Li Daozong was a little embarrassed and helpless as he stepped forward to greet Wu Huaiyu who had returned. The assassin's incident was even worse than he expected.
He couldn't find the results for a long time, and he couldn't give an explanation to Wu Huaiyu, let alone the emperor. Although he wanted to suppress the matter temporarily and report it to the court after finding the results, it was obvious that he couldn't suppress the matter.
The emperor's envoy came directly to Lingzhou, and with an edict, he was about to return to Chang'an.
The person who came to announce the decree was Zhang Fuguo, the adopted son of Zhang Anan, the chamberlain supervisor, and he was also an acquaintance of Huaiyu. He had just gone to Jingzhou City a few days ago to announce the decree to Huaiyu and make him a county official, but now he made another trip.
Zhang Fuguo took the imperial edict, but he had to meet Wu Huaiyu before he officially announced the edict.
So Li Daozong, the governor of Lingzhou, and all the officers and generals of the governor's office had no choice but to come out of the city and come to the Yanzhou soldiers' barracks to receive the order.
"Proclamation of the imperial edict, Lingyan civil and military officers will receive it!"
"Under the Gate: Zhiyue..."
The emperor was very concerned about the assassination case in Lingzhou City, and was even dissatisfied with Lingzhou officials.
The governor, Li Daozong, was recalled to the imperial court and appointed as the minister of Honglu Temple. The former chief minister, Sima Bing, was dismissed from his post. Yanzhou was transferred from the Xiazhou Governor's Mansion to the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion.
Xue Wanche, Duke of Wu'an County, the governor of Longzhou, took over as the governor of Lingzhou and the governor of Lingzhou, and Wu Huaiyu, the governor of Lingzhou and the governor of Yanzhou, took over.
Prince Consort Lu Huairang took over as Sima of Lingzhou Governor's Office and as governor of Youzhou.
The imperial court officially established Youzhou in the north of Lingyan, which means leniency. It was specially established to appease the Qianghu, Shanhu, and Turks, and also to prepare for the destruction of Liang.
Many officials in Lingzhou were punished this time, including being demoted, dismissed, reduced in rank, fined, etc. This was also a warning from the emperor to the officials and generals in Northern Lingzhou who secretly occupied land, sold slaves, smuggled, etc.
After Zhang Fuguo announced the decree, he took Huaiyu to another tent and orally delivered the emperor's secret edict alone.
The emperor was very concerned about Wu Huaiyu, but he was also concerned about the situation in Shuofang. The emperor asked Wu Huaiyu to have a good talk with Li Daozong after he took over as the chief official, and let him take the lead in returning the land he occupied.
"Your Majesty said that destroying Liang is the most important thing right now, and it is unlikely to retreat completely. Let them take the initiative to retreat some of them, and retreat those who have illegally occupied them, and we will deal with the rest later."
The so-called illegal occupation definitely means taking the official land as one's own, or even occupying the owned land as wasteland, or even turning the court households into refugees and their tenants, and that land will also be recorded as
Fugitives abandon the wasteland.
There were even many Hu people, both raw and mature, who were also affected by the war. Some tribes' entire villages were taken into slavery, and their fields were naturally occupied by officials.
This situation in Lingzhou is very serious, affecting all officials from top to bottom as well as local powerful people. The court could not take care of it before and turned a blind eye, but now the emperor wants to take action.
However, the emperor also knew that this matter was deeply involved, so he first gave the officials a chance to retire honestly, so that the court would not delve too deeply into it.
Stopping at the last minute not only reaffirms the authority of the imperial court, but also leaves room for Lingzhou to avoid causing trouble, but it also prevents it from continuing like this and eventually getting out of control.
"Why did the imperial court choose Xue Wanche to be the governor?" Huaiyu made tea for Zhang Fuguo and took out a book and handed it to him.
Zhang Fuguo took the book with some doubts, but when the cowhide cover was opened, there were golden pages inside.
Golden Pages.
This gold page is as thin as paper, like a folded book, and the folded pages are connected together. Each page is also stamped with the seal of the gold shop. Han Silang, Chang'an West City, is very gold, weighing one tael.
Zhang Fuguo's status in the palace was not low, and he was no stranger to this golden page. After just flipping through it, he already knew that this book was very valuable.
