Chapter 121: A Guest from a Departure Country
The next day, Ji Qingchen, the king of Northern Liao, the governor of Northern Liao, and the general manager of the camp of the North School, rewarded the three armies for breaking Beirong, and tens of thousands of troops in Caozhou City were thunderous, and his actions made many soldiers have the intention of following him and being loyal to him.
According to the regulations, only those who are qualified to reward the three armed forces, as a commander of the three armed forces, does not have this right, and even if he does, he does not dare to reward the three armed forces at will, otherwise he will be suspicious.
But these are not problems with Ji Qingchen. First, he is the prince of Dayan, a serious royal nobleman, and the king of Northern Liao, and he has the qualifications to reward the three armies on behalf of the Dayan royal family. Second, he has already fought with the princes for the throne, which is well known to everyone, is he still afraid of suspicion?
It is something that others dare not do, and he can do it.
Moreover, the so-called reward for the three armies is not just a meal of wine and meat, it is to give a reward to hundreds of thousands of soldiers. That's hundreds of thousands! Even as a commander of the three armies, if he didn't have the money from the imperial court, he wouldn't have the ability to reward the three armies.
But Ji Qingchen has it, and there are quite a few of them.
Because he only gave a little reward to hundreds of thousands of soldiers, he only needed to take out the diamond given to him by Wei and sell one, and it was more than enough.
Therefore, when Ji Qingchen gathered hundreds of thousands of soldiers to the cavalry camp in the east of the city, put boxes of silver coins in front of everyone, and gave rewards one by one according to military merits, the dissatisfaction in the hearts of the soldiers who used to think that he was too ruthless and was dissatisfied with his behavior of using the cavalry battalion as a superintendent to kill his companions disappeared after receiving the reward.
Instead, there is a desperate following.
Nonsense, isn't this normal?
In the past, if you win a war, it would be good to give some reinvigoration to the dead soldiers, except for rewarding those who have made great contributions, the rest of the people are just a meal of wine and meat.
As it is now, as long as those who participate in the war have a reward, there will be more to attack.
This is different from any general in Dayan, who doesn't want to follow such a leader who is famous for everyone?
And seeing that Ji Qingchen used such a large sum of money to reward the soldiers who participated in the war, among the generals of the Northern Liao Army, except for Bai Xiangcheng, Bai Yang and Yuwen Injury and other people who knew Ji Qingchen, they felt that it was very ordinary, and the rest of the generals were surprised, but here except for Wei Quanxing and Xu Zizhang, the rest of Xiang Ziyu, Fang Wanqi, Meng Li and Xu Dachun had already followed Ji Qingchen with all their hearts, and they were happy that Ji Qingchen was able to gather the military spirit of this army so quickly.
Because it means that the strength of the Ninth Highness who they are chasing is stronger.
Think about the strength of a prince, what will he want to do? The answer to this question is clear at a glance. And as Ji Qingchen's followers, if Ji Qingchen stays in the East Palace and ascends to the throne, their future prospects are limitless.
How could Xiang Ziyu, Fang Wanqi, Meng Li, and Xu Dachun not be happy?
And Ji Qingchen did this with the intention of buying people's hearts. After all, in the battle of Caozhou, his ruthlessness made all the soldiers except for the Xiaocai battalion very dissatisfied, but they dared not speak out because of his authority and identity. Now he gives money to everyone who goes to war, and even more to those who have made meritorious deeds. I just want to tell everyone that if you do it with him Ji Qingchen, you have to show your strength and dare to work hard, so that he Ji Qingchen will not treat everyone badly.
It took a whole morning to distribute the reward money to hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and in the afternoon a banquet was held in the barracks, with enough wine and meat, so that more than 100,000 people could eat to death.
And Ji Qingchen, Xiang Ziyu, Bai Xiangcheng and other generals naturally did not eat and drink in the barracks, he just symbolically drank three glasses of wine with tens of thousands of soldiers and left the barracks.
When he returned to the plum garden where he lived, he set up a banquet for the generals of the Northern Liao Army, and everyone celebrated together.
Because of the victory, everyone has no baggage in their hearts, and they all submit to Ji Qingchen, and everyone has become people in the same boat, and there is no mustard between each other.
This meal was eaten from noon to the afternoon and was not eaten.
The banquet hall has a lively atmosphere.
Even Wei Quanxing, who has always been sick in bed and is reluctant to communicate with Ji Qingchen, also attended the banquet, and of course Xu Zizhang. Wei Quanxing's veteran has always supported the second prince Ji Ping before, so Ji Qingchen has no good impression of him, and he is only very polite out of respect for the veteran.
