Tibet

At the same time that Gao Lishi visited the Yang Mansion, Li Ye also met his grandfather. Li Linfu was no longer the prime minister, but an old man who retired from office and stayed at home.

The front door of the mansion was deserted, and there was no longer an official who came to pay homage. There were only a few horses and horses in front of the house, which was in sharp contrast to the bustling Yang Mansion.

The various retirement benefits Li Longji gave Li Linfu were quite good. The mansion he currently lives in is an official residence, so Li Longji directly gave him a private residence. He also gave him a ten-acre garden house located by the Qujiang Pond. , equivalent to a villa for summer vacation and leisure.

There is also the high salary and various benefits of the first-grade Grand Master, and there is also the land of the Duke of Jin.

Li Linfu's Duke of Jin had a real title with land. When the Tang Dynasty was first founded, there was a lot of land. At that time, the titles had land, and officials without titles had land.

By the mid-Tang Dynasty, the land annexation was almost completed, and the newly granted titles no longer had land. For example, Li Ye's Duke of Gaochang had no land, and Yang Guozhong's newly granted title of Wei Guogong also had no land. Li Linfu was in a special case.

He has 80 hectares of land, as well as manors that have been rewarded over the years and manors that he has annexed. Li Linfu's actual land is 200 hectares, which belongs to five large manors, four in Guanzhong and one in Hanzhong.

As for how much wealth he has accumulated over the past few decades, it is not known. Therefore, Li Linfu retired from office, but the power of the Prime Minister was reduced, but his wealth was not touched. This can be regarded as a safe landing.

The so-called inability to land safely does not mean that Li Linfu will be executed. Generally speaking, he will not be executed, but he and his descendants will be deposed from all official positions, all wealth will be confiscated, and they will be reduced to civilians. In the worst case, their descendants will be forced into the army. The lofty Phoenix In the end, he was even worse than a pheasant. For example, Cai Jing, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, starved to death in the end.

Li Linfu no longer wore official uniform, but changed into a loose fine linen Zen suit and a gauze hat on his head. He sat in front of the steps of the study yard, watching the breeze blowing up the fallen leaves on the ground.

"sit down!"

Li Linfu pointed to the steps beside him.

Li Ye sat down next to him and said with a faint smile: "Grandpa is very relaxed now, right?"

Li Linfu nodded, "I'm a little relaxed, but also a little disappointed. I can't even see the imperial memorials. The habits I've had for decades are suddenly gone, and I'm not used to it all of a sudden."

"My grandson was granted the title of Duke of Gaochang County and served as the first Governor of Hezhong and General Yunhui. Thank you very much, grandfather, for fighting for my grandson."

Li Linfu looked ashamed, shook his head and said: "You earned this all by yourself and have nothing to do with me. If I fight for you, you can become the county king. At the last moment, I still gave the opportunity to the eldest son and Eldest grandson, Yeer, grandpa is really sorry!"

Li Ye smiled and said: "Then I will feel more at ease."

Li Linfu nodded, "That's the truth. What you earn lasts long. What others give is easy to get and easy to throw away. Ye'er, you also get a manor?"

"In the south of Yi County, near the Xiegushui River, it is very close to Zhongnan Mountain. It seems to be twenty hectares."

"There are all imperial estates over there. What you should get is an imperial estate. It's very good. Twenty hectares is two thousand acres. When do you plan to go and see it?"

"Wait for your parents to come! Take them with you, and my grandfather too."

"I won't go, lest those fools accuse me of being partial and give the land to Lao Wu."

After a pause, Li Linfu said again: "One more thing, your father is going to be transferred back and serve as the Shaoyin of Jingzhao!"

Li Ye was shocked. Jingzhao Shaoyin was not an easy person to be. The city was full of high-ranking officials and powerful people, and no one could afford to offend him. He was known as a prankster and a scapegoat. The current Jingzhao Shaoyin Xu Lin was killed because of Yang Xi. He was demoted to Huarong County Lieutenant for assassination. Can his father, with his weak character, be able to become Jingzhao Shaoyin? Yang Guozhong would first put on small shoes for him.

"Why did you think of letting your father be Jing Zhaoyin?"

"I don't know either. I originally thought it was Yang Guozhong's intention. Later Gao Lishi told me that it was the emperor who decided it, and it was decided before you came back. I don't know why?"

