Chapter 434: The Crisis Looms
The enthusiasm of the Pei family's children in Hedong to join the army far exceeded Pei Jing's expectations, he thought that he would have to spend more words to lobby, but if he wanted to get it, he would release the wind, and the threshold would be broken by the children of the clan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
At this time, in the cognition of several major clans in Hedong, Cai Xide's fiasco signaled the beginning of the imperial court's counterattack, and the Tang Dynasty would get rid of the situation of being passively beaten and deal a devastating blow to An Lushan and Shi Siming. I am afraid that the credit of this kind of reinvention is not once in a century, if you can take this opportunity to make a military merit,
Among them, Pei Jing's fellow brother Pei Yu is the most active, Pei Yu was bullied at the age of Chong Pei Zhi and sent back to his hometown Wenxi, and now he is a sixteen-year-old sturdy boy. But Pei Jing's idea is that the mother has a total of two sons, if both brothers join the army, who will do their filial piety?
Therefore, Pei Jing welcomed the children of the other clans, but he did not give his brother a good face.
"The eldest brother is so biased, Pei Si and Pei Dao have all entered the camp to receive armor and military uniforms, and I have not heard ......from me for a long time."
The eldest brother is the father, Pei Jing has always been gentle and humble in front of outsiders, but in front of his own brother, he is extremely stern, and he doesn't even smile.
"You're gone, who will serve A-Niang?"
Although Pei Yu had just passed the rebellious period, he was extremely resentful of his brother's partiality, so he said hatefully:
"A-Niang said, the national disaster is at the head, and a good man should be determined to serve the country......"
"Nonsense, how old are you, in another four years, if you want to join the army, I will never stop you!"
Pei Jing's domineering made Pei Yu jump three feet high.
"Big brother, don't blame people, four years have passed, and the Anshi Rebellion has long been decided, where will you go to make meritorious service then?"
Pei Jing was sitting in danger, still with no joy or anger on his face, and said word by word:
"Qin Envoy Jun once asserted that the Anshi Rebellion cannot be determined unless it is ten years of work, and after four years, after you are crowned, there will still be six years of hard work available!"
In the face of his unreasonable brother, Pei Yu had no choice, he knew that if he wanted to join the Shenwu Army, he would never be able to bypass Pei Jing, so he could only stomp his feet hard.
"Qin Envoy, Qin Envoy, every day on his lips, I don't believe that he has such a god, since I am not accepted here, it is not your family in the world to counter rebellion and resist thieves. ”
Before he finished speaking, Pei Yu left without looking back.
Pei Jing owed a debt, and wanted to chase it, but after thinking about it, he sat back on the couch, he thought that his younger brother of the same birth was just angry for a while, and it might be better after a long time.
Soon, his mind turned elsewhere, and Xiangling County ordered Xue Cheng to come and ask for a meeting.
After the meeting, Xue Chengji said that he had brought the middle-aged children of the clan and wanted to hand them over to the Shenwu Army for training and killing thieves to serve the country.
"There are two hundred and thirty-seven children in the clan, so it's all up to the general!"
In fact, according to the usual practice, the big clans are all selected to serve in the army, and one out of ten is already a large proportion, and it is extremely rare for the Pei and Xue families to have hundreds of people at every turn.
To put it bluntly, on the one hand, Qin Jin instructed Pei Jing to deliberately recruit widely, and on the other hand, it is also the reason why it is rare for a hundred years to determine the difficulty, if he does not take the opportunity to make enough credit in this chaos, he may not have this opportunity in the future.
And all this is based on people's belief that the court will win. In their opinion, Cai Xide's fiasco sounded the death knell of Anshi thieves.
Although the people of the Hedong Liu clan have not yet seen Qin and Jin in person, they also sent letters in advance, expressing their willingness to do everything they can to help the Shenwu army quell the chaos.
Seeing that the situation was very good, the Shenwu Army and the local clans in Hedong were about to form an alliance, but he still couldn't figure out what method Qin Jin would use to make the interests of the two one, even after the rebellion was successful, the imperial court would not dare to act rashly.
Xue Chengji was afraid that Pei Jing would say that he would send too much, so he would return a few more, and even bring it up before Pei Jing could express his position.
"The three families of Pei Xue Liu in Hedong are in the same breath, since the formation of the army of children is indispensable for grain and grass, the subordinates and the elders of the clan have already discussed, and they are willing to give 500,000 stone of military food. ”
What a big deal, Pei Jing secretly took a breath of cool air, the Xue family actually made a heavy bet on this, not only people, but also food, no wonder Qin Envoy Jun asked him not to worry about no one responding, now it seems that everything is in place, he is just responsible for leading the coordination, and the difficulty is much lower than imagined.
"Now that there is a shortage of food, Pei Jing thanked the uncles in the Xue brother clan on behalf of the Qin envoy. ”
Xue Chengji waved his hand and said with a smile:
"Be loyal to the court and make a contribution, how can you talk about thanks? In the future, I will mention it again, and ask Brother Pei to tell the Qin envoy on his behalf, if there is any difficulty in the future, just give the order. ”
With the victory of the first battle of Qushankou, the expansion of the Shenwu army is imminent, otherwise it will be difficult to make a big move if there is not enough manpower, and the eight counties of Hedong that are only defending the recovery are stretched.
In accordance with Qin Jin's instructions, Pei Jing established the Chinese Army on the basis of the two armies before and after the Shenwu Army, and transferred experienced captains and brigades from the front and rear armies to fill the Chinese Army. These people have a basic training foundation, which is much better than the conscription of local solidarity soldiers.
