Yang Congyi said: "The Lord Zhizhou is in Qinzhou, and his heart is attached to the temple, and the younger generations admire him. In this life, I should take adults as a model, for the common people, for the community, pour my strength, and do my best! ”

"Well, well, if you have this heart, you will be able to make a difference in the future." Moltke raised his glass, and the two took another sip of tea.

Then he said: "I have been to Liangshan for more than a month, during which all kinds of things have been compared to the 100-word battle report, how did you spend it?" ”

Listening to Mao Qi ask about Liangshan, Yang Congyi thought about it for a while, and then adjusted his experience in Liangshan, what he saw and heard, and told him about it. When it comes to the Youyi Army, don't say anything bad, or don't say it clearly, almost only talk about the Xuanwei Army.

This talk lasted for an hour or two, and it was already dark, and Moltke was still not satisfied.

That night, Yang Congyi and Moltke went to a banquet in different ways, accompanied by dozens of colleagues from the state capital.

During the banquet, the inexplicable enthusiasm of a group of colleagues surprised Yang Congyi, he only regarded it as their hero worship to repel the enemy, but whenever there were colleagues to toast, those who came did not refuse, and drank immediately.

After drinking too much wine, he couldn't control his mouth, and all kinds of private words and gossip flew in the banquet.

There are several young officials, all of whom are the children of official eunuchs, and their parents and grandparents are either officials in the court, or they are members of one party, listening to what they say after drinking, they come to this remote place in Guangnan, it is completely the elders to arrange for them to consider, because the court has private discussions, if you want to enter the court as an official in the future, you must have more than ten years of experience as an official in the state and county, and if you persist for a few years, the elders will be able to transfer them back to the rich land, and when they go to the rich land as officials, even if they enter the eyes of the court, the chance of entering the court will be greatly increased.

A group of officials in their fifties and sixties shook their heads and sighed, at their age, they are still in remote and remote places, I am afraid that they will stay for the rest of their lives, this kind of place is like a distribution, and they are often ignored and forgotten when they arrive in Guangnan, and they can serve as long as they can, until they return to their hometowns or die of illness.

Yang Congyi has no way to understand this kind of officialdom, he knows only a limited number of officials, and no one will tell him these things, now listening to them boast and complain with his own ears, he knows that the officialdom of the Song Dynasty without background and support is really difficult to mix, and it is really not easy for him to go all the way, not to mention that he is still from martial arts.

If you don't have a good background, it's a blessing to be able to be awarded an official position, and if you want to climb up, in addition to your own efforts, you have to rely on relationships and luck.

The official position of the imperial court is limited, the world is peaceful, and he has absolutely no hope of ascending to a high position, because he can't fight for other people's deep backgrounds and intertwined relationships.

Just when Yang Congyi was secretly sad, an official in his sixties said, "Why is Yang Jianjun sad? You can get the position of a prison soldier at a young age, and you should be high-spirited. ”

Yang Congyi said: "Adults don't know, the lower officials are from poor backgrounds, they don't have much to rely on, how can they have the capital to work hard, they occasionally got an official position a few years ago, they acted cautiously, and did their best to do their best, so they had the opportunity to be promoted, but now they are just eight officials, how can they be high-spirited?" "He drank a little, but he never dared to get drunk, and he couldn't say something that sounded like nonsense to others.

The old man was a little surprised, and said strangely: "It is really rare for an eight-rank official to be able to confer the post of a supervisor army, or a supervisor army who is out on an expedition." As far as the old man knows, when the army goes out, the position of supervising the army is generally ordered by the emperor, and even personally appoints close ministers. Yang Jianjun's position as a supervisor is the order of the current emperor, and with this great credit, he will definitely be able to be more reused after returning to Beijing. The old man is here to congratulate, and have another drink with Yang Jianjun! After speaking, he raised the wine in his glass.

"Thank you, sir!" Yang Congyi's face remained unchanged, and he raised his glass to drink, but he was shocked in his heart, the little Xuanwei Army was just a Huiyi Guard, and it was not a regular army establishment at all, and the emperor had to personally order the appointment of a supervising army? He was skeptical.

However, before he could think deeply, he was interrupted by a series of toasts from his colleagues, chatting about Liangshan.

This night, Yang Congyi drank a lot of wine, fortunately, the wine they drank was not strong, and he could still stay sober, but after drinking a meal, almost all the names of those colleagues were forgotten, and none of them were remembered.

When he woke up the next day, he desperately remembered what he had said last night, but unfortunately he couldn't remember anything, and he didn't even remember how he came back.

Still careless, I don't know how many things I shouldn't have said, and when he woke up, he was annoyed.

After drinking the sobering soup sent by the maid of the state capital in the morning, I felt a lot better, and then walked out of the house, and a few breaths of cool air entered my throat, and my body suddenly felt a lot more comfortable.

Immediately called two personal guards and ordered Yao Chang, Su Zhong and others to lead the whole army to land and camp on the riverside twenty miles south of Qinzhou City.

The guards got the order and quickly went out of the city to give the order.

The problem of the Xuanwei army garrison has been temporarily solved, but camping outside the city is not a long-term solution, as Master Mao said, the war is over, and where the Xuanwei army will go depends on the meaning of the imperial court.

The army stays in the south and has no future for development, Li Yueren will not start a war again in the short term, if he wants to have another chance to make meritorious contributions, he can only return to the north, and the person who stays here in the imperial court is He Jianjun, now that the war is over, it is time to meet him.

