Li Yuanshan was born in a Longyou family. His father, Li Luan, was the founder of the county. Because of his outstanding military achievements, he was promoted to be the Duke of the State. He was the eldest son. After Li Luan died, he inherited the title of Duke of Tang. Of the Longyou aristocratic family, the largest is the Li surname, the second is the Liu surname, and the third is the Yu surname. Longyou, on Dasui Hexi Road, is 3,700 miles away from Shandong Road.
Although the selection of scholars in the Sui Dynasty was mainly based on the imperial examination, it is undeniable that the real power holders were all from aristocratic families. Shangshu, under the door, Zhongshu three provinces, officials of six departments, nine out of ten of the senior officials above the fourth rank come from aristocratic families. In the twenty-four states of the Sui Dynasty, there were twenty-four governors. Of these powerful officials in the borderlands, only Yuan Chongwu, the governor of Hebei Province, came from a poor family.
Although the generals of the sixteen guards are lower in rank than the governors of each province, the military and government are separated. The governor is a senior official of the second rank, but he has no right to control the soldiers of the sixteen guards, and his military power is only the county soldiers of the state and county. But compared to combat effectiveness, county soldiers and war soldiers are by no means the same.
And the generals of the sixteen guards are all the most trusted people of His Majesty, and almost all of them have dukes and nobles. Governors from all walks of life have to salute these generals instead. In the previous dynasty, the rank was used to determine the superiority and inferiority, but in the Sui Dynasty, the noble rank was determined by the title. For example, if the Duke of the previous dynasty had only a fifth-rank official position, he would have to salute a sixth-rank official. In the Sui Dynasty, titles were higher than official positions.
Among the twenty-four officials in the frontier, none of them had a title higher than that of the county marquis.
Except for the tiger talisman of the Ministry of War and the emperor's will, the generals of the sixteen guards have no right to be transferred, even if they are Zhongshu, subordinates, and Shangshu's three provinces. In addition to the soldiers, the next most powerful soldiers of the Sui Dynasty are the guards of the princes' territories. These princes are equivalent to the emperor in their own territories. The equipment and materials of the soldiers are not from the court, but from their own treasury. Well, the gate soldiers are the dead's armed forces of the princes, so they are naturally willing to invest in them, so the equipment of the gate soldiers is also excellent.
Half of the equipment and materials of the county soldiers in various places are supplied by the imperial court, and the other half is supplied by the local government itself. However, most of the taxes, money and food collected by the local government have to be handed over to the treasury granary, and there is not much left. If you encounter some officials who are greedy for money, you will have no money to equip the county soldiers. There is a huge difference between Zhanbing and Menbing.
There are sixteen guards, of which ten guards are stationed in various places. The two guards guard the eastern capital, and the four guards are stationed in the east, west, north, south, and four directions of Chang'an.
Li Yuanshan sits in the northwest of the Sui Dynasty, although his power is inferior to Yang Shanchen, governor of Shandong Province, but speaking of it, Yang Shanchen has to speak politely when he sees him.
Therefore, even if Wu Peisheng, the eunuch of Yushufang Bingbi, was favored in the palace, he would never dare to act presumptuously in front of Li Yuanshan. He is a smart man, so he understands a truth. No matter how good the emperor was to him, if it was because he offended Li Yuanshan, the emperor would never stand by him. If Li Yuanshan killed him in a fit of anger, the emperor would at most order to blame him and settle the matter.
The eunuchs of the Sui Dynasty had no real power, and it was useless to be favored.
Especially those governors of all walks of life, generals of various guards, these people should not be messed with.
In the army camp of Woxian Mountain, there is a pavilion built under a big pagoda tree halfway up the mountain. The location of this gazebo was chosen just right, and it was built on a protruding place on the mountainside. On the boulder extending out of the mountain, there is a beauty of ingenious workmanship. From a distance, this place is the nose of the lying fairy of Woxian Mountain.
It's just that this season is not suitable for sitting in this place.
Not long after the new year, Hedong Road was the coldest place in the northwest of the Sui Dynasty, and this halfway up the mountain was even colder. In the gazebo, there is nothing to hide from the wind on all sides, and the mountain wind blowing along the hillside cuts the face like a knife, which is very painful.
