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Hearing that Cai You was appointed by Zhao Ji as the deputy Xuanfu envoy, and was about to go north with Tong Guan to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, Cai Jing hurriedly dragged his heavy legs to the Chongzheng Palace:

"The old ministers didn't dare to join Jin to destroy Liao and recover Yanjing, and they were willing to retreat, my son didn't learn and didn't know how to do it, how could he be competent, and begged the official family to take back his life."

Zhao Ji smiled: "The Taishi doesn't need to be worried, Cai You is smart and clever, and if he has more tempering, for him, good deeds are also good."

When Cai Jing heard this, he bowed and said, "If the official family insists on sending Cai You to command the army, the ministers should follow the example of expanding the mother."

Expand the mother, that is, the mother of Zhao Kuo.

When Kuo's mother heard that King Zhao wanted Zhao Kuo to be the commander and lead the troops to the battle, she wrote to advise: "Kuo can't make generals."

King Zhao didn't listen, and insisted on letting Zhao Kuo lead the army to go on the expedition, and the mother went to the palace and said to King Zhao: "The king will finally send it, that is, if you don't want to do it, will the concubine have to do it?"

Zhao Ji thought that Cai Jing was afraid that Cai You would lead the army to have problems and affect him, so he smiled slightly.

- Of course, Zhao Ji knows that Cai You is not a talent for commanding troops, but it should be no problem to be a supervisor, right?

Moreover, Zhao Ji has always wanted to promote Cai You, but Cai You can't do anything, if Cai You is not allowed to brush up some military merits, how can Zhao Ji promote Cai You?

So Zhao Ji drove Cai Jing back.

Cai Jing returned home and wrote a poem and asked people to hand it to Cai You.

The whole poem is: the old lazy body and mind are not free, and the book is sent with tears. A hundred years of vows should be deeply remembered, and the dog journey will be less restful. Seeing the flag like yesterday's dream, I have new worries in my heart. The breeze is full of fresh air, and I come back early to get drunk.

The day before departure, Cai You entered the palace in a military uniform to bid farewell to Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji looked at it and said with a smile: "Very powerful, like a commander, I am waiting for you to triumph."

Cai You smiled and asked, "If the minister returns with great merit, what will the official family reward the minister?"

Zhao Ji didn't answer and asked, "What do you want?"

Cai You saw that the two beauties beside Zhao Ji were good, and said with a hippie smile: "If the minister is triumphant, then reward the two beauties around the official family to the minister?"

Zhao Ji was not angry because Cai You asked him for a concubine, he laughed, neither agreed nor refused.

At this time, Cai You took out the poem written by Cai Jing to him from his arms and handed it to Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji took a look, this poem was full of strong anti-war flavor, and even proposed that the Zhao Song Dynasty should abide by the Tanyuan Alliance signed with the Liao State.

Zhao Ji asked quietly, "Who wrote this?"

Cai Yu replied truthfully, "My father did it."

After Cai You left, Zhao Ji asked Zhang Di to call Cai Jing.

Cai Jing heard that Zhao Ji had summoned him to meet him, and immediately went to the palace, he wanted to persuade Zhao Ji again, not to go north to Lianjin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, and he even wanted to persuade Zhao Ji to continue to fulfill the alliance with Liao.

Actually-

From beginning to end, Cai Jing was not worried about Cai You.

Cai Jing knew how good the relationship between Cai You and Zhao Ji was, so no matter how much trouble Cai You caused, the generous Zhao Ji would definitely not clean up Cai You.

What Cai Jing is worried about has always been the Great Song Dynasty that he can't let go.

Regarding Lianjin's extermination of Liao and the recovery of Yanyun's sixteen states, Cai Jing has always supported and even been very active before.

But later, Cai Jing's attitude took a 180-degree turn.

As the great steward who has been in charge of the Great Song Dynasty for 20 years, no one knows better than Cai Jing that the little family foundation he laid for the Great Song Dynasty in his early years has actually been defeated by Zhao Ji, and now the military and political affairs of the Great Song Dynasty have been corrupted.

After realizing this problem, Cai Jing repeatedly persuaded Zhao Ji to give up the unrealistic dream of recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun.

