Really?

Don't say that Xifu is far from the rear, that is, on the front line, how many generals in the army can fight and strategize? Cui Yanjin, are these generals really bad?

But who came up with it?

Or Song Jiu, Song Jiu really came up with it, if there was no golden finger, could he come up with it?

Not to mention absurd, since ancient times, there have been too many such ridiculous things.

The four phases of Xifu, Song Jiu went to the front line, and he made great contributions, but this trouble was also wrong. Let's offset the merits. Anyway, the emperor let two princes, and one of them is considered a prospective crown prince, to greet him, which is too much.

Wang Xian is the master who does not care.

Wang Wei is a literati and has co-presided over the imperial examination with Jia Huangzhong, so who is it aimed at?

Small mouth Zhang Qixian!

is that he has the most words, and he is relatively close to Song Jiu.

Zhang Qixian asked everyone to force together, we can't afford to mess with you, but we can afford to hide. So he studied Song Jiu and asked Zhao Kuangyi to let me guard Daizhou.

I'm on the front line, what else do you say?

In fact, Zhao Kuangyi still likes Zhang Qixian, but the scholars and doctors flocked to it, and Zhao Kuangyi had to agree to Zhang Qixian's self-exile.

But soon the problem came.

Wang Xian's ability is insufficient, Wang Wei is a little better, but he is an authentic civil official, militarily a layman, Song Jiu served as a privy envoy for several years, and the Privy Council's political affairs have been deepened, which is completely different from the Privy Council in history. Zhang Qixian is here, and he can barely maintain it. However, Zhang Qixian went down, and the Privy Council continued to be a deepened and strengthened version of the Privy Council, and soon various government affairs piled up. Zhao Kuangyi had no choice but to transfer Zhang Hong into the West Mansion as a privy deputy envoy.

The front line fought bloodily, but in the blink of an eye. In the rear, it became a political transaction.

……

"Shaochun, you go to the river and have a look. There are no boats. ”

"Song Gong, do you want to take a boat?"

"Yes."

"The two princes are ...... in Huazhou"

"Shaochun. You've been following me for a long time, so you should know too much. Look, what did Zhang Qixian go to Daizhou for? The prince went hundreds of miles out of the capital to greet a minister, this honor is an honor, but when it reaches the peak, what will happen? When the moon is full, it is lost, and when the water is full, it is profitable. Ancient and modern. ”

"Duke Song wants to avoid them, so will the emperor be angry?"

"Modest. Everyone likes it, and the emperor will not be an exception. Go ahead. ”

"Whoa."

After a while, Qi Shaochun found a passenger ship.

Song Jiu said, "Let's leave." ”

"Leaving at this time?" Guo Da asked in surprise.

Outside it was the second watch, the time to sleep, not the time to walk.

"If you don't leave at this time, will you wait until dawn and the officials will come to greet and send you off? In that case, can we still be quiet in the capital? ”

"yes."

A group of more than a dozen people hurriedly left the inn and got on the passenger ship.

"Guo Da. bangs, lift me to the bow of the boat. ”

"The autumn breeze is cold, Song Gong, don't suffer from the wind cold."

"Lift."

"Good ......"

Song Gong lay on his shoulder. Qigouguan was seriously injured, the most important thing was psychological trauma, and he became seriously ill when he arrived in Xiongzhou. After two or three months, his condition has improved. However, the spirit is still languishing, and the person becomes emaciated.

Cowering in his shoulders at the moment. Although it is big, it is like an old tree in the autumn wind, trembling.

Guo Da begged the boatman for a blanket to cover Song Jiu's stomach.

"Hometown cowardice, Guo Da, I don't know how to face your younger siblings and servants when I go back, as well as the lady with a small pillow and the child who is a few years old."

"Song Gong, I don't blame you."

"It's my incompetence."

Guo Da obviously disagreed, but the fact that Song Jiu was in this mood, others didn't know the way, but they knew the way, and with the army, they couldn't prevent the tragedy from happening, so many people died.

The tragedy of the seriously wounded soldiers during the retreat to the Juma River, the pain of separation of relatives when talking to Yuping, and the bloody battle of nearly ten days, one soldier after another fell in a pool of blood, unable to collect the corpses, and turned into the "Jingguan" fertilizer on the border of Youzhou.

In fact, a natural and man-made disaster will kill many people in this era, but seeing it with your own eyes is another matter.

This is the reason for Song Jiu's illness, not just a serious injury.

"Gong Song, you are doing better than anyone else."

"Where's the good ...... Guo Da, you don't understand ......" Song Jiu said as if he was in a dream, as if awake.

"Song Gong, you don't have to blame yourself, even the small ones are willing to die on the battlefield for you." The boatman came over and said. Song Jiu got on the boat, a group of more than 20 people, with shoulders, more than a dozen horses, the hired boat is not small, the boatman is well-informed, and he knows that this pedestrian has an extraordinary background, listened for a while, and walked over and said loudly.

