At dusk, Li Xun came out of Changle Palace. He came to pay tribute to the Queen Mother today. The aunt and nephew chatted for a long time and only left now.

Li Xun looked up at the sky and thought to himself that it was getting late. Now he went to Zhao Xun, but he didn't know when he would talk about it. He was afraid that he would miss the time to leave the palace, so he would be in trouble. He might as well come back tomorrow.

Making up his mind, Li Xun stepped away.

As soon as he left the gate of Changle Palace, Li Xun saw Xiao Lezi standing there quietly at a glance.

Li Xun walked up and smiled and said, "Why are you standing here? But if you have something to pay homage to the Queen Mother?"

Li Xun thought Xiao Lezi had something to look for the Empress Dowager, because he was inside, so he couldn't get in and could only wait here.

Xiao Lezi said with a smile: "I came here not for the Queen Mother, but for you."

For me?

Li Xun understood that it was the emperor who wanted to see him.

Afterwards, Li Xun followed Xiao Lezi to Zhao Xun's place.

When he walked to the palace gate, Li Xun pulled Xiao Lezi and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong with the emperor looking for me?"

Xiao Lezi said softly: "I don't know what the matter is, but not long ago, the emperor received news that you and Huang Baichuan and Su Chi had met yesterday, so he ordered me to go to Changle Palace to call you over, maybe it has anything to do with these."

Li Xun nodded. Su Chi was traveling with hundreds of soldiers. With such a big goal, it was impossible not to attract other people's attention. Inside and outside Fengjing, Zhao Xun was not jealous.

"My minister, Li Xun, see the Emperor."

After entering the palace, Li Xun bowed and bowed.

Zhao Xun was reviewing the memorials. When he heard Li Xun's voice, he raised his head and pointed to the chair beside him: "You sit first, there are a few urgent memorials about military information, and I will step up the processing."

Li Xun didn't say anything and sat aside as he said.

After one wave has not yet settled, the situation in the world has become increasingly unstable.

Since Zhao Xun succeeded to the throne, it has only been a year since the rebellion of Cheng Xisi, Shi Hu, Cao Shi and others have appeared one after another, involving Huaibei and Lingnan. Although these two wars ended with the final victory of the court, the scale of the war is not small, killing one thousand enemies and losing 800 to himself, the court's losses are also very huge.

Moreover, the war seriously damaged the local economy. Cheng Xisi's rebellion alone led to nearly 100,000 people being killed and hundreds of thousands of people being displaced. The Lingnan War was even more serious. A siege in Jiayan City led to more than 100,000 people being killed. Although the main battlefields were mainly in Qianzhou and Chenzhou, the prefectures and counties affected by the war were far more than that, especially the war brought huge impact and pressure to the psychology and spirit of the general public.

Three days ago, Xue Chengsong wrote back to report on the progress of the disaster in Henan and the recent work. The overall period has entered the final period. The disaster in Henan has basically been effectively controlled. The disaster that has lasted for several years has finally ended. Although there are still many defects that need to be improved, Li Xun has done his best, and the rest is no longer something he can control.

While reporting on the work, Xue Chengsong also mentioned another thing in his letter, that is, land annexation.

As the disaster was controlled and the situation gradually stabilized, a large number of wealthy families and powerful families began to pour into Henan, buying and selling land frantically. Li Xun has now returned to Fengjing, and his previous local positions were naturally all revoked. In this way, his control over Henan was no longer available. Those local officials were also slowly disappearing from the shock that Li Xun had given them. Now, with the influx of wealthy families and powerful families, some local officials began to get together with them, collude with each other, and annex large amount of land.

Something happened in Zhezhou.

The Qiang people have repeatedly provoked troubles in the past six months, and their relationship with local governments has become worse and worse. They have fought several times, and both sides have suffered casualties.

The defense envoy of Zhezhou, Tang Zhiyu, sent several letters to the governor of Shuzhou, Yang Daoan and the military supervisors of several nearby prefectures, hoping that they could send troops to support one or two, and they just needed to restrain themselves from the side. As the main force, he used force to suppress the Qiang tribe with force, but they were all rejected. There was no way. Tang Zhiyu had to write to the court, hoping that the court would send troops to support directly. If it did not work, he could also issue an order to allow several states near Zhezhou to send troops to restrain them from the side. He led 3,000 troops from the headquarters to directly attack the Qiang tribe's habitat and fought a decisive battle with them, and completely destroyed the strongest Black Water tribe among the Qiang tribe.

Tang Zhiyu's letter was scolded by Zhao Xun, asking him not to cause trouble, and to be harmonious in everything. For the Qiang people, try to appease and win over them as much as possible, and not to start a war easily.

At that time, Cheng Xisi's rebellion had just broken out, and the situation in Lingnan was unstable and many major events were mixed together. Zhao Xun had no energy to worry about a small Qiang tribe. Moreover, he also felt that Tang Zhiyu's letter was a bit exaggerated. What capital and confidence does an ethnic minority with a population of only 200,000 or 300,000 have to challenge the powerful Jin Dynasty?

So in the final result, Zhao Xun scolded Tang Zhiyu, and rewarded him with 100,000 taels of silver, so that he could win over and appease the Qiang tribe. In this way, in Zhao Xun's view, this matter was over.

Three days ago, a moderate leader of the Qiang tribe found Tang Zhiyu and expressed his willingness to serve as an intermediary to raise a platform for the two sides to hold peace talks. He also stated that Tanmudan, the leader of the Blackwater tribe, had agreed to hold peace talks under his persuasion, hoping that Tang Zhiyu could show enough sincerity in exchange for peace.

Tang Zhiyu naturally was happy to see this incident, and out of sincerity, he said that he could place the peace talks in Weishan County, which is close to the Qiang residence.

The two sides determined the venue for the peace talks that day.

The next day, Tang Zhiyu brought 300 soldiers, 50,000 taels of silver and 50,000 dan grain as a way to appease and win over, which could best lead to the success of the peace talks.

Tang Zhiyu's wish was good, but unfortunately, this peace talk was just a fall.

After Tang Zhiyu and 300 soldiers arrived at the peace talks, they were not friendship and enthusiasm, but swords and blood. Tens of thousands of Qiang soldiers launched a siege and fought fiercely for an hour. Tang Zhiyu and 300 soldiers from the headquarters were all killed. Subsequently, Chi Jiadan, the leader of the Qiang Tribe Alliance, led 13,000 Qiang soldiers to raid the three counties of Zhezhou and Zhezhou. In addition to Shimu County, the prefecture's command, successfully repelled the Qiang people due to the desperate resistance of the three thousand defenders, Weishui and Rongjing counties were destroyed. The Qiang people burned and killed and looted, and tens of thousands of people were killed.
Chapter completed!