"How is this person?" Li Hong looked at Yuan Fang's nervous and busy figure and asked Di Renjie next to him with a smile.
"Your Highness, please." Di Renjie made an invitation gesture with his hands in the air, and then followed Li Hong to sit down in the pavilion in the woods.
"Well, that's good. The tea has been prepared. I'm prepared." Li Hong looked at the tea sets on the simple wooden table and praised Di Renjie with satisfaction.
"Yuanfang is just meeting your Highness for the first time, so he is a little too nervous. I hope Your Highness will not blame you. Speaking of this person, Huaiying thinks that this person has a tough character and is a suitable person for serving as ministers." Di Renjie poured tea for Li Hong. , said while saying.
"Just use it yourself. Let's get down to business. I don't have much time. When the time comes, I will need you to take charge of the overall situation regarding Jiannan Road. Nanzhao is not as strong as we thought." Li Hong said gently. He brought the teacup to his nose and took a sniff, then sighed.
Compared with the incident on Jiannan Road, the incident in Nanzhao is naturally no small matter. If it is not suppressed immediately, it can easily become a prairie fire. In this case, he will have to put out fires everywhere like a fire brigade.
If Nanzhao is in chaos, if Zhenla takes the opportunity to send troops again, if Jiannan Road is in chaos again, half of the Tang Dynasty will be in chaos. There is no guarantee that other places will not follow the storm when they see this situation, especially if Saleh... If the fool really interferes in Anxi, he will really be worried.
"Your Highness's words..." The teacup Di Renjie picked up froze in mid-air.
"It doesn't seem like a big deal now, but no one knows what kind of negative consequences it will have if the term continues to develop, so I can't delay in Chengdu. Lawless will escort the grain, grass and weapons first. After entering Yunnan and Guizhou, We encountered no less than ten groups of robbers, and there were so many lawless people. Do you think the mob did this?" After Li Hong finished speaking, he sipped the tea and looked at Di Renjie.
"Is Xinuluo really so audacious? Although I have never been in contact with him, I have always been a supervisor..."
"Whether Xinuluo dares or not is one thing, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't dare to test the bottom line of the court! With such a large army mobilized, Xinuluo himself has to weigh it in his heart. He has done a lot of bad things in the past two years. He If there were no ghosts in my heart, this would not be the case. By the way, speaking of the Supervisor, do you still remember Fan Huaiyi? You must have figured out some clues by now, right?" Li Hong leaned on the back of his chair and raised his head. Looking at the sunlight coming in through the leaves, shining on my face.
"I have thought about it for a long time. It seems that Fan Huaiyi's impeachment of Quan Shancai for cutting down the tree was a lie. He wanted the court and Yushitai to continue to investigate whether he had any evil intentions. Now it seems that the King of Yue had already rebelled. It was a sign, but we didn’t…”
Li Hong stood up from his chair, sneered and said, "Back then, I asked my father to place Li Sujie and Li Shangjin in Jiannan Road, but why couldn't I even lead a Yizhou Protectorate? The court officials thought that I was responsible for them. They were transferred away from Jiannan Road, but they didn't know that if they continued to stay in Yizhou at that time, the King of Yue would attack them. Li Sujie stayed in Luoyang for a long time before going back, and Li Shangjin was not threatened back then. Xiaoxue and Xia Zhi came here before, but even so, I still had no influence on Jiannan Road. Although they were a little shocked, their original goal was not me, but my father. Li Jingye and the others misappropriated Hanjiacang. , Liyangcang grain and grass almost prevented my father from going to Anton. If I hadn’t urgently transferred Lu Zhaolin back to Youzhou, the incident in Liyangcang would have been concealed. Then when I went south to Yangzhou, I wouldn’t have been so embarrassed. Relaxed."
"So no matter what, I must find Fan Huaiyi. Maybe he has conclusive evidence that Quan Shancai and others conspired to rebel or misappropriated the granary. But now Quan Shancai is doing everything he can to avoid revealing any flaws. Even if I gain their trust, I am just a chess piece in their hands, unable to pose much of a threat to them, let alone uprooting the people of Jiannan Road." Di Renjie frowned, His Royal Highness revealed. He learned some secrets from that year.
Obviously, His Majesty the Crown Prince was unable to do anything at that time, and at that time, His Majesty was immersed in the peacefulness of the world and the prosperous Tang Dynasty gradually surpassed the former Sui Dynasty. His Majesty, who had always adopted an inclusive strategy towards the royal family members, obviously gave the royal family members a lot of attention. Big loopholes and opportunities have accumulated strength for them.
Whether it was Li Zhen, the king of Yue, or Li Ming, the king of Cao, they were already in opposition to Li Hong at that time, and even the five surnames Qi Wang, and the king of Pei Li Xian was also obstructing them. His Royal Highness was able to keep fighting with these people despite the pressure from several parties. He was able to maneuver around people, and he was able to make all the court officials, your majesty and even... the queen unaware. This kind of ability and courage was probably only matched by the late emperor.
