In August of the seventh year of Song Xuanhe, Xu Wei won a great victory in a battle against thieves in Shandong, and reported to the imperial court through Zhang Shuye and the pacification envoy of the Daimyofu Road. It is an exaggeration to say that it caused a shock to the imperial court, but it did attract the attention of all parties. For no other reason, what is the nature of Xu Wei's troops? Townsmen! When it comes to the roots, it is the flat-headed people who pick up weapons. Moreover, this group of flat-headed people, it can almost be said that they went to the battlefield to suppress thieves without military training. Faced with thieves ten times his size, he first blocked the surprise attack and beat the enemy into confusion. On the same day, he marched forward with great courage, broke through the camp of thieves in one fell swoop, killed the bandit leader Wang Shan, and surrendered more than 6,000 people.

If it is said that Xu Jiu defended Xujiazhuang, galloped to the aid of Xiajin, and conquered Baimagou, which is nothing, then the battle of Onozawa is indeed a real victory. Zhang Shuye said in the good news that he led his army from east to west, and attacked Xu Wei at both ends, resulting in a great defeat for the thieves. "The township is brave and not afraid of death, the guard blade Wang Shan, the head of the owl, and the thieves are subdued." After the official army led by Zhang Shuye arrived at the battlefield, Xu Wei had already defeated Wang Shan and captured the remnants, and the official army only did some aftermath to assist the guards. However, this is not that Uncle Zhang is not kind and robs Xu Wei of the credit. First of all, he led the forbidden army of the imperial court, and he had to take care of the face of the imperial court. Otherwise, then everyone is brave in the countryside, why use the forbidden army?

Secondly, he is also thinking about Xu Wei. If it is reported according to the truth that it is Xu Wei's strength to exterminate Wang Shan, then when it spreads to Tokyo, where will the faces of the three officials in charge of the forbidden army be put in the "palace marshal, cavalry marshal, and foot marshal"? According to Zhang Shuye's judgment, with Xu Wei's ability, sooner or later he will enter the battle sequence of the forbidden army, and then Sanya will be the top boss, and it will not be good for Xu Wei to offend them. Although Sanya has the weight of commanding troops, but has no right to send troops, but not afraid of officials, just afraid of management, when the time comes, you will be given a few pairs of small shoes to wear, who to reason with?

The victory report entered Tokyo, and Cai You, who was attacked by his father and brother, was like a treasure, and immediately stabbed in front of Emperor Daojun. Zhao Ji was overjoyed when he heard the news, and first praised Cai You, saying that he was a "minister of the Pillar Kingdom", and the strategy of recruiting villagers to suppress thieves was completely correct! It should be vigorously promoted! And spoke on the spot, from now on, the official must no longer take the defeat of the frontline to the head of Yan Guogong! Cai Youmei smiled and shouted long live, I couldn't wait to immediately take off the official robe, put on underwear and pants to dance for the official family.

Zhao Ji issued another edict to reward Zhang Shuye of Jinan Mansion, give a gold belt, a royal bead robe, and reward the officers of the department and reward the soldiers. Xu Wei's level was not enough for the emperor's personal commendation, but Emperor Daojun was in a good mood and asked for his name again. This time, Cai You didn't hide it anymore and said "Xu Wei" bluntly! Zhao Ji verbally commended him, and ordered the privy council to describe his merits, and ordered the relevant departments to be promoted and supplemented as appropriate.

This time Cai You used his brain, Xu Wei, this kid has the ability and can be made, Huang Qianshan said that he is both sensible and capable of doing things. This kid must be pulled up and set up as a model so that the strategy of recruiting villagers to suppress thieves can go smoothly. But although he is now attached to the Daimyo Pacification Division, nominally belonging to the Sanya, in fact, he is still under the control of the military department of "militia, archers, township soldiers, and fan soldiers", when will it be the head?

In view of this, Cai You transferred Xu Wei's file from the Ministry of War to the Ministry of Officials "Shangshu Right Selection". The official department of Shangshu is elected to be in charge of "the military ministers who are promoted to the court and above and those who are not authorized by the Privy Council", Xu Wei's official rank is still low, so he is naturally not up to the "direct jurisdiction" of the Privy Council. After the file was transferred, he urged the officials to promote Xu Wei's military exploits.