However, Ji Qingchen is very appreciative of Xu Zizhang, although Xu Zizhang did not submit to him, but Ji Qingchen can understand Xu Zizhang's hardships, because the relationship between teachers and students in Dayan is so big that Xu Zizhang is a student of Pei Wenju, and Pei Wenxue is a strong supporter of the fourth prince Ji Wen. If Xu Zizhang wants to betray his teacher and follow Ji Qingchen to deal with Ji Wen and Pei Wenju, Xu Zizhang will never dare. Besides, if he is willing to do this, he will definitely be sprayed to death by thousands of scholars in Dayan. Now he can make it very reasonable to let his younger brother Xu Dachun return to Ji Qingchen's side, which makes Ji Qingchen very satisfied.
As for the others, like Bai Yang and Yuwen Injury, they were neutral factions in the Yulin Cavalry and were only loyal to Emperor Yan alone.
But this time, he followed Ji Qingchen north to Caozhou, not to mention being promoted, and he also made such great achievements, which made the two of them very respectful.
However, for the two of them, what surprised them was to see in Ji Qingchen the courage and courage that a king should have, as well as decisiveness and ruthlessness. This is the real reason that attracted the two of them to Shun Ji Qingchen. Because they had only seen these excellent qualities in Emperor Yan before, and now that Ji Qingchen also had these points, the answer was naturally self-evident, how could they not be happy?
In addition, there is only Cheng Qianfan's attitude left.
Of course, there are also the generals of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, but they are Ji Qingchen's henchmen.
As for Cheng Qianfan, the deputy, he has the ability, and he is not ambitious, and he is conscientious in his work, which makes Ji Qingchen very satisfied. And Cheng Qianfan is a general who Bai Jin picked up, except for Emperor Yan, he only has Bai Jin in his heart, and now Bai Jin's grandson Bai Xiangcheng has become Ji Qingchen's henchman, and Cheng Qianfan naturally fell to Ji Qingchen.
In this way, Ji Qingchen went north this time, and the harvest was not small, he won the hearts of the army and the generals, and also defeated Beirong, establishing his status as a famous general in the Dayan Army, which is a real killing two birds with one stone.
Therefore, this banquet is a banquet for Ji Qingchen's henchmen, marking that Ji Qingchen has established his own circle in the military.
This made Ji Qingchen very happy, constantly clinking glasses with the generals, and after dozens of glasses of wine, he was slightly drunk. walked to the center of the hall, held the wine glass, and after a little thought, he chanted a song "From the Army" that made the generals in the hall applaud:
Liaozhou Changyun Dark Snow Mountain,
The lonely city looks at Yanmen Pass from afar.
Yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles,
If it is not broken, Rong Di will not return it.
The desert is dusty and dark,
The red flag was half rolled out of the gate.
The former army fought in Tao Hebei at night,
He has been reported to have captured the king of Beirong.
"Okay—" shouted the generals in the hall.
"Yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and if it is not broken, Rong Di will not return it. His Royal Highness's wish, Zi Yu has already known, today Zi Yu is willing to make an oath, and in the future, he will follow His Highness to destroy Beirong-" Xiang Ziyu shouted loudly.
The long-term depression made his will a little depressed, and Ji Qingchen didn't use him during the siege of Beirong, and only let him be in charge of the training of the young man, which was regarded as shelving him. Now that Ji Qingchen is exculpating the crime, he is willing to use him regardless of his previous suspicions, which moved Xiang Ziyu, and he had the heart to follow. Now Ji Qingchen has shown his mentality again, this time he wants to destroy Beirong, which has been in danger for thirty years. As a military general, how can he not be tempted, how can he not be affected by the surging impact of this great ambition, which has his loud echo.
"Destroy Beirong with His Highness—" The generals in the hall shouted loudly. He also expressed his attitude, ignited the atmosphere of the banquet, and pushed the banquet to a climax.
At this time, a guard hurriedly walked into the hall and reported to Li Changzheng, and after the report, he stood outside the hall, while Li Changzheng walked to Ji Qingchen's side and whispered, "Your Highness, His Royal Highness King Ning sent a few people from Ningzhou to His Highness, saying that he came from leaving the country to find His Highness." ”
"Leaving the country?" Ji Qingchen's eyelids jumped, the people who left the country who could make the third prince send people from Ningzhou all the way to Caozhou so cautiously were definitely not ordinary people, could it be- Thinking of this, Ji Qingchen hurriedly asked, "What about people?" ”
"Just wait outside the house." Li Changzheng replied in a low voice.
"You settle them down in the mansion first, and then the king will see the people sent by King Ning after the banquet." Ji Qingchen said.
After all, he has lived abroad for ten years, and no matter who comes from abroad, it must have nothing to do with him, and he can't turn people away.
"No!" Li Changzheng bowed and left.
