Chapter 9 Knowing the Soldiers
"That's it, go down, go down."
King Fu held his belly in both hands and began to walk down the city.
Under the city tower, there is a sedan chair waiting, and next to it, there are dozens of guards.
It is said that on weekdays, King Fu is also used to sitting in a sedan chair in the mansion.
Generally speaking, it is common for nobles to sit in the palace, but that is also because the palace is too big, and King Fu is too fat to walk.
When King Fu entered the sedan chair, the new Mianzhou prefect took the initiative to step forward and said:
"Lord Wang, let's live in Xiaguan's courtyard tonight."
"No, let's live in the government, the court constitution cannot be abolished."
"Yes."
"You don't need to send it, go back and rest early."
Around, a group of new civil and military personnel in Mianzhou City saluted the sedan chair together.
sedan car,
After breaking away from these magistrates,
The sedan chair marched slowly and evenly to the door of the palace,
The guards at the door took the initiative to open the gate of the mansion and let the sedan chair go straight in.
Although it is night, the palace is brightly lit, and you can even find blackened blood stains in some brick corners or in the cracks of the pillars.
A few months ago, a swallow dog suddenly entered the city and went straight to the government.
The line on the pillar has also been erased, but the name of the person who left it has been remembered by many people.
Break the city and enter the house to kill people and leave words,
The Yan garrison officer named "Zheng Fan" can be said to interpret the arrogance of the Yan people to the extreme.
The sedan chair has been in the backyard, and the smell of blood in the backyard is actually heavier, of course, smell, you can't smell it, but when I think of how many adults were cut off here that night, and a headless corpse is messily laid out here, it seems that the wind in the backyard has become a little gloomy.
King Fu finally got off the sedan chair,
Supported by a personal eunuch, he walked into the house.
In the house, two pots of charcoal were burning, and after King Fu sat down, the eunuch immediately brought hot water, and personally helped King Fu take off his boots and began to help King Fu soak his feet.
King Fu's ankle is already a little bruised and swollen, or because his body is too fat and he lacks exercise on weekdays, it is normal for him to travel around these days and have swelling under his feet.
The eunuch was very intimate to help massage and invigorate the muscles and blood.
On the side, his own maid brought tea, and King Fu reached out to take it and began to drink tea.
In the hall, there was also a middle-aged man in leather armor and a scribe in a bloated brocade robe.
"Hoo ......"
King Fu breathed a long sigh of relief,
Putting down the teacup,
Road:
"Don't you think it's ridiculous, those scholars often say nothing on weekdays, strange and confused, and what self-raising and righteous spirit, in the end, they don't even dare to live in this mansion."
Although this government still has the sign of the government office, the newly appointed prefect and others did not choose to work here, but rented a separate courtyard in the city.
The reason is very simple, this government has died, many, many people have died, and the dead are still their kind.
The scribe spoke:
"I can't say that they are still laughing at the prince for being too timid, and he doesn't dare to exceed the rules at all."
There are regulations everywhere, and where you live is an extremely important one, of course, other envoys may not particularly care about this, and pay attention to local conditions.
But King Fu was a vassal king, and the imperial court had always been extremely strict with the vassal king, and those civil officials would stare at the vassal king's behavior to the death.
The vassal kings of Daqian were honorable because their surname was Zhao.
But the vassal kings of Daqian are like bright spittoons, and every scholar with a sense of integrity will spit into them.
No matter when, scolding the vassal king and scolding this group of moths of the country is the political correctness of the great cadres.
Because of this, the vassal kings can only live their lives in their fiefdoms, which are very large, but they rarely even go out of the mansions, and even, they will not go out of the city once in a few years.
"Laugh at it, laugh at it, aren't they also laughing at Old Dog Yang?"
King Fu said calmly.
His image is indeed very "wide-hearted and fat".
"Lord Wang, you were on the city wall before, but you also laughed at Captain Yang."
"There's no way, Wenle, if you want to have a good relationship with a group of people, the best way is to accompany them to scold someone, the court has been surging for a while, and the excerpts of impeachment of Yang Laogou are said to have been piled up in the imperial study."
Speaking of this, King Fu reached out and touched his four-layer chin,
Road:
"It's just that along the way, let's talk from the heart, Yang Laogou is not easy, and it is not easy."
The scribe named Bunraku also nodded, and said:
"It's not easy for Captain Yang."
"This king knows about those eunuchs, the bottom is gone, they are inherently incomplete, and civil officials can do not hesitate to deceive the court staff for the sake of fame, but eunuchs actually want fame more than civil officials."
