Chai Jin watched Luan Tingyu beat the horse and whip and gradually disappeared into the distance, looked around at the guards on the left and right and smiled: "This is a real man, but he is a bit of a demonic obstacle." ”

All the guards knew that Luan Tingyu was a talent valued by the second son, Zhao Yue. But everyone has arrived here, one foot has already stepped into the threshold of Cangzhao, and finally he still watched him go. They sent it away in person, and they all felt sorry.

The chief of the guard said worriedly: "Big official, Luan Tingyu is gone, can he turn back?" ”

Chai Jin smiled: "What are you worried about? Zhao Er's little guy is eyeing the talent, so there is still a run? ”

All the guards will smile heartily.

Chai Jin also smiled, and said: "The Xihe army was defeated, so many generals died, and an important seat was vacated. It is a pain and a rare opportunity for the large and small generals of the Xihe Army. The head of the Xihe Army has changed, and the internal forces have reshuffled and competed more fiercely. Even if Luan Zhuangshi landed in the Western Army, how could those generals allow a strange outsider to come and compete for a seat with their family? No matter how capable Luan Zhuang is, he can only start from the bottom. When he is completely excluded, driven by the wanton exploitation and reprimand of the small leaders of the army with roots, and is fed up with the bird's spirit, he will definitely not be able to bear it with his arrogant character, and he will definitely leave if he sees no hope of soaring even if he tries his best to make meritorious contributions. The public integrity has just been settled. ”

The guards couldn't help but laugh when they imagined the scene. In the tradition of feudal officialdom in East Asia for thousands of years, officials pay special attention to their roots. Without strong and tight backstage support, it is impossible for a newcomer to get ahead quickly, no matter how capable he is. The second is seniority. You are young or have been in the industry for a short time, to put it bluntly, you have not accumulated enough contacts, so that those who have the right to decide can not see what benefits you can bring to them, how much benefit, to put it mildly, before everyone sees your use value, then you can only slowly stay up until they recognize and recognize you before you can take the position.

Luan Tingyu had the setback of joining the army before, maybe it wasn't that he didn't understand this. He insisted on going to the Xihe Army because he was betting that he could make great achievements in the army with his real skills and win a quick future.

This kind of thinking is undoubtedly naïve and ridiculous in the late Northern Song Dynasty, when officialdom was rotten and out of control.

Luan Tingyu can take the head of the King of Western Xia and Jin in the army. The greatest credit will not belong to him. The border pass mentioned in the imperial court's meritorious report that his name could be included in the list of subordinate meritorious personnel, and it would be very good to allow him to show his face and get some small rewards. If he is not interested, it is inevitable that the world will evaporate.

This kind of meritorious thing will not be taken care of even by the relatively fair and honest old breed strategy.

Again, that's the same sentence.

The Western Army has been developing for a hundred years, but it is now outdated, conservative and domineering, and cannot tolerate outsiders to take advantage of it. The old species is first and foremost a representative of a collective of interests. The first consideration in everything is to stabilize and unite the more influential forces in the group, rather than to fairly protect the rights and interests of a person who has no roots. This argument that one's personal interests can be ruthlessly sacrificed in order to safeguard the so-called overall situation is correct as long as the power standard exists for one day. Even if the emperor knew about it, he couldn't reverse it.

Chai Jin is not an official, but he sees this very clearly, so he confidently concludes that Luan Tingyu will turn back.

There is also a phenomenon that when a country is about to fall, the bureaucracy, even if it does not realize that the country is about to die, will take advantage of the last opportunity to make more money. They will also invariably put the interests of the country behind themselves in everything.

Luan Tingyu has a good ability, and those officials also recognize him, but they arrange him to be a bodyguard for the hospital or the dirty money, but they don't arrange for him to be a serious soldier, which is the reason. Good hands are first and foremost used to protect the interests of the lord and me. This was the mainstream behavior of the bureaucracy at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. If you don't do this, you will be wrong, stupid, maverick, and unsociable.

Zhao Gonglian also collected the good hands in the personal guards, and only became a general in the army when he was fighting, this was to avoid the opponent from making bad things, causing his cronies and heroes to be forcibly transferred by the imperial court and killed by traitors. In addition, it is not without concealment. Let yourself not look so alternative under the turbidity of the rolling employment.

In fact. Until now, Luan Tingyu does not have much confidence in this trip. With very mixed feelings, he rode to the northwest.

At the same time, Zhao Yue and his entourage of more than a dozen people continued to run wildly, or rather, they were breaking through all the way to fight a road to the northwest.

The reason why it is said to fight a way out is that it is often necessary to fight with robbers and bandits who are arrogant and robbing.

Unlike the very concentrated bandits in Shandong and Lianghuai, under the crackdown of the Shanxi government, the robbers did not decrease. On the contrary, there are more and more mountains.

This is Tian Hu's ghost.

The impact of this year's massive wave of migration has been enormous and far-reaching. The people in Shanxi who were exploited by corrupt officials and corrupt officials and had no way out originally wanted to live a day at a time, kill people, set fires and rob money, and finally lived in vain, but now they see another way out without mentioning their heads.

When people reach the end of the mountains and rivers, they can't care about the homeland, it is difficult to leave, conservative and other poor and exquisite. I don't care what kind of life I'll live overseas.

As long as you can live. Anyway, it's better to stay in your hometown and suffer crimes, sell your children and daughters, and you can't see any hope. can only be sad and wait for death.

This directly led to Tian Hu, who was eager to taste what it was like to be an emperor, to be unable to quickly recruit a rebel army by relying on Taiyue Mountain alone. Even the centaurs that they originally owned ran a lot. Those who left took away weapons and money without permission, and went to the coastal and other government offices to divide the land or join the pirates.

Tian Hu also had no choice, so like Fang La, he arranged his subordinate generals to set up villages in various places, loot money and grain, recruit minions, and train troops at the same time.

Although Tian Hu did not show the banner of rebellion, he used Taiyue Mountain as a base and completely stabilized the main position of the Hebei Green Forest Alliance. Whether the robbers and thieves from all walks of life are sincerely obedient, entrenched in various places to expand their power for Tian Hu, or they form an alliance in order to take advantage of the situation to protect themselves, with the support of this alliance, their waists suddenly hardened.

Once the local government goes to exterminate any group of bandits, it will attract bandits from other places to attack them. Beacon fires broke out everywhere in the prefecture and the prefecture, the officers and soldiers could not take care of their heads, the people suffered, the fields were destroyed, the taxes were difficult to complete, not to mention the lives of the officials. After a few fights, the officials became grassy, and the robbers became more and more rampant.

There is no shortage of soldiers in the Cangzhao Northern Army now, and what is in short supply is a general who can stand alone. Zhao Yue was afraid that Sun An, the commander, would vote for Tian Hu, and it would take a lot of trouble to collect and use it, so he hurriedly went to Kongtong Mountain to find it, and he didn't have the heart to be verbose with the robbers he encountered, and he would directly crush and kill him when he encountered it.

From the moment I entered Shanxi, I didn't know how many robbers who blocked the road along the way.

The heavy thief gradually spread the loss and the invincible murder name of this line of unidentified people to Tian Hu's ears. Let Hebei overlord Tian Hu be furious.

Zhao Yue naturally didn't know.

As they walked along a mountain road, a group of robbers popped up in front of them.

The first thief will be five big and three thick, shaped like a bear, with two blood-red eyes, two big furry hands holding a big knife and shouting: "Stay, if the person in front wants to keep the whole corpse, honestly leave all the horses and all the belongings, otherwise you Grandpa Sang" (to be continued.) )