Tang Dynasty Never Night

Li Xian had imagined many kinds of problems that he might encounter during a fight, even if it was windy or rainy, he could have foreseen it, but the ocean vortex... I'm sorry, I really didn't expect it, what the hell is going on with this thing? Out of it?

The speed of the warship was already very slow, but it was still moving forward. Jiang Fan, who didn't have a telescope, could see the sea vortex with his naked eyes, but he couldn't see it as clearly as Li Xian, so the degree of shock was not as good as Li Xian's.

Li Xian put away the binoculars and ordered decisively: "Retreat!"

What?All the officers and soldiers were stunned. They had been preparing for so long and they were about to confront the pirates head-on. Now the coach said to withdraw?How about teasing them?

Li Xian is more cautious. Damn, the pirate's ship has been swallowed up. The vortex doesn't seem to be going away. They may be dragged in if they drive like this. It doesn't matter if the pirate fights later, but it can't Drag a boatload of people to die!

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Li Xian threw the binoculars to Jiang Fan.Jiang Fan held the binoculars in both hands tremblingly as if holding an imperial edict—he had heard of this thing before, it was very precious, is it appropriate for you to just throw it around like this, Your Highness?

Li Xian pointed to the direction of the vortex and said, "I told you to look there, why are you staring at the telescope?"

Only then did Jiang Fan get out of the excitement of getting the precious treasure, picked up the binoculars to look at it, and then... held it upside down...

After he finally figured out how to use it, when he saw the vortex, his face turned ashen, and he hurriedly said, "Get out, get out!" Fuck, I didn't think it was too clear just now with the naked eye, so I took a look with a telescope... that Why is the whirlpool so big!

Although the people below are quite strange, but since the top leaders have spoken, they have withdrawn obediently. To be honest, everyone thinks it is quite disappointing. Although it is killing pirates, it can be regarded as military merit. It's not stable, but it's not easy to be named a Marquis with military merits - Zheng Qi's... is an unconventional way, and ordinary people can't learn it.

As a result, they withdrew before the fight started, and everyone was quite depressed for a while.But after they got ashore, they didn't feel depressed anymore, because there was a tsunami on the island where the pirates were located...!

The so-called tsunami is an earthquake at the bottom of the sea. Li Xian and the others stood on the shore and watched the huge waves. They were stunned for a moment. They didn't know if it was because the source of the earthquake was far away or deep. Although they felt a little tremor on the shore, Not very obvious though.

Li Xian led the people to withdraw decisively. Zhang Ji snorted coldly when he found out, thinking that Li Xian had been beaten back.Then in the next two days, both civil servants and military commanders looked very good-the islands occupied by pirates sank to varying degrees under the influence of the tsunami, and several even went directly underwater. The area exposed above the water is less than one-fifth of the original area, and the pirates are basically drowned, and most of the survivors are their family members.

When the envoys arrived, they were worried when they heard that Li Xian had led a team to fight pirates. There was no way to award the rewards if the master was not here. The envoys could only wait for Li Xian to return at the posthouse. Coincidentally, Li Xian led the team out on the day he arrived.

The envoy sighed for a long time and thought he would wait here for a few days, but he didn't expect that Li Xian would come back that day.The envoy was taken aback, and for a moment he was pondering: Is this a win or a loss?The reason for this question is that both Li Xian and the generals below have very strange expressions. Say happy, not like, say unhappy, and a little bit, what kind of rhythm is this?

After Li Xian opened the middle door to welcome the envoy to receive the reward, his demeanor was almost the same as usual, he politely asked the envoy to stay at the station for two more days, and he wrote a note and handed it over.

The envoy was also very polite to His Royal Highness King Zhou, who was able to burn barbarians in the west and beat pirates in the east. When Li Xian asked him about various situations in Chang'an, he also explained in detail. He brought a letter from Zheng Qi.Obviously Li Xian was not the only one who used envoys as trust.

Zheng Qi's letter calmed down Li Xian's strange mood, and asked Wei Cheng to have dinner with the envoy, oh, the envoy, and then he began to read the letter.

Nothing major has happened recently, the biggest thing is... the eldest grandson of the emperor was finally born.Yes, Li Xian is so lucky that his first child is a son.

Li Xian thought of Li Hong's anxious look when he left, and sighed slightly. This child is the eldest grandson of the emperor, and also the eldest son of King Pei. It can be richer.

Then Zheng Qi told Li Xian that he sent the Hezhe family to An Lezhou, and said that he was really a good person, but he really was soft-hearted.

Li Xian: =口=!

