Li Zhen winked Di Yan, Di Yan removed the sword, Li Zhen smiled and said, "I believe that the current situation is critical, Prefect Lin knows better than anyone else. The reason why Lai Junchen sent the Censor and the Censor to Yangzhou was to monitor Li Yuanjia in the name of the official. Now both of them are dead, and Li Yuanjia has no way out, so he will inevitably raise an army to rebel. Prefect Lin said what to do?"

Lin Qing gritted his teeth and said, "It's all those Korean dogs that hurt me."

Li Zhen and Di Yan looked at each other, and both of them understood that it was the Goguryeo Restoration Congress again. Li Zhen was even more connected. Lin Qing and Zhao Wenchu's backstage was Wu Sansi, and these Goguryeo people were sent by Wu Sansi. I am afraid that the people who really killed Hou Sizhi and Wang Dazhen were them, not Li Yuanjia.

At this time, Zhao Wenchu ​​said anxiously: "Where are these Goryeo people? You can't let them run away."

Lin Qing shook his head, "After the inn incident, they all disappeared, they should have run away. Where can I find them now?"

Li Zhen said lightly: "Why isn't Wu Sansi afraid of the people from the General Hall coming, but sent a group of Goguryeo warriors to Yangzhou? Have you ever thought about the reason for this?"

Lin Qing's face turned pale. He understood what Li Zhen meant. He was afraid that Wu Sansi had been preparing to stay out of the matter from the beginning, so he refused to send his own people. Now that the two censors died in Yangzhou, Li Yuanjia had no way out and was about to rise up. Wu Sansi would not admit that he was related to the Yangzhou incident, so Lin Qing would take all the blame.

After figuring this out, Lin Qing's forehead was sweating profusely, and Zhao Wenchu ​​also understood that he was so scared that he trembled all over, "Encourt, what should we... do?"

Lin Qing suddenly thought of something, looked up at Li Zhen suddenly, and saw that Li Zhen had a smile on his face, as if waiting for something. Lin Qing quickly stood up, bowed deeply, begged, "President Li saved my life."

Li Zhen smiled and said, "In fact, there is still a way to go for Envoy Lin, it depends on whether Envoy Lin has the courage."

Lin Qingyi gritted his teeth, "At this point, I can only get rid of this crisis. I will give up. Commander Li, please tell me."

Li Zhen nodded and said, "Premier Lin and Changshi Zhao jointly wrote a letter to the emperor, revealing Li Yuanjia's ambition to be the emperor. The Tianzhao Stone Monument can be used as evidence, so it is best to find some more evidence."

Lin Qing and Zhao Wenchu ​​looked at each other, but they didn't expect that Li Zhen was actually trying to clear Li Dan and Li Xian. They thought they were going to clear themselves first, and Lin Qingshen agreed, "We will write a letter right away."

Li Zhen smiled again and said, "It's not enough to just write a letter to express his opinion. We must take action. I heard that the prefect has a thousand state soldiers in his hands. Can we hand over the state soldiers to me?"

At this time, Li Zhen was Lin Qing's life-saving straw. He would obey whatever Li Zhen said, not to mention that Li Zhen's suggestions were extremely correct. He had to resist Li Yuanjia with practical actions, so that he would be recognized by the emperor.

At this moment, Lin Qing suddenly remembered something, quickly pulled Li Zhen aside, and whispered: "I have a few letters to Li Yuanjia, can Commander Li--"

Li Zhen understood and smiled and said, "I will find it and return it to Prefect Lin."

Lin Qing was overjoyed and immediately took out a jade box from the box and handed it to Li Zhen, "This is the command arrow of the soldiers of the Thousand Prefectures. I will accompany the commander to the military camp."

In Jiangyang City, when Li Yuanjia heard that his son had killed the two censors, he was shocked. Li Xun丨 was so anxious that he stamped his feet and pointed at Li Chen and cursed: "You idiot, are you going to force us to death?"

Li Chen was furious and drew his sword and roared: "To accomplish a big thing, He Xi, two little censors, if you dare to shake the morale of the army again, I will kill you first."

Li Xun丨is very afraid of this brother, so he hurriedly said to Li Yuanjia: "Father, it's still time for me to go to Wu Yizong to negotiate."

