Li Ling never thought that he was a person who was open-minded and could be a smile to eliminate grudges. In his opinion, revenge must be revenged, and revenge directly was the most normal choice. Before, because his status was too high, he was far from being able to compare with him, and he had no chance, so he could only endure it; but now, with the handle in his hand, he would not let it go.

After sorting out Ma Bangwen's confession, Li Ling asked him to send him back to the capital, but was not busy through relationships and impeachment Fei Chong, because he knew very well that this crime alone was not enough to defeat a third-rank governor, which required more evidence of the crime.

However, this is no longer difficult for Li Ling now. The flaws of expenses have been revealed. He cannot only greed for money and food in Yingzhou. He must have done shameful activities in Ruzhou where he stationed his troops, and other Huaibei Prefectures. As long as he follows the clues, he can always collect many evidence of crimes.

Of course, Li Ling could not do these things now, and he still had a heavy responsibility, so he simply added another secret letter and sent them to the Imperial City Department to achieve his goal with the help of this supervisory force. He also believed that the people of the Imperial City Department would not refuse their requests, not only because the two sides had a close relationship, but also because this was what the officials of the Imperial City Department wanted to do.

In recent years, the power of the Imperial City Department has been increasing, and it can even compete with supervisory offices like the Censorate in the capital. However, their foundation is unstable after leaving the capital, especially after leaving the capital, which has a very small impact. Some spies were laid in many places, but they have no substantial power.

Once they do what the Censorate cannot do, such as finding out many illegal evidences of a local high-ranking official and overturning such high-ranking officials, they will inevitably make their momentum rise and thus truly extend their tentacles to the prefectures in the world.

It can be said that this investigation of Fei Zhong is a good thing that both parties can benefit. Li Ling firmly believes that Lu Zhen and others will help him and help him expose this enemy! So after writing a letter to the capital, he threw this section aside and began to focus on the more important errands at the moment - the dispatch of military rations. This is the purpose of his coming to Yingzhou and doing all this.

The Ma Bangwen and Jia family were taken down in one fell swoop, but the amount of grain they obtained was not enough to send to northern Xinjiang, because Yingzhou was indeed poor, and nearly half of the grain had been sold elsewhere through the Jia family channels for silver, which still made them insufficient food at hand.

However, this did not stump Li Ling. In the entire Yingzhou Prefecture, the Jia family was not the only one who had grain reserved. With the order, he bought grain from wealthy families in the name of the prefect's office. This time, Li Ling was indeed very restrained for the overall situation. Except for the prefect Ma Bangwen and Hu Yi, a few officials of the prefects, who were severely punished and imprisoned to the jail waiting for the court to deal with, he let everyone go. As long as some money was spit out, they would not be investigated and even their official positions could be retained. In this way, the government office naturally was in awe of him. As long as Lord Li ordered, he would not dare to give any discounts and do his best.

With this arrangement, and the wealthy families were not clean, they were willing to take out their food to buy peace for their own safety. So in the next five or six days, the government office came to a major event for collecting grain, just like in ninety months. Li Ling decided to leave until the food was full.

This time, Li Ling spent more than ten days in Yingzhou from discovering the problem to identifying the problem, and then solving everything. When he officially left, it was already February and the best time of the year was about to enter.

During this period, the situation in the north also changed a lot.

The biggest relationship with Li Ling is naturally another military food transportation incident that was previously divided into troops, that is, the grain robbery case in southwestern Shanxi. After he solved this matter, the imperial guards sent letters from the Yang brothers - everything was successfully resolved.

The letter mentioned that the people who robbed food were actually a group of thieves who were both bandits and people. They went out and became bandits. After the robbery, they returned to their hometown and became good people. The local government had no choice but to use them because they could find it out.

But this time, they hit the iron plate. The elite imperial guards and the spies of the Imperial City Division were their nemesis. After following the clues, they determined their place and then a night attack. Almost without paying any price, they captured all the gangs of hundreds of bandits in one fell swoop, and seized tens of thousands of stones of food and thousands of taels of silver from the nest that seemed to be an ordinary village, which was all obtained by their years of robbery.

This time, all of them were filled with military rations, and the soldiers of the imperial guards also gained some benefits, which made everyone's morale more and even wanted to continue to look for bandits of the same origin nearby. Yes, the northwest area of ​​Dayue is also full of bandits due to the influence of the geographical environment, which is a headache for the local government.

