"Yuanfu, Benhou named you Sima and asked you to assist General Zhang and Captain Zou in reorganizing the Yellow Turban prisoners, are you willing?"

"The last general obeys!"

With Zhou Cang's assistance, the reorganization of the prisoners was much easier, and after the results were counted, Zhang Liao reported to Su Chen as soon as possible. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"My lord, in this battle of Daxing Mountain, our army suffered two hundred and thirty-eight casualties, and the main loss was Han Ying, among which two soldiers in the Xiandeng battalion were knocked to the ground and trampled to serious injuries."

"In this battle, more than 300 horses, 5,000 stones of grain and grass, countless ordnance vehicles and horses were captured, a total of more than 9,000 Yellow Turban soldiers were annihilated, 50,000 Yellow Turban soldiers were captured, and some of the Yellow Turbans fled into the villages, far away in the mountains, unable to pursue, and some were missing."

After listening to Zhang Liao's report, Su Chen nodded, and began to think about how to write a war report to the imperial court, and after a while, he wrote a war report, one copy to Liu Yan, and the other ordered someone to send it to Luoyang quickly.

After Sun Binshuo went to Luoyang, Su Chen asked him to stay there, representing him to build a good relationship with all parties, especially the general He Jin, who could not afford to lose.

The battle report of the previous 300,000 yellow turbans was handed to Luoyang by him, handed over to Sun Binshuo, and then presented to the general He Jin by him, and then handed by He Jin to His Majesty. This way is the best way for him, as a general of Beizhong Lang, he is directly under the jurisdiction of He Jin, although he is assisting Dong Zhuo, he will not give Dong Zhuo all the credit, and now is the time for him to stand at the front desk.

In fact, with his current status, he can go directly to Tianting, it can be said to be directly to Tianting, and in the end it is not going to fall into the hands of others, either He Jin, or the Ten Standing Attendants, he is a clear stream, Cai Yong's son-in-law, on the bright side, he must keep a distance from the Ten Standing Attendants, this is where the festival lies, so he can only let He Jin transfer it to the imperial court.

After writing the report, he called Zhou Cang over and asked, "Yuanfu, how many young and strong people are among the 50,000 captives?" ”

"General Hui, there are about 10,000 soldiers who can fight, and the rest are old and weak women and children, who have been coerced." At this point, he blushed a little.

"Hmm." Su Chen didn't care what he thought, he pondered for a long time, and said: "You will go to 10,000 young people to collect essence, leave half of the 5,000 people, and organize them into two parts, one to escort these old and weak women and children to the north and go to the Naturalization City for resettlement, and the other will be under your command, and you will be responsible for our army's food and grass in the future, how about it?" ”

"Yes!"

"By the way, the people who escorted the soldiers to the north, Ben Hou has already thought about it, so Tian Sima will personally take a trip, and Ben Hou will call him in later, and you two will hand it over."

"No!"

Zhou Cang and Tian Yu quickly selected 5,000 strong, Tian Yu personally led 2,500 people, with the coordination of 500 Han Ying, escorted tens of thousands of people to the north, these people are rare laborers, although they are old and weak women and children, but those who are weak have long since died, and the rest are considered to be strong and strong, and it is not a problem to do some work.

Xu Huang's army arrived and brought two pieces of news, one was the will of the imperial court, and the other was a letter of help from Gong Jing, the assassin of Qingzhou.

Since Liu Hong got the news of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, his desire to have fun has also faded, and he has been worried all day about whether the Yellow Turban will come to Luoyang, and even has already moved the idea of moving the capital.

The general He Jin was responsible for exterminating the yellow turban in the world, bearing the brunt of the attack, and he had to report to Liu Hong every day, but the three Zhonglang generals, the left Zhonglang general Dong Zhuo confronted Zhang Jiao in Guangzong and Zhang Jiao, and there was a stalemate for a while, and the right Zhonglang general Huangfu Song was besieged by Bocai in Yingchuan Changshe, and he was unable to break through, and the North Zhonglang general Su Chen was even more hopeless.

So He Jin is worried, thinking about it day and night, almost his hair is gray, but there is still no good news.

It's not just He Jin who is worried, in fact, the ten permanent servants are even more worried, you must know that the emperor's mood is directly related to their net worth, although they have no descendants, but they have a family, and even have step-sons and grandsons, for their net worth, they also want to coax the emperor to be happy.

However, no matter how much he coaxed, the emperor just couldn't be happy, and he couldn't even go to court, the ministers were so anxious that they jumped up and down, the eunuchs were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, and He Jin was as anxious as a dry river.

There was a thick sense of melancholy floating in the sky over Luoyang.

At this moment, Su Chen's battle report was like a long drought and a rain, and his timely rain was too timely.

When he got Su Chen's 300,000 Yellow Turban Army and killed Cheng Yuanzhi, one of the 36 commanders, and his deputy Deng Mao among the 10,000 troops, He Jin was called a thirst for Ganlin in his heart.

He didn't care whether the war report was true or not, and directly sent the war report to Liu Hong's desk.

Liu Hong got the battle report and looked at it, and suddenly the dragon's heart was happy, and after putting down the fold on the spot, he went to Linxing a few beauties, and praised Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong by the way.

The two eunuchs were praised by the emperor like this, it was really sweet in their hearts, as if they had fallen into a honey pot, and they thought that their lives had finally been preserved.

