"What's going on? Is it a vain procrastination method? ”

Zhou Huai'an said to Li Shicheng, who was in charge of counterpart negotiations.

"My subordinates have heard of this cow handsome. Or it can be a reference for the governor. ”

Li Shicheng, who was thin and old, thought carefully before speaking.

"This Niu Shuai was originally from the big Jia in the East City, but he was only registered in the Shence Army. Therefore, what he is best at is speculation and drilling, rather than the ability to govern and use troops... ”

“。。。 Therefore, after the Sanchuan Festival was set with a ball game, Chen Jingxuan was certainly known as the 'ball marshal' by the world, and this Niu envoy also had a reputation as 'Jia Shuai'. Because this gentleman has done a lot of governance in office, all of them have the style of businessmen and only use words for profit... ”

"So, does he really have the heart to make a big disapproval in the world, and seek to benefit me? He's a festival envoy.,Could it be that the authority of the court has weakened to this point.。。 ”

Zhou Huai'an smiled after listening to this introduction

"That's true. Otherwise, what is the reason for those Huainan generals who privately make people communicate with me? Could it be that the king of Gao Jun is really a blind deaf person who doesn't care. ”

Li Shicheng said with a wry smile on his face.

"But isn't this a good thing for the Grand Governor's Mansion."

"It's a good thing if it's true, but it's not so easy to cheapen him; What you can't get on the battlefield, can you just rely on your lips to seek? Maybe he still has the conditions for follow-up negotiations?"

Zhou Huaian raised his eyebrows lightly.

"What the governor said was very true, and the people who came claimed that Shanxi Town was willing to give 800 pieces of gold cake, 9,000 pieces of Shu brocade, 5,000 quintals of wax, white gum incense, musk, and cinnabar, and 13,000 quintals of Xingyuan tea in exchange for the proposal of retiring from the war. But at the moment, I'm afraid there's no hope. ”

Li Shicheng nodded.

"No, no, let's give this Jia Shuai a little hope."

Zhou Huaian shook his head.

"You should arrange a shrewd and capable person who is good at improvisation, go over and feel the attitude of the other party, and by the way, discuss the new conditions of the armistice. After all, Yangzhou is already in the hands of our army, and the old price code is not studied enough. ”

"I'll arrange it next."

Li Shicheng hurriedly nodded in response.

After he left, Zhou Huai'an received another report of an emergency. However, the Chaoxun area located in the mountains suffered a rare typhoon, which caused heavy damage to the area, thousands of houses were dumped, and more than 20,000 people were affected, and the replenishment progress of the Eighth Army was affected.

Zhou Huai'an summoned the second and seventh teams of the staff group, as well as the liaison officers who stayed in the department, and after a while of argumentation and discussion, he immediately ordered:

"Let the local garrisons, except for the patrol team, the Jiansheng Army, and the garrison regiment, be transferred to the territory of Guangfu for rest and replenishment, and the headquarters of the Seventh Army in Guangfu will be mobilized westward to the vicinity of Guizhou in Lingxi for retraining."

"Exempt the three-year collection items other than the commercial tax of the seven counties in Chaoxun; increase the proportion of local local products purchased and the quota for factory recruitment; Let the nearby Jiansheng Army and the Coastal Inspection Department send extra manpower to assist in disaster relief. ”

"A batch of special public bonds will be issued as a guarantee for the resumption of production, and the salt production and customs tax of Chaoxun will be used as a guarantee."

In another place in Jiangling City, Wei Zhuang, who was handsome and delicate, looked at his old friend Du Xunhe who was packing up in a daze:

"Brother Du, why are you doing this? Wouldn't it be good to wait and see for a few more days?"

"Okay, why is it not good, these days I have not only taken care of my feet, but also felt stronger; But that's not enough for me. ”

Du Xunhe, who has always jumped out of open-mindedness, is non-stop with his hands and feet.

"Now that the four wishes of Taiping have been issued, isn't it the voice and ambition of our generation of scholars, which makes the world fascinated. If I have the heart to act, how can I easily fall behind? ”

"But not so much."

Wei Zhuang said with a complicated expression

"If there are many people who are in chaos today, but there have been such profound words of righteousness; This metropolitan governor not only has the wish for peace, but also has the ability to practice the righteousness of the avenue, and the momentum of vigorous and resolute action. ”

Du Xunhe couldn't help but stop his movements and said admittedly.

"This has escaped the vast majority of the world's surviving thief armies, and the old feudal towns that defend the territory, and it is enough to catch up with the three generations of ancient saint kings ruled by the new revolution. As for the imperial court, how many people will have hope for entry. ”

"I'm only afraid of people who read in the world, but if they have heard about it, they can't wait to see each other late! Therefore, whether it is going to the countryside to preach or going out to preach, it is the only way to seek a future and advancement, and what qualifications are there to pick and dislike... ”

"This is a God-given opportunity to witness and participate in the great cause of the new dynasty, but I can deliberately walk with me to encourage it."

