Chapter 204: Three Fires in Office

Xiu Shuai Si forced Cao Si away

Stain the deputy with dissidents

Because I have lost, I know how to cherish it. Returning to Xingzhou, Sichuan (present-day Luoyang, Shaanxi), Wu Xi felt that he had truly gained freedom. This mountain and this water are pleasant to the eye and pleasant, and the breathing air makes people feel extraordinarily comfortable.

The Sichuan spoken of in the Song Dynasty is very different from the Sichuan in the 21st century, its area is much larger, equivalent to all of today's Sichuan Chongqing and part of Shaanxi and Gansu, such a large area, a total of six roads and 54 prefectures, it borders Jin in the north, and the Tibetan tribes in the west. Therefore, the full name of this land is Sichuan and Shaanxi. Here the imperial court set up three garrison armies, the first is the Xingzhou Metropolitan Division, with a strength of 60,000, the second is the Xingyuan Prefecture Division, with a strength of about 30,000, and the third is the Jinzhou Metropolitan Division, with more than 10,000 troops.

Wu Xi's return to Wuxing was the pacification envoy of Lizhou West Road, the commander of Xingzhou and the governor of Xingzhou, that is to say, he was the military and political head of Lizhou West Road, and the leader of the largest military unit in the entire Sichuan-Shaanxi region.

The first fire for the new officials to take office was to build a large number of buildings. The old house of the family is old and small, and it needs to be renovated and expanded, and the government office of the pacification envoy on Lizhou West Road is in tatters and needs to be demolished and rebuilt. It costs your own money to repair your own house, and that's no problem. The public pays for the repair of the public house, and the problem arises. The transfer envoy of Lizhou West Road said: It cannot be repaired, and the transfer department does not have this budget.

Hu Peng, the transfer envoy, is from Jiangxi, and Taiwei Wu sent someone to pass the word: Please ask Lord Caosi to think of a way.

Hu Peng replied: There is no way, if you want to repair it, you have to wait until next year.

Mrs. Wu is on fire, what do you mean? Isn't it intentional to argue with my old Wu? You have your moves, I have my withdrawal, see who can screw whom.

Dong Zhen brought a team of personal soldiers to the transfer department and said to Lord Hu: The captain said, give the adults three days to raise money, and if the time comes, the transfer department will move away and let the pacification department work here.

Hu Caosi was surprised at first, and then toughened: What's the matter? If I don't move, what can I do!

Dong Zhen sneered: Lord Caosi, the lower officials advise you to get acquainted, the tens of thousands of soldiers under the Taiwei are not vegetarians.

Hu Peng is also a strong seed, eating soft rather than hard. I thought, who can't say big things, I don't believe it, your surname Wu dares to look at the court.

Three days passed, and the transfer division did nothing, and Hu Peng still sat in the lobby and drank tea leisurely. Suddenly, I heard a noise outside, and my subordinates reported: My lord, more than 200 people from the Metropolitan Department have come to surround our compound and are driving our people out.

As he was talking, Dong Zhen came in: Hu Caosi, offended, we requisitioned your house from the Pacification Division. Please get out.

Presumptuous, I am a five-grade official appointed by the imperial court, and your pacification department has no right to command me.

We don't have to command you, we just let you go home and stay. Dong Zhen waved his hand and rushed over two soldiers, one left and one right, and set Hu Peng up.

Master Hu, you eat the court, not for the public office, we let you go home and think about it behind closed doors. Mr. Hu, please.

A group of soldiers escorted Hu Peng back to his home, and then surrounded him, and the officer said: Master Hu is well at home, and he is not allowed to go anywhere, except to submit his resignation to the imperial court, and he will not be able to bring any information out.