There are ten gold pages of one tael connected together, and this book has twenty gold pages sandwiched together, so this book is worth twenty taels of gold.
Compared with gold collars, gold ingots, etc., this gold page is made like a book page and is very thin, but it also has many conveniences compared to gold collars.
First of all, this ten-page book is divided into one tael, and one page is one penny. Sometimes it is easy to cut it. If you tear off a piece, you can get one penny of gold, which is worth about 800 copper coins. Secondly, the gold leaves are very thin, so compared with
Gold ingots are more difficult to counterfeit and easy to identify.
Therefore, gold leaves are convenient to use when you are outside. Unless there is a large amount of transactions, gold collars, gold ingots and gold bars are used more.
Wu Huaiyu didn't give Zhang Fuguo a BMW and beauties, as they would be too conspicuous.
He gave me a book worth 160,000 yuan, which can buy twenty straw horses or twenty slaves in Lingzhou.
"Sure enough, there is a room of gold in the book." Zhang Fuguo and Wu Huaiyu accepted it without being polite. It was not entirely greedy. They were close friends, and this gift could also bring them closer to each other.
Zhang Fuguo put the golden book into his arms, "It is said that the saint appointed him, probably because he is better at fighting, and there is no more suitable candidate at the moment. I heard that the saint originally wanted Duke Qi to come, but Duke Qi
I have been recuperating in Bailuyuan."
The emperor recalled Li Daozong to the court, dismissed both the chief historian and Sima, and appointed Huaiyu as the chief historian and Doulu Huairang as the Sima. These three people had fought together in Longyou last year, so they were familiar with each other.
But one was a confidant of Jiancheng and an old subordinate of Luo Yi, the other was the son-in-law of the Supreme Emperor, Princess Wanchun's consort, plus the young emperor's confidant, the Duke of Shouyang County, and the Lingzhou Dudu Mansion, this troika is quite interesting, and they probably have mutual supervision.
That’s what I meant.
After all, one of the three of them was also the governor of a state, so Wu Huaiyu and Doulu Huairang were not subordinates of the governor in the ordinary sense.
Xue Wanche and Dou Lu Huairang have probably received the imperial edict and are on their way to their posts. One of these two people was originally the governor of Longzhou, and the other was the Sima of the Qinzhou Governor's Office. They were both promoted this time.
After drinking a pot of tea in the tent, the two of them came out to meet Li Daozong and the others.
Li Daozong is quite disappointed now.
Although he was also recalled to the court last year, this time it was obviously different. Last year he was recalled to serve as Minister of the Ministry of Punishment and also to serve as the general of the left army, but now he was recalled to serve as Minister of Honglu Temple.
Not to mention the long history of working with him for five years, Sima was directly dismissed from office this time, and many Lingzhou commanders, generals, captains, and soldiers who joined the army were also punished.
But when facing Wu Huaiyu, they couldn't blame him. After all, he was also a victim of assassination.
"Congratulations to Wu Shouyang." Li Daozong raised his hand.
Wu Huaiyu has nothing to sympathize with Li Daozong. He has been in Lingzhou for five years, and he can be regarded as meritorious in guarding the border, but the things he did are indeed not worthy of praise. He is also partly responsible for the current chaos in Shuofang, although who should replace him?
, maybe the same, or even more excessive than what he did.
Li Daozong handed over the seal of the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion and asked Wu Huaiyu to keep it for safekeeping until Xue Wanche arrived before handing it over. Chief Shi Sima even stepped forward to hand over the seal in disgrace.
Under the witness of Zhang Fuguo, Huaiyu drank tea and chatted with Li Daozong.
Although it was just a casual chat, several things Wu Huaiyu brought up made them restless, especially Zhang Fuguo's appropriate interjection from time to time. Although he didn't say it was the emperor's intention, no one knew what the two men meant by singing in harmony.
In short, the emperor asked them to clear some fields themselves, and even asked them to donate a sum of money and food to the Lingzhou Dudu Mansion.
In fact, it is equivalent to the tax payment for their smuggling.
But this time the attitude was better, saying that they would clean up after themselves.
Li Daozong took the lead in expressing his stance and would definitely comply with the order.
After the meeting, Li Daozong proposed to have a private chat with Wu Huaiyu.