You soft-hearted fart!Li Xian squeezed the letter and felt that if Zheng Qi was in front of him, he would definitely not be able to help complaining, Nima, where is Anle State?Tuyuhun, which was defeated by Tubo, was assigned there when it was attached. Of course, Anle State was renamed later. It used to be called Lingzhou. After Nuohebo led people to move there, it was renamed Anle State. Li Zhi also named Nuohebo the governor of Anle Prefecture. That place is now more like an autonomous region for ethnic minorities, so even if the land of Tuyuhun is now taken over by the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty has no intention of helping Tuyuhun to rebuild the country. , because the population base of Tuyuhun is not as good as before, and they are all honestly nesting.

Of course, those people in Tuyuhun are not stupid. Tubo was able to compete with Datang in its original strength. Although it has been beaten to the ground now, the emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, and Tuyuhun's number doubled is not Tubo's opponent. If you go to Jianguo rashly now, you may be beaten by Tubo at that time, and this time you may not be lucky enough to be able to attach to Datang.

It’s just that although the people of Tuyuhun are honestly recuperating in Anle Prefecture, it doesn’t mean that they have forgotten their enemies. Hezhe participated in Tuyuhun back then, and even if they didn’t participate, as long as they know that this person is Tubo People, Tuyuhun people will definitely not let him live for too long.

This is probably a more roundabout way Zheng Qi found to kill Hezhe. After all, in order to let Hezhe reveal some Tubo secrets, Zheng Qi promised not to kill him, and let their family live in peace. Although there are many things that go back and forth in politics, it's just that it's impossible to keep this matter secret, and once it is done, it will be a political stain.

So even if Hezhe was also killed, after he promised that he would not kill them, he directly let Hezhe go with him, but Hezhe died because of other things, and even his whole family did not survive. The latter is more acceptable, which is also a very strange thing.

Li Xian didn't say anything after complaining. He never thought about letting Hezhe live. He didn't respond to the promise that Zheng Qi made to make Hezhe open his mouth, but he had already planned it in his heart. Anyway, he agreed. The person in charge is Zheng Qi, and it will be the same when he finds someone to kill Hezhe.

What?It is too pitiful to say that he was tortured enough before folding?Hehe, anyone who dares to say that Li Xian dares to make a fool of himself!Have the ability to speak to the ghosts of the slaughtered villagers near Kunlun Town!

In the end, Zheng Qi wrote in his letter that your tax reform method has been passed by the court, but many details are still being disputed, and then he felt that reform is always a troublesome thing.

Then at the end of the letter, I asked: Will you come back this year for Chinese New Year?

The last sentence made Li Xian feel warm and happy. At the end of the year, he will definitely return to Beijing to report on his work. The only thing that is uncertain is that he can stay for a few days. How many days will the wine he put in the wine cellar come in handy?

After reading the letter, Li Xian first wrote back a letter to Zheng Qi, and then told him that he was going to suppress the pirates, and then encountered a tsunami before leaving the army. He was a little depressed while writing, although a lot of pirates died without bloodshed. The thieves are pretty good, but he has been tossing so long in vain. If he had known that God would not look down on those pirates, he would have just waited to see them be punished by God.

After writing the letter to Zheng Qi, Li Xian began to write the memorial. There are two copies in total. One is to report on his going to beat up the pirates, but he just wrote a summary of the previous situation, because the follow-up... he still doesn't know how to follow up. What happened? I only knew that there was a tsunami. He was afraid that something might go wrong, so he rushed back with his people. The people below have already gone to investigate, and he will continue to write after he comes to a conclusion later.

Then the other one is a suggestion for tax reform. He means that it should not be promoted nationwide at one time. What should we do if the one-time promotion of Datang is not suitable and something happens?These days there are so many bandits and pirates living in exile, and the small countries around them are staring at it. It is really not peaceful. Under such circumstances, Datang must be tough.

In fact, Li Zhi did this very well. Li Xian's previous impression of Li Zhi was basically: Oh, this is a wife slave, and he is a bit cowardly. Otherwise, how could he be ruled by Empress Wu?

After crossing over, I found out, Nima, who dares to say that Li Zhi is a good-for-nothing, he will make a fool of himself.The officials appointed by Li Zhi always have his reasons, and even if there are party disputes, and it seems that there are people who seem to be torn apart in the whole court, they have not delayed any major national affairs.

The territory of the Tang Dynasty should be the largest since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, with all the martial arts and martial arts, but it is a pity that the only female emperor in history obscures the light, making people feel that he is incompetent.

If the building is crooked, it will be pulled back. If you want stability and reform, then find a pilot. Now that there are more prosperous businessmen, where the control is stronger and the acceptance is stronger, it is better to conduct experiments, and then gradually promote the whole country. It's the safest way.

