In the blink of an eye, it has been the ninth Double Ninth Festival of September ten years of great cause, Chongyang is also known as "stepping autumn" and March 3rd "stepping spring" are all family outpouring out, Chongyang on this day all relatives have to climb together to "avoid disasters" dogwood, chrysanthemum huā. However, the Golden Lion Fort is located on the prairie, to talk about the height, a radius of dozens of miles, but only the bell tower in the center of the Golden Lion Fort City is the highest, with a height of 33 zhang above the bell tower, and with a large clairvoyant mirror, it is the best lookout, which can take all the nearby movements into the eyes.

At this time, Chen Kefu and the generals in the army are climbing high and looking into the distance, September in Liaodong is the rainy season, but today's Chongyang is a rare sunny day, the autumn is high and cool, the blue sky and white clouds, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.

"Life is easy to grow old, and it is difficult to grow old. Now it is Chongyang, and the battlefield is yellow and fragrant.

The autumn wind is strong every year, not like spring. It is better than spring, and the sky is frosty. ”

The autumn wind blew in his face, blowing pieces of clothes, and Chen Kefu couldn't help but recite a word.

Most of the generals stood there and rushed to watch the grassland in the distance with the large clairvoyant mirror, and few people understood the meaning of Chen Kefu's words, but some of them had the meaning of playing the piano to the cow. Only Mao Xi and other uncles of the older generation all nodded their heads.

"Good, good words. Thinking of spring with autumn frost, this is said to have a bright future, and it seems that His Royal Highness is full of confidence in the great cause of restoring the country. Mao Xi stroked his beard and sighed, and gently clapped his hands and said.

Chen Kefu nodded, "Yes, everything is ready now, only the east wind is owed, and the east wind is together, and we will be above the nine heavens." ”

"The official department has just sent the official document to the court, what is your Highness's plan? To go or not to go? ”

"Go, of course, the east wind has not yet risen, and we still have to watch the sky. This time I went to the Eastern Capital to come to Chaoji, and secondly, I also wanted to marry Tang Gong's daughter, he has urged me many times for this matter, and I can't delay it any longer. Tang Gong is now our ally, and there has been some estrangement in the matter of Xuanba last time, so we can't turn against each other because of this matter. In addition, if there is chaos today and heroes from all sides compete, I also want to go to the Eastern Capital to see if I can make friends and collect some heroes. At least. should also seek alliances with other big ques in the Central Plains to help. ”

Chen Kefu said that the Chaoji is an important system of the Great Sui, the Chaoji envoy system. All the envoys of the world have ordered the stay-behind, the Taishou and the Shangzuo to be even more. If the border is to be a state general, a taishou and a state flood and drought component, it will be an official substitute. All of them were as far as Kyoto on October 25, and on November 1, the household department was introduced, and the officials were courteously met in Shangshu Province, and then gathered in the examination hall to be evaluated, and Chen Qigong was in the palace on the first day.

For example, in the land of Liaodong, "Chen Kefu, the left-behind guard, Su Wei, the comforting ambassador, the prince of Liao, the observer envoy, and the Taishou of the seven counties, as well as their Zuo Ying officials, must rush to the capital before October 25.

There are two tasks in Beijing, one is to take the class examination of the Ministry of Relocation of Officials, which is to evaluate their performance in the past year. This is very important for foreign officials, because after the final class exam,

The excellent will be rewarded, and the middle and upper will be able to pass, and if the results of the class examination are not good, then it may be punished, and the light ones will be punished and dismissed, and the heavy ones will even be dismissed.

And the envoy of the court also has an important duty, that is, to participate in the Yuan meeting of the imperial court. That is, the big court meeting on New Year's Day every year, and the court meeting on this day is the great ceremonial celebration of the imperial court. The former is administrative, while the latter is to demonstrate the authority of the central government. Every winter, local governors must enter Beijing in strict accordance with the centralized system of the central government, which is also a means to prevent local governors from entering the court, holding troops to self-respect, and even separating the territory.

Unless Chen Kefu rebels now, he has no reason not to enter the Beijing Dynasty, and if he dares not to go, it will be tantamount to secession. Although Chen Kefu is already rebelling, it is not yet the time to officially raise the banner. So Chen Kefu has to go this time, and there are still a lot of important things to do in the capital.

"Your Highness, will it be too dangerous in the capital this time, what if Yang Guang turns his face and takes this opportunity to harm you, or forcibly keeps you in the capital?" Mao Xi is still a little uneasy, the son of a daughter, can't sit down. Chen Kefu is not the same as sending it to the door by himself.

