Reincarnation (6)

For safety, Kublai Khan's imperial chariot was very far from the artillery. So after Li Guida received the order, it took a long time to rush over. The scene he saw along the way made him feel like he was in a dream, the soldiers of the brigade wore Mongolian cloth robes and round hats, but hummed northern folk songs in Chinese. The prisoners of war in the brigade were ragged and strung together with ropes, but their eyes radiated the loneliness characteristic of Mongolian herdsmen.

He dismounted about twenty paces from the Imperial Palace, unsheathed his saber and handed it to the guards, and after being briefed by the cowards, climbed into Kublai Khan's carriage. The furnishings on the big car are luxurious and comfortable. For an elderly man who is approaching the age of 70, this is not an exaggeration. What's more, Kublai Khan had just won a big victory in Liaodong, and it was time to relax and savor the joy of victory.

"General Li, come and sit! Are the slave girls I gave you well served, and your housekeepers and slaves are competent? Kublai Khan saw Li Guida and asked enthusiastically.

Li Guida was visibly stunned, he was not used to this kind of polite attitude. In his vision, the king of a country is not the king of the mountain, and when he formally summons his courtiers, he should not care about the courtiers' family affairs at all. But he soon realized that this was a Mongol tradition, and that Kublai Khan was able to ask this question because he was blue-eyed and did not mean to embarrass himself.

There was a bit of sneer on Xue Wanze's face, and he saw Li Guida's expression in his eyes. The high-ranking Han officials in the Mongols are like black sheep mixed in a white flock, and it is difficult for the two sides to integrate in terms of language, customs and culture.

"Ministers, slaves, slaves and maids, thank Your Majesty for your concern, those minions are all duty. They serve them well! Li Guida rolled over with the purest eyes in the world and replied in a low voice.

After coming to the north for so long, he is still not used to calling himself a slave like Ye Li and others. Every time I answer Kublai Khan's words, I stumble unconsciously.

"You sit down, people who are really capable don't have to call themselves slaves. If you stand in your heart, you must call yourself a slave and maid and you will not be able to kneel! Kublai Khan waved his hand and said magnanimously.

"Slave, minister, minister don't dare!" Li Guida kowtowed gratefully, then sat up straight. To be honest, Kublai Khan was the wisest monarch he had ever met, wise, generous, and rewarded and punished. Although he is still a third-class Han Chinese, there are four pure Mongolian female slaves in the tent. In the territory given by Kublai Khan, the stewards and herdsmen were also first-class Mongols.

But Li Guida still felt that he was out of place with his surroundings, he couldn't be as subservile as the Confucian and famous men who had previously defected to Kublai Khan, and he couldn't make himself as confident as a Mongolian son. In just a few years, his career in the army has left an indelible mark on his spirit. Although he always felt depressed and wronged when he was in the army, after leaving Fujian, he found that those days were the easiest time in his life.

"Qing worked tirelessly to build field artillery for me. I was able to rehabilitate the thief so quickly, and I made great contributions. If there are a few more heroes under my command, where in the world can I not go! Kublai Khan also felt the embarrassment of the atmosphere, and after a little silence, he immediately understood the reason, and changed his words to encouragement.

"The minister is immoral and incompetent, appreciated by His Majesty, and has been unable to repay him" Li Guida replied modestly, this is the ideal gentleman in his mind. But I don't know why, this way of asking the right questions recorded in the annals of history still makes him feel greasy in his heart, as if he has been coated with a layer of butter. "Therefore I am always afraid of failing the grace of God and increasing the sin of my ministers. Since he was ordered to supervise the construction of artillery, he has been foolish and has not shied away from difficulties. Long live Hongfu, colleagues work together, and finally have a little success. If Your Majesty does not dislike the ministers as vulgar, may you always supervise a hundred workers and serve like dogs and horses! ”

"The Hundred Workshops should have been under your control, and after returning to Beijing this time, the position of the waiter of the Ministry of Industry will also be borne by you!" Kublai Khan patiently listened to Li Guida's routine, nodded, and said. He originally wanted to reward Li Guida for the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and the Mongols were not familiar with the things of opening rivers, building cities, building roads, and building bridges, so the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Industry was not uncommon. After listening to Li Guida's modest words, he remembered the "way to control the down" said by the great Confucian Xu Heng, and when the words came to his lips, he demoted the official position he was going to give to Li Guida by one level, and left the remaining level to make plans after he made new contributions in the future.

