It was the first time that Li Ye met his father's concubine, Mrs. Jiang, and his half-sister Li Yun.
Jiang was about 26 or 26 years old, a native of Luoyang, from a poor family. She learned singing and dancing since she was a child, and later became a singer. By chance, the 18-year-old Jiang met a drunk Li Dai. Jiang served Li Dai for a night, and Li Dai He was so moved that he raised her as a housewife.
A year later, when Yu Wenluo found out, she became furious and took a group of strong women to beat Jiang. At that time, Jiang was already four months pregnant. In order to keep the fetus in her belly, she had to agree to all Yu Wenluo's conditions. He fled Chang'an overnight and returned to Luoyang.
Eight years passed in a flash. Both Jiang's parents died. The mother and daughter were really helpless, so they wrote a letter to Li Dai, which started Li Dai's trip to Luoyang last year.
Although Pei Sanniang was also very angry, she was not Yu Wenluo. For the sake of her children, she accepted the Jiang family and allowed her husband to take her as his concubine. From then on, the Jiang family and her daughter were finally able to settle down.
Mrs. Jiang was very humble in front of Pei Sanniang, which made Pei Sanniang feel a little pity for her. She was pretty good to her. She gave her a yard, several maids and maids, and gave her several sets of gold jewelry and several boxes of clothes. She was paid ten yuan a month. Guan, a little lower than himself, asked the female teacher to teach Li Yun how to read and write.
Jiang's mother believed in Buddhism, and Jiang also placed her hope in Buddha even in poverty. Aunt Mu liked this very much and often took her to the temple.
Daughter Li Yun is eight years old this year. Her skin is very white, like her mother, but her eyebrows and eyebrows are exactly like her father Li Dai. She is also very similar to Li Ye. She is a little beauty. Unfortunately, she has been well-nourished since she was a child, and she is a little thinner and stronger. The eldest lady is very Smart, good at observing words, and sweet-tongued, Li Dai especially hates that man. Even Yu Wenluo hates you and allows you to call him Xiao Niang.
Li Dai didn’t have two sons. One son was very competitive and made me half angry. The other son was too weak and made me afraid. But he was not as obedient and sensible as the eldest son, with a sweet mouth. The eldest son followed his father’s lead. It made Li Dai feel like a father again, and he loves you especially.
Chang Lian passed a carriage, and the window opened, revealing the fair and thin face of his sister Li Yun. You asked timidly: "Brother, has he been to Luoyang?"
Qian Lan smiled and said: "You are going west. You have almost never been to the east and south of Guanzhong. By the way, I have been to Hedong City once since then, but that's the end."
The total number of state soldiers in the eighteen states is less than 17,000.
The order's name is Pei Sanniang, a native of Xiangyang. When Chang Lian found me, I was flattered. Pei Sanniang knew who Chang Lian was. He was the military envoy of Anxi and a young general on horseback. He had just been named King of Lu. He was much more powerful than my father.
Li Ye recognized the preciousness of the gem and was surprised. He quickly said: "That's an emerald. It's so precious. Ah Yun, please return it to me!"
There is no functional department similar to the Ministry of War in the Observer's Palace, called the Military Affairs Department, but it has little real power and is mainly responsible for some civilian affairs.
"Li Heng doesn't have any front desk?"
"Then there are no thorns in the eight small states?"
Before taking office, Li Dai was busy meeting with officials, commanding his subordinates, understanding the people's sentiments, and controlling finance, taxation, and food, while Qian Lan stopped thinking about military affairs for his father.
Chang Lian nodded, that's not a local snake! It was the same in every state and county in the Tang Dynasty. The officials who came here had to establish a bad relationship with the local gangsters and protect our interests in order to be an official smoothly. Otherwise, life would be difficult, and all government orders would be issued by the government.
Therefore, military power must be grasped and the army must be trained into an army without combat effectiveness.
Li Yun shook her head, "Luoshui is not full of stones. All kinds of stones are often washed ashore by the water. When you were young, you often went to pick up stones with a group of companions. Unfortunately, you ran fast, and you picked up all the bad-looking stones. Let's go, you just pick up some pebbles."
Li Dai served as the observer of Shannan East Road and the governor of Xiangzhou. He was the lowest political officer in the entire Shannan East Road. The retreat hospital in Chang'an was also established in the name of Shannan East Road, and there were eighteen state branches above it.
The state soldiers in small states were led by tuanlian envoys or captains, while the state soldiers in large states were under the supervision of the governor. However, there was no such thing as a tutuanlian envoy in the past, and Li Dai served concurrently as the tutuanlian envoy of Shannan East Road.
Shannan East Road includes eighteen prefectures, including Dengzhou, Tangzhou, Xiangzhou, Junzhou, Fangzhou, Suizhou, Yingzhou, Fuzhou, Jingzhou, Xiazhou, Guizhou, Kuizhou, Wanzhou, etc., and is governed by Xiangyang.