"Brother, I'm really sorry for what happened this time. The assassins haven't been caught yet, but I'm certain that these assassins were sent jointly by Master Liang and Yu Sheshe,"
Wu Huaiyu just laughed at this.
Li Daozong was helpless when he saw this, but this time they put in a lot of effort, but they just couldn't catch those people.
"I guess the group of assassins have already sneaked out of the city and escaped along the underground water canal,"
"Just run away. It won't be long before we defeat Master Liang's suppression force. Where will they be able to escape then?" Huaiyu said with a smile.
Li Daozong admitted defeat this time and had a good attitude towards the court.
The emperor asked him to clear away the land and even donate some money and food to the Lingzhou Yamen. He was unambiguous and directly expressed to Wu Huaiyu that he was willing to hand over the 100 hectares of land under his control to the Governor's Mansion.
At the same time, he is willing to donate a large amount of food and money to the Yamen.
This is a bit like trying to survive after breaking one's arms. One hundred hectares of land is only part of the land he occupies. Although the land is not all in his name, it is what he actually owns.
Now he is willing to hand over a hundred hectares of land, but in reality he has only given up a third of it at most.
However, Li Daozong was a man who was very good at getting things done. He also allocated thirty hectares of land, ten to Huaiyu, ten to Xue Wanche, and ten to Doulu Huairang.
Of course it's not a gift, that would be a bribe.
Those thirty hectares of land are not under Li Daozong's name. He will arrange for the nominal landlord to sell the land to Huaiyu and the others, not even directly to their names, but to their people.
Leave it to white gloves.
Even if it is said to be a sale, it is actually a matter of pretending to make a contract, but in fact it is just a gift.
One hundred hectares of land will be given back to the Governor's Mansion, and thirty hectares of land will be given to the new three leaders of the Governor's Mansion. Li Daozong can still keep 60%.
Other Lingfu officials and generals such as Chief Shi Sima will probably return 30% to 40% of the land according to this ratio. Of course, they may return less land or even pasture, leaving only good land and fertile farmland.
But no matter what, spitting out 40% was a huge kindness released by Li Daozong and others.
Any more would make things difficult for them.
As for donating money and food, they also have a figure, which is probably 10% of the previous income.
Li Daozong and the others were willing to give up 40% of the land and 10% of the profits from smuggling, but they wanted a guarantee from Wu Huaiyu that the matter would end there and there would be no further settling of the score.
"There are several copper seas in the backyard of the Dudu Mansion. I usually store some water to prevent fires and other things. They are very heavy and heavy. I am going back to Beijing now and I can't take this thing with me, so I gave it to Duke Shouyang."
Generally, a landlord would place a large water tank in his yard, but some wealthy families, such as the Xunqi family, would directly use a copper tank, which was called Tonghai or Menhai.
Generally, the copper sea only weighs a few hundred kilograms.
Copper was money in the Tang Dynasty. Using the sea of copper to store water and place it in the courtyard was also a symbol of wealth.
Wu Huaiyu didn't think much about it at first. He just thought that a copper vat weighing 1,800 kilograms would weigh more than 600 kilograms if he had one hundred copper coins. Two hundred copper coins would weigh more than one thousand kilograms.
Li Daozong seemed to talk casually about the extraordinary nature of his copper seas, each of which could store six thousand kilograms of water.
Huaiyu felt something unusual when he heard it, "A sea of copper can store six thousand kilograms of water, so how big is this sea of copper?"
"It is more than four feet high and more than five feet in diameter."
"How much?"
"Eight thousand pounds each."
"Made of pure copper?" Huaiyu was surprised. One thousand copper coins weighed six kilograms and four taels, which is a hundred taels. One thousand, two hundred and eighty copper coins only weighed eight thousand kilograms.
If it is pure copper, then a pound of copper is actually worth more than a pound of money. After all, copper coins are mixed with lead and tin.
In the backyard of Li Daozong's governor's mansion, there is a sea of eight gates.
"It's not pure copper."
Huaiyu thought it was okay to hear that it was not pure copper, but Li Daozong added that it was gilded with a layer of gold on the outside.
Each jar is gilded with a hundred taels of gold on the outside and cast of pure copper on the inside.
