Chapter 431: Old Acquaintances Who Have Never Met (Part II)

Yang Huairen was not afraid of the 30,000 Western Xia troops stationed in the Jingsai Military Division, he was worried about the safety of the pasture. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

From Yang Shihu, he knew that the northwest frontier areas were often subjected to small-scale attacks, which had no impact on the regular border army and the Tongyuan county town with high walls and strong cities, but for ordinary people, they were still deeply affected.

Such a small-scale invasion was not the regular army of Western Xia or Tibet, but some nomadic barbarian tribes, they wanted money and food, because of the small scale, so they moved quickly, came and went freely, basically left after the robbery, and could not predict and make effective precautions.

Yang Huairen's ranch is no different from an ordinary village, and if he puts up a fence, he can prevent a few wild wolves, if people have the intention to destroy his ranch, he only needs a dozen or twenty people to walk the mountain path, and he will run away after the destruction, he has no way at all.

Listening to Yang Huairen's thoughts, Tong Guan patted his chest and assured him that it was difficult to say that it was difficult to change to individual border prefectures and counties, and in Tongyuan County, this matter could not happen.

Because Tongyuan County is basically full of mountains, it is impossible to cross it on horseback, and Yang Huairen's ranch is still twenty or thirty miles south of Tongyuan County, which is even farther away from the border.

If you want to enter the Great Song Dynasty from the border line of Huanzhou, there are only two official roads that can be used by horse or car, that is, the river valley formed by the direct flow of the two rivers around the river, the official road of the Baimachuan River Valley and the official road of the Guide River Valley.

These two official roads converge into an official road in Hongdezhai, and it takes more than 30 miles to the south to reach Tongyuan County. In Huanzhou, there are five passes and eleven villages in the north of Tongyuan County, that is, north of Tongyuan County, the border army has established five passes in three river valleys and eleven camps for the border army.

If the Western Xia army wants to invade the Great Song Dynasty from Huanzhou, it must first break through these passes and camps before it can only reach Tongyuan County.

The border army of the Great Song Dynasty is 700,000, and on such a long border line in Huanzhou, the Tongyuan Military Division has only arranged 3,000 people, but it is such a small number of people, who can be defended according to danger, and can be used as ten, so it is not surprising that Tong Guan did not put the 30,000 Western Xia troops of the Xixia Jingsai Military Division in his eyes.

His responsibility is to defend the county seat of Tongyuan, and he doesn't ignore the small-scale intrusion of those stragglers, in his heart, Yang Huairen's ranch is deep in the mountains in the south of Huanzhou, even if there is a small-scale incursion, it is only within twenty or thirty miles of the border, and it will not affect the ranch so far away.

Yang Huairen listened to their explanations and didn't know whether to be happy or angry. Their own pastures can't withstand these harms, but the small villages not far from the border are also inhabited by the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and they can't care about their lives or dead because they are poor and their status is low.

Yang Huairen thought so, but he was also naïve. There is no way for the border army to do this, they can't come over from the Western Xia side for three or five horse thieves, and they have to send troops to fight, right? This is completely unrealistic, even if there is a desire to do this, but when the border army receives the news, those who robbed have already finished robbing and run away, and they can't be caught at all, let alone stopped.

Tong Guan saw the change in Yang Huairen's expression, with a smile on his face, and explained these things to him in a whisper, and Yang Huairen gradually understood.

During the banquet, Tong Guan guided the local officials and generals to take turns to toast Yang Huairen, and he was also free, whether Yang Huairen asked about the border defense or talked about the capital, Tong Guan could talk to Yang Huairen's heart, which made him very comfortable.

Yang Huairen gradually found that the attitudes of these officials at the banquet towards Tong Guan and Yang Shihu were different. It is said that civil officials are relatively high, even if their rank is not as high as Yang Shihu, but the arrogance of the literati in his heart does not take Yang Shihu very seriously, this is what Yang Huairen can think of.

However, according to the psychology of civil officials, they should look down on eunuchs like Tong Guan even more, but all the civil officials who showed at the table, including Fang Youzhi, the envoy of the Huanzhou regiment, and Song Tingyu, the commander of Tongyuan County, showed a very admiring expression towards Tong Guan.

Yang Huairen thought at first that it might be because they were afraid of Tong Guan's power, so they couldn't bear to slap him, so this situation would occur.

But as the banquet gradually deepened, after everyone drank a lot of wine and had a sense of wine, Yang Huairen unexpectedly found that these civil officials were showing their true feelings, and their admiration for Tong Guan was from the heart, not contrived, which made Yang Huairen suspicious.

Judging from the contact with Tong Guan on this day, Yang Huairen must also admit that Tong Guan is really too kind, and he doesn't feel like a powerful eunuch who can hold power and dominate the court.

Whether you talk to such a person, do things, or even have a good mood, they seem to have a doctorate in psychology, and by what you say and what expressions you have, you can guess what you are thinking in your heart, and then when you chat, you can always talk to you in a happy mood.

To put it bluntly, it makes you feel that the middle-aged man in front of you, although you have never met, is like a good friend and old acquaintance who has known him all your life, and you can open your heart to him.

Yang Huairen has lived two lives, but he only has thirty years of life experience, and in terms of knowledge or knowledge, he must be much better than Tong Guan, but compared to being a person, it is far worse than him.

Since coming to the Great Song Dynasty for nearly a year, he has met three later "Six Thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty", and they are symbolic figures among the six thieves.

When Yang Huairen dealt with Cai Jing, he only felt that this person was shrewd, but he didn't feel how vicious he was.

Another Li Bangyan, who is still a little scholar who eats soft rice without learning or skills, is timid and pitiful, and he doesn't know where this kid has gone at the moment.

Now dealing with Tong Guan, he feels that although Tong Guan is very deep in the city, he has a very good temper and character, and he does not show the appearance of a powerful traitor.

Yang Huairen was conflicted in his heart, according to the development of history, these three people must be traitors of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Northern Song Dynasty was also destroyed in the hands of the six thieves led by them.

But judging from the three people he came into contact with, they have not yet become the signs of a traitor, is it a bit unreasonable to use their future crimes to get rid of them?

However, Yang Huairen also slowly understood why Tong Guan would be so beautiful in the future, such a likable person, if he really came to the side of an emperor with soft ears like Zhao Ji, he would definitely become a favored minister, which laid the foundation for him to become a generation of "concubines" in the future.