I urged my horse to run towards the back. Behind me, there was a small river blocking the way. When the Han River arrived, a low city on the other side of the Han River was Xiangyang...
"Luoyang is very small, not much different from Chang'an. Your family lives near Luoshui, and you grew up near Luoshui.
My father must be a good observer, and I am also very complicated. He has to manage the army, so I won't have any trouble.
Bashu was Yang Guozhong's hometown. If Qian Lan had not competed with Yang Guozhong, I then asked Li Dai to go to Xiangyang and serve as the observation envoy of Shannan East Road.
Seeing that I was not firm at all, Qian Lan smiled and said, "Is Ba Xiaozhou a bad manager?"
Li Yun angrily covered the gem under her chest, "You promise to take it out!"
Of course, Chang Lian doesn't have time, but I can't keep eight hundred soldiers to help my father control and train the army.
"Except for the eight small states, the rest of the states are under the jurisdiction of both the governor and the governor."
Chang Lian thought for a moment, took out an emerald the size of a pigeon egg from outside his horse bag, and handed it to you, "That stone is very beautiful, give it to him!"
Li Dai's mission is to defend Jianghan. Of course I have to consider forming an army. That's not why Qian Lan followed his father to Xiangyang. I want to help my father build an army.
Pei Sanniang nodded, "What the young general said is absolutely correct. The state soldiers in the eight small states are all under the jurisdiction of the regiment training envoys. They basically follow the orders of the observation envoys. The subsequent observation envoy Yuan Huan called the state soldiers for training twice, and all the major military officers came. The eight thousand troops from the prefecture and the prefectural soldiers from the eight small prefectures have not come, and the outside is headed by Li Heng, the training envoy of the Xiangzhou regiment."
Li Yun's eyes lit up and she held the gem with both hands. She was fascinated by the emerald green color and exclaimed for a while: "It's so beautiful!"
"Thank you brother!"
The power of the observers is very small, and they have some control over military affairs, wealth, and folk customs, so they are also called the capital. For example, tax burdens are collected from the various states to the capital warehouse, and then transported to the capital by the capital.
I brought a thick stack of documents and files, placed them in front of Chang Lian, and introduced: "There are 17,000 state soldiers in Shannan East Road, of which Xiangzhou has less than 7,000, and Dengzhou and Xiangzhou have less than 2,000 each. , the eight small states will occupy 4,000 people, and the remaining 8,000 people will be distributed among the ten states."
"Li Heng is the son-in-law of Prime Minister Du Xian. He is backed by the Du family in Xiangyang. It has not been seventy years since I became the training envoy of Xiangzhou. I am nicknamed He Baihu. All seven of my sons have served as generals and controlled the seven thousand regiments in Xiangyang. The army, known as the Seven Tigers of Xiangyang, controls Xiangyang City, bullies women and dominates men, and does evil. I heard that He Baihu was going to celebrate his 70th birthday last month. Actually, I said it in November last year, and now it’s After this, everyone said that I was trying to show off to the new observer, to let him know who is the master of Xiangyang."
But it works! As soon as the Anshi Rebellion ended, An Lushan would definitely order the army to retreat to Jianghan, seize Jingxiang, and cut off the Tang Dynasty's water transportation from Jianghan.
Li Dai's appointment as the observation envoy to Shannan East Road was actually arranged by Prince Qian Lan with an ordinary mission. Seeing that An Lushan's rebellion was imminent and the emperor was serious about it, Prince Jiang ended his secret planning. Jiang considered arranging Li Dai There are no two small choices. One is to let me take over Bashu, and the other is to take over Shannan to protect Jianghan water transportation.
Pei Sanniang thought for a moment and said, "It's fine to say that the assassins are right, but all the state soldiers have deep connections with local wealthy families. There are even no state soldiers who are not villagers of wealthy families."
Another example is that when Li Dai was the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue in the following year, he transferred millions of dan of grain from Jiangnan East Road and Liangzhe Road. It was not transported from the warehouse in the capital. Otherwise, how much time would it take to transport it from each state?
The smallest difference between the Observer Envoy and the Jiedushi Envoy is military power. Shannan East Road is an important military town, so it has no defense function. Although it has no defense function, it means whether there is an army. There are no state soldiers in each state. It is mainly to prevent bandits and thieves.
Chang Lian smiled and waved his hand, "You are your sister. It doesn't matter if I give you a gem. Just keep it! Don't take it out before, as it will make people jealous."
"Isn't there anything bad to do in Luoshui?"
Chang Lian chuckled and said, "Leave it to mother for safekeeping! It will be used as a dowry for him in the future."
In reality, it is not a kind of dual leadership. Each state is under the jurisdiction of the imperial court and at the same time it is under the jurisdiction of the observers. Just like the tax bureau in the previous life, it was under the jurisdiction of both the local government and the General Administration of Taxation.
Chang Lian nodded and asked, "Are all those armies under the control of governors from various states?"
