Chapter 448: Preparation
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Everything is fine in Xuzhou, this is the unified argument in the camp of the Ming army in the North Zhili, in this era when food is always insufficient, entertainment projects are very scarce, can bring everyone enough food and entertainment like Xuzhou, and only need you to work hard to do things, then this place is basically paradise, countless people will like paradise, although Xuzhou also exists exploitation, Song Qing himself is the largest landlord and capitalist, but compared to other places in the Ming Dynasty, Xuzhou is undoubtedly much better, Naturally, the attraction to ordinary soldiers is also much greater.
Of course, there are also those who don't think so, for example, Zuo Liangyu's troops, they didn't feel the excitement there, and they also found that the people in other military camps were rejecting them if they didn't have them, and they could imagine how they felt, and they were full of resentment and even hatred for the Xuzhou soldiers, of course, it was impossible to say anything good, but they would also not say anything bad, at most, they were muttering to themselves, and when they talked to people in other military camps, people would always look at them with more strange eyes, and those eyes were full of complex perceptions, it is almost said that they are envious, jealous and hateful.
In addition to the Left Army, the various military camps have basically regarded the Xuzhou soldiers as brothers, and Song Qing did not forget to strengthen the ideological education work when he was training, and even regarded making friends as a course, so that when the Xuzhou soldiers left the mainland to fight abroad, they could quickly make friends with the locals or the troops fighting in the local area.
Don't underestimate this skill, Xuzhou has been peaceful for a long time, even if there is a big chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there is rarely anything happening, and the last thing is stewed away by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so it is estimated that there will be no big war on the local side, Xuzhou soldiers are going to fight most of the time, and as a guest army who leaves the local area to fight, how to quickly mingle with the locals and the army. Even becoming a good friend to facilitate their various actions in the local area, this skill is very important.
As long as you master this skill, you will be able to take the location as half of your hometown, and the people here will take the initiative to help you lead the way, rather than leading you to a dead end, and even after you lose the battle, it is estimated that someone will help you escape, or block the people who are pursuing you, this kind of army Song Qing has seen. This was the case with the red army back then, the common people were basically their people, and whoever came in to encircle and suppress them would be able to know the Tao two or three days earlier, and if they could achieve this level, it would be of great help to fight abroad, and to some extent, they would even be able to decide the outcome of the battle.
This is what the Xuzhou soldiers are doing now, and when more and more outsiders enter, they are not bored. On the contrary, he took the initiative to make friends with these people, and took out some of the food he usually saved and distributed it to his new friends. When eating, it will be sent to everyone's hands, so that the Xuzhou soldiers can have the goods in their hands and not panic, so that they can work harder to make new friends. Even if these new friends don't seem to be useful at the moment, they will always be useful.
After tossing for seven or eight days, Song Qing ushered in Cao Bianjiao's visit. For this Xiao Cao general, he was really impressed, when he beat Zuo Liangyu violently that day, no one in the big tent could not pull him, but this Xiao Cao general barely dragged him, of course, this has something to do with him only more than half of his strength, but this is enough to show that Xiao Cao's strength is not weak, plus he feels that he is a historical celebrity, or a figure like a national hero, of course he welcomes it, personally welcomes him from the big tent, arches his hands and says very affectionately: "I don't know if Brother Cao is coming, there is a long way to welcome, Please sit inside! ”
Cao Bianjiao is also a straightforward person, waving his hand and saying: "Don't go to sit inside, it's not interesting inside, your drama outside is very good, come with me to see it, by the way, tell me the story here, I watched it outside yesterday, and today I brought my own wine, you let your people prepare some meat or something, and snacks, let's set up a table under the table over there, and talk while eating, it's not as fun as in your tent!" ”
Song Qing smiled and said: "Then listen to you, let's eat and drink outside, anyway, there are many people, and there are still braziers, so I don't feel too cold." ”
Anyway, the two of them hooked their shoulders and walked out of the house, and the soldiers who followed Cao Bianjiao were dumbfounded, although Cao Bianjiao said that his personality was very good, but he was arrogant in his bones, to put it bluntly, it was the so-called arrogance, this kind of person usually behaved absolutely 100 points when he received people and things, but it was not easy to have a deep friendship with him, unless you let him see it, otherwise no matter who he planned to have a deep friendship with him.
