Chapter 43: Leaving Wuzhou
Although the matter is over, can he feel better in Fan Li's heart? Will he be able to get his strength? What kind of shabby place do you say this Huzhou City, can these officials still coexist? In the future, I will do something on my own, not to mention that there will be people who can help me, and it would be good not to wear small shoes for me!
Through this series of incidents, Fan Li completely isolated himself in Huzhou officialdom! He also understood a truth: that is, in the team of Huzhou City led by Luo Yu, he couldn't do anything at all! The depression and helplessness in my heart can only be held in my heart, and no one can say anything!
At this time, Zhang Liangqing's Wuzhou City was in an emergency, and the rebel army continued to gather troops, putting on a posture of not giving up if Wuzhou City was not attacked.
Seeing that tens of thousands of rebel troops continued to assemble under the city of Wuzhou, Zhang Liangqing, Gao Ji, and Zhong Yuan could only be anxious in their hearts, do you say that you rebels are still not particular? You originally attacked the city with tens of thousands of people, and I could rely on the fortified city of Wuzhou to resist the city and defend it, but your tens of thousands of troops continue to gather troops, and I only have less than 5,000 men and horses.
Asking for troops from the emperor? That's not to say. Now that all parts of the country are in a state of emergency combat readiness, how can the emperor send such soldiers? If you want to say that you are transferred from other places, the transportation is inconvenient, and the distant water cannot save the near fire. The military resources of the two places are shrinking in their own places, and the governors of all places are afraid that their prefectures and counties will be attacked by the rebels, and they are all afraid of losing their cities and hats. If you want to borrow money, then you still have to discuss, but if you want to borrow soldiers, you don't have to talk about it, you don't have to talk about it!
So after thinking about it, this soldier still has to be there, where did it come from? Then you have to do it yourself, have enough food and clothing, and practice by yourself, isn't there a soldier! The key is who will practice?
Zhang Liangqing thought about it again and again at Gao Ji's suggestion, and wrote an excerpt to the emperor, in which he first analyzed the emergency situation in Wuzhou City to the emperor, what are the problems and difficulties I am facing now: that is, there are too many people in the rebel army now, tens of thousands of people come every few days, and it is estimated that there will be more than 100,000 or 200,000 after a while, but the emperor and I only have 5,000 people, I can't handle it, this is the difficulty I am facing!
Your Majesty, you see that you don't have any soldiers and horses to support me. Of course, you have to be euphemistic in the excerpt, but the meaning is this, and the question is raised first. As we said earlier, you can't just ask the leader a problem, you can't leave the problem to the leader to help you solve it, otherwise what do I want you to do!
So Zhang Liangqing continued to write later: Wuzhou is a big state, a land of fish and rice, rich in products, and three or four cents of the world's money, grain, and taxes come from here, and this place must not be lost, which is why those rebels and traitors are eyeing here! Clarify the importance of Wuzhou and let the leaders pay attention!
So I just think about it every day, thinking about it, I can't sleep at night, you see I think about it, my hair is about to fall out, and finally I came up with a solution.
What's the solution? It's just that there are no soldiers, it's okay! Your Majesty, you see that Wuzhou is a big state, and it is also a state with a large population, we can train our own troops, self-sufficient, I don't think it's a big problem to train one or two thousand in a short time, if I have these soldiers, I won't be afraid of these rebels and thieves!
But the problem is that there is a lack of people around me who can train soldiers, so I thought about it and thought of a person, that is, when I was the governor of Huzhou, I invited Fan Li, and Master Fan came out to help me recruit and train soldiers.
Your Majesty, let me tell you: Master Fan, he can do it, he is amazing! He is now an old cow, didn't you appoint more than 40 ministers of regimental training, Your Majesty? Looking at the present, the largest number of military training ministers in those regimental training ministers is only four or five hundred, and the few are less than a hundred, but Lord Fan is a cow, he has now trained two or three thousand people in Huzhou City, and this does not include the people taken away by General Zhong Yuan when I went to Wuzhou to take office?
Then now the siege of Huzhou City has been lifted, the rebel army is not in that place, and there is no war in Huzhou for the time being, so the emperor wants to ask Fan Li to come over and help me recruit brave soldiers, the emperor, you give me a word, if it works, quickly get him over to me, and let him train a group of soldiers for me!
Finally, at the end of the excerpt, Zhang Liangqing did not forget to show his loyalty, saying that no matter what, I vow to live and die with Wuzhou City and fight to the last soldier! It's a big deal to repay the country with death, and it can be regarded as living up to the emperor's trust in me!
The excerpt was handed to the imperial court, and the imperial court quickly gave an approval, and in general, it was one word: quasi! Give me a slippery job, because the imperial court also knows the importance of Wuzhou!
All right! With the emperor's will, at the same time, Luo Yu, the governor of Huzhou, also received an order from the imperial court: said that he would give me Fan Li to go to Wuzhou for military training!
Then, at first, Zhang Liangqing was afraid that Fan Liang would not come, because Wuzhou was not Fan Li's hometown after all, and he specially asked Gao Ji to write a letter to Fan Liang Xiaozhi to show affection and reason!
As a result, after Fan Liang received this letter, his heart blossomed with joy! Oh, I don't want to stay in this small shabby place in Huzhou for a long time, usually these officials wear small shoes for me when they have nothing to do, and when they allocate food and money to me, every time I don't go to urge it personally, absolutely no one will give it to me! I was forced to stay there, in fact, I wanted to leave a long time ago! I can't do anything big there!
Wuzhou is good, there is a lot of land and abundant products, and there are Zhang Liangqing and Gao Ji there to support me, I must be asking for money, food, and people, I will definitely be able to do a career, and the broad sky is up to me!
Therefore, as soon as Fan Liang received this information, Luo Yu also received the emperor's will, and the two sides have been running in for so long, and there is finally something that can make Fan Liang and Luo Yu happy.
Within two days, Luo Yu set up a table for Fan Liang to see off the banquet, this banquet was not at all like when Zhang Liangqing welcomed Fan Li, Huzhou Zhongmen was wide open, and all civil and military officials came to welcome Fan Li, which was extremely lively! In this send-off banquet, except for Governor Luo Yu, only three or two officials came to make a show, barely enough for a table.
Fan Li also knew what was going on in his heart, so he didn't say anything, and withdrew after a glass of wine: Dude, let's go! However, when leaving, Fan Liang asked Ji Bu to come over, and there were probably two reasons: the first is that Ji Bu is more loved by Fan Li, and he is not like other tiger soldiers in leading troops, he is more serious in leading soldiers and is also reliable!
The second is the idea that Gao Ji gave Fan Li at the beginning, saying that if you really want to do great things, you have to guard against the suspicion of the imperial court, so you need a noble officer like Ji Bu, put him on the surface, and you will give him any credit, and then you can be the behind-the-scenes operator!