Gao Shiming and Li Xin broke up unhappily, rushed out of the inner city in anger, wrote a secret report, and ordered someone to send it to Beijing overnight.

Early the next morning, a messenger from the imperial court arrived, bringing with him the results of Li Xin's request for meritorious service for the Three Guards. Li Xincai, who had a document issued by the company, looked at it a few times and became furious, and slapped the document full of flyheads on the table.

It is no wonder that Li Xin was angry, almost all the meritorious personnel did not get the reward he expected. The first of them is Tian Fuzhen, who has made great contributions in this battle against the thieves. For Tian Fuzhen, there is a full official tone between the lines, saying that he is a person who treats crimes and deserves a reward, and this time he can only offset his previous crimes. Therefore, there is a division of the construction yì is, he still retains his original position, that is, the Zhengqipin Association of the Gaoshan Guard Ordnance Bureau.

From Tian Fuzhen down, Lu Jiu, Zhang Shishi, Cheng Mingjiu, Gu Shishi and others gave a general manager, and the excuse was that the reward was actually the head of the thief, because there was no head that could not be confirmed, but they were considerate of the hard work of the people, so they made an exception to promote the general. They seem to have made a big bargain, and no matter who makes such a difficulty, it is unbearable or unbearable.

"That's how the imperial court treats meritorious heroes?"

Li Xin's voice was so cold that it could almost freeze, but after all, the other party was just an errand messenger, and he was dissatisfied with him, so what could he do to help things? So he tried his best to restrain the urge to beat this person up and blast him out of Taiyuan City.

"Back to the general, the villain is just a person who runs errands and delivers letters, and how to reward the court is not something that the villain can beak."

In the face of strong psychological pressure, the messenger can actually show that he is neither humble nor arrogant, and he can be regarded as calm and calm, but Lixin still needs to convey his attitude to some people with ulterior motives in the imperial court.

The three or four people in the hall were so stiff, Tian Fuzhen stood beside Li Xin, Lu Jiu stood at the open door with a sword on his hips, and there were soldiers walking by from time to time outside the door. After a long time, Li Xincai asked dryly:

"The Messenger has had a hard journey?"

The man wiped a handful of fine beads of sweat oozing from his forehead, smacked his thirsty smoking tongue a few times, and hurriedly said, "It's not hard, it's not hard!" ”

Li Xin was relieved.

"Oh! It's good if it's not hard, there is a shortage of materials in Taiyuan City, and the remnants of thieves are rampant, so the messenger must have heard about it along the way. ”

The man was puzzled by Li Xin's words, and he didn't know how to answer, so he could only echo it.

"Yes, yes, thieves are hateful, times are difficult......"

Hearing the messenger say this, Li Xin actually laughed dryly.

"Since the messenger is considerate of the Three Guards, then it is easy to say, otherwise it will be really difficult for Ben Shuai to speak."

"Where does the general say, even if he has anything to say, just say it!"

"Good! The handsome man said bluntly, I can't hide it, there is a shortage of houses in this city, there is a shortage of food, there is really no superfluous use, so I have to ask the messenger to go back to Beijing for several days! Please also send the messenger Haihan! ”

"Haihan, Haihan!"

The messenger followed the habitual echo of two sentences, and suddenly realized that something was wrong, what is the lack of housing, food shortage, and returning to Beijing for several days, isn't this turning a corner and walking by himself! As soon as I thought about a few theories, I sighed dejectedly, got up from my seat, and didn't look back!

Until the messenger completely disappeared from view, the smile on Li Xin's face was completely gone. He once again learned from these ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee that they have the ability to succeed and fail. Anyone who does not ask about right or wrong, only asks about relatives and distance. As long as it is the opposite side, it is better to ruin the overall situation of the court than to fight to the end. Don't look at the time when they fight in the nest, one is more horizontal than the other, and one is more ruthless than the other. But once you face the Tartars and the thieves, you will become a cowardly soft egg, this is the urine of the vast majority of courtiers!

Li Xin himself sulked for a long time, and finally sighed, even if you don't reward it, Lao Tzu will reward it himself! There are still dozens of blank military attachés in his hand, and it is useless to say goodbye, and if he takes them out, he will be promoted to four levels in a row.

And selected a good day and an auspicious day, and in the city of Taiyuan, a grand public sacrifice ceremony was held for the soldiers of the Three Guards who died in the battle with the thieves. And the stone tree stele, the names of the sacrificed people are engraved on the stele one by one to commemorate the sacrifice made by the Three Guards for this city.

This was an unprecedented move thousands of years ago, not to mention the inscription of the name of an ordinary soldier on the stele, even the commander of an army disappeared in the vast history with his death. Li Xin's move is to show the world that in the Three Guards, the sacrifice of any person will be heavier than Mount Tai, and it is worth leaving a name for a thousand years.

Looking at Li Xin, who was impassionedly speaking on stage, Tian Fuzhen's eyes revealed a few complicated looks.

In the evening, Li Xin specially recruited Tian Fuzhen to his room.

"Lord Tian, the traitors of the court embarrassed Li Xin and made you suffer."