At the beginning, he used the Youyi army as a bait to encourage the Xuanwei army to go to Yulin, go deep behind the enemy, let go of the fight, and repel the enemy, but the Youyi army temporarily picked a son, not only did not cooperate with the march, but also withdrew from Yulin at a critical moment, almost let the Xuanwei army be destroyed in Liangshan, although this problem can not be said casually outside, but it is still necessary to talk to He Jianjun, at least to ask for an explanation.

But now he is actually in command of the Xuanwei army, and without the order of his superiors, it is simply impossible to leave the garrison and rush to Yongzhou.

After thinking about it for a long time, he decided to write a detailed battle report first, report it to He Jianjun to find out what he meant, and wait for his order.

Yang Congyi returned to the room, and when he wanted to write and ink, he wrote down all the specific statements of the Xuanwei army and the You Yijun army from Dongxing Town to their departure from Liangshan City, without any speculation or accusation.

After the battle report was written, he immediately sent two personal guards and sent them to Yongzhou quickly, repeatedly explaining that they must be personally sent to He Jianjun.

There is half a month to celebrate the New Year, but there is not much festive atmosphere in Qinzhou City, perhaps because there are too few people. Li Yue people intruded, many people dragged their families and families to flee to the east in advance, and now that the war has just ended, they have not had time to come back, and they can't catch up with the Spring Festival in Qinzhou.

The same is true for the Xuanwei Army, they haven't had the Spring Festival for two years, and this year it looks like it's hanging, so they can only make the meals as rich as possible. For this reason, Yang Congyi found Master Mao twice and negotiated to get some meat for Xuanwei Jun to improve the food, but the meat was not so easy to get, and finally ten live pigs were sent, on average, less than half a catty of meat per person.

After eating the fish noodles brought from Changguo, the soldiers ate a month's white rice, and they had long begun to miss the fish and meat of Changguo, the closer the New Year's Pass, the stronger the homesickness, but without the order of the imperial court, they could only stay in Qinzhou and stay in the barracks.

In the Yongzhou Prefecture Council Hall, a number of officials and generals such as the pacification envoy, He Jianjun, and Yongzhou Zhizhou sat on the left and right.

I only listened to the appeasement of Li Dadao: "This time Li Yue sent a large army to disturb the border, and the damage to Yongzhou was not small, but fortunately, all the troops and horses worked together to finally drive them out of Guangnan, and ended this chaos before the end of the imperial court according to the instructions of the imperial court." In the past few months, the results of the various ministries have all been reported to the pacification department, and after the court is played, the meritorious deeds will be rewarded. Yulin, Zuozhou, Qinzhou and other prefectures and counties that were most seriously disturbed by the Li Yue people were to be verified by the Yongzhou Governor's Office, and reported to Jingjiang Prefecture before the year before the approval of the imperial court, and the tax was reduced or exempted for three years. ”

Yongzhou Zhizhou Xu Dadao: "Lord Li, this time Li Yue attacked, the damaged area is too large, it is difficult to verify the disaster before the end of the year, after the military disaster, hundreds of thousands of people are displaced, no warm clothes, no food, a few months of fighting, Yongzhou Treasury no longer half a load of surplus grain, please also ask the adults to give relief first, otherwise this Yongzhou Mansion will be overturned by the displaced people immediately." ”

The appeasement made Master Li frown slightly, and asked: "Lord Xu, this time Li Yue is not able to disturb six or seven counties in Yulin, Zuozhou, Qinzhou and other places, how can there be more than 100,000 displaced people?" There is another thing, didn't I hear earlier that Li Yue Liangshan had been taken, where countless grains and grass were piled up, enough for hundreds of thousands of people for half a year, where is this batch of grain now? ”

Lord Xu said: "Lord Li doesn't know, more than a month ago, Li Yue's soldiers were indeed only disturbed by six or seven counties, but after the Youyi Army and the Xuanwei Army cut off the grain and grass of Li Yue's enemy army, they burned, killed and looted in nearby prefectures and counties, and robbed grain everywhere, and the disturbed prefectures and counties have reached as many as fourteen, so the number of displaced people has increased dramatically. As for the grain and grass hoarded by the enemy army in the Yulin and Liangshan areas, the lower officials did not know that the Youyi Army and the Xuanwei Army had never reported to the Yongzhou Daying from beginning to end, and the Yongzhou Governor's Office really did not understand the situation of the two armies. These two armies were sent by the imperial court from the north, and He Jianjun happened to be from the Privy Council, so He Jianjun may be more clear. ”

When He Jianjun heard this, his heart tightened, and his expression changed slightly.

The appeasement made Master Li humane: "I just went back to Jingjiang Mansion, and the battle of Yongzhou became like this?" actually let them plunder seven or eight prefectures and counties under the city of Yongzhou! I will consider the matter of relief, verify the disaster situation as soon as possible, and report it to the imperial court to reduce taxes before the year, and strive for some relief from the imperial court to help the victims survive the spring famine. ”

Lord Xu thanked: "Thank you Lord Li for your understanding. ”

The appeasement made Master Li ask instead: "He Jian Jun, the imperial court sent tens of thousands of elites of the palace Si You Yi army to the south, and they have not been seen so far, why don't you report to the Yongzhou camp?" There is also the Xuanwei Army, but four or five thousand people only fought in Qinzhou, and they also reported to the Yongzhou camp in the future, what is the reason, He Jianjun is from the Privy Council, and the rules are clear, so I should explain two sentences. ”

Without waiting for He Jianjun to speak, Lord Xu continued: "These two armies are the elite sent by the imperial court, and 15,600 people are not subject to the dispatch, and they attack privately and disrupt the deployment, resulting in Yongzhou being besieged, almost being broken by Li Yue's enemy army, and disturbing the nearby seven or eight prefectures and counties. ”