"I'm in the army, and I can't leave immediately. Please Gong Cao and the main bookkeeper to greet me on my behalf. ”

Huang Rongleng paused, didn't say anything, and took the order to turn back.

After watching the drill on the field, Xin Er instructed the cavalry governor and Lan Baozhang to continue to practice the next two teams of Hu cavalry, and then packed up the "Military Order" spread on the low case, left with Yang Fu, and went to the county government.

The "Military Order" is a compilation of military law compiled by this dynasty, which includes the etiquette of military camps, the management of the use of weapons, the discipline of camping and marching, the discipline of wartime, the combat regulations of the army and the navy, as well as the methods for the selection of military magistrates.

Xin Er has no experience in commanding troops, and if he wants to lead the troops well, he must start from scratch, that is, from mastering the "Military Order".

On paper, it is shallow. The contents of the "Military Order" are varied and complex, and it is not enough to just read them by heart, so for more than a month, whenever he goes to the army, he will carry this book with him to compare it with the daily affairs of the army, so as to put it into practice.

For example, just now begging to ask why he didn't teach Hu to use a lance, Xin Er's reply was actually not the essential reason.

The real reason is made clear in the Military Order. That is, the cavalry units were divided into three categories according to their different roles in wartime, which were named "war horses", "trap horses", and "rangers". The war cavalry is mainly composed of light armor and is the main force of battle; Trapping cavalry is the elite of heavy armor, which is the decisive force for the victory or defeat of the camp; Rangers are light cavalry responsible for reconnaissance, patrolling, and containment.

The imperial court's battlefield positioning of the beggar and other Hu cavalry is that of rangers, so naturally they will not be taught the lance combat skills that they need to learn only when they are fighting and trapping horses. The reason why the cavalry disdained him was also because his subordinates were war horses and trap horses, and their status in the army was higher than that of light cavalry.

Xin Er went to the county government.

Gong Cao Shiliang and the chief bookkeeper Zhang Daojiang have already connected Fan Dan to the mansion.

At the foot of the main hall, the two met.

Xin Errong uniform, Fan Dan official uniform, looked at each other for a while.

Pan Dan paid attention, seeing that Xin Er was more than 20 years old, with a slender figure, slightly dark complexion, short mustache, scarf and hakama, waist leather sword, side hanging tiger head sac, standing upright, I had to admit that he was "slightly" heroic, and said in his heart: "The appearance is acceptable." ”

Xin Er took a closer look, and saw that Yan Dan was slightly shorter, with a white face and no beard, a handsome appearance, a high crown and a praising robe, a waist gold and purple sac, with a jade gangmao, a sword on the left, and the first tortoiseshell as the ornament, quite noble, and said in his heart: "The appearance is dignified." ”

The two saluted.

Xin Er smiled and said: "I don't know that the king is coming, and I can't meet him from afar, so don't be guilty." ”

Yan Dan said with a straight face: "The general is in charge of military affairs, and he is the heart of the royal family, which is admirable. ”

"Please come into the hall and speak."

The two entered the hall and sat down.

Xin Er didn't say half a nonsense, went straight to the point, said the reason for inviting Dan to Jiankang, and at the end, said: "This is the Lord's order." What does the prince mean? ”

"The king's order is clear, and the lower officials will obey it."

Yan Dan replied so happily that Xin Er was surprised, and said in his heart: "Unexpectedly, Xiao Yan is not like Lao Du, and he did not hesitate. ”

However, Fan Dan's father, Pan Kuan, has been an important minister in the court for a long time, and Guyin City has broken the sun, and Fan Kuan is one of the ministers who welcome the surrender, so that the fox is called the queen, and he still makes him an official. Linghu Feng wanted to collect the policy of all the people, and he sent a letter to inform him of the Dan. Because of this, Pan Dan has been mentally prepared for this, unlike Du Ya, there is no one in the court, the news is blocked, and when he suddenly hears it, he is inevitably startled.

"May I ask the Prince, when will this order be started, and when will it be completed and the Lord will be reinstated?"

Yan Dan raised his eyelids, glanced at Xin'er, did not answer the question, and said: "The king supervises the military affairs of my three counties with a monarch and oversees this matter. I rashly guessed that Jun must have a plan for this matter. Dare to ask, what is the strategy? In my opinion, how do I go about it? ”

Xin Er said in his heart: "Is this to explore my ability?" ”

He didn't have a good plan, and after thinking about it for a long time, he had only one way, and he was ready to follow the method of learning Linghu Feng that day and using "inducement" to restrain his subordinates, and then once again embezzle Linghu Feng's old tricks, learn from his method of controlling the five departments of Zebian, and use the power technique of inducement and division, hoping to break Lu Shuihu's various departments.