Tian Fuzhen resolutely defended the Jedi regardless of life and death in the Xinzhou Defensive Battle, bought time for the successful transfer of the Three Guards Army, and made irreplaceable contributions.

Who knew that Tian Fuzhen, who was the person concerned, was extremely open-minded, "Fuzhen is a body of guilt, and the general of the river beach is involved!" Moreover, the important ministers who regained the evil were in the center, how could they lightly promise the general's reward. ”

Li Xin was silent for a while, and pushed a piece of paper in front of Tian Fuzhen, "If the court doesn't reward it, Li Xin will reward it on their behalf." This is a five-grade military attache, from today onwards you are the commander of the Shanxi Metropolitan Command Department of the Zhengwupin Zhenfu. ”

Although there are ten civil officials of the fifth grade, it is the limit of Li Xin's ability.

"Thank you to the general for his love, promotion is no longer the wish of the lower officials, there is only one wish, and I ask the general to explain the lower officials to do some practical things, leave something for the people and future generations!"

Li Xin has relatives, Tian Fuzhen has been through the ups and downs of the sea for a long time, even if he has seen through the entanglements, but he has also lost the ambition to forge ahead, it is a pity, I can't help but sigh again, in this era, if you want to show your strength in the officialdom and realize your ideals and ambitions, you need not only the talent to govern the world, but also the need to be proficient in power, only those who survived the brutal political struggle are qualified to talk about ideals and ambitions.

But how many people have lost their original intentions in the endless struggle as soon as they enter the Huan Sea, or they are like Tian Fuzhen, who has already seen that they have no desires and desires in the first life.

"Good! Ben Shuai really has a big event, the person in charge has not yet been settled, can Lord Tian respond? ”

"General, but please command!"

When the emperor canonized him as the former general of the expedition to the west, he issued another decree, ordering him to guard Taiyuan and not leave without permission, so as not to make the previous tragedy happen again. This frustrated his plan to lead his troops south, and this led to the previous plan to form ten battalions of infantry soldiers. In addition, another thought that had been entrenched in his head for a long time once again surfaced.

"Ben Shuai wants to thoroughly investigate the details of all coal and iron mines in Taiyuan Prefecture, and the work has basically been stopped due to the thieves, and Ben Shuai hopes that they will resume work within half a month."

Tian Fuzhen is really the best candidate for this task, he served as the head of the Ordnance Bureau when he was in Gao Shanwei, and he dealt with various mines, and later contributed a lot when he established the iron factory. Now that he is supervising the resumption of work in various coal and iron mines, he must have the ability and ability, experience and experience, and he really can't find a second person to replace him.

Since then, Tian Fuzhen, as the commander of Shanxi, officially supervised the resumption of work without iron mines in various places, and a vigorous wave of recruitment began. The first thing needed to reopen the mine was manpower, and the rampant bandits provided a large number of homeless people. The mine manages food and housing and pays wages, such a good thing, the refugees naturally flock to it.

The scope of resumption of work first circled more than a dozen coal and iron mines around Taiyuan, especially a large mine between Taiyuan and Shouyang. On the same day, the miner team has begun to take shape, and the next step is to choose an auspicious day to officially go down the mine and start the mine!

Due to the influx of a large number of thieves in Taiyuan City, a large number of thieves were stranded in the city after the recovery, but in fact, these thieves were basically local victims of Shanxi, and most of them were coerced to eat for a mouthful of food. However, after the recovery, the problem gradually became prominent, and the public security situation in the city was thousands of miles different from the previous Taiyuan City, and there were even frequent fights in the play.

Therefore, in order to deter lawlessness, the Three Guards specially selected a battalion every day to conduct drills in the outer city, and the subjects of the drills were phalanx drills and live ammunition shooting, which really worked, and over time this exercise turned out to be a good place to see the scenery in the outer city of Taiyuan. As the leader of the Three Guards, Li Xin also made frequent public appearances to boost morale.

Later, this matter of doing things spread to the inner city of the Jin Palace, and in the news blockade of the Jin King's layers, it spread to the courtyard where Zhu Huiyu lived.

"Verma! Can? ”

Zhu Huiyu's clear eyes widened, and she listened to the palace maid beside her describe the scene when she was able to exercise.

"Well, yes, it's strange to say, they're not in the barracks but in public, and they're allowed to watch by the people. The day before yesterday, I went home to visit my mother, and I happened to pass by the playground, those soldiers were like being led by a thread, the row was horizontal and vertical, and they were not chaotic at all. ”

As she spoke, the palace maid pretended to whisper mysteriously: "By the way, the former general of the expedition to the west also appeared, and he personally followed the drill for a while!" ”

Zhu Huiyu was thrilled when she heard this, and an idea took shape in her mind.

The next day, outside the Jin Palace, two people dressed in the uniforms of the guards of the Jin Palace, sneakily fled into the alley next to the palace. The two men leaned against the hidden wall, their loose uniforms clearly ill-fitting, and they were afraid of their chests.

"I didn't find out! County Lord, are we really going out of the city? ”

Zhu Huiyu's eyes flashed with excitement, "Of course, of course, with my father's token here, we can go in and out of Taiyuan City at will!" ”