Wu Peisheng tightened the heavy cloak he was wearing, and still felt that the cold wind could easily penetrate into his clothes. In this place, he couldn't even sit still. If this gazebo is placed in summer, it will definitely be a good place to escape the heat. But at this time, after a long time, people can freeze to death.
"My lord, why did you choose such a good place?"
Wu Peisheng trotted back and forth in the pavilion with his nose running cold.
Li Yuanshan sat on the stone bench and looked at Wu Peisheng with a smile, and said apologetically, "You also know that although this place is a bit colder, there is a benefit."
"What good can this place do?"
Wu Peisheng stomped his feet and asked curiously.
"Everyone can see that I am here to buy you a drink. But no one can hear what you and I are saying. I asked my father-in-law to meet at this place, and my father-in-law must have guessed that I have something to say. Otherwise... how could my father-in-law be?" So hot in front of His Majesty?"
Li Yuanshan was still wearing the thinner royal court uniform, but his expression did not change at all. The mountain wind is so strong that even Yin Poshan, who is the best among the seven tiger generals of the right guard, dare not stay in this place for a long time at this time of year. Although he was invulnerable naked with kung fu, but the power of the cold wind was not comparable to that of ordinary swords.
Hearing this sentence, Wu Peisheng's face changed slightly.
"Mr. Tang, this time I am patrolling with the people from Dali Temple and the Ministry of War. We are the only idler in our family..."
Before he finished speaking, Li Yuanshan interrupted him with a wave of his hand.
Li Yuanshan opened the food box in front of him, and said with a smile, "Don't you be curious, what can I treat him to eat in this extremely cold place? The wine can be kept warm, but the dishes can be frozen when served."
"Curious." Wu Peisheng nodded.
"Just this one dish, just don't think Li is shabby."
Li Yuanshan pushed the food box in front of Wu Peisheng, Wu Peisheng bent down and looked at it, his eyes widened immediately. There is only one piece of paper in the food box, but it is very special paper.
"I know that your father-in-law is from Jiangdu County, Jianghuai Province. A few years ago, I bought a five-story house in Jiangdu City. I wanted to enjoy the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River in my spare time, but unfortunately I couldn't get what I wanted. The house There has been no one to live in, and it is almost deserted. I am stationed in the northwest without His Majesty's will, so I don't want to move rashly. If I want to go to the waterside of Jiangdu, I'm afraid I won't have a chance. My father-in-law is clean and never accepts gold and silver. I don't have any relatives at home. I will leave the palace in the future. It's not easy to find now...”
"useless!"
Wu Peisheng quickly declined: "If His Majesty finds out about this, ten heads in our family are not enough to cut off!"
"Will His Majesty know?"
Li Yuanshan smiled and said: "Even if your majesty knows, he will pretend not to know. His majesty has always been soft-hearted towards those who are close to him. Besides, don't worry, father-in-law, I have nothing to disobey your majesty."
"real?"
"real."
Wu Peisheng looked down the mountain, the people in the camp were as big as ants. He smiled and put away the house deed, then saluted with a shiver and thanked: "Then our family will thank Mr. Tang for his generosity and kindness."
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Fang Jie didn't even know how he got home. He lived in a courtyard behind Jinyuanfang. When he woke up for the second time, he was already lying on his big comfortable bed. When I woke up for the second time, not only was there still a fire burning in my lower abdomen, but my head was also in severe pain, and my whole body was swollen, even my eyelids did not escape, and my pair of originally big eyes were almost sealed. , can only open a small gap.
Seeing things is very blurry, and the burning pain in the throat can hardly make a sound.
He struggled to sit up, but found he couldn't move at all. Limbs and limbs, there is no pain anywhere. Because his throat was so dry, he wanted to speak but only made a dry and hoarse moan.
But he knew very well that this was his own room, because there was a familiar smell in this room. This smell came from Mu Xiaoyao. She is a woman with a strange fragrance, which smells refreshing. With her in the house, I don't know how much sandalwood was saved.
And this fragrance on a woman's body is much better than sandalwood.
"You are?"
It took him a lot of effort to get those two words out of his throat.
"Boss, you are awake."
The voice didn't belong to Mu Xiaoyao, and she wouldn't call herself the shopkeeper either. Although Fang Jie's head hurt like it was about to burst, his mind was very clear. He judged from the voice that the person speaking was Jin Feng, one of the four dealers in the Jinyuanfang Casino. Although the name is vulgar, Jin Feng is indeed an out-and-out beauty.