After finishing writing, Li Xian looked at his notebook and sighed slightly. If it was more than two years ago when he hadn't timed over, he would have suffered a lot even writing the thesis. The rhetoric he wrote now can be said in eighty words. If the finished thing has to be expanded into a memorial of [-] characters, it can be written very decently.

After finishing writing, he sent someone to ask about the follow-up of the tsunami, and the result he got made him feel embarrassed. Under the influence of the tsunami, there were not many people alive on Pirate Island, and most of those people were pirates. The family members of the family are basically old, weak, sick and disabled. Oh, even the old, weak, sick and disabled are relatively vicious family members of pirates. Pirates are also divided into classes. It's better, and it's not so good if you don't have any skills.

And those who survived are basically the family members of those pirates with relatively high status. Those family members...don’t even think about it, most of them were snatched, and basically none of them voluntarily followed the pirates, but many of them were given to the pirates. gave birth to a child.

The reason why he knew the situation of the pirates so clearly was that Li Xian was afraid that the pirates would go to the fishing village to rob again after the disaster, so he asked Jiang Fan to lead troops to garrison on the coastline, and if he found suspicious people, he would take them down immediately.

Then...Jiang Fan captured a few pirates and most of the pirates' family members. Those pirates had not been on board before, and they survived by luck. People who have lived at sea for a long time generally know in their hearts that After the tsunami, there are likely to be some small tsunamis. After all, the tsunami is caused by the change of the earth's crust. Even if it is an earthquake on land, there will be many small aftershocks after a large earthquake.

So those pirates and their brothers' widows and orphans planned to go ashore first to find a place to hide, and when the sea was almost stable, they would find a place to station.

As a result, they did not expect that Li Xian had sent troops to the shore, and they were all arrested as soon as they arrived. Needless to say, the living pirates were all killed after asking about the situation. What made him hesitate was the demands of these family members. How to arrange?After all, many of them are also victims, and this situation is too special.

After hearing this, Li Xian hesitated. He lowered his head and thought for a while, and finally made up his mind: "Children of pirates who are over seven years old will be punished, and those under seven years old will be with the family members of pirates..." Li Xian hesitated for a while, but he hardened his heart Said: "Exile to Lingnan."

Jiang Fan froze for a moment after hearing this: "Your Highness, is this..." Too heavy?In the Tang Dynasty, the seven-year-old law was a watershed. Even if the death penalty was committed under the age of seven, it could not be sentenced to death. This is probably similar to the concept that minors will not be sentenced to death in later generations.

Li Xian knew what Jiang Fan meant, but he didn't want to explain to Jiang Fan, he just waved his hand and said, "Let's do it this way, if something happens, I'll bear it."

How to explain it?How can it be explained?He is not interested in keeping the enemy's son, and after a few years, the two who avenged their father, even girls, don't plan to keep them!

The children of the pirates have the blood of the pirates. Maybe there are good people here, but Li Xian doesn't want to distinguish who is good from who is not. Why did the pirates treat the children in the fishing village softly when they killed those villagers?

How many children have they killed, then... I'm sorry, their children don't even want to live now.As for the family members of those pirates, Li Xian knew it was a bit more important. In this era, Lingnan is still a barren land. Women and children basically cannot survive there. Of course, it is not ruled out that there are strong women who survived with their children. , but that is just barely alive.

Li Xian knew that many of those girls were also victims, but he also didn't want to hear those women's excuses. What's there to say?Those with real backbone would have tried to kill themselves before being taken away and humiliated by pirates. Since they chose to live by idling, there is nothing to sympathize with.

After all, the silks and satins they wear and the delicacies they eat are all piled up with human flesh and blood. Now that they have enjoyed it, let's return it now.

After dealing with the pirates' affairs in a simple and rough manner, Li Xian began to pay attention to whether the tsunami caused by the earthquake caused a catastrophe.This time Yangzhou was quite lucky, but a few villages were swept by the waves, but the damage was not serious, no one was killed, but some were injured. The only thing that was more troublesome was the fishermen's houses... they were not very strong, and they were caught by the waves A lot of houses have collapsed, and the boats that fishermen rely on for survival are also missing. The resettlement of these victims is also a problem.

Li Xian sighed with a bit of a headache, Nima, it's time to allocate money again, and the group of civil servants headed by Zhang Ji may be delayed again.No, this group of people must find time to get rid of it, or else once or twice will be fine, and if it delays each time, he can't help but kill people!