However, the Yang brothers knew the severity and did not dare to make a mistake in the seriousness of the matter because of minor mistakes, so they quickly confiscated their troops and escorted grain northward. At the same time, they also reminded Li Ling in the letter that the time limit for delivering food set for them before was not much left.

Speaking of which, when the order was ordered to transport military rations, the court gave a time limit, and the first batch of military rations must be transported into place by the end of February. However, due to the difficulty of roads, various accidents and other reasons, the time on the road was delayed. Especially the two military rations that had happened, they have not officially entered the northern border until now.

Fortunately, the Northern Frontier Army finally stabilized the war with the imperial order issued by the court and the soldiers from all over the country.

Since this year, although the Guirong people marched in many ways and wanted to replicate the previous achievements again, they were blocked by the defenders from all over the country. After several battles, they not only failed to defeat the city, but also lost a lot of troops in front of border towns.

Then, as Li Ling mentioned in the article early in the morning, the Guirong people, who were united by multiple tribes due to interests, could not maintain unity after encountering setbacks, and some of them wanted to fight again, while some of them had already retreated.

Especially in February, when the weather gradually warmed up, many tribes even retreated and wanted to return to the grassland to herd horses and shepherd herds. Their only concern was that the Great Vietnamese border army would retaliate against the pursuit, so they insisted on confrontation. However, according to various information, it was inevitable to drive this invading enemy out of the Great Vietnam border. Next, we only look at what the imperial court and the border generals were planning, whether they would take advantage of the victory to pursue, and how heavy the invading enemy would pay.

This decision was also related to Li Ling's next action. If the court still wanted to continue to use troops to the north, he, the governor of the transfer of military rations in the northern border, would have to help raise and dispatch military rations from other places. This was still an extremely difficult and complicated task; and if the court felt that it could withdraw the troops when driving the enemy out of the country, it would only need to send the batch of grain at hand to the northern border, and it would be considered as completing the task.

However, the information in this regard was not accurate enough, which made Li Ling, who was already ready to leave Yingzhou, feel a headache, but he was helpless. The affairs in the military changed rapidly, and it was really not something that he could understand and ask about, but now he can only do his current errands first.

On the eighth day of the second month, Li Ling officially left Yingzhou and led a long team to head towards Jinzhou. Although Huaibei and Jinzhou are actually two adjacent provinces, Yingzhou and northern borders are still thousands of miles apart, so they may not be able to arrive within the time limit.

So along the way, Li Ling simply let go of his arms. While urging the team to move quickly, he kept paying attention to the water and land transportation along the way, considering where to set up a transit station for the grain transport team in the future to ensure that the future military ration transportation can travel north in a safer and more convenient way.

For this reason, he wrote and painted along the way, and used a thick stack of paper alone, which made the guards around him look a little stunned and admired.

However, the transportation of grain at this time is much easier than in the first lunar month, because there is no longer the wind and snow that comes from time to time, and the snow on the ground that hinders its progress has completely melted. Mules, horses, vehicles and people can move forward as quickly as possible, which has saved Li Ling a lot of time.

But this is far from enough, so I can only hope that this batch of grain will not affect the overall situation of the entire northern Xinjiang.

"Young Master, do you think our border troops are still taking advantage of the situation to advance north?" Li Moyun asked casually during the journey. He thought about this question for a long time, but never had a definite answer.

Li Ling looked at him and smiled bitterly: "I am not in military affairs yet. I have no idea whether to pursue the victory or stop when I see it."

After pausing, looking at the other party who was a little disappointed, Li Ling smiled and said, "But there is one thing I can imagine, that is, many border soldiers definitely advocate continuing to advance north."

"Are you so much for revenge?"

"Not only that, it is also because today's military generals need a victory to reflect their value." Li Ling looked up at the north, and his tone seemed quite solemn, "My Dayue has always paid attention to the balance between civil and military affairs. His Majesty is also willing to do this now. However, there is a prerequisite for all this, that is, both civil and military sides must have equal contributions to the world and the court. At least on the surface, the achievements of both sides are balanced.

"But since the reign of Emperor Taizong, as foreign enemies in various places were almost flattened, the military generals were able to use their means and had fewer opportunities to obtain credit. After this dynasty, there were even fewer weapons. This suppressed the position of military generals in the court, and in the past two years, they had the intention of being completely overshadowed by civil servants.
Chapter completed!