Li Shouzhen and Zhao Siwan have already perished, and only one Wang Jingchong is left to support him.

Originally, he pulled the two of them to take care of them, but now he is the only one left. Guo Wei is waiting for his work, so he has no chance of turning the tables.

But Wang Jingchong was not giving up. He sent people to Shu Kingdom to ask for reinforcements. In order to survive, he had submitted a letter to surrender to Shu Kingdom, and Shu Kingdom also sent general Meng Chang to support him.

The reinforcements from Later Shu arrived in Baoji and were defeated by Zhao Hui's general Yao Yuanfu and Li Yancong. Zhao Hui surrounded Fengxiang, dug trenches and attacked with several elite troops.

Wang Jingchong refused to go to war, so Zhao Hui sent thousands of people to disguise themselves as the Later Shu army and walked down the Nanshan Mountain, claiming that the rescue was coming. Wang Jingchong believed that all the elite troops broke through. Zhao Hui set up an ambush to wait for him. Wang Jingchong's troops were defeated and he dared not come back from then on.

The reinforcements could not meet, and Fengxiang was still alone and helpless. Seeing that the food in the city was not enough, Wang Jingchong's heart also sank to the bottom.

"Now that Zhao Hui's army is surrounding us, Guo Wei is eyeing Yongxing, can you do anything to defeat the enemy?"

Wang Jingchong was anxious to discuss ways to retreat to the enemy. The situation changed too quickly, so he had no time to react.

Zhou Can, the think tank of Wang Jingchong, said: "If you can keep this, you have a river in the sky, and it is a sign of Jing. Now you are all defeated, so what should you rely on? It is better to surrender."

Wang Jingchong said: "I have implicated you, but things are urgent. I want to try it. What if I can escape?

I heard that Zhao Hui's elite soldiers were all in the north of the city, so I sent Gongsun Nian and others to burn the east gate of the city to surrender. I used the fangs to attack the soldiers in the north of the city, and died if they failed to escape. It would be better than surrendering them."

Zhou Can thought it could be a try, so Wang Jingchong acted according to the plan, but after dawn, Gongsun Nian burned the East Gate and pretended to surrender, and Wang Jingchong had already burned himself to death with his whole family.

At this point, Feng Xiang broke down and the Three Feudals were pacified. Guo Wei was not too surprised to receive this news. Because he waited for it, he was waiting for this day.

It has been more than a month since Guo Hao took his leave. Wang Jingchong did not ask him to wait too long. Guo Wei planned to return to the court.

"Report - the commander-in-chief, there are letters from Luoyang, written by the military advisor."

"Oh? Take it over and I'll take a look."

The personal soldiers handed over the letter. Guo Wei opened it and smiled and said, "This kid, I don't stop coming home, but he actually met Wang Shouen."

Guo Wei shook his head, not thinking that it was a big deal. This time, Guo Hao made great contributions to suppressing the rebellion. He could give him a chief worker after he went back.

The commander of the escort is an official position in the army and his personal guard, and the chief officer is the Privy Councilor, which is equivalent to his secretary. It is considered a civil position and needs to be appointed by the court.

Guo Hao didn't know about Guo Wei at this time. This month, he has been organizing businessmen to organize activities and vigorously develop the economy.

The goods from Jiangnan came to Luoyang continuously. In order to ensure the smooth flow of the business road, he also found Zhao Hongyin and asked him to coordinate the prefectures and counties along the way to let them attack the bandits.

Those bandits and bandits are actually pitiful people, but they are willing to kill other people's lives in order to survive, so that they can have a way to die.

The first income statistics show that the thirty stores only have more than 3,000 guan, of which 2,000 guan were to be given to Wang Shouen. Wang Shouen did nothing and took 2,000 guan. He thought it was good to do this.

"Very good, keep it going. As long as you have this number every month, I won't make things difficult for you!"

"yes."

Guo Hao agreed politely and waited for Guo Wei's army to come back. However, he didn't expect that just a few days after his money was sent out, someone came to Chen Ji's grocery store.

"You are Guo Hao?"

Guo Hao heard that the accent of the person was from Bianliang, and he was so arrogant that he was either an official of the court or an envoy of the official.

"I am Su Xiang's envoy. Su Xiang heard that you are good at doing business and give Wang Zhang hundreds of coins every month and Wang Shou'en thousands of coins. Su Xiang wants to ask, why don't he have his share?"

Su Xiang’s messenger?

Su Yugui is not such a person, so there is only Su Fengji. Guo Hao did not expect the news to spread so quickly. Su Fengji knew it in the first month.

"This... is not considered carefully, but the money we give to Lord Wang Zhang is to support the treasury cost. The taxes that Wang left behind were paid by Luoyang.

