On the second day after Zhang Guangsi left Jin Province, Karjishan sent Fu Heng to Linxian County 100,000 urgent documents, reporting that "5,000 bandits gathered and besieged the city for three days, and the soldiers and civilians in the city struggled to resist the enemy." The thieves set up camp around the city, as if they were bound to do so. At present, there are no more than 1,000 tired soldiers in the city, and the people are 30,000. I implore the Xiantai to send troops quickly to save the eyebrows. It's very critical. After reading it, Fu Heng was already sweating on the tip of his nose: It has always been said that there are only more than 1,000 bandits in the Tuo Peak, where is the number of "5,000" people? Zhang Guangsi is an arrogant general, and he sent three bastards who only knew that "white knives go in and red knives come out" to bring the thin battalion soldiers in Shanxi, and he did not go there in person.

Fu Heng pondered for a moment, sealed the original, and immediately sat down to write a recital for Qianlong, detailing the situation in Jin Province and the process of handing over military power with Zhang Guangsi, and finally wrote: "The minister will leave the provincial capital tonight and go to Yanmen Pass to deal with military affairs. Hurriedly led the army to attack the peak of Heicha Mountain, smashed the enemy's rear road, and used the strategy of 'encircling Wei to save Zhao', delaying the enemy's situation, and Xu Tu annihilated. Never in this corner of the place, the rabble of thousands of bandits bowed to the saint again, and they were extremely ashamed and hurried. After writing the chapter, he wrote a letter to Liu Tongxun, asking for the secondment of Wu Blind to serve in front of the army for defense.

"These three pieces will be sent to the military aircraft in an expedited manner of 800 miles." After Fu Heng finished writing, he threw his pen and breathed a sigh of relief, and handed the document to Goshha: "Ask our people to prepare horses, and we will go to Yanmen Pass in Daizhou tonight!" As soon as the words fell, a report came in from outside and said: "Li Shiyao, who is from Shizhou, has come to see Master Fu!" Fu Heng saw that the sky was already dark, and he was so anxious at the moment, where could he take care of seeing this little sentence? He waved his hand and ordered: "Just say that Ben Qincha has an order, and the civil officials are now gone!" ”

"Wow!"

"Come back!"

In an instant, Fu Heng changed his mind, it was adjacent to Shi and Linxian, but it was only a hundred miles away, so he must know the enemy's situation in detail, so it would be good to call in and ask. He pondered and said, "You guys are ready to pack, and I'll meet this person." Then he turned his face to Goshha, who was holding the paperwork in a daze, and said, "What are you doing standing?" The bandits are thousands of miles away, and you are dizzy? Goshha hurriedly said: "I am a veteran. You don't have a final order, I can't move. Fu Heng waved his hand and ordered him to run an errand, and he saw Li Shiyao walking in quickly.

"Li Shiyao, um......" Fu Heng pressed the anxiety in his heart, and slowly took square steps, until Li Shiyao saluted and got up, and then said: "I have seen your name on Eshan's protégé directory." 'Shi Yao', the name is very eye-catching, so I remember it, but is it? Li Shiyao's shrewd triangular eyes flashed, and he bowed down and said, "That's a mistake by Lord E." He is a protégé of the Son of Heaven. Long live the Lord personally took the middle, personally gave the poem, and personally 'punished' me for coming to Shanxi to serve as a general judge. Fu Heng remembered the anecdote about Qianlong personally going to the examination room to get a madman, and couldn't help laughing: "I've heard about this a long time ago, but I didn't know that you were that person." I'm very busy at this time, though. I don't care about being funny with you. Why did you come to see me? ”

Li Shiyao said: "I just met Kazhongcheng. A Qing guest over there told me about the current situation in Heicha Mountain, and came to see Qin Cha to offer advice! "You're smart." Although Fu Heng felt that Li Shiyao was too drilling, he also liked him for being smart, and said: "This is a matter of Linxian County, you are from Shitongju, and you have to stretch out your hand for other state and county affairs?" As soon as the words fell, Li Shiyao said: "The sixth master is wrong. ”

