Pei Gai looked at Xun's daughter who was sixteen or seventeen years old, but the girl developed early, from thirteen or fourteen to eighteen or nineteen, and her specific appearance varies from person to person, and it is very different, and it is really not easy to judge accurately - just killing Pei Gai does not believe that she is only thirteen years old.

Now he can finally be sure, at least Xun Song really has a daughter, and she is very capable, as for whether he can break out of the siege on horseback, history has changed, and if he loses the opportunity, I am afraid it will become a mystery forever - but she should be able to do this kind of thing like forging a letter from her father to ask for help from Zhou Wan. It's just that where did the phrase "thirteen" come from?

Or is this girl really developing early, only thirteen years old with sixteen or seventeen looks and stature? This kind of precocious person does exist in reality, for example, a junior high school classmate in Pei Gai's previous life was only thirteen or fourteen years old and had a height of more than 1.7 meters...... Like Xun's family, a wealthy family, there must be no shortage of nutrition, it is normal to develop early and grow taller.

Visually, Xun's female eyes are about one meter six or six, six or six years old, only half a head shorter than Pei Gai, maybe she will jump in the future.

So his curiosity was aroused, and he couldn't help but ask the other girl's age. It is naturally very rude to ask a woman how old she is, but Pei should have foreshadowed in advance and praised the other party for "being resourceful and courageous, not losing to men, and having the legacy of the ancestor Wen Ruogong", the subtext is: How old are you, you have developed such a capability? It's another kind of curiosity, and it has nothing to do with whether you're a man or a woman.

Xun's daughter lowered her head, not daring to answer. Xun Song hesitated for a moment, and finally answered Pei Gai's question honestly: "The little girl Xin Yousui is ...... old."

Pei should pinch his fingers and count, Xin You's age, that is the second year of Yongkang...... It turned out to be only fifteen years old! If you talk about the real age, she is only fourteen, and she is really a junior high school girl!

Although she is two years older than the "thirteen-year-old" recorded above, it is still terrifying that this girl is so precocious! Is "thirteen" a copy of "fifteen"? Quite possibly......

I couldn't help but stand up, and sighed: "I know now that there are precocious people in the world, even the genius of the heavens, the princess!" ”

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After asking about the seizure of the city, the Xun girl withdrew. Pei Cai lowered his head and groaned, silent for a long time, Xun Song waited for a while, but couldn't help but ask, "I don't know what Pei Gong thinks?" ”

Pei Caixin said, "What do you think"? Of course I'm thinking about your daughter.

To say that Xun's daughter is definitely a talent, her courage and strategy are simply not allowed to be ...... No, even among the men with bearded eyebrows, there are rare such characters. If it is a man, even if he is still young, he may not be mature enough, Pei should rack his brains to recruit him to his command - Gan Luo can be Qin Shangqing at the age of twelve, and Xun is fifteen years old, can't he be a leader? The problem is that she is a boudoir daughter......

If you can marry her as a wife, it may be more effective than recruiting her, and the husband and wife are one, basically you don't have to worry about their loyalty; At most, she thinks more about her mother's Xun family, but the possibility of marrying her husband and putting the interests of her mother's family above her husband's family is not too high. Besides, although the Xun family is a high gate, after all, it cannot be compared with the Langya Wang family, and now it is exhausted, and there is no risk of "Qi Da is not a coincidence".

But more importantly, although this girl is not a natural beauty, she is also very good-looking, if she can put it in the background, the husband and wife will definitely find a lot of common language, so that they will not stare at each other all day long, and there is nothing to talk about except family affairs. In this kind of era, it is very difficult to find a like-minded spouse, but I didn't expect God to favor him and send one directly to Pei Gai.

After all, Pei Gai is from the soul of 2,000 years later, and the old idea of male superiority and inferiority of women in his bones is extremely weak, and he hopes that his wife is a thoughtful, capable, soulful, and personality-oriented, not just a fertility machine. If you miss it this time, where can you find such a good couple? I'm afraid it's hard to pick out the second one in all of China!

The problem is that he has already married the Du family......

After thinking about it for a long time, I finally slapped my thigh - that's it, that's it, anyway, it's just a marriage, and I haven't married yet, even if I break my promise and get fat, I won't become Chen Shimei. Besides, it seems that the scholars of this age do not attach too much importance to the appointment, as long as they have not officially passed the door, they can break the contract and hire another one at any time. Although he is not sorry for the Du family, considering his lifelong happiness, he does not have to be too obsessed with vulgar etiquette.

If you have welcomed the Du family girl to Linhuai, and then divorce your wife and marry another, not only will you attract the cold eyes of Shilin, but you will also be unable to get over the hurdle in your heart - it is very likely that the Du family girl will be mistaken for life! But now it is only a few years of delay for her, and the current Du daughter is only sixteen or seventeen years old, and she will not be unable to get married. As for how to phrase and break the contract, I can only ask my aunt Pei to pay more attention......