And after being trained by Fang Jie, after a year of hard training, her ability to roll the dice must not be underestimated. In the past two years, no customer has won her. Of course, this is because there were no dice in this world before Fang Jie.
Jinfeng is a seventeen-year-old girl with a petite figure. The most outstanding feature is her small mouth, which is extremely sexy. This girl was an orphan in Fangu City, her father was a frontier soldier, she was surrounded and killed by mountain dogs during a patrol, not even a single bone was left. As soon as my mother couldn't afford it, she died of illness within two years.
Jinfeng has a good figure, although she is not as good as Mu Xiaoyao, but she is one of the rare beauties. Xiaojiabiyu is very eye-catching. Her hands are extremely dexterous, otherwise she wouldn't have become one of the four croupiers of Jinyuanfang so soon.
It was on the opening day of Jinyuanfang that her mother died of illness, so Fang Jie accepted her as a croupier and carefully trained her. Now she is an indispensable person in Jinyuanfang.
"I can't see clearly, but I still know you are there."
Fang Jie would never blush when he told a lie. Besides, he couldn't even tell he was blushing now.
After Fang Jie drank the water that Jinfeng handed over, his throat felt better, and he asked softly, "How did I get back?"
Jin Feng helped Fang Jie to lie down more comfortably, and covered him with a quilt: "The frontier soldiers patrolling the city found you. At that time, you were lying naked on the street, looking as if you had been beaten. It was Li Gandang who was in the frontier army, and immediately brought you back with someone. The second shopkeeper hurriedly asked the doctor to show you, but he couldn't tell how the injury came from. General Li came here in person just now, and you didn't wake up. , General Li left after sitting for a while, and specially told me to take care of you."
When he said this, Jin Feng couldn't help but shed tears.
"Who is so vile and cruel, and beat you like this."
"Well… "
Fang Jie himself was still confused, but he would rather believe that he was beaten up: "It was dark and I didn't see clearly, so I was beaten up when I was blindfolded, and I passed out. I don't know who it was."
"General Li said that there will be a strict investigation, and the frontier army has dispatched two teams to search the city."
"It's okay...don't worry."
Fang Jie smiled wryly, and now he also wanted to understand that it was definitely not Du Hongxian who did something to him. Maybe it was the man in the blue shirt who did it. But there is no injustice, why did he make himself into such a virtue? At that time when he was in the red sleeve move, he felt that the man in the blue shirt looked at him with unusual eyes. Later, in Yunji's dog meat shop, he was already slightly drunk, but he lost his vigilance, but the man in the blue shirt didn't look like a villain, did he
"How can you rest assured, the shopkeeper...does it still hurt?"
Jin Feng wept, looking at Fang Jie's swollen face like a pig's head and asked in distress.
"It will be fine after few days."
Fang Jie sighed, and suddenly became aware of something. Thinking of this, his face immediately changed. Or when he noticed that his expression was different, Jin Feng quickly asked: "What's the matter, is it in severe pain? I'll go and invite the doctor over here."
"It's not... I just found something wrong."
Fang Jie was in some pain, hesitated for a while and said, "Everywhere in my body doesn't hurt, why... there is no feeling in that place? Jinfeng, tell me... Was it damaged?"
Jin Fengqiao blushed, and couldn't help shaking her head: "No... I helped you lie down. You were naked at the time, so I looked carefully. There... it was fine there, but... just... it looked much bigger .”
"But why is there no consciousness at all?"
Fang Jie worried: "What if it breaks..."
Jin Feng gently pulled Fang Jie's quilt away, peeked at it and blushed even more: "It's still standing upright, it looks scary."
"I can't move, you help me move it, I'll see if I feel it."
"oh… "
Jin Feng blushed in response, wanted to touch it with her hands but didn't dare, fearing that it would hurt Fang Jie, her hands were nimble and gentle but she was still worried, finally bit her lips, leaned over and opened her mouth to swallow it.
Fang Jie felt the pain in his head suddenly eased, and he couldn't help but rejoice: "Fortunately, this thing feels normal. Try it again and open your mouth wider."
Jin Feng blushed, sticking out her lilac tongue and licking it lightly, circling it back and forth as if massaging it, and then opened her mouth wide to swallow it. Tried back and forth a few times, finally sat up straight in frustration: "The shopkeeper... the swelling is too big... I... I can't suck it in."