He said solemnly:

"This is the clan of my Shi family in Western Xinjiang, Chen Shaoduo is the master of the rudder, you can contact them at any time, just say that it is an old husband and a friend."

Chen Jingnong took the roster and thanked him:

"Thank you General Shi for sending charcoal in the snow, I will really need some peripheral manpower in the future."

"There is something in the army, you can go to Wu Peifan, he... You should always know him, after the old man leaves, you can contact him, I have arranged it! Shi Wanzhong continued.

"What, you handed over everything in the garrison of the Metropolitan Protectorate to him?" Chen Jingnong was stunned.

"If you don't give it to him, who else can you give it to?" Shi Wanzhong said helplessly:

"He has a certain ability to command the army, he is loyal, he is not a person who betrays his brothers and friends, and he has cooperated with your side before, he is a trustworthy person."

Chen Jingnong nodded and shook his head, noncommittal, looking very entangled, "This person is not bad at fighting, loyal and courageous, but he is a fierce general, he is almost scheming and strategic, and he is not strong enough to adapt to changes." ”

"The old man and the two battalion generals of the first battalion, they are the old man's cronies, and they have all been explained, you can rest assured!" Shi Wanzhong comforted:

"No matter what tricks Cao Qichang plays in Western Xinjiang, there are your peripheral forces in the garrison, and you won't be too passive when the time comes."

"I hope so!"

Chen Jingnong replied indifferently.

Shi Wanzhong is always a rough man, he doesn't read much, and he thinks things too simply.

However, the peripheral forces are not often used, and there is not much contact with each other on a regular basis, so let's take a look.

Chen Jingnong sneered, but his body had already stood up and lifted the wine jug on the wooden table.

Seeing this, Shi Wanzhong tacitly arranged two wine bottles from the table.

Chen Jingnong filled each wine bottle with a high level of old cooking pot, then served it up, and said in a deep voice:

"See off General Shi today, don't say goodbye, there will be no time in the future!"

When Shi Wanzhong heard this, he also sighed sadly.

Thinking about it, it is unlikely that he will return from his hometown in Liangzhou to the west thousands of miles away.

As soon as the two drank it all, they wiped the corners of their mouths and hugged each other, and when they parted, they were both teary-eyed.

After looking at each other for a moment, Shi Wanzhong burst out laughing.

He turned and walked downstairs, stepped onto the war horse led by the guard, and walked out of the side door of the backyard without looking back.

Seeing Shi Wanzhong walking away, a stunning woman walked out from behind the screen, "Big brother, General Shi is gone." ”

Looking at Shi Wanzhong's disappearing back, Chen Jingnong said with emotion:

"The old general has been loyal and patriotic all his life, and he is a good person, so I call you behind the screen today, which can be regarded as a farewell! He saved your life. ”

After speaking, Chen Jingnong glanced at the woman.

The stunning woman said softly: "I hope that the good people will have a safe journey, never hear the rivers and lakes from now on, and enjoy the joy of family." ”

……

Hexi Corridor, Dunhuang City, Guazhou.

At the end of July, the weather here is unusually dry and muggy.

This is the only place to pass from the Central Plains to the Western Regions, the Silk Road, and the Ancient Tea Horse Road.

Dunhuang City has developed rapidly in recent years, and has become the political, economic and cultural center of Hexi region, and the transit station of war materials for the final Jin Dynasty.

The Hexi Road camp of the Imperial Military Department was also located in Dunhuang City.

The general of the Hexi Dao camp is called Ye Yinting, who is a close confidant of Cao Qichang from the second rank of martial arts.

In the evening of this day, several mysterious figures came to the camp general's mansion in the north of Dunhuang City.

One of them is Cao Qichang's son, the commander of the forbidden army of the Beijing Division and the general of the hussars, Cao Yanchun.

Half a month ago, Cao Yanchun was scolded by the crown prince Yuanzhi with twenty military sticks.

On the surface, he was recuperating from his injuries at home, but in fact, he had already quietly left the capital and went to Dunhuang Mansion in Guazhou.

His twenty military sticks are simply pretending.