But Zhao Ji didn't think so.

In Zhao Ji's impression, the Zhao and Song dynasties were still rich, and they were still a powerful dynasty that swept the Qing Tang Dynasty and fought the Western Xia and had to move out of the Liao State in order to preserve itself.

Zhao Ji asked Cai Jing: "At the beginning, there was a change in the Qingtang Dynasty, and the Taishi repeatedly persuaded me to raise troops to recover the Qingtang Dynasty, but I sent Tong Guan and Wang Hou out

Bing, in the first battle, I wiped out the Qingtang Qiang, recovered the Qingtang region that had fallen into the hands of the Tubo people since the Middle Tang Dynasty, and I also sent Tong Guan to expedition to the remnants of the Qingtang Dynasty, all the way to the Western Regions, greatly increasing the prestige of my Great Song Dynasty, why did the Taishi lose his previous ambition and become so timid?"

Cai Jing smiled bitterly: "It's not that the old minister has become timid, it's that the situation is different."

Zhao Ji and Cai Jingji talked about the duck, and in the end, the two monarchs and ministers who had joined forces and created a lot of brilliance broke up unhappily.

Zhao Ji thought that Cai Jing was really old, and soon asked Cai Jing to become a leader, so that Wang Huang, who was young and energetic to support Lianjin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, took over Cai Jing's class.

After Cai Jing came to the Chongzheng Palace, Zhao Ji deliberately hung Cai Jing for half an hour, and then said to the nervous Cai Jing, "

How about changing "Dog Journey" to "June King's Master"?"

After speaking, Zhao Ji asked Zhang Di to return his revised poems to Cai Jing.

Seeing this, Cai Jing sighed leisurely, and then confessed to Zhao Ji and left.

Sullen and back home, Cai Jing dragged his inconvenient legs around the courtyard, tears in his eyes.

One of Cai Jing's favorite singers came over, hugged Cai Jing and asked, "Why is the Grand Master crying?"

Cai Jing stopped, looked up at the sky, and was sad: "I cry for the master."

The allusion of the crying teacher comes from Uncle Jian, an old minister of the Qin State in the Spring and Autumn Period. Qin Mugong did not listen to Uncle Jian's dissuasion, and insisted on sending troops to attack Zheng Guo. Uncle Jian expected that the Qin army would never return, so he cried to see off the Qin army. As a result, the Qin army was indeed ambushed by the Jin army at Kunshan, and the entire army was annihilated.

At the end of April, Tong Guan, who was unwilling to go with Cai You, the person who monitored him, had already led his army north.

On May 9, Cai Youcai slowly left Bianliang City in Tokyo with a team of people and headed north.

As soon as Cai You walked to Chenqiaoyi, he didn't know if he was afraid of the war or what was going on, the two flag-bearers suddenly ran away, and Cai You's two big flags (one side wrote the Young Master Jiedu Envoy, and the other side wrote the Deputy Envoy Xuanfu) were also taken away by them.

In addition, before the expedition, there were meteors, white rainbows and other omen, and there were also Xuanwu births, snakes, turtles and beasts were all dead.

Cai You's entourage had a lot of discussions, and many people felt that they were unlucky this time......

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After reorganizing the army, Li Cun renamed his army.

The men and horses guarding the north, Li Cun named it the Beifu Army, and the five armies under it were the left and right armies in Beifu.

The men and horses guarding the west, Li Cun named it the Xifu Army, and the five armies under it were the left and right armies in the front and rear of Xifu

The men and horses guarding the south, Li Cun named it the Nanfu Army, and the five armies under it were the left and right armies before and after Nanfu

Among the three compartments of the Central Military Region, one of them is the Dongfu Army.

The Dongfu Army was mainly used to defend the city of Hangzhou, and the five armies under it were the left and right armies of the Dongfu before and after, all of which were under the command of Yan Guangxiao, the capital supervisor was Liang Zhen, and the deputy capital was Cao Cheng.

The above 20th Army,

Each army has 10,000 horses, and each has a commander, a senior superintendent, and a deputy commander.

Each army has four battalions under its jurisdiction, with 1234 as the battalion name (for example, the first battalion of the Beifu Qianjun), each battalion has 2,500 men and horses, each with a commander, a middle-level supervisor, and a deputy commander.