Several Goshkha on both sides were stunned. With Fu Heng's young high position, and he is a relative of the emperor, he is a powerful lord, and there are hundreds of officials who come to see Fu Heng, and there are all kinds of slanders, but such a sesame official, who accuses Fu Heng of being "wrong" in person, is unprecedented. was worried about Fu Heng's seizure, but saw Fu Heng smile silently and asked, "Why am I wrong?" "I, Li Shiyao, promise myself as a national soldier. The countryman should take the affairs of the world as his business. Li Shiyao looked up under the lamp, and said loudly: "This is my duty, Linxian and Lishi are dependent on each other." Can lips and teeth not be cold? Fu Heng groaned and looked at Li Shiyao silently. He couldn't figure out for a while whether this person was really talented or just here for speculation. After a while, he said, "Don't talk about these empty things." What do you have for me? ”

"Siege Wei to save Zhao. Straight to the bandits' dens to relieve the danger of Linxian County! ”

Fu Heng looked up to the sky and laughed, and said, "Sure enough, I have insight! I've thought about it though. Tonight, we will set off to Yanmen Pass to transfer troops, first attack the cottage, and then Xu Tu will forge ahead. It has played the saints of the present. Li Shiyao saw Fu Heng staring at him with sarcastic eyes, but he only snorted slightly. said: "I understand that adults look down on me. Because I'm a small official! "Say goodbye, salute, and leave. Seeing that he was so rude, Fu Heng was immediately so angry that his hands and feet were cold. Break and shout: "Stop! ”

"Sixth Master!" Li Shuyao stood firmly, turned around and asked casually, "Do you have something?" ”

"I was so indulgent with my subordinates that I was used to them being rude. It's really hard to raise a villain! Fu Heng's face was pale, "How many big things do I have here, I received you unusually, and I heard you boast of being a 'national soldier' and offering boring schemes, why do I look down on you?" You've been presumptuous to the extreme! ”

Li Shuyao stared at Fu Heng's fierce gaze without fear, suddenly smiled, and said, "May I ask my lord: how far is it from here to Daizhou Yanmen Pass?" ”

"Seven hundred and twenty miles."

"If you don't eat, drink, or sleep, you will use fast horses for two nights and one day." Li Shiyao said, "From Daizhou to Heicha Mountain, and then to the southwest, it is another 800 miles, and thousands of people and horses are running for their lives, and it will take at least ten days!" Such a 'encirclement of Wei to save Zhao' is unheard of and unseen! ”

Fu Heng was taken aback when he heard this! I can't think of the self-proclaimed "encircling Wei to save Zhao" clever plan, but it is just a false name and unrealistic feelings. Fu Heng took a step forward with difficulty, stared at the aggressive Li Shiyao, his face was red and white, he snorted for a long time, and finally said: "I didn't expect the whole thing to be wrong...... Sir......" He quickly became fluent, "I hope that Mr. will forgive me Fu Heng Menglang, there will be a clever plan to teach me!" "Hit the ground as he spoke!

"Sixth Master, how can I afford it?" Seeing that Fu Heng was so willing to condescend to the corporal, Li Shiyao hurriedly returned the salute and said: "Shu Yao's opinion may not be good, and it is a risky move, I am afraid that the sixth master may not be able to adopt it." Fu Heng pulled over the chair, pressed Li Shiyao to sit down, and while ordering someone to serve tea, he sat down himself, and arched in the chair, saying: "The soldiers are fierce and dangerous, how can there be a perfect strategy?" If it's better than mine, I'll use it. ”

Li Shiyao bowed and returned the salute, sat up straight and said, "It has been more than ten years since the bandits of Heicha Mountain gathered to carry the peak. It was only last year that Piao Gao and a female disciple went to preach the Zhengyang Sect, and they really pulled the flag and set off the cannon to do it - it turned out that they were all bandits and farmers, resisting the government's taxes, and forcing large households to reduce rent and waive rent. When the officers and soldiers came to the Yamen, they went up to the mountain village, and the officers and soldiers went to them and then went down the mountain to still farm. In fact, it was still peaceful here during the Kangxi period. The Holy Ancestor came back from the west, crossed the Yellow River in the east, passed through Linxian County, the people had donated 1,000 stone of oats, and the cart was carried to the front of the army, and the Holy Ancestor wrote the four big characters of "the people's customs are pure", and the stele is still in ......"

