The second day of November in the third year of Jianyan. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Du Shu clearly remembers this day, because on this day Jiankang fell the first heavy snow of the year. Let him, a Xiangzhou person who is accustomed to the dry and cold climate in the north, feel very happy, since he fled from Kaifeng to Jinling half a year ago, the wet weather here has made his bones almost rusty.

It was so damp that the floor and the furniture in the house were moldy, and every night I shrank into the bed, and I slept for an hour, but my feet were still cold, and even the air I inhaled carried the smell of the river.

As soon as the snow fell, everything seemed to be cleaner and warmer.

On this day, Du Shu left the Jiankang Left-behind Division and was sent to the Sizhou battalion as a deputy commander. No need to ask, you can know from his name that Du Shu is the right minister of the current Great Song Dynasty, the Jianghuai Xuanfu envoy, and the son of Jiankang who stayed behind Du Chong. If you talk about seniority, you have to call Du Xiang an uncle.

Of course, Du Shu knew his uncle before this, but that uncle didn't know him.

The Du family is a big clan in Xiangzhou, and there are thousands of clansmen. However, he died under Li Cheng's knife the year before last, and now he is the only remaining male in the younger generation.

Du Shu was sent to the school by the clan when he was a child, and when he was twenty years old, he really couldn't read, so he had no choice but to go to Du Chong's door to Weizhou to make a record and join the army.

This official position seems to be very terrifying, but in fact, he is a low-level official of the eighth grade, in charge of civil affairs, and also an official criminal law, to put it bluntly, he is an official, not even an official. Even so, because he is in charge of civil affairs, and Du Shu is a good-natured person, he can get along with local officials. On weekdays, mediating civil disputes, handling civil cases, and receiving red envelopes are also happy. Especially after marrying a woman from a local big family, life is even more beautiful.

He is a native of Xiangzhou, but he is a mustard-like figure in the old family, but in Weizhou, he is a person who can be put on the stage, not only chatting and laughing with the state officials, but also calling his subordinates and local tyrants brothers and sisters.

If it weren't for the later Jingkang difficulty, after a few decades, he might have become a local tyrant and become a character like Song Gongming and the old lady of Hujiazhuang in later novels.

However, the war was all in ruins. The whole of Weizhou was plagued by the Jurchens into a blank field.

There was no one to find, and I got news from the family, saying that Du Chong asked everyone in the family to go over, so I could take care of it nearby. This news surprised him very much, and he immediately took his family to Kaifeng to join his distant uncle whom he had never met.

When he used to be a recorder and join the army, he was a talkative and affectionate person, and this time he went to Kaifeng to naturally bring his wife's clansmen. In addition, I heard that he had found a way to live, and his former colleagues also begged to come to the door, hoping to go to the left-behind division to eat together.

Du Shu has a good face, sees that others have something to ask for him, and he is proud in his heart, so he will not refuse to come here. As a result, his ranks swelled. After arriving in Kaifeng, there were more than 200 people.

Because there are many people, the road is also slow. This delay escaped Li Cheng's massacre.

It is said that as the only remaining man of the Du family, when he arrives in the Left-behind Division, Du Liushou naturally wants to vigorously promote him, and Du Shu also thinks so.

It's a pity that luck is something like luck that you don't know when it will break.

As soon as he arrived in Kaifeng, Du Shu encountered the infighting in the left-behind division, and the battle was fought in the dark, and even Tokyo was occupied by Zhang Yong and Cao Cheng.

Then, the left-behind division began to flee thousands of miles, and fled to Jiankang in one breath before settling down.

At this time, Du Shu remembered to ask his distant uncle to reach out for an official.

In fact, Du Chong had already greeted his subordinates in this matter, and asked his subordinates to arrange it, saying that he had to give him a position as a military envoy anyway, and it was easy to cultivate.

The people below were afraid of Du Chong's power, and originally planned to arrange for him to serve under Qi Fang, the former army of the Left-behind Division.

Like other troops, the left-behind division is divided into three armies: front, middle, and rear, and it is said that a related household like Du Shu should be arranged in the rear army. Generally speaking, the rear army is the general reserve, responsible for the defense of the rear, the transportation of baggage, and does not need to go to the battlefield. It's just that Wang Xie, the commander of the rear army, was originally a forbidden army, and the troops were rotten, not to mention that they didn't listen to Du Chong much. Then, it can only be arranged in the front army.

The former army has the largest number of people and the most well-equipped in the left-behind division, and Qi Fang is Du Chong's henchman, which is the de facto location of the left-behind division. And the relationship between Chen Quan and Du Chong, the commander of the Chinese army, is not very good, and the cooperation is not very tacit, and Du Shu was not too proper in the past.

This matter is a bit winding to say, and Du Shu doesn't take it to heart, anyway, it's good to have an official who has a military salary. After traveling thousands of miles, fleeing all the way, and bringing so many people, the money on hand has already been spent, and if you don't find something to do, your family will be hungry.

Just as he was about to get the appointment, his former colleagues came to the door and said, "Brother Yue, you have found an envoy now, but you can't forget us, let me wait for no one to be found!" We also trust you, so we have traveled thousands of miles to Jiankang with you, you don't care about me and wait, it's too unrighteous, right?

Du Shu has nothing else, just heavy feelings. Thinking about it, yes, it is difficult to watch my friend starve to death in Jiankang. On an impulse, he ran to Du Chong and asked for an official for his friend.

It didn't matter if he recommended two officials to the left-behind department, but as soon as Du Chong saw the list reported by Du Shu, he angrily slapped the case, and directly asked someone to beat out this unsuccessful nephew, saying that he would no longer recognize him as a relative. Let him go as far as he wants, and go directly back to his hometown in Xiangzhou.

