Li Xilie also fell ill due to long-term addiction to alcohol and excessive lewdness. For half a month, his wife Wang and his concubine Dou were undressed to attend to his illness. Although his condition had improved slightly in the past few days, his appetite was extremely poor and he almost
It’s because he doesn’t think about food and tea that his body is getting thinner day by day.
However, his concubine, Mrs. Dou, found a famous chef who was good at cooking meat and specially cooked his favorite beef for Li Xilie. Li Xilie had a great appetite and ate very happily for several days, and his body gradually recovered.
At noon that day, the cook brought a bowl of beef and the medicine was cooked. The soldier ate a piece of beef as usual and took another sip of medicine. After making sure that everything was fine, Dou and Wang entered the house with the beef and medicine.
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As soon as she entered the house, Ms. Dou followed Ms. Wang. She quickly poured a small bottle of poison into the medicine and gently shook it evenly.
"Sister, let me drink the medicine first!"
Mrs. Wang nodded and stepped aside. Mrs. Dou took the medicine and squatted forward, "Sir, the doctor said this is the last bowl of medicine. You don't need to drink it after you finish it."
Li Xilie chuckled and said: "My body has recovered, I can do it tonight..."
Mrs. Dou blushed and quickly brought the medicine, "Master, please finish drinking the medicine before we talk!"
"Okay! I'll drink."
Li Xilie doted on this beautiful concubine very much. If his wife hadn't been by his side, he would have shown off his talents.
He picked up the medicine without any doubt, drank it, and said with a smile: "Bring the beef over here, I'm starving!"
Mrs. Dou whispered: "Sister, I will clean up the room first."
Mrs. Wang snorted coldly, "You should have left long ago!"
Mrs. Dou hurried away with the empty bowl. Instead of going back to her room, she went directly out of the small door of the back house. There were no soldiers guarding the place. There was a carriage parked outside. Dou Liang had been waiting in the carriage for a long time when he saw his daughter going out.
, he quickly opened the car door, "Come in quickly!"
Mrs. Dou got into the carriage, which immediately started and drove towards the outside of Shouchun City.
"How is it?" Dou Liang asked expectantly.
A trace of hatred flashed in Dou's eyes and he nodded.
Dou Liang was overjoyed and immediately ordered a horse-riding attendant outside the car: "Go to the military camp quickly and inform General Wu that the great matter has been resolved!"
The entourage urged the horse to leave, and the carriage left the north city gate and headed for the dock outside Shouchun City. They were ready for everything. After poisoning their enemies, they could finally return to their hometown.
Until an hour later, Li Xilie suddenly suffered a severe pain in his lower abdomen. The pain made him roll on the ground and scream. Wang was so frightened that he rushed to find a doctor. When the doctor arrived, Li Xilie, the great hero of the generation, was bleeding to death from all his orifices.
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Li Xilie was poisoned and died. The Wu Shaocheng brothers quickly took control of the Huaixi Army. They led the army to surround the palace and killed all Li Xilie's wife and children.
Dou Liang and his daughter walked quickly and managed to escape, but both Chen Xianqi and Zhang Jianfeng were killed by Wu Shaocheng.
Wu Shaocheng proclaimed himself the Military Envoy of Huaixi and wrote to Zhu Si, willing to surrender to Zhu Si and accept the canonization. The Northern Tang Dynasty immediately conferred Wu Shaocheng as the Prince of Shouchun and served as the Military Envoy of Huaixi. Wu Xiu and Wu Shaoyang were both granted the title of General.
Duke of Jue County.
Zhu Si temporarily gave up his plan to attack Huaixi, transferred his troops to Hedong, and began to prepare for the attack on Li Huaiguang.
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Yunzhou is today's Datong. It once prospered during the Northern Wei Dynasty. As the nomadic tribes continued to invade the south, the people of Yunzhou fled in large numbers. Today, there are less than 20,000 Han people in Yunzhou.
After stabilizing the situation in Taiyuan, Guo Song led 20,000 troops northward. That morning, the army arrived in Yunzhong County. It was already the end of August, the sky was high and the clouds were clear, the climate was cool, and outside the city were large wheat fields with clear yellow trees.
The waves of wheat rise and fall with the wind, which is particularly pleasing to the eye.
Li Dian, the governor of Yunzhou, led a dozen officials to welcome Guo Song outside the city gate, and Li Tie, the garrison stationed in Yunzhou, also came to greet him.
Guo Song comforted everyone with a few words, and then entered Yunzhong City surrounded by people. Yunzhong County was the foundation of Pingcheng, the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The city was vast and the population was sparse. When the Uighurs were stationed in Yunzhong, they simply demolished all the houses in the west.
