On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, Di Zhi married Princess Yongming.

At this time, Di was the deputy envoy of the Privy Councilor and the commander of the new naval army. He had both noble status and real power. He was also the most trusted general of the crown prince. He made outstanding achievements and naturally attracted much attention.

Even Duke De personally came to congratulate him, rather than sending juniors from his family to show Di's status at this time.

This is not difficult to understand. The so-called emperor and ministers will be the people represented by Di Zhi in the future.

The wedding day was particularly lively and a grand event in the capital.

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After marriage, the Lantern Festival will soon be held. This year, Gillian is very happy and wants to hold a poetry party.

However, she was not easy to come forward alone, so Li Xingzhou simply accompanied her and was a guest of honor. The royal family had enough money and held a poetry meeting to make his wife happy.

As Li Xingzhou became more and more famous, the poems and essays he copied at the time became more and more popular, and he brought his literary talent to a new level. As a guest of honor at the poetry meeting, he naturally attracted many sought after.

Many people in the mansion went to join in the fun, especially Pu Chaling, who had never seen such a grand occasion.

.........

Time flies, and before I know it, it is the sixteenth day of the first lunar month. Early in the morning, Li Xingzhou was awakened by the noise outside the courtyard, and Gillian in her arms also woke up quickly.

He ran out angrily, stood barefoot on the second floor and cursed.

The people outside were frightened and hurried in to report, saying that someone must see him, but he had never made an appointment and had never heard of the way he came. He just didn't convey it to him and wanted to see him in person.

Li Xingzhou was immediately annoyed. She disturbed her sleep early in the morning and almost asked someone to slap her. Gillian was dressed and came out to comfort her. Then he slowly subsided. She kissed Gillian, which made her face flush and her mood improved.

"Let him wait outside, I'll come later." As he said that, he went back to change his clothes, washed up under the service of Gillian, and then went to see someone.

When I arrived at the front reception hall? The other party was a dusty young man? I knelt down when I saw him.

Li Xingzhou has no good face, and it’s a great thing to bother him? “The plan for the day lies in the morning”? He is also planning to do some hard work with Gillian and get up again.

"Who are you here and why are you here? Let's just say it's simple." Li Xingzhou sat down, picked up the tea and drank it.

"Is it a servant of Mr. Wu, the governor of Mingzhou? He was ordered to bring a letter north? The head of the family can only tell you the instructions of His Highness personally. There are top secret matters and cannot be circulated outside the public." The young man said respectfully.

When Li Xingzhou heard what he said, his brows frowned slightly? Then he asked the servant next to him to submit the letter? Open it and look.

Slowly, his brows frowned, and he almost jumped up in anger, but he took a deep breath and pretended that nothing had happened? Then he carefully put the letter away: "Thank you for your hard work."

Then he asked the servant to find Yan Kun and rewarded the young man who delivered the letter with fifty taels. He also entertained him to stay in the restaurant in the palace for the time being.

Wu Huisheng, isn’t this the first time he has seen this name? Degong had told him before and made a list of them for him? The list of officials in the coastal states who support and oppose the new policy? So that he can prepare? There are countermeasures.

Because Degong was the chief official of the Political Affairs Hall and was in the same position as the Minister of the Central Committee, he would have approved the memorials in various places, so he knew it clearly.

When he was fighting outside, these people were ready to move while he was not in the court without time to take care of it. Only a few coastal prefectures and counties were on his side.

Wu Huisheng is one of them, the governor of Mingzhou.

The reason why Li Xingzhou wanted to take the lead in solving the southern coastal areas was to drive the development of coastal states. The sooner the reform, the sooner the dividends were enjoyed.

There are two considerations in strategic layout.

First, the economic center of gravity moves southward.

This was the beginning of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. In the past, the North was always the center of economic and cultural importance, but the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were very chaotic. Especially in the north, as the economic, political and cultural center, warlords were separatist, and chaos was constantly fought, and the people were withering, and nine out of ten houses were empty.

That was not the warlord separatist of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty. The chaos in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was a chaos without moral bottom line, and a chaos in the command of the warlords without brains.

There are many records of murders as military rations, and they are fickle and random operations are endless.

In comparison, the Three Kingdoms are all good times. No matter how chaotic the Three Kingdoms are, they can still be talked about, because the main warlords are all smart, know how to seek profit and avoid harm, and restrain each other; the basic moral system has not collapsed overall, and even in troubled times, they have loyalty and courage and soul-stirring things.

The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were different. Most warlords were brainless and were moody based on temporary likes and dislikes. Basic morality collapsed, what is morality? I don’t know! So I can do anything that is inhumane.

In this environment, the relatively stable south becomes a good place to avoid disasters. The people in the south can generally live a stable life, and the economic center of gravity gradually moves south.

By the Southern Song Dynasty, only half of the country was going to move south on a large scale.

With the flooding of the Yellow River, the southern Yangtze River Basin is becoming more and more suitable for development.

Now is a great opportunity. If the southern coastal states develop to the north and central Shu, it will also cause damage to their country, and it will be difficult to shake.

They have not yet developed yet and are still in their infancy. It is difficult and can lay the foundation for future development.

Secondly, foreign wars were mainly in the north in the future.

Li Xingzhou is only twenty-one now, and he still has a lot of time.

In the next few decades, the north will face the Xia Kingdom, the Tubo tribes, and the rise of Mongolia, wars will be inevitable and turmoil will be inevitable.

