Chapter 125: The villain is jealous

After intercepting the Nanzhao delegation, the chaotic situation in eastern Yunnan was gradually straightened out and began to become clear. Nanzhao's attempt to get involved in eastern Yunnan through marriage was shattered, and its power was temporarily excluded from eastern Yunnan. The rest was that the Tang Dynasty chose one of the people in the cold period as the King of Eastern Dian to prevent Nanzhao from expanding eastward. The court chose Han Chongdao and also supported Han Chongdao to destroy Han Guiwang. However, Li Qing discovered that Han Chongdao was on two boats, which was even more unreliable than Han Guiwang. On the one hand, he sent people back to Chang'an to report, but on the other hand, he was secretly looking for a third candidate.

After King Hangui fled back to Anxi City, there was no movement. Han Chongdao was busy preparing for the war and disappeared all day long. He spent five days peacefully. This year, spring in Yunnan came very late, as if it had just arrived last night. Only one night of spring rain, pear blossoms and apricot blossoms bloomed, and the entire Yunnan city was submerged in the colorful flowers, and the air was filled with a fragrant fragrance.

On this day, Li Qing came to the Wu Temple. The Wu Temple is in the east of the city and is the spiritual destination of the cold people in the northeastern Yunnan. There are nearly a hundred houses, like a grand temple with more than one hundred disciples, each performing their own duties. The witch is the highest among the cold people in eastern Yunnan. It is even more than Han Chongdao. When he heard that Li Qing was coming, the witch came out in person, "General Li is really honored to visit the small temple."

"Li Qing thanked the assistant of the Domeng Witch last time, but he was so rude." He was kind-hearted, but his eyes were swept around.

The witch knew what he meant, so she smiled slightly, led Li Qing into the side hall, and had someone come to tea again. When the people around her retreated, she said: "The person the general wants to find has been in seclusion and practiced witchcraft three days ago, and it will take a few more days to come out."

Li Qingyi was dazed, "Did the witch mean that she has promised to be your successor?"

"That's not. She should always ask her to know about it before she decides," The witch waved her hand and chuckled, "I promised that day that day, respect her choice and never force her, so please rest assured that general. I won't persuade her and let her choose."

Speaking of this, she paused and continued: "Besides, the general defeated Nanzhao's attempt to plot against our eastern Yunnan this time. It was too late to be grateful to me. How could he do something that made the general sad?"

After hearing what she said, Li Qing's mood gradually improved. He smiled and said, "I also don't like Nanzhao very much when I heard the witch's tone."

"If anyone wants Nanzhao to enter eastern Yunnan the least, it is me." The witch looked up at the hall and sighed a little, "Nanzhao originally believed in ghost religion, but after Piluoge ascended the throne, he began to promote Buddhism. If he wants to educate his people in eastern Yunnan, he will not tolerate my witch religion. In this way, how could I like Nanzhao? The Tang Dynasty is not the case. It has a broad mind and allows me to be self-governed by the cold people, and will never interfere with our beliefs. So I hope the Tang Dynasty can be tougher against Nanzhao."

A thought suddenly flashed through Li Qing's mind. Seeing that there was no one around, he asked in a low voice: "If the Tang Dynasty supports Han Chongdao as the King of Diandong to fight against Nanzhao, what do the witches think?"

The witch didn't say anything, and after a long time, a look of worry flashed in her eyes, and she slowly said: "In fact, Han Chongdao's mother is from Nanzhao. He has a deep sense of belonging to Nanzhao in his bones. If he is used as the King of Eastern Dian, I am sure that in less than three years, Eastern Dian will be annexed by Nanzhao."

Seeing that the witch and his own ideas were consistent, Li Qing took the opportunity to ask: "I also think Han Chongdao is not appropriate, but I can't find a suitable person. Can I ask the witch to recommend someone who can firmly oppose the expansion of Nanzhao, and be willing to belong to the Tang Dynasty, and have a certain prestige."

"There is such a person," the witch seemed to have already been confident and immediately spit out a name from her mouth, "Han Rijin"

"Han Rijin" Li Qing pronounced the name twice and said, "This is the first time I have heard of this person."

"Han Rijin was the younger brother of King Hangui. Last year, the rebellion in eastern Yunnan was the last time that he persuaded King Hangui to surrender to the Tang Dynasty again."

Li Qing didn't expect that she would recommend the enemy, and couldn't help but say in surprise: "They believe in the Sun God, but you believe in the Moon God. Are you afraid that he will merge you?"