Speaking of the Transshipment Division, all the important officials were driven to the courtyard, and seeing Lord Hu being forcibly taken away, Dong Zhen said to everyone: Ladies and gentlemen, please rest assured, we will not do anything with him, just let him go home and think about it, we will requisition half of your house, and everyone will squeeze it. Our pacification division's house is broken and asks for reconstruction, which is not too much, but Lord Hu just ignores it, you have no money to think of a way, he doesn't do anything, our pacification division is so worthless, can the words of Lord Taiwei be a deaf ear? Tell you, don't take us to appease the division and not dish, Tai Lieutenant can shake the mountains with a word!

Well, who is in charge of the following?

Walking out of a middle-aged man with a goatee is me, Luo Pei, the judge of the transfer festival.

Lord Luo, what do you say?

There is nothing wrong with rebuilding the Yamen of the Pacification Division, and the Transit Division does not have this money, but you can find a way, get the money, and ask the Pacification Division to write an explanation and add a big seal, I don't know if it is possible?

As long as it is not stolen or robbed, the appeasement department will explain and write it, and the big seal will be stamped.

Also, after the money is raised, can your people quit? Can Master Hu go back to the Yaya?

As long as you support the work, when the money arrives, our people will quit immediately, and Master Hu can also come back.

Give me three days, and I'll get you the money.

After the incident, Hu Peng never wanted to return to the transfer division, and took his wife and children back to his hometown in Jiangxi.

The second thing Wu Xi did was to pay tribute to his ancestors.

Grandfather Wu Lan was a famous anti-Jin general. In the process of resisting gold for more than 20 years, he swore to defend Qinlong, shield Bashu, made great contributions to the imperial court, and was named the king of Xin'an County. He died of illness in the third year of the Gandao (1168), and Xiaozong posthumously presented him as the Taishi and sealed the letter to the king. The tomb is in the south dam of the same valley in Xingzhou, and there is a Shinto tablet written by Emperor Xiaozong: An Min Bao Shu Dinggong Tongde.

And in the immortal pass, the imperial court built a temple of Wu Wang Zhonglie. Xianrenguan, in the southeast of present-day Huixian County, Gansu Province. This Guanxi is adjacent to the Jialing River, the south is connected to the northern boundary of Luoyang, and the north is close to the Tieshan plank road, which is the important place for Guanzhong and Tianshui to enter Hanzhong, and is also an important throat from Shaanxi to Sichuan.

In March of the fourth year of Shaoxing (1134), the Jin State invaded the Song Dynasty on a large scale, Zong Bi (Wushu) and Sali drank the pseudo-Qi Liu Kui to lead 100,000 iron horsemen, and marched to the Xianren Pass at the gate of Shuchuan, intending to capture the Xianren Pass in one fell swoop, open the gate into Sichuan, and then occupy Shuchuan, and then wipe out the Song Dynasty along the Yangtze River to the east, and unify the Jiangnan and Jiangbei. The Jin army began to dig the mountain and open the road from the Iron Mountain (now the south of Hui County, also known as Qingniling), followed the east of the ridge, and killed the immortals. At that time, the Wu Jue brothers, who were guarding the Xianren Pass, in order to keep the Xianren Pass, shrink their forces to defend with all their might, and had taken the initiative to give up the camp such as the monk Yuan.

The Jin soldiers invaded the Xianren Pass, Wu Jue first led more than 10,000 people to meet the Jin soldiers, Wu Ling came to the aid from the Seven Directions Pass day and night, and the Jin soldiers fought for seven days and nights to meet with his brother Wu Jue. The Jin soldiers' attacks were even more violent, and they were all repelled by the Wu Jie brothers one by one. Zong Bi was furious and ordered the Jin soldiers to use cloud ladders to attack the fortress, Wu Jue sent Yang Zheng to lead a long knife to block the attack, and smashed the Jin soldiers' cloud ladders with weapons to block the enemy's attack base, and ordered the Song army to assassinate the enemy with spears. Seeing that the battle was becoming more and more fierce and the situation was very tense, in order to boost morale, he drew a line on the ground with his knife and said to the soldiers: "I will stick to this place with you, and I will never retreat, if anyone retreats, I will not be spared!" So he took the lead and killed the enemy with all his might, which greatly inspired the courage of the soldiers, and they all took the lead. The Jin soldiers still could not capture the Song fortress, so they divided the army into two teams to the west and attacked the Song army by attacking from both sides. Wu Jue commanded the Song army to linger left and right, fighting hard with the Jin soldiers, and after the soldiers showed fatigue, Wu Jue took the initiative to give up the first line of defense and led the troops to retreat into the second pass defense. The Jin soldiers are still pressing step by step, the onslaught is not stopped, Zong Bi also ordered the soldiers to wear heavy armor, connected by iron hooks, people and mermaids run up, Wu Xuan organized the crossbowmen to shoot in turns, and the arrows rained down for a while, and the dead of the Jin soldiers were stacked on top of each other, but the Jin soldiers behind still stepped on the corpses of their own people and attacked more than once.