"But after the second year of Yongzheng, several bad county orders came one after another, urgently levied and extorted taxes, imposed many taxes, and tried their best to make money - it was not for corruption, but for a 'outstanding political performance' evaluation, so that the rich and tenants were all poor. Do you think, in this cold and thin land, the fire consumes silver to one dollar and seven cents, can there be anything that is not reversed? Li Shuyao glanced at Fu Heng and said, "Sixth Master, don't think I'm going far, in fact, this is the source of chaos." This time, even if the bandits are quelled, the army will still be the same as before! ”

Fu Heng leaned forward and smiled, "I'm not impatient to listen. I'm anxious to hear your best way out of the siege. ”

"Linxian County is 400 miles away from the provincial capital, and Heichashan is only more than 300 miles. We are about 300 miles away from Shi to Heicha Mountain," Li Shiyao's eyes flickered, "Qin sent 500 elites from the provincial capital, and from here to the west, I returned to the county at night - in order to prevent the bandits from Heicha Mountain from disturbing me from leaving Shi, I trained 2,000 militiamen, and 1,000 have been assembled. I led the militia from south to north to Heicha Mountain, and we met our troops in Mafang to attack Heicha Mountain while we were weak. This is the real rush. Piaogao They just thought that Qin Cha wanted to transfer the troops at Yanmen Pass, so they were relieved to boldly attack Linxian. First, it is easy to create momentum by attacking the state and county, and you can raise military salaries, and secondly, if you attack Linxian, you will have more reliance, that is, the army will press the border, and it is very convenient to flee west to northern Shaanxi. ”

Fu Heng thought in his heart, this was indeed a dangerous move, but it did take advantage of the two opportunities of surprise and the speed of the soldiers, thought about it, and asked: "As far as you know, how many troops are there in Piaogao?" ”

"Five thousand people are categorically none." Li Shiyao said with a smile, "The magistrate reports the case of bandits, this is a common trick. If you lose, you will confess, and if you win, you will invite credit. He changed his words and became extremely sharp, "But please pay attention to the fact that the local people are poisoned by the government, and there are cases of helping bandits refuse officials to come out to help fight Taiping boxing and robbing while the fire is hot." So the momentum is big. ”

Fu Heng thought about it, with these 1,500 new troops, the surprise attack of the surprise soldiers can indeed fight. Even if he couldn't beat the pack peak, the soldiers and horses of Yanmen Pass brought by Fan Gaojie just happened to come over. So although it is dangerous, it is almost foolproof. I remembered that the ancestor Gongfu Cha Hailan led a thousand iron cavalry to raid Yangzhou, and when attacking the city, the Ming army was hooked by the iron hook of the city and hung on the city wall, and the hanging rod was still killed by the Ming army. The young nobleman's blood boiled all over his body, and he stood up with a "swish" and said, "The eldest husband has made meritorious contributions, and at this time, too!" He turned his face to Li Shiyao and said, "If you don't go back to Lishi, just stay with me to counsel military affairs." I'll give you the name of the Senate, and I'll send you to play the Ming Sheng! Without further ado, I'll go to the governor's yamen now to ask for soldiers' salaries. You wrote a letter and ordered you to leave the stone with 1,000 militiamen, and arrive at Mafang within three days to be on standby! ”

"Yes, I understand!"

Fu Heng stopped talking, put his sword on his waist, took a few personal soldiers and flew on the horse, and ran wildly in the dark night streets.

