Chapter 174: Four Turns of Military Merit
Bu Yunfei sighed: "Your Majesty, the minister led three hundred remnants to guard Cangyan Mountain, loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and swore not to surrender to the traitors. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info is just that the minister is a record of nine products, and the three hundred remnants are even more nameless and nameless, and the rebels regard the ministers and others as grass cowards, not the Tang Dynasty officials. After the minister led the army to break out of the siege, he was besieged by Wang Chengye, and regarded the minister's department as a ringing horse. The minister had no choice but to call himself a general, one to boost morale, and the other to boost the prestige of my Tang Dynasty. It's really helpless for the minister to do this, and please ask the emperor to know it! ”
Li Longji straightened his body and said loudly: "Bu Yunfei listens to the order!" ”
Bu Yunfei knelt on the ground.
"The march recorded the steps of Yunfei, the first to raise the banner of righteousness, defend Changshan, annihilate the rebels and drag down the river, kill the rebel general Ashina Tiele, outstanding achievements, for Changshan Taishou Yan Gaoqing grievances, loyalty and righteousness are commendable! Bestow Bu Yunfei's military merits four times, award the six-grade Xiao cavalry captain, and seal Bu Yunfei as the envoy of the Shaanxi County Festival! Bu Yunfei's department, give the army number Cangyandu! ”
"Amitabha! The Emperor Shengming! Void sighed softly.
Li Longji not only did not pursue Bu Yunfei's crime of claiming to be a military number, but instead gave the military name Cangyandu to Bu Yunfei, and from then on, Cangyandu became the official sequence of the Tang Army! Not only that, but Bu Yunfei's official position was promoted from the ninth rank to the sixth grade!
Tang official system, each grade is divided into two levels, no one is divided into two levels, from the ninth grade, to the sixth grade, that is, the twelfth level in a row!
This is a great blessing!
Bu Yunfei called himself a general and set up his own military number, which was originally an offense to the Tang Dynasty, but now, Tang Ming Emperor Li Longji not only did not pursue it, but took advantage of the situation, although it was a little helpless, but this kind of mind is not something that ordinary emperors can have!
Bu Yunfei secretly admired in his heart, this Li Longji, who created the prosperous era of Kaiyuan, is indeed not in vain!
"Bu Yunfei, thank you quickly!" Yang Yuhuan urged.
"Your Majesty, the ministers don't dare to receive the decree!" Bu Yunfei bowed his head and said.
"You're going too far!" Yang Yuhuan jumped to his feet in a hurry, this step Yunfei is really too ignorant! In a grand manner, to be able to do this step is already magnanimous to the extreme, Bu Yunfei is still holding the shelf, this is simply not knowing life or death!
Li Longji's face was gloomy: "Bu Yunfei, I will sound you twelve times in a row, you are still not satisfied!" It's hard to be a hussar general! ”
"The first righteous person in Changshan is Yan Gaoqing, and the minister is just attached to righteousness, how dare he take Yan Gaoqing's credit!" Bu Yunfei said lightly: "Yan Gaoqing is not sealed, and the ministers dare not be sealed!" ”
"Mighty righteous man!" Li Longji sighed: "Changshan is too guarded by Yan Gaoqing, loyal and brave, the whole family is martyred, and he feels heaven and earth!" Posthumously give Yan Gaoqing the crown prince Taibao, Doctor Ziguanglu, and enjoy the temple! Ziyan Quanming, who followed his father's death festival in white clothes, was posthumously awarded to the baron, and Changshan was too guarded. Female Yan Quanying, thousands of miles to Beijing, for her father's grievances, righteousness, loyalty and filial piety, a role model, give the royal daughter, Princess Yiyao! ”
"The minister is the father and son of the Yan family, thank the lord Longen!" Bu Yunfei bowed to the ground, tears burst out of his eyes, and he couldn't cry.
Yan Gaoqing's eyes that were dead in the flames can be closed!