"Slave, thank you, Your Majesty Longen!" Lai Gui Dutton thanked him. The moment he lowered his head, there was a slight disappointment in his eyes. "If you break through decisively that day, I'm afraid that your position in the south will not be lower than this. Now that the territory of the Great Song Dynasty is slowly recovering......" This thought made him feel more and more awkward that the Mongolian robe on his body was far less comfortable than the armor of the Broken Army.

"No thanks, you made it yourself!" Kublai Khan said with a smile. Although he was influenced by Confucianism since childhood, the Mongolian way of thinking of dividing the country and dividing the dividends still deeply influenced him, so that every time he rewarded the minister, he unconsciously returned to traditional habits. He waved his hand to call the attendants, ordered someone to record the emperor's holy decree, added fifty more households to Li Guida's herdsmen, and set aside a small piece of grassland in the newly conquered land of Liaodong as a place of refuge and gave it to Li Guida. After Li Guida was incoherent in gratitude, he pointed to the spy report on the table and asked: "There is a bit of intelligence from the south, I think it is very strange, you can tell me, what kind of tricks is this Wen Tianxiang playing?" ”

Wen Tianxiang? Li Guida's eyes lit up when he heard this name. He has always thought that he has gotten to this unhuman and ghostly situation today thanks to Wen Tianxiang, and that feeling of jealousy, hatred and admiration makes it difficult for him to calm down whenever he hears about things related to Wen Tianxiang.

confessed to Kublai Khan, Li Guida picked up the spy report on the table and looked through it carefully. He was very familiar with many of the names on the spy report, some of them were his subordinates, some of them had worked with him, and some of them belonged to the category that he was not used to and did not want to deal with. Now, these people have become the focus of attention of the Great Yuan Dynasty, and their reputation among the Han people is far from comparable to that of him, a servant of the Northern Yuan Ministry of Industry.

After reading the spy report with jealousy and envy, Li Guida sat up straight and sighed softly, "If Li Zhiting really obeys the will of the Great Khan, Prime Minister Boyan will be half a month late..." he shook his head and swallowed the words back into his stomach.

"Humph!" Wan Ze, who was waiting for Kublai Khan's pen and ink on the side, couldn't help but sneer. The so-called wise man among the Han people, but that's it. How could it be possible to make peace with the remnant Song Dynasty, and if Prime Minister Boyan crossed the river later, wouldn't it be a thief's intention! He pricked up his ears and waited to hear Kublai Khan's rebuke to Li Guida.

Contrary to Kublai Khan's expectations, Kublai Khan was not angered by L'Ê-Guida's unrealistic assumptions. Instead, he smiled and responded regretfully: "Yes, if Li Zhiting was really sent by me, and there would be no Boyan's 200,000 troops to suppress the border." I'm afraid that the internal strife against the thieves will not end so soon, and those southerners have always been brave in infighting and cowardly in public war......"

Speaking of this, Kublai Khan looked at Li Guida apologetically and added: "Qing is different from those southerners, he is a real hero!" ”

This sentence hurt Li Guida's self-esteem very much, although he is now among the high-ranking officials of the Great Yuan, but deep down he still identifies himself as a southern Han Chinese. After thinking about it, he replied cautiously: "The Great Song Dynasty has always had a tradition of not killing scholars and doctors, and there is also a creed of 'the knife is not inside' in the military regulations of the army. Therefore, no matter which side wins this internal dispute, presumably the killing will not be too heavy. What the minister wanted to say just now was that if Li Zhiting was really sent by His Majesty, and Prime Minister Boyan's soldiers and horses had not crossed the river. Since the general of the Broken Capture Army has pushed the thief to the position of the protector, he must not care about continuing to push forward. And the thief attaches too much importance to false fame, so I am afraid it is not as simple as a few people adding officials to the knighthood! ”

The four words of adding an official to the knight were bitten very hard by Li Guida. Liu Zijun and others were transferred from the core position, which can be said to be promoted, or it can be said that they were deprived of part of their power. Based on his knowledge of the Metropolitan Governor's Palace, he believed that it must have something to do with the Assassin incident. It is impossible for everyone to do things that are unfavorable to Wen Tianxiang, so there is only one answer to the large-scale official transfer, that is, everyone has done what they think is beneficial to Wen Tianxiang, but they can't accept it for Wen Tianxiang.

