Chapter 15 Post-War Arrangements
What happened to the veterans, Li Qin, who had not been in contact with them for a long time, knew nothing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Although he was a little confused, he didn't have time to think about it that much. With Gong Jing, the assassin of Qingzhou, finally opening the city gate, this battle can be regarded as coming to an end, and there are still a lot of things to do next.
At least for now, when Liu Bei and Zou Jing still had to arrive for a while, as the leader of this group, Li Qin naturally had to communicate with Gong Jing to explain the situation and determine some things, especially about the merits of the war.
Regarding the story of Gong Jing, the assassin of Qingzhou, Li Qin does not know much about history, and Lao Luo's description of this person in his book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is also a passing one.
In the absence of information from later generations to aid his judgment, Li Qin could only judge by the information available in this era. Not to mention, judging from the current situation that Gong Jing can defend such a lonely city as Linzi under the siege of 100,000 Yellow Turban troops, Gong Jing's ability is still there.
āā¦ā¦ I just don't know what his character really is. Li Qin whispered a word, and led his soldiers and horses to the city gate of Linzi.
At this time, Gong Jing had already taken the young men in Linzi City out of the city. He originally wanted to go out of the city to besiege the Yellow Turban Army and cheer for the reinforcements, but he didn't want the Yellow Turban Army to become so vulnerable under the collapse, but he was killed by the young general of the reinforcements at once. This made Gong Jing's original fist suddenly lose the target of release.
Helpless, he could only temporarily change the order and let his young men help clean up the battlefield and clean up the corpses. As for the deserters scattered under the city, Gong Jing just had a casual idea, and let everyone catch it, as much as he could, Gong Jing himself didn't have any special requirements.
When Li Qin came over with his people, Gong Jing had just arranged these things. When he saw his life-saving benefactor coming, he greeted him with a smile, hugged a fist at Li Qin from afar, and bent down gratefully: "Jing represents the people of Linzi City, thank the general for saving his life." Gong Jing said sincerely.
For Gong Jing's gratitude, Li Qin didn't dare to bear it. At the moment when Gong Jing lowered his waist, Li Qin also turned over and got off the war horse, and hurriedly replied to him: "Lord Thorn Shi, it's too polite, I don't dare to accept your gift with a small white body." This time the Yellow Turban Army was broken out, which was the result of the joint efforts of my lord Liu Bei and his soldiers. Yuanhua, I just happened to have a meeting, but I didn't dare to take the credit alone. ā
"The general has the merit of the general, and the lord of the general has the merit of the lord of the general. If the general hadn't fought so hard, how could the Yellow Turban Thief have been defeated so cleanly. Gong Jing also has his own views on Li Qin's humility.
However, he is a person who understands and knows that there are things that can be said, but not too much.
After Li Qin pushed back two or three times, he no longer said anything about it, but stood on the edge of the city gate in a dignified manner, talking to Li Qin, trying to learn more details about this battle from Li Qin's side, and waiting for the arrival of Zou Jing, Liu Bei and others with Li Qin. As a high-ranking official with 2,000 stones, Gong Jing put his identity low, giving enough face to Liu Bei and Zou Jing.
After a while, Zou Jing and Liu Bei came over quickly, followed by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. When Li Qin looked at them, he found that they were steaming with evil spirits, with little blood spots on their clothes, and there was an amazing power in their gestures. Li Qin understood that they had only joined Liu Bei until this moment. They didn't have time to calm down the evil qi on their bodies when they went to the battlefield, so they brought such pressure to people.
Zou Jing and Liu Bei, who are also military generals, naturally didn't care about this kind of pressure, they still walked calmly in front without feeling, and those soldiers who couldn't withstand the momentum of the two avoided from afar, and invisibly brought out their might.
"What a cow!" Li Qin felt the coercion of this top military commander of the Three Kingdoms, and sighed with envy, but did not say anything more.
At this time, Zou Jing and Liu Bei both saw Gong Jing waiting for him at the gate of the city, and immediately hurriedly turned over and dismounted, landed from a place two hundred steps away from Gong Jing, and walked towards Gong Jing with his fists in a little panic. After all, for now, Gong Jing is the one with the highest status among all of them.
The two sides soon met, and Gong Jing politely thanked Liu Bei and Zou Jing. After greeting each other for a while, he warmly invited their soldiers and horses to go to the city.
As the state of Qingzhou, Linzi is a big city. The imperial court has always had barracks and heavy troops stationed in such a large city. Although Qingzhou can't afford to fight in these years, the armament is a little barren, and the soldiers between the county governments have also been cut a lot, but there are fewer people in the army, and the military camp in the city is still there, Gong Jing let Liu Bei and them enter the city, but he is not afraid that there is no place in the city to arrange.
