Chapter 76: Delivering on Promises
"Back to Li Shuai, it is indeed a bit of luck. However, the more than a dozen scars on the body of the lowly duty can prove that for the sake of my Dashu country, the lowly duty has been loyal. ”
Li Zhongyi impassionedly opened his official robe and thoroughly displayed more than a dozen shocking wounds in front of the generals.
"If I am not mistaken, this wound was injured by throwing a knife before he killed Zhou General Wang Jing; This ......" Li Zhongyi counted the scars one by one, his face was sad, and his words were choked, which immediately aroused the sympathy and resonance of the generals in the hall.
Meng Renyi secretly raised his thumb, brother, you are not so much counting scars, but showing merit to the full hall of civil and military generals, and even more slapping Li Tinggui in the face.
Li Tinggui's face was red, white, black, and finally black and purple, and he hated it so much that he had no choice but to do anything about Li Zhongyi.
What the army pays attention to is military exploits, and everyone, including him Li Tinggui, suffered a big defeat. Only Li Zhongyi, with his weak troops, actually dragged down the entire grain supply of the Zhou army, no matter what standard it is, it is a miracle.
If Meng Renyi is not in the hall, even if Li Tinggui has a clear conscience, I am afraid that he will poison Li Zhongyi and make him a loyal and brave general of Dashu.
There was no way, Li Tinggui himself fought a big defeat, and most of the elite of the department lost most of it, and his strength decreased sharply.
And Meng Renyi's soldiers and horses, although they lost some losses when defending the city, they were only more than 3,000 people, and the main elite was still there.
The theory of the strength of the rivers and lakes!
Without the support of a gun, Li Tinggui naturally has the confidence to speak, and he naturally seems to be strict and insufficient.
"You step down, and after counting the military merits, the marshal will go to the court and ask for credit for you." Li Tinggui waved his hand weakly and drove Li Zhongyi out of the handsome hall.
Shu lost its division and lost its territory, the government and the opposition were shaken, and the entire Chengdu Mansion fell into panic. In view of the extremely empty military strength of the Beijing Division, Meng Chang issued an edict to transfer Meng Renyi's Jin Wuwei back to Chengdu to protect him, in addition to continuing to let Li Tinggui guard the front line of Hechi Jianmen Pass.
On this side, due to the loss of three generals by Meng Renyi, the lack of troops was strict. Li Zhongyi discussed with him and added the entire township army to Jinwuwei.
Meng Renyi also had this intention for a long time, and immediately hit it off and reached a consensus.
In Meng Renyi's view, he has a strong army that has fought thousands of miles and has made outstanding achievements, and when he goes out to fight in the future, the safety factor will be much greater than now.
After the reconstruction, the third army of the right wing of Jin Wuwei was appointed by Guo Huai as the commander, Yao Hong as the deputy commander, and Zuo Ziguang, who was later promoted, was appointed as the capital Yuhou.
In other words, the entire Third Army is not only Meng Renyi's team, but also a strong army pulled up by Li Zhongyi. Two brothers, the two are good together, and they are all happy
One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, this is not true at all!
Today's township army is no longer as large as when it was first dispatched. In addition to those who died in battle, those who fell off the cliff at night and died, and those who died of serious injuries, there were less than 2,100 people left in the entire township army.
That is, a total of 549 fighters were lost, and the rest were brought back by Li Zhongyi.
What distressed Li Zhongyi the most was that many seriously injured people were worried that they would drag down the army's movements, so they took the initiative to choose their own lives.
This is a cruel war, even if Li Zhongyi does not want to face it, he can only experience the extremely painful test of life and death.
On the first day of returning to Hechi, Li Zhongyi instructed Huang Jingsheng to thoroughly review the seized supplies of the Zhou army, as well as the money and fields copied from the ruffian bandits' homes in Dongcheng, Qian Kewang, and Xia Bing Cao's homes.
Two days later, the results of the statistics were finally released: there were more than 7,000 acres of fertile land; copper and iron coins together, there are 120,000 yuan; There are 38 shops, with more than 30,000 yuan; Ten houses, five thousand dollars; The captured supplies of the Zhou army were exchanged for 5,000 pieces of text at the baggage battalion of the rear army; In addition, there are some antiques and calligraphy and paintings that cannot be sold at a high price in Hechi, and there is no way to discount them for the time being.
According to the ugly tradition of this era, as unpaid village soldiers, the imperial court actually acquiesced in the fact that they supported themselves by robbery, provided that they won the battle and did not go too far.
With Meng Renyi, who is also the envoy of the Zhaowu Festival, on his head, Li Zhongyi can completely legalize it even if he swallows all the copied things into his own stomach, without any objections.
The victor is beyond reproach!
can't eat alone, and it has always been Li Zhongyi's experience as an official!
The things obtained from the raid, Li Zhongyi privately discussed with Meng Renyi, who was also the envoy of the Zhaowu Festival, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, houses, shops, these things that are inconvenient to realize, all of them were distributed to the county government; In addition, 40,000 yuan was taken out and distributed by Meng Renyi to the garrison generals of Jin Wuwei, and the rest was freely distributed by Li Zhongyi.
Li Zhongyi actually knew very well in his heart that these things he handed over to the county government were very likely to be privately divided up by the four internal officials.
The county order, the county magistrate, the county lieutenant, and the main book, without any merit, can get a large number of things, how can they be unhappy?
In this way, even if there are still people in the county who have opinions about Li Zhongyi, the county officials who have formed a community of interests will take the initiative to help clean up the situation without Li Zhongyi speaking.
Li Zhongyi thought to himself, 549 people were killed in the battle, and one person had 20 acres of fertile land, which was 11,000 acres. There are only more than 7,000 acres of fertile land, and there are still 4,000 acres of land that have not been settled, so we have to use money to buy land.