Pei Cai made up his mind, and then finally raised his head and looked at Xun Song. But he didn't mention the daughter of the Xun family first, and only asked: "I shepherd Xuzhou, and I can't stay in Jingxiang for a long time, and I will stop for five days, and then I will leave for the east to return to the city of Xun." But I don't know what Xun Gong plans to do in the future? The fifth Yi is both a prisoner under the order, and Du Zeng has also been given the head, I expect that Wang Shijiang will want to occupy the whole Jing - Wancheng is ruined, and it can be repaired completely in a few months, so does Xun Gong want to go east, or where to return to the north? ”

Are you going to submit to the Jiankang regime, or do you simply return to Heyin or Chang'an?

When Xun Song heard this, he couldn't help but look a little flustered-Pei Wenyue, what do you mean, you plan to leave me alone, right? Then why did my Xun family work so hard to save you?

Hurriedly arched his hand: "Please also ask Pei Gong to point out a clear road." ”

Pei Gai nodded, and said in his heart Very good, since you say this, it means that you have no intention of joining Jiankang - "The remnants of Du Zeng are all captured by me, no less than 5,000 people, if they are slaughtered, I am afraid that the virtue of heaven will be harmed; If it is gone, it will harm the people; If it is handed over to Xun Gong, I am afraid that Xun Gong will be difficult to control. If Duke Xun is interested and temporarily stationed in Wancheng for me, he should send a letter to General Wang Shijiang and ask him to receive Xiang and Wan, and send all the cities and soldiers to him, and Duke Xun will ask for a Tai to guard his duties and calm the East China Sea for me, how about it? ”

Take the key place in the north of Jingzhou that you can't control, and change it to a real East China Sea Taishou, this business, I think it's very cost-effective, I don't know what you think? Will you follow me?

Although Pei Gai's words were expected, Xun Song still hesitated - one is a fictitious governor, the other is a real job, one is attached to Jiankang, and the other is to obey Pei Gai, which is better, so that the future of himself and his family is more secure, it is really not so easy to weigh clearly.

Pei Cai saw that Xun Song couldn't answer immediately, so he smiled: "Xun Gong doesn't have to make a decision in a hurry, you can discuss with Ling Ai before proceeding." "Your mind is not as clear as your daughter, so it's better to ask her later-" If Xun promises, he should immediately ask Ling Ai to be his wife, and from then on, the Pei and Xun families will share the same humiliation and common prosperity. Xun Gong, please think about it. ”

With these words, he got up and left the inner room.

Pei should hope that the Xun father and daughter can see the situation clearly, consciously and voluntarily agree to the marriage, and then return to their own command - after all, the twisted melon is not sweet. So what if the father and daughter discuss it for a long time, but they still refuse? Pei Caixin said that it can only come hard, whether it is sweet or not, pick the melon in your hand first!

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After fighting a battle and capturing Wancheng, Pei Gai naturally has a lot of official affairs to deal with - the first thing is to reward meritorious deeds.

There is a complete system of conferring merit in the Xuzhou army, which was made after repeated discussions between Pei Gai and Bian Yan and others. On the level of meritorious service, Pei Gai changed the vocabulary of later generations and called it "turn" - there is a sentence of "twelve turns of merit and reward hundreds of thousands of strong", which may be a noun in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

In ancient times, the number of beheadings was mostly used as a proof of merit, but Pei Gai himself did not like this barbaric method very much - as the so-called "Gou can control the invasion of the tomb, how can it kill more". Moreover, when the soldiers cut and compete for the head, it is also easy to confuse the queue and even delay the fighters. Therefore, Pei Cai stipulates that only the head of the enemy's generals is valuable—and it is the same as the living prisoner—and you cut off ten thousand heads of ordinary soldiers, and I should not have seen them at all.

The total amount of meritorious service is calculated by "Sima", the military judge of the "battalion" of the basic combat unit, and is divided among the teams according to the actual merit, and then from each team to each platoon, and each platoon to each platoon, until it is implemented on the head of each soldier. If they think that the distribution of their own commanders is unfair, even ordinary soldiers have the right to appeal to the battalion commander.

If there is any such thing as turning defeat into victory, taking credit, or putting his hands on it, the chief officer will be severely punished.

Meritorious deeds can be rewarded only after one turn - because it is possible to divide them, and the whole army can only be turned once, and the distribution to each person's head is one-fifth turn, which is not enough - the rewards are mainly divided into three kinds: one is to give a physical object, such as a collar of A, a few pieces of money, a few horses of silk, etc.; the second is to promote his position; The third is to grant a field house.