Chen Kefu gently patted the railing on the top of the bell tower, and said with a smile, "It will indeed be dangerous to go to the capital here, but we have to go, and if we start an incident now, it will do more harm than good, and it will make us pay more price." I have also been observing the situation in the DPRK and China, and in the past year, Yang Guang has been busy dealing with those old Guanlong valves, but he is deliberately raising those upstarts. Attacking a group and winning over a group, Yang Guang's meaning is very simple, he doesn't want any gate valve to be too powerful, and threaten his Yang family's world. ”,

"Compared to them, although I also make Yang Guang suspicious, but I am not the object of his most urgent eradiation. This time in the capital, as long as we deal with it carefully, our harvest will be even greater. ”

"Then you take Mao Yi and Xiao Lu with them, and bring more soldiers and horses. In case something happens, you can also take care of it. Mao Xi still didn't feel at ease.

Chen Kefu smiled lightly, turned to Mao Bo and said, "I'm going to Chaoji, not to arrest Yang Guang, I'll bring more troops, can Yang Guang rest assured?" I have already thought about this matter, I will not bring all the generals in the army, I will bring Qin Qiong and these young generals with me when I arrive. Their name is not loud,

It's not easy to attract attention, I don't bring many soldiers and horses, it's enough to bring a personal guard, if Yang Guang really wants to deal with me, I just take 10,000 people, and I can't stand anything. ”

"Alas!" Several uncles sighed softly, they were really unwilling to let Chen Kefu enter Beijing, but in the current situation, if you don't enter Beijing, you can only start in advance, which is a bit early.

He took Uncle Mao's hand and comforted him, "Uncle Mao don't worry, in fact, I have already made arrangements, although I will only take one person with me this time." However, I have already begun to send personnel to the Central Plains, and by that time there will be thousands of brothers from the Secret Service Department and the Investigation Department in the capital to protect me secretly, and I will be able to return to Liaodong safely if something happens. ”

"It's back, it's back!" Lu Shishen's loud voice sounded behind him, and he saw that the generals were looking into the distance with a clairvoyant mirror in their hands.

Chen Kefu stared into the distance, and on the vast grassland, a black line came from afar. In the distant sky, there are three green sè smoke rising, which is the beacon smoke transmission of the beacon tower, three smokes, indicating the arrival of the army, and green sè smoke, indicating their own people. The smoke is also made by those people in the army who are very skillful. Red sè smoke, representing the enemy, green sè smoke, representing one's own people, "no sè smoke, indicating that the enemy and the enemy are unknown."

The cavalry in the distance rushed closer and closer, and soon they were more than ten miles outside the city.

"Let's go, welcome our triumphant soldiers!" Chen Kefu smiled and took the lead in getting down the bell tower.

This army returned to the city. It was none other than the officers and men of the Ninth Army who had been out of the division for half a year.

Because Chen Kefu had already ordered that this expedition was mainly for military training, the soldiers were not in a hurry.

All the way steadily, half to recruit the people of the Murwei, half to train the soldiers. There is also an important task, and that is robbery. Robbing people, grabbing horses, grabbing cattle and sheep, no matter what it is, all of them are snatched up. Every time they surrounded a tribe, they robbed all the captives of their entire tribe, including cattle and sheep with tents, and sent them back to the Golden Lion City.

Since he has made a move, he will no longer give the people of Murowei the slightest chance to turn over. The Murowei people who were sent back to Liaodong were reduced to slaves regardless of men, women, and children, and adult men were even cut off from their thumbs and index fingers, and sent to various granges as serfs. In this way, they can still work. But stop thinking about shooting arrows with bows and guns and going to the battlefield with knives and guns. For the occupied places, Chen Kefu also sent a part of the government soldiers, plus the surnames of the mixed ethnic groups to the north, built castles to settle down, and carried out cattle grazing. And build a fort, build a fortress at intervals, and garrison the army.

Although the Murowei grassland is more bitter and cold than Liaodong, it is still enough for grazing, and some land can be reclaimed to be completely self-sufficient. Moreover, the army is transferred to the Murowei grassland in turn, and the army can also be sharpened and trained, and it can be counted in one fell swoop.

Chen Kefu took the generals in the city out of the city to greet them, and when the soldiers of the Ninth Army went out, there were 45,000 people, and when they came back, the number was not less, but it became 70,000 or 80,000. During the campaign, some of the Murowei tribes who took the initiative to surrender, Chen Kefu also treated them differently, and moved their entire tribe into Liaodong, and like other tribes, they were all scattered and separated and mixed with various tribes. From among his tribes, tens of thousands of young men were transferred into the army.

