Gradually revealing the horse's feet is suspicious

Occupy three levels by surprise

Cheng Song was so annoyed that he simply walked out of the government office and walked into the backyard, only to see a huge laurel tree in the middle, with lush branches and oval shapes, slender and dark green leaves, and orange-red flowers competing to open, exuding an intoxicating fragrance.

The official reported that Xie Yuanming, the pacification envoy of Chengdu Mansion Road and the governor of Chengdu Prefecture, asked to see him. Then he ordered: Hurry up and ask Lord Xie to meet in the living room.

After a while, I heard Xie Yuanming's voice, "Lord Privy is so Yaxing, Guizi falls in the middle of the month, and the heavenly fragrance clouds float out, and it is really fragrant and pleasant." ”

"Xie Shuai, I've been tired all the way, please drink tea in the study."

"Lord Xie cares, however, this is a good product of the laurel tree, you see, the inner chamber is plump, the flower color is red, the name is the champion red, ranking first in the osmanthus variety. It's a bonus."

"Since Xie Shuai likes it, there are a few over there, choose one and take it away."

"Well, the Privy Counsellor is so generous, and I can't thank you enough. Bring some Luzhou aged wine below, please taste it. ”

The two sides sat down and chatted over tea.

Xie Yuanming explained the reason for the trip.

There is a soldier and horse supervisor in Chengdu Prefecture who reported that he had a cousin who was doing business in the Song Phnom Penh field, and for a long time, he had been to several states and counties on the border between the two countries. Two months ago, when he was entertaining guests in a tavern, he saw a Jin man drinking flower wine with the officials of the Xuanfu Embassy in Sichuan, and thought it was very strange, and others told him that this person was a relative of Wu Dashuai. His cousin remembered very well that this person was an official in Shuiluo City and in the Inspection Division. The cousin told the soldiers and horses about the situation, and the soldiers and horses had a little more heart, and asked the cousin to inquire when he went to Shuiluo City again. Soon, my cousin went to Shuiluo City again and asked a small official of the Inspection Department, who mysteriously told him: Wu Inspector is busy with major affairs and is about to be promoted. The Commander of the Soldiers and Horses learned from an acquaintance in the Xuanfu Embassy that this person's name was Wu Duan, who was Wu Dashuai's nephew, said to be a businessman, and had never seen him do any business.

At the critical juncture of the war between Song and Jin, the marshal did not put his mind on the major matter of cutting gold, but secretly and frequently interacted with Jin officials, which could not help but make people think more. The Commander of the Soldiers and Horses reported the matter to his immediate superior.

"Privy, you can't have the heart to hurt people, but you can't have the heart to prevent people. You are the supreme commander of Sichuan and Shaanxi, you have to see and listen to all directions, and report anything abnormal to the court immediately, otherwise, if there is any danger, you will be demoted. ”

In Cheng Song's impression, this is the third time Xie Yuanming has said such things.

That time, he went to Xingzhou, and Wu Xi was supposed to see him as the chief official with the courtesy of the ruling party, but Wu Xi slipped his head. Xie Yuanming was upset with him and instigated him to impeach Wu Xi to the emperor.

He also counted the containment of the Wu family by several Sichuan pacification envoys.

At the beginning of the main road, Liuzheng served as the envoy of Sichuan and the governor of Chengdu Prefecture with a bachelor from Longtu Pavilion, simplified the people, and returned only a few bags of books, and people praised him for his integrity. The imperial court discussed the replacement of Shu Shuai, and left the right words: the three generals in the west, but the hereditary military handle of the Wu family, called the Wu family army, does not know that there is a court in the world. At his suggestion, Wu Ting became a servant of the household department.

In the ninth year of Chunxi, Zhao Ruyu served as the envoy of Sichuan and the prefect of Chengdu. After returning to Beijing, he said to Xiaozong: "The fourth Wu family is dedicated to Shu soldiers, which is not the benefit of the state, please gradually restrain it from now on."

In the fifteenth year of Chunxi, Jing Yutang served as the envoy of Sichuan and the prefect of Chengdu. Later, when he returned to the court to serve as the secretary of the ministry, when Wu Ting died, he strongly asked the court to keep Wu Xi and send Zhang Zhao to take over Wu Ting's position.

During Qiu Zhongqingshu's tenure, he advocated the merger of Lizhou East Road and Lizhou West Road, and replaced them with civilian officials to change the old habits of hereditary military generals.

Last year, the imperial court granted Wu Xi the right to control financial gains, and Xie Yuanming sent him a letter, which wrote: "Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the commander of the army and the minister of wealth are not in control, so it is convenient to contain and restrain each other. Now the transshipment division is under the control of the pacification department, which will inevitably lead to internal worries. And suggested that he write a letter to the court to complain.

