Letter to Chengdu.

Huan Meng, laughed at it, and wrote back.

Like the letter, the reply is also very simple, writing: "Uncle Yan and Daohe have each led troops to beg, and their generation jumped off the beam clown, and took it like hot soup melting snow." Capture and guard the Sword Pavilion, never lose. ”

When Xin Er received the reply, he also laughed it off.

After staying in the Sword Pavilion for two days, Zhang Jingwei and Wang Shuwang came.

However, the will of the Dingxi Imperial Court has been issued, and Xin Er has approved Zhang Jingwei's "Qinde County Magistrate, supervising the military affairs of Qinde, Tangshou, and Baishui Counties", and Wang Shuwang's "Fake Captain Jiamengguan"; Zhang Jingwei and Wang Shuwang set off on the same day they received the order and arrived at the Sword Pavilion today. After two more days, the order appointing a strict attack on the "Sword Pavilion with the Captain of the Colonel" came one after another. Immediately afterwards, Yin Luo's private letter arrived, and Yin Luo said in the letter that the imperial court had also agreed to Xin Erju's letter of "Hanzhong Taishou", and he was about to leave for the south.

So far, the commanders of Hanzhong County and Qinde, Tangshou, and Baishui Counties, as well as the commanders of Jiange and Jiameng, have all been approved and appointed by the imperial court in full accordance with Xin Er's intentions.

The reason why the ministers in the Dingxi Dynasty will accept Xin Er's recommendation is for a reason: Xin Er also recommended Koji Qiu to serve as the assassin of Qinzhou and lead the Taishou of Longxi, and Zhang Daochong to serve as the general of Zhenwu and the Taishou of Lingwu.

Zhang Daochong is Zhang Hun's eldest son. Needless to say, koji ball is a rising star of the koji family.

Because of this, although the people led by Pan Kuan and others strongly opposed these recommendations of Xin Er, but with the strong support of Lu Shuang, and Zhang Hun's tacit approval, of course, plus Zuo's partiality, it was finally successfully passed in the court.

It's the end of November, and it's December.

A few days later, he received the news that Yuan Ziqiao and Zhou An had generally quelled the rebellion of Wang Teng, Deng Hao, Zan Ding, and Fan Jun respectively, and He Huan Meng left Zhou An to guard Shuzhong and bring his troops and horses back to Jing.

Huan Meng has left, and there is no need for Xin Er to continue to stay in the Sword Pavilion.

On this day, Xin Er led the department to return to the north.

Zhang Jingwei, Yan Xi, Wang Shuwang and others came out ten miles away.

Xin Yi smiled and said to them: "Send you a thousand miles, you must say goodbye in the end, and wait for you to return." Now Huan Jingzhou has been returned to Jingzhou, Zhou Daohe is brave, but one, the rebellion in Shu has not been fully quelled, second, the Sword Pavilion, Jia Meng for my basis, if there is no other change, it is expected that within the year, the Sword Pavilion, Hanzhong will not have the enemy to attack. Even if there is an enemy invasion, the Qing and others have been under Mingzong's account for more than a year, if the matter is really urgent, there is no need for the imperial court's order, and Mingzong will definitely send troops to support you in time, which I am not worried about.

"Hanzhong, who is about to take office in Hanzhong, is too shou Yinluo, and Qing and others may not be familiar with him. This man is resourceful and decisive, and when he arrives, you must have a good relationship with him, and you must not cause any disagreement.

"The gains and losses of Hanzhong and Sword Pavilion are related to the future of my Long, don't hesitate to do your job, remember to remember!"

Zhang Jingwei responded: "Duke Ming, please be relieved, we will definitely fulfill our duties, Sasuke Yin Taishou, and guard the Sword Pavilion and other places for Duke Ming." ”

Xin Yi walked to the riverside on the side of the road, folded a wicker, handed it to Zhang Jingwei, and said to him, Yan Xi, and Wang Shuwang: "The right is attached to Fengya, so as to give it to Qing and others." Qing and others are all my talents, I stay in Qing is equal to this, as long as Qing and others are sincere, I will be worry-free in Guyin! ”

Willow, stay also.

Usually, it is the person who sees it off and gives it to the person who travels far away.