The witch's eyes closed and said lightly: "The sun and the moon are originally a family. As long as the eastern Yunnan can maintain peace forever, what if the sun and the moon merge! "

Although he still couldn't see Awan in the end, Li Qing was in a happy mood. He said goodbye to the witch and walked out of the witch temple quickly. Before he could reach the street, he heard the crowds of people. Men, women, and young and old in every household ran towards the square. Li Qing didn't know what happened, so he brought a few soldiers to the square with the crowd. The square was in the center of the city, covering an area of ​​about a hundred acres. The land was stubborn and could not grow a single grass for sacrifices or training. The bonfire party that day was also held here, but at this time the square was filled with grain trucks, and the faces of the cold people were smiling. He was assisting the soldiers to unload bags of grain from the trucks, piled up like a hill.

More than a hundred Tang soldiers stood guard in front of the food, but they were not their own subordinates. It seemed that Gao Zhandao had completed his mission. At this time, an official in his forties stepped forward and bowed: "Is you General Li Qing?"

Li Qing looked at him and saw that he had leopard eyes, lion nose, black face and long beard, burly figure, and majestic. He had a good impression of him, so he nodded with a smile and said, "I am Li Qing, what is this adult called?"

"In the Xia Yao Prefectural Chief Zhang Qiantuo, he is responsible for the release of food this time."

Li Qing was slightly stunned and looked at him up and down, "Zhang Qiantuo, are you Zhang Qiantuo?"

Zhang Qiantuo was a little surprised and suddenly laughed again: "General Li knew me from Lord Xianyu!"

Zhang Qiantuo, who had a very good personal relationship with Xian Yu Zhongtong. After Xian Yu Zhongtong became the governor of Jiannan, he recommended him as the prefect of Yunnan. In the eighth year of Tianbao, he was abused by the wife and daughter of King Ge Luofeng of Yunnan at that time, and forced him to rebel against Ge Luofeng, leading to the first war between Nanzhao and the Tang Dynasty. However, it would not be fair to put the responsibility for that war on Zhang Qiantuo, but history began to quietly walk on the fork road at this time. If the problem of eastern Yunnan could be solved and Nanzhao could not expand eastward, it would be unable to confront the Tang Dynasty.

Li Qing smiled: "I heard this name only feel familiar. I have heard it where I have heard it, but I forgot. It seems that I heard it from Lord Xianyu."

"But I often hear Lord Xianyu talk about you, saying that you were a hawker selling ice water back then, but now you are a stolen person in Beijing."

Seeing that he knew his old age, Li Qing couldn't help but say embarrassedly: "Li Qing was born in a poor family, which made Lord Zhang laugh."

Zhang Qiantuo shook his head and said with a solemn expression: "A real man doesn't care about his background, he only has talent. As long as General Li makes contributions to the country, who dares to erase your contributions because of General Li's background."

Seeing that his eyes were sincere and his words came from the heart, Li Qing felt a warm feeling in his heart, and smiled and said, "I wonder what Mr. Zhang is asking me for?"

One sentence reminded Zhang Qiantuo, and he hurriedly said, "I almost forgot, it was my master who asked the general to come over and talk."

"But Lord Li Mi, is he here too?"

“That’s right!”

After the war in eastern Yunnan last year, Zhang Qiu and Qiong recommended Li Mi as the governor of Nanxi County, and also served as the governor of Yaozhou, the attendant censor, and in charge of affairs in eastern Yunnan and Yunnan.

Unlike Zhang Qiantuo's black face, Li Mi has a slender and white face. He was originally a prince. But recently Li Linfu celebrated his birthday and sent someone to send him a gift. Li Linfu also attached great importance to him and ordered him to cooperate with Chen Xilie to solve the Nanzhao problem. Although he was in charge of the affairs of Eastern Yunnan, he did not know that Li Qing had received the emperor's secret order, so he was very angry that Li Qing had interfered in his power without authorization. He kept watching his actions coldly until Gao Zhandao showed his imperial waist card to order him to deliver food. He then came back a little and took the opportunity to deliver food to explore his reality.

At this time, he was talking to Han Chongdao about Nanzhao's possible countermeasures. Li Mi was deeply dissatisfied with Li Qing's annihilation of Nanzhao's mission. He believed that this move would be retaliated by Nanzhao and thus harm the security of eastern Yunnan. However, he had to admit that the battle was very beautiful, which increased the confidence of the Han people in eastern Yunnan in the Tang Dynasty. It was this mentality of worrying about gains and losses that made him feel a little jealous of Li Qingsheng.

