With the emergency military situation of 800 miles into Beijing, there is also the head of Wang Xianzhi, the leader of the grass thief, which was sealed in a box with mercury and sent to Beijing with a messenger.

After inspecting Wang Xianzhi's head, the imperial court immediately sent Wang Xianzhi's head to the Goujiling vegetable market to hang his head in public, attracting countless Chang'an people to watch the appearance of the thief head who was once gathered in the Beijing division and once gathered millions of grass thieves.

On the wall under Wang Xianzhi's head, there are long announcements, and there are special officials chanting. This is a long list of commendations, the twelve towns that encircled and suppressed the thieves, in addition to Xue Chong of Tianping Town and Li Department of Taining Army were removed from their posts and held accountable in Beijing, the remaining ten towns have many rewards, except for Xue Neng of the probation army and Liu Ye of the Huainan Army because they have not sent troops for a long time, they only got a little verbal commendation, and they recruited Song Wei to be promoted to Song Guogong, Tai Lieutenant, Shishu, and Pingzhang under the same Zhongshu Sect, which can be described as a very popular minister, and extremely honored.

This time, it can be said that Ziqing Town has gained the most, Song Wei is extremely popular, although it is at the cost of entering Beijing to recuperate, but this honor is also the envy of others. Moreover, in addition to Song Wei, Kang Chengyu, the deputy marshal of Ziqing, was also promoted to Kang Guogong, promoted to the envoy of the Tianping Army, and added the same Zhongshu Menxia Ping Zhangshi and Yunzhou Assassin History. Ziqing Festival marching Sima Cui Yunqing, promoted to the Duke of Yiguo, Taining Military Festival Envoy, plus the same Zhongshu Men under the Ping Zhangshi, and Yanzhou Assassin History.

And Li Jing, the most famous Duke of Qi at the moment, is also from Ziqing Town, and is the son of the Duke of Song, the protégé of Cui Yunqing, the Duke of Yiguo, and Yu Xuan, the Duke of Weiguo. Legend has it that Li Jing originally ranked first this time, and the emperor took Li Jing as Song Wei's righteous son, and the son was not above his father, so he attributed the first credit to Song Wei. However, after Song Wei returned to Beijing, the position of Ziqing Marshal also passed to Li Jing. Although for the time being, he is only holding a post-mortem position. But the most prestigious people in Ziqing Town. Wang Jingwu rebelled and was captured, Kang Chengzhi was transferred to the Tianping Army, and Cui Yunqing was transferred to the Taining Army. Therefore, there is no one in the entire Ziqing Town who has prestige above Li Jing.

In addition, the other six towns are also very rewarded, Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong and the six marshals have received a lot of rewards, and a few of the eight people were originally not in the position of the Duke of the State, but this time they were also promoted to the rank of Duke of the State. And the six marshals all added the name of the prime minister. The soldiers under him were all promoted to knighthood.

After the grass thieves were exterminated, all the princes in the court and the central government celebrated each other, and no one in the aristocratic princes and merchants of the capital held a banquet to celebrate, and even the small people in the capital were smiling. A few years ago, although the Pang Xun Rebellion was thousands of miles away from Chang'an, the southeast was in turmoil, and the influence of Chang'an was still huge, and the supply of materials was insufficient, and it was even more difficult to live in Chang'an. Now the bandits are exterminated. Naturally, they rejoiced.

The emperor sent hundreds of messengers to deliver the good news to all the states of the world. and announced the court's reward for the towns. Even when Zheng Zheng proposed to the emperor that the Kyushu prefecture of Henan, which had suffered from thieves, be exempted from taxes for one year, the emperor immediately agreed.

The emperor's messenger galloped out of Beijing, and the nobles and princes of Chang'an, and even the local officials and wealthy families of the feudal towns, even thought that this was a sign that the Tang Dynasty was about to flourish. The Shatuohu tribe in the north of the country has been exterminated, the southern Zhao offenders have been repelled by the southern barbarians, and now the grass thieves and rebels in the Central Plains have also been pacified, with Gao Biao, Li Jing and other loyal ministers and famous generals, the Tang Dynasty Zhongxing is just around the corner, and many people even think that after this war, it will be exchanged for at least 30 years of stability, and the Qianfu Dynasty may even surpass the Xianzong era.

As the Emperor's messengers continued to gallop by, the feudal towns in various places were even much more restrained.

The day after the emperor's envoy left the capital, the three old and powerful feudal towns of Lulong Town, Chengde Town, and Weibo Town in Hebei, which had never paid taxes to the imperial court for more than a hundred years, sent envoys to Chang'an almost at the same time, bringing them to the emperor respectfully, and each of the three towns offered 1 million yuan to the emperor, plus 200,000 stone grains each! Although these belonged to the tributes of the marshals of the feudal towns, rather than the official payment of taxes, the whole world was still shocked by the fact that so many offerings were made at one time.

The three towns of Hebei were afraid, and after they saw that in a short period of time, they defeated Nanzhao, swept away Shatuo, and exterminated the grass thieves, and they had realized that now the Tang army seemed to be invincible, invincible, and unstoppable. The three towns are afraid, afraid that the imperial court will lead troops north after exterminating the grass thieves.

When people in the world thought that the grass thieves might make trouble for four or five years, just like the Pang Xun Rebellion, the grass thieves suddenly collapsed, which shocked the people of the world, and also made many people who originally had other ideas secretly frightened.

Like a huge wind blowing, after the three towns of Hebei donated huge amounts of money and grain, the feudal officials of the other forty or fifty towns in the world took action one after another.