The soldiers are naturally the people who are most familiar with Cao Bianjiao, after so many years, they have never seen the young general so close to anyone, and they can't imagine that now they will appear in a person who has not seen a few faces, but then they are also relieved, they have heard too much about Song Qing's name, and their ability can be regarded as having seen it, the person who is so horizontal in the left barbarian, he has not been beaten at all, I heard that he has not even been out of the camp gate in the past few days, it can be seen that he was completely scared by Song Qing, such a hero, It is indeed worth the efforts of their major generals.
As for the baby soldiers around Song Qing, as well as Xue Wu Ding Kui and others, they don't think there is anything about it, Cao Bianjiao and they don't know much about it, but Song Qing and they can't understand it anymore, they know that this is a master who is happy to be able to drink and eat meat with the big head soldiers, and after eating and drinking, they have to hug each other to wrestle and compete, so when they saw him walking shoulder to shoulder with another prison army, they all felt that it was normal, no one thought that there was anything wrong with this, but they were all thinking about what this person was worthy of Song Qing's scheme, and what benefits could he deceive back later, or something under the trap.
Song Qing naturally didn't know that he had solidified in the minds of his subordinates, so he followed Cao Bianjiao outside, asked his subordinates to set up a table closer to the stage, put wine, meat and snacks, etc., and said hello to those who were soldiers, and then ate and drank with Cao Bianjiao.
Cao Bianjiao is really a little interested in drama, not just to find an excuse, so after a few glasses of wine, the conversation began to increase, pointing to the actors on the stage and asking east and west, the main question is where most of the plots come from, Song Qing is of course very clear about these, many of the troupe's scripts are written by himself. It's not that he wrote it, he almost read it, of course the content of the story is very clear, seeing that Cao Bianjiao really seems to be interested, he began to tell him slowly, his eloquence is already good, and he is already familiar with the plot, so it sounds like talking about a story, it didn't take long for Cao Bianjiao to listen to it, and many soldiers also came over. Specially listened to Song Qing's commentary.
People are social animals, and the nature of their own people to see the excitement is from God, Song Qing and Cao Bianjiao themselves are very eye-catching, so they didn't say for a while, there were already hundreds of people outside, and when Song Qing finished the story and Cao Bianjiao also woke up, he found that he and Song Qing had been surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, and couldn't help laughing and scolding: "You boys." Watching a play or listening to a book? Get back to your seats! ”
A group of soldiers left happily, and Cao Bianjiao smiled and said: "I didn't expect General Song to be able to tell stories, I can't do it, it's okay to shout two voices to the soldiers." If I really want to tell a story like this, I can't really tell it. ”
"I like these things, and many of the dramas on stage are written by myself. Usually there are too many things and too tired, and occasionally I have a little time, so I write these things to adjust and adjust. You have to combine work and rest, no. ”
Cao Bianjiao nodded first, and then sighed and said: "I'm afraid that the good days on our side won't be long, there seems to be a change in the imperial court, Governor Hong is going to be replaced, and now it may be Chen Qiyu, I don't know who it is, if it is really replaced by this old man who doesn't know about military affairs, I'm afraid that the good days of our people will be over, just wait to run around with others." ”
It's Chen Qiyu, as long as there is not much change, it must be this unlucky uncle, but Song Qing doesn't know what Cao Bianjiao means when he says this, especially the friendship between the two is not very deep, and this friendship seems to be inappropriate, and even contrary to common sense.
Song Qing glanced at Cao Bianjiao lightly, but he was thinking about what the other party meant, and then immediately came up with the correct answer, this is just a complaint, Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao are undoubtedly loyal ministers, and loyal ministers mean that there are a lot of rules and regulations, and they will abide by it, they must not say anything out of line to this kind of person, so the court can't mention things like Wen Yuwu is inappropriate, otherwise it may be understood by the other party, after all, this is not chatting with people like Wu Sangui and Kong Youde, It's better to be careful in everything.