At this time, it has come to the time of Hai, the weather at the end of March, the night is cold, and the sky is cloudy, the governor's yamen has already been closed, under the dim lamp, a few Goshha vigil is boring, sitting in front of the eaves of the building to pinch peanuts and eat wine and knock teeth. Hearing the sound of horses' hooves, they all stood up, and looked in astonishment to see that several horsemen had flown down. The door official Liao Qingge hurriedly shouted:

"Who? Hold it! ”

"It's me." Fu Heng strode over with a horsewhip in one hand and a sword in the other, and he couldn't see his face clearly under the dim light, so he only said, "I'm Fu Heng, the minister of the Qin Mission, and I have something urgent to see Khaljishan immediately." ”

Liao Qingge looked at it for a long time before he recognized it as Fu Heng, and said with a busy smile: "Humble position, please go immediately." But by this time, we were already asleep. Layer by layer to the back hall, it will take a while, the middle hall will sit down, let's go in! As he spoke, he took two Goshkha with him, opened the door and went in. Fu Heng was full of anxiety, going back and forth in circles, counting the hours. Seeing Khaljishan, he notified the garrison flag battalion to transfer troops and assemble for training, even if he set off immediately, it would be at the beginning of the end of the year, how many miles could he catch tonight? Thinking about it, he looked up and saw the dusty drum in the east wall fence, and he had an idea to push the gate open. Go in, turn the whip upside down, and slam it up. The dull sound of "knock ......" immediately resounded everywhere!

In the afternoon, Khaljishan and the feudal secretary Sahalang held a meeting to deliver grain and grass to the Daizhou battalion, and gave preferential care to the military family members. When he opened the door in his clothes and shoes, he saw several maids and servants standing at the second gate at a loss. Karjishan asked angrily, "What's going on outside!" Did Taiyuan City come in and ring the horse? There was a knock at the second door as he spoke; Outside, Liao Qingge shouted: "Master Zhongcheng, Master Fu Liuye wants to see Zhongcheng, there is something urgent!" Xiao Qiao only got dressed at this time, came out with his robe and boots, and several family members changed into official clothes for Khaljishan under the eaves, and they were busy.

"Mess around!" Khaljishan was very unhappy in his heart, and while striding out, he scolded in his heart: "Wherever you go, you can stir up!" But he asked Liao Qingge, "What did the sixth master say?" Are you here to preach the holy decree? ”

"Not really. However, the sixth master seems to have military affairs, and the few people he brings are all fully armed. Even cowhide armor is worn. ”

"You go and ask them to open the middle door, and I'll go out to meet them in the signing room."

Liao Qingge flew out, and the door opened in a short time. Khaljishan's mind was bright, and he also came to his senses at this moment: the person who came was a young upstart, and he must not be offended. Seeing Fu Heng coming in majesticly, Kar Jishan greeted him with a smile on his face and said, "Sixth Master, it really scares me!" I'm writing an excerpt in the back, and it's smashing loudly. To be honest, I haven't heard the sound of the drums yet! ”

"How dare you disturb the night without anything? I'm in a hurry! Fu Heng smiled slightly, followed Khaljishan into the signing room, and did not sit, but stood and said his plan to immediately attack the Tuo Peak,...... "Now I don't want anything, give me five hundred strong men, and tell Sahar Liang tomorrow, and each family member will send three hundred taels of silver." I'll sit here and wait, and I'll leave at once. ”

Khaljishan was really taken aback: "Sixth Master, isn't this child's play?" I've only seen this kind of thing in plays. But he soon realized his gaffe, his tone became solemn and calm, and he frowned and said: "This place is three or four hundred miles away from Heicha Mountain, the mountains are high and the forests are dense and the roads are dangerous, and thousands of bandits are entrenched in it. In case of a stumble, we will not be able to explain to the imperial court. Five hundred people is a trivial matter, and silver is easy to handle, so it is enough to patrol the camp of the yamen, but ......" He shook his head again and again, and stopped talking.

"You've seen it in the play, I've read it in the book." Fu Heng didn't want to rub his mouth with this glazed egg governor at all, smiled coldly, turned around and walked to the bookcase, and wrote on rice paper:

The governor of Shanxi, Yamen, immediately dispatched 500 sergeants to Fu Heng, the minister of the Qin Mission, to obey the order.

This order!

