Chapter 818 Two strategists discuss the political affairs of Northern Liang, and Xu Fengnian goes to Xincheng
In the early winter of the second year of Xiangfu, after the domineering vassal king who made a big fuss in the capital left Beijing and arrived at the jurisdiction of Northern Liang, it is said that Princess Zhu of Sui was infected and died of illness. This bad news, which was not big or small, seemed unpainful, was quickly ignored by the huge good news that was passed back to Tai’an City one after another.
Under the personal leadership of Gu Jiantang, the two Liao border troops, Zhao Sui, the prince Zhao Yi, the prince of the Dazhu Kingdom, and Zhao Wu, the three royal relatives, joined forces to assist Gu Jiantang, with the Duoyan Jingqi and the Heishui Iron Cavalry as the main force, with a total of 160,000 cavalry troops, and the northern expedition to the desert became the first great victory after the failure of several northern expeditions in Yonghui Chuliyang, beheading 80,000 Beimang barbarians. Wang Sui, the coach who had been stranded in Beimang Xijing, rushed to the front line, and then stopped the signs of a major defeat on the Eastern Front. Wang Sui delegated power to the two young and strong generals, Qiu and Dong Nabo, and pushed the border forward again to the old boundary between the two dynasties. Xu Gong, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War who was originally just a patrol in the border, led 10,000 light cavalry to break through a thousand miles. General Yuan Tingshan of Jizhou, Han Fang, and Yang Huchen, all the elites were released, and Gu Jiantang, who was responsible for restraining the main force of Beimang, fought with Wei and Wang Jingchong, who were on both wings, respectively, and Li Yang was defeated. If the Liao King Zhao Wu had not been greedy for merit and made a rash progress, and was exiled to the eastern front as the commander of ten thousand men, the Liao cavalry of Liyang would have been very likely to have been directly involved in the hinterland of Beimang.
After the Western Chu of Guangling Road achieved a successful comprehensive victory, the disadvantage of dispersed troops began to emerge. The eastern front of the Yangtze River and Huai River was unable to support it. Although it defeated several counterattacks by Song Li and the vassal king Zhao Yi, the defense line was in danger under the impact of Wu Chongxuan’s 100,000 southern border troops and several Central Plains troops without any consequences. As the commander of the Southern Expedition, Lu Shengxiang, who should have been in the middle, also resigned without permission and was “greedy for merit and made progress”. However, compared with the Liao King Zhao Wu, he was much “lucky” and almost desperately went straight to the rear of the Eastern Front, setting the finale for the tug-of-war in the Eastern Front. At the same time, the 10,000 Shu soldiers of King Chen Zhibao of Shu appeared inexplicably in the north of the Eastern Front battlefield, and appeared just right near a group of troops on the Western Chu East Front reinforcement. Finally, Xie Xifeng, a young soldier who had not been defeated, broke the golden body of the Western Front. Western Chu had to retreat at all. Except for Cao Changqing’s navy temporarily occupying the superior forces, all the previous results of Western Chu were equivalent to returning them to Li Yang.
During this period, it was rumored that King Xu Fengnian of Beiliang was about to marry a Lu woman as the official concubine of Beiliang, which seemed even more silent and unremitting. Li Yang is more speculating on the festive celebration of Qingliang Mountain this time, and which generals and officials in the army will appear in the Northern Liang Palace at that time. Of course, the Li Yang court hopes to clearly understand who is the true confidant of the Xinliang King. A more important potential significance is whether these new generation of Northern Liang powerful people who are qualified to enter Qingliang Mountain are mostly hostile to the Zhaoshi of Liyang, or the number of people who remain neutral is the dominant number
As for the young vassal kings who passed by Jizhou and entered Hezhou, deputy generals Han Fang and Yang Huchen led troops to demonstrate one after another, which became a beautiful talk that the people in the capital were talking about. In comparisonNext, the silence of King Zhao Xiong of Han, General Han Lin and Jiedushi Cai Nan were inevitably made to make people complain.
After the death of the general, the Qingliangshan Palace, which was not even the red couplet, finally had a long-lost celebration atmosphere. Although there was no big red lantern hanging, the servants and slaves in the mansion laughed at everyone.
Lu Dongjiang, the head of the Lu family, who was originally becoming more and more distant to Qingliang Mountain, also took the initiative to go to the royal palace for the first time and drank a lot with Song Dongming and Bai Yu. The children of the Lu family who were originally sick in Liangzhou City finally raised their tails again, and they treated people with each other with their heads raised their chests.
Wang Linquan, who transformed from the richest man in Qingzhou into the God of Wealth in Beiliang, was originally in charge of the increasingly busy Liuzhou business, but suddenly began to live in simplicity.
Lu Chengyan was not dragged down by the relatives of the Lu family and eventually became the official concubine of Beiliang, rather than Wang Chudong, who made great contributions to Beiliang by the family behind him. This is indeed something that surprised the entire Beiliang Road.
In the night sky, on the top of Qingliang Mountain, downstairs of Baihe Tower, Xu Fengnian, Lu Chengyan and Wang Chudong were sitting on the stone bench. Xu Fengnian was blowing “Spring God Ballad” with a leaf. Wang Chudong put a book on the stone table, put his head on the book, and Lu Chengyan sat beside him and her. Behind the three of them, Jia Jiajia and Xu Ying flew up and down the Baihe Tower, having a lot of fun.
On the banks of Tingchao Lake halfway up the mountain, Zhao Yutai and Xu Weixiong shook hands and spoke the words between the women.
On the base of Tingchao Pavilion, Xu Beizhi and Chen Liangxi stood side by side, and the two young strategists who began to become famous all over the world were speechless.
