Before Han Shizhong went to invite Zhu Dunru, the brothers Zhai Xing and Zhai Jin brought troops to vote.

"But Da Zhai and Xiao Zhai brothers?" Han Shizhong was overjoyed.

Chong Yanchong smiled: "Exactly. ”

Han Shizhong immediately went out of the city to greet him personally, and he had long admired the Zhai family brothers.

The brothers were recruited from the township soldiers, and they solved the Henan thief Wang Shen as soon as they joined the army, and were quickly promoted to the grassroots officers of the Western Army.

Liu Fa was forced to go deep alone by Tong Guan, and fell off the cliff and broke his leg when he broke through. At that time, the Er Zhai brothers had successfully broken through, and they took the initiative to lead the troops back many times, and repeatedly searched for Liu Fa to no avail before withdrawing, but they were later questioned by Tong Guan and pushed to the end.

During the invasion of Liao, the imperial court reinstated their officials, but they were unlucky enough to become Liu Yanqing's subordinates.

"Duan is a good man!"

Han Shizhong clenched his fist and slapped Zhai Xing's chest, and then patted Zhai Jin's shoulder: "It's good that the two of you are here, and we will work together for Marshal Zhu in the future!" ”

Zhai Xing and Zhai Jin were originally a little entangled, but seeing that Han Shizhong was so enthusiastic and attached importance to it, they suddenly felt much happier.

There is no friendship between the three of them, but they all fight in Shaanxi all the year round and talk about a lot of old things.

Han Shizhong asked: "I remember that seven or eight years ago, Brother Zhai was already the first general in Jingxi (the chief general of the first army on Jingxi Road), but what is his position now?" ”

Zhai Jin smiled bitterly: "Commander of the Luoyang Xiang Army." ”

"This ...... This is even worse than me. Han Shizhong was incredulous and said what he thought was the most accurate assessment.

Chong Yanchong said with emotion: "To lead an army in the Song Kingdom, you have to follow the right boss. The boss of the two generals Zhai is Liu Jingliu (Liu Fa), Liu Jingliu was killed by Tong Guansheng, this grudge is too big, Tong Guan naturally desperately suppressed Liu Jingluo's old department. ”

Zhai Xing sighed and said, "These are all in the past, don't mention it." ”

The Zhai brothers couldn't bear to mention it again, Liu Fa was known as a "natural god general", and beating Xixia was like beating his grandson. As Liu Fa's confidants and favorite generals, the natural scenery in those years belonged to the existence of sideways in Shaanxi.

What now?

can only lead a group of van troops in Luoyang, and there is not much left of the long-term shortage, which is no different from the commander of the light pole. Now these thousands of soldiers in their hands are just temporarily recruited villagers.

Zhai Jin said unspeakably: "General Han, our brothers were ordered to guard the imperial mausoleum, although they returned to the right and served us, they still didn't want the imperial mausoleum to fail. Can...... Can your army not be disturbed, even if it occupies it, it will not dig up the tombs of the previous emperors. ”

Han Shizhong laughed: "When I brought the troops over, there was a letter from the army to offer a plan, saying that I was going to dig up the imperial tomb and dig up the dragon vein of the Song Kingdom. Guess what Marshal Zhu said? ”

"What did Marshal Zhu say?" Zhai Xing's son Zhai Cong asked.

Chong Yanchong said with a smile: "Marshal Zhu said that the dragon vein is in the hearts of the people. If Zhao Song won the hearts of the people, he would dig up the imperial tomb, and the dragon veins would be dug up continuously. If Zhao Song was unpopular, he had already dug his own grave and cut off the dragon vein of the Great Song Dynasty by himself. What is the human heart? People do what they want. For the small people, but there is enough food and clothing. Yu Shi, but the rewards and punishments are clear. For businessmen, but the fees are the same. Yu Shi people, but there is something to do. ”

Zhai Xing was shocked after hearing this, and said solemnly: "No wonder Marshal Zhu can gain power, if he can do this, he will definitely be able to return to the heart of the world." ”

"If you have to vote for the Lord today, why don't you do things with all your heart?" Zhai Jin completely let go of the entanglement in his heart.