Because they are more eager to prove themselves.
King Fu raised his left foot, motioned to the eunuchs under him to wipe his feet, and continued:
"But along the way, I used to know a little bit about what our border army had become rotten, but this time I saw it with my own eyes, and I realized that it was so outrageous.
There are 800,000 border troops in the big cadres, and the annual imperial court taxes support here, but those who really live in the world instead of just living in the book may have to be discounted.
Among the remaining 400,000 people, there are also those who have been assigned as private slave coolies, and Yang Laogou's soldiers and horses in the three towns, and what can really be mobilized may only be 200,000, maybe not so much. β
As he spoke, King Fu stretched out his finger and pointed to the middle-aged man in leather armor standing there, and said:
"Meng Hui."
"The end will be."
"Tell me, if Yang Laogou dares to take the initiative to lead the army to attack, what will be the end?"
"Returning to the prince, the Yanren Jingnan army is 50,000, but with the battalion and local garrison troops behind it, there can also be more than 100,000 people."
Militarily, the Qianguo people have always had little confidence in the Yan people.
The root cause of all this is that the first battle of the 30,000 and 500,000 Zhenbei Marquis in the first generation completely broke the backbone of the Qianren's martial arts.
"Well, the number of people is even."
King Fu sighed,
The number of people is the same as that of the swallow people,
That's a fart on your own!
"Lord Wang, the Jingnan Army of the Yan people is a cavalry."
Cadres and few cavalry, this is a disease of a hundred years.
The horse farm of the Yan people is better than that of the dry people, and the Yan people are also adjacent to the desert, whether they go to buy or rob, their war horses are not lacking.
But Qianguo is different, but the methods are all thought up by people, Qianguo is rich, so he also did his own horse politics, but in the end they all ended up without a problem.
I put in a lot, but I have never seen many waves.
"Yang Laogou, although this king has been scolding him, but his ability, this king is still convinced, he can sit in the position of the governor of the three sides, and it does not depend on his niece.
Over the years, there have been many domestic rebellions, and Yang Laogou has led his troops to quell them one by one, which is a spectrum. β
This is also the reason why Taiwei Yang can be a captain, with the body of a eunuch, in such a dangerous position, but the civil officials also pinched their noses and recognized it, in fact, there are also civil officials who admit in their hearts that this eunuch will indeed fight.
"The court is surging with emotion, and they are all scolding Yang Laogou for avoiding war and cowardice, and there is a great deal of wind direction to recruit him back to Beijing to replace him as the governor of the three sides, do you know who pressed this wind discussion?"
Wenle and Meng Heng shook their heads together.
"It's Han Xianggong."
Both Wenle and Meng Heng had a look of surprise on their faces.
You know, this Han Xianggong and Yang Taiwei are the most difficult to deal with, in the past, when Yang Taiwei was not released from the palace, Han Xianggong personally went to war against Yang Taiwei, saying that he bewitched the king to disturb the palace and almost forced Yang Taiwei to be given death, although he did not die in the end, but he was also disgraced and embarrassed.
"Accident?" King Fu smiled, "Not only Han Xianggong, but also Ma Xianggong of the Fuxiang Company, all of you are angry, and together they are guaranteed to the official family, so that Yang Laogou can continue to sit in that position." β
King Fu's feet were wiped clean and fell into his boots, and he himself stood up with some difficulty, and said:
"The ministers in the court are not confused, if it is in the past, remove Yang Laogou, you will probably be happy to see it, but at this time, it is not appropriate.
Remove Yang Laogou, who was avoiding the war, and send another person up, no matter who that person is, he will not dare to follow the old path of Yang Laogou, and he will definitely find an opportunity to take the initiative to fight with Yan Ren.
The officials may not know very well how much of the army on our side of the cadres is left, but the ministers are clear and understand that the border army of our cadres will have this bit of belongings left, and if it is really gone, they can't even find the paper that pastes the windows.
Therefore, in order to calm the court, he will let this king, a waste-like vassal king, reprimand Yang Laogou.
Hehe, if you really want to reprimand, how can you choose this king to be this messenger? β
King Fu's positioning of himself is very clear.
Bunraku arched his hand:
"The prince is humble."
"No, this king is not humble, in fact, the ministers in the court have done a good job, this king was really worried that the official family would issue an edict to remove Yang Laogou or replace him.
The king's fief is in Chuzhou, once the swallow dog breaks through the three sides, the first one to suffer is the king.