After writing, he handed it to Khaljishan: "Give you this, rest assured!" Kharjishan glanced at it, and suddenly laughed: "Zhongtang, I am also a seven-foot husband!" Bing, you take it away immediately. I don't want this order, I share the honor and disgrace with the adults! With that, the lamp burned the oracle. Fu Heng looked at Karjishan in amazement and said, "It's a Manchurian hero!" ”

On the evening of the second day, Fu Heng's 800 miles stepped up and handed it to the military aircraft. Seeing that it was an urgent matter for the bandits to besiege the state and county, he ordered Qin Yu, the eunuch on duty at the Military Aircraft Department, to report to the Yangxin Palace quickly, and followed him to the mouth of the water alley to wait for the will. After less than a bag of cigarettes, Gao Wuyong brought Qin Yu over, "Tell your relatives to see you immediately." ”

"The magistrate is very hateful for stealing and misleading the country!" Qianlong read the folds and the urgent report, gently pushed it aside, and said: "Shanxi has always reported that there are only more than 1,000 people in Piaogao. Where did these 5,000 bandits come from? The military aircraft department doesn't check these things, and it doesn't care if you go to the study, I really don't know what you do every day! Originally, he wanted to explain a few words, but after listening to Qianlong's count, including himself, he had to swallow a mouthful of saliva and said with a smile: "The emperor is responsible." There is a particular thing here, in order to seek praise, civil officials always have to whitewash the peace, and talk about their own achievements; As for the military attaché, he made a fortune by suppressing thieves and catching thieves, and always made the enemy extremely dangerous. For example, each county has a patrol and inspection sub-division, which is not under the jurisdiction of the county order and is subordinate to the local garrison. In this way, the civil and military supervise each other, and the situation may be better. Qianlong thought for a while and said with a smile: "Yue Fei said that civil officials don't love money, military attaches are not afraid of death, and the world is peaceful." Nowadays, civil and military officials are afraid of death and love money, how is it good that the world is going down! Keep these excerpts. You go to the Fourteenth Baylor Mansion and give the Fourteenth Master a guide to the Shanxi bandits and Fu Hengcuo's strategy. If he doesn't have an opinion, you don't have to come. If you think it's not right, come in again tonight and bring me the words of Fourteen Belles. I won't enter the inner palace tonight, so I'll read the chapter here. ”

The relatives agreed again and again and withdrew. Qianlong thought that the light was too dim, so he asked someone to light two large candles behind him, and inspected the music movements in various places one by one. Because he saw Gao Heng report the collapse of the bandits in Jiangxi, the area around Luoxiao Mountain has been cleared. Qianlong groaned slightly, dipped his pen in cinnabar, and commented:

If it's good, it's good, but it's not over. Where is the leader of the bandits? Send the prisoner to Beijing to show me! If you haven't been to the former enemy in person, how do you know that it has been "cleared", and Erguo went to Luoxiao Mountain? I see that there are few things to do, follow the example of Yi and others, and turn to deceive Tiancongye? If you don't capture the first branch of the bandits, come to Beijing to inspect it, I don't believe it!

Write and set aside. He looked through another copy, which was Yin Jishan's establishment of a righteous warehouse in Nanjing, a simple accumulation of grain, and a provision for relief in times of famine. Qianlong wanted to let it go, but took it back and approved a few sentences:

Got it. This is a solid move to take office, and don't avoid resentment and do it boldly. Jiangnan is the foundation of wealth. The hometown of humanities, with your Xiao Yin, is not hard-working.

After writing it, I took a closer look at Fu Heng's excerpts, consulted the emergency report documents of Linxian County, pondered for a while, and wrote:

Erzhi listed the situation in Shanxi in detail, and wanted to leave a place for avoiding punishment on a different day? The first task of this mission is to suppress the thieves who carry the peak, and make the enemy sit big, who will be to blame? The Jiangxi bandits have been wiped out. If Shanxi falls, even if I don't add guilt, how will you see me?

He leaned back and sighed, and suddenly thought of Tang'er, and was about to comfort and encourage Fu Heng a few words, when Gao Wuyong came in and reported: "Ne Qin and Fourteen Baylor, please see you, at the mouth of Yongxiang." The palace gate has been keyed, and you have to ask for a decree to open the door and release people. ”

"Please!"