"Boatman, Song Gong is on your ship, and it must be kept secret."

"Whoa."

The shipowner replied, but he was so excited that he instructed several sailors: "Light, light, don't alarm Song Xianggong." ”

When several sailors heard that it was Song Jiu, they also looked at it with great admiration, but whispered:

"It turned out to be Song Gong."

"No wonder I think he's so good-looking."

"Yes, he was talking to me calmly just now, he is really the first good minister of my Great Song Dynasty."

"At that time, I heard that His Majesty sent two princes to Huazhou to greet him in person."

"Why do you want to hire a boat to go to the capital?"

"I don't know what to say."

"I heard that Song Gong was very brave in Qigou Pass, and the situation was critical at that time......"

Song Jiuwei closed his eyes, but when he heard the conversation outside, the corners of his mouth raised a wry smile, for the time being, Zhao Kuangyi thanked himself, and he couldn't hide it if he wanted to, so the battle of Qigou Pass was widely spread among the people. But if you don't know how to measure, you may be like Xiao Kou in the future. No matter how much it is compared, is there still a big credit for Xiao Kou's time?

……

"Is Song Qing back?" Zhao Kuangyi asked Liu Zhixin.

Most of these generals were injured, including Yang Ye, and many were forcibly left in the capital by Zhao Kuangyi to recuperate from their injuries.

Liu Zhixin and Song Jiu usually have a good relationship, so they asked Liu Zhixin.

"It's back, the minister visited last night. He said that he was too much merit and did not deserve to be welcomed by the two princes. So he hired a boat and quietly went home. ”

"What's the deal?"

The minister didn't know, but after Song Xianggong returned to Xiongzhou, he blamed himself very much. Then he became seriously ill. After returning to the capital, he sent a servant from his family to find the family of the martyr Hu Anguo of Qigouguan, as well as the little lady of the Zhu family and her younger brother who he was about to propose, and invited him to a banquet in Shundian. However, the two families were grieving and could not eat. Song Gong returned home unhappy, and his condition worsened. Therefore, the minister did not say a few words and retired. ”

"Shundian banquet?"

"That's right," Liu Zhixin explained again.

At that time, nearly 1,000 seriously wounded soldiers knew that they were going to die, and Song Jiu asked them to make demands, and some of them made requests that were normal. But some people make strange requests. As Hu Anguo requested, not to mention that the Zhu family had not agreed to marry his daughter, he had agreed, and the whole country was sad, and he went to Shundian to have a big meal. There was also a wounded soldier surnamed Ding who made a request, that is, Song Jiu proved that the court would give him a bereavement pension in the future, and all of them would be handed over to his delicate little lady, but she was ordered to remarry. If you don't remarry, you can't do it. His little lady is beautiful, but she is thin and weak, and she has two children, and she will finish her pension in the future. How to live. However, there is another requirement, that is, when his sons grow up, one of the sons must still have the original surname. Inherit the Ding family (Song Dynasty rules, once the mother remarries. Children often follow their husband's surname, such as Fan Zhongyan's mother who remarried to the Zhu family and became a concubine. Fan Zhongyan once changed his surname to Zhu).

If these requests were to be handled by the imperial court, they might lose their courtesy.

Therefore, when Song Jiu arrived in Xiongzhou, he handed over the list of meritorious and sacrificed soldiers to the imperial court, and these requests were not handed over to the imperial court, and he planned to personally deal with these headache requirements after he returned to Beijing.

After finishing speaking, Liu Zhixin seemed to have returned to that bloody dusk, with tears in his eyes.

People's hearts are flesh and blood, and almost more than eighty percent of the people in the hall are masters of intrigue, but at this time, most people have a layer of wetness in their eyes.

"Get up, go to Song Qing's house, I will visit him."

Zhao Kuangyi came to the Song family with hundreds of civil and military officials.

Song Jiu struggled to get up from the bed and said, "The minister is sick, and he can't meet His Majesty, and I hope Your Majesty will forgive your sins." ”

"Let's recuperate." Zhao Kuangyi personally helped Song Jiu to the bed.

"Hearing that the Qigou Pass army was defeated, I also couldn't sleep at night, and I couldn't sleep and eat restlessly. Now that the three armies are in power, I don't know what to do. ”

Zhao Pu, Zhao Changyan, Li Fang, Jia Huang and others wrote a book, some said that it was not appropriate to send troops, and some said that Your Majesty's strategy was right, but the front-line generals did it wrong. This is to cover up Zhao Kuangyi's ugliness. But Zhao Kuangyi will not take it seriously.

If the Song Dynasty is defeated, then the Liao State will inevitably counterattack.

In fact, Song Jiu only began to hear all kinds of things in the capital on the road, and he was very disappointed. is also Taizong, compared with Tang Taizong, Zhao Kuangyi is not much worse.

Of course, Li Shimin may not be so perfect, and there may be all kinds of disappointments in the Tang Dynasty.