However, now I am at ease.
150,000 Western troops have already gone over, there are 50,000 wolf soldiers, and the forbidden army has also drawn out 100,000, and the ancestral army on the southeast coast, which has been busy clearing out the sea bandits in the past few years, has also been transferred 50,000 to the north.
Almost calculated, the 350,000 army has come up, hehe. β
The Western Army has been suppressing the rebellion of the Tusi in the southwest of the Great Cadres, and the thorny face is also from the Western Army, so it can be said that the Western Army is the field elite that the Great Cadres rely on the most.
As long as the court gives money and food, they will be willing to fight for the court, the earliest, they were also subdued by the thorn face, and therefore, although there have been occasional turmoil in the southwest region in recent years, it is no longer a climate, and it is impossible to reproduce the scale of the erosion of the entire southwest of the Great Dry decades ago.
The ancestral army is the elite of the southeast coast of Daqian, and it is also a combatable army.
As for the Forbidden Army......
King Fu couldn't guess, because like the border army, the forbidden army stationed in Shangjing has always claimed to be 800,000, but God knows how many of these 800,000 forbidden troops stayed on the dock all day to carry goods and do business?
It is said that Han Xianggong first wanted to transfer 200,000 forbidden troops to the north, but the result was ......... I couldn't make it up, so I could only piece together 100,000 to go on the road first.
The Western Army's wolf soldiers and the ancestral army, King Fu is trusted, but the army is forbidden in Beijing, and King Fu can only think about not falling off the shelf too much.
But if you calculate the local army that has already been ordered to be drawn from various counties and states, it is estimated that you can get together another 100,000, which is really not good, and it is also okay to be an auxiliary soldier to help defend the city.
"If he wants to go south, he will try it south to see if he can gnaw at the trilateral town of my big dry."
450,000 reinforcements, although there are 100,000 forbidden troops and 100,000 troops from all over the country need to put a question mark, but with the soldiers and horses of the three towns in Yang Laogou's hands, they are used to defend the city and not fight in the field, King Fu feels that after he returns to the fiefdom, he can sleep soundly.
"Ladies and gentlemen, it's not easy." Bunraku opened his mouth and sighed.
"Isn't it?" King Fu smiled and continued: "In this world, it has long been hollowed out, and it is not easy to get together so many soldiers and horses to go north in such a short time. β
"In the current situation, I only need to hold the three counties in the north and stop Yangou, and Yangou himself will probably not be able to sustain the civil strife." Bunraku said.
This is actually the view of Zheng Fan and the blind man, Dayan's current situation seems to be a burning fire, but after all, it is difficult to last, and it is urgent to need a huge victory in foreign development to divert domestic contradictions.
Otherwise, the side effects of this horse gate valve will slowly be reflected.
"The princes also think so, Emperor Yangou is indeed a ruthless character, this knife is cut down, God knows how many of those centuries-old heirlooms can be left?
It's just that Emperor Yangou is so murderous and desperate, after all, it is the way to die, and it will never last long.
And the official family has already sent the other three roads out, and the specifications of the three roads are much higher than that of this king, hehe. β
Three ways Qincha, two of which are easy to guess, all the way to Chu State, all the way to Jin State, since Emperor Yanren has already waved his horsewhip at Qianguo, the other two countries will definitely react under the cold lips and teeth.
As for the third way......
Bunraku was puzzled at first, then relieved.
King Fu nodded and said:
"That's right, it's the desert."
"In this way, I only need to hold on to the three sides for a year, and then the Yan Kingdom will have to collapse in internal and external difficulties!"
Bunraku's eyes lit up.
King Fu stretched out his hand and rubbed his fat face,
Road:
"Actually, this king doesn't like those civil officials, because they always like to stare at this king and take a few bites, selling their fame and reputation, but what this king has to admire is that those ministers are indeed unusual.
Hehe, this king thinks that the Yangou Emperor may still be dreaming of the imperial court removing Yang Laogou. β
The allocation of troops, the formulation of strategies, and the integration of vertical and horizontal lines, one by one, and one by one, can be said to have brought political wisdom into full play.
In such a short period of time, it is quite rare to make such a series of plans.
Wenle said a little stunned at this time: "It's just a pity, if I do it......"
These words began at the beginning, but they did not continue.
If the 800,000 border troops and the 800,000 forbidden troops of the Great Cadres had not been abolished, and most of them were not only living on the military register, they would have been able to deal with Yangou much more calmly.
