However, the speed of promotion like him riding a rocket is not uncommon under Zhao Ji's rule.

Li Bangyan, Cai You, Bai Shizhong, Wang Hao...... Each one is so, even more exaggerated than he is.

Kou Zhongwen is still a five-grade Zhizhou, and Li Bangyan is a student from a mere outlet, all the way to Shangshu Zuocheng.

The students of the outer house are not even considered to be lifters, they are just white.

In Zhao Ji's opinion, Cai Jing is already dying, deaf and blind, and obviously has less than two years to live.

It's time to find someone to take over Cai Jing's class, and continue to help him make money, carry the black pot, and cooperate.

Originally, Zhao Ji felt that Qin Hui was a manufacturable material, but he soon found out that this person was extremely ambitious and stood in line with the new emperor Zhao Kai, so he immediately abandoned it, but for the sake of Tong Guan's face, he did not demote him.

Kou Zhongwen's performance made him very satisfied, and he could try to cultivate it.

After all, after arriving in Fujian, whether it is to build a palace or repair a garden, you need to use money.

Li Wenqing looked at Kou Zhongwen who was kneeling on the ground with envy, and looked forward to it in his heart.

Zhao Ji was a little displeased with this person, just looking at his face, he felt that Mu Ne was boring.

For a while, he couldn't help but miss Li Bangyan and Cai You, the pair of pistachios, and always felt a little bored without them by his side.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji continued to order: "Li Qing will be promoted to the governor of Quzhou, and the Longtu Pavilion will be sealed." ”

Li Wenqing was stunned for a moment, and then he was extremely disappointed.

As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

Although he was promoted from the general judgment to Zhizhou, and he was given the post of Longtu Pavilion to be systematized, it was 108,000 miles behind Kou Zhongwen's Hubu Shangshu and his subordinate servants.

Forcibly suppressed the disappointment in his heart, Li Wenqing knelt down and kowtowed: "Bow to Emperor Xie!" ”

Zhao Ji instructed: "Kou Qing will hand over the errand as soon as possible, and be on duty at the entrance." ”

"Command!"

Kou Zhongwen's heart was agitated at the moment, and after thanking him again, he got up to say goodbye.

The two went out of the palace all the way, Li Wenqing adjusted his mood, and said in a flattering tone: "Congratulations to Kou Zhizhou, ah no, the official made a mistake, it should be congratulations to Kou Xiang." Lai Guogong is my famous minister of the Song Dynasty, and now Kou Xiang has entered the cabinet, one door and two phases, which can be described as extremely honorable, and will be praised by future generations and cited as a good story. ”

"In the future, I hope that Kou Xiang will help me a lot."

He wasn't stupid, and immediately hugged Kou Zhongwen's thigh.

Kou Zhongwen was extremely comfortable by this sycophancy, and laughed loudly: "Haha, Li Zhizhou is polite, you and I are officials in the same dynasty, and we should support each other, so how can we talk about carrying each other." ”

"That's what Kou Xiang said."

Li Wenqing hurriedly agreed.

……

……

The edge of the Qianligang Mountains.

Wang Yan led the elite of the 1,000 Xuzhou army, day and night, and finally rushed to the territory of Quzhou.

After a night of walking, everyone was exhausted.

Wang Yan sat on a tree trunk and took a nap.

At this moment, Zhang Yiyu reported: "General Wang, the soldiers of the scout battalion have captured more than a dozen civilians. ”

"Bring it here."

Wang Yan opened his eyes abruptly and commanded.

Not long after, more than a dozen ragged people were brought to Wang Yan.

The faces of these people were frightened, and some children were so frightened that they cried loudly, but they were covered by the women, for fear of upsetting these people, and borrowing their heads in exchange for military merit.

Seeing this, Wang Yan comforted gently: "Don't be afraid, folks, I am a soldier of Qi State, and I am just asking you to ask." ”

Hearing this, the horror in the eyes of the people did not diminish in the slightest.

Zhang Yi reminded in a low voice: "General Wang, they are just afraid that they won't understand what you say." ”

"Forget about it."

Wang Yan slapped his head and smiled bitterly.

