This time, Zhao Ta made people cast a thousand gold bowls, 3,000 silver bowls and 5,000 silver cups to reward meritorious service, Li Gang picked up a gold bowl and looked at it, the bowl was engraved with the words "protect the family and defend the country, and the merits will last forever". Due to the hasty production of time, it is not exquisite, and it even looks very rough, but it is full of weight, and it is by no means the kind of shoddy stuff that is as thin as a cicada's wings.

"Alas, the Hezhong Army has captured a lot this time, and these gold and silver bowls alone are no less than 200,000 yuan!" Fan Qiong looked at the gold and silver bowls being taken away by the sergeants, and couldn't help but say with hot eyes.

"Hmph, these gold and silver bowls were all cast by King Yan from scattering his own private wealth, but they were not seized, I'm afraid no one here is willing to do this, right?" Wang Yu snorted coldly and said.

"It is said that King Yan is righteous and squanders money, it seems that this is indeed the case, and it is sad that the soldiers used their lives!" Fan Qiong sneered and said, the emperor sits on the Great Song Dynasty, and only takes out a thousand taels of gold to make the flesh hurt, it is really not as generous as this Yan Wang, but the wool is out of the sheep, I heard that when the army was dispatched, there were two million yuan in donations, and 200,000 yuan was only one out of ten, and the big head still fell in his pocket, and the Yan King's account was clear.

But Fan Qiong was soon slapped in the face, and Xu Hong, the grain and grass officer, soon announced that in addition to the expenses, all the donations from all walks of life were used for the severance pay of the volunteers and township soldiers and the cost of compensating the casualties of the soldiers, and not a penny was put into the pocket of King Yan. His own judgment error made Fan Qiong feel very unhappy, he wanted to see that the soldiers had rewarded gold and silver bowls, so what should the officer reward?

Things disappointed Fan Qiong again, the left army was all over Yeli got the armor and bow of the golden general Wan Yan Yanmu, but his horse and long knife were returned to the right army Du Tong Zhengchuan, just this thing worth three or four hundred yuan is happy to make two people fart. Other generals get less. Some are the flags of the Jin generals, and some are the weapons of a certain general. Anyway, they were worthless rags, but no one expressed any dissatisfaction. As if this was the best reward they had ever received...

After the meeting, it was naturally a dinner for slaughtering pigs and sheep, because there was such a group of distinguished guests, Zhao Ta ordered people to set up a pergola, so they didn't let them sit on the ground in the open air like the soldiers, and the civil and military generals in Hedong had their own subordinates to accompany them, and Zhao Ta, Li Gang, and Zhang Xiaochun occupied a tent in order to talk.

"The food is shabby, forgive me, two adults!" Zhao Ta said to the two. He was not polite, the dishes on their respective tables were no different from those of the sergeants, but the large basins were replaced with plates, and they looked more elegant.

"Compared to the siege of the city, this is already a delicacy, the prince is polite!" Zhang Xiaochun, who has experienced half a year of siege, is a person who has endured hardships and hunger, and is no longer so particular about diet, so he picked up a piece of meat and said.

"It doesn't matter. Fun with the people, and where are you so particular in the army! Li Gang looked at the dishes on the table and frowned slightly, obviously surprised that the prince was so unsophisticated. Speaking of his family background, it is very promising, and it comes from the clan of the Tang Dynasty. The ancestor of their family served as the assassin of Jianzhou in the Tang Dynasty because of his clan status.

Li Gang's ancestors were favored by his ancestors, and his father Li Kui was also a close minister of the emperor. He himself was an official in the court for many years after the age of thirty. And the officials of the Great Song Dynasty were treated the most generously in all dynasties. Coupled with his background and status, his family also has a lot of wealth. There is no shortage of money at all, naturally there is no shortage of fine clothes and food, and they live a luxurious life, of course, people spend their own money, which does not affect their political position.