After discussion, the officials believed that Xu Wei had made up for the "Xiu Wulang" and served as the "deputy envoy of the Zizhou regiment training", and sent the "commander of the Yongying Battalion of Jingsui Township of the Daimyo Mansion", which was already a military post of the eighth grade, and it was not appropriate to be promoted too quickly, and it was recommended to retain the original official, and only reward but not promote.

Where is Cai You? After several repeated negotiations, the officials turned a deaf ear. This made the proud Cai Shumi very annoyed, and directly found the official book, threatening to dare to delay again, and he would go to the end in front of the official family! It's not good for you to do a bad job! The official Shangshu was angry with him, and returned to the office to call the subordinate officials for questioning, only to know who was doing the ghost. The left member of the Ministry of Officials! Does this title sound familiar? That's right, it's the nephew of Uncle Liang Heng's mother's family in Xiajin County!

Liang Heng clashed with Xu Wei at the beginning, held a grudge, and always wanted to find an opportunity to rectify it. Unexpectedly, that guy actually made up for the official, one level higher than himself, Huang Zhixian wore a pair of pants with him, severely reprimanded himself, and sent himself to run an errand with him. Annoyed, a letter was sent to Tokyo, saying that the Xu family was arrogant and domineering, how no one looked at me, and they didn't regard me as your godbrother, so please ask your godbrother to help.

But Xu Wei's file is in the Ministry of War, and it is not under the control of the Ministry of Officials, so he can't do it. When Cai You used the latter part to assign Xu Wei to the ministry, he finally looked forward to the opportunity. Quickly greeted his colleague and crushed him! You said that this fellow colleague will not look up and look down, and it is not good for people not to sell this face. Anyway, he is only an eight-rank petty official, and he is still the leader of Xiang Yong, so he has no background, so he pressed it down.

But how do they know that Yan Guogong Cai Shumi is now taking the initiative to be Xu Wei's backer. When the secretary was beaten by Cai You, he returned to the ministry to scold them bloody before he knew the idea, and hurriedly recounted, Xu Wei was promoted to two levels of rank, and he still stayed in his original position, considering that he was young and young, he was only promoted by one level as appropriate. The secretary was afraid that Cai You would find trouble again, so he simply promoted it to two levels. In this way, Xu Wei should be promoted from the forty-fourth-order "Xiu Wu Lang" to the forty-second order "Wu Yi Lang". At the same time, he sternly warned the waiter Wailang, bluffing the other party to accuse again and again, and scolded Liang Heng in his heart, this-stirring stick! Lack of success, more than failure!

After promoting Xu Wei, Cai You thought about it again, and the official family had already expressed his stance that he wanted to promote his strategy of suppressing thieves in Hebei and Shandong. In this way, Xu Wei is a banner of Xiangyong, and this flag not only cannot fall, but also cannot have any mistakes. But there are really fewer people and horses in the Yongying Battalion in Jingsui Township, the equipment is really poor, and the treatment is really low.

If there are few people, you have to rely on Xu Wei to recruit by himself, and I didn't set a quota for you anyway, did I? We can't help it if the salary is low, and the main reason why the official family is brave is to save money and trouble. But the equipment is poor, but it can be discussed, anyway, the thing workshop, the east and west are widely prepared, the bow and crossbow courtyard, and the equipment in the saddle house are piled up, and it should not be difficult to pick up a few pieces for Xu Wei. Even if you are reluctant to have the sophisticated equipment of this Jingshi workshop, even if you transfer a batch of equipment from the Daimyo Mansion to the Xiangyong Battalion, it is better than nothing, right?

After he mentioned this matter, Zhao Ji considered that the situation in Hebei and Shandong was unstable, and the township Yongying battalion would have to fight everywhere in the future, and the equipment was indeed a problem, so he agreed to Cai You's play. However, it was only allowed to mobilize equipment from the daimyo metropolitan institute. It's not that Emperor Daojun is reluctant to give up a few pieces of broken equipment, but since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the defense of military generals has become the habitual thinking of kings of all dynasties.