The cool sun hangs high in the sky, and everything on the earth seems to be roasted listlessly. Even the occasional breeze blows, and the willow paper is too lazy to sway.
After all, it was already mid-to-late June, which would be July or August in later generations. Even in Daizhou, it was quite hot.
Wei Zheng left the General Manager's Mansion and rode out of the city towards Xia City. He was very familiar with this road. He had traveled there almost every day these days, sometimes even more than once.
On the same day, news came from the East Palace, hoping to persuade Li Jing, Li Shan, and Wei Zheng to have other plans, but they were rejected by Li Shan, but the latter also agreed to give up.
Although Wei Zheng guessed that Li Shan had a certain degree of advance and retreat, and had long wanted to do so, he still wanted to accept this good offer. For this reason, the prince personally wrote a letter and praised him highly.
Originally, Wei Zheng was preparing to return to Beijing, but Li Jing, the Duke of Yongkang County, took over Daizhou. There were many obstacles during the period. It's not that Li Shan, the king of Handan, deliberately made things difficult, but he didn't say anything... Many places were disrespectful to Li Jing.
It happened that Zhu Yichen, the Sima of Dai Prefecture, who was also of the East Palace lineage, said he was ill and joined the military affairs department. Lu Chengji had only just entered the official position. Zhang Gongjin, who was not the first to help, was willing to help when he arrived, but unfortunately he couldn't do it.
On that day, Zhang Shigui and Kan Leng led the army away, leaving Li Jing and Zhang Gongjin behind. In addition, after the worship in Guji Town, these two were driven back to Yanmen Pass by Li Shan in advance... After that, Zhang Gongjin's situation in Daizhou was very difficult.
Embarrassing, it’s hard to see Li Shan himself.
Under this situation, Wei Zheng wrote to Chang'an and took the initiative to stay and assist Li Jing. On the one hand, he wanted to win over the prince, and on the other hand, he was the most suitable candidate. After all, he did not participate in the war, and he wrote memorials for the fallen soldiers.
, and also has a good relationship with Li Shan.
But even so, Li Shan retreated to Xia City outside the city in the name of recovering from his injuries, and Wei Zheng could only go back and forth every day... It was okay at first, but the weather has become hot these days.
After entering Xia City and dismounting, Wei Zheng took the wet towel handed by the servant and wiped his face, then asked a few questions, walked around two warehouses, and found Li Shan in a shady yard.
Under the big tree in the sky, Li Shan was lying on the lounge chair with his head raised and staring at the sky. The dazzling sunlight flickered among the dense leaves. This scene was so familiar. In his childhood, he was lying under the big tree like this, and his grandma would rock beside him.
Holding the cattail leaf fan is a rare and tender memory of my previous life.
Unfortunately, after I entered junior high school, when I went home for a vacation, the big tree was cut down. I remember that the neighbor's second son got married and used it to make furniture.
Li Shan didn't get up when he heard the sound. In fact, he didn't feel it during the battle, nor did he feel it just after the war. It wasn't until everything settled, until he received the letter from Princess Pingyang, that he felt relieved.
I felt unparalleled fatigue and the pain caused by thirteen scars all over my body.
"Huairen is quite happy." Wei Zheng grabbed the cattail leaf fan and shook it vigorously. After these few steps, his face was covered with sweat again, "Are you feeling better today?"
Li Shan still raised his head and stared at the sky, "There is no need to say more about Ma Yin. If Medicine Master Li is interested, he can write to the court and write to Huo Guogong."
Wei Zheng was so angry that he fell back and cursed: "Go and write to Duke Huo, thank you for your ability to speak out!"
Who doesn't know that Princess Pingyang and his wife have a close relationship with you, Li Huairen. It was also this relationship that day, and the other end of the horse lead was handed over to Chai Shao, the Duke of Huo who was idle in Chang'an.
Write to Chai Shao... If Princess Pingyang knew that it was me who instigated it, she wouldn't have gone to the East Palace!
Wei Zheng glanced at the expressionless Li Shan and sighed in his heart, this matter is really not easy to handle.
