Chapter 45: Deliberations
After the tea effort, Liu Hong summoned Liu Wei, who had just entered the city, in the corner tower, and asked him about the details of the camp-breaking operation.
After listening, Liu Hong couldn't help but slap his hands and knees, and sighed: "Hurry, hurry, I hate to go into battle to kill the enemy in person." ”
Having said that, Liu Hong also knew in his heart that this was just a delusion for the time being, and now that he was the head of a county, he should not act rashly; However, in the future, I will have a chance to fulfill my long-cherished wish today.
"Uncle, if nothing else, my nephew will retire." Liu Wei arched his fist and wanted to get up and retire.
"Yanchang, sit down." After Liu Wei knelt down again, Liu Hong looked at him with majestic eyes and said, "Okay, tell me what is the matter, so that you are so depressed." ”
"Nothing, my uncle is wrong." Liu Wei raised his head slightly and denied.
"Oh, is that so, really?" Liu Hong asked pretending to be puzzled.
"It's fine." Liu Wei hurriedly reconfirmed.
"Since you won't say it, then I can't force you - I'll have to wait for Kimihiko to come back and ask him personally."
Liu Wei was overjoyed at first when he heard this, but then he heard the second half of Liu Hong's words, and suddenly turned from joy to sorrow, and became a crying face.
"Okay, don't you want to be this little child, come quickly." Looking at Liu Wei's "funny" expression, Liu Hong couldn't help but laugh and scold.
Seeing this, Liu Wei knew that there was no way to avoid it, so he had no choice but to tell him that he wanted to rush to kill the enemy, but was stopped and reprimanded by Jia Wei.
After hearing this, Liu Hong first stroked his beard, and then handed the "Spring and Autumn Left Biography" in his hand to Liu Wei, and said: "This is my own annotation, you can take it." ”
Liu Wei took the book and was stunned for a moment, and said puzzledly: "Uncle, why are you giving me this thing?" ”
Liu Hong glared at him and said, "What, since you asked you to study more, what else can you do?" ”
As he spoke, Liu Hong stood up, put his hands behind his back, and said while pacing: "I see that you are still not convinced, do you think you are doing the right thing?" Then I will say to you, "What is wrong with you?"
Thou shalt wait to attack the camp, especially the words 'speed' and 'secret', and since you have broken through the enemy's fortress and killed the soldiers who came to support and return to the fortress gate, then you must make a decision immediately to capture the head of the thief; otherwise, when he organizes his men and horses, even if he wins, he does not know how many casualties he will have to add.
There is a difference between the importance of things, there is a difference between urgency and slowness, when the pros and cons are weighed and the good ones are taken, how can they be brave and delay the fighters, how to be amemorous!
If you behave like this, how dare I let you lead an army alone in the future, I am afraid that you will do that stupid thing of 'fighting general' on the battlefield!" ”
Looking at Liu Wei, who was stunned and pale, Liu Hong bowed his head slightly in his heart, and his voice changed, and he said seriously: "Yanchang, you are my nephew, I naturally have high hopes for Yu, and I specially entrusted you to Gongyan, I only hope that you can grow up, and no longer seem to be that reckless man, your behavior today has disappointed me." ”
"Uncle, I ......" Liu Wei's voice choked, the Han Dynasty folk customs were simple and tough, advocating honesty and shame, and valuing righteousness over life; Liu Hong is not only his uncle, but also his benefactor, these two layers of identity are superimposed, and his gentle "disappointment" is far more uncomfortable for Liu Wei than dozens of whippings.
"Okay, don't say more, go back and study more, and watch and think more when you join the army in the future, don't live up to my hopes."
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Three dull voices sounded, Liu Wei knelt on his knees, paused three times, and then said heavily: "Oh, my nephew obeys my uncle's orders." ”
"All right, go yourself."
After sending Liu Wei away, Liu Hong frowned, and suddenly felt that he had forgotten something, and he slapped his forehead with his right palm, shook his head and sighed: "I almost forgot, Yanchang, this bastard boy is illiterate." ”
Lou Sang Pavilion originally opened a pavilion to teach the children in the pavilion to learn literacy, and even when Liu Hong himself was the chief bookkeeper in Zhuo County, whenever he returned to the pavilion during the break, he would often take some time to give a few lessons to the children in the pavilion.
But Liu Wei is a guy who can't be idle, so he loves to be fierce and brave, so skipping class is his diligence.
This Yangzhou is remote, culture and education are not prosperous, and now it is a time of turmoil in the war, where to find a teacher who enlightened him. That's it, let's wait for Xu Shun to be calm, and then I will also find out the bottom of those Lou Sang nephews who came with me. If you don't read and don't understand the reason, do you want to be a "pawn" for a lifetime?
At 17:30, in the afterglow of the setting sun, Da Xu, embroidered with the character "Han", hunted in the wind, Jia Wei rode his horse with his head held high, the cavalry winged and protected the sides, and the foot soldiers surrounded the captured booty and prisoners one after the other.
Under the city wall, Liu Hong led a group of officials, squires, and the fathers and villagers of the army in the city to stand on both sides of the field, standing quietly in the cold wind.