Zhai Xing said: "If General Han can be trusted, Henan Mansion will be handed over to my two brothers, and the counties will be guaranteed to be taken within a month, and the people will not be disturbed, and the general only needs to supply grain and grass." ”

Han Shizhong pointed to the Huazi troops behind them: "Just rely on these township soldiers?" ”

"That's enough." Zhai Jin said.

During the Jingkang period, when they first recovered Luoyang, they only had more than 700 township soldiers in their hands, and they had just been recruited, and they had nothing in grain, grass and armor. And just as Fan Zhixu defeated the "200,000 army" and came to naught, they suddenly regained Luoyang at the worst of the situation.

The brothers first fought guerrillas in the mountains, setting up an ambush to kill the rangers of the Jin Kingdom.

After many ambushes and victories, he successfully lured the Jin soldiers in Luoyang to encircle and suppress. Then he broke through in the opposite direction, led a group of village soldiers to attack for five days, attacked Luoyang at night, where only the Han soldiers were stationed, and put the traitor officials left there by the Jin people.

When the Jin soldiers learned the news and hurried back to Luoyang, the brothers set up an ambush halfway and killed those Jin soldiers and fled.

Since then, the brothers have been fighting the fire of their pig teammates forever, and they have been pitted by their pig teammates with Han Shizhong.

At that time, Han Shizhong was the main general, and let Zhai Jin be the vanguard to lure the enemy, and he outflanked Jin Bing with Ding Jin and Chen Sigong. Zhai Jin successfully lured Jin Bing to the ambush site, but Ding Jin failed to arrive, and Chen Sigong led his army to escape. The good lure of the enemy ambush and encirclement battle turned into Han Shizhong being counter-surrounded......

Han Shizhong is also ruthless, and he is completely reckless in doing things. After he broke out, he cut off all the toes of Ding Jin and Chen Sigong's soldiers as punishment, and directly abolished those two troops.

The generals disagreed, the contradictions intensified, and they almost fought themselves, causing Luoyang to fall again. Han Shizhong also had to take the blame for this matter, and the Zhai brothers were confused throughout the whole process.

said that at this moment, the brothers got Han Shizhong's permission and set off with their sons and troops.

A group of temporarily recruited township soldiers in the hands of the Zhai brothers actually became strict in military discipline, and they did not commit any crimes against the people wherever they passed.

There is no other trick, just be kind to the soldiers.

Walking and sleeping with the soldiers, drinking and eating together, the brothers have long been famous, and they are fellow villagers with these soldiers, so they can easily gain the hearts of the army. Punish a few more errant soldiers, and the others will obediently obey.

When the brothers were fighting against gold, they were the ones who dug up wild vegetables and let the soldiers eat them first.

In October, the Zhai brothers took the township soldiers and took most of the Henan Mansion. In the end, he captured Mianchi, fought out of Henan Mansion and took Shaanzhou, and approached Tongguan, where the seed army was stationed.

Such fierce generals and good generals actually became more and more miserable in the Great Song Dynasty, and they were reduced from the commander of the first army to the commander of the van army.

There are not only military generals, but also civilian officials with a clear conscience.

Since the strategic location was not important, Zhu Ming and Li Bao both passed next to Caizhou (Runan), and no one divided their troops to take it there.

Caizhou guarded Ye Mengde too much, and the left and right did not see the righteous army attacking, and heard that the imperial court had formed an alliance with Yidi, so he actually recruited thousands of township soldiers by himself, and defeated the entire Caizhou and dedicated it to Zhu Ming......

Ye Mengde arranged a trustworthy civil official to be responsible for managing the counties of Caizhou, and then took thousands of township soldiers to spontaneously come to Tokyo to meet Zhu Ming.

When Zhu Ming got the news, he thought he had heard it wrong.

That was the Zhizhou appointed by the Song Imperial Court, and it was already rare to be willing to be a thief, and he dared to lead troops north to besiege Tokyo!

