The last batch of prisoners exiled to Tongyuan crossed through Qinzhou. The new governor of Qinzhou, the former Shaanxi capital transfer envoy Shen Qi, sent his subordinates to help Han Gang and settle the prisoners in an empty camp outside the city.

And with the arrival of the judges of the Xiongwu Army, there is also Wang Hou, who has been absent for a long time.

Seeing Wang Hou, Han Gang was surprised and delighted, "Why is Brother Dao in Qinzhou?" ”

"Brother Fool is here to welcome you!" Wang Hou said with a smile. He glanced at the nearly three hundred prisoners behind Han Gang, as well as their families several times as much, "And this last batch of prisoners who are far away." ”

Friends haven't seen each other for many days, Han Gang and Wang Hou have a belly to say, and Han Gang has a lot to ask, but Judge Jiedu is next to him, and Han Gang has to greet him first.

Wu Yan, the judge of Chuzhou, was the great grace of Han Gang, but because he stood on the wrong side between Wang Shao and Li Shizhong, he had already left Qinzhou. The current sentence Xie Yun, Han Gang was not familiar with, and after a few words of greeting with him, he wanted to send him out of the camp. Who wants Xie Yun to walk out of the camp gate, but when he said goodbye, "Before going out of the city, Shen Jingluo had a word. If Yukun is free today, he can go to the state government to talk about it. If you're tired from the journey, that's it, but you'll talk about it later. ”

Having said that, Han Gang would not be uninteresting, and his arrogance made Shen Qi wait. He arched his hand and said: "The mansion has a trick, how dare Han Gang not allow it." Now it is time to go to the city with the festival. ”

One is called Jingluo, the other is Dafu, and the use of several official titles for Shen Qi reflects the difference between Han Gang and Xie Yun's positions.

Wang Hou listened to the happiness in his heart, Han Gang's desire for exclusivity over the matter of Hehuang, but he didn't need his father to be bad, "Let's go into the city together in the next place, and wait outside the yamen when the time comes, and wait for Yukun to come out, just go to Wanqing Tower for a walk." ”

Xie Yun's face changed slightly, but it was not easy to stop him-Wang Hou was not under his control at all-and Wang Hou was outside the state yamen, and Shen Qi couldn't pull his face and let him really wait outside.

Han Gang arranged the accompanying troops and prisoners, and sent someone to inform Zhou Nan, so he went to Qinzhou City with Wang Hou and Xie Yun.

Shen Qi's name Han Gang had already heard of it. He is one of the few capable ministers in the court who can do things. When he was in Renzhi County, Haimen County, at the mouth of the Yangtze River, he once presided over the construction of a seawall for hundreds of miles in order to protect the coastal people from the suffering of the tide.

Han Gang has been in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty for more than a year, and he knows very well how many resources he can control as a magistrate. With meager resources to build a hundred-mile seawall, with the level of engineering skills at this time, Shen Qi's skill in political affairs is self-evident - the state and the road should not have given him much support, otherwise, the credit will not be counted on Shen Qi's head.

Han Jiang served as the Xuanfu envoy of Shaanxi, and in order to better ensure the supply of grain and military supplies on the front line, he brought Shen Qi, who had an outstanding level of government affairs, and made him the transfer envoy of Shaanxi. And this time the Hengshan Raid, in terms of logistics, the Shaanxi Transport Division led by Shen Qi did not add a little trouble to the army on the front line, which shows Shen Qi's means.

After the Gyeongju Mutiny, when Guo Kui was urgently transferred to Chang'an, Shen Qi, who liked to talk about military affairs and had a reputation as a soldier in the court, happened to be in Shaanxi, so he was selected by the Son of Heaven and the Political Affairs Hall to guard the important town of Qinzhou.

What Shen Qi thinks about Hehuang Kaibian, no one knows yet. But seeing that he was in a hurry to meet Han Gang, I am afraid that he still had a little thought.

"I don't expect Shen Dafu to be of any help to Hehuang Kaibian, as long as he doesn't interfere in the internal affairs of the Tongyuan Army." Behind Xie Yun, Wang Hou had a gentle smile on his face, but his words were extremely cold.

"Yokoyama has been defeated, and only Kawakawa is left in Kansai. How can the Son of Heaven interfere with people? And I also heard that the Qinfeng Transshipment Division will be divided from Shaanxi within the year, and when the time comes, how can Qinzhou still use money and grain to interfere with the opening of the border? ”

At the beginning, what Han Gang heard from You Shixiong was just a rumor, but the day before yesterday, he received a private letter from Zhang Dian, in which he had already determined the establishment of the Qin Feng Transfer Division, and after collecting the autumn tax, he would start to form the Yamen of the Transfer Division.

Wang Hou obviously heard about this and smiled: "It's good that Shen Dafu is still Qin Fengjing's envoy." ”

"It doesn't matter who does it, when it's time to send troops, the Marginal Pacification Division can also become a formal pacification division!"

"I didn't expect Yukun to see it...... Jia Yan said the same. ”

The success of the Hengshan Raiders was successful, and the only one who could make Zhao Ji raise his eyebrows was Hehuang, a partial division. With the support of the Son of Heaven, the three thousand rebels could be exiled to the Tongyuan Army so easily. And with the support of the Son of Heaven, with the Tongyuan Army as the core, it is not inconceivable to divide a new pacification division from Qin Feng's pacification envoy.