"Makes sense!" Kublai Khan laughed and laughed, automatically ignoring the implication of Li Guida's words to defend the character of the Nanren. "If the thief is not the emperor, it will definitely chill many people. If the thief becomes the emperor, haha, his image of loyalty and righteousness will be ruined, and those who are deceived by the army will not disperse! ”

"The key is that bandits everywhere are roaming, and I don't know how many people are emperors and how many people are kings. If the thieves want to order them in the name of righteousness, I'm afraid that few people will take care of it! Li Guida shook his head and sneered, not knowing whether he regretted Boyan's strategy and was one step short, or despised Wen Tianxiang for doing things to gain fame and reputation, and was timid.

"If the current situation is present, will the Thief Department have two hearts?" Kublai Khan had laughed enough, and his mind turned to the war in front of him. He did not agree with Li Guida's view that a victory for either side would not lead to mass killings, and in his impression, the internal affairs of the remnant Song Dynasty were still Sven before the southern crossing, and once there was an internal strife after the southern crossing, it was definitely not only the leader of the losing side who fell to the ground. It is not easy for Wen Tianxiang to control an internal chaos to such a degree, and it is not possible for Kublai Khan himself. But it is incomprehensible to suppress one's followers after controlling the situation, isn't this self-defeating? In doing so, who will follow him so faithfully in the future? What should we do once we force the heroes out of dissenting minds?

Kublai Khan's life experience could not guess the answers to these mysteries, so he urgently sought out Li Guida, hoping that the man who had spent the longest time in the army and knew the most about the inner workings of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion could give him a definite analysis. Let him know how much impact Wen Tianxiang's actions will have on the stability of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and the combat effectiveness of the Broken Army? Then we can do some targeted work to help the flames.

Li Guida's gaze swept over the names of Liu Zijun, Zeng Huan, Du Gui and others, and Wen Tianxiang finally had a conflict with his followers, and this news made Li Guida feel very happy. But after a moment of pleasure, an inexplicable worry surged up in his heart. It's like seeing someone else's treasure, feeling jealous when you can't have it, watching it be shattered, and feeling sorry for it. After thinking about it carefully for a while, he solemnly analyzed: "Liu Zijun has followed the literary thief for more than ten years, Du Gui and Zeng Huan were both promoted by the literary thief from the reckless, as for Chen Longfu, he has a deep friendship with Wen Tianxiang, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is kind to each other. At the moment, although they have a disagreement, they will not turn against each other, Your Majesty, please see..."

Li Guida put the spy report in front of Kublai Khan, pointed to the name of the person on it and said, "Liu Zijun went to Guangnan West Road to serve as a pacification envoy, and Zeng Huan went to Jiangnan West Road to serve as a pacification envoy. Especially the Zeng thief, several major battles of the Broken Army were planned by him behind his back. He went to Jiangxi, which just made up for the lack of planning ability of General Zou and General Zhang! ”

"I have also heard of this person's name, so Boyan's plan has little impact on the internal part of the Broken Army, but has helped the thief a lot?" Kublai Khan said with a frown. From Li Guida's name for people, he heard that this person still has a love for Zou Wei and Zhang Tang, otherwise he would not call Wen Tianxiang, Zeng Huan and others thieves, and Zou Wei and Zhang Tang generals.

"General Zou treats people generously, but his temperament is a little too rough. General Zhang is decisive and resolute, but he is not good at winning by surprise. The thieves were cunning and insidious, just complementary to them. Li Guida buried his head in the pile of intelligence, did not pay attention to the tone of Kublai Khan's speech for a while, and after explaining a few words, he continued to analyze: "When the minister was in the thief's place, he saw that he set up a military academy, a command academy and a government affairs academy in Shaowu, and now it has lasted more than four years, and there must be someone who can use it. The literary thief taught them four years with the theory of the country, and they were just promoted to make up for the vacancy left by Zeng, Liu and others! ”

"General Li is too ambitious, let's destroy my own prestige!" Wan Ze couldn't stand Li Guida's behavior of continuing to sing praises for the remnant Song, and asked with a sneer on the side.

"Don't dare!" Li Guida ignored Wan Ze, and instead bowed deeply to Kublai Khan, "Your Majesty has a question, and it is the duty of a minister to respond to it." Although the minister has an enmity with the thief, he does not dare to say that his power is too small, and he will deceive His Majesty! ”

"Wanze, Hugh is rude!" Kublai Khan apologized to Li Guida by denouncing Wan Ze. He was also very dissatisfied with Li Guida's words, according to this person's description, the current thief's Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was as precise as the broken bow they relied on to win, and if any part was broken, it would still be able to exert its power if it was replaced with a new one.

