In March, although the West Hebei Road of the Great Song Dynasty is not as cold as the land of Liaodong and the prefectures of Yunnei, it is still a cold spring, and pedestrians still wrap their heads and faces tightly, otherwise the cold wind is like a small knife desperately cutting. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Zhending Mansion on the West Hebei Road of the Great Song Dynasty is the place where the road is governed, and the road-level envoy who should be transferred to Changping is set up here, which is no more important than the Shaanxi Fourth Road and the Western Xia for decades, and there is no appeasement in the Hebei West Road to make this kind of military and political power grasp the important place. At the time of the war against Yan, Tong Guan was the envoy of the Hebei Zhulu Xuanfu system, and directly controlled the military and political power of Hebei several roads, and after the end of the war against Yan, this temporary dispatch with great power was canceled.

It has been almost two years since the end of the war against Yan, and the depression of Hebei Zhulu is still the same, and the damage to the land of Hebei is also huge, and the failure of the people's strength is not so easy to quell. The local dispatch officials on Hebei West Road are also happy to be idle, and every day they just take the minister's money to enjoy themselves leisurely, and the most remarkable thing is to send some relief to the displaced people from Bianliang to appease the local wealth, and if they have a conscience, they will peel off a layer of skin in the past two years.

If in the past, the local officials still had a little time to spend on official duties, but since this period of time, they have completely stopped working. The reason is also very simple, that is, the palace change, the capital gate of the Great Song Dynasty, suddenly happened as if there was an earth-shattering change, and the news came that Zhao Ji abdicated as the Taishang, and the prince was proclaimed as the new monarch.

Yang Ling, who conquered Yanjing and pacified Yandi, was relieved of his authority as soon as he entered Bianliang as soon as others expected, and has been silent ever since. But suddenly he was the king of the Great Song and Jin Dynasty, holding the military power in the capital, and the two generations of kings were in his hands, if it weren't for the familiar husband, he would still be in charge of the East Mansion after this palace change.

Countersigned these edicts and proclamations of counties and counties all over the world, these local officials are about to make a fuss if they can't say it! Even after the palace change, Bianliang seems to have maintained a reluctant political balance, which also made the local officials who could not see the direction of the wind reluctantly able to wait for further changes.

For more than 100 years in the Great Song Dynasty, even though there were important ministers who supported the young monarch, there were important ministers who let the queen mother withdraw the curtain, there were important ministers who presided over the change of the law in the world, and there were important ministers who rose and fell several times, but there were never powerful ministers who supported the army and abolished the monarch!

Yang Ling's move like this was also successful, and he even killed the family of the Metropolitan Gate Control Army to the head and no one resisted, and the hundreds of thousands of Metropolitan Gate Control Army were dismissed in January without many twists and turns, which made everyone in the world understand that the military system of the Great Song Dynasty was heavy on the inside and light on the outside, and the military system of strong cadres and weak branches had been corrupted to what extent.

To what extent has the military strength of the Great Song Dynasty weakened, but how can anyone with some vision not see that the world is about to change greatly? Even if the Great Song Dynasty can still be maintained, it will no longer be the original Great Song Dynasty, and the local officials, in addition to desperately sending people back to Bianliang to inquire about the news, are constantly contacting and running to gather and discuss.

Look at this change, which side will be pressed on, not qualified to enter the game, at this time there are few people who dare to do more, just ask this turmoil not to affect themselves, such as Shaanxi four roads, there are strong local officials. changed his contempt for the military ministers in the past, and began to win over the relationship.

At this time, which force is strong and strong, it is impossible to say that it will get a considerable piece of the cake in the future political pattern, and on Hebei West Road, there is also a rare military horse in the Great Song Dynasty at this moment that can barely fight in the field - the Shengjie Army adapted from embers.

At this moment, the town is really settled, and it has also become the focus of local attention for a while, Wang Yu and Li Ruoshui, as the commanders and generals of this Shengjie army. At the beginning, when I left Bianliang, the days were inevitably a little sad, the center was close to bankruptcy at that time, and the cost of opening the town that the Shengjie army could get was only hundreds of thousands, and the town of the Shengjie army was extremely vast.

Not only are the roads of Hebei covered by it, nominally even Yandi is also within the scope of the suppression, but also the blockade of the Taihang Eight Paths from the west, when the emergency is urgent, it comes out from this, in order to force the heavy task of the Shence army in the east of the river, such a vast defense area, such an important mission, and hundreds of thousands of military expenses to open the town, what is the use of?