Each battalion has five commanders, with 12345 as the commander (for example, one battalion and one commander of the former army of Beifu), and each commander of 500 men and horses has one commander, one low-level supervisor, and one deputy commander.

Each commander has five teams under its jurisdiction, with 12345 as the team name (for example, one battalion and one commander of the former army of Beifu), each team of 100 people, each team has one team general, one assistant supervising army, and one deputy team general.

Each team is divided into eight tithes, twelve people each, and each has a tithe.

Each team is divided into two corps, each with six people, and each has a captain.

The other two wings of the Central Military Region are the Jinwu Army and the Yulin Army.

These two boxes are Li Cun's pro-army and field army, with about 75,000 men and horses in each box.

Each compartment has jurisdiction over the front, rear, left, right, center, and pro-guard six armies.

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The army has five battalions of standard infantry, plus one commanding firearms troops, one commanding heavy infantry, and one commanding cavalry.

In addition, each army of the Jinwu Army and the Yulin Army also has a Shenji battalion, a heavy infantry battalion, and a cavalry of 3,000 men and horses - the Jinwu Army is the Shenji Front Battalion, the Heavy Infantry Front Battalion, the Pro-Guard Front Army and the Tabai Army, and the Yulin Army is the Shenji Rear Battalion, the Heavy Armored Infantry Rear Battalion, the Guards Rear Army and the Beiwei Army.

This time, Li Cun stayed at home to suppress the bandits was the front, rear, left, right, and middle five armies of the Jinwu Army and the Tabai Army, and the front battalion of Shenji, the front battalion of the heavy infantry and the front army of the personal guard were left by Li Cun in Hangzhou City to guard their homes with the Dongfu Army.

Before leaving, Li Cun called Su Dong back and said in front of Su Dong, Yan Xiaoguang, Liang Zhen, and Cao Cheng that if the suppression of bandits in Su Dong did not go well, at most the three armies of the Dongfu Army could be transferred, and at most the three armies of the Dongfu Army, the Dongfu Central Army, the Dongfu Rear Army, the Shenji Front Battalion, the Heavy Infantry Front Battalion, and the Pro-Guard Front Army were not allowed to move at any time.

And the army led by Li Cun to the south this time is the Yulin Army, the complete Yulin Army.

As for the navy led by Li Cun, it is the majority of the East China Sea army.

In total, Li Cun went south this time and led a total of more than 100,000 land and water troops.

In addition, Li Cun also brought 100,000 people and brought all the boats with him.

Obviously, Li Cun meant to destroy the two small states of Annan and Champa and evacuate them.

Some people may think, Li Cun doesn't really want to play so big, right?

That's right.

Li Cun is going to play so big.

A large part of Li Cun's current financial income comes from maritime trade.

It is no exaggeration to say that whether Li Cun is doing well or not depends to a large extent on how well Li Cun's maritime trade is conducted.

In this case, whoever dares to touch Li Cun's Maritime Silk Road must be Li Cun's sworn enemy, the kind that never dies.

didn't say it, unless Annan and Zhancheng are really hard bones that Li Cun can't gnaw on, otherwise Li Cun will destroy Annan and Zhancheng.

When Cai You set off with his troops, Li Cun happened to arrive in Qiongzhou.

Qiongzhou Lingliu County: Qiongshan, Tingmai, Wenchang, Shecheng, Lingao, Lehui.

It is said that nearly 10,000 people were captured by the occupied city.

Champang, that is, the Cham people, their current king is Hali Varman IV, his name is Yang Bu Ma Die, the Zhao Song Dynasty named him the inspector and the imperial historian, Huaiyuan Jun Jiedu, Linzhou Guan's observation and disposal envoy, the king of Zhancheng, and the relationship with the Zhao Song Dynasty is not bad.

Annam, they call themselves Li Dynasty, their current king is Li Qiande, at the beginning of this guy's succession, on the grounds that he was threatened by the Zhao Song Dynasty, he ordered Li Changjie to lead the water army, Zong Kang led the army to invade the Zhao Song Dynasty, conquered Yong, Qin, Lian Prefecture, killed people everywhere, and the Zhao Song Dynasty died more than 50,000 people, and about 50,000 people were captured. The Xining War was triggered, and the two sides won and lost each other. After two years of fighting, the two sides negotiated peace, Annan got the truth, the Zhao and Song dynasties got the name of a suzerain, and the Song army returned north.