"What about you?" Li Longji asked.
"Thanksgiving!"
Yang Yuhuan also had tears in his eyes, and said on the side: "The emperor added Yan Gaoqing, Bu Yunfei, and Chrysostom Yuyan, naturally he will do what he says." It's just that officials at all levels in the Tang Dynasty didn't know about it, and they asked the emperor to issue a decree. ”
"That's what the concubine said!" Li Longji sighed softly: "Bu Yunfei, I want to let you rest assured!" Bring pen and paper! ”
The void is far away against the paper, ink, pen and inkstone.
Li Longji picked up the pen and wrote down two edicts, one was to seal Yan Gaoqing, and the other was to seal Bu Yunfei. Li Longji simply did it to the end, and by the way, he wrote thirty blank letters of appointment for Bu Yunfei. The letter of appointment and the sealed edict, stamped with the personal seal that Li Longji carried with him, were handed over to Bu Yunfei.
With thirty blank letters of appointment in his hand, Bu Yunfei can reward his generals on his own territory.
Li Longji is tantamount to giving Bu Yunfei the power to recruit troops and expand his military strength.
Li Longji asked, "Bu Yunfei, now, you can play a military plan to me!" ”
Bu Yunfei's current official rank is Zheng Liupin Xiao Cavalry Captain, although he has been promoted to twelve levels in a row, he can still only be regarded as a middle-level general, and he has no power to play directly to the emperor.
However, Bu Yunfei has an official position - the envoy of the Shaanxi County Festival! This is the local military and political chief, according to the rules, one party has the power to directly face the emperor!
In fact, before An Lushan's rebellion, a six-rank Xiao cavalry captain could not become a party envoy no matter what.
Official rank and official position are two sequences, official rank is honor, and official position is actual authority.
For example, cabinet ministers can exercise the power of prime ministers, but some cabinet ministers' official titles, such as those who enter the cabinet with the rank of Hanlin bachelor, are the sixth rank or even the seventh rank.
Legally speaking, a middle-level general can also serve as a festival envoy.
It's just that the festival envoys of the Tang Dynasty are often shot with a knife and a shot on the battlefield, and they are all outstanding military achievements, and they have accumulated considerable official ranks before serving as the festival envoys. Therefore, the official titles of the festival envoys are often very high, and the official titles of the original ten festival envoys of the Tang Dynasty are all above the three grades.
Another reason for the high rank of the Jiedu envoy is that the jurisdiction of the original ten jiedu envoys of the Tang Dynasty are all large military regions facing foreign enemy countries, and the troops under their jurisdiction range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.
After An Lushan's rebellion, the situation changed dramatically.
In order to efficiently mobilize soldiers and materials in the theater, form a regional defense, and also to boost morale, the Tang Dynasty began to implement the Jiedu envoy system in various prefectures and counties, and the local governors of prefectures and counties are generally given the official position of Jiedu envoy or defense envoy, so that they can mobilize the military and civilians in their jurisdiction to participate in the war, of course, more importantly, show favor and win over these local officials.
So, these days, the festival makes the sky fly.
Of course, an important condition for whether he can get the title of Jiedu envoy is that he must have enough soldiers and horses in his hands.
In some places, a small county lieutenant can get the title of Jiedu envoy as long as he gathers thousands of people and declares his allegiance to the Tang Dynasty.
Bu Yunfei only has 300 people in his hands, and it stands to reason that it is not qualified to be a party temperance envoy.
This is also why Li Longji attaches great importance to Bu Yunfei.
Li Longji has been an emperor for decades, has experienced countless winds and waves, and has read countless people, although over the years, he has been content with pleasure and abandoned political affairs, but once it comes to a critical juncture, his buried eloquence and vision will be revealed again.
When Li Longji saw Bu Yunfei, he decided that this young man was extraordinary.
He was able to convince the Great Mercy and Grace Temple to take a great risk to help him come to the Prajna Hall, just by virtue of this, it is enough to show that he has a certain quality in him!