The sky was about to be twilight, and when he saw that he still couldn't attack the Song army, and the casualties were very heavy, he was very anxious, so he stood on his horse and looked around, and saw that there was a floor in the northwest, so he shouted: "There is a way." The next day, Sali ordered the Jin soldiers to attack the northwest corner fort with all their might. Wu Jue hurriedly sent Yao Zhong to the fort tower to confront the Jin soldiers. The building is about to fall, Yao Zhong ordered the soldiers to tie the fort tower with a rope, and the Jin soldiers attacked the fort tower with fire, Yao Zhong ordered the soldiers to use the wine jar to fill the water to extinguish the fire, and the Jin soldiers fought to the death, Wu Jue saw that the situation was critical, and sent Yang Zheng and Tian Sheng to lead an elite soldier to rush into the Jin soldier array, and slashed left and right with a long knife and axe, and the Jin soldiers were rushed to pieces. That night, Wu Jue lit a raging fire on the mountains on all sides, illuminating the entire mountain range and ravine, and making the soldiers beat the war drums to the earth. At the same time, Wang Wu and Wang Xi were sent to lead the elite soldiers into purple and white banners to enter the Jin Soldier camp at night. For a while, the Jin army's formation was in chaos, and they began to flee in panic, unable to form an army, Han Tang's left eye was also shot by a random arrow, Zong Bi couldn't resist the situation, and led the remnants of the army to flee overnight. Previously, Wu Jue had sent the commander Zhang Yan to intercept the Jin soldiers in Hengshan, and ordered the commander Wang Jun to lead a group of men and horses to ambush in the river pool, choking the retreat of the Jin soldiers. Before the start of the battle of Xianren Pass, the Jin people from the marshal down to the family came with their families, determined to open the door of Shuchuan, and then capture Shuchuan, after the fiasco, only to know that the Wu brothers were not easy to deal with. Zong Bi led the remnants to retreat to Fengxiang and divide his troops into Tuntian, making long-term plans, and did not dare to easily attack the Immortal Pass at the gate of Shu for several years.

As for now, the tomb temple of King Wu is a little dilapidated and needs to be repaired and painted, but fortunately, the cost is not large, and the pacification department can cope with it.

Wu Xi's father Wu Ting is also a famous general, is the fifth son of Wu Lan, in the thirty-first year of Shaoxing (1161), the gold lord Wan Yan Liang betrayed the peace alliance and sent Hexi Bo Jin as the marshal of the expedition to the west, leading the army south, directly approaching Qin Long. Wu Ting was ordered to guard Xingzhou (now Luoyang, Shaanxi), but insisted on going to the front, and he said to his father, "I am willing to lead the troops to the battle and make contributions in front of the battle." Wu Lan was very happy, so he appointed Wu Ting as the commander of the Chinese army, led the army north, and participated in the battle to recover the three roads in the northwest. The imperial court awarded him the history of the Rongzhou Assassin, and later moved to the commander of the military in the imperial armies of Xingzhou, and the pacification envoy of Xihe Lujing.