Li Changzheng's action of reporting the problem to Ji Qingchen did not attract the attention of the generals, after all, Ji Qingchen usually chatted with Li Changzheng about some private things like today, and they were used to it. But except for Bai Xiangcheng, people who know Ji Qingchen know that something happened to Lu Dao as soon as they see Ji Qingchen's cautious attitude, but Ji Qingchen didn't show it to everyone, so he pretended not to see it, because he knew that Ji Qingchen would not hide anything from him, and he should let him know that Lu Dao would definitely tell him.
At the end of the banquet, it was already evening.
At this time, Ji Qingchen was already eight points drunk, he drank a bowl of sobering soup under the service of Mingyan, and came to the study, and the first thing he saw was a lieutenant in the escort team sent by the third prince Ji Hongchang.
This lieutenant was born in Ningzhou blue wolf riding, and he saw the domineering scene when Ji Qingchen farted Huaxixiong with a knife and forced Liu Donglou back with a knife, and after stepping into Caozhou, he heard that Ji Qingchen had six battles and six victories, and defeated the terrifying exploits of 200,000 elite horsemen in Beirong, and he was very respectful to Ji Qingchen, and when he saw Ji Qingchen, he told Ji Qingchen Ji Hongchang's words word for word.
After listening to Du Wei's words, Ji Qingchen breathed a sigh of relief, let Du Wei leave the study, and went straight to the backyard. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he was greeted by a sixteen-year-old girl and two eighteen-year-old youths. Seeing him, the three of them immediately opened their mouths and said, "Li You, Mulan, Mu Zhan, have seen Uncle Qingchen"
"Hurry up, please! Don't be polite! Although he had already learned the identities of the three people from the mouth of the captain, Ji Qingchen was still stunned for a moment when he really saw the three of them, and then immediately stepped forward and helped the three of them up.
Although Ji Qingchen was a little surprised that the three of them left the country to find him in Caozhou, he felt that there must be a big secret hidden here. But the three of them followed the Ningzhou cavalry all the way to Caozhou City, and they were already very tired, and their faces were full of exhaustion. He didn't ask long questions, just said a few words to the three of them, and asked the three of them to rest, and waited until tomorrow to talk about anything.
The three of them respected Ji Qingchen very much, and went back to their rooms to rest after receiving the order.
Seeing the backs of the three of them leaving, Ji Qingchen, who had already woken up, showed a relieved smile on his face. Because these three people are none other than Li You, the grandson of Li Qingyi, Ji Qingchen's teacher who left the country, and a pair of children of his senior brother Mu Feng, the male is called Mu Zhan, and the girl is called Mulan.
In the early morning of the next day, Li You, Mu Zhan and Mulan came to greet Ji Qingchen after breakfast. In the study, Ji Qingchen asked in detail why the three of them came to Dayan, and then they learned that the Tao was arranged by the teacher Li Qingyi, Li Qingyi felt that Ji Qingchen had obtained his true inheritance, so he sent his grandson and the eldest son of his senior brother Mu Feng to Ji Qingchen, the purpose of which was to hope that Ji Qingchen could teach the two of them well, so that they could become famous generals who were not inferior to himself.
For the teacher and the elder brother's love son, Jackie Chan decided that Ji Qingchen understood it very well. Who doesn't want their children to grow up to do something? But for sending Mulan to his side, this made Ji Qingchen a little puzzled, did the teacher really want to teach him a female general who commanded millions?
So Ji Qingchen didn't doubt the teacher's idea of letting him teach Li You and Mu Zhan to become talented, but because of Mulan, he had doubts about the teacher's arrangement. However, the three of them all went south to Caozhou from Xijing in the northwest of the country to Ningwuguan, and they didn't go to Beijing at all, let alone see Li Qingyi and Mu Feng who were exiled to the grassland in the northwest of the country, and they didn't know about some of the questions asked by Ji Qingchen. Therefore, Ji Qingchen just doubted that he couldn't get a satisfactory answer, so he could only let go of this question, chatted with the three of them for a while, and told the three of them to live in the house for a period of time to get used to it, and then he made specific arrangements.
The three of them nodded in agreement and left the study.
Ji Qingchen, who was sitting on the chair, got up, stepped forward and slowly took off the wolf blade knife placed on the knife holder in the study, and while wiping the blade, he began to recall the days when he followed his teacher Li Qingyi to study when he left the country and went to the capital. Because Ji Qingchen knew very well in his heart that although Emperor Yan also arranged a special person to teach him at that time, without Li Qingyi's ten-year teaching, there would be no Ji Qingchen who became famous in the first battle today. Especially the two battles with the Beirong cavalry this time, Ji Qingchen realized more how precious the things handed over to him by his teacher Li Qingyi were.
This precious thing is enough for a person to overthrow a dynasty, and at the same time to create a dynasty.