On the second day, after going to the court, Liu Hong circulated the battle report to the loyal ministers, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the so-called national disaster thinks of good talents, and Bandang meets loyal ministers, what is a loyal minister?" People like Su Aiqing are truly loyal ministers. ”

"I haven't slept well since I learned of the Yellow Turban Bandits' rebellion, and every day I hear and see which state capital has been breached again, where the counties have been occupied by the Yellow Turban Bandits, and where the people have been slaughtered, none of these news has made me feel comfortable."

"But today, Su Aiqing, who was far away in the north to pacify the Yellow Turbans, sent me a good news, Su Aiqing gathered soldiers and horses, confronted Cheng Yuanzhi's 300,000 army under the naturalized city, defeated the strong with the weak, the temple was invincible, broke 300,000 Yellow Turban thieves, captured and killed the thief Cheng Yuanzhi Deng Mao, and the head was also sent to Luoyang."

"At the time of crisis, Su Aiqing turned the tide and shared my worries, everyone, can you be a loyal minister?"

Liu Hong's words praised Su Chen to the sky, but this war report came at the right time, and it can be said that the political significance at this time is very huge, and it has far exceeded the things described in the war report itself.

This war report increased the confidence of the Manchu officials of the Han court, and let everyone see hope, see the hope of the Han Dynasty, and see what the emperor did, so the political significance of this war report is very huge.

In addition to the imperial court, the officials, scholars, and people all over the world are watching every move in the world, and this war report has increased the confidence of the people in the world, so is it not important?

The courtiers below talked a lot, most of them were compliments, no matter which faction, when they heard the emperor's words, they all put aside their prejudices and understood the principle that the overall situation is important.

It's just that a small number of people have a lot of complaints about Su Chen's private acceptance of 300,000 surrendered troops, but in the face of the general trend, these discordant voices were quickly drowned out.

Looking at the courtiers who were talking, Liu Hong sat down and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, Su Aiqing has made such a great contribution, how should he be rewarded?" ”

"This ......"

Liu Hong asked, but no one spoke, although Su Chen has made great contributions, he is still relatively young, and now he is a general of Beizhong Lang, with a high position, if he is promoted again, it will be a little too different.

Although the courtiers all agreed with the emperor's praise and thought that Su Chen had made great contributions, if it was said that he had been promoted heavily, they were not so happy.

Liu Hong saw that everyone bowed their heads and was silent, and he was unhappy in his heart, so he asked directly by name: "Yuan Aiqing, how do you think I should reward meritorious ministers?" ”

Liu Hong's point is Sikong Yuan Feng, that is, Yuan Shu's father, Yuan Feng and his brother Yuan Kui are tied for the third duke at this time, Yuan Feng is Sikong, and Yuan Kui is the captain.

The Yuan family is in Yuan Feng, that is, Yuan Shu Yuan Shao's father's generation has four brothers, the eldest Yuan Ping, and his son is the prince of the 18th Road to fight Dong Zhong, Shanyang is too guarded by Yuan.

The second Yuan Cheng, the official to the left Zhonglang General, died early, Yuan Shao was Yuan Feng's successor to Yuan Cheng, and below is Yuan Feng and Yuan Kui.

The reason why the Yuan family is called the fourth and third princes is that since Yuan Liang, to his grandson Yuan Anguan to Sikong and Situ, Yuan An's youngest son Yuan Chang is Sikong, Yuan An's second son Yuan Jing's son Yuan Tang is Sikong, Situ, and Taiwei, Yuan Tang's son Yuan Feng is also Sikong, and Yuan Feng's brother Yuan Kui is also Situ and Taifu. There are as many as five people who occupy the position of the third prince in the fourth world, and they are known as the "three princes of the fourth world".

was named by the emperor, Yuan Feng couldn't help but answer, so he had to say: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that the Marquis of Po Yu has made a great contribution this time, which can increase his food." ”

Su Chen's broken marquis is only a hundred households, that is, a pavilion marquis, compared to Dong Zhuo's liehou, it is not a star and a half, Yuan Feng's proposal is in line with the thoughts of many ministers, increasing the food is nothing more than giving more money, which can make the emperor happy, but also not let him rise too fast, which is a two-way strategy.

It's just that Yuan Feng underestimated Liu Hong's expectations, and when he heard this answer, he was noncommittal, and his face was a little worried.

Then he looked around, his eyes fell a little behind, and he named another person, and asked, "Zhou Aiqing, how do you think I should be rewarded?" ”

The person Liu Hong ordered this time was Luoyang Ling Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi is Zhou Yu's father, Luoyang Ling's rank is not high, but the county order of the national capital has a very high status, so naturally it cannot be measured by an ordinary county order, and its status is equivalent to that of a county guard.

Zhou Yi replied: "Back to Your Majesty, Su Po has already ascended to a high position in less than a year, if he is promoted again, I am afraid that it is not a good thing, you must know the truth that the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it." ”

"So what do you think?" Hearing Zhou Yi's words, Liu Hong asked in an unkind tone.

Zhou Yicheng replied with trepidation: "Weichen thinks that in addition to increasing the number of food, Your Majesty might as well reward his father or his son, or reward his soldiers, so that His Majesty's appreciation for him will not be allowed to show off in the forest, so it is the best of both worlds." ”

"Hmm!" This time, Liu Hong rarely did not refute, but thought carefully about how to reward Su Chen.

As for Zhou Yi, he finally passed this hurdle by luck, and said in his heart that above the court, he is like a tiger, and now he is old and weak, and the world is restless, maybe it is time to go back to Lujiang's hometown to recuperate.