The resistance was only a one-sided massacre, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, and Wang Yu, the general of the Central Route Army, had no choice but to give up resistance and surrender all.

At this time, a general rushed to shout: "Put the weapons and armor in place, the soldiers go to the north to gather, as long as they surrender sincerely, His Royal Highness the King of Jin will treat all the soldiers well!" ”

The 20,000 soldiers put down their hearts one by one, took off their armor and put down their weapons, and a group of soldiers walked out of the north of the town.

At this time, Guo Song led 20,000 cavalry to also arrive, he immediately looked at the high place, watching a group of surrendered soldiers walk in front, he unexpectedly found that all the soldiers were older, or younger, either forty or fifty years old, or only in their teens.

"Your Highness, these are the old and weak army!" Pei Xin said on the side.

Guo Song said lightly: "Zhu Zhu's army is still very cunning, knowing that we are chasing with cavalry, so they use the old and weak army to attract us, their main forces have been withdrawn from the southeast and southwest, there are forests on both sides, once they enter the forest, it is not easy for the cavalry to pursue." ”

Pei Xin groaned and said: "They don't have many cavalry, maybe they can intercept them by the Yellow River." ”

Guo Song shook his head, "There is no need to pursue, our capture of Hebei is already the biggest victory, let them go!" ”

20,000 troops all surrendered, all of them were old and weak, old and old, small and small, almost no young and strong, Guo Song ordered all the soldiers to register, each of them was given money and two buckets of rice, let them go home, the soldiers were all grateful, with money and food, in groups of three or five, and returned to their hometowns together.

With the withdrawal of all Zhu Zhu's troops from Hebei, the battle of the three families that lasted more than a month to hunt Wei finally ended, the Wei state was destroyed, Li Na and Zhu Zhu were driven back to the south of the Yellow River, and the Jin state occupied all the land of Hebei except for Liaodong.

At the end of the war, more than 1.3 million fugitive refugees from the two major refugee camps began to return to their hometowns one after another, Guo Song immediately appointed counselor Liu Zi as the pacification envoy of Hebei, and Wang Yu as the deputy envoy to pacify the former Wei state, and appointed Lu Zhan as the salt and iron transshipment envoy of Hebei, Liu Qiang as the inspection envoy of Suzheng Taiwan in southern Hebei, and Li Bing as the defense envoy on the north bank of the Yellow River, leading 50,000 troops to garrison the north bank of the Yellow River.

In mid-February, Guo Song left Hebei with an army of 70,000 and returned to Chang'an.

.........

Chang'an is the early spring season, everything recovers, the warbler flies and the grass grows, the willow leaves send out tender shoots, the wheat field pulls out new seedlings, and groups of small birds chirp and fly in the air, a vibrant scene.

Chang'an City is full of young scholars, there are tens of thousands of people, and the annual imperial examination is about to begin, most of these scholars came to Chang'an last year to participate in the imperial examination, and this year they came again, they are very familiar with the road, and the restaurants on Xi'anmen Street are almost full.

At noon that day, in the Pearl Restaurant on Xidaemun Street, Han Yu, Xiao Zhenye and Lu Nan sat together drinking and catching up, only Xie Changming couldn't come back in Baiquan County, Yuanzhou.

"It's been a year, we said goodbye here a year ago, and now I see so many new people as full of ambition as we are, and I feel like we're all old." Xiao Zhenye looked at the other scholars at the table and couldn't help but sigh.

"Brother Xiao seems to have changed a lot, he speaks old-fashioned, and he hasn't complained anymore."

Han Yu smiled and said, "It seems that Brother Xiao has experienced a lot of things this year. ”

Xiao Zhenye said lightly: "What can I experience, sitting in the library all day long is boring, where is like Brother Han, becoming dark and thin, he must be very busy and fulfilling, and he has made achievements, so he has been promoted." ”

Han Yu came to the capital this time to receive a promotion order, and he was about to go to Lucheng County, Cangzhou to serve as a county commander, Xiao Zhenye also received an order at the same time, and went to Qingping County, Texas to serve as the chief secretary.