Lu Shuihu's situation was different from that of the Zebian tribes, and he felt that this method was not very stable, but there was no other way to do it at the moment.

So, he told this method to Fan Dan and asked, "What do you think I have to do with this method?" ”

After hearing this, Yan Dan said in his heart: "But that's it! He replied, "The Governor has a good plan and can be implemented in this way." Seeing that the sun was getting late outside the hall and the twilight was approaching, he thought, "The clan is humble and famous, short-witted and resourceless, and the fortunate one, where did you dare to insult me?" Wait for tonight's feast, and see how I humiliate you in front of your subordinates! With a slight smile, he was about to call Tian Yu, who was sitting on the side, to fetch wine.

He didn't drink the two bottles of wine that Xin Er gave him, and waited for the dinner in the evening to take them out, and he colored them.

But when he saw Xin Er get up, he heard him say: "The rules of the country are regulated, and two thousand stones are not allowed to leave the country." Now, because of the king's decree, I have to invite you to come; The king's decree has been completed, and I dare not stay in the palace for a long time. Please return the government to the county. "Go to the door of the church, and stand down and wait to see him off.

Yan Dan didn't react for a moment, and sat for a moment, realizing what had happened.

Xin Er said it politely, but it was actually a customer eviction. Yan Dan was furious, shook his sleeves and got up, strutted his head, ignored Xin Er's bow, passed by him, went out of the hall, and went down the steps to leave the house. Tian Yu, Su Qing and others trotted after the officials.

"Gong Cao,...... What about the master book? When I arrived just now, I saw Zhang Daojiang talking and laughing with Yan Dan, as if they were very intimate, but I don't know when, but his shadow was gone. It doesn't matter if you can't find him, Xin Er continued, "Gong Cao will send him on my behalf." ”

Shi Liang promised.

Shi Liang has a high nose and beard, is a Hu man from the Western Regions, and the two Zoroastrian Sogdian fathers and sons who have met Xin Er are from the same country. The surname of the Western Regions is Shi, and half of Tai lives in Jiankang, because most of them are in business and their families are wealthy, and the history of Jiankang is also a famous surname in Dingxi today.

Yan Dan was so angry that when he left the house, he almost tripped over the threshold.

Seeing Shi Liang follow up with Fan Dan and the others, Xin Er scratched his beard and asked Yang Fu: "It's true, did I go too far?" ”

Yang Fu replied: "The general is ordered by the king to supervise the military affairs of the three counties. If there is no authority, the military order will not work. The monarch of the Panfu Mansion is proud of the clan and has a high value, and the slow general, if he does not fold it slightly, the soldiers of the three counties and the officials of Jiankang will despise the general. The general did it, so it should be appropriate. ”

Xin Er shook his head and sighed, "I didn't want to do this." ”

But just like Yang Fu's analysis, if he doesn't respond to Fan Dan's contempt, his "General Yingyang" and "Governor of the Three Counties of the Army" may not be able to do it in the future.

"Come, let's discuss the matter of 'pumping Hu Tun Mu' again."

I always feel that it is not easy to do this with only the lure and differentiation of Linghu Feng. This matter is not only the first national policy of Linghu to be called the queen, but also the first problem that Xin Er encountered when he took charge of himself for the first time.

Holding Yang Fu's arm and walking back to the couch, Xin Er looked at his eyebrows and eyes, and thought: "Lao Yang is down-to-earth and hardworking, not arrogant, and he is a good hand at doing practical things; It's a pity that the strategy is insufficient, and it is difficult to help me in specific military matters. ”

I deeply experienced the mood of Cao Cao's Guo Jia and Liu Bei's Zhuge Liang when he was "like a dragon meeting water" and "a long drought and a rain".

Zhang Daojiang's father Zhang Hun is now an official in the central government, and he is a colleague with Fan Kuan, so the relationship between Zhang Daojiang and Fan Dan is indeed very close.

He estimated that Xin Er would definitely have a big feast at night, so he went back to the house, changed into a new silk coat, shaved his face and powder, chose a beautiful sachet to bring on, and stepped on the clogs that came from the south with two teeth,——, this shoe is similar to the high heels of later generations, the back teeth are higher than the former, Jiangzuo young people thought it was fashionable, after it was transmitted to Longzhou, the local merry people were not far behind, and they also wore it.

Dressed up, Zhang Dao rushed back to the county government, and disappeared from the car of Fan Dan and others, and when he inquired, he was driven away by Xin Er. Zhang Daojiang was anxious to have a white face, and he was about to go to Xin Er immediately.

