Two days later, Li Qingming and Wang Cong arrived in Jiangdu, Wang Cong read out the regent edict to everyone, announcing the establishment of Huainan Shangshu Xingtai, controlling the six counties of Jianghuai, Jiangdu Taishou Lu Zhuo was reappointed as the first Shangshu, and at the same time announced that Jiangdu City was at the same level as Zhongdu, and Laihu'er was appointed as Jiangdu Guard, and Li Qingming was appointed as Changshi.

This order was overjoyed, especially Lu Zhuo was more satisfied, although his loose official was still from the third rank of the silver Qingguanglu doctor, but the official was demoted to the fourth rank of the Taishou, this result made him depressed.

But I didn't expect that the imperial court changed the appointment in just a few days and appointed him as the secretary of Xingtai, although most of the Jianghuai was not recovered, Lu Zhuo was still overjoyed, immediately accepted the appointment, and began to consider the official office and personnel arrangements.

In the lobby, Li Qingming and Lai Hu'er are discussing the next plan of action, Li Qingming is a civilian military officer and has been the intelligence director for a long time, and his thinking can completely keep up with the thoughts of Lai Hu'er.

Lai Hu'er gave Li Qingming a brief introduction to his coercion of Jiangnan Guild to release grain, and finally Lai Hu'er asked: "The marshal thinks that Meng Hai Guild is a big hidden danger in Jiangnan, if we can promote Meng Hai Gong and Jiang Nan Guild to turn their faces, and there is infighting between the two sides, then it will have a double effect on our recovery of Jiangnan, does Li Changshi have any ideas?" ”

Li Qingming laughed, "Don't hide it from the old general, this idea of causing infighting is still I told Da Shuai, I have been paying attention to Meng Haigong's situation when I was in Jiangdu before, Meng Hai Gong wanted to marry the daughter of Danyang Yuan for his son, but Yuan thought he was born recklessly, and his son was rude and fierce, so he rejected him, this is the beginning of the contradiction between Meng Haigong and the Jiangnan Shi clan, and I concluded from this: Meng Haigong and Jiangnan will turn their faces sooner or later, but in comparison, I am still far less far-sighted than Da Shuai." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Laihu'er asked puzzled.

At the beginning, Meng Haigong led thousands of remnants to hide in Lujiang County, preparing to cross the Yangtze River to Jiangnan, but the Jianghuai clan betrayed them, at that time the marshal led tens of thousands of troops in Liyang County, which could easily annihilate Meng Haigong, but the marshal acquiesced to Meng Haigong to go to Jiangnan, at that time the marshal knew that Meng Haigong would sooner or later become a big problem for the Jiangnan Society, and he said to Pei Hong: "Since Jiangnan will want to lure wolves into the house, why not fulfill them?" ”

Lai Hu'er was impressed, everyone said that Zhang Xuan was far-sighted, and now he finally realized that he had expected it a few years later before Meng Haigong crossed the river, how wise is this, with such a lord, why worry about the uncertain world?

"Then what does Li Changshi think we should do?"

Li Qingming thought for a while and said: "The key is whether Meng Haigong has decided to turn his face, if he only has one excuse, we can fulfill him, if he still wants to continue to forbear, then we will not move for the time being." ”

"How do you know that?"

"As long as you send someone to Huiji County, I can use a little trick to test Meng Haigong's true mentality."

Lai Hu'er smiled happily: "General Chen recommended Li Changshi to come to Jiangdu, and he didn't see the wrong person at all!" ”

Jiangnan has a vast area, rich land and a large population, and after the Sui army retreated northward, Jiangnan gradually formed two major forces, Shen Faxing and Meng Haigong, both of which belonged to the Jiangnan Society and occupied the northern and southern counties.

Shen Faxing took Wu County as the center and occupied the four counties of Yuhang County, Wu County, Biling County and Danyang County, while Meng Haigong occupied five counties of Huiji County, Sui'an County, Xin'an County, Dongyang County and Xuancheng County.

With the gradual increase of Meng Haigong's power, he began to no longer obey the dispatch of the Jiangnan Society, and he already had the idea of breaking away from the Jiangnan Society, especially a few years ago, he asked for his son to marry the daughter of the Yuan family as his wife, but was rejected, and Meng Haigong always held a grudge.

In addition, he always thought that Yuhang County should belong to his own territory, but the Jiangnan Association assigned Yuhang County to Shen Faxing, which made Meng Haigong extremely dissatisfied, and his ambition gradually grew, Meng Haigong began to have the heart of being the emperor.

On this morning, there was a sudden commotion outside the east gate of Huiji County, and I saw countless farmers walking towards the city gate.

"What happened?" The captain of the city guard stepped forward and asked.

Everyone dodged away, only to see a farmer carefully holding a huge piece of white jade, like a goose egg the size of a watermelon, the captain was stunned for a moment, stepped forward to take a look, and saw that there were six big characters on the white jade.

"What is this?" The captain stepped forward and asked curiously.

"The villain doesn't know,."