Li Yuanjia did not say anything. He was reading a secret decree. This was a secret decree from Wang Dazhen. The secret decree was written very clearly, so that Wang Dazhen and Hou Sizhi could stabilize the prefect of Yangzhou, Lin Qing, and after Wu Yizong captured him, Li Yuanjia, they would execute the two secretly together and destroy the whole family.

Li Yuanjia sighed deeply and handed the secret order to his eldest son Li Xun丨He said helplessly: "I'm afraid I have no way out."

Li Xun丨After reading the secret order, I couldn't speak for a long time. At this time, Li Yuanjia made up his mind and said to Li Chen: "You go to Yangzi Island quickly and bring all the remaining soldiers to Jiangyang. We will occupy Yangzhou first, and then order the world to attack the martial thieves."

Li Chen led a dozen followers to the dock to beat horses and rushed to the dock. He shouted to the dock manager: "Prepare the boat quickly."

The dock manager ran away. At this time, one of his subordinates stepped forward and said, "Little Prince, there is a businessman from Dunhuang who is willing to serve the little prince."

"Where are people?"

His subordinates brought a fat man up, Li Chen looked at him and asked, "What's your name?"

"I was drinking and storming. The Dunhuang people came to Yangzhou from Dunhuang to trafficking horses. I heard that the prince was recruiting heroes. The villain brought a few friends to serve the little prince."

When Li Chen heard that it was a horse dealer from Hexi, he felt aroused that they just needed horses, so he asked, "How many horses do you have?"

The fat man turned around and waved and shouted: "Take it up"

Several men wearing coarse gauze clothes came with more than twenty horses. Yangzhou did not produce horses, and horses were all sold from the northern grasslands. Most of them were very expensive. Seeing that these horses were not military horses, they were all very strong, but those men were also very strong. He was happy in his heart and asked with a smile: "These horses are worth at least thousands of guan. Do you sell them to me?"

The fat man scratched his head and said, "The villain is a businessman, he doesn't have money-"

"What do you want?" Li Chen asked strangely.

"The villain's father is a butcher, and he is determined to make the villain an official, but unfortunately the villain only knows a few big words."

Li Chen understood, "Do you want to be an official?"

The fat man took out a gold dagger with gems inlaid and presented it with his hands with a smile on his face, "This is a villain who bought a dagger from the Sogdians, and he is willing to offer it to the prince."

Li Chen took the dagger and pulled it out, and saw the blade shining coldly and extremely sharp. He couldn't help but secretly praise the fat man who understands the world. He immediately fell in love with the fat man who drinks and smiled and said, "If you want to be an official, follow me, I will sign you as my account. Which one? The warehouse manager is a seventh-rank official, in charge of military supplies, how about it?"

The fat man was overjoyed, kowtowed, and cried and said, "My Prince included, the villain finally fulfilled his father's long-cherished wish. He is actually a seventh-rank official."

Seeing that he was quite interesting, Li Chen couldn't help but smile, "Let's go back and carve an official seal for you, come with me."

"Oh," the fat man agreed, Huanhuan followed Li Chen onto the boat happily, and several friends also led the horses onto the big boat.

The atmosphere in Yangzhou City gradually became tense. All four city gates were closed, and shops were closed one after another. Pedestrians on the streets were deserted, and every family was closed, waiting for the arrival of news that made them feel more at ease. Yangzhou had a fierce war when Li Jingye rebelled more than ten years ago, with countless casualties and many people still remembering that war.

Seeing that the war broke out again, how could they not be frightened? But they could only pray in front of the Bodhisattva that the war did not come.

The 1,000 soldiers stationed in Yangzhou City have been secretly taken out of the city by Li Zhen. The city is urgently recruiting strong men. Fortunately, Yangzhou City has a large population, and local household registration and businessmen from other places have nearly one million civilians, which provides a solid foundation for recruiting strong men.

First, the martial arts halls in Yangzhou City provided more than 500 young and well-off men, followed by the provincial and county schools, and hundreds of strong young scholars were selected.

In addition, there were more than 100 runners in the prefecture and county yamen, and they publicly recruited warriors to defend the city on the streets, recruiting more than 2,000 people. In just half a day, the Yangzhou government recruited more than 3,000 strong men, but this was still a little far from the five thousand strong men expected by the government.