Next, the army moved into the barracks and arranged the barracks, which was another busy. After a while, everyone had arranged everything, and the sky had darkened, but it was time for dinner.
Li Qin, who had just raised his head and stretched his waist after stacking the bamboo slips high, was waiting to let his own soldiers come over, so he ordered him to face the next bowl, but he immediately stopped.
At this time, he heard a dense sound of footsteps outside the door. He raised his head and looked at it, and found that it was the three brothers Liu, Guan, and Zhang who had come to him.
"What's wrong?" Looking at the three people who had already changed into new clothes, Li Qin asked curiously.
"The Assassin's Mansion arranged a banquet, saying that it was to celebrate this great victory. Yuanhua, you go with us. Liu Bei smiled and invited Li Qin.
"Is it a reward arranged by Gong Tingshi? I'm going to take a look...... This big victory, everyone's credit is not small. How to write this to the imperial court, I also need to confirm with Gong Jianshi. There are some things that we can't back down. Li Qin raised his eyebrows lightly when he heard this.
said that he was attending the banquet, but he did not pay attention to the banquet itself, but to the business outside the banquet. His remarks made Liu Bei, who came over in a hurry, a little disappointed: "Yuanhua, participating in the banquet is a joyful thing - why aren't you excited at all?" You're so old-fashioned, I'm not very optimistic about your future. ā
"Oh...... Why? Li Qin asked seriously.
"It's too boring, you won't find a wife." Liu Bei laughed and said loudly.
"Khan ......" Regarding Liu Bei's statement, Li Qin could only look embarrassed.
At this moment, he felt that Liu Bei had been taken by himself.
"My lord wasn't like this. How do you ......" Li Qin shook his head helplessly: "Am I really tireless?" ā
Not to mention the awkwardness in his heart, Li Qin and the three brothers Liu Bei went to the Qingzhou Thorn Mansion for a banquet. This is the first banquet to participate in this era, not to mention the extravagance, only the luxury of this banquet allowed Li Qin to experience the life of the wealthy nobles of this era. Perhaps, in terms of the convenience of science and technology, this era cannot be compared with the ordinary era that Li Qin once experienced. But apart from those scientific creations, the methods of serving people in this era are really eye-opening.
Light singing and dancing, Zhong Ming Ding eating, this is just the pomp and circumstance of a mere assassin of history-level officials, which has already surprised Li Qin and Liu Bei secretly, not to mention that there is a more luxurious existence on top of this.
"Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road...... Yuanhua: I was a little surprised, why did you make such an exclamation...... When I saw it today, I realized it. "The dinner adopts a separate table system, Liu Bei and Li Qin, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are divided into one side, they are next to each other at two tables, facing the beautiful voice and the woman's soft and graceful body in the main hall, Liu Bei whispered to Li Qin said this.
At this time, Liu Bei's face was still calm and uncolored, but Li Qin could clearly hear the anger in his heart from his calmness.
"Lord, look at it! At the moment, we don't have the power to change all this, so we can only make a relationship with them. We must secretly accumulate our own strength, and only when our own strength is strong can we sweep away all these rotten things and create a relatively fair world. Li Qin glanced at Liu Bei and nodded lightly, and said in the same low voice.
"I understand." Liu Bei paused when he heard this, and forcibly swept his angry gaze over the faces of those who were intoxicated by it in front of him, and finally turned into a firm determination: "I want to protect the big man should never be like this." This is not the kingdom of my heart. Now, my strength is not enough, and I can only watch all this happen indifferently in a wordless manner. But this is only the beginning, not the end. Finally, one day, I want this country to change according to my ideals. ā
Liu Bei's thoughts, no one knows much at the moment. As his sworn brothers, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei may know most of it, but Li Qin understands more. For this ambition of his father-in-law, Li Qin did not feel that there was anything wrong. understands what kind of troubled times the following days will be, and he is even happy to see Liu Bei's ambitions come true.
The dinner party in the Assassin's Mansion was just a simple banquet, and neither Gong Jing nor Zou Jing, who were high up, said anything important at the banquet. Everyone just ate and drank like this, and dispersed from beginning to end. It wasn't until he was about to return to the camp that Zou Jing whispered to Liu Bei: "Don't be late tomorrow." ā
"Tomorrow...... In other words, is today's time just a waste? Liu Bei smiled and nodded, but the fist in his sleeve was clenched tightly, his body trembled slightly, but there was anything strange on the surface.
Eventually, everyone returned to the camp and said nothing. When the next day, the rumbling drums of the gathering generals sounded, and Li Qin, Guan Yu, Zhang Feicai and Liu Bei went to Zou Jing's tent together.
