Chapter 12 Dispatch of the Military Department

Entering November, the cold of Wuyuan County is more abundant, the north wind swept the Hetao Plain, the winter of Wuyuan County is coming, the Yellow River has frozen, the irrigation ditches are also frozen solidly, the earth is sleeping, everything is gloomy, at this time of year, the army and the militia are gradually entering a state of winter alert, the Yellow River freezes in winter, Huma can easily cross the Yellow River and enter the hinterland of Wuyuan County. ，

In September, a major change took place in Wuyuan County, the military and government were officially separated, Yang Yuanqing no longer served as the Taishou of Wuyuan County, only in charge of the army, and the imperial court sent a new civilian Taishou.

The new Wuyuan County Taishou Yang Shidao is the youngest son of Guan Wang Yang Xiong, who is less than Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, is knowledgeable, outstanding, and is a leader in the imperial family.

Yang Xiong has a very good relationship with the Guanlong nobles, and Yang Shidao often goes in and out of the homes of the Guanlong magnates, gradually, he has become the eyes and ears of Yang Guang to monitor the Guanlong nobles, and he has won Yang Guang's trust.

Therefore, before the arrival of Yang Shidao, Yang Yuanqing took the first step to adjust the government affairs and military affairs, the government affairs yamen was placed in Jiuyuan County, and the military government was moved to Dali County, and the Fengzhou Jiaoshi supervisor was also moved to Dali County.

moved the chief yamen to Dali City, where he started, and left 3,000 troops to garrison Jiuyuan County, led by his henchman Ma Shao, so that Yang Shidao could directly deploy hundreds of government officials, and the mobilization of every soldier must pass through him Yang Yuanqing.

At this time, the county town is very different from before, with the increasing population and the increasing prosperity of commerce, the city of Dali was expanded for the third time two years ago, on the basis of the two city walls, and a square defensive wall was built on the periphery, so that the area of the city was doubled again, forming three inner and outer inner and outer city areas, which can accommodate 100,000 residents.

After the completion of the new city, the commercial shops were moved to the outer city, the crescent-shaped open space between the two city walls was all divided into military areas, there were military camps and military warehouses, and the entire Dali City garrisoned 8,000 people, becoming the military town of the entire Wuyuan County, and the Yamen of the Fengzhou Governor's Office was also moved here from Jiuyuan County. ，

The surroundings of Dali City are no longer the desolate places of the past, but have become an endless peach orchard, stretching for dozens of miles, many of the Central Plains strength, the discerning big merchant families have also come here to buy land and buy real estate, open up the peach plantation, make wine and make money, so that Dali City has become the peach planting base of the entire Dasui, forming a peach garden about ten miles wide and thirty miles long.

To the east of the orchard is a large area of farmland, and to the east of the farmland there are more than a dozen villages, where people who grow peaches and grow grain live here.

After several years of development, Dali County has become the northern important town of Wuyuan County, the population is second only to Jiuyuan County, there are 70,000 residents in Dali City, most of them are making a living from winemaking, Dali peach wine sells well in the north and south of Dasui, and even in the grassland is also very famous, every year it brings rolling wealth to Wuyuan County, making Dali County a veritable wine city.

Early in the morning, Yang Wei rode his camel majestically to the head of the yamen, Yang Wei is also half of Zhang Xutuo's apprentice, a few years ago he broke his arm in Qi County, Zhang Xutuo not only cured his arm, but also spent three months carefully training his martial arts.

Although his martial arts have been unable to break through, Zhang Xutuo still tapped his potential to the greatest extent, the most obvious is that his pair of eight-fluted iron hammers rose from eighty catties to one hundred and twenty catties, which is also his natural divine power, and at the same time, combined with his temper, he designed a set of eighty-one strokes of hammer method, dancing like a wind sweeping leaves, and making desperate moves, so that Yang Wei sat on the nickname of Desperate Saburo.

Yang Wei is currently the second Eagle Yang Fu Lang General in Dali City, commanding a thousand soldiers, he is very popular in Fengzhou, from the general to the small soldiers, they all like to joke with him, and they all affectionately call him Fat San Lang, which is his nickname since childhood, and he readily accepts it.

He rolled over and got off the camel, and a guard ran up to lead the camel for him, pointed at his hammer and smiled: "Fat Saburo, your hammer seems to be a little smaller!" Is the lady coming to visit relatives? ”

Yang Wei stretched out his leg and kicked it, and scolded with a smile: "you***, or take it out and compare it?" ”

The guard smiled, led Luo Luo and ran away, Yang Wei tidied up the chain mail on his body, 'Wow! Crash! He walked up the steps. (，)

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In the room, Yang Yuanqing was in a meeting with Yang Sien, the deputy governor, Du Ruhui, and the staff Huangfu Xu, after the military and political separation, Cui Junsu made the history of the county government, and the history of the governor was promoted by Sima Du Ruhui, and Yang Yuanqing appointed Huangfu Xu as the envoy of Tuntian, in charge of the army Tuntian.

These three people are his confidants, and after following him for many years, Yang Yuanqing said to them worriedly:

"I just received an order from the Ministry of War to transfer troops, ordering our Fengzhou Army to send 10,000 troops to prepare to participate in the Goryeo Campaign, frankly speaking, I am not optimistic about the prospects of this campaign, obviously with 350,000 troops can win the battle, but the saint wants to raise the army of the country, I received a letter from home, my master, that is, Qi County Cheng Zhang Xutuo, sent his wife and daughter to my house for refuge, it is said that the situation in Qi County is very serious, floods and floods continue one after another, and there has been a rebellion of hungry people."

