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13. The cause of Qiu Yu

What Gao Yue said about "the blood hatred between Chen Shaoyou and the Yuanzai clan" is actually quite simple, and he also learned from Xue Yaoying:

Chen Shaoyou climbed to the position of the governor of Huainan by currying Yuan Zai and his son and eunuch Dong Xiu. Before Yuan Zai was executed, when his eldest son Yuan Bohe was demoted to the army of Yangzhou for committing an incident, Chen Shaoyou, who had a very keen sense of politics, felt that Yuan Zai was about to "fall". Therefore, he enthusiastically accepted Yuan Bohe on the surface, but in fact he decisively reported to Emperor Daizong that Yuan Bohe was trying to rebel. Later, as soon as Yuan Zai died, Chen Shaoyou detained Yuan Bohe. Almost at the same time, the imperial envoy sent by Emperor Daizong also rushed to Yangzhou and sentenced Yuan Bohe to death.

As a result, Chen Shaoyou continued to be the "loyal minister" of the Tang Dynasty, and the position of the governor of Huainan and the chief of the Yangzhou Grand Governor's Office was as stable as Mount Tai, but he also had a deep hatred with the Yuan Zai Party because of his treason. Although Yuan Zai, his wife and three sons were all over, Yang Yan, the heir of Yuan Zai's career, has now become prime minister.

In addition, Chen Shaoyou certainly knew that Yang Yan was a vengeful person.

The two tax law has been implemented, and the first thing to do is to let the tutors and demotion inspect various disciplines. These tutors are clearly here to investigate household registration and unify the tax system, but it also has an obvious purpose: which dynasty and which dynasty implement the new policy, and they will even get a few unlucky people out to serve as a warning to others.

"Chen Shaoyou was afraid that he would be elected to be punished by the demotion envoy, because he had betrayed Yuan Zai's eldest son Yuan Bohe." At this time, Gao Yue pointed to Yangzhou City that was circled on the map. "Now the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Warehouse require the previous transfer envoy and the Jiedushi to hand over the books of previous years for verification. Yang Yan's instructed to do this, of course, to capture Liu Yan's painful foot, but what we have to do now is to burn the fire so that Yang Yan could not control it!"

Lu Qi bowed and asked, "That mutiny in Jingyuan?"

Gao Yue sighed deeply, and his tone began to become angry, "I have said earlier that Yang Yan's will do his own thing is the fundamental reason for the rebellion of the soldiers in the Anxi camp. If Yang Yan was not so narrow-minded, how could the situation reach its present?" Then Gao Yue said, "The matters in Yangzhou are urgently handled, Jingyuan is delayed, and the matters in Chongyi, Shannanliang, the rebellion of Chongyi in Shanxi are finally handled, and these three steps are done well..."

Speaking of this, Gao Yue was silent for a while. His eyes shone with candlelight, like a lit black jade. Finally, he said to Cui Ning and Lu Qi: "Then Yang Yan is finished."

"The Yangzhou side?" Lu Qi asked hurriedly.

"My father and I have made arrangements." Gao Yue said this because there was a student of Taofenpan, former Jinshi Gu Xiu, who was a prosecutor in Chen Shaoyou's shogunate.

Lu Qi immediately smiled proudly, "Then I will be responsible for Xidu and Dongdu."

"Gaolang, your heart won't be soft, right?"

Facing my father-in-law's question, Gao Yue smiled bitterly, shook his head, and thought to himself: "I was plotted by Chang Gun and asked Ziting to test. The reason why Liu Yan protected me was not only because he appreciated me, but more importantly, because Liu Yan was a person who abides by the rules. But Yang Yan was not. If I did not change the course of history to protect Liu Yan, then Yang Yan would be the first to break the rules and put him to death. The struggle to such a sharp level, who would still care about abide by the rules? There would be no arrows to turn around when I saw Yang Yan off at Baqiao Station in the past, the situation I had imagined was now completely childish."

