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Chapter 544 Li Jing's Shock

With the emergency military situation of 800 miles into the capital, the head of the thief Wang Xianzhi was sealed in the box with mercury and sent to the capital with the messenger.

After testing Wang Xianzhi's head, the court immediately sent Wang Xianzhi's head to the Goujiling Vegetable Market to hang his head in public, attracting countless people in Chang'an to watch the legends everywhere in the capital, and once gathered millions of thieves.

On the wall under Wang Xianzhi's head, there were long announcements and special officials chanting. This is a long list of commendations. This time, the twelve towns that encircled and suppressed the thieves. Except for Xue Chong, Tianping Town and Li of Taining Army, who were dismissed from office and held accountable in Beijing, most of the other ten towns were rewarded. In addition to the influence of Xue Neng, the Huainan Army, and Liu Ye, the Huainan Army, who had no troops to send troops, they had only received a little verbal reward. In addition, Song Wei was promoted to Duke of Song, Taiwei, and Shishu, and Pingzhangshi of the Secretariat of the Central Secretariat. They were extremely honorable and favored.

This time, the reward was the biggest gain in Ziqing Town. Song Wei was extremely high. Although it was at the cost of going to Beijing to recuperate, this honor was also enviable. In addition to Song Wei, the deputy commander of Ziqing Kang Chenghui was also directly promoted to Duke Kang Guo, promoted to the Jiedushi of Tianping Army, and was also the governor of the Central Secretariat, and was also the governor of Yunzhou. The Sima of the Military Martial Arts of Ziqing, Cui Yunqing, was promoted to Duke Yi, the governor of Taining Army, and was also the governor of Yanzhou.

Li Jing, the most famous Duke of Qi, was also from Ziqing Town, and was also the disciple of Duke of Song, Duke of Yi, Cui Yunqing and Duke of Wei. Legend has it that Li Jing was the first to be the first to make a contribution this time. In the end, the emperor appointed Li Jing as Song Wei's adopted son, and his son did not belong to his father, so he attributed the first credit to Song Wei. However, after Song Wei returned to Beijing, the position of General General of Ziqing was also passed to Li Jing. Although he was temporarily only the position of the queen, the most prestigious people in Ziqing Town. Wang Jingwu was captured in the rebellion, Kang Chenghui was transferred to Tianping Army, and Cui Yunqing was transferred to Taining Army. Therefore, no one in Ziqing Town was above Li Jing.

In addition, the other six towns also received a lot of rewards. Ximen Sigong, Yang Fugong and the Six Generals received a lot of rewards. Among the eight people, several of them were not the Duke of the State, and this time they were also promoted to the Duke of the State. The Six Generals all added the title of Prime Minister. The soldiers under their subordinates were all promoted to the title.

The thieves were wiped out, and all the lords in the court celebrated each other. No one in the capital's nobles, princes, and merchants held banquets to celebrate. Even the people in the capital's promotion and fighting were smiling. Although the Pang Xun Rebellion a few years ago was thousands of miles away from Chang'an, the southeast was in chaos, and Chang'an still had a huge impact. The supply of materials was insufficient, making it even more difficult to live in Chang'an. Now the bandits are wiped out. They are naturally excited.

The emperor sent hundreds of messengers to deliver this good news to all states in the world and declared the court's reward for the towns. Even when Zheng Qi proposed to the emperor that he exempted taxes from Jiuzhou, Henan, which suffered from the thief, for one year, the emperor immediately agreed.

The emperor's messenger rushed out of the capital. The nobles, princes and princes in Chang'an, and even the local vassal officials and tyrants even believed that this was a sign that the Tang Dynasty was about to revive. The Shatuo Hu tribe in the north of Dai was wiped out, the Nanzhao's offensives in the southern barbarians were repelled, and now the thieves and riots in the Central Plains were also pacified. There were loyal ministers and generals such as Gao Pian and Li Jing, and the revival of the Tang Dynasty was just around the corner. Many people even thought that after this war, it would bring at least thirty years of stability, and the Qianfu Dynasty might even surpass the Xianzong era.

As the emperor's messengers continued to pass, the vassal states in various places even had to restrain themselves a lot.

The emperor's envoy had just left the capital the day after the emperor's envoy was released. The three old powerful vassals, Lulong Town, Chengde Town and Weibo Town in Hebei, had never paid taxes to the court for more than a hundred years. They sent envoys to Chang'an almost at the same time, bringing them respectful memorials to the emperor. The three towns each contributed one million jin of money and added 200,000 shi of grain to the emperor! Although these were the contributions of the vassal states, rather than the formal tax payment, the whole world was still shocked by the fact that so many contributions were made at once.

The three towns in Hebei were afraid. After seeing that they defeated Nanzhao, swept away Shatuo, and wiped out the thieves in a short time, they realized that the Tang army now seemed to be invincible, and they were invincible in the attack and were unstoppable. The three towns were afraid, and the court would lead troops north after destroying the thieves.

When people in the world thought that the thief might have been in trouble for four or five years, just like the Pang Xun Rebellion, the thief suddenly collapsed, which shocked the world and made many people who had other ideas secretly startled.

It was like a huge wind blew. After the three towns in Hebei donated huge amounts of money and grain, the officials from other forty or fifty towns in the world took action.

Hebei, Hedong, Hexi, Hequ, Sanchuan, Shannan, Jianghuai, Southeast, Lingnan, Henan, and the vassal states acted rapidly. The messengers of the Jinzouyuan in various vassals rushed out of the capital and soon brought back the statements of the commanders of the towns.