In the prefecture, Zhao Qiuniang, the inner guard captain who had just led fifty subordinates to arrive, and Lu Jin, another lieutenant. Li Zhen was not in Yangzhou City, so they discussed countermeasures on behalf of the inner guard and the prefect Lin Qing, the chief minister Zhao Wenchu, Sima Wu Dongxu and others.

Currently, there are 90 warriors in Yangzhou. They are skilled in martial arts and well-trained. The Yangzhou government has great expectations for them.

However, they had differences in recruiting civil servants. Lin Qing planned to recruit 20,000 civil servants from ordinary people. They had the financial support, but Zhao Qiuniang and Lu Jin both expressed opposition to this plan.

"Prince Lin, our attitude is very clear. The soldiers are not the most powerful, and the same is true for civil servants. I and Lieutenant Lu do not agree with recruiting strong men from ordinary people. We hope to recruit some well-trained people so that when the battle to defend the city is approaching, they will not escape."

Zhao Qiuniang's clear attitude made Lin Qing very embarrassed. He and Zhao Wenchu ​​looked at each other and smiled bitterly: "We can understand the feelings of the two lieutenants, but now we have found all the well-trained people. The martial arts school, the provincial school, the official office, and selected two thousand young and strong martial arts, but the number is still too small. I am sure that I can recruit 20,000 people and select some of them to train. At least five or six thousand people will defend the city."

"We believe in Prefect Lin's ability, but it's too late to train now. Isn't it great to ask Prefect Lin to think of a way to find some trained warriors, such as servants of wealthy families?"

Lu Jin's suggestion immediately reminded several state officials. Zhao Wenchu ​​nodded and smiled: "Person Lu is right. The servants of wealthy families can indeed be used. I will be responsible for recruiting these servants."

At this time, Sima Wu Dongxu said on the side: "Eunuch, there are actually a group of people who can use it."

"Who?" Lin Qing asked anxiously.

Wu Dongxu chuckled in a low voice: "Have you forgotten the salt meeting and the boat meeting?"

Wu Dongxu is worthy of being Sima in charge of public security. He thought of some spontaneous organizations in Yangzhou, which were later predecessors.

Yangzhou has developed business and has guilds in all walks of life. Among some coolie workers, mutual aid guilds have appeared. The most famous are the salt union, the ship union and the dock union. They each manage tens of thousands of people, responsible for mediating various conflicts among the coolie and protecting the interests of the coolie.

Lin Qing suddenly realized it, and he immediately became excited. From these three coolies, he could recruit at least five or six thousand strong men who had been trained in the organization, and the strong men who guarded the city were solved.

He immediately smiled at Zhao Qiuniang and Lu Jin and said, "No need to recruit people from ordinary people anymore. There are guilds in Yangzhou, and there are tens of thousands of people. They have all trained and can participate in defending the city."

"Where are the weapons and armor?"

Zhao Qiuniang asked again: "Can there be enough stock in the city?"

Lin Qing knew it in his heart, and he smiled and said, "There is no problem with weapons and armor. There was a military disaster in Yangzhou more than ten years ago. Many people have weapons hidden. They can donate it. Magistrate Zang, this matter is left to your county government."

Jiangdu County Magistrate Zang Han nodded, "The officials will go and mobilize the people to donate weapons and armor immediately."

Lin Qing had a clear mind, so he cheered up and stood up and said, "Okay, let's hurry up and take action."

With a clear plan, officials from prefectures and counties went to do their own things, while Zhao Qiuniang and Lu Jin were responsible for leading the inner guards to organize the strong men. Each of them served as the temporary team leader, leading dozens of people to hundreds.

Even Di Yan became the leader of more than 50 state scholars. When these scholars heard that she was the daughter of Di Prime Minister, they all performed extremely hard, and they wanted Di Yan to remember his name, as if Di Renjie was still the prime minister in the court.

In the afternoon, the yamen runners sent a large amount of armor and weapons, and Di Yan asked for more than fifty pairs of bows and arrows and fifty pieces of leather armor.

She pointed to a pile of leather armor and bows and arrows on the ground, shouted loudly to the fifty men who were neatly arranged: "Shooting is one of the six arts. Since you are state scholars, you should have learned archery. From now on, you are archers. Now listen to my orders, put on your armor, and pick up your bows and arrows."
Chapter completed!