But at least Li Shimin killed his eldest brother and brother, and dared to let the historian record it fairly, and after the defeat of Goryeo, he dared to issue an edict for his own crimes and took all the responsibility on himself.

No matter how well Zhao Kuangyi does in internal governance, this openness, this atmosphere, Zhao Kuangyi can't catch up.

Song Jiu hated Zhao Pu even more, and in order to regain the throne, he covered up Zhao Kuangyi's ugliness, but in this way, he gradually trained Zhao Kuangyi into a real Yue Buqun, and may even gradually shape a nest country that is strong internally and weak externally.

But after the most Lu also slowly thought about it, throughout the entire history of China, there were several Li Shimin. Compared with other emperors, Zhao Kuangyi is at least a middle-class asset, as for being a slave in the Qing Dynasty, better than being a slave in the dark Ming Dynasty, better than being a disciple in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, better than being in the war in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, and better than being the most inferior person in the Yuan Dynasty.

Song Jiu replied slowly: "Your Majesty, the defeat of Qigou Pass, although I have greatly injured the vitality of the dynasty, the vitality of the Liao country is also greatly damaged. The front-line soldiers are tenacious, and the Liao State will definitely invade in the future, but the ministers believe that they will definitely win and lose each other, and His Majesty does not have to worry too much. However, His Majesty, the minister wants to implore His Majesty to severely punish the minister. ”

"Song Qing ......"

"Your Majesty, I heard the ministers say that the Han and Tang Dynasty armies are mighty, of course, there are various reasons, but the most important thing is that the rewards and punishments are clear, even if they are like the famous general Li Guangzhi and others, they will also be executed for mistakes, so the generals will not dare to take it lightly, and there will be no discussion of the generals of Xiongzhou, like the shrews in the market in the big tent. The minister noticed that there was a problem with the grain and grass in Gu'an, because the minister had always regarded Cao Gong as an elder before, and he could not persistently use the power of the capital eunuch to forcibly intervene. The troops retreated to Xiongzhou, and there was no reason to fight, and when they arrived at Qigou Guanchen, they felt even worse, but their intelligence was stupid, and they didn't come up with it in the end, so that the three armies were defeated. Later, although the minister personally commanded, this credit was not the minister's, but the retreat road paved by the front-line soldiers and tens of thousands of township soldiers with blood. Therefore, the minister not only did not have merit, but had a fault, so I implore His Majesty to remove the minister from his official position, otherwise the Qigou Pass tragedy will still occur in the future. ”

Everyone was inexplicable at first, and then in a daze together, is that really the case?

But it seems that Song Jiu's expression is very sad, could it be that there is a mistake in the battle report on the front line, there is indeed a hidden truth in the middle, and Song Jiu has indeed made some serious mistakes?

Some people even planned to use the resources in their hands to carefully check the details of the situation at that time.

Song Jiu continued: "However, on the way back, because the minister walked slowly, he heard some news, which made the minister even more troublesome. Especially Li Xianggong, you said that Han Gaozu was trapped in Pingcheng with 300,000 people, so he used Fengchun's words to settle the policy of peace. Wenjing showed restraint, so the border city banquet was closed, Li Shu rested his shoulders, and there were not many injuries, and his benefits were very rich. Han Wu was a poor soldier and a meritorious demeritor, and I don't want to overestimate him. But is that really the case? Jun looked at the annals of history, and Wenjing was not disrespectful to the Huns. But the Huns have invaded many times, should it really be a border city banquet? even almost let the Xiongnu join forces with the Han Dynasty and subvert the entire Han Dynasty. It was living in this humiliating diplomatic environment that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty raised his troops in the desert. Even if you don't recover Yanyun, but if you want peace, you don't ask for it, Li Yu begged the first emperor, and the first emperor could not unify the Central Plains because of his plea? The Han and Jin dynasties were not too thin for the Hu people, but when the Jin Dynasty was in civil strife, didn't the Hu people take advantage of the situation? My dynasty is heavy on internal governance and wealthy, and our dynasty is planning to take the initiative to sue for peace, but can you guarantee that the Liao State will not greedily invade the Central Plains in the future? ”

However, too many people were killed in this battle, and Song Jiu was also a little war-weary in his heart, so he didn't want to say more, but only said a metaphor: "The minister suddenly thought of a fable, there was a loaf of bread walking on the road. ”

When the bread came out, it was called fruit, but it was still called bread at the end to distinguish it from the cake, but this industry had nothing to do with the Song family.

When Song Jiu was a few children in the family, he told many stories, some fairy tales, which gradually became circulating, and even the wives of these ministers used them to tell them to their children and grandchildren. Therefore, Song Jiu said that bread can walk, and everyone can still accept it.

Song Jiu continued: "It suddenly felt very hungry, so it ate itself. ”

The twenty or so people who stood in the room, all of them were first-class people of great intelligence, quickly imagined in their minds, and as a result, they were all blinded when they thought about it. (To be continued......)