yangzhou. It can be said that he was one of the core members of the prince's party.

Yangzhou is an important economic and financial center of the Tang Dynasty, so the position of Yangzhou's prefect is very high. Like the highest commander of the Five Temples and Ninth Supervisors, he belongs to the third rank. From a certain perspective, Lu Huan is only one step away from being promoted to prime minister.

More than two months ago, Lu Huan arrested the great salt lord Du Bosheng, but unexpectedly led to several major smuggling cases of King Qing. He immediately realized that this was an excellent opportunity to overthrow King Qing. Unfortunately, the news leaked and was destroyed by Liu Changyun, the transferee of Du Bosheng. Du Bosheng was rescued by an unknown person and his whereabouts are still unknown.

Lu Huan also received news that Li Qing'an was appointed as the Jiangdu regiment training envoy and controlled the military power of the Five Army Mansions of Jiangdu. The information he received was that Gao Lishi was Li Qing'an's backstage, and Gao Lishi took good care of the prince.

He had just finished reviewing a document, and at this time, a yamen runs in and reports: "The envoy, General Li, the envoy of the regiment training, has arrived at the dock, but was invited away by the envoy Liu. He cleansed General Li in Baiyutang Restaurant."

Lu Huan was stunned, and a bitter smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth. Liu Changyun's quick hands and feet seemed to be trying hard to win over this military power regiment.

He paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back. At this time, his aide Fang Wuzhen smiled and said, "Don't be anxious, a meal won't change anything, we still have a chance."

Lu Huan sighed softly. Of course he knew that a banquet would not mean anything, but Liu Changyun tried his best to win over it, which means that he was going to take action again recently.

At this moment, another yamen run in and said, "Eunuch, someone is looking for him outside the yamen. General Li, the subordinate of the Tuanjian envoy, helped a drunken scholar to come, saying that this scholar was the old man of the envoy."

Lu Huan was stunned, and then he quickly walked out of the yamen. Li Qingan actually sent someone to send him an old man. Who could this be?

Outside the yamen, an officer supported the drunk Li Bai. Lu Huan recognized Li Bai at a glance and hurried forward and said, "Brother Taibai, why are you drunk again?"

Li Bai was still awake in his drunken dream. The officer smiled and said, "Poet Li lost the bet with my general, and this happened."

Lu Huan hurriedly asked several yamen runners to help Li Bai into the yamen. He bowed to the officer and smiled: "Lu Huan, the prefect of Yangzhou, please ask the general's surname?"
Chapter completed!