"Besides Fan Huaiyi, is there anything else you need to pay attention to?" Li Hong looked at Di Renjie's beard, then touched his clean shaven chin this morning, and asked thoughtfully.
Di Renjie did not think that Li Hong was testing him. In his opinion, this was the style of His Royal Highness. When employing people, he would often let the person consider and discover problems from his own perspective, and then make further decisions. Suggest a solution, and if it's not enough, he'll make up for it.
If the method is perfect, then Li Hong will not speak anymore, and in this way, the minister will feel that he has a sense of accomplishment in front of His Highness and is quite capable of solving His Highness's worries.
So Di Renjie pondered for a while and then said carefully: "Judging from the clues that I can find out now, the remnants of Jiannan Road headed by King Cao and Prince Yue's power can be said to be deep-rooted and spread throughout the entire Jiannan Road. , and even colluded with Zhenla and Nanzhao, and even... "
"Okay, knowing this is enough. After I go to Nanzhao, I have to leave this place to you. Bai Chun should arrive in Chengdu in the next few days, but how will she arrive and how will she contact you? I I don’t know, so if you need anything, you can contact him. I pushed you to the forefront of the Jiannan Road matter, so you, Di Renjie, have no choice now. "
"If you don't succeed, you will be benevolent! Now I not only have to face your oppression, but also the test they put on me. If I make a wrong step, I am afraid... But then again, I have been handling cases in Dali Temple for many years. , I haven't been this excited for a long time, I really want to fight with them." Di Renjie shook his head and changed his tea, and then sighed.
Li Hong also smiled, and then said easily: "Jiannan Road is not really monolithic. There are always loopholes to follow. Even if we can't find Fan Huaiyi or find a breakthrough, we can still create a breakthrough ourselves, right? The silk of Chengdu Prefecture , tea, papermaking, and today's printing are all extremely developed. Banknotes were also the first to be accepted here. Moreover, it is located in a plain with water and rice as much as that of the south of the Yangtze River. Businessmen from other places also have many contacts, and there are naturally an overwhelming number of wealthy merchants, so When you really have no choice, you can contact Bai Chun and ask her to create a breakthrough for you. "
When Li Hong said the last thing, his eyes also became sharp.
Di Renjie understood the meaning of Li Hong's words. If it didn't work, he would use some wealthy businessmen or foreign business travelers to create conflicts and put the blame on Quan Shancai's Chengdu Mansion, or... Even if a few people died, Jingwei would not do it. This kind of shady job.
"I will do my best to ensure that the situation in Jiannan Road does not affect your plans in Nanzhao, and I will try my best not to let the Kingdom of Abundance you have given me smell a trace of blood. But if... I will make a decisive decision immediately. Don't be sloppy." Di Renjie stood up and saluted, saying with a solemn expression.
"Well, it looks like someone is coming." Li Hong nodded to Di Renjie, and then watched a white shadow rush towards the pavilion in the woods.
You don't need to think about it to know that Hai Dongqing came back from nowhere.
Di Renjie watched with some horror as Hai Dongqing's sharp claws were placed on Li Hong's shoulders, and his heart was already in his throat. If this flat-haired beast showed its bestiality and hurt His Highness, he would The sin is huge.
A pair of eyes did not dare to look at Hai Dongqing. He just looked at the pair of sharp claws that looked like steel and iron bones. His mind was still replaying the huge wings that covered the sky and the sun just now. At this moment, Hai Dongqing was gathered around his body. side.
"Don't pay attention to it. Just like Bai Qi, it's used to being wild. I guess Bai Qi will follow Bai Chun when he comes this time, so you have to pay attention to howling wolves...it might also be barking dogs." Li Hong said In the end, his face became a little embarrassed.
Now that Bai Qi is being raised by the girls in the East Palace, he is becoming more and more like a dog. An Xiaohe even asked Bai Qi to bark like a dog. But for the sake of a bite to eat, Bai Qi, a foodie, even imitated the barking regardless of his dignity and turned to Li who was watching the memorial. Hiro was startled.
I thought I had raised a wolf for many years, but in fact I was a dog, and I had foolishly raised it as a wolf.
But when he saw that An Xiaohe was still holding the food and continued to want Bai Qi to learn how to bark like a dog, Bai Qi raised his proud wolf head, without even looking at the delicious food in An Xiaohe's hand, and walked lightly He walked out on his own.
Seeing such a situation, Li Hong breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, this guy still had his wolf dignity and did not continue to give in to food without any limit.
When Di Renjie left, he did not forget to take away his teacup, so when Quan Shancai and others rushed over, Li Hong was the only one sitting in the pavilion, without even a single footprint around.
No matter how carefully you look, it seems like Li Hong is the only one around the pavilion.
Hua Meng and Cheetah were standing quietly behind two trees. If you didn't look carefully, it would be difficult to spot their presence.
(End of chapter)