Huang Rong stopped him and asked, "What are you looking for Fujun to do?" ”

"The voice of the Jun clan is clear, the world is a scholar, my name is heavy in Longzhong, the reputation is far and wide, the king does not wait for the bed, has lost the righteousness of the virtuous, how can he chase the king more? The king has made a mistake, and we as vassals must be guilty of direct admonition! I'm going to admonish! ”

Huang Rong sneered and said: "The king of the Fenfu sent an official to report, saying that he could arrive in the morning, and the king waited for him for half a day. He humiliated the king so slowly, I heard that 'the lord humiliated the minister to death', and I didn't see you come forward. At this time, you are in a hurry? Are you a vassal of the king, or a vassal of a foreign court? ”

Regard the county as the country and the Taishou as the king, this is the custom of the previous dynasty, and the same is true of this dynasty. The county government is also known as the "county court".

Zhang Dao will be dumbfounded.

This small episode, in the huge county government, did not cause any waves on the surface.

The discussion lasted until night, and Xin Er stayed for the sheep to eat, but still did not come up with any suitable countermeasures.

After the meal, the sheep said goodbye and returned to the back house.

After the relocation of the official, according to the regulations, the Wupin official occupied 30 hectares of land, but three people with clothes and food, and 25 households with tenants, so that Hu Feng also rewarded him with a house and a valley for animal husbandry, knowing that he did not have enough servants and labor, and gave him dozens of slaves and maids, and fifty camps. shade, that is, it can exempt the shaded people and households from taxation and servitude; Giving officials households as labor is the old system of the dynasty.

The house, the field, and the valley are all in Guyin, Xin Er only brought four or five slaves and maids with him, and the rest were also in Guyin, so he couldn't be left unattended, so he left Liu Zhuang to manage. Liu Le and Ah Chou are now from him in Jiankang County.

Under the service of the two of them, Xin Er washed and bathed, and read until midnight.

The rain will stop; The moonlight is cloudy, sprinkled with different cities.

The palace of the king of the valley.

Linghu Feng got up from a woman's body, lifted the curtain and asked the eunuchs and palace maids kneeling beside the bed to take the woman away.

The woman leaned softly and bowed down to thank her.

She is about seventeen or eighteen years old, small eyes like beans, she doesn't look very good, her status is not low, she is the queen of Linghu Yong, and her family is a nobleman in Longdi.

There was a red slave's daughter in the past, and now Ling Hu Yong's small-eyed queen, Ling Hu Feng is not aesthetically different, such as his status, what kind of woman can't get? Only he is ambitious, and what he cares about has long been out of the cliché of appearance, and what he values is the other party's background. The better his background, the more motivated he is.

The eunuchs and palace maids helped the woman who was about to lose her way out.

Linghu Feng was in good spirits and did not feel sleepy, so he stayed in front of the big screen in the hall.

On the screen is a map of the counties of Longzhou.

His gaze fell on Jiankang County.

"I don't know what happened to Ah Gua with my order to collect Hu Tunmu? This errand is not easy to do, but unfortunately there is no other reliable courtier, only let Agua try. Give him two months, and if there is no progress, I will summon him back to the court and change him to another person. ”

"Collecting Hu Tun Mu" is his first national policy to show his strength. There are no less than hundreds of thousands of Hu Yi in Longzhou, and Lu Shuihu is only a part of them, and he is not the largest number of people; Nearly 100,000 people live in Longxi Xianbei, who live in Longzhong Yuanchuan and Yongshichuan; Xiyi in Huanghe County, Longnan, also has more than 100,000 mouths. Lu Shuihu, just try the water first; The main event is yet to come.

Just imagine, if this policy can be successfully implemented, in the near future, he will be able to increase the population of hundreds of thousands of Huyi, enough to form an army of tens of thousands of elite cavalry. It is related to his future hegemony, and it is a helpless choice to appoint Xin Er to take the lead.

His original die-hard henchmen were killed by Ling Huyong; At present, the incumbent ministers of the court, such as Na Yankuan and others, see the wind and steer, and most of them are local natives of Longzhou, and they have a lot of contacts with the Huyi chieftains of Longzhou.

The best person to do this is Koji Shuo, but the southeast of Longdi, which is adjacent to Eastern Qin and Ranxing, is inseparable from him.

The courtiers can't use it, the koji Shuo can't be used, only the people who "make meritorious contributions from the dragon" are selected, Cao Fei is sparse, Jia Zhen and Fu Qiao have no real talent; The only thing that can be used is Xiner. But Xin Er has no experience in politics and leading troops, and after all the incidents in Zebian, although Ling Hu Feng changed his old view of him, he felt that he was also "steady and resourceful", and he was not at ease in the end.

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I have always felt that the first few chapters of this volume are like rapids turning sharply, rising from flat ground, and in terms of connection with the previous volume, on the whole, it is a bit abrupt, and it is not very connected with the context of the previous volume, and the context is not connected; After writing this paragraph of Linghu Feng, do you think it is better?

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