Only the south, only the area south of the Huai River, can maintain stable development and develop with peace of mind for a long time, become the backbone of the entire country, support foreign military activities and stabilize national strength.

Therefore, you must start these places first, stabilize first, and the sooner the better.

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The letter Wu Huisheng sent helped him a lot!

The above said that he found that the Mingzhou tribes joined forces with some surrounding wealthy families to ask for help from Shu.

Li Xingzhou immediately understood that the so-called "seeking help from Shu" refers to the Wu family in Shu.

He was shocked. He did not expect these big clans to play this trick before!

...........

"Please talk to the queen..." Shi Yu pondered, tilting her head and not knowing what she was thinking.

After Li Xingzhou received the letter, he immediately consulted Shiyu for discussion.

"These bastards! I wanted to deal with Wu Zhengqing two years ago, but they found someone to go to Beijing first and followed the queen's way, so what could they do with him?" Li Xingzhou was a little angry.

"What about this time? After all, it's not the Queen's family's business. Will the Queen take care of it?" Shiyu asked. Li Xingzhou reached out and signaled her to sit on his thigh. He liked to discuss issues with her like this and was used to it.

I hesitated for a moment, but I should do it.

"If they convince the Wu family first, it's just a matter of how to speak. If the Wu family helps, even if it has nothing to do with the Wu family, it can easily be said. What I want to deal with is the local wealthy family, and so is the Wu family."

Shiyu frowned: "As long as the queen speaks, things will be difficult again."

Li Xingzhou nodded definitely, "I didn't think about this before. After all, it was too far away. I just thought that no one except the emperor could constitute an obstacle. The emperor stood with me, and I didn't believe that they had the ability to convince the emperor.

But I wanted to miss the queen!

It is also feasible for the queen to speak. Although the harem cannot interfere in politics, she is my grandmother!

This is difficult, and the blood of relatives is there. If she really speaks, she can't do things perfectly. She does it neatly, but what I want is to do it neatly and do it at once."

Shiyu thought for a while, then said, "Then let's start first and make them speechless!"

"Hehe, the heroes see each other!" Li Xingzhou smiled, "The mouth is on them, but they can't speak or not."

"This time I went to Shuzhong, I was going to bring the fourth battalion and six Dingnan-class warships. If the situation was wrong, I would just take the people so that they could not speak." Li Xingzhou said coldly.

He may be criticized for this matter, but just scold him. He has been scolded enough to not let those people destroy his strategic layout.

Shiyu laughed: "How could you be so domineering!"

Then she leaned back, treated Li Xingzhou as a chair, and said seriously: "I don't think there are so many people, but we have to be fast, and we can no longer go low-key along the way as you planned before.

You have to go to Shu before those people, and then make a big splash to inform the world that you will go. At that time, all the big families and local officials will definitely run to Chengdu."

Shiyu's eyes flashed: "At that time, even those people will be useless even if they go to Shu. The officials and clans in Shu are by your side. They dare to go up and it will be easy to control them!"

Li Xingzhou was stunned. When he thought about it carefully, he seemed to be the same.

When he arrives at Shuzhong, as long as he acts in a high-profile manner, officials from all parties will take the initiative to come over. If they dare to enter the country, there will be more reasons to make it.

"Then I'll leave tomorrow!" Li Xingzhou was furious.

"Don't be in a hurry for a day or two. As long as you arrive, the Wu family will not dare to act rashly. Instead, they have to set up a backup plan." Shiyu said.

Li Xingzhou looked at her smart little wife, and saw her jokingly looking at her, and she was immediately angry and scratched her, "Do you dare to show off your intelligence? Teach your husband. Let me see how I deal with you at night!"

Shiyu blushed and quickly stopped him from making trouble, and said breathlessly: "Even if he goes to the last step and the Wu family sends people to the palace, it will always be possible to see the queen before it counts.

From thousands of miles from the capital to Shu, they can go wherever they want, but they will eventually enter the imperial city..."

Li Xingzhou instantly understood: "You mean... Wudesi!"

Shiyu nodded: "As long as you can't enter the imperial city, everything will be over. This is the final guarantee."

The Wude Department is responsible for guarding the junction of the outer city of the imperial city and the inner and outer city to protect the safety of the palace. The queen is in the harem. If the Wu family wants to see the queen, they must inform the Wude Department to release it.

Now it is easy to bribe Wudesi as his identity.

only......

"I'm afraid it will cause suspicion..." Wudeshi is an armed force guarding the imperial city after all, and is responsible to the emperor. If he intervenes casually, it may cause unnecessary suspicion.

The poem said: "So it is the final guarantee. It is good that Your Highness can go to Shuzhong and let the Wu family not speak. If it is too late, let Wudesi stop people from intercepting the letter."

Li Xingzhou nodded. His good wife was indeed smart and thoughtful. She was originally quite anxious when she said that.

Because there are several insurances, he can go to Shuzhong to mobilize local governments to prevent the Yuan family from entering the country. If it is slow, it can prevent them from seeing the Wu family;

Even if he didn't have time to stop him, he could put pressure on the Wu family and take a step back. The Wu family sent someone to see the queen or send a letter. He could use a trick of removing firewood from the cauldron to mobilize the Wude Department to intercept the person or letter.

Yes, no matter how hard they struggle, they will end up running to the capital or the palace.
To be continued...