Whether it is Wang Shao or Han Gang, they all saw the impatience of the Son of Heaven, and their hearts were very confident.

may have seen that Han Gang would not be attached to Shen Qi, Xie Yun was in front, and gradually distanced himself from Han Gang and Wang Hou behind.

Seeing that Xie Yun was far away, Wang Hou didn't have to deliberately lower his voice, "Excluding the garrison, there were only more than 5,100 Han'er households under the jurisdiction of the Tongyuan Army, and this is still Gu Wei...... The people of eleven walled cities, including Yongning Village in the east of Longxi County, were counted together. Only on the line from Longxi to Weiyuan, in fact, there are only 1,300 households and more than 7,000 mouths. ”

"The total number of rebels who have been exiled is 2,426."

-- There were brothers, fathers and sons in the 3,000 rebels, so the number of households was less than the number of people, and the population of a household in Shaanxi could often exceed 10 people, and there were usually 5 or 6 people, so more than 16,000 prisoners were exiled to the Tongyuan army.

Han Gang smiled proudly, if it weren't for that, why would he bother to find a way to get these rebels? If you want to turn it into a Han, how can you succeed without a sufficient number of Han people as the core?

In order to enrich the manpower and material resources of the Tongyuan Army, the political hall was to assign the eleven walled cities east of the original ancient Wei Village to the Tongyuan Army, including Yongning Village, which is famous for its horse market. Therefore, the household registration of Tongyuan Army can barely be seen, if there are only Gu Wei and Weiyuan, all Han households can be registered in one booklet. But even so, the Tongyuan Army still has not many households, and now there are 2,400 more households, which is equivalent to an increase of half of the total Tongyuan Army's household registration, or twice the area west of Longxi County [Guwei].

For these rebels, Han Gang never intended to call them as prisoners, and they all regarded them as important human resources that could enrich the Tongyuan army. With 2,400 households, it is already a county in the border area. And they are all elites who have had combat experience. Even if they were rebels in the past, in the Hehuang area surrounded by Zhongqiang, they did not depend on the government, and they had no way to live. Han Gang was not afraid of any chaos between them.

"The prisoners who have arrived in Longxi, how to deal with the pacification?" Han Gang asked Wang Hou.

He didn't want all the people he had worked so hard to get to be scrapped. Although Wang Shao and Gao Zunyu shouldn't do stupid things, Han Gang is not at ease if they don't ask.

"Yukun, don't worry......" Wang Hou seemed to know what Han Gang was worried about, and said with a smile, "When the foolish brother left Longxi, he only arrived in the first batch, more than two hundred households. Just put it in Guwei...... On the edge of Longxi County. The remaining batches will line up little by little to the west and live in the forts along the river. As for the last batch of Yukun that you personally brought in, Jia Yan and Gao Xuan are ready to be placed in Weiyuan. ”

"That's the best!" Han Gang was very satisfied with Wang Shao and Gao Zunyu's arrangement, "Many of these people have official status. can be a general in the Western Army, and if you don't have any skills, you can't sit in a stable position. I've seen it in the past few days, and they are indeed brave in all their martial arts, and there is no one who is weak. If they are treated well and let their guilty meritorious service, Weiyuan will be as stable as Mount Tai! ”

Han Gang saw Shen Qi. The new governor of Qinzhou also arranged a banquet to entertain Han Gang, and also invited Wang Hou, from his attitude at the banquet, it seems that Shen Qi is indeed interested in Hehuang.

But Shen Qi is not Guo Kui. Han Gang could trust Guo Kui's command skills, and even hoped that Guo Kui would lead the army when the war began—which was more secure than Wang Shao becoming the commander. However, if it was Shen Qi and a Wenchen, Han Gang might as well believe in Wang Shao's ability.

Regarding Shen Qi's temptation at the banquet, Han Gang pretended to be stupid, and Ha Luha pushed it over with a smile, and these troubles were still handed over to Wang Shao and Gao Zunyu to deal with.

Early the next morning, the brigade left the camp and set off. It took another seven days for Han Gang and his entourage to finally arrive at their destination and return to the Tongyuan army. Although when he left, the names of the cities and districts had all changed. But the not-so-lofty city wall that appeared at the foot of the hillside was still so kind in Han Gang's eyes.

Looking at the city located in the valley, thousands of people from Hangang down, regardless of the scorching sun overhead, all accelerated their pace on the mountain road. After half a month of hard work on the road, and it was still a hot summer day, even if it was only early summer, people couldn't wait to end this difficult journey.

Coming down from the mountain road, there was still a long distance from the county seat of Longxi, a cloud of dust and smoke appeared on the road ahead, and a pair of fast horses greeted him, but he was ordered to meet Han Jiyi.

As the team continued to advance, pairs of fast horses that reported the news rushed to Han Gang and announced in a loud voice that they were all ordered to welcome Han Jiyi's triumph. After arriving at the end of the day, there were still three or four miles away from the county seat, and the two sides finally appeared side by side in the dust.

Wang, Gao.

As soon as he saw the two big flags, Han Gang immediately turned over and dismounted, took a step, and stepped forward.

In front of Wang Shao and Gao Zunyu's horses, Han Gang bowed down to the way: "Where can I work to appease and greet each other, Han Gang is flattered!" ”

Wang Shao and Gao Zunyu also immediately dismounted, stepped forward side by side, helped Han Gang up from the dust, and laughed loudly: "Yukun, this is what you deserve!" ”

Yes, this is what Han Gang deserves.