Outside the tent, the executioners who scolded the cane and the stick were all his subordinates, and of course their subordinates showed mercy, only beating his ass to the point that it was red and swollen.

Cao Yanchun went home and applied Jinchuang ointment, and after resting for two days, he rode the horse as usual.

He had come here to carry out his father's secret mission.

Cao Yanchun is thirty-six years old Chinese New Year's Eve, has studied martial arts since childhood, and often goes on expeditions with his father.

It's just that Cao Qichang, out of selfishness and love, didn't let him charge alone.

He spent a year "gilded" on the frontier and experienced some skirmishes.

Therefore, he has made military achievements, but few have made great achievements.

Cao Yanchun first served as a partial general and deputy general in Yanmen Pass for five years, and then returned to Beijing and served in the forbidden army.

Over the years, Cao Qichang has controlled the government, in addition to the forbidden army in the Beijing Division, the military department, etc., to install his own people, in Qingzhou, Yuzhou, Huaihe, Northern Xinjiang and Zhou Road, Hexi Corridor and other places, all the assassins, generals, etc., are his people.

His wishful thinking was very delicate.

When he is the prime minister of the dynasty, he is not allowed to concurrently hold military posts according to the system of the dynasty.

And the Cao family has more than a dozen high-ranking officials in the court, either marquis or Zhuguo.

But outside the Beijing Division, especially in the border areas, there are no generals who have military power, and the history of assassination is not fundamental.

In the future, the struggle for reserves or the outbreak of war will appear top-heavy and unstable.

He knows that all emperors are unkind and unkind, and they are all hidden from the bow.

With the stabilization of the throne, he will slowly start to clean up the ministers of the gate valve.

Six years ago, the military god Guo Xiang died of illness, and Yuanren took the opportunity to recover Guo's military power, abolished the military hall, and took advantage of the impeachment of Cao Qichang and others to let Guo Wei's father and son stay at home.

Suddenly, one day, Cao Qichang got a secret report from the palace, and the next target of Emperor Yuanren was the Cao family.

In desperation, he carefully planned the "Emperor Hunting Horse Falling Incident." ”

Then, taking advantage of the emperor's paralysis and inability to come to the court, he took the opportunity to control the government and strengthen the foundation of the family.

Now, Yuan Zhi, the crown prince of the prison state, has been born, and he has to use the Western Turks.

Letting Cao Zhiping serve as the general of the Anxi Protectorate was one of the steps in his plan.

……

North of Dunhuang City.

In a side hall of the General's Mansion.

Sitting at the top is the young patriarch of the Cao family, the hussar general Cao Shuochun.

And Cao Zhiping, the calm general of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, who had just taken office, was sitting respectfully at the bottom.

Cao Zhiping, the concubine born to Cao Qichang's concubine, is twenty-seven years old this year, dignified in appearance, looking carefully, slightly gloomy and cold, and the city is quite deep.

This character has inherited Cao Qichang's mantle a bit.

Among Cao Qichang's many concubines, he is relatively prominent, intelligent and clever, self-motivated, and both civil and military.

He joined the army at the age of sixteen and has been in the military circles, relying on his family power, and served as a soldier in the Military Affairs Department of the Ministry of War.

Cao Zhiping had not made any military achievements before, and only followed Cao Qichang on two expeditions.

But they were all Cao Qichang's personal guards, and they did not fight on the front line with real guns.

This is a common problem among the descendants of the Cao family.

"Brother Xian, this time I asked you to go to the Anxi Duhu Mansion, it was my father and brother who would give you a chance to temper, and you also know that there are many people in the clan who are more qualified than you."

Cao Yanchun's words are not false at all.

The Cao family is flourishing, and there are thousands of concubines and maidservants in the Cao Mansion, even more than the emperor's harem.

In addition to the seven children born to the concubines, even Cao Qichang himself is not very clear.

In the Final Jin Dynasty, the concubine did not have any family inheritance rights, and the family status was not a star and a half lower than that of the concubine, but a level worse.

Cao Zhiping heard clearly and thought clearly.