Joining the Hu people in the army is also benevolent. Using the Hu people as an army can not only consume the young and strong essence of all ethnic groups in the war, but also increase the strength of Chen Kefu's army. Especially in the event of a rebellion, the best and reliable use will actually be these Hu people.

And in addition to these Murowei people, there were also a large number of caravans in the army, which volunteered to accompany the army. They were responsible for transporting all kinds of grain and other logistical materials from Liaodong to sell to the Sui army, and then after the Sui army defeated every tribe of the Murofeng people, they swarmed up and bought everything owned by the Murowei people, from the population to cattle and sheep, and even to the tents, as long as they could move it, they wanted it. ,

In this way, the caravan with the army bought a lot of supplies at the lowest price, while the Sui army saved the logistics and transportation, and the second was to easily throw these booty to the caravan, without having to divide the soldiers and horses to deal with the booty and prisoners. Such a pattern made countless caravans go deep into the grasslands and follow the Sui army. They were even more enthusiastic than accompanying the army, and took the initiative to send people to help find out the information. On the vast grassland, many caravans are like ants, transporting all kinds of materials needed by the army to the north, and then transporting all kinds of massive booty purchased cheaply from the Sui army.

The slaves went all the way south.

After half a year of conquest, more than two-thirds of the five major tribes of Murowei, hundreds of thousands of people, were killed in battle or captured as slaves, and the remaining less than 200,000 people were divided into many small tribes and migrated all the way to the colder north. Most of them entered the Turkic steppes and attached themselves to the various Turkic tribes. The entire Murowei grassland, the grassland occupied by the original 34 large and small tribes in the north and south, has completely become the territory of the Sui people. In this place, which is equivalent to the size of two Goguryeo in the past, Chen Kefu built nine fortresses with a circumference of 2,000 steps, garrisoned 10,000 troops, and emigrated 180,000 people, like a chain, locking the entire Murowei grassland into the control of Liaodong. It is bounded by the Outer Khingan Mountains in the north, the Sea of Okhotsk in the east, and the Hulun Sea in the west. Even in this way, the army of the Great Sui was equivalent to going around in a circle and appearing in the northeast of the Eastern Turks, changing the previous situation that the Great Sui could only defend the Turks in Hedong, Hebei and other places. On the contrary, the entire Eastern Turks were suddenly surrounded by the north and south sides of the Great Sui Dynasty.

Chen Kefu knew that Yang Guang had been fighting the idea of the Eastern Turks recently, and the envoys along the way were sent to the Eastern Turks. And now that he has killed the small tribe of Murwei, the Liaodong soldiers and horses suddenly appeared behind the Eastern Turks. It will undoubtedly be a new situation for the Sui army against the Turks, which has changed from simple precautions in the past to frontal precautions in the south and contain the Turks in the north at any time.

He believed that Yang Guang would be very happy to know this result, and he would pay more attention to the Liaodong Army. And this is what he needs most, as long as Yang Guang still relies on him, then Yang Guang will not be able to hide so quickly.

The army returned to the south, and the wind and dust were served.

The officers and men of the Ninth Army, who had already gathered together a few days ago, were very happy to see Chen Ke return to the city to greet him.

Qin Qiong and other generals all dismounted and marched forward, kneeling on one knee, "The last general and others have lived up to the trust of the marshal, and finally pacified the room Wei!" ”

"Good!" Chen Kefu took a glass of wine from the tray held by the guards on the side. Other shì guards had already come to the generals with wine glasses and held a glass of wine for each person.

"Today's triumphant return, Ben Shuai is really happy. I Liaodong soldiers and horses, the young generation of generals have finally grown up, and after today, they will all be generals who can take charge of themselves. Come, toast, congratulations! ”

"His Majesty, He Dashuai, He!"

The crowd will look up and go away.

Chen Kefu stepped forward, patted this, knocked on that, most of these are only about twenty, and the oldest ones such as Wei Chigong brothers are only twenty-eight or nine, [the small ones such as Qin Shubao and Chen Lei are just eighteen or nineteen years old. These are the real young generation, that is, young and single-handedly cultivated.

After half a year of battlefield battles, everyone's face was blown a lot by the wind and frost, but they also took off the childishness of the past, and the brave young generals in the army grew into the main generals in the army who can stand alone.

"Okay, the whole army has returned to the city, and the commander has prepared a grand celebration banquet, as well as many rich rewards, all of which are available to the officers and men of the Ninth Army. After the banquet, the officers and men of the Ninth Army took a three-day holiday! "Lian Kefu led the horses for every general of the Ninth Army and helped them get on the horses. Every young general who was helped on the horse by Chen Kefu was moved, and the commander of the famous First Army personally helped them to get on the horse, which was a great honor!。