But I really don’t know what the name was for Su Xiang, so I would like to ask the envoy to give me some tips."

"What do you mean?"

Guo Hao sneered without saying a word. After this period of investigation, he had already gained a preliminary understanding of the situation of the court.

During the Later Han Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Yin Liu Chengyou, state affairs were chaired by Yang Bin. He was appointed as Privy Councilor, Right Pushe, and Tong Pingzhang, which was equivalent to Minister of National Defense and serving as Prime Minister.

Military work was presided over by Guo Wei. Guo Wei was appointed as Privy Councilor and Assistant General at that time, and Privy Councilor could have multiple candidates.

Shi Hongzhao was in charge of the capital city guards. He was appointed as the governor of Guide, the commander of the guards and the commander of the Central Secretariat. These consecutive positions can correspond to the commander of the provincial military region, the commander of the garrison military region and the minister of state respectively.

The national finances at that time were a difficult task, and this matter was presided over by Wang Zhang. He was appointed as the envoy of the Three Divisions and served as the rank of the two officials.

These four people are old ministers left by Liu Zhiyuan's era. In Chinese history, they are not very capable ministers, and they have many problems with their qualities, but out of a natural sense of responsibility.

It should be said that during the Five Dynasties, they were still considered people who were willing to be concerned about state affairs, were willing to do things and were responsible. This was already very rare in the troubled times.

History says that Yang Bing is "pretty loyal" in his work and is able to uphold his loyalty. He said that every time he retires from the court and returns home, he rarely visits his subordinates in private.

Although some people from various states went through the back door to send him gifts, he did not refuse, but he often handed over the excess bribery materials beyond his own expenses to the state treasury or handed them to the emperor.

This person has limited corruption.

Guo Wei pacified the three towns and fought against the Khitan. At this time, he had no second intentions. It is evidence that Guo Wei had no second intentions.

Guo Wei was considered a senior among the ministers. Later, when Emperor Yin ordered him to guard Ye Town, he also served as Privy Councilor, but ministers Su Fengji, Yang Bin and others opposed it, but when Guo Wei left with Emperor Yin, he still recommended them.

He followed Zhuge Liang and gave Emperor Yin some advice:

"The Empress Dowager has been with the former emperor for a long time and has been involved in the affairs of the world. Your Majesty is rich in the Spring and Autumn Period, and he should follow his teachings and do it.

Be close to loyalty and righteousness, stay away from slander and evil, and be clear about the good and evil. Su Fengji, Yang Bin, and Shi Hongzhao are all old ministers of the late emperor. They are loyal and sacrificed for their country. I hope Your Majesty will give it your heart and will not fail..."

Guo Wei saw the problems of the Later Han Dynasty. Although these views were not profound, they hit the current problems and more accurately took the pulse of the Later Han Dynasty.

Later events proved that Guo Wei was very prescient.

Although Shi Hongzhao was very harsh in governing the capital, he actually did not pick up any remains. The entire Bianliang City had good public security.

Wang Zhang worked hard to make a lot of effort. After the Khitan turmoil in the Central Plains and pacified the three towns, the country's finances were extremely tense, and he paid attention to increasing revenue and reducing expenditures, gathering little and little benefits.

Enriching the treasury has almost never caused any financial constraints or supply shortages in all aspects of the country, although Wang Zhang's tax collection methods are harsh.

For example, there was a bad policy in the past: farmers paid land tax and paid two liters for each hu, which was called "sparrow and rat consumption", which means passing the losses in the treasury management to taxpayers.

Wang Zhang aggravated ten times beyond this evil policy, and stipulated that he would pay two more buckets in addition to each hu, which was called "saving consumption".

Two Dou is twenty liters! He even formulated more shameless laws and implemented a policy of open exploitation: in the past, the state's currency expenditure and income were all "mo" (one hundred). When Wang Zhang changed the rules and ordered that the income remain unchanged, and the income was still "mo", but the expenditure was changed to seventy-seven liters as "mo", and there was also a name called "Shengmo".

But his unjust means were not to fill his personal pockets, but to tighten the belts of farmers and maintain the operation of the dynasty in troubled times. Compared with the "ratio" of Shi Chonggui in the Later Jin Dynasty, at least it was still in a rule and a lighter way to extract it.

In this way, the imperial court was able to make a slight surplus in addition to squandering the royal family and awarding civil and military affairs, and the Chen family's money was placed in the treasury by Wang Zhang.

Because of the "public loyalty" of these old ministers, it is known in history as "the country is rough and safe."

Compared with these people, Su Fengji had no advantage. In his early years, Su Fengji followed his father as an official and often drafted some memorials and documents on behalf of his father. Liu Zhiyuan summoned him and felt that this person was "satisfied and exciting", so he became an official.
Chapter completed!