Moreover, after these days, Li Longji was greatly disappointed with the courtiers around him, things came to such a field, An Lushan was about to become emperor, but Yang Guozhong and Gao Lishi could not come up with a decent countermeasure.
It's time to activate the new ones!
Li Longji believes that if Bu Yunfei can break through the difficulties and dangers and come to Chang'an from Cangyan Mountain, then he must have extraordinary wisdom and strategy.
It is impossible for such a person not to have his own views on the general trend of the world.
Therefore, Li Longji categorically decided to give Bu Yunfei an official and a knight, so that he would have the opportunity to express his views in front of the emperor.
Bu Yunfei didn't want to do much at all, he originally just wanted to rehabilitate Yan Gaoqing Zhaoxue, so he left.
Who would have thought that in order to let him speak, Li Longji would actually add him to the rank of knight, so that he had the qualifications to play the emperor. Speaking of which, this emperor can be regarded as having done his best to be benevolent and righteous.
At this point, if you continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb, you will be too ignorant.
"The emperor's kindness to his ministers is as heavy as a mountain, and the courtiers should know everything." Bu Yunfei bowed his head and said: "The ministers are shallow in their learning, and what they say may be rebellious, if the emperor thinks it is reasonable, he can adopt it, if it is unreasonable, please also ask the emperor to forgive the ministers for the crime of vain!" ”
"You say! I forgive you for your innocence! ”
"Your Majesty, according to the ministers, Geshuhan's army to Shaanxi County is not the best policy, and it may return in vain!" Bu Yunfei said.
Geshuhan will be defeated, but this cannot be said too obviously. After all, Ge Shuhan sent troops to act on orders, and if he bluntly said that Ge Shuhan would be defeated, Li Longji would not be able to hang his face. Therefore, Bu Yunfei only said "in vain".
"Why?"
"First, Ge Shuhan's headquarters are the Longyou Army and the Hexi Army. The two armies have always been not harmonious, if Ge Shuhan is healthy and can still control it, but Ge Shuhan is now sick and disabled, I am afraid it will be difficult to control the whole army. ”
Li Longji was silent. Li Longji also knew about Ge Shuhan's illness, but after killing Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, he really had no one available.
"Second, An Lushan arrogated to be the emperor, and he is already ready to fly! Once he became emperor, the morale of the rebels was greatly boosted, and they would inevitably fight to the death with all their might. And Geshuhan's department, although it is an elite, has already lost to the rebels in terms of morale. ”
"An Lushan is mad!" When it comes to An Lushan as the emperor, Li Longji is that An Nai can't help himself.
"Third, and most importantly!" Bu Yunfei said: "Fanyang and Hebei are stable, and An Lushan has no worries!" ”
Bu Yunfei only said half of this, and the other half was: Ge Shuhan has worries.
Not only that, the Tang Dynasty was in full crisis within the court, Yang Guozhong had different ambitions, and even the emperor was under the watchful eye of Heiyundu.
It's just that these words are difficult for Bu Yunfei to say, so he has to stop there.
"I understand, you are persuading me to let Ge Shuhan withdraw his troops and stick to Tongguan!" Li Longji was greatly displeased, which means that he wanted to watch An Lushan proclaim himself emperor in Luoyang.
"Your Majesty, listen to the minister!" Bu Yunfei said: "An Lushan is rampant, but in the world of the Tang Dynasty, how can a miscellaneous hu be shaken!" An Lushan relies on only Hebei and Fanyang, while Datang still has northwest and Jiangnan! Your Majesty, the general trend of the world, the king's spirit is in the northwest, and the wealth is in the south of the Yangtze River! ”
Li Longji's heart moved, and he said loudly: "What a 'Wang Qi is in the northwest, and wealth is in the south of the Yangtze River!'" ’”
Bu Yunfei's words hit the crux of the general trend in the world.