At this time, many officials and generals had already come to Zou Jing's big tent. Some of them were Gong Jing's officers who came here to rescue with Zou Jing, and in the battles along the way, they saw Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei's martial arts and Li Qin's resourcefulness, so they naturally looked down on Liu Bei, Li Qin and others, and did not despise them because they were all white.
However, they are also a minority here, in fact, there are more local officials and generals in Qingzhou who exist in the big tent at the moment.
They were all people who were rescued by Liu Bei, and they should have expressed their gratitude to Liu Bei, but after the banquet last night, they seemed to have forgotten something. Even in front of Liu Bei, he was very bold. Many of them were directly at Liu Bei and shouted nonsense, as if they regarded Liu Bei as their own servant, but they were not polite to him.
"It's disgusting!" Seeing his eldest brother being treated like this, Zhang Fei clenched his fists very angrily.
Guan Yu, who was originally closed to recuperate, couldn't help but crack his eyes full of coldness.
If it weren't for Liu Bei and Li Qin stopping them, I was afraid that they would immediately make trouble. As Liu Bei's loyal brothers, they can't see others being disrespectful to Liu Bei.
"Bear with me for a moment." We are not yet the opponents of the world they represent. Li Qin whispered to comfort them.
"Hmph......" Guan Yu snorted coldly, and an inexplicable chill swept from his side to the surroundings, but it made the temperature in the entire tent much colder in an instant.
"What's going on?" Many generals felt this, and at first they were a little confused. But after seeing Guan Yu who opened his eyes, they understood a lot at once. The generals who followed Zou Jing nodded politely to Guan Yu at the moment, and quietly distanced themselves from those Qingzhou officials.
And those generals who belonged to Qingzhou, after recalling the ferocity of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei that they saw in the city yesterday, took a few steps back with pale faces. There is a lot of fear for Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Liu Bei. A hint of a strange atmosphere permeated the big tent. The generals and officials belonging to different camps and each other quietly exchanged their opinions with their eyes, making the invisible undercurrent turbulent in the big tent.
Zou Jing and Gong Jing came in under this turbulent situation. They who entered the account hand in hand felt the extraordinaryness in the big tent, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then showed a somewhat unfathomable smile.
At this time, the drumming had stopped, and everyone stood neatly on both sides with the arrival of Zou Jing and Gong Jing. Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Li Qin, as the main forces that followed Zou Jing to fight, naturally stood on Zou Jing's side. And on the other side of them are those civil officials who have forgotten their kindness, relapsed into their old ways, and thought that they were high in a family. The two sides stand opposite each other, and they both feel that the other party is an eyesore.
It was in this atmosphere that the military council was held. It was Zou Jing who organized the military meeting. As a veteran lieutenant, his words were direct and domineering: "In this sortie, we defeated the 100,000 Yellow Turban Army besieging Linzi City, killed more than 20,000 Yellow Turban Army, captured more than 10,000 people, and beheaded the Yellow Turban Army Qu Shuai Bu Ji, the school captains Huang Long, Sima Ju and others, and achieved unprecedented results, seizing a large number of materials, including 100,000 stone of grain and grass, gold and silver, and countless ordnance...... It was undoubtedly a big win.
This victory was the result of the joint efforts of all present under the protection of His Majesty the Emperor, among which Gong Tingshi, Yuan Beijia, Yang Changshi and Liu Bei, the commander of the righteous army, all made great contributions. For this reason, Gong Jianshi and I decided to report to the imperial court and show credit for you.
Of course, it will take some time for the process of performing merit to be responded. However, as the commander of this crusade against the Yellow Turban Army, I can still make the decision on the distribution of the spoils captured from the Yellow Turban Army: 100,000 grains and grass will leave 60,000 stones for Gong Thorn Shi to use for local restoration. The gold, silver, and ordnance were divided into three families to reward their soldiers. In addition, I plan to have the army repair in Linzi City for five days. After five days, we will camp and return to Youzhou. ā
"No!" Zou Jing announced so, and this matter became a fact.
Although Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei were weird and annoyed by the fact that Zou Jing said that among the meritorious personnel inexplicably, two names that had never been on the battlefield at all, but Zou Jing, the boss, said so, and he never left out his own credit, so he didn't say much.
At this moment, both Liu Bei and Li Qin could see that Zou Jing's arrangement was definitely the result of discussing with Gong Jing. Judging from the fact that these officials in Qingzhou dared to demonstrate against Liu Bei so generously, it seems that they have already gotten the relevant news.
"Well, just keep us in the dark." For a while, Liu Bei once again felt the grievances caused by his low status.