"The two lords are here to dismiss the reinforcements in the river and urge the king to return to Beijing, right?" Zhao Ta took a sip of wine and said with a smile.

"Ahem... Not bad! Li Gang didn't expect the prince to speak so unelegantly, and before he drank two glasses of wine, he bluntly said that he broke the point, and he didn't turn a corner at all, "The saint has issued an edict several times to ask the prince about the current situation, hoping that the prince can enter Beijing as soon as possible to take up his post and share his worries for the king!" ”

"Hehe, you can't talk about worrying, don't let the royal brother worry, and the king will be satisfied!" Zhao Ta smiled and raised his glass to invite the two to drink together.

"The prince said that he was laughing, the saint is thirsty for talent, the prince has a strategy, is brave and good at fighting, and it is the time to employ people in the court, and the prince will be able to show his ambitions after returning to Beijing!" Li Gang also knew that he was speaking with a clear conscience, and the prince was afraid that he would be worse than himself this time.

"Anyway, this king has decided to withdraw the troops of the Hezhong Army and return to the field in three days, and I will return to Beijing to take up my post, and the two of you can sleep well!" Zhao Ta said.

"Oh, is this true?!" Li Gang was surprised and delighted, he thought that he would have to grind his mouth, but he didn't expect the prince to agree to leave so happily.

"There is no joke in the army!" Zhao Ta said with a solemn face.

"Okay, the lower official will put on a banquet for the prince to see him off!" Li Gang took a cup and drank it.

"As soon as the prince goes, Hedong will lose its pillar, and if the Jurchens send troops to attack again, who can stop them." Zhang Xiaochun drank the wine in the cup with a gloomy face.

"Eh, although this king has left, but there is Lord Li in the east of the river, and he is also a strong advocate of resisting Jin in the court, and there will never be another incident of Tong Guan abandoning the army and fleeing!" Zhao Ta said with a smile, "And now that there are 200,000 male soldiers in Hedong, how can the Jurchens easily go south again, and Hedong will be entrusted to Master Li in the future." ”

"Don't be ashamed of the prince, if it weren't for the prince to send troops to relieve the siege first, the lower officials wouldn't know how to deal with it!" Li Gang smiled bitterly, "Although the lower officials now have another 200,000 soldiers, but they are few good generals, I am a scholar, where do I know how to use soldiers, and I ask the prince to give me advice!" ”

"The adults are too humble, and they can't teach them, but there are two heartfelt words that don't vomit or be unhappy!" Zhao Ta waved his hand and said.

"Although the prince speaks, the lower officials listen to him!" Li Gang arched his hand.

"From the king's point of view, although Lord Li is called a commander, he actually has no right to send troops, which is a taboo for using troops!" Zhao Ta Zhengse said, Li Gang nodded and acquiesced, "The defense of Hedong is in Yanmen, but it is very difficult to recover Yanmen with the soldiers in the hands of adults." And it is now August, it is the time when the horses are fat and the grass is strong, and the Jurchens will definitely go south again, so the top priority of the adults is not to take the Yanmen, but to guard the two passes of Shiling and Chitang, and Taiyuan City should also build a high city, dig deep trenches, hoard grain and grass, and recruit brave and strong, just in case! ”

"The Jurchen is newly defeated, I am afraid that I will not be able to go south again this year, right?" Li Gang said.

"Don't have a fluke heart, the Jin army in Zhongjing tens of thousands of troops to send reinforcements, although there are thousands of miles, but they are mostly cavalry troops can be reached in an instant, if Hedong is lost, then the Beijing division will be caught in the fire again!" Zhao Ta said that in history, the Jin army went south again soon after, Zong Han broke through Taiyuan, and the two Jin armies would open the city, and the result was to let the family give Lianwo end!

"Well, the lower officials have written it down, and the prince must be careful in everything after returning to Beijing!" Li Gang said, and also vaguely reminded the prince, hoping that he would not repeat his mistakes... (To be continued......)