Qianlong said that he leaned down to the kang, because he was only wearing a robe, he hurriedly tied his belt, and put on a moon-white silk poplin jacket, and just stopped wearing, Neqin and Yun had already come in. Seeing that Yun was about to make a big salute, Qianlong hurriedly supported him, with a smile on his face, and said: "Uncle Fourteen, this layer is exempted if you meet privately in the future!" When I was a child, I and Lao Wu often rolled in your arms, twisting candy like a grasshopper, thinking about it as if it was yesterday, now the name is different, and I am more restrained, what is the interest of the word "family"? ”

"Long live you say that, but the minister doesn't dare to be it!" Yun almost burst into tears and said, "According to Fu Heng's style of play, Linxian can't be saved." Linxian couldn't keep it, so Piaogao opened up the way to flee to northern Shaanxi. There are hundreds of thousands of stone grains stored in Yulin City in Shaanxi. In the bitter cold land of northern Shaanxi, the people are fierce, and if they take root here, they will become a great enemy! You must not ignore it, so when you come to see the emperor at night, you must take some military measures. Qianlong was shocked, gasped, and looked at Yun without squeaking. Yun took out a copy of Shanxi Atlas from his sleeve, unfolded it and spread it on the table, and said with his fingers, almost the same as Li Shiyao's opinion, and said at the end: "Thousands of miles of attack, you will be a general." Now Fu Heng's running distance is actually more than 1,500 miles! If I were to float high and set up an ambush in the area of Baishigou Evil Tiger Beach, Fu Heng's thousands of tired soldiers would probably be wiped out! ”

Qianlong watched and listened, cold sweat was already pouring out on his head, he turned around and sat on the chair, and sighed: "The scholar has mistaken the country, and I have used the wrong person!" ”

"The general is fought, and I have also fought and lost. The Lord uses young people to train soldiers in peacetime, and the purpose is good. Yun said calmly, "The most important thing now is to remedy. The first decree was issued to order the governor of Shaanxi, Yamen, to allocate 5,000 troops and horses to block all the crossings of the Yellow River from Jiaxian to Baode, and block the road for bandits to flee west. Lishi County, Linxian County, and Xingxian County were ordered to requisition all the boats at the ferry, and they burned them as a last resort. Ordered the governor of Shanxi, Karjishan, to transfer the troops and horses of the whole province and wait for the battle. Take a look at the float and then plan for it. That's all he can think of now. ”

Neqin listened and felt that what Yun said was too dangerous, so he said: "Fourteenth master, Piao Gao may not have such great ambition and ability, maybe he will go to Linxian County to collect grain and grass." And return to the peak of the pack? He may not dare to set up an ambush in Baishigou Evil Tiger Beach. This is a litter of thieves after all. Now in the name of the imperial court, an order was issued to send 800 li to Daizhou, so that Fan Gaojie would stand by on the spot without moving. If Linxian is lost, it seems safer to make plans for recovery. Such a big move in the province is not good for people's hearts. Yun only smiled slightly when he heard this, and said, "Of course, it's best to worry too much." I'm a man who sometimes worries about nothing. Please pay attention to the fact that this road is exhausting and the horse cannot run 400 miles in a day. I don't know Zhang Guangsi's other abilities, but the seriousness of the military order seems credible. He looked up haughtily again.

"Everything is handled according to the fourteenth uncle, but with a secret decree." Qianlong glared at him fiercely, "This is a war, is it a matter of course?" Amusing! Yun said: "I said that I should try to send a document to Daizhou, and I can plug any loophole." If you don't have a fluke, you will have a greater grasp. ”

Qianlong wrinkled his brows and thought for a while, and said, "Uncle Fang Cai said, I thought, Shanxi is mainly military. Northern Shaanxi is dominated by politics. It's time to change the grain in Yulin. It's the spring famine. Open a warehouse for relief and give all the grain to the people of northern Shaanxi! ”

"Lord Saint!"

Yun's face lit up with joy, this was the first time he sincerely admired Qianlong.