The so-called ten miles of different sounds, not everyone can speak the official dialect, especially these rural people, they all communicate in the local dialect every day, and the farthest place they have been to in this life is probably the local Kaihua county, there is no opportunity at all, and there is no need to learn official dialect.

"But someone can speak official language, don't worry, I won't ask in vain, I will give a dry biscuit in answer."

Seeing that no one made a sound, Wang Yan took out a few dry biscuits from his waist.

For a moment, the eyes of these people suddenly lit up, and even the child stopped crying, staring at the dry cake without blinking and swallowing his saliva.

At this moment, a thin young man in the crowd said tremblingly: "I studied in a private school for two years when I was young, and I know some official language. ”

Since the completion of the book "Guangyun", the four books and five classics, poems and songs are all marked by "Guangyun", and children will speak official dialect unconsciously in the process of reading and hyphenating.

Wang Yan asked, "Are you the people of Quzhou?" ”

"Yes, we are from Daxi Village, Kaihua County."

The young man said, his eyes fixed on the dry biscuit.

Wang Yan smiled slightly, handed over a piece of dry biscuit, and continued to ask, "How long have you been in the mountains?" ”

After taking the dry cake, the young man immediately stuffed it into the child's hand and replied, "Don't hide it from the military master, we just fled into the mountains the day before yesterday. ”

Wang Yan handed over another piece, and then asked: "Quzhou has a humid climate, and rice crops three times a year, why should you be a fugitive?" ”

"Ugh."

Thanks to those two pieces of dry biscuits, the young man felt that the other party did not seem to be an unreasonable person, so he couldn't help but let down his guard and sighed: "The military master doesn't know, the south is already heavily taxed, don't say three crops a year, even five crops a year, and it is not enough for the government to collect taxes." It was already very difficult on weekdays, but a few days ago, the government suddenly wanted to raise taxes, saying that it was a military tax, and each family paid a capitation fee, one hundred yuan per person. ”

"Military tax?"

Wang Yan sneered: "In order to make money, these dog officials of the pseudo-Song Dynasty really do everything they can. ”

The young man said with a bitter face: "The official tax collector said that if you don't pay, you will be arrested and sent to the Shengjie army as a civilian husband and serve as a tax deduction." At present, the summer grain has not been harvested, and there is no surplus grain at home, so they all rely on wild vegetables and wild fruits to survive, so how can they have the money to pay taxes. We were forced to do nothing, so we had to flee into the mountains at night and become fugitives. ”

"Shengjie Army?"

Wang Yan was suddenly startled, and his tone couldn't help but raise a few degrees.

The soldiers on the side were even brighter and breathless short.

Wang Yan grabbed the young man's hand and asked, "Is it really Shengjiejun?" ”

The thin young man was taken aback, and stumbled and said, "I ...... I also listened to the tax collector, and I couldn't take it seriously. ”

Wang Yan was ecstatic in his heart, you must know that the Shengjie Army is Tong Guan's personal guard, and he has been stationed in the northwest and Nanjing Road with Tong Guan before, how can the local people in Quzhou know the name of the Shengjie Army?

The Shengjie army is here, so the puppet Song emperor must also be there.

Overjoyed, Wang Yan stuffed the remaining five or six dried biscuits in his hand into the young man's arms and asked, "Do you know where the Shengjie army is stationed?" ”

"The military master can't help it, I really don't know."

As the young man spoke, he made a gesture to return the bread.

"If you don't know, it's okay, so I'll reward you."

Wang Yan waved his hand, and then ordered: "You don't have to stay in the mountains for a long time, after a while, the Qi army will recover Quzhou, don't miss the summer harvest." ”

The young man looked at the dry biscuits in his arms and hesitated: "The military master doesn't rob our fields?" ”

Wang Yan was stunned: "What do I want your field to do?" ”

The young man replied: "I listened to Qin Yuan's foreign speech, the Qi army came and did not grow a single grass, and seized the house and occupied the land. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yi laughed: "Don't listen to that bullshit Qin Yuanwai's nonsense, even if we want to rob, we won't rob poor ghosts like you." ”

Syllable!