And Hebei Zhulu, high-ranking officials and nobles have a lot of industries here, intertwined, Wang Yu Li Ruoshui did not dare to be as lawless as Yang Ling, in the name of the Jurchen into the Kou, from Taiyuan Mansion to Ulzhou to the edge of the east of the river to wash the local forces, and Hebei Zhulu because of the war against Yan The people are exhausted, and the local treasury is empty, even if the Bianliang center has instructed the local government to fully support the opening of the town by the Shengjie army, it is really not enough to support it, not to mention how many local ministers will wholeheartedly cooperate with these Shaanxi accents, Qiu Bajun, who has no roots in the local area?

Since entering the Hebei West Road, it can be said that it is difficult for Pepsi, just setting up a Zhending camp, almost spending all the family funds, from the Hebei West Road transfer envoy to transfer the grain and straw, are many years of old grain, eat a group of soldiers almost want to make a noise, and there are local wealthy people who point to the establishment of the camp seriously, occupy their ancestral industry, and even go to the barren forest to get into a lawsuit, which has been a year of ridicule.

In the end, Wang Yu stiffened his head and scolded more than ten auxiliary soldiers who entered the barren forest, and only then did he barely pass the test, the so-called Hebei barrier victory and victory army, in the past two years, not to mention pulling out to fight in the field, that is, to maintain their own survival, they have used all their strength.

The reason for such a situation is also very simple, it turns out that the local garrison of the forbidden army in Hebei Zhulu is a mess of bad debts, although it is not comparable to the huge military investment of Shaanxi Fourth Road, it is also a gold mine of more than millions of dollars every year, and the local ministers and the garrison forbidden army generals will share the fat in the meantime, and the real military amount, I don't know if there can be two or three percent left, even if it is still in the amount, it is just a local civil servant and the local garrison forbidden army general.

Now that the Shengjie army has opened the town, it will dig out millions of dollars of goods from their pockets in a year, and if you don't give these old Shaanxi hills eight ugly, can't you still be a grandfather? It is best to squeeze back to Huanqing Road in Shaanxi, that is the first step of the Great Song Dynasty to reorganize Hebei's defense, and it will fall into the quagmire from then on.

Wang Yu and Li Ruoshui originally planned to recruit the embers of the Han army of the Liao State in Yandi, recruit the Hebei soldiers who had participated in the war against Yan, and reorganize the defense line of Hebei Zhulu. At the same time, the grand plan to build a military village in Taihang Bajing was almost bankrupt from the beginning, and for more than a year, it has been struggling for survival.

But with the news of the palace change, after finding out what had happened in Bianliang, the local officials on Hebei West Road suddenly changed their attitude towards the Shengjie army. The grain that was originally allocated was stale, but now it is all good rice and noodles, fresh vegetables, fruits, and meat, all available, and even wine from the big and small altars, as if they want to reward the entire Shengjie army for a few months.

The local wealthy clans who originally fought for land with the Shengjie army suddenly died down, and the entanglement between the military and the people disappeared, not to mention the local ministers who would never look down on Wang Yu and Li Ruoshui and other military generals, and they came to worship endlessly, and all kinds of gifts were piled up in a few rooms, and they also diligently asked the Shengjie army if they wanted to set up a large camp, and Hebei West Road would definitely give all convenience.

If you want to recruit new soldiers, you should pay for it, and it will be borne in Hebei, even the former Hebei garrison forbidden army generals who had the most hatred with Wang Yu and Li Ruoshui were like the sea, and the tricks of taking the blame for the crime were all made to come out, looking at a few fat men with white flowers tied with rattan tied to their bare bodies and shivering in the cold wind outside the festival hall, Wang Yu and Li Ruoshui were really crying and laughing at that time.

For most of the soldiers and soldiers of the Shengjie Army, the local ministers behaved like this, but they made them even more scolding their mothers, maybe they had to count on us to fight hard with the King of Jin, so they set aside a few stinky money to get some wine and change their faces.

However, the king of Jin is really a hero, doing such a splashing career, and venting the depression in his chest for us, only hating us for winning the army, and not being blessed to follow such a heroic character. It turned out that the good official property somewhere was sprinkled and swept up, and it was given to the two generals of the Shengjie Army for the main station.

Wang Yu and Li Ruoshui were not the kind of people who were willing to enjoy happiness, and they still felt more comfortable in the army, but now taking advantage of the change in the attitude of local officials, everything is open, and they have to set up the government office closer to the civil servants, so that it is convenient to transfer funds and materials to supplement the army at any time, and it is also convenient to communicate with this generation in a perfunctory manner.