You must know that the annual food and salary spent by the great cadres are actually distributed according to the military register, but they have been supporting hundreds of thousands of people who do not exist......
"I'm a big guy, I can't get out of Tian Wujing."
King Fu spoke.
In fact, the affairs of the Yan State have already been introduced to the Qianguo, and over the years, the Qianguo Silver Armor Guards have done a very good job in infiltrating and espionage against the Yan Kingdom, at least, the performance of the Silver Armor Guards far exceeds the performance of the Great Qianbian Army.
Wen Le had a sneer on his face, Tian Wujing, naturally he can't do it, and it is impossible for the ministers to learn from him, knowing what the problem of the three redundans is, but no one has been able to change it, because they themselves, including the ministers' own families, their own protΓ©gΓ©s, are all one of them.
When reform requires self-reform, it will naturally not be able to carry out reform.
"Meng Hui, why don't you speak, this time Yang Laogou named and asked this king to bring you along, it can be seen that Yang Laogou really appreciates you, and he has been with you for many days, and this king also knows that you are not a talkative character, but you need to know the opportunities in life, focusing on the word 'grasp'."
When Meng Heng heard this, his face showed gratitude.
He naturally knew that tonight's conversation was not so much that King Fu was bored and wanted to say something, but in fact, King Fu was deliberately promoting himself.
King Fu told him all the information he had obtained and the details he could know, and told him that it was also so that he could behave after meeting Captain Yang tomorrow, which was a great favor.
Meng Heng knelt down,
Honest Voice:
"The last general, thank you for your help."
"Hurry up, hurry up, you can't say this, this king is a latrine, it stinks, but you must not let people know the relationship between you and this king, otherwise it will inevitably delay you."
This is said sincerely.
Meng Hui kowtowed three times to King Fu.
This is to treat King Fu as his elder.
Meng Heng was born in the Meng family.
His father was the chief military officer under the thorn-faced minister, and the southwest rebellion was unprecedentedly huge, and finally determined by the thorn-faced minister, his father, as the chief soldier, only led 8,000 cadres to defend the lonely city in the southwest for a year and waited for reinforcements.
The thorn-faced public soldiers have always been bold and aggressive, but because of this, the role of Meng Hui's father is more prominent, every time he uses troops radically, he needs a good general to guard the door, Meng Hui's father is like this, but where he guards the city, it has never been broken.
Good guarding can be said to be the family heirloom skill of the Meng family.
It's a pity that after the dismal ending of the thorny face, the Meng family was also sent away from afar because it was his arm to help.
This time, Taiwei Yang thought of this descendant of the Meng family, and his intention was self-evident.
"Meng Heng, tell me your opinion, this king, help you interrogate."
I'm going to see Captain Yang tomorrow, it's like taking an exam.
King Fu really didn't plan to get any benefits from Meng Hui, as a vassal king, the only way for him to reap the benefits was to rebel, and the reason why he helped Meng Hui was really just out of love for talent.
Meng Heng took a deep breath,
There seems to be some hesitation.
"Say, be bold." King Fu encouraged.
Meng Heng nodded,
Road:
"Your minister's arrangement and Mrs. Yang's decision are not wrong, and what the prince said is not wrong."
"Say a little bit more."
Meng Heng took a step back and bowed to King Fu,
Road:
"But, the prince doesn't know soldiers."
"............" Fu Wang.
"Ahem......" Bunraku on the side couldn't help coughing.
King Fu smiled freely and said:
"If this king can know the soldiers, then it will really be ......"
Daqian raised the vassal king as a pig, and the king of Nafu ate himself as a pig;
If the vassal king really knows how to fight, how can the imperial court rest assured?
"Captain Yang's decision is also excellent, but Captain Yang actually doesn't know how to soldier."
It is true that Captain Yang led his army to quell many rebellions, but most of them were rebellions dominated by peasant bandits.
"You go on." King Fu's face began to sink.
"The arrangement of the ministers is also excellent, but the ministers actually don't know the soldiers."
This means that you will only talk about rhetoric and talk on paper.
King Fu was a little puzzled,
Asked;
"Anything else?"
"Yes."
"Go on."
"Lord Wang, Li Liangting and Tian Wujing of the Yanren Imperial Court, how is their current status compared to the ministers of our court?"
"More than that."
King Fu replied.
God knows what Emperor Yan thinks, he dares to trust the two generals and nobles of the army like this!
What the Admiral wants to say is:
Li Liangting and Tian Wujing, know the soldiers. β
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