The following year, Wu Ting followed his father Wu Lan to defend Hechi (present-day Hui County, Gansu). In June, the Jin general Wanyan Xilie led 100,000 troops to attack the city, and Wu Ting personally led the elite soldiers to attack the Jin camp many times, inflicting heavy casualties on the Jin soldiers, and the Jin soldiers suffered heavy casualties, so they had to retreat and wait for help. Due to Wu Ting's proper command in this battle, his merits were remarkable, and he was appointed as the envoy of the Wuchang Army, the commander of the four compartments of the Dragon Shenwei, and the commander of the Chinese army. This year, Wu Ting was only 25 years old. Later, he was gradually promoted and became the second-generation leader of the Wu family's army.

In the fifth year of Chunxi (1178), Wu Ting served as the governor of Xingzhou and the pacification envoy of Lizhou West Road and the governor of Xingzhou. In the winter of the tenth year of Chunxi (1183), he was specially added as the inspector of the school. In June of the fourth year of Shaoxi (1193), Wu Ting became ill due to overwork and could no longer treat things, so he asked Zhishi, but before the edict of Taiwei Zhishi arrived, he died of illness in the army at the age of 56.

This is an eternal pain in Wu Xi's heart, his father died, and he was not allowed to return to his hometown for funeral, and he asked for leave again and again, but there was no reply, and in the end he risked his life and returned to Xingzhou without saying goodbye, at that time, his father was already buried. Subsequently, he was buried in Tonggu (now Chengxian County, Gansu Province). This place belongs to Hechi County, Fengzhou, during the Shaoxing period, for the needs of the war, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu Division was set up here.

Wu Xi wrote a letter and asked to build a monument for his father's grave. A month later, the imperial court replied that in recognition of Wu Ting's contribution to defending Sichuan and Shaanxi, the imperial court decided to engrave a tombstone. Emperor Zhao expanded the number of the inscription, and the inscription said: The monument of the world's merit to protect Shu Zhongde. Guozi sacrifice wine Gao Wenhu was ordered to write an article. The text has a total of 8,461 words, and describes in detail Wu Ting's great achievements in resisting Jin Baoshu.

After the tombstone arrived in Xingzhou, Wu Xi decided to hold a grand laying ceremony and invited the main civil and military officials of Sichuan and Shaanxi prefectures and the three major capitals to participate.

The third thing he did after taking office was to rectify the Metropolitan Command and establish his absolute authority. Prior to his arrival, the Xingzhou Metropolitan Division was represented by the deputy governor Wang Dajie for a period of time.

As far as he knew, this person's prestige in the army was not bad. When the predecessor Guo Dutong was in power, he was extremely harsh on the soldiers and withheld the army for a long time, so that some soldiers occupied the mountains as kings and became bandits, and they could not be destroyed repeatedly. When Wang Dajie was in power, he reissued the soldiers' military records and sent someone to inform the bandits: You went up to the mountain to become bandits, because you were forced by life and were encouraged, as long as you go down to the mountain to serve the people and no longer do evil, you will not be blamed for the past, otherwise we will be determined to exterminate them. As a result, within five days, the bandits on Mount Kuroya all went down the mountain and surrendered.

It has been reported that Wang Dajie was unimpressed by the last forced transfer envoy. Wu Xi felt that with this deputy by his side, he obviously couldn't let go of his hands and feet, and he had to find a way to drive him away.

I talked to three or four generals, and there was a way. Accusing the king and vice president of the lawlessness, there are those who fill their pockets, those who abuse the soldiers, and those who rob the people's daughters, regardless of whether it is true or not, as long as someone reports it. Then, send these materials to Lin Yushi, who is good with him in the capital.

After Lin Yushi received the materials, he knew that it was difficult to argue whether it was true or false, and in order to shirk the responsibility, he specially explained in the impeachment note that according to the report of the Xingzhou Metropolitan Commander's Department, the deputy capital commander Wang Dajie had committed the following illegal matters-----, so on, and asked the imperial court to send personnel to verify and then deal with it.

Unbeknownst to him, Wu Xi privately reported to Chen Zhishan, but within two months, Wang Dajie was transferred out and went to serve in the Jiangzhou Metropolitan Division.