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As Cai still talked more and more deeply, Song Jiang gradually heard a problem—Cai still only talked about the drawbacks and limitations of the peasant uprising, but never mentioned the solution.

Song Jiang couldn't help but ask: "General Cai understands the drawbacks and limitations of the popular rebellion so well, there must be a solution, right?" ”

Cai still smiled and said, "What the leader of Song wants to ask is how to prevent the people's rebellion?" This is too simple, as long as the people can live, as long as no one violates their bottom line, they will never rise up and rebel. ”

Where would Song Jiang care about how to prevent a peasant uprising, what he wanted to ask was how a peasant uprising could be successful?

But Song Jiang is not very easy to ask about this, especially on this occasion.

And Cai still began to talk to Song Jiang about how to govern the world.

As a result, Song Jiang couldn't keep up with Cai Ying's train of thought.

Slowly, Song Jiang finally realized that it was impossible to overthrow Zhao Song on his own, and even if he could overthrow Zhao Song, he would not have a chance to replace Zhao Song.

Finally, the group came to the border line between the two armies.

Cai still turned his head and looked at Wu Xuexuan and the others who had followed him all the way, and said with a smile: "You don't have to send it again, I believe it won't be long before we will meet again." ”

Song Jiang pondered for a while, and then spoke: "You don't have to worry, as long as you guard Wuma Mountain, I will be fine, after I leave, everything on the mountain will be discussed and decided by Wu Xuexue and Lu Junyi......"

Cai still didn't stop Song Jiang from arranging the aftermath, but generously waited for Song Jiang to arrange everything before he stretched out his hand and said, "Leader Song, please." ”

Song Jiang smiled: "General Cai, please." ”

After that, Cai and Song Jiang were like friends going to the green together, and walked side by side, walking together to the side of the official army.

Dong Yi, who was guarding the border, led tens of thousands of horses to pick up Cai Yi and his party as if he were facing a great enemy, and then watched Wu Xueyu and Lu Junyi lead the Song Jiang Righteous Army back to the mountain, ignoring the previous Cai still asked Zhang Jun to convey that he could take the opportunity to cover up and kill the Song Jiang Righteous Army.

To be honest, Cai still doesn't care at all about who wins or loses between Song Jun and Song Jiangyi's army.

Therefore, Cai still didn't say anything about Dong Yi's choice, and thanked him for accepting him back.

Completely leaving the sphere of influence of Song Jiang's righteous army, Cai was still secretly relieved, and then talked to Song Jiang more freely about the way to govern the country.

Prior to this, Cai still had never talked about governing the country with Yue Fei and other Jinwu soldiers, so in the eyes of Yue Fei and other Jinwu soldiers, Cai was still no different from ordinary military attachés.

Until today, Yue Fei and others know why Cai still has "Wen can lift the pen to calm the world, and Wu can get off the horse to determine the world." ".

This also made Yue Fei and others admire Cai Yi even more, and even worship Cai Zhen.

Song Jiang didn't worship Cai Ying, but through the tip of the iceberg exposed by Cai Jiang, Song Jiang completely saw how impulsive he was when he launched the uprising, and then began to be confused......

Suddenly!

In the distance, the sound of galloping horses was heard.

Cai still and the others stopped.

Not long after, Cai Yi and the others saw Wang Zongwei and others galloping towards them.

Seeing this, Cai still said goodbye to Song Jiang with a smile: "I am only responsible for establishing a dialogue channel for Zhao'an, and for specific Zhao'an matters, since someone talks to you, we will meet later." ”

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Cai still did what he said, and after handing over Song Jiang to the Hebei Recruitment Division, he returned to Zhang Liangshan, and he didn't ask a word about how to recruit Song Jiang and his gang.

During this period, Cai still personally went to Zhao County to recruit more than 1,500 recruits, replenished the Jinwu army, and by the way, privately expanded the number of men under his command, bringing the total number of the Jinwu army to 3,500 men.

In addition, Cai was still able to extort personnel, war horses, and strategic materials from Huang Qianshan, Liang Fangping and others before.

The overall strength of the Jin Wu army not only did not retreat, but increased a lot, and even Cai still could directly turn the Jin Wu army into a horse army if he wanted to.

This kind of strength is actually rare in the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty, which is known for its ability to fight well.

From Cai Ying's various actions, it is not difficult to see that Cai still really doesn't want to care about recruiting An Song Jiang's righteous army.

But sometimes things are often like this, the more Cai still doesn't want to care about recruiting An Song Jiang Yijun, the more the matter of recruiting An Song Jiang Yijun finds Cai Yi's head.

At the end of July, the imperial court suddenly issued a holy decree to Cai Yi.

"The edict said: The house of loyalty and filial piety, the court training has long been in the righteousness of the rope and the martial arts, and the edict is awe-inspiring, and there is no light in front of it, and there is a way to stick to the back, and the glory of the lord is sparse, and the report of the valley is used in the chapter. Er still said, is the son of the first Shaobao, handsome and cool, courageous superman, alone through the five horses to capture the bandit head to show the loyalty of the country, hereby to Qin En, plus the gift of the right military doctor Jeju observer, Xi Zhi is ordered in the play, Lin Toe is outstanding, the green lock Zhang Yi Fang's training, the class clothes are radiant, Zichen Table Yu Qing is the light......"

Undoubtedly, this is a holy decree to promote Cai to still an official position.