Li Ye had no choice but to ignore the matter for the time being and asked again, "Who is Jing Zhaoyin?"

"Xian Yu Zhongtong, he led the army to attack Nanzhao without success and lost his troops and generals. Yang Guozhong interceded with him and transferred him to Beijing as Jing Zhaoyin."

Speaking of the failure of the attack on Nanzhao, Li Ye remembered some later sayings, saying that Nanzhao rebelled during the Tianbao period. In the tenth year of Tianbao, Yang Guozhong sent Jiannan Jiedushi Xianyu Zhongtong and led an army of 80,000 to attack Nanzhao. The result was a major defeat, and 60,000 were defeated. The army was killed in Nanzhao.

Later, Yang Guozhong sent people to attack Nanzhao again, killing more than 100,000 people again, and nearly 200,000 people were killed twice. This bankrupted the Tang Dynasty's finances, exhausted its troops, and severely weakened its vitality. Only then did An Lushan see the opportunity to rebel.

Now it seems that these records are obviously exaggerated. The total strength of Jiannan Jiedu Prefecture is just over 30,000 people, more than half of which are stationed in western Sichuan to defend Tibet. The maximum number of troops that can be used is more than 10,000 people.

Moreover, suppressing a local ethnic minority rebellion without using the central army of the imperial court was within the scope of the Jiannan Jiedu Envoy's responsibilities.

Xianyu Zhongtong led more than 10,000 people to attack Nanzhao, but he probably failed to achieve his goal. Thousands of casualties were possible.

But it would be a bit nonsense to say that Yang Guozhong concealed the truth of the defeat from the emperor and recommended Xianyu Zhongtong as Jing Zhaoyin. The tenth year of Tianbao was the most intense fight between Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong. Yang Guozhong wanted to conceal the truth of the defeat. Li Linfu Now, how could Yang Guozhong conceal it?

If Xianyu Zhongtong was defeated miserably, he would be even less likely to become the King Zhaoyin, and Li Linfu would not be able to let him go. He would definitely take the opportunity to cut off Yang Guozhong's arm.

So the truth is that some historians hated Yang Guozhong and deliberately exaggerated the defeat of the Battle of Nanzhao in order to show Yang Guozhong's ignorance and incompetence.

The fact should be that after a fierce battle between the Tang Army and the Nanzhao Army, no one could win. The two sides reached some kind of compromise and ceased fighting. This is more reasonable.

Li Linfu added: "You happen to be in the capital during this time. Help your father to stabilize him."

Li Ye nodded silently.

After coming out of Pingkangfang, the drums to close the gate rang loudly. At this time, it was too late to return to Taipingfang. Li Ye immediately rode to Changlefang's old house.

"Come in! This is our old house. No one lives in it. We will stay here for one night tonight. You can go home tomorrow!"

Li Ye's two subordinates are named Guan Pei, a native of Yongxian County, Qizhou, and Xu Chunsheng, a native of Zhengxian County, Huazhou. Li Ye's affairs are basically finished. He will not be able to return to Anxi until the spring of next year, and he will have to wait for at least a few days. After staying in Chang'an for four months, Li Ye asked them to go home separately and come back in spring.

There were many rooms in the old house. The two of them each packed up a room, put down their luggage, fed the horses, arranged for the horses to rest, and then went to Changlefang to eat and drink together.

Li Ye didn't need their company. He thought of something and almost forgot it.

Li Ye tidied up a little, climbed up the city wall directly, and ran all the way. He didn't see any guards on the top of the city, nor in the corridors, but there were many defenders on the Chunming Gate side.

Li Ye rushed to the Quan Furong house in Shenglongfang and found the small suitcase and dagger from a hole in the city wall. The suitcase was quite heavy, weighing at least twenty kilograms. He returned with the small suitcase and dagger. Old house.

Quan Furong and her maid were executed this afternoon, and their house and other properties were confiscated by the government. Only this small suitcase and dagger were not confiscated by the government. I wonder what is inside?

Under the light, Li Ye put the small suitcase aside and took out the dagger. The dagger was shining coldly and extremely sharp. There were two seal characters engraved on the sword's spine.

Li Ye recognized these two seal characters and was stunned.