An open space covering an area of four to five thousand acres was formed, where a sheep and horse pen and a large camp were built.
Half of the entire city is open space and half is houses. Even so, most of the houses are empty and closed. Many houses have not been inhabited for decades. The roofs have collapsed, the doors and windows have been destroyed, and they have become dilapidated.
Li Dian introduced to Guo Song: "During the Tianbao period, Yunzhong County had a population of more than 100,000, but now only 10% are left. The houses here are worthless, and the people can occupy the land and build houses as they like, but in fact, there is no
Several families built their houses, but everyone still kept them as they were.”
"Why is this?"
"The size of the house is the basis for the government to levy household tax. It is divided into large households, medium households and small households. Large households with more than five acres are levied a household tax of 20 guan each year. Medium households with 5 to 1 mu are levied a household tax of 5 guan each year.
Guanqian, small households with an area of less than one acre are levied a household tax of one Guanqian every year. Later, the Huihe people also learned this. They also taxed according to the land area of their houses. One Guanqian was levied for one mu of land, and ten Guanqian was levied for ten acres of land.
, so every household in Yunzhong County is a small household, occupying nine cents of land, which is more than enough. There are 2,300 households in total, 1,800 of which make pottery and farm land, and other households grow grain, vegetables, and raise cattle.
Raise sheep.”
Guo Song nodded, pointed at the dilapidated houses with his riding crop and said to Li Tie: "Brothers, please take the time to demolish all these dilapidated houses and level the land."
"I humbly obey orders!"
At this time, a large group of people suddenly appeared in front, thousands of them, kneeling in darkness on both sides of the road. They shouted loudly, "We can't survive anymore, Guo Shijun wants to make the decision for us!"
Guo Song frowned and asked, "What's going on?"
Li Xun sighed, "It's about selling pottery. I bought it according to the market price, but they thought the price I gave was too low, and their own pottery was poorly made. I couldn't keep accommodating them, so it made a lot of noise.
unhappy."
Guo Song thought for a while and said: "Let them elect ten representatives and get some pottery. I will talk to them and see if there is any solution."
"Your Majesty, they are greedy and cannot be too accommodating to them."
Guo Song nodded, "I know what I know, please make arrangements!"
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Guo Song came to the military camp in the city. The military camp in the city was the large tent where the Huihe people were stationed in the past, but now it was changed to where 3,000 Hexi troops were stationed.
There are five hundred large tents, all of which are leather tents, which are warm in winter and cool in summer. Except for the three hundred sleeping tents, the other two hundred tents are warehouse tents, where grain and grass materials are piled. In addition, there are more than a dozen in the sheep and horse pens.
Thousands of sheep.
"In fact, except for the hundreds of thousands of loads of fodder left behind by the Uighur people, they basically have no other materials. The grain and other materials in the account now are the logistic baggage left by the Yuan army at Loufan Pass, and they were left behind by the Youzhou army.
Supplies.”
"Is there a trebuchet in the baggage?"
"Yes! There are ten large trebuchets that can be assembled, as well as two battering rams and twenty-five stone cannons."
"Install these defensive weapons as soon as possible. I will leave some large iron fire mines for you. This will at least ensure that Yunzhong City is safe and sound."
Li Tie was overjoyed. There was a large iron fire thunder, and they were really safe.
At this time, a soldier came over and said, "Your Majesty, Governor Li has already made arrangements."
Guo Song nodded and said to Li Tie: "I will go to the city to have a look later. You go and arrange the camp first!"
Li Tie bowed and left in a hurry. Only then did Guo Song arrive at Zhouya.
The prefectural government and the county government are integrated. Yunzhou has only one county, Yunzhong, with a sparse population. There is no need to build two sets of people in the prefecture and county. Basically, there are two brands and one team.
In the lobby of the county government, ten old men were sitting upright. They were representatives elected by the people in the county. On the table in front of them were placed a dozen large pottery vessels. This was the livelihood of the people in the county.
Guo Song walked into the lobby accompanied by Li Dian. Ten old men stood up and saluted, "See you, Ambassador Guo!"
Guo Song waved his hands and said with a smile: "Everyone, please take a seat!"
He came to the table and carefully looked at the pottery on the table. The ten old men next to him looked at him uneasily.
Frankly speaking, these pottery is indeed rough in workmanship, not to mention bulky, and the craftsmanship is extremely poor. The thickness is uneven, the mouth is not round, the base is unstable, the clay is not good, the surface particles are large, and it looks very rough and not delicate at all. of beauty.
Guo Song frowned slightly. It was really difficult to deal with such things. How could a Uighur person buy such a thing?