So, he said the marked answer, first of all, he sighed like Cao Bianjiao, and put on a helpless appearance, and then said: "I am still a courtier of the court, only the court orders, we listen to the share, there is no part of what we ask, not to mention that this is the appointment of the superintendent, it must be a civil servant, we martial artists still take care of the things of the fight, it will not be useful to think about this, and add a little more trouble to yourself, not now that there is wine in the dynasty and drunk today, eat and drink for a few days, If you really fight, whoever is an overseer will not have a good life. ”
This answer is very politically correct, Cao Bianjiao really sighed, nodded and said: "What General Song said is that Cao is just talking casually, and he never doubts the meaning of the court, let alone the emperor, if this is Lord Chen to be the governor, we can only bow down and obey orders, at most the big guys do their best, don't let anything happen to this governor, anyway, we are all generals, fighting is just commonplace, and I am even more familiar with the rogue, as long as the governor can listen, There shouldn't be any problems. ”
Cao Bianjiao's words meant that Song Qing's guess was completely correct, but although he guessed correctly, he always felt a little sad, because he suddenly found that the meaning in his heart was always the same as those good people in the traditional sense, did he have no common language with those loyal ministers in his life? If you make friends, you can only make friends like Wu Sangui, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming? Is this a loss or a advantage?
watched another drama, Cao Bianjiao was full of food and drink, and left with his own soldiers satisfied, while Song Qing was still sitting there, thinking about whether he was born a bad person, until Ding Kui came to him to discuss the next step, and then he left this very boring idea behind.
Fortunately, in the next time, he didn't have time to think about this, ten days later, the imperial court decree came down, Hong Chengchou was temporarily transferred, the new governor of the five provinces, Chen Qiyu, had already left the capital, telling everyone to wait with peace of mind, and the whole camp was really nervous, after all, Hong Chengchou's big guys were already very familiar, and he knew that he was a very easy person to get along with, especially he didn't look down on the martial artists too much, and he could get along with them, but who knew what kind of temper Lu Dao was, I heard that he was born in the military department. What if you can't see them?
Therefore, the purge of the military camp is a must, don't care whether people like the warriors or not, but it's going to fight together, it's always right to give a good impression to the governor of the five provinces, the entire Ming army camp began a crazy cleaning, and there are many soldiers up and down every day, Song Qing is naturally no exception, although he feels that his military camp is very clean, because this habit has long been formed, but since everyone is busy, it is not appropriate for him to be idle here, so it is easy to be hated, so it is also necessary to be busy, At least let everyone feel that everyone is doing the same thing, even the most leisurely Xuzhou Bing, so that the mentality can naturally be balanced a lot.
But what Song Qing didn't expect was that all his efforts were done in vain, Chen Qiyu had not yet arrived, and had already sent an order to come, asking him to retreat into Henan with the Xuzhou soldiers, and be ready to meet the rogues who might flee in the past, this order made him ecstatic, immediately stopped the whole army cleaning, and took the silver to buy some wine and meat nearby, and had a big party with the generals, and then began to arrange people to pack up their things, and happily prepare to leave this place, and continue to return to Henan The place that made him a comfortable nest, Waiting for the order to withdraw to Xuzhou or go north later.
Before leaving, Cao Bianjiao was very reluctant to hold his hand, and bluntly said that he thought he would be able to fight hand in hand this time, who knew that this kind of thing would happen in Lu Dao, which was really embarrassing, although Song Qing said that he was already happy in his heart, he had to put on a painful appearance on the surface, and repeated Cao Bianjiao's words over and over again, in order to show that he was also very reluctant, and hoped to stay and continue to fight with everyone, and for a while he really won a lot of goodwill, but many people still felt that Song Qing had lost, and this time the court soldiers were lucky, It is clear that he wants to earn military merits, and at this time, he went to Henan to guard the possible rout and rogues, obviously there is not much credit to earn, and there is still some sympathy for him. (To be continued......)