Yang Yuanqing sighed and said to everyone: "I have an ominous premonition, this campaign against Goryeo is likely to suffer heavy casualties, whether it is the defeat of the Goryeo people or our defeat, the casualties will not be low, so I don't plan to send the Fengzhou army to Liaodong to die, I want to discuss it with everyone, think of a safe excuse, and escape this imperial court transfer." ”

There was silence in the room, and after a while, Du Ruhui said: "Since the military department has issued an order to transfer troops, it will definitely not work to resist hard, and it is unrealistic for a single soldier to come out, I suggest that three thousand troops be dispatched, at least I can give an explanation to the military department." ”

Yang Sien frowned and said: "But the request of the Ministry of War is to send 10,000 troops, and we only send 3,000 troops, and there are 7,000 less, so how can we explain to the Ministry of War?" There has to be a reason. ”

Huangfu smiled and said: "The reason is easy to find, in fact, it is also a fact, Fengzhou is a border town, it is to defend against the grassland Hu people, according to the practice of the imperial court, it is generally six households with one soldier, but we are eight households and a half with one soldier, the strength itself is insufficient, if the strength is reduced by 10,000, then the defense will be greatly reduced, and it is easy to be invaded by the Hu people, you can explain this situation to the imperial court." ”

Du Ruhui said again: "I suggest that the governor can talk to Yang Taishou, I feel that although Yang Taishou is a royal family, he is very pragmatic and more sympathetic to the people's livelihood, I think he is not willing to transfer the army away, threatening the safety of Wuyuan County, his father is King Guan, and his brother is the servant of the Ministry of Officials, he can intercede with the court through his own connections, and then the general also uses the relationship of the Pei family to accommodate the Ministry of War, and finally maybe the Ministry of War can cancel this order." ”

Yang Yuanqing walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, and sighed: "Actually, I'm not worried about the military department, I think this is the meaning of the saint, the army of the country was transferred to Liaodong, and the Central Plains was empty, which highlighted the heavy troops on the frontier, a bit heavy on the outside and light on the inside, so in order to balance the troops, the saint should also reduce the frontier army accordingly, I heard that Fan Zigai, the governor of Liangzhou, and Feng Xiaoci, the governor of Daizhou, were also transferred." ”

As soon as Yang Yuanqing said this, Yang Sien patted his thigh and smiled: "I said it!" How could someone in Yanmen suddenly rebel, it turned out that Feng Xiaoci was unwilling to send troops. ”

"What's going on?" Several people looked at him together.

Yang Sien hurriedly said: "I have a subordinate who is from Yanmen County, and today he just received a letter from home, saying that the Yanmen thief commander Wentong gathered 3,000 people to rebel, and General Manager Feng led the troops to fight fiercely with the thieves, and the thieves fled into the mountains. ”

Everyone laughed, this rebellion was indeed timely, Yang Yuanqing said: "It is estimated that this thief commander Wei Wentong has already existed, and he will be used at a critical time." ”

Huangfu Xu smiled slightly: "In fact, we can also follow the example of Daizhou, for example, at this time, a certain grassland Hu tribe went south and threatened Fengzhou, but it only threatened but did not fight, then the imperial court would not transfer Fengzhou soldiers." ”

"But what steppe tribe would be so honest and obedient?" Yang Sien was puzzled.

Yang Yuanqing smiled meaningfully, Huangfu's plan coincided with his thoughts, he thought of Utu, maybe Utu could help him with this.

At this time, a soldier reported outside the door, "Report to the chief, General Yang Wei has arrived." ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded and said to everyone: "You sit down for a while, and I will come when I talk to him." ”

Yang Yuanqing walked quickly to the lobby, only to see Yang Wei standing at the door with a sad face, so he walked up and asked with a smile: "I have already sent someone to call you, why are you here now?" ”

Although Yang Wei and Yang Yuanqing are brothers, as Yang Yuanqing's authority grows stronger, no one dares to call him a brother or a brother, including Yang Wei, he hurriedly knelt down on one knee and saluted: "See the chief steward!" ”

"Get up! It's a private matter to find you today, so feel free. ”

Yang Wei stood up and scratched his head and said, "I had a bad stomach today, and I just ran halfway through, and my stomach hurt again, so I had to run back again." ”

Yang Yuanqing saw that he was interesting, so he smiled and said, "You don't look comfortable, why don't you go again?" ”

"I've just gone."

Yang Yuanqing smiled dumbly, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Come with me!" ”

Yang Yuanqing took him to his office room, closed the door, and the smile on his face disappeared.

"Sit down!"

Yang Wei sat down a little uneasily, he saw that Yang Yuanqing's face became serious, and he felt that he had something important to say to himself.

Yang Yuanqing was silent for a long time before he said slowly: "Do you remember what you told me at the beginning of the year?" ”

Yang Wei nodded, at the beginning of the year, his father wrote a letter, which revealed that the Yang family had the intention of raising troops to raise an army and asked him to return to Beijing, he told Yang Yuanqing about this, but Yang Yuanqing didn't say anything.

Yang Yuanqing pondered for a moment and said to him: "I want you to go home, if possible, bring your father, I want to have a good talk with him." ”

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