When the army came to the root of the city wall, Jia Wei turned over and dismounted, knelt on one knee, clasped his hands into fists and saluted: "Fortunately from heaven, Wei lives up to the trust of Ming Gong, destroys the thief camp, and captures the thief Xu Ming." ”
Liu Hong hurriedly strode forward, held up Jia Wei who was saluting with both hands, and said: "Gongyan, please get up quickly, just a thief, with the power of a king, but he killed chickens with a bull's knife." ”
Then, the two of them crossed their arms and looked at each other, and they laughed heartily in the cold wind.
After laughing, Liu Hong's left arm hugged Jia Wei's right arm, but his right arm stretched out and pointed to the front of the army, and then made a gesture of invitation, and raised his voice: "Please Gongyan get on the horse." ”
"Ming Gong can't ......" Jia Wei immediately reacted to what Liu Hong wanted to do, and hurriedly waved his hand to excuse himself.
Liu Hong smiled, ignored Jia Wei's excuse, took his hand and came to the horse, and replied: "Please Gongyan get on the horse." ”
Seeing this, Jia Wei knew that he couldn't help it, so he bowed to Liu Hong, then turned over and dismounted, and then Liu Hong personally held the bridle and walked in front with a solemn and solemn expression.
As the team behind him began to move forward with relatively neat steps, the sound of long live suddenly came from under the city wall, and one voice was better than one:
"Dahan Wansheng!"
"Dahan Wansheng!!"
"Dahan Wansheng !!"
With the sound of the tsunami in the mountains, the people in the city also began to act, one by one to eat pot pulp, diligently, but the soldiers were bound by military law, but they did not dare to stay, but they had more food in their hands, such as jerky, cooked chicken, glutinous cakes, etc.
Wait until the sixth quarter of the Shen hour, this huge ceremony to enter the city can be regarded as completely over, although there is a lot of waste, it is extremely cumbersome, but Liu Hong thinks that this is very necessary.
First, it can boost the morale of the army and magnify morale.
Second, it can restore the people's will and stabilize order.
Third, it can deter those who wantonly bend the law and those with bad intentions inside and outside the city.
Subsequently, Liu Hong invited the squires in the city to the banquet to discuss how to reward the king, under the gaze of Liu Hong's gloomy and compassionate eyes, the squires expressed their reward for the thief king, which was not only their unshirkable responsibility, but also their supreme glory, so far, the banquet party ended harmoniously and perfectly.
As soon as the banquet was over, Liu Hong turned around and went to the county government, and in the side hall, Jia Wei had been waiting for a long time.
Pushing the door in, waving his hand to stop Jia Wei who wanted to get up and salute, Liu Hong knelt down and sat down, and said directly: "Gongyan, can the seized materials be counted clearly?" ”
Jia Wei's face turned straight, took out a book and handed it to Liu Hong: "Ming Gong, this is the details of the seized materials." ”
Liu Hong spread out the cloth and looked at it, his eyes suddenly lit up, and then he involuntarily read out loud: "1,100 stone of grain, 40 gold, more than 1.5 million yuan, 64 and a half pieces of cloth, 3 healthy horses, 11 oxen, 22 camels and beasts such as horses, donkeys, and mules......"
Seeing this, Liu Hong put away the book, because the rest was mostly broken copper and iron, which could not compare to the sophisticated equipment in the arsenal, and there was no need to look closely.
"By the way, Kimihiko, what about those captives." After a pause, Liu Hong asked again.
Jia Wei smiled bitterly: "Only the number of beheadings is counted, which is forty-two; The number of prisoners should be about 1,500, and the total number of thieves, the number of dead and wounded, and the number of escapes are unknown. ”
Liu Hong rubbed his eyebrows with the index finger and middle finger of his right hand together, and felt a headache, but he also knew in his heart that this was no wonder Jia Wei, in such a short period of time, to answer this point, it was already Jia Wei's talent, after all, he was not a Wenchen.
"Then as soon as possible."
Liu Hong sighed, then thought for a while, and Fang Shen said:
"First of all, those who are rebellious henchmen, and those who have committed adultery and murder excessively, and who are tyrannical in temperament, are screened out and buried; Then the honest and honest ones will be selected and put into the army, so that they will make up for their mistakes; As for the remaining women and children, who are old and weak, and who are coerced by the thief army and are not guilty of serious crimes, they will be sent home after identification; If there is any left, they will all be deposed as Sikong Chengdan, and they will be ordered to repair the city wall. ”
"Also, Xu Ming must step up the interrogation and find out the details of Xu Wei's thief army number, arrangement, equipment, materials, and its main thief leader as soon as possible."
"By the way, when the adulterer is punished, inform me, and I will invite the gentry of the city to observe the ceremony."
"Well, that's probably the case, Gonghiko, you go get busy first."
"Whoa." Jia Wei responded in a deep voice, then got up and retreated, leaving the side room. After a while, Liu Hong also left the side room and went to the main hall of the county government to start dealing with the recent backlog of official documents.
However, although people are here, their minds have already drifted hundreds of miles away, at this time, Xu Rebellious's army is afraid that most of the distance has been walked, and when he handles everything in Yan County and raises troops to the north, I don't know what the situation was in Shanyin at that time. Thinking of this, the brush in Liu Hong's hand suddenly fell off his hand and fell on the bookcase, and his heart was filled with an ominous premonition.
"No, no, the high walls of Shanyin City are strong, where can Xu Rebellion, a thief, easily attack it?" Liu Hong smiled self-deprecatingly, picked up the brush and began to process the official document again; But the name of Yang Bo is like a shadow, always haunting Liu Hong's heart, and it can't be dispersed for a long time.