Huang Jingsheng found a tooth man from the local dental shop, intimidated and threatened, and then added inducements, and soon interrogated the truth of the field transaction.
Nowadays, the good paddy fields around the river pond are about ten guan wen one acre, and the countryside a little farther away also needs six guan wen one acre.
Li Zhongyi took into account the special rural viewpoint of this era, the fact that almost all the township soldiers who died in the war were hunters in the mountainous areas, and that he had a large amount of floating wealth obtained from raiding his house, so he decided to buy fertile land near the big ravine and bid for eight acres of land.
With such a high premium, if some landlords in the mountainous areas still want to be misers, it will be unacceptable, and it will become inevitable that the township army will come to harass and intimidate them and support the families of their brothers who died in battle.
This so-called salute before the soldier is also!
A tooth person with a tooth line should lead the party, and Li Zhongyi only took one day to find out the fields and background of the large and small landlords near the river.
Li Zhongyi handed over the rest of the matter, Huang Jingsheng and Wang Dahu, who were good at extortion, and asked them to go out to buy land with a soldier under their command.
Hehe, professionals do professional things, that is, professional. In just ten days, Huang Jingsheng won a big victory, and bought enough land for less than budgeted money.
In the next few days, Li Zhongyi sent people to send the lives of the deceased to their homes one by one, and registered all the families of these people, and then released money on a quarterly basis.
In addition, before Li Zhongyi left for Chengdu, he also did one thing, that is, he sent officers to ask the soldiers of the township army one by one, and anyone who did not want to leave his hometown would be given 50 copper coins per person and let them go home.
In this era, the concept of homeland is indeed very strong, and some soldiers are forced to enlist in the camp, and some soldiers are even only children.
The war between Hou Zhou and Hou Shu has ended. According to the official history, the next time to attack Houshu is the forbidden army of the Northern Song Dynasty.
As for the officers and soldiers of the township, whether they are willing to stay or want to leave, Li Zhongyi is free to choose in line with the principle that the melon is not sweet.
As a result, Li Zhongyi was shocked, and there were only ten people who chose to go home to accompany his wife and children.
Could it be that Lao Tzu's character is so good? Later, it was Guo Huai who uncovered the mystery in private.
"Xiang Shuai, everyone has recognized it, follow you to Jingshi to eat fragrant and spicy food, enjoy the glory and wealth, this is a beautiful thing that you can't dream of. If anyone doesn't want to, hehe, that guy must have been kicked in the head by a donkey. In these chaotic years, the taxes of the government are heavy, and if you don't starve to death when you return home, you have to always be on guard against military disasters, bandits, and natural disasters, so it's better to follow you to have hope. ”
Most of the brothers were from the countryside and could not speak much, but they all knew what to expect. You have brought these dozens of brothers who are missing arms and legs to raise them yourself, and the brothers are following you, what else is there to worry about? Guo Huai said as he spoke, and suddenly sighed with emotion, "In the family of the brothers who died in the war, you have arranged them properly, which is like us before, where we died, we will bury them, and we can only blame ourselves for their bad lives." ”
As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first. It is troublesome for the army to go out, and it is equally troublesome to return to the army, and there are many trivial matters to be dealt with.
Because the entire township army had been incorporated into the Third Army of Jin Wuwei's right wing, Li Zhongyi, in order to avoid suspicion, entrusted Meng Renyi to apply to Li Tinggui before leaving Hechi, and removed him from his post as the commander of the township army of the inspection school, and reinstated him as a temporary dispatch - the medical officer of the rear army.
The army can return to Beijing for the New Year, and the officers and soldiers of Jin Wuwei are all very happy, and although the weather is cold along the way, they can't stop their good mood.
No matter how long the journey is, there will always be a day of arrival, and on this day, the army finally returned to Chengdu.
At the gate of the city, Meng Renyi and Li Zhongyi received an edict from the chamberlain at the same time, and His Majesty summoned the meritorious ministers in the Taiji Palace.
Returning to the palace after a few months of absence, Li Zhongyi couldn't help but feel emotional, Lao Tzu finally came back alive, it's really fucking not easy.
Meng Renyi and Li Zhongyi were led into the Taiji Palace by the inner attendants, and they both met Meng Chang, who was perched on the throne.
"Minister Meng Renyi (Li Zhongyi) pays a visit to His Majesty."
"Get up." Meng Chang looked at Meng Renyi, then at Li Zhongyi, who he hadn't seen for a long time, and suddenly beckoned to Li Zhongyi and said, "Li Qing, I heard that you have dozens of wounds, but is there such a thing?" ”
Li Zhongyi thought to himself, what kind of trick was this playing, but he didn't dare to slack off, and said cautiously: "Back to Your Majesty, there is indeed something to do." can do a little bit for my Dashu, although the ministers are full of liver and brain, they will not hesitate. ”
Meng Chang likes to listen to empty words such as allegiance, Li Zhongyi has always tried to follow Mao before, and this time is no exception.
Sure enough, Meng Chang listened very comfortably, touched the short beard on his chin, and suddenly made a surprising request, "Li Qing, untie your shirt and let all of you take a look, even the medical officer next to me is a heroic man." ”
Only then did Li Zhongyi notice that the prime ministers and envoys of the two governments actually gathered together today and stood on both sides.
What's this called? Li Zhongyi was reluctant in his heart, but he didn't dare to show the slightest expression on his face. He has been by Meng Chang's side for a few months, and he knows Meng Chang's temperament, the more important the ministers are, the more they can't disobey his golden words, and there is still room for turning around in private.
There was no way, Li Zhongyi had to take off his official robe, peel off his underwear, and completely expose Chi Guoguo's upper body in front of everyone's eyes.
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