A literate scholar next to him whispered a few words to the captain, who was startled and hurriedly said to the farmer, "Come with me to see Yue Gong!" ”

The captain took the peasants to the military office in the city, although Meng Haigong was a member of the Jiangnan Society, but he was also named the Duke of Yue Guo by the Luoyang Imperial Court, Meng Haicheng wanted to go to the barracks, heard the report, and hurriedly came to the front yard.

At this time, the oval white jade had been placed on a table covered with red cloth, and dozens of guards around it were watching from afar, whispering.

A soldier shouted, "Yue Gong is here!" ”

The guards knelt down on one knee one after another, and Meng Haigong walked slowly surrounded by several palace maids.

One was about to report, but Meng Haigong waved his hand, "I saw it!" ”

He walked to the table and looked at the white jade, his eyes slowly narrowed, and he saw six big characters written on the white jade, 'Lord Wu Yue, Feng Yusheng'.

The first three words are easy to understand, but the last three words may be confusing, but Meng Haigong knows very well in his heart that the phoenix is the name of the village where he was born, and the village where he was born was named because someone saw the phoenix enter the water and turn into a fish.

"Where are you from? How did you find this white jade? Meng Haigong asked the farmer.

The young farmer trembled and said, "The villain lives at the foot of Huiji Mountain, and last night he saw a white light shining in the field, and he dug this out of the soil in the morning. ”

"Did someone go to your field at night?"

"There is absolutely no one, the villain sees no footprints of outsiders in the field, only the footprints of the villain."

"Are you telling the truth?" Meng Haigong stared sharply at the farmer.

"The villain's words are true, if there is a sentence that deceives the king, the villain's whole family will not die!"

When Meng Haigong saw that he had sworn a poisonous oath, he also believed it, and he secretly thought in his heart, 'Is it really providence?' “

Meng Haigong instructed left and right: "Reward him with 500 yuan!" ”

"Thank you, Lord for the reward!"

The farmer kowtowed again and again, thanked him and left, and at this time, dozens of generals around him congratulated, "Congratulations to Yue Gong for sending a good omen from heaven!" ”

Meng Haigong smiled and couldn't close his mouth, and said to his subordinates: "Prepare a good carriage and transport it out to show the whole city." ”

The news of the discovery of the dragon egg under the Huiji Mountain quickly spread throughout the city, and there was a lot of discussion in the Huiji City, discussing its authenticity or falsehood, but its meaning was not divided, since ancient times, the place where the dragon egg was born must produce the true dragon emperor.

The news not only spread in Huiji City, but also spread throughout Jiangnan within a few days.

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Jiangdu City stayed in the mansion, Li Qingming and Lai Hu'er looked up to the sky and laughed together, Lai Hu'er gave a thumbs up and praised: "Sure enough, it's a wonderful plan, Meng Haigong actually showed it to the whole city, which shows that his ambition to be the emperor is already Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone knows it!" ”

Li Qingming stroked his beard and smiled: "In fact, there are quite loopholes in it, for example, the farmer will find that his own shoes have been worn by someone, so there are only his footprints in the field, and for example, the whole village dog barks, this is obviously someone has entered the village, but these loopholes Meng Haigong is unwilling to face, he would rather believe that this is the real providence." ”

"Yes! If you know that you don't want to waste a piece of good white jade, find a few people to pretend to be a fox and wolf under the city, and then shout a few words such as 'Wu Yuexing, Meng Haiwang', or make up a few nursery rhymes to sing, it is just as useful, and it is a fucking pity to spend hundreds of dollars to buy a piece of white jade. ”

The two laughed again, and Laihu'er asked again, "So what should we do next?" ”

Li Qingming smiled slightly, "Don't hide it from the old general, I have already arranged the next step!" ”

Outside the city of Jiangning, several war horses galloped on the official road, and the leader was Meng Xide, the brother of Meng Haigong, Meng Xide was about fifty years old, he was just a farming farmer in his hometown, called Meng Da, Meng Haigong sent someone to pick him up, named him Xide, and let him represent himself as the fifth scholar of the Jiangnan Society.

Just this morning, Meng Xide received an urgent letter from Meng Haigong, asking him to leave Jiangning immediately and return to Huiji County, otherwise he would have to worry about his life.

About more than 20 miles, there was a faint sound of horses' hooves behind, Meng Xide looked back while beating the horse, only to see the yellow dust rolling behind him, a chasing army getting closer and closer, frightened him to scatter, desperately beating the war horse.

At this moment, an arrow whizzed in, hitting Meng Xid's back, he screamed, turned over and fell off the horse, but one foot was in the stirrup, the war horse dragged him and galloped, running out of the way, and the entourage finally pulled the reins of the galloping horse, only to see Meng Xide covered in blood and flesh, and only a little skin left on his head was connected to his neck, and his neck was cut off by stones on the ground.

At this time, the cavalry caught up, and the cavalry captain at the head shouted sharply: "Since Meng Xide is dead, you will spare your life, you go and tell Meng Haigong, and if you get any more Destiny Ruizhao, the master will definitely take his dog's life!" ”

The cavalry captain waved his hand, "Let's go!" ”

Dozens of cavalry turned their horses and ran in the direction of Jiangning City, gradually disappearing at the end of the official road, and the two followers escaped with their lives, so they had to cry, they buried Meng Xide's body, and returned to Huiji County with their heads.

(To be continued.) )