It turned out that there were more than 30 names on Du Shu's newspaper, all of whom were low-level officials and clerks in the former Weizhou Prefecture, from the state secretary to join the army and the judiciary to the county lord Bo, the county lieutenant, the lieutenant, and the chief of the covenant below.

Du Chong thought to himself: This Du Shu is really hateful, and he promoted you to be a military envoy, that is for the sake of all the people, otherwise who knows you? You don't have the strength to see it, but you use my authority to give favors, which is really annoying. If it weren't for the fact that everyone was surnamed Du, they would have been killed directly.

Du Shu had no choice but to take the post of the former military envoy.

At this time, the face of the left-behind division changed.

Knowing that Du Shu lost Du Xiang's favor and was down, although he was still as polite as before, there was a hint of burying it in his words, and he only said that there was no vacancy, so I was really sorry.

I think that at the beginning, these bastards shouted affectionately when they saw themselves, and Du Shu was so angry that his teeth were about to crush. said, there is no vacancy, you and I are a fool, the people who stayed in the division drank the blood of the soldiers from top to bottom and ate empty salaries, and some were positions, you didn't give them, Lao Tzu found them himself.

He has been a copywriter for more than ten years, and this kind of thing is naturally clear, so he grabbed the roster and searched carefully.

This investigation did not find a vacancy, and the official positions of all armies were overcrowded, so angry that Du Shu was furious and pestered the people left behind in the division to make trouble.

I couldn't stand the quarrel with him, and finally, a business official took out an appointment and said that there was a unit called the Sizhou Battalion, which was formerly known as Liu Guangshi's Huaixi Army Baggage Battalion, and when the Jurchens called, Uncle Liu Ping fled too fast, so he left this unit in Jiankang, and now it has been included in the front army of the left-behind division, and there is still a lack of a deputy commander in that place.

The commander of the Sizhou battalion is called Wang Shen, who came to Xingyuan yesterday, heard your name of Du Youzhi, and left a message, saying that if Du Shu can afford to look down on him, you might as well go over to be a deputy military envoy.

"It's just that it's a lone army that no one cares about, what future can it have."

"It's good to have a place, I'll go, I'll go, there will always be something to receive." Du Shu was overjoyed and nodded again and again. If you can't fight, if you can't fight, you won't go to the battlefield! The soldiers are fierce and dangerous, and a good man wants to keep a useful body, how can he sacrifice lightly?

He was also strange in his heart: "Then how did Commander Wang know my name, and he came to ask for it?" Ah, Wang Shen, isn't that Wang Daosi who recruited Li Cheng and beheaded Li Yu? He has made such a great contribution, how can he be a small battalion commander? ”

"How do I know, I think I'm offending my boss, right?" The duke replied. Wang Shenzhi has often come and walked around recently, thinking that he wants to curry favor with Du Xiang.

What kind of character is Du Xiang, Wang Shen's mustard-like character, can he climb this high branch? That's right, you Wang Shen is very good at fighting, but in the final analysis, you are also a thief with an army.

hit the idea on Du Shu's head, hehe, Du Youzhi has now angered Du Chong. Du Shu is an uneasy ghost, and Wang Shen is only afraid that he will miscalculate this time.

"Go, go, why don't you go?"

Seeing that he could finally be sent away, the public breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Du Youzhi, I heard that Wang Shen has the courage of ten thousand people, and you have become his deputy envoy, even if you go to the battlefield one day in the future, with such a tiger here, can't you keep your life safe?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Du Shu thought of this and happily accepted the letter of appointment.

Suddenly, he had another thought, thinking that the colleagues who had fled with him to Jiankang had not yet been settled, so he might as well handle their affairs together.

Judging from the dossier, the officers of the Sizhou battalion are seriously lacking, and they are just being replenished.

According to the military system of the Great Song Dynasty, a battalion had one commander and two deputy envoys. Du Shu occupies one, and another one is vacant, which is far from enough!

He was a warm-hearted person, and he couldn't manage so much, so he asked the public to give five more appointments at the moment.

The public was shocked, a small battalion actually had six deputy commanders, this and this, this is also ridiculous.

Even more absurd things are still to come, in addition to the positions of the six deputy commanders, Du Shu has asked for more than 20 positions, all of which are such as guarding officials, undertaking bureaus, and doing official business, and they are basically civilian jobs that do not need to go to the battlefield.

The public was angry and funny, the strength of the Sizhou battalion on paper was only about 100 people, and according to the rules of the army, 30% of the vacancy had to be deducted. There are only more than 100 people, and you sent more than 30 officials at once, plus the officers who already had in the Sizhou battalion, there are more officers than soldiers, isn't this a superfluous thing?

However, this Du Shu is really difficult, although it has angered Du Xiang, but no matter what people say, they are surnamed Du, so we don't want to be too offended. Strike away the plague god!

In this way, Du Shu took more than 30 of his former colleagues to the Sizhou battalion to take up his post.

The rules of officialdom and the army Du Shu and the thirty or so people who traveled with him all understand it, and naturally know that the army's military expenses are limited.

This time, it is inevitable not to annoy the old people in the Sizhou camp.

I was also apprehensive in my heart.

At noon, in the Sizhou camp, more than 30 people met with the commander Wang Shen.

It can be seen that with so many officers coming at once, Wang Shen is not only not annoyed, but very happy. stepped forward and grabbed Du Shu's hand and shook it vigorously: "I have heard of Du Yuezhi's name for a long time, and I also lack a deputy envoy here, so I asked my boss for it." Looking forward to the stars and the moon, today can be regarded as looking forward to you, about this year's Gui Geng? ”