Zhu Ming looked at the group of township soldiers who couldn't even stand in line, and couldn't help asking, "Your Excellency relies on these people to defeat Caizhou?" ”

Ye Mengde said: "Below is Caizhou Taishou, and the county officials have not resisted. ”

"Let's all be people's husbands, they don't need to fight," Zhu Ming was more interested in Ye Mengde, "I take the liberty to ask, after Jun Nai is a eunuch, he is a state guard, why did he take the initiative to vote for me?" ”

Ye Mengde said: "No matter who is the emperor, hurry up and end the troubled times, the people of the world can't stand the toss." If I didn't have the money to live, I wouldn't be too lazy to be an official! ”

Zhu Ming felt even more weird: "Your Excellency's ancestors have been eunuchs for generations, and Your Excellency is Cai Jing's henchman, so you have no money to live?" ”

"Alas," Ye Mengde sighed, "Fang La raised an army to rebel and robbed my house, and even the shop was burned to the ground. It was also at that time that I learned about the suffering of the people, so I resigned and returned to my hometown, drawing a clear line with Cai Jing. In the past few years, the land has been sold, and the whole family has more than 20 people, but there are only dozens of acres of land left. is so poor that he can't open the pot, so he can only sell calligraphy and paintings for a living, so he became a governor recommended by the central people. I am the governor, not for anything else, just for that little money, my family is really starving to death. ”

It turned out to be a good thing for Fang Lagan, and it could be regarded as reshaping Ye Mengde's three views.

Before this old man resigned, he had already become a bachelor of Hanlin, and because of his good writing, he was favored by Song Huizong. And because of the incorruptibility of the officials, he did not make any money.

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "Being an official under me, there are not as many as Song Guo." ”

"It's barely enough," Ye Mengde said, "I don't know how to govern the people, but the article is not bad, so I just want to stay with the marshal to draft documents." ”

"I don't believe it." Zhu Ming shook his head.

This old man, who was recommended by Cai Jing to face the saint back then, did not cater to Song Huizong to talk about poetry and painting, but focused on expounding his own way of governing the country, and obviously had political ambitions.

It's just that his political ambitions were worn out by Song Huizong for the time being.

Later generations mostly thought that Ye Mengde could only write words, but he was actually a scripture, and he was a scripture scholar who was proficient in "Spring and Autumn".

Who has carefully studied "Spring and Autumn", which one has no ambition to govern the country?

In the first ten years of Zhao Gou's southern journey, he relied on Ye Mengde to help manage his finances. His official to the deputy prime minister, in charge of the four road plans, responsible for the anti-Jin military pay logistics, Yue Fei's Northern Expedition was also he providing grain and grass, and then he was demoted by Qin Hui to be the governor.

Ye Mengde said: "I really can't govern the people, let alone the country, I'm just an idle poet." Caizhou has been dedicated to Marshal Zhu, and the township soldiers have also brought it, so I just ask the marshal to arrive in the world as soon as possible and give me a noble and idle official to do. ”

When Zhao Gou crossed to the south, how embarrassed should his finances be?

Ye Mengde not only had to support the huge bureaucratic system, but also supply the food and salary of the army from all walks of life, and even satisfy Zhao Gou's extravagant life. This can make him survive, and there has been no big mess, and the financial management method is simply beating Cai Jing.

Such a person says that he does not know how to govern the country and the people.

Zhu Ming said: "I'll write a letter, and Your Excellency will go to the Hanzhong Jingluo Mansion to listen to it." ”

"Okay." Ye Meng is quite chic, this gentleman really has no desires, thanks to Fang La for being his life mentor.

Just as Ye Mengde was leaving, Han Shizhong sent someone to send Zhu Dunru over, and the news of the capture of Luoyang arrived in advance.

Luoyang fell, and Tokyo shook, because Xijing and the imperial tomb were gone together.

Li Gang, Li Bangyan and others, who were dismissed, began to use this to carry out a political counteroffensive. The two of them could not enter the palace to see the emperor, so Li Bangyan secretly instigated the Tai students to knock.

He Su, who was isolated and excluded, also stood on their side, and led a group of imperial historians to impeach them frantically.

Tokyo's political struggle is much more exciting than fighting.

(The next chapter will be updated later, I am not in good health, go to the hospital today.) ）

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