Hebei, Hedong, Hexi, Hequ, Sanchuan, Shannan, Jianghuai, Southeast, Lingnan, Henan, and the towns of the feudal domains acted quickly, and the messengers of the Jinju Yuan of the various feudal clans in Beijing galloped out of Beijing one after another, and soon brought back the statements of the commanders of the towns.

It is not an important day for the towns to pay tribute to the Son of Heaven, but there is an endless stream of officials, and the gifts from each town are very rich, even heavier than the previous new emperor's accession to the throne. And almost all of them chose money and grain, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions in each town, and even more than the taxes paid in the past few years.

Not only did the towns pay tribute, but even the assassins of various states also paid tribute to the emperor!

Even the envoys of the surrounding countries, such as Nanzhao, Khitan, Bohai, Silla, and Dongying, have all made a batch of gifts these days and hurriedly presented them to the emperor.

In just half a month, Zhang Tai, who was in charge of collecting the contributions, was pleasantly surprised to report to the emperor that the contributions of various towns and local officials in the past half month amounted to as much as 30 million yuan and more than 5 million stone of money and grain. Among them, the Zhenguo army offered 500,000 stones of salt in Haodengzhou, plus imperial wine, spices, and gold and silver, etc., worth more than 3 million guan, plus the previous 1 million salt money was handed over, and an additional 500,000 guan was added, and the Zhenguo army sent 5 million guan of money and goods to the emperor, although many things have not yet been delivered, but Li Jing has already sent the list.

Zhang Tai ranked Li Jing's name at the top, although he actually knew that many of Li Jing's goods were overpriced. For example, the large amount of Dengzhou salt sold for only one hundred wen and one bucket, but when it was given to the imperial court, it was calculated according to the standard official price of two hundred wen and one bucket. Many other goods, some of which are much higher than the official price.

But no matter what, the number of five million yuan made the young son Li Yi smile very happily. Recently, he has lost a lot of money in goose fighting, but Tian Lingzi has the inner library, but he can often only give him tens of thousands, which makes him very dissatisfied. It is still Li Jing who understands the king's heart the most, not only leading troops to quell rebellions everywhere, but also relying on Li Jing's generosity to use many degrees in the palace now.

The second on the list of contributions is Yang Fugong, who also made contributions to the imperial court. The sacrifice is the envy of the thieves this time, and the imperial court originally pulled out three million stone of grain as the food for this bandits, and the plan was for a year. But now it's only been less than two months since the thief was wiped out.

The grain drawn by the imperial court has not even arrived, and the grain of each town is still used for the time being, Yang Fugong pulled out the three million stone grain to the generals, and after filling their expenses, he took out a large sum as a reward. At the end of the year, there was still a whole million stone grains left, all of which were dedicated to the emperor as Xian Yujin. Although these grains were originally from the Tang Dynasty, they have been pulled out, and according to the old practice, each army can be divided. Now, Yang Fugong, as a military envoy, directly dedicated the million stone grain to the emperor. This million stone grain, worth more than 4 million grains, became the emperor's private property in the inner treasury.

More than 30 million guan money and more than 5 million stone grains, converted into almost two years of tax revenue for the current imperial court. Over the years, except for more than 30 states in the southeast, the imperial court has hardly received taxes from other states and counties. It relies on the tax and salt, tea, iron and other revenues from the southeast to maintain its operation.

There are more than 300 states in the Tang Dynasty, but only more than 30 states are relied on, which can be said to be very tense, and even the money and grain in the southeast are transported to Guanzhong, all of which have to be transported by canals, and the situation can be described as quite bad. There is a forbidden army in the pass, but there is no supply. There is supply in the southeast, but it is the weakest place in the defense of the entire Tang Dynasty, and the armament is erosive.

used the money and grain from the southeast to supply Guanzhong, but it had to pass through the Central Plains, and the entire Tang Dynasty had already been put on a rope around its neck. This is also the reason why Wang Xianzhi's soldiers and horses came to Songzhou, and the whole Chang'an was shaken.

Now that the Central Plains has been pacified, and the imperial court has received so much money and grain at once, even Tian Lingzi and Li Yi have a feeling of disbelief.

Li Jing has returned to Qizhou, and a few days ago he led his army south, and together with Kang Chengyu, he defeated the auxiliary army of the grass thieves. There were no bright spots in those battles, almost as soon as they appeared, as soon as they appeared, the opponent was defeated with just one impact. Especially after the defeat of the Yizhou thieves and the news of Wang Xianzhi's death, all the grass thieves had no fighting spirit.

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

These days, the whole of Qizhou has completely become a huge refugee camp, and almost half a million people have been resettled under several cities in Qizhou. Such a large population is also a bit of a burden for Li Jing.

After Song Wei Yizhou defeated the thief army, beheaded Wang Xianzhi and captured Wang Jingwu alive, he did not continue to pursue Huangchao, but collected his troops and returned to Qingzhou.

Wang Xianzhi's head was sent to Chang'an, and on the tenth day after the battle of Linyi, the envoys of Chang'an had already arrived in Qizhou and announced the emperor's holy decree to Li Jing.

In addition to announcing the reward for Li Jing and others, the holy decree also announced the dissolution of the Zhudao camp, the soldiers and horses of the twelve towns returned to their own towns, and the newly promoted officials also went to their posts on the same day.

Holding the holy decree in both hands, Li Jing still felt a little incredulous. Previously, Kang Chengzhi told him that Song Dashuai had recommended him to the imperial court to serve as the queen, but after hearing this, he just laughed and never thought that the emperor would really agree to such a proposal.

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

This is not what he was most surprised by, the most surprising thing was that Wang Jingwu was appointed by the imperial court as the deputy envoy of Qingzhou Assassin and Ziqing Festival! (To be continued......)