"I..."

At this moment, Wei Zhuang couldn't help but hesitate.

- I'm the dividing line -

And in one of the eight Taihang wells exit patio pass. The inspection of the school Taiwei, the Zhongshu Order, Cui Anqian, all sides of the capital, also stood in front of the Tianjing Honey, Outer Tip Road, and Cool Water Spring, which were named after Tianjing Pass, and these three eyes had condensed into a thin ice surface.

Here he could look south and follow the gorge and the mountains, the white water river that rushed and rose at the end of the slender Tianjing stream. Liu Guang, the general of the town army who established himself as the rear of the Zhaoyi Army in the chaos, fled all the way here, and was given swords and guns by the pursuing soldiers, and went to the water.

In fact, when he led the Hedong army to cross the Shihui and Mangche many dangers and arrived at Luzhou in the Shangdang Basin, the entire territory under the jurisdiction of the Zhaoyi Army was shaken, and he turned against the wind.

Even when his banner arrived at the Shangdang City in Luzhou, Liu Guang's department, which had stolen it, even had a civil strife, and then the imprisoned Zelu Jiedu made Gao Xun also rescued and opened the door to greet him.

Then, this high envoy was also a little ashamed of the back courage or the merit of making up for the merits, all the way to personally take the Zhaoyi army in the four states of Shannei for the forerunner, all of them under the banner of the imperial court, and chased the danger to escape Liu Guang's remnants, all of which were annihilated in this well.

Since then, within a few miles to the south, only the important passes such as Xingyiyi, Hengwang Pass, Xiaokou Pass, and Wanzicheng connected by the sheep intestine trail, and Shuinan Pass to Qinyang, Henan, have all been taken by these Hedong troops.

But Cui Anqian didn't feel much satisfaction and self-satisfaction because of this; Although he had put down the Hedong Rebellion and taken over the Daibeixing battalion, he was also able to raise enough military resources and rewards for several months to act accordingly.

Now, with a quick victory, he has captured and recovered the relatively intact four prefectures of Yamanachi. With a little liquidation and local consolidation, it is possible to raise enough troops and troops to sustain the operation for a longer period of time.

But in the rear where he came, the situation of the imperial court in the Guannai continued to deteriorate and collapse; In particular, under the offensive of the thief army, the Kannai Province is also constantly coming with all kinds of bad news and bad news about the loss of the city and household registration.

The eight towns in the northwest of the imperial court, which were the pillars of the imperial court, were also not stable this winter, and many marshals from Shuofang, Jingyuan to Fenning said that because of the lack of sufficient bounties and the provision of salaries and winter clothes, the local soldiers had begun to be restless; Instead, he asked the court to find a way to appease him.

The local envoys of the Military Supervision Institute have successively reported that there are suspicious people who continue to visit and walk between these military towns that have always been loyal to the imperial court, and the envoys of the Linfang Jiedu have even lost contact with each other for more than half a month, and they don't know if they have fallen or changed.

Based on Cui Anqian's position, he would rather be more of the former. After all, lost land can be regained later; However, as the southernmost link of the eight towns in the northwest, once Linfang Town is shaken and rebelled, it will be a chain reaction of its dissipation.

However, he led his army and couldn't even turn around here, because he had another goal and problem that needed to be solved urgently: in the rebellion of the Zhaoyi Army, he took advantage of the situation to steal the three prefectures of Xing, Wei and Ci outside the mountain, and set up another section in Xingzhou, and the former Tianjing guard Meng Fangli.

At this time, a military academy drove a horse galloping from the mountain road and brought the latest news:

"Report to the minister, there is a Cizhou assassin Sun Chengyi secretly attached to the imperial court, but he was harmed by Meng Quan, the state regiment training envoy."

"Meng Fangli, the general of the criminal state, refused the appointment of the assassin of the criminal state and the envoy of the criminal state, and said that if there was no Zhaoyi army, the only way to resist the imperial court was to join the three towns of Heshuo."

Cui Anqian, who described the elegance of the class, couldn't help but sigh heavily, it seemed that the day when his class teacher would return to the dynasty was still far away. However, he took a deep breath and said to the comer:

"Then send a messenger to reply, and say that he can be given the title of Zhaoyi Army, but he must be governed by 8,000 troops, and he will rebel with the imperial court. If not, then we will meet on the battlefield. Then issue a poster ordering the generals in the three states outside the mountain, and those who kill the rebels can take their place anyway. ”