Is such a situation possible, Kublai Khan did not believe it at all. From his own experience, civil strife hurts a country far more than foreign wars. Once the monarch and the minister could not speak in the same tone, the country was on the verge of paralysis, and it was impossible to gather all its strength to deal with foreign enemies.

But he had to admit that Li Guida had a certain truth, Wen Tianxiang paid attention to talent training, and began to set up schools to cultivate reserve talents before Shao Wu came out. Compared with veterans such as Zeng, Liu, Chen, and Du, the descendants are less experienced, but they have a better understanding of Wen Tianxiang's will and are more decisive in carrying out his orders. At this moment, the courage to promote new talents can indeed minimize the losses caused by the Quanzhou incident to the Dadu Governor's Office.

"It's a pity that he's not my prime minister!" Kublai Khan sighed lightly, and when he saw that Li Guida no longer continued to speak, he asked in a tone of encouragement: "Qing's words are sudden, and then what?" After the thief arrived in Jiangxi, did Boyan have a chance to win? ”

"Prime Minister Boyan's ability to use troops is far above the three of them!" Li Guida also realized the difference between Jiangxi and Jiangnan West Road, and quickly changed his position to his own side, "When it comes to using righteousness and oddity, the enemy generals together are not the opponents of Prime Minister Boyan." Moreover, after the prestige of the Zhao clan was swept away, the rogues on the Jiangnan West Road may not all be concentric with the Broken Army, General Boyan will be able to find an opportunity to break through the defense line of the Zou thieves with his heavy troops and high-ranking officials! At that time, Xiongguan and Gaoshan are untenable, and the two sides will fight to see who is fast, who has more soldiers, and who is mobilized quickly! ”

"Hmm!" Kublai Khan replied in a low voice, and Li Guida's words were to the point. Although Boyan's strategy did not have an obvious effect on the Wen Thief's Broken Army and the Great Du Governor's Mansion, the blow to the Zhao family was huge. First of all, Empress Dowager Xie and others surrendered, and then Zhao Mengfu sang praises for Dayuan, and then sang a drama about the little emperor murdering the heroes. And right now in Jiangxi, the bandits and rogues have five times as many soldiers and horses as the Broken Army, if they are broken up by Boyan first, no matter how strong the Broken Army's combat effectiveness is, it will be difficult to support it alone.

Thinking of this, Kublai Khan finally felt some relief in his heart. Dozens of meticulous workers did not die in vain, and Boyan's plan did not fail. Seeing that it was getting late, he ordered people to prepare spirits, roast lamb's back, milk tofu, fried rice, butter and other things, and gave Li Guida to eat with him.

Drinking wine and eating meat with the Great Khan was also a rare favor for the Mongol generals. Among the Hanchens, Li Guida was the latest to follow Kublai Khan, but he had already eaten with the Great Khan twice, and it has to be said that Kublai Khan had a blue eye for him. But Li Guida himself couldn't stand the half-baked taste, and after kowtowing to thank him, he hastily chewed two pieces of spine strips torn by the slave girl, and then planned to leave and return to the camp. Just straightened his back, and heard Kublai Khan ask with a smile: "General Li still can't stand the smell of this mutton?" This is the young sheep of the year, nourishing better than shark fin bird's nest, I am almost ancient, my ears are not dim, my eyes are not dazzled, all rely on this thing! ”

Li Guida knew that Kublai Khan did not lie to him, and he also knew that although the Mongolian recipes were crude, their effects on both stomach and health were far superior to Jiangnan dishes. Besides, on this march, where is it possible to find the ingredients for Jiangnan cuisine! However, the blood flowing down the sheep bones still made him extremely uncomfortable, and he forcibly suppressed the feeling of stomach and intestines rolling, and he muttered and replied, "Minister, minister don't dare!" It's just, uh......."

"Hahahaha!" Kublai Khan was amused by Li Guida's sad appearance, took the silk scarf handed by the slave girl, wiped his mouth, and told with a smile: "General Li, I am still going to ask you to become a Mongolian citizen." It's not like you put on a Mongolian robe but you have a Jiangnan stomach. You go down, usually remember to drink more milk tea, eat more mutton, and put less spices. Come on, give General Li fifty fat sheep and let him eat slowly on the way! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Li Guida thanked him again and climbed down the imperial chariot backwards. It was getting late, and in the night, the tall chariot was like a mountain, pulled by several horses to the south. The horse's hooves had left two deep ruts in the grass.

"Do I really want the river to be full of smell?" Li Guida asked himself as he smelled the smell of mutton in his breath. No one could give him an answer, and in the wilderness, countless flags pointed far away to the south.

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