The towns offered to the emperor one after another, which was not an important day, but there were endless officials, and the gifts from each town were very generous, even heavier than the previous new emperor ascended the throne. And almost all chose money and grain, each town had as little as hundreds of thousands to millions, and even compared with the taxes paid in the past few years.

Not only did the leaders of the towns pay tribute, but even the governors of the states also contributed to the emperor!

Even the surrounding countries, Nanzhao, Khitan, Bohai, Silla, and Japan, envoys in Beijing have brought a batch of gifts these days and hurriedly presented them to the emperor.

In just half a month, Zhang Tai, who was responsible for collecting the donations, reported to the emperor in surprise that the contributions of the towns and local officials in the past half month were as much as 30 million jin of jin and more than 5 million jin of grain. Among them, the town** presented 500,000 jin of good Dengzhou salt, plus imperial wine, spices, gold and silver, etc., and the contribution was worth more than 3 million jin. In addition, the previous one million salt payment was handed over, and an additional 500,000 jin of jin. The town** sent 5 million jin of jin to the emperor. Although many things had not been delivered, Li Jing had already delivered the order.

Zhang Tai ranked Li Jing's name at the forefront. Although he actually knew that many of Li Jing's products were overestimated. For example, the large amount of Dengzhou salt sold for only 100 citrus per dou, but when given to the court, it was calculated based on the standard official price of 200 citrus per dou. Some of the other products were even much higher than the official price.

But no matter what, the number of five million coins made the young emperor Li Yan very happy. Recently, he lost a lot of money in the fight against goose, but Tian Lingzi was in charge of the inner treasury, but often only gave him tens of thousands of thousands, which made him very dissatisfied. Li Jing was the most relieved. Not only did he lead troops to quell the rebellions everywhere, but now many of the expenses in the palace are all based on Li Jing's generous contribution.

Yang Fugong ranked second in the list of contributions, and he also contributed to the court. What he contributed was Xianyu, who was the thief who suppressed the bandits this time. Originally, the court had plundered three million stones of food as the grain for the bandits this time, and the plan was for one year. However, it has only been less than two months since the fight, and the thief was destroyed.

The grain extracted by the imperial court had not even been transported, and the grain from each town was temporarily used by their own. Yang Fugong pulled the three million stones of grain to the generals, filled out their expenses, and took out a large sum of money as a reward. In the end, a whole million stones of grain remained, all of which were dedicated to the emperor as an envy. Although the grain was originally from the Tang Dynasty, the grain had been pulled out, and according to the old rules, the army could be divided. Now, as an envoy, Yang Fugong directly presented the million stones of grain to the emperor. This million stones of grain, worth more than four million, became the private property of the emperor's inner treasury.

More than 30 million stag and more than 5 million s of grain, the current two-year tax revenue of the imperial court. Over the years, except for more than 30 states in the southeast, the imperial court has almost never received taxes from other prefectures and counties. It is based on the southeast tax revenue and salt, tea, iron and other income, which maintains operation.

The Tang Dynasty had more than 300 states, but only relying on more than 30 states. It can be said that it was very tense. Even the money and grain from the southeast were transported to Guanzhong, and all the canals were transported. The situation was quite bad. Guanzhong had imperial guards but no supply. There was supply in the southeast, but it was the weakest place in the entire Tang Dynasty's defense, and its military equipment was deteriorated.

He used money and grain from the southeast to supply Guanzhong, but had to pass through the Central Plains. The entire Tang Dynasty had already been wrapped with ropes. This was also the reason why Wang Xianzhi's soldiers and horses shook the entire Chang'an as soon as they arrived in Songzhou.

Now that the Central Plains have been pacified, the court has received so much money and grain at once, even Tian Lingzi and Li Yan feel incredible.

Li Jing had returned to Qizhou and led his army south a few days ago to defeat the thieves' auxiliary army with Kang Chenghui. Those battles had no highlights. Almost as soon as they appeared, the opponent was defeated with just one attack. Especially after the news of the bandits in Yizhou and Wang Xianzhi's death, all the bandits had no fighting spirit.

Li Jing and Kang Chenghui defeated the bandit army, with 150,000 auxiliary soldiers, beheaded 30,000, captured 120,000, and recaptured more than 200,000 young and strong people.

These days, the entire Qizhou has completely become a huge refugee camp, and almost 500,000 people have been placed under several cities in Qizhou. Such a massive population is also a bit of a heavy burden for Li Jing.

Song Weiyizhou defeated the bandit army, killed Wang Xianzhi in formation, and captured Wang Jingwu alive. He did not continue to pursue Huang Chao, but instead withdrew his troops and returned to Qingzhou.

Wang Xianzhi's head was sent to Chang'an. On the tenth day after the Battle of Linyi, the envoy from Chang'an had already arrived in Qizhou and promulgated the emperor's imperial edict to Li Jing.

In addition to the imperial edict announced the reward to Li Jing and others, it also announced the dissolution of the various camps. The soldiers of the twelve towns returned to their towns, and the newly promoted officials also took office today.

Li Jing still felt unbelievable after holding the imperial edict in both hands. Kang Chenghui told him that Marshal Song had recommended him to the court to serve as the queen. After hearing this, he just smiled and never thought that the emperor would really agree to such a proposal.

He became the governor of the Jiedushi of Ziqing Town. What was even more amazing was that the court transferred Song Wei into the capital, Kang Chenghui was appointed as the governor of Tianping Army, and Cui Yunqing was appointed as the governor of Taining Army.
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