Champa and Annam are now semi-feudal and semi-slave societies, and there are still a large number of slaves in their societies, most of whom are domestic slaves.

And the population of Champa and Annan who plundered Li Cun this time was to go back to be slaves.

Li Cun doesn't know if others can bear this kind of thing, anyway, Li Cun definitely can't bear it.

So, Li Cun came - with the idea of destroying Annan and Champa.

But—

There is no hurry to destroy Champa and Annam, Li Cun will accompany them to play slowly.

In Li Cun's view, the top priority is to first deal with the pirates that have become more and more rampant recently, and resume maritime trade, that is, to open up their own economic lifeline first.

When it comes to exterminating pirates, many people may have a headache, thinking that in this vast sea, where can they go to find those pirates who don't know which island they are hiding on?

The former prefect of Qiongzhou and the former South China Sea Navy that were taken out by Li Cun all thought so.

But Li Cun, who has been engaged in maritime trade for five or six years, does not think so, on the contrary, Li Cun feels that these pirates are very easy to deal with, at least much easier to deal with than the two small countries of Champa and Annam

Finish.

The so-called no internal thief cannot attract external ghosts.

Pirates are also human beings, and they also need to live, and without supplies on land, no matter how rich they are, they will definitely starve to death.

Therefore, pirates must have accomplices on land, and even many pirates are pretended to be people on land.

Who are these pirate accomplices?

Don't worry, it will definitely not be poor, these people have the courage to rob with knives, if they are still poor, it means that these pirates will not be able to become the climate, don't care about them.

The accomplices of those pirates, and even the pirates themselves, were members of the gentry clan, at least the wealthy people near Qiongzhou.

Think about Yu Yancheng, in fact, you know.

Of course, you can't say that all rich people are pirates or people who have a relationship with pirates, but with Li Cun's experience, there will be no wrongs or falsehoods when one family kills another.

Before the people arrived in Qiongzhou, Li Cun ordered the officials of Qiongzhou to gather all the gentry in Qiongzhou, in the name of welcoming him.

Although Li Cun has not yet ascended the throne as emperor, he is the de facto lord of this land.

Therefore, no matter what these wealthy gentry in Qiongzhou think, they all have to obediently send important people to welcome Li Cun's arrival, otherwise they will definitely be unhappy in their own homes.

As soon as Li Cun arrived, he simply sent troops to detain the people sent by these wealthy gentry.

Li Cun asked his newly appointed Qiongzhou prefect Yu Guang bluntly: "You may handle this matter well, otherwise I will transfer Song Jiang to help you?"

Yu Guang knew that Li Cun, who was in a good situation, did not have much time to waste on these pirates, and he knew that the reason why Li Cun transferred him to be the prefect of Qiongzhou was because he took a fancy to his wit and ruthlessness.

Now, Li Cun is using Song Jiang to provoke him again, and Yu Guang naturally knows better that Li Cun is urgent to solve the problem of these pirates.

Yu Guang smiled slightly, and said confidently, "You don't have to worry about Song Resettlement to go on this trip, some small things can be handled by the minister."

After speaking, Yu Guang said goodbye to Li Cun, and then led a dozen people he brought from Hangzhou to meet the wealthy gentry in Qiongzhou.

Li Cun noticed that there was a person behind Yu Guang who seemed to be the executioner who had chopped Niu Meng and Zhu Mian.

Seeing this, Li Cun was relieved.

That night, a few innocent or untenable people contributed to the hiding place of several groups of pirates, and they were even willing to be guides to lead the Tiger Ben Army to catch these pirates.

Subsequently, the newly appointed South China Sea Navy was in charge of Tong Ji, and he personally led the South China Sea Navy to attack everywhere and killed all these pirates.

Nothing to say.

All the pirates were hanged in the port of Qiongzhou, and their families were all rewarded to the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army who had made meritorious contributions, and all their family properties were confiscated......

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