Li Xian also wrote the treatment of the pirates in the brochure, and after thinking about it, he wrote a letter to Empress Wu, expressing depressedly that the people in Yangzhou are too disobedient!Then he talked about his recent life, it looked like he was in touch with his mother, but in fact...he was giving eye drops to the blind people in Yangzhou, um, there are some things that are more difficult to write to Empress Wu It is more appropriate to write a booklet for Li Zhi, because writing a letter is a family letter, and the booklet is for official business, and the booklet sent up has to go through the three provinces.

You can't complain and complain in the booklet, but isn't he just writing the family letter?

The envoy acted very well as a messenger this time, and he went back with two memorials and two letters. Of course, he was also willing. After all, Li Xian gave him a lot of rewards, so this trip was very worthwhile.

After the envoy left, Li Xian started to work on two things, one was to resettle the victims, and the other was to build a ship. Li Xian thought very simply, and he had to bring some It's okay to go back after all, can't the empress really think he's here to play, okay?

The resettlement of the victims is fairly simple, just giving some relief funds. There is no precedent for the country to build houses for the victims these years. Comparing the appeasement of the victims in the Tang Dynasty and later generations, Li Xian has to admit that my rabbit is still very good at this.

Li Xian felt sorry for those victims, he insisted on fighting with Zhang Ji and took a little more relief funds, and then stared at the people below to distribute them. As long as they found any signs of corruption, they would be arrested directly, and they should be punished. It's no use asking for mercy.

I have to say that the official circles in Yangzhou were quite turbulent for a while, and the Shang Zuoguan was in a daze, always feeling... Zhou Wang's style of painting is wrong, what about the stupid and cute little prince?You become a bandit this second, do your parents know?

Zhang Ji is also suffering and can't tell. To be honest, although Li Xian is the governor of Yangzhou, the power in his hands is really not as good as that of Zhang Ji-why let Zhang Ji have been running here for decades?His network of relationships in Yangzhou official circles is very dense, and basically everyone looks up to him.

Before he insisted not to pay military expenses, Li Xian paid out of his own pocket without arguing. Zhang Ji knew that the young prince was very rich. The prince can pay for it himself, but the real funds...doesn't matter where they will go?

So having such a governor of Yangzhou, Zhang Ji thought it was pretty good.As for whether Li Xian will become poor, he cares so much.

It's just that this time Li Xian became tough, so he didn't dare to challenge him anymore. There was nothing he could do... His Royal Highness King Zhou was too amazing. He had heard of his "great achievements" before.For example, if you pray for rain, it will rain. For example, when you are facing the enemy, the enemy crossing the river is completely wiped out by the storm.

It’s just that these things are full of various mythological colors. Those who have not experienced them are probably just listening to them for fun. Even if ancient feudal superstitions were very popular, people often don’t believe in everything. People often weave some magical time to prove that they were chosen by God from extraordinary backgrounds, which are tacitly understood by everyone.

Even a bit of conspiracy theory, Zhang Ji felt that these things might have been fabricated by the King of Zhou himself, with the same purpose as that of King Pei, who had chosen the position of the crown prince, and the fact that the King of Zhou was sent to Yangzhou was likely to be seen by the sage lady , and then kicked him out, this prince has no future.

This was the consensus of the upper-level officials in Yangzhou, otherwise they would not have dared to cut Li Xian's military expenses.However, the fact that Li Xian went to fight the pirates this time is amazing. Yangzhou is not an earthquake-prone area, and the tsunami will come at this time. It was even more creepy when the vortex swallowed it.

After knowing the follow-up, his legs became weaker-the pirates were almost wiped out by the regiment, and the fishermen in Yangzhou were only affected by the nearby villages.

Nima, the Little Dragon King is real?Zhang Ji's legs are going to be weak, he would rather believe what he has or not!So when Li Xian was very stubborn and wanted to send out more disaster relief funds, he agreed without much insistence - such a depraved god can't be messed with, and anyone who opposes him will end badly!

Li Xian still wondered how his words worked, and was secretly vigilant to whether these people were holding back again?Or refer back to his book Misuse of Public Funds?It's just that even if he knew that he would be recruited, Li Xian would probably do the same. Those fishermen are too miserable, and they probably won't be able to survive if they don't give them more money. Maybe they will force another wave of pirates.

Just when Zhang Ji and the others marked Li Xian with the red name BOSS, and Li Xian was on guard against Zhang Ji and the others, the instructions from his own father soon came to him.

Li Zhi said: Qilang thinks very much, since this is the case, let's try out the tax reform in Yangzhou first, son, Dad is optimistic about you.

Li Xian: Damn it, dear father, please let me go!