Xin Er did the opposite, and his words were earnest, which shows his trust and high expectations for Zhang Jingwei and others.

Zhang Jingwei and others were all moved.

Xin Er got on his horse and led his troops to the north.

Zhang Jingwei, Wang Shuwang and others respectfully saluted each other.

Yan Xi was one of the first officials to follow Xin Er, and he even ignored his armor and fell to the ground in the dust raised by Xin Er's mount.

After traveling for about a few miles, Gao Yan Cao Xing rode his horse and ran to the front of Xin Er.

Xin Er asked, "Tiger, why are you so happy?" ”

Gao Yancao said: "Just now I witnessed the farewell of Ming Gong and Zhang Jingwei, Yan Xi, Wang Shuwang and others, Ming Gong is deeply affectionate, Jing Wei and others are loyal, I was moved and wrote a poem; Dare to ask for dedication to Ming Gong. As he spoke, he presented a piece of pink paper.

"Did you write a poem?" Xin Er caught the paper, looked down, looked at it three times and made two eyes, read it quickly, squeezed his eyes, rubbed it, and said with a smile, "Good poetry, good poetry!" "Whip the horse, and fly forward.

Gao Yancao and the others hurriedly chased after him.

All the way north, crossing the West Han River, a few days later, into the border of Hanzhong County. Beigong Yue greeted him at the county border. Xin Er instructed him to stay in Hanzhong for more time, and when Yinluo arrived, after handing over to him, he would return to Yinping County in Qinzhou. Beigong Yue promised. Go back and forth, turn west, follow the old road to Hanzhong when you came, and arrive at Wudu County in early December.

In Wudu County, I stopped for a few more days.

The hometown of Liu Zhuang and Liu Jialuo's ancestors is in Wudu. Xin Er sent Wei Xian to their hometown, inspected if there were any relatives and in-laws, and instructed Wei Xian to bring back some specialties from Liu Zhuang's hometown by the way. Wei Xian came back to report: "Only two distant relatives remain, and several carts of local fruits and other things have been brought to the army. Xin Er ordered Liu Zhuang's two distant relatives to come and see him. Liu Zhuang's two distant relatives are all local villagers, do not know official language, a mouthful of Wudu dialect, because Wudu, Yinping and Rong people, Ran has built a country here, so in the words, there are also some common words of the Rong people from time to time. Xin Er didn't understand very well, so he tried to communicate with them for a while, sent them down, and asked people to ask if they were willing to go to Guyin. These two distant relatives of Liu Zhuang are not stupid, they are very willing.

So, he gave Li Liang 2,000 soldiers and horses, left them in Wudu, and waited for Zhang Daochong, the Taishou of Wudu, to perform his duties, and Xin Er continued to go north.

Out of Wudu, I specially went around to Longxi and met with Kojiqiu.

As soon as the two met, Xin Er joked with him and said: "Yongzhou Thorn Shi Xin Er, I have seen Qinzhou Thorn Shi Lijun." ”

Koji Qiu laughed, bowed down, congratulated Xin Er, and said: "The general traveled thousands of miles, fought a battle and conquered Hanzhong, drew the sword pavilion, shook the land of Shu, and raised the prestige of my Longren. Oh, I knew that the general would be able to win such a big victory, no matter what I was cheeky that day, I had to go to Hanzhong with the general, and I had to take credit for it! It's too late! ”

Xin Er smiled and said: "Although Qing has not exalted his prestige in Shu, but he has made contributions to Qin, isn't it also possible?" ”

Dingxi went down to Shu, and the standing combat strength of the country was lacking, Pu Qin of course would not let go of this good opportunity to "recapture Longxi", so when Xin Er led his troops to attack Hanzhong, Jiange and other places, Pu Qin's Pu Luogu and others led more than 10,000 people to launch two attacks on Longxi.

But these two attacks were repelled by Koji Qiu, Zhang Jingwei, Wang Shuwang and others.

After a few laughs and conversations, Koji Qiu's face turned serious and said, "General, can you talk about it privately?" ”

Xin Er knew what he was going to say, so he withdrew Tang Ai and the others, and when only he and Koji Qiu were left in the room, he said, "Mingzong, are you going to ask me about Linghu Wen Shao and Ling Hu Shao?" ”

Kojiqiu said, "Exactly." General, I don't know if you know that your military law to order Hujing and imprison Huqu has set off a big wave in the Guyin Dynasty! ”

"How big a wave?"