Then Gao Yue took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and couldn't help but sigh:

"I had known that if I had known, I wouldn't have taken out the fifty stale money that Baqiao gave Yang Yan..."

Yangzhou, the entire southeastern central city of salt and iron transport in the Tang Dynasty, gathered the best treasures in the world and the richest people. Even at night, it would not impose a curfew like Chang'an, the political center. Instead, it was connected by water bridges, and the city lights were like stars, especially on the prostitute building next to the city gates. From the sunset, the bright moon came out from the east, and thousands of crimson gauze lanterns were lit one by one, as bright as red clouds, illuminating the ten-mile long street like a fairyland.

However, in the military palace of the Jiedushi, Chen Shaoyou kept wiping the sweat on his forehead and neck with fine silk cloth, but it was useless.

He wanted to be the governor of Yangzhou forever, and then buried in Chanzhi Temple after he died. Here are everything he likes: countless money and treasures, various objects that are fascinating in heaven, supreme power, beautiful girls like the bright moon...

Chen Shaoyou is not a native of Yangzhou, but he has heard the legend that no matter where people come to Yangzhou to become an official, if you don’t have two years, you will be obsessed with this city and unconsciously become the standard "Weiyang people" and even your thinking will be assimilated - not to mention that Chen Shaoyou became the governor of Huainan in the eighth year of Dali.

In fact, less than twenty years ago, Yangzhou was destroyed by the war between Tian Shengong and Liu Zhan. At that time, thousands of Dashi merchants died in Persia, which was doing business in this city. But so what? Less than twenty years later, it recovered, no, it was even more prosperous than before.

Chen Shaoyou occupied the largest and largest and best commercial residence in the city, and earned hundreds of millions of dollars a year. In the 14th year of the Dali period, Daizong issued a special edict before his death, stipulating that "nevery army in all regions is allowed to do business" (the governors in various places competed to set up a purchase residence in Yangzhou for the sake of the army purchasing materials. In fact, the profits generated flowed into the private pockets of the governor, so Daizong issued an edict to prohibit it). After the edict arrived in Yangzhou, Chen Shaoyou took the opportunity to kill other military governors and the powerful business residences, but retained his own. For a time, the people who were damaged in the court criticized him for being overwhelmed and wanted to eat meat and sleep on his skin, but Chen Shaoyou ignored him.

But when Li Shi ascended the throne and Yang Yan became the prime minister, Chen Shaoyou panicked!

Just now, Gu Xiu, who was also a Jinshi in the 13th year of the Dali period, had a conversation with Chen Shaoyou:

"Can you recognize the governor of Xuanzhou Pei Zhou during the festival?"

“Recognize.”

"Who did Pei Zhou get the recommendation?"

"Li Qiyun, the commander of the Western Zhejiang Observation Army, Pei Zhou was the first to be the governor of the Li Qiyun's shogunate. After Li Qiyun died, Pei Zhou was his old official and escorted Li's coffin back to Luoyang City for burial." At this time, Chen Shaoyou felt even more frightened. "Li Qiyun entered the court as the chief censor. I once recommended Pei Zhou as the judge of the Huainan shogunate. He also recommended him to Xuanzhou."

At this time, Gu Xiu clearly told Chen Shaoyou about the fate of Pei Zhou: he was impeached by the demotion envoy sent by Yang Yan, and was forced to plead guilty after being terrible torture, and was demoted to Sima, Tingzhou.

Chen Shaoyou was trembling all over and wiped the sweat with silk for a while, and soon clarified the cause and effect chain of Pei Zhou's demotion:

Pei Zhou was Li Qiyun's man, and Li Qiyun had fought against Yuan Zai and was in a row. Yang Yan became prime minister and wanted to avenge everyone who offended Yuan Zai. Yang Yan used all means to take revenge on Pei Zhou even if Li Qiyun was dead. In fact, Pei Zhou had no fault, but he was demoted mercilessly because of the corruption in the subordinates and the excuses of not being able to check the books.
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