As the night gradually faded, Xu Fengnian came to a simple hut that was no longer inhabited. There seemed to be a weak girl there, graceful and graceful, and said to him viciously: I want to learn sword from Li Chungang, and stab you to death with one sword!
Xu Fengnian stopped in Qingliang Mountain and took the Feng-Camp light cavalry and rushed to the new city that broke ground at the beginning of this year. Those who traveled with him include Xu Beizhi, who had just stepped down as the governor of Lingzhou, and Chen Liangxi, whose official position in Liuzhou has always been high and low.
The woman who had entered Liang with him, the King of Northern Liang, was with Xu Weixiong. Chen Yu and the little girl with the green robe were particularly close to each other and stayed in Qingliang Mountain, one big and one small. When they had nothing to do, they liked to throw copper coins of wishing on the Wishing Lotus in Tingchao Lake. Jia Jiajia and Xu Ying, who became playmates in Tai’an City, also began to “part ways” when they arrived at the Beiliang Palace: Haha, the girl liked to take two tigers to the bottom of the mountain, and then ran from the front to the back of the mountain. Only when she occasionally saw the woman named Lu Chengyan, would she stop and laugh happily. However, Xu Ying had somehow fallen in love with listening to the story of Wang Chudong, a master of Liyang literary world. In short, Qingliang Mountain seemed to be bustling all of a sudden. Especially Chen Yu, who was rated as a contestant with a Nangong girl, her arrival was shocking for the first time just a few glances.When she appeared at the Tingchao Lake for a walk, if anyone under Song Dongming and Bai Yu discovered it, they would soon spread all the way. Even if the business at hand was busy and heavy, they could find some bad excuses and rush to the railings of the small square outside the yamen to “appreciate the scenery”. Deputy Secretary Song turned a blind eye to this, and never made things difficult, and never stopped these simple-minded young scholars.
Although it successfully defeated the invasion of Beimang in the south, the construction of that unprecedented new city did not stop, and it could even be said to be day and night. The construction of the outer main city wall almost rose to the ground at an astonishing speed visible to the naked eye. This spectacular scene in the world will inevitably cost Beiliang to consume countless financial and material resources. Therefore, many scholars who went to Liang quoted the scriptures and used the three major conscripts and labors in the capital of the Dachu in the previous dynasty as an example. They were all stopped for thirty days of “rest with the people” and would never delay the people’s farming. This criticized the fact that Northern Liang’s move was to fish in the extinction of the lake. A group of young civil servants in Qingliang Mountain, led by Song Dongming, the deputy commander of the Northern Liang Road, sneered at this, which triggered a controversy that soon spread throughout the Northern Liang Shilin. Then, in this large-scale battle without gunpowder, the new city site was always in full swing. Except for Xu Fengnian who was only a nominal general and master of the new city, Li Gongde and the Mo family master, to six deputy supervisors, including the governor of Liangzhou Wang Peifang, to nearly 60,000 local garrisons and tens of thousands of military servants in the three states, everyone turned a blind eye to the internal affairs of the pass and ignored the debate on whether the construction of the new city was exhausting the people and was indifferent to the debate on whether the construction of the new city was exhausting the people and was indifferent to the debate on whether it was a waste of money.
Xu Fengnian, Xu Beizhi and Chen Liangxi were heading side by side, and behind him were Xu Yanbing and Yu Xinlang who were having a good conversation.
Chen Liangxi was better than when he was cold, a scholar from Jiangnan with white faces with beautiful white faces. His hands were covered with calluses and turned into a thin villager like black charcoal. His eyes were bright, steady and firm. At this time, he said to Xu Fengnian: “As long as Qingliang Mountain can pay money, Liuzhou can immediately draw about 40,000 young and strong people to rush to the new city. But the officials hope that in addition to not owing their wages, the prince can also recognize their version of the article. We Liuzhou people are really hard!”
Xu Fengnian was a little embarrassed: “Silver…”
Xu Beizhi rolled his eyes. Now he has officially served as the transfer envoy established by Beiliang Road privately, and said slowly: “I won over the Beimang barbarians. Apart from the military pay and pensions, the military rewards directly issued will be nearly 900,000 taels of silver. This is the border generals such as Yan Wenluan and Yu Luandao, who took the lead in asking not to give any rewards. Finally, Qingliangshan converted silk and cultural relics and other items into silver and sent it out. Otherwise, the existing treasury of Beiliang Palace has already reached the bottom. Lingzhou can squeeze out more than one million real money, but the purchase of food and grass must be put first. After all, the ban on the imperial court’s grain transportation has not been implemented yet. We should have great hope. Taking advantage of the situation of Lianghuai Road and Jing’an Road, we finally let go. As long as Lingzhou officials have a way, they are all there.If you use the public’s money to buy food as a “private” person, you cannot move the money from Lingzhou until you have to. “
Chen Liangxi was neither angry nor gave up. He asked, “If you don’t have wages, is it feasible for the people of Liuzhou to trade for a year of labor in exchange for the Liangzhou household registration officially recognized by Beiliang?”
Xu Beizhi thought for a moment and shook her head and said, “It is naturally feasible to put it in normal times, but now the war has just ended. The first group of young and strong Liuzhou who entered the Liangyou border. Only the 20,000 refugees who participated in the battle between Xiaguang City and Hulukou obtained their official household registration. Even those refugees who did not enter the battlefield outside Liangzhou Pass have not received such treatment. If they only participated in the construction of the city, they would definitely be dissatisfied. It has always been like this. “
Chen Liangxi suddenly felt anger, but it was not aimed at Xu Beizhi and Xu Fengnian. He looked at the yellow sand in the desert in the distance and his lips were pursed tightly.