If promoted, ordinary non-commissioned officers can be transferred to the rank of captain after two transfers, the rank commander can be transferred to the platoon deputy for the third time, the platoon commander for the fifth time, and the platoon commander for the seventh transfer can be the team deputy and the tenth to the captain...... Even if there is no suitable position for the time being, you can also provide food, clothing, and equipment according to the corresponding position.

Most of the soldiers under Pei Gai's command have family members in Guangling Tuntian, and they originally promised to say that they would be released as homesteaders for three years, and from this spring, Xuzhou has begun to divide the fields and teach them. However, the tunnong became a yeoman farmer, and the land income was slightly lower than that of the natives of Xuzhou: 60 mu for Ding men, 40 mu for Ding women, and 15 mu for the old and weak - this was to bridge the contradiction between the host and the guest to a certain extent. If a soldier gains one turn, he can give his family an extra three acres of land, and if he gains three turns, he will be rewarded with an additional home.

Calculating merit and balancing the interests of all parties is a very cumbersome matter, and no one can help Pei Gai for the time being, so he can only do it himself. During the period of talking with the Xun father and daughter, the very rough merit statistics had been reported by the Sima of each battalion to Zhen Sui and Liu Yetang, and then they submitted it to Pei Gai's desk. Pei Gai stayed up for most of the night, and finally counted and calculated all the numbers - in any case, Arabic numerals and the equations of later generations, even if they were just simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, were much more convenient than the calculations of this era.

Although there was actually an abacus in these years, the shape and quality of the abacus were much simpler and more crude than in later generations, and it was not yet popular, and it was not something that could be pulled by a casual official. Most of the scholars know how to do the tricks, but that thing is too much trouble.

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Pei should be so busy that he couldn't sleep at night, but Xun's father and daughter were the same, the two of them lit candles and talked for several hours.

Xun Song first told his daughter what Pei Gai said, and then asked: "What do you think Pei Yuanjun said?" ”

Xun's daughter was stunned, hung her head and said, "Everything is up to Daddy." Xun Song couldn't help frowning, and said in his heart that you are so big, in addition to being still in infancy, when have you heard my advice? Plain and arrogant, like a man, I have warned you many times that if you continue to develop like this, you will definitely not be able to get married, you are all on the sidelines, why are you now acting like a child? I didn't get used to it, and I panicked......

Oh, by the way, it's because of the word "marry". Pei should say that he wants to propose to my family, for lifelong events, you are still a girl's family after all, and you don't dare to make your own decisions, so you are so shy-but I don't want to ask about your marriage!

"Is my family still in Wancheng, or is it going to the East China Sea with Pei Zhijun, what do you think about this matter?"

When Xun's daughter heard her father's clear question, she restrained her shyness, raised her head and asked: "Daddy is two years old when he goes south from Heyin, and I don't know what kind of property he has set up in addition to a Wancheng city and two thousand tired soldiers?" ”

Xun Song sighed softly: "It's because I have no virtue and can't guard Jiangbei for the imperial court......"

Xun's daughter said that I am not questioning Daddy, and you don't have to blame yourself too much - "Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, and they guard the pastoral side in peacetime, so that the people are safe, and know the etiquette, Daddy should not let people; However, in troubled times, it is not my Xun family's inheritance......"

If Pei should be there, when he heard these words, he would definitely scoff and say: "Whether it is in peace or turmoil, what is the difference in the hearts of the people? It took two whole years, and before the Fifth Yi and Du Zeng came over, there were no strong enemies around, in this case, your brother can only occupy a Wancheng and recruit one or two thousand weak troops, not to mention expanding the territory, even the defense is difficult, just such a little talent, I don't believe that if you change the way of the Taiping world, you can fly to the sky! Girl, don't put gold on your father's face, you can't stick it! ”

However, as a son of man, of course Xun's woman can't directly point to her father's nose and say that you are incompetent, so she had to go around in a circle, comfort a few words, and then say: "Even if my family recovers Wancheng, it is difficult to last...... Maybe it will be different if she does it, but in any case, she is just a little girl, and it is impossible to really come to the foreground, and just to be a famous and high-ranking staff, then you have to obey Daddy's words."

Xun Song can't control his daughter, but after all, he is the head of the family, and he will not always be led by his daughter. Otherwise, how to decide, he doesn't need to discuss with his daughter, just ask the other party to make a decision.

Therefore, Xun Song asked, saying that I also know that it is impossible to keep Wancheng for a long time, so should it be attributed to Jiankang? After all, King Langya is the governor of eastern Shaanxi, and Pei should only be the governor of Qingxu, and he is nominally subject to Jiankang's control, so why don't I follow the boss, but follow the younger brother?

Xun's daughter smiled slightly, and asked rhetorically: "It's always easy to invite guests, but it's difficult to send guests, Daddy thinks, is Pei Lingjun willing to let me wait for Donggui Jiankang?" ”