"The record of the Duke entered the palace, vigorously criticized and slandered the general, and said to the queen mother: The general boasted of the soldiers, killed the clan without permission, was arrogant, ignored the existence of the king and the queen mother, and investigated the general's will, which is unfathomable; Admonished the Queen Mother, it is best to wait for the general to arrive in Guyin, and then take away the general's military power. ”

Xin Er didn't care, and said with a smile: "Yan Gong is upright, I have always respected him, but he said that I was 'good at killing the clan', but these four words are reversed black and white." Linghu Jing prostituted the army, messing with the hearts of our army; On the day I sent out the army, I was given the right to kill less than 2,000 stone in wartime, so I marched the military law and dealt with the two of them, thinking that there was nothing wrong with them. In fact, I was merciful. Linghu Jing, a hundred stone officials, I killed him; Linghu Qu, when he was a four-rank general, I was not punished because I was imprisoned. ”

Xin Er looked at Koji Qiu sincerely and said earnestly, "Mingzong, did you say that what I did was wrong? ”

Koji Qiu's serious face was gone, he laughed, squeezed his eyebrows, and gave Xin Er an expression that you know, I know, I understand why you killed Ling Hujing and imprisoned Hu Qu, and said, "How can there be anything wrong with what the general did?" What the talent ball said, and the general played with each other. The ball was close to the letter of the capital, although the Duke was angry, but the queen mother did not accept what he said. …… The general probably knows this too, right? This can be seen from the general's request to deprive Linghuqu of the military of the three counties of Qinzhou, the general of Zhenwu, the assassin of Qinzhou, and the Taishou of Wudu before the recommendation of the ball, which was quickly agreed by the queen mother.

"General, please be relieved, the royal capital Guyin, now the wind is calm, and it is no different from when the general left the capital. When the general takes advantage of this to take the merits of Hanzhong and Sword Pavilion and return to the royal city, it will be the same scenery, and there will be worship in the court! ”

——Regarding Xin Er's cleanup of the Linghu Qu brothers, Koji Qiu is supportive. After all, as a member of the valve clan or the Jiangmen, he would definitely not be happy to see the royal power too big and the clan too prosperous.

In fact, there is no need for Koji Qiu to tell Xin Er about the political situation under the king's capital, Yang Chao, Yang Fu, Huang Rong, Sun Yan, Cao Fei, Zhang Gui and others, but they are all in Guyin, even when the war on the front line is very fierce, Xin Er's correspondence with Yang Chao and others has not been broken. It can be said that although Xin Er is far away in Shu, he is well aware of the political situation in Wangcheng.

Xin Er touched his beard and said, "Mingzong, I have something I don't understand. ”

"What does the general wonder? Please speak. ”

Xin Er said meaningfully: "When the prince enters the palace and speaks to the queen mother, this must be a secret matter, and it is difficult for the foreign minister to know." Narumune, where did you find out? ”

Koji Qiu also touched his beard, did not answer Xin Er, and asked with a smile: "General, don't you know about this matter of Yan Gongjinyan?" ”

Xin Er laughed.

He got up, stroked his stomach, and said, "Hungry, hungry!" Mingzong, let's do it together tonight and concoct venison, how about it? Thinking of something, he smiled mysteriously, "I brought back a Shu people's delicacy from Shu, please try it at night." ”

That night, Wei Xian presented the deer leg, which made the koji ball cover his nose and shout, and needless to say.

It is only said that Xin Er stayed in Longxi for a day, and the next day he pulled out the camp, traveled 100 miles by Weishui, crossed the Yellow River, entered Longzhou, and returned to the north.

The weather in Longzhou in December is already very cold, and the two people in Shudi, fortunately, there is no snow on the road, and in the middle of the day, it finally arrived in Guyin.

The Empress Dowager Zuo of Dingxi, the King of Dingxi, Ling Hule, Chen Sun, Lu Shuang, Cao Fei and other important ministers of the court greeted them outside the city.