Wang Yu and Li Ruoshui are all poor and afraid, at this time, taking advantage of the chaos of the local civil ministers, hoping that the army can make a little more is a little, who knows when the limelight is a turn again, and the military ministers have fallen behind, compared to the head of the snake Western Army and the king of Jin who sits on the center and is bold, the Shengjie army is still a little weaker, and it is an out-and-out guest army in Hebei, and the foundation is not yet stable to the point that no matter how the situation changes, it cannot be shaken.

At the moment, the two of them are dressed in civilian clothes. is pointing at Mutu in the festival hall, the strength of the Shengjie army is really too thin, the old foundation is seven or eight thousand embers of the Huanqing army, of which five thousand can fight are not enough, and to open the town in Hebei, more than a year, not only did not increase, but even reduced the number of personnel, the days are too hard, and the escape and death are a lot.

At this time, it is necessary to quickly recruit strong and strong to expand their strength, and they can no longer be cramped in one place, they must be expanded, but the two of them pointed and pointed, both of them were at the junction of Hebei Zhulu and Yan geographical edge, even on the wooden map, they deliberately avoided those passages from the Taihang Eight Paths to the east of the river, and after pointing for a while, they heard Li Ruoshui muttering: "The soldiers enter the Yan land, our Shengjie army has not been operating for more than three years, don't expect such a move." And the rise of the Jurchens, such Hulu generations, sooner or later, will have to go south, and at the junction of Yandi in Hebei, there are already original anti-Liao measures. These places need to be restored immediately, in case the Jurchen Tartars have a move to the south, they can fight here, and they can resist a little. ”

Wang Yu just shook his head: "When I was cutting Yan, I didn't know how many times I walked back and forth with you in this marginal place, don't you know the situation in the meantime?" The original water barrier prevented Hu Ma from galloping, but now it is silted up by people, occupying fertile land, and the original military village is all abandoned. The garrison of the army and horses in the forehead, there is no one in ten, not to mention that the soldiers have entered the Yan land, and if you manage it well, it may not be enough for three or more years! And how can there be so many military horses on the edge of the bridle? Now we are less than 10,000 people, only 5,000 soldiers, of which the cavalry is even fewer, if you want to run the edge, there are no 50,000 military horses, how to use it? ”

Li Ruoshui also shook his head, since his career was smooth, even if Li Ruoshui was young and old, he would inevitably have a sense of pride, but the hardships of opening the town for more than a year made him lose a lot of weight and maturity, his face was green, he had retreated, and even there were wrinkles on his forehead, listening to Wang Yu's words, Li Ruoshui could only sigh, and then said proudly: "No matter how difficult it is, we have to do it!" Nowadays, it is rare for the Wenchen generation not to be restrained, recruit strong as soon as possible, occupy the place first, and then restore it again, we have been delayed for too long in this Zhending Zuo, if the Jurchen Tartars settle in the Qianliao place, they will go south at any time! ”

If you talk about the old state, Wang Yu is more obvious than Li Ruoshui, it turns out that he is Tong Guan's reuse, and he deviates from the group of the Western Army's generals, and he is also an important minister valued by the center for a while, and he is bound to enter the Sanya in the future, and he is sure that the title of a lieutenant is placed on his head, but he didn't expect Tong Guan to be managed one by one, and he, Tong Guan's henchman, was also kicked away.

When he was Tong Guan's confidant, Xuanfu set up Hebei Province, and he used Tong Guan's power to toss the local officials in Hebei who were responsible for the support of the Yan army, and now he has been redoubled by these turbans and returned with revenge, and now he is a strong man in his early forties, and his hair is a little gray.

Seeing that although Li Ruoshui has been frustrated, he still has a kind of sharpness in his bones, Wang Yu nodded and shook his head: "Even if you don't mention the matter of operating the border defense fortress, where do the soldiers come from?" It stands to reason that Yandi now has no owner, and there are many Han troops who have been scattered, not to mention so many Hebei soldiers who have been dismissed, how come there are no people who have joined the army? Is it these days that the initiative to start recruiting, and there are few applicants? Have they all been scattered back to their villages? ”

Although he was trapped in the left side of Zhending Mansion for these days and could not advance an inch, Li Ruoshui was still concerned about the situation in Yandi and collected information from the north as much as possible. The merchants who flowed because Yandi restored the basic order were Li Ruoshui's biggest source of information, but he could only know that the rise of many forces in Yandi, Du Ziah recruited troops and horses, and he didn't know much about the real situation of the private army recruited by Yang Ling privately, so he could only vaguely guess something. (To be continued.) )