As soon as the words fell, Wang Yan raised his hand and slapped him on the back of the head, and scolded: "What nonsense, who do you want to rob?" ”

"Don't blame the general, I didn't mean that."

Zhang Yi shrunk his neck and explained with a sneer.

Yue Fei governed the army strictly, and during the attack on the Song Dynasty by the Xuzhou army under his command, he did not commit any offences with the people in the south.

Once a soldier rapes and plunders, he will not be spared.

"Humph!"

Glaring at him fiercely, Wang Yan turned his head and said: "Relax, my Majesty Qi has the people in mind, and when Quzhou is recovered, not only will I not rob you and other fields, but I will also give you land and tax reductions." ”

Seeing that the other party didn't believe it, Wang Yan didn't say anything more, waved his hand, and let these people leave.

After they left, Zhang Yi said with a happy face: "The general guessed right, the pseudo-Song Dog Emperor is really in Quzhou." However, there are five counties in Quzhou, but I don't know which county the puppet Song emperor is. ”

Wang Yan took out the map from his arms and deduced: "The puppet Song emperor escaped from Hangzhou, obviously going to Fujian. Therefore, it is impossible to take a detour to the three counties of Kaihua, Changshan, and Longyou, so only Xi'an County and Jiangshan County are left, and with the arrogant and extravagant and extravagant nature of Emperor Zhao and Song, he will definitely not go to Jiangshan and other remote counties to settle down. ”

He has been an official in Zhao Song for all these years, what kind of virtue Zhao Ji is, how can he not know?

Zhang Yi frowned and said: "The Pseudo-Song Dog Emperor will definitely not stay for long, and this place is more than 150 miles away from Xi'an County, can we catch up?" ”

They are strange soldiers, everyone has armor, although it is not heavy armor, but there are also thirty or forty catties, plus blades, crossbows, arrows, dry food and other baggage, there are fifty or sixty catties of weight.

Even if he rushed to Xi'an County day and night, he was exhausted, how could he fight against the 7,000 Shengjie army waiting for work?

You must know that the Shengjie Army is one of the strongest armies in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is Tong Guan's last reliance.

At present, in front of Wang Yan, there are two choices, one is to surprise attack the two counties of Kaihua and Changshan, these two counties have almost no garrisons, only the archers, and they will definitely be able to take it under the surprise attack, but Emperor Zhao Song will immediately flee to Fujian when he hears the news.

However, the capture of Quzhou is also a great achievement.

With the sailors of Hangzhou, one south and one north can be attacked before and after, and the two Zhejiang roads can be taken down.

The second is to attack Xi'an County and capture Emperor Zhao and Song Dog, once successful, it will be a great credit, and the rest of the Song army's defense line will collapse and collapse in an instant, and the entire south will be able to pocket it without much effort.

The difficulty lies in the fact that there are 7,000 Shengjie troops stationed in Xi'an County, waiting for them to work at ease.

One thousand fights seven thousand, and the victorious army is an elite division, and the odds of victory are not great.

For a while, Wang Yan was in a dilemma.

Seeing his hesitant expression, Zhang Yi persuaded: "General, wealth and wealth are in danger, once this opportunity is missed, I am afraid that there will be no more in this life." ”

Wang Yan frowned and said: "The Shengjie Army is formed by the elite drawn by Tong Guan in the Western Army, which is by no means comparable to the ordinary Song Army, and the ordnance is not weak. ”

He had served under the command of the Jingyuan Road Envoy Dao, and he knew very well the combat power of the Shengjie army.

"General Wang, I know that you are thinking about your brothers, but which of you didn't pin your head to the waistband of your trousers? If you are afraid of death, you will not join the army! ”

"That is, people die and birds rise to the sky, and they will not die for thousands of years!"

"None of the brothers present were afraid of death!"

"General, I beg you, go to Xi'an County to catch the pseudo-Song Dog Emperor!"

“……”

More than 1,000 soldiers opened their mouths one after another, and persuaded them with all their mouths.

Looking around at the crowd, seeing that everyone was looking at him expectantly, Wang Yan gritted his teeth: "Okay, let's go to Xi'an County!" ”

"The general is mighty!"

Everyone looked excited and shouted in unison.

(End of chapter)