Xia City was first built last year to open up trade routes, and a large number of good horses entered Hedong through trade. You must know that Li Yuan's edict strictly prohibiting trade outside the Great Wall has not been revoked. In other words, Li Shan is serving the country while carrying the blame.
Everyone in the court knew it well, and His Majesty must be an insider, and maybe the instigator, but this matter cannot be made public. In this case, Li Shancai came up with the so-called Ma Yin.
When Li Jing wanted to take charge of Daizhou, he first paid attention to Xia City, firstly because of the grain storage, and secondly because of horse feed. In fact, horse feed itself was related to grain. Merchants transported grain to Daizhou, and Xia City distributed horse feed to merchants.
He led the horse to Chang'an and selected the horse after being confirmed by Huo Guogong Chai Shao.
At first, Li Jing was a little lucky. After all, the acting magistrate Li Kai was his nephew. Although he had some elbows turned away during the war, he would definitely help him with all his strength in such a matter.
But I didn't expect that Li Shan had already made up his mind and took the initiative to take the initiative and hand over the leadership of the Ma Yin matter to the Central Government... The Central Government, like the Taipu Temple and the Ministry of War, had already become jealous.
Without Ma Yin's leadership, it means that no merchants will transport grain to Daizhou, and Xia City will probably become just a trading market in the future.
After understanding all this, Li Jing was really overwhelmed, and Wei Zheng also went to Xia City to find Li Shan... Raise your hand!
But Li Shan ignored it completely and said in a mocking tone that he had already arranged it for Li Jing!
No war horses?
In this battle, we drove the enemy from Mobei and captured nearly 10,000 horses. Isn't that enough for you, Li Jing?
No food stored?
Gu Zhao sent Zhang Gongjin to Daizhou to march to the army camp... Wasn't that guy on good terms with Li Yaoshi?
Listening to Wei Zheng relaying such nonsense, Li Jing only had MMP and military camps in his mind... You must know that there is no fertile farmland in the farms. At most, they are semi-abandoned fields, and they may even need to open up wasteland. At the beginning, they can only be self-sufficient and produce a lot of output.
, I think it will be tough next year.
As for the nearly 10,000 good horses... they are still in the army, and Li Jing has no way of getting his hands on them.
After the war, the Daizhou Army was still controlled by Su Dingfang, Xue Wanche, and Zhang Shigui. Li Jing did not try to do anything... He also knew in his heart that as long as Li Shan was still in Daizhou, the Daizhou Army would always bear the opponent's mark.
There were nearly 10,000 war horses, and Li Shan didn't say anything, so he couldn't take advantage.
Will he relent?
Thinking about it with your heels, you know it’s impossible!
Li Jing, Wei Zheng and Zhang Gongjin discussed it for many days. Although they did not express it clearly to each other, they had a common judgment in their hearts. Li Shan wanted to negotiate terms.
Wei Zheng thought carefully in private and could understand how dilapidated Daizhou was last year. It was Li Shan who worked hard to create such a situation. If there had not been a battle in Guji Town, given the relationship between Li Shan and the Danyang Fang of the Li family in Longxi, everything would have been lost.
Entrusted to Li Jing.
But now the two sides are at odds... More importantly, no matter what the reason was, Li Shan gave up his attempt on the acting governor, suffered such a big loss, and still handed over everything so easily?
After all, he is a young man in his twenties, how can he endure such a tone?
The reason why he never let go was that Wei Zheng and Zhang Gongjin could see that Li Shan was waiting for Li Jing to come to his door.
Li Shan glanced at Wei Zheng who was in trouble and said lightly: "You haven't received the letter from Chang'an yet?"
Wei Zheng was stunned, "Today is the day..."
Li Shan was also stunned. With your mind, couldn't you have guessed it?
Li Jing can't be embarrassed...or in other words, if he doesn't want to be at a disadvantage in the next transaction, he needs an opportunity, a person who can ease the relationship.
Originally, Li Kai met this standard, but after Li Shan settled in Xia City, he went to the county seat and hid in the county government office... Li Shan thought that Li Kai should also get the news.
"Brother Xuancheng is here today, so Pharmacist Li must not know about it." Li Shan sneered and said, "The imperial court has already decided on a reward, and people from Zhongshushe have been ordered to go on an envoy."