"You two, it's only been a year! I really don't know what to say, it usually takes four years to have a chance to be promoted to half a level, and eight years to have a chance to be promoted. ”

Lu Nan sighed twice, raised his glass and said: "No matter what, I still want to congratulate you on your ascension, and I hope that the two of you will bring your old friends more after paying homage to each other in the future!" ”

Han Yu smiled: "I can't talk about celebrating my promotion!" Fengxian County is Gyeonggi Chi County, with a population of more than 100,000, and Lucheng County has a population of more than 10,000. ”

Lu Nan said hatefully: "You are a typical example of being cheap and selling well, from the eighth grade to the seventh grade, or the chief official of a county, you still say that you are exiled?" Then you give me the opportunity, and I am willing to go into exile. ”

At this time, the voice of a boy came from the street, "Express! Hong Kong Journal! The latest battle situation in Hebei. ”

Han Yu hurriedly got up and said, "I'll go buy two newspapers!" ”

Xiao Zhenye grabbed him, "Don't worry, the shopkeeper will send it." ”

Han Yu sat down and said embarrassedly: "Fengxian County can't get the newspaper of the day, it will always be two days late, I also want to see the latest news!" ”

"Whoa! Here it comes. Xiao Zhenye looked at the stairs.

I saw that the shopkeeper brought up more than a dozen newspapers, and everyone asked for them, and Han Yu took two copies back, one for "Chang'an Express" and one for "Tianxia Xinbao".

The headline on the front page of the "Chang'an Express" was also a current event, but there was only one sentence: 'Zhu Zhu's army was driven out of Hebei, and 20,000 Qin soldiers were captured. ’

In contrast, "Tianxia Xinbao" is much more detailed, with a lot of details and comments.

Han Yu nodded and said, "The north of the Yellow River has finally been unified. ”

Lu Nan likes to read "Chang'an Express", and all kinds of trivial things are watched with relish.

"I wrote the article here."

"Where? Where? Han Yu and Xiao Zhenye hurriedly stepped forward.

Lu Nan pointed to an article in the third edition and said: "That's it, the eight methods of drinking tea in Suzhou." ”

Han Yu read it and said with a smile: "I can't imagine that Brother Lu is so proficient in drinking tea?" ”

"Nonsense, I have a tea garden in my house, and a tea workshop that makes tea cakes, and sixty percent of the tea cakes in Jiangnan are made by the Lu family, do you think I will drink tea?"

"Then Brother Lu has any good tea?"

Lu Nan said with a smile: "Before you take office, I will give you five catties of good tea cakes, which is my congratulatory gift, and Lao Xiao is the same, but the Xiao family's tea is also good!" ”

Xiao Zhenye pouted and said: "The Xiao family's tea has nothing to do with me, you can't just give it to me because the Xiao family has tea, five catties of tea, one or two can't be less!" ”

..........

In the afternoon, Han Yu came to the Ministry of Officials to report, and he was received by a member of the Ministry of Officials, named Wu Deng.

The hall was bustling with people, and the two sat in a slightly quieter corner.

Wu Deng put a file bag on the table, and every official who could start the imperial examination would establish a file that included the officials' imperial examination results, examination papers, various evaluations of the officials, and so on.

Although Han Yu has only been in the company for a year, his information is already thick.

"The Salt and Iron Division has a very high opinion of Captain Han!"

Wu Deng looked at a few evaluations, all of them were given by the Salt and Iron Division, Han Yu's career this year, most of the time revolved around Fengxian Salt Pond, and spent a lot of energy for the normal operation of his salt farm, eating and living in the salt farm, and maintaining the operation of the salt farm day and night.

In fact, without the assistance of the magistrates, it would be impossible to maintain the production of the salt ponds with just a few officials of the Salt and Iron Division.

"I think this should be the reason why County Lieutenant Han can be promoted to Lucheng County Commander!"

After reading the information, Wu Deng said to Han Yu: "Lucheng County is an important source of sea salt, but Lucheng has changed three county orders, and they have only been done for two or three months, so the Salt and Iron Division recommended you to the Ministry of Officials to serve as the county commander of Lucheng, according to the normal promotion regulations, you will not have a chance until at least four years later, this time the situation is special, I hope you can understand this." ”

"Why have you only been doing it for two or three months?" Han Yu asked puzzled.

Wu Deng shook his head, "I don't know the specifics, I should talk to you about it, I'm just telling you here, you can choose not to go, and then continue to go back to Fengxian County as a captain, it won't affect your career, but if you go and you can't do it in the end, it will leave a major stain on your resume, and it can be said that your career is over, so I advise you to think carefully." ”

Han Yu thought for a while and said, "Can I talk to Yan Tieji first, understand what things are specific, and then think about how to choose?" ”

"Yes!"

Wu Deng put away the file and said: "You go to the Salt and Iron Division to find Zhang Wenying, you know it!" ”

Han Yu nodded, "I'll go now!" ”