Seeing that Cheng Song was silent, Xie Yuanming was anxious. Privy, don't hesitate any longer, Wu Xi's intention to claim the king has been revealed. Do you know that the year before last, when he returned to Sichuan and Shu, the first thing he did was to build a temple for his ancestor Wu Lan, and the main hall alone cost as much as 100,000 yuan. He also ordered the soldiers to build the riverside land with soil, and the mountains as the garden, which was vast for several miles, and served thousands of people every day. Moreover, he was jealous of Wang Dajie, fabricated charges, and dismissed him as deputy commander, which clearly wanted to be the emperor of Sichuan.

Cheng Song knew that today, Xie Yuanming came on purpose, also out of public intentions, but he lacked strong evidence, and it was obviously inappropriate to refuse in person, so he said tactfully:

"Xie Shuai is a caring person, worried. However, Wu Dashuai Fang Jinsheng is long, and the imperial court leans on the pillar, no, the imperial court has just issued an edict to crown Wu Shuai as the envoy of the Zhaowu Army, and is waiting for him to send troops to cut gold. Let's wait and see. ”

Xie Yuanming suddenly felt bored, and said thoughtfully: "I just reported to you what I knew, and how the privy council did it was a privy matter." ”

Although the Song Dynasty's Jiedu envoy was not as powerful as the Tang Dynasty, it was just a fictitious position, but from the Taizu Dynasty, the military generals only had the status of the Jiedu envoy to be more prominent, and they were called Jieshuai.

Cheng Song sent a letter to Wu Xi and asked him to discuss the matter of jointly sending troops to fight gold.

Soon, Wu Xi's reply arrived. He told Cheng Song that after receiving the imperial edict, he had moved the camp of the Xingzhou Metropolitan Division to Hechi to the west, and after the settlement was properly settled, he led his troops to attack Jin. The troops and horses belonging to the Jinzhou Metropolitan Department and the New Army are under the command of the commander and can attack on their own.

is to avoid seeing it again, it is clear that he looks down on him, and if he doesn't see Cheng Song as his boss, he should really join him. Suddenly, I thought about it, when is the time now, the two Huai and the northwest of Beijing have almost no achievements, and the two chief officials of Sichuan and Shaanxi are fighting again, and they will not make Han Pingzhang so angry that he vomits blood. Without you Wu Xi, my surname Cheng can still send troops to fight gold.

Order the errand officer: Inform the main generals of the two metropolitan departments of Xingyuan Mansion and Jinzhou to come here immediately to discuss important military and political matters.

Cheng Song, who has never been in a hurry, went against the norm and mobilized the army to march north, Xingyuan Mansion and Jinzhou and about 50,000 newly recruited sergeants, divided into three routes, and he himself went into battle in person, led a main force, and attacked Monk Yuan; Yang Zhen, the capital of Xingyuan Prefecture, led his troops to attack Xishanzhai, and Qu Changshi, the deputy capital of Jinzhou, led his troops to attack Longmen Pass.

The monk was originally one of the important passes from the Weishui River Basin to cross the Qinling Mountains into the Hanzhong region, in the east of the Dasan Pass, the terrain is dangerous, it belongs to the primary gateway of Sichuan and Shaanxi, it is located in the southwest of Baoji 20 kilometers, and the danger of its terrain is comparable to that of the Dasan Pass. For the Immortal Pass, the monk is like the first pass to Sichuan, and it shares the danger of Shu with the Immortal Pass, and it is bound to hold on. The West Cottage and Longmen Pass are the military passes on its left and right wings. The three are not far apart and can take care of each other.

In May of the first year of Shaoxing (1131), the general Wu Jue and Wu Ling led thousands of soldiers to stick to the monk Yuan, the marshal of the Jin Army Wushu personally went out to gather more than 100,000 troops from all over the country, erected a pontoon bridge, crossed the Weishui, and connected the bead camp from Baoji, and built a stone for the city, trying to capture the monk Yuan, Wu Jue ordered the generals to choose a strong bow and a strong crossbow, and shot repeatedly, the bow and arrows were endless, and then the starry night attacked, and the Jin army was defeated. He was wounded by an arrow and fled in embarrassment.

The area around the monk's original area is full of valleys, the roads are many narrow and narrow, and the strange rocks stand on the walls, and it is difficult for the cavalry to perform.

On this morning, the weather was gloomy and gloomy, and thick fog was everywhere, and the troops quietly approached Monk Yuan, Xishanzhai, and Longmen Pass. After a while, dark clouds were thick, thunder bursts, heavy rain poured down, the guards of Monk Yuan, Xishanzhai and Longmen Pass were unconscious, Wu Jiajun took advantage of the rain and pounced over, nearly 1,000 gold soldiers were either killed or wounded, and soon occupied these three passes.

The battle more than 70 years ago was a famous victory for the Wu army. Now, I, Cheng Song, also want to take back the monk Yuan.