The second year of Kaiyuan, March 11th.

News came from Hebei that a bag of heroes was in charge of Zhaozhou for more than 30 years. Zhaozhou Jiedushi Zhang Jinghui died of illness five days and three days ago.

After the death of the local Jiedushi, they will usually report to the court immediately. Then many generals under the former Jiedushi jointly elected a person. This person wrote to the court alone to explain the situation in the state and to pay tribute to some money, grain and etiquette items. If they receive a reply and commendation from the court, this person will immediately write to the court again, ask for the court to stay and ask the court to reward him, hoping to succeed the position of Jiedushi. This situation is actually a certain fact. I will give you face and I hope the court can give me face. Both sides will be polite and just have the face over.

Of course, this refers to those vassal states with strong strength, long-term support and separatist territory. As for those vassal states that are semi-separatist, even obey the court and do not separatist, this method naturally doesn't work. Whether you can do it or who you can do it is not your place, but the court has the final say. For example, Shi Hu and Cao Shi, who did not take the imperial court and took office without authorization, did not receive the support of their subordinates or the court's reputation. The final result is only to be defeated.

The news of Zhang Jinghui's death was not reported to the court by them, but by local governments. This is extremely unusual and does not conform to common sense or rules.

Zhao Xun looked at the news in his hand, frowned tightly, and his face was not good.

Zhang Yuan has been dead for some time. Although he committed a serious crime before he died, it was not his own fault after all. Moreover, Zhao Xun did not want to publicize such a scandal, so he turned big things into small things, and pushed all the mistakes to the guard commander. As for Zhang Yuan, he died and was not prosecuted.

But now it seems that Zhaozhou is not satisfied with the result of this treatment. Zhang Jinghui has been dead for three days and there is no news at all. This is simply despising the court. It can be seen that because of Zhang Yuan's affairs, they have already become dissatisfied with the court, and even resentful.

Today is Xunxiu. Li Mancang brought Li Xun and his wife to the palace to pay tribute to the Empress Dowager Li Yi. When Zhao Xun heard the news, he happened to have something to look for Li Xun, so he came over.

Everyone talked for a while inside, and Li Xun and Zhao Xun left the palace and drank tea and chatted in a pond behind.

After just chatting, Wang Qili came and brought news of Zhang Jinghui's death.

After hearing this, Zhao Xun was silent for a long time, and then said coldly: "Zhang Yuan instructed his guards to kill more than 100 people. I have suppressed him such a big thing. What else do they want?"

Wang Qili lowered his head and stood there without saying a word.

Li Xun took over the topic and said softly: "Your Majesty, in their opinion, Zhang Yuan is dead, Yuwen Zhen is still fine. He thinks this is unfair, so he has resentment in his heart."

"Then let them settle the score with Yuwen Zhen, I don't care."

Zhao Xun said something angry.

Li Xun glanced at Zhao Xun. He said this, obviously he was angry.

Zhao Xun looked at Li Xun and asked, "You are the prime minister of the current dynasty and should have your own opinions."

Li Xun thought for a while, and then said, "Emperor, putting aside other things, Zhang Jinghui is still respectful to the court. Over the years, he has not done anything rude. Now that he has passed away, according to the rules, the court should give a fair conclusion."

"How can there be so many fair things in the world?"

Zhao Xun shook his head, sighed, and then fell into deep thought. After a moment, he said, "I will issue an imperial edict to posthumously enfeoff Zhang Jinghui. Your Political Affairs Hall will form a resolution as soon as possible and issue it to Zhaozhou, so that this matter will be over as soon as possible."

"Yes, the emperor."

Li Xun nodded and agreed.

Zhao Xun waved his hand: "You go back."

Wang Qili did not leave, but said again: "Your Majesty, I have something to report."

Zhao Xun said: "You said."

"This is a secret copy of Zhang Jinghui's fifth son Zhang He. Please check it out."

Wang Qili took out the secret note from his arms and handed it on both hands. Xiao Lezi came over to get the secret note, and then returned to hand it over to Zhao Xun.

Zhao Xun received the secret letter and looked a little surprised. Zhang Jinghui's son actually wrote a secret letter on himself, and it was through the method of the Silu School Office, which was simply contrary to common sense.

Zhao Xun unfolded the secret fold and looked closely. After reading it, his face suddenly became playful.

Li Xun was also very curious, so he asked in a low voice: "Prince, what did Zhang He say?"

Zhang Jinghui has a total of five states. He asked his four sons to govern one state, and the Zhaozhou, where his core is located, was in control of Zhang Jinghui himself.

Zhang Jinghui, the five major vassal states in Hebei, had the worst territory and strength, so he was threatened by the other four major vassal states for a long time. Fortunately, Zhao Zhi recovered his state affairs and the imperial guards were reorganized, which once again posed a great oppression and threat to the various vassal states in Hebei, so they could only unite again to jointly protect themselves from the outside and jointly. Otherwise, Zhang Jinghui, the weakest, would have been annexed by other vassal states early on.

Therefore, in Zhao Zhi's dynasty, out of self-protection and maximization of interests, Zhang Jinghui was relatively close to the court, and the relationship between the two sides has always been very good. Zhang Jinghui also strengthened his reputation with the power of the court. Therefore, in recent decades, Zhang Jinghui's five major vassal states in Hebei may have the smallest strength, but his title is the highest. Within the consortium of the five major vassal states, Zhang Jinghui has always had a great say in the words of many joint meetings, and the locations were also located in Zhaozhou and chaired by Zhang Jinghui.

"You can take a look at it yourself."

Zhao Xun gave the secret copy to Li Xun.

Li Xun took the secret note and watched it, and as he looked, his face also looked surprised.

It is not a secret that the five major vassal states in Hebei, internal figures, and conflicts and relationships between the vassal states are not a secret. Officials who have reached a certain level basically know it in their hearts, and Li Xun naturally understands it.

In the entire twenty-nine prefectures of Hebei, Tian Zhang, the governor of Youzhou, owned 31 counties in Jiuzhou, with the largest territory, the most manpower and material resources. Chen Qingzhu, the governor of Hengzhou, was second, and the governor of seven prefectures was under his jurisdiction. Gao Shancai, the governor of Jizhou, ranked third, and there were five prefectures. Zhang Jinghui, the governor of Zhaozhou, had five prefectures, and the governor of Weizhou, ranked last, was Li Conggu, the governor of Weizhou, with only three prefectures.

However, their true strength cannot be ranked by the size of their territory.
Chapter completed!