Han Chongdao was resentful of Ruyu's death. Although Li Qing later explained that Ruyu died in the chaos, Han Chongdao was still very dissatisfied. Ruyu was the woman he had longed for for a long time. Seeing that this opportunity could be taken into his room, he died in the end. For the two sisters of Nanzhao, he did not even get any hair. All of this stemmed from Li Qing's arrival and even killed Zhao Quanwei, which made him unable to explain to Piluoge. But at this time, what he had to do was to win the trust of the Tang Dynasty, gain control of the eastern Yunnan region, and then slowly approach Nanzhao.

Thinking of this, Han Chongdao asked tentatively: "If King Hangui is destroyed, I wonder how the court will arrange for me?"

Li Mi glanced at Han Chongdao. Although the court intended to let him be the King of Diandong, he could not say it at this time. He only smiled faintly and said: "The court meant to let Chief Han be the governor of Kunzhou first, and if he made contributions to the eastward expansion of Nanzhao in the future, he would be rewarded."

Han Chongdao was stunned and said anxiously: "Why is the governor of Kunming? Didn't you say the governor of Nanning Prefecture?"

Li Mi was surprised, "Who told you to be appointed as the governor of Nanning Prefecture?"

"It was General Li's personal words and the emperor's secret decree."

"Secret Order? What kind of secret order?" Li Mi's mind flashed countless thoughts. He had just received news from Li Linfu that he had conferred Han Chongdao as the governor of Kunming, but why did he become the governor of Nanning Prefecture? There was a secret order? Could it be that Li Qingzhen was a secret envoy sent by the emperor?

"The secret decree is a piece of white hemp paper. I haven't seen the specific content. General Li collected it too quickly. Perhaps there was something else in the secret decree, so it was inconvenient for me to read it."

"Is that?" Li Mi's eyes narrowed into a slit. There was no reason why she would not show the decree to others. Besides, the emperor was used to using yellow silk when writing secret decrees, so how could she use white paper? White hemp was drafted by the Hanlin Academy. How could she use it here? Even if she used it, why would Li Xiang not know? There must be a problem here. You have to understand this matter.

Thinking of this, Li Mi smiled and said, "Whether the governor of Kunming and the governor of Nanning Prefecture are all transitional positions. If Chief Han works hard to work for the court, his future rewards will never be low.

At this time, the soldiers at the door came to report, "General Li is asking for a meeting outside the door?"

"Please come in!"

While speaking, Li Qing strode into the room. Although he received all the secret orders given to him in Nanzhao that Li Longji could be entrusted to him, his position was lower than that of Li Mi. Moreover, Li Mi was the official appointed by the court to manage Eastern Yunnan and be responsible for negotiating with Nanzhao. Therefore, Li Qing did not dare to neglect it. After entering the door, he saw a slender and white-faced middle-aged man sitting on his head, probably Li Mi, so he bowed and smiled: "Governor Li personally sent food, and he was tired all the way."

"Haha! I dare not take it! I dare not take it! But Li Sheren relieved the court's worries. I just realized that he was ashamed!" He said ashamed, but the real meaning was that Li Qing did not come to visit him first and acted without authorization.

Li Qing naturally understood what he meant, sneered slightly in his heart, looked back at Han Chongdao, and Han Chongdao woke up and laughed dryly, "I still have to go see the food, you guys talk first, talk first." After that, he left embarrassedly.

Li Qing stared at Han Chongdao's back until he walked away, and said solemnly to Li Mi: "I am guarding the Tang Dynasty mission to go south and receive orders from Yibin to assist Han Chongdao in fighting against Han Return King. Because time is urgent, there is no time to notify Governor Li."

"Hmph! Li Sheren is a Beijing official, and his eyes are on his head. Naturally, he will not say hello to a frontier official like me."

Li Qing apologized: "It was Li Qing who was rude. I apologized to Governor Li here!" After that, he bowed and bowed to Li Mi.

But Li Mi turned his eyes and said to Li Qingsen: "It doesn't matter whether he would say hello to me, but you killed the Nanzhao delegation and made me unjust. How do you explain this?"

Seeing that he was aggressive and unhappy, Li Qing also sneered: "If you don't intercept the Nanzhao mission, do you know the consequences? Since I was sent by the court, I will explain this matter to the court, and I will bear the responsibility if something happens. It will not bother Governor Li, nor will it implicate Governor Li."

Li Mi stared at him closely. Thinking that he was undermined in the affairs of Eastern Yunnan and all his contributions were attributed to this person, he was jealous and angry, and wanted to attack Han Chongdao for reward, but he didn't know how profound he was. After a change of thought, he made a decision. Since he was a member of the Tang Dynasty mission, he would go to Chen Xilie by himself and ask the Prime Minister Chen to teach him a lesson.
Chapter completed!