As for the nearly 1,000 sons and daughters of Pei Xue Liu's family, they will be trained intensively, and after passing the examination, they will be distributed to various armies to start from the team.
While Pei Jing recruited the children of the big clan and formed a new army, Qin Jin was not idle, he left Jiangxian and turned to the important place of communication between the north and the south, Jinzhou County ruled Linfen.
Taishou Qin Shouzheng was sincerely afraid, and led all the officials out of the city to greet him. In the final analysis, the shortcomings of these magistrates are pinched in the hands of Qin Jin, whether they endure humiliation or shame to surrender to the enemy, Qin Jin's words can almost be influenced, and according to the convention, the imperial court will never reject the list of front-line generals.
Therefore, Qin Shouzheng naturally did his best to Qin Jin, and relied on the same surname Qin, and wanted to have a family with Qin Jin, which made Qin Jin very annoying, and he didn't want to give the magistrate color when he first arrived. Chen Qianli still couldn't stand it anymore, and teased:
"After Qin envoy Jun is the Duke of Hu Guogong, wouldn't it be troublesome if he made a mistake?"
In one sentence, Qin Shouzheng was blocked, and he never mentioned the matter of clinging to his own family again, and in the Tang Dynasty, he pretended to be a big crime to admit that the clan was a big crime, and he was beheaded according to the law.
Qin Shouzheng is right, but his mind may not be right, he thought that Qin Jin entered the office from the county lieutenant, and he was born in a cold family, but he didn't expect that he was the founder of the country, after Hu Guogong, and the Qin family was originally a poetry and book family, although it was not as good as the five surnames and seven hopes, and the five surnames and seven families, but compared to the general cold family, it was already the difference between heaven and earth.
It's just strange to say that the predecessor of Qin Jin doesn't seem to be proud of his background in the Qin clan of Licheng, and he only tells people everywhere that he is from Qi County, because the vast majority of officials and colleagues think that he is from a poor family. And the current Qin Jin comes from that era when there was no concept of the family, so he rarely mentions this matter.
Later, when he was still an official in the court, a division checked Qin Jin's origin and confirmed that he was the Duke of Hu Guo.
Qin Jin didn't want to deal with any of these magistrates who returned to the Tang Dynasty, not only did he not want to dispose of them, but he also wanted everyone to praise them and ask the court for merit for them. Naturally, there is a reason for this, and at this time, Hebei Province and Dugi Province are almost all in the hands of An Lushan. If the officials who have surrendered are severely punished, the future recovery will encounter great resistance, so out of the needs of the united front, Qin Jin must also repay the local officials at both ends of these heads with great goodwill.
However, goodwill is goodwill, and all local united soldiers and all kinds of temporarily recruited soldiers must be retrained and managed by the Shenwu Army in a unified manner. The magistrates were very cooperative, and not a single one objected.
Following the footsteps of Qin and Jin, Jing You, the prison army who had been sitting in Hedong City, also arrived in Linfen, Jinzhou, with his entourage.
He brought two pieces of news with him when he went north, one from Chang'an and the other from Tongguan.
"The sage was very happy when he heard the news that Qin Envoy Jun had recovered the eight counties in Hedong, and decided to take Qin Envoy Jun as the festival to stay and know the east of the river!"
In this regard, Chen Qianli pouted, and today he still has a deep opinion of Qin Jin, thinking that Qin Jin was just a county lieutenant, and he could be promoted to the rank of lieutenant general of the Shenwu Army. Now the Shenwu Army has repeatedly made meritorious contributions in Hedong Province and drove the rebels out of Hedong, but they were entrusted with the Jie Du to stay behind, and they knew the affairs of the Hedong Dao.
In the present world, the weighting and knowledge of the previous dispatch are all temporary. And the latter is also a substitute for the time when the festival makes the vacancy. In the final analysis, the Son of Heaven not only wanted Qin Jin to lead the army to quell the chaos, but also was unwilling to give him a legitimate official position and real power, which was full of defense, and he believed that with Qin Jin's wisdom, he would never feel it.
Of course, Qin Jin can feel it, but he doesn't care about these false names, even if he doesn't have a festival to make a name, doesn't he also use Feng Yijun's identity as the Taishou to create a great situation in Hedong Dao? What's more, now that he knows the affairs of the festival as a queen, he has rightfully grasped the power of the festival degree envoy in his hands, regardless of whether this power is temporary or not.
However, another piece of news brought by Jingyou made Qin Jin tremble.
"Quick, get the water, my throat is going to fire when I'm in a hurry"
When he poured two large bowls of herbal tea in a row, he wiped his mouth and talked about the news from Tongguan quite proudly.
"Gao Xianggong has ordered the army to go out of Tongguan to find Sun Xiaozhe's main force for a decisive battle. Looking at the meaning of the imperial court, it is intended to take advantage of the prestige of the Qin envoy's great victory to create a new situation in Dugi Province and eliminate the hints of thieves in one fell swoop...... Peace is not far off......"
After Jing You said the news, he saw that everyone present was stunned, especially Qin Jin was a little shocked, and he felt even more interesting.
"Qin envoy, we must also hurry up, the credit for recovering Fan Yang must be our Shenwu army, although it is not comparable to recovering the eastern capital, but it is enough for the world to look at, I heard that Feng Changqing also fought remarkably in Hebei Province, and he can't be robbed of it......"
Qin Jin didn't have the heart to listen to Jing You's rambling words about grabbing credit, at this time, all that was lingering in his mind was the shadow of Ge Shuhan, could it be that Gao Xianzhi was going to follow in the footsteps of the old brother Shu in history that he was familiar with?