After rebirth, I joined forces with my mortal enemy to seek revenge.

Under her gaze, Li Xiujing nodded. Yes, his return to Shence Military Town this time was indeed under Cao Wenzhong's order, but in fact it was a conspiracy between him and Lieutenant Liu. Use this time to cut off some of Cao Wenzhong's wings and find out how many people in Shence Army Town are occupying military positions.

Originally, he did not plan to tell Pei Jiaoran about this, firstly because she was already involved in many affairs, and secondly because after all, this was an internal matter within Shence, and bringing her in might bring her trouble.

Now Pei Jiaoran took the initiative to raise this question. He could only talk to her and listen to her ideas.

"If these people are found at this time, how many people will be left in the Left and Right Shence?" Pei Jiaoran asked with a frown.

"I made a rough calculation, and the two armies combined will lose at least 50,000 people." Li Xiujing's eyes fell on her face, "But I just hold the list of these people in my hand this time, and I will not keep it for the time being. How are they."

Hearing this, Pei Jiaoran said nothing. She knew that most of these people who had occupied military positions were descendants of local gentry and wealthy families. Joining the Shence Army was, firstly, to seek protection, and secondly, to provide money to the Shence Army. These people are cancerous tumors within the Shence Army, but they cannot be eradicated for a while. The interests between the two are interdependent, and their lips are dead and their teeth are cold.

And we have to consider whether moving them will bring about a series of impacts. The courtiers and eunuchs formed various factions, and the situation between the left and right armies was also complicated, but often inseparable.

Once these people who have occupied military positions are vigorously identified in the Shence Army, there will be large-scale personnel changes. There must be someone to fill the vacant position. The political situation is often prone to changes at this time.

In other words, changes in the political situation are inseparable from personnel transfers. Outsiders don't care about the significance of the position itself; they care about why they got it.

For example, Li Xiujing was recommended by her as the governor of Guazhou and made great achievements in repelling the Turks in Fengzhou. After returning to Chang'an, he served as General Shence. In the eyes of outsiders, he has been classified as Jia Gonglu's faction, so he wants to change his faction in the future, or the Li family has arrangements for him. You must first promote that you were forced by the situation at that time and did it as a last resort. The Li family, weighing the two sides, could only acquiesce in his behavior.

Speaking of herself, in the eyes of the courtiers she was an ungrateful villain. The ruler just lost power and turned to Jia Gonglu. Therefore, within just over a year since I came back, I was able to move from a Taiwan official to a provincial official, and now I have been promoted to the position of Minister of Household Affairs, Fan Duzhi. For Wang Yu and his party, her current palm control means that Zuozangku has been controlled by Jia Gonglu and others.

But there are exceptions. For example, Emperor Wei and the prince, two very politically intelligent people, did not care who she belonged to. Instead, the focus is on whether she can bring them different power to replace the old forces. That's why he took the opportunity to promote her again and again, and while giving her political favors, he also needed her to return the favor.

"Qingjia, I know that if we get rid of these people who occupy military positions, the pressure on Zuozang will be much less. But once we lose the financial supply of these people, Shence's military expenses will still have to be provided."

Pei Jiaoran frowned after listening to Li Xiujing's words. After returning, she spared no effort to get involved in the struggle between the treasury and the inner treasury. The only thing that did not intervene or interfere too much was the matter of the Shence Army's false occupation of troops. The Shence Army has a large number of people, which can intimidate those ambitious vassal towns to a certain extent. Secondly, even if some of them sell military memberships to enrich themselves by taking bribes, it can bring part of the military expenses to the Shence Army and reduce the pressure of expenditure.

Pei Jiaoran said: "I have thought about this, so I didn't want to make a fuss about it. There is just one thing. If the wealthy gentry joins the army and pays money to avoid corvee, then the father, brother and children in the family will not have to serve in sex service. So the government In order to complete the task of tax collection, the county can only distribute taxes, corvees, and official duties to the poor people."

Even if she had the intention to weaken the Shence Army, it was definitely not at this time. But now that she was sent by Emperor Wei to investigate the salt industry in the northwest, why not take this opportunity to see how the Shence Army operates in the northwest. And she always felt that Emperor Wei would be happy to put her hand into the Shence Army, but he would not care if she would get into trouble.

Pei Jiaoran raised his eyebrows after seeing clearly the king's plan. She believes that she does not have the ability to sit still and wait for death, and counterattack is what she is good at.

"Since you want to check the salt industry in the northwest, why not just take advantage of the situation and take a look at Shence Army's operations in the northwest?" A smile appeared on Li Xiujing's face, "Zhongshu, Yushi, and the Ministry of War cannot join Shence Army without orders. Zhen, after much thought, you are the most suitable."

The two had the same idea, and Pei Jiaoran narrowed his eyes.

"Don't you think I'm tired?" Pei Jiaoran said angrily.

Hearing this, Li Xiujing looked at her and said, "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If you don't want to go, then forget it."

"Okay, the method of provoking generals is useless to me. And unless you help me, how can I check Shence's account?" Pei Jiaoran lowered his head and took a sip of tea, "Li Xiujing, how about you and I make a deal?" ?”

"What do you want me to do?" Li Xiujing smiled.

Pei Jiaoran frowned and said warmly: "Send He Liang or Feng Yuanxian to Hangzhou to help me bring Bi Fei back."

"Bifei? Why do you suddenly want to take her back? Didn't you say that she should have her own world?" Li Xiujing said with suspicion.

"People always change. And after thinking about it, maybe I should ask her what she thinks. She is not an idiot. It is my fault to blindly impose my own ideas on her. Maybe she can live in Chang'an , ushering in her own fate." Pei Jiaoran smiled slightly.

After that day, she thought about it for a long time. I found that in this matter, I was too obsessed with what I had experienced in my previous life, and instead ignored Bi Fei's feelings. And she was also thinking about whether she could cultivate Bi Fei and become her right-hand man.

As my brother said, politics is not fought alone. Rather, we need to form interest groups to go further. No matter whether it is the nobles of the six towns in the Southern and Northern Dynasties or the aristocratic families in the past, they cannot travel thousands of miles alone.

More importantly, she hopes that Bi Fei can shine as a woman in this world, instead of just living or becoming someone else's possession. All day long, she is buried in the endless chores in the back house and the jealousy expected by the men.

She was able to see the scenery at the top of the mountain because of the inheritance from her ancestors.

Therefore, she also hopes that the people around her can appreciate this hard-won opportunity as she does, and squeeze into the field of power openly and openly. Go after everything you want. We also hope that they will learn to cherish their own lives, know how to divide interests and how to survive.