It's just—

There are two things that Cai still never expected:

First of all, Cai still never expected that the holy decree of promoting his own official would come down so quickly, you must know that the promotion of military attaches above the seventh rank is not so easy to come down - the right military doctor and above are "rampant", and its awarding must be carried out by promulgating a special decree. It was a high-ranking military attache under the personal control of the emperor and under the management of the central government. The promotion of military attachés from martial arts doctors to horizontal classes is the biggest hurdle, corresponding to the great changes in identity and status. Therefore, the promotion of military attachés to this step has to go through more assessments, and it is even possible to be summoned by the emperor before being conferred.

And when I got to Cai Yi, only half a month later, the holy decree of promotion came down, and the key is that Cai still hasn't had any operation, which is also too strange.

Moreover, Cai still never expected that Zhao Ji and the Northern Song Dynasty court would be so generous this time, not only promoted himself to the fourteenth rank of military attache to let himself enter the ranks of rampant envoys, but also made himself a chief official of the Jeju Observation Envoy.

Remember, this is a regular official, not a remote county official.

The official product of Yao County is only the honorary title of the military rank official, and there is no need to take office, but the official product of Yao County is issued according to the fictitious title.

Although the principal officer is also regarded as a fictitious title, it means that the military attache has been removed from the rank of military officer, and has received a salary according to the rank of the principal officer, and has obtained the actual post of military attache, which is actually similar to the rank of military officer.

Therefore, Cai Ying's observation is still very golden, and even Cai can still see from the Jeju observation envoy set by the Northern Song Dynasty that the Northern Song Dynasty may let himself be stationed in Jeju to suppress Jeju, which has just had an uprising, and prevent the resurgence of the Songjiang rebel army.

Let's put it this way, Zhao Ji and the Northern Song Dynasty court are likely to hand over all the troops of Jeju to Cai still under his control.

At that time, Cai will still be able to control tens of thousands of horses.

In this way, although Cai still could not become a prince, he had the opportunity to run a state of soldiers and horses - he did not have the right to transfer troops, which belonged to the Privy Council, and when he was transferred, he was usually transferred by literati and supervised by eunuchs, in fact, only training and command.

But this was already a great power in the Song Dynasty, which tried its best to limit the power of military attachés.

This is also the power that Cai has always been pursuing.

Cai still really didn't expect that this power would come down so quickly, so suddenly, and so strangely.

Later, by bribing the eunuchs, Cai still learned that his position was promoted so smoothly that it had a lot to do with recruiting the Song Jiang Yijun.

Cai still sent Yan Qing out to inquire, only to know that it was not smooth for Hebei to recruit Si Zhao'an and Song Jiang's righteous army.

It's not that Song Jiang's righteous army doesn't accept Zhao'an - Wuma Mountain is about to run out of food, and Song Jiang is a hostage, so the people on Wuma Mountain are still very positive about Zhao'an, and they even sent Chai to run back and forth to discuss Zhao'an with the Hebei Recruitment Division.

But—

Despite this, the talks with Zhao'an still did not go well.

The original meaning of the Northern Song Dynasty court was: Newly surrendered people, who have not served their merits, cannot be directly knighted, but can be recruited in the future, establish meritorious deeds, and increase official rewards. Nowadays, there are still tens of thousands of rebels, and they have to be guarded against. The military horses of Song Jiang and other departments can be dismantled and divided into five roads, Shandong, Hebei, and transferred.

In fact, this is also the inevitable idea and idea of the Northern Song Dynasty court, people recruit peace, but the heart does not necessarily recruit peace, so the vigilance of the Northern Song Dynasty court is understandable.

However, Song Jiangyi's thoughts were not like this: when we surrendered to the imperial court, we never saw any officials, so we had to transfer my brothers and others away. I and other leaders, life and death together, vow not to give up! If we have to, then we might as well stay the course.

As a result, the negotiations between the two sides reached an impasse.

Later, the Hebei Recruitment Division reported these situations to the Northern Song court.

Wang Hao and Tong Guanyi discussed, and thought: The reason why the Song Jiang Righteous Army dared to ask for a price was because the prestige of the people in Hebei Recruitment Division was not enough to deter the Song Jiang Righteous Army, and this matter still needed to eliminate half of the Song Jiang Righteous Army and go deep into the tiger's den to capture Song Jiang's Cai still to go out to completely solve it.

And the people of the Hebei Recruitment Division, after fighting with the Song Jiang Righteous Army for several rounds without any progress at all, were also afraid that they would not be able to get along with the Song Jiang Righteous Army, prompting the Song Jiang Righteous Army to rebel, and then the previous achievements were lost, and the people of the Hebei Recruitment Division really did not expect that the idea of the Northern Song Dynasty Imperial Court was not to recruit all the Song Jiang Righteous Army, but to break up the Song Jiang Righteous Army and become no threat, so that the difficulty of recruiting the Song Jiang Righteous Army became infinitely greater, so big that the people of the Hebei Recruitment Division did not dare to take this task.

Therefore, after the Northern Song Dynasty court and the Hebei Recruitment Division discussed and prevaricated, the matter of recruiting the Song Jiang Righteous Army was pushed to Cai Yi again.

What people never expected was that Song Jiang's Yijun also agreed to let Cai still come to negotiate with them about the conditions of Zhao'an.

The meaning of the Northern Song Dynasty court was to give Song Jiang a vacant position to appease the envoy and the rank of a martial doctor.

Therefore, Cai Ying, who was in charge of recruiting security and deterring Song Jiang's righteous army, could not be lower in rank than Song Jiang.

On this basis, the Northern Song Dynasty court promoted Cai to a right-hand martial arts doctor Jeju observer, who could suppress Song Jiang.

In addition, just as Cai still guessed, the Northern Song Dynasty court had already thought that if Cai still could really recruit the Song Jiang Righteous Army, the Song Jiang Righteous Army would be assigned to Cai Ying's name and controlled by Cai ......

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