Chapter XXXIV
Shunchang
The Northern Expedition is really not an easy thing, although Yue Fei drove the Golden Vulture away, but Yue Fei didn't understand the governance of Shunchang at all. It's easy to break the city, but it's hard to defend it. There are no officials in a city, and all big and small matters must be handled by the military in the future. Within a few days, Yue Fei received complaints from many of his subordinate generals, claiming that he really couldn't handle the people's disputes well.
It was also at this time that Yue Fei understood the importance of civil officials to a country. Although it is difficult, there are always more solutions than suffering. Fortunately, there were still some officials left over from the Golden Vulture in Shunchang City, as well as some Song Dynasty officials who did not flee to the south. With the joint efforts of everyone, after days of non-stop work, Shunchang can finally maintain the most basic ability to deal with things.
Although the puppet Qi regime had been abolished by the Jin State last year, because Yue Fei had been in the north, some of the puppet Qi royal family and military generals still occupied Hebei Province. The news of Yue Fei's Northern Expedition this time was also received by Pseudo Qi. But by the time he gathered his army to aid Jin Wushu, Yue Fei had already captured Shunchang. Therefore, the pseudo-Qi was intimidated by Yue Fei's military momentum and did not dare to make any more small moves; And Bianliang's Jin Wushu has now gone to the capital of Jin Guoguo and has gone to fight with Wan Yanchang.
For a time, the north was unusually harmonious, farming for farming, training for training, and building cities for building cities. Then, the holy decree of the reward from Lin'an finally arrived, this time it was not a eunuch, but a real civil official - Li Ruoxu, who served as Sinong Shaoqing.
Yue Fei led the generals and some officials of Shunchang City to greet him at the gate of the city, and Li Ruoxu dismounted, holding the holy decree in his hand: "Yue Fei receives the decree." ”
"Yue Fei, the last general of Jinghu North Road and Jingnan Road, the Xuanfu envoy and the ambassador of Yingtian, led the Yue family army and Shunchang officials to respectfully invite Sheng'an."
"St. Bow."
"Hooray, hooray, hooray.
Li Ruoxu opened the holy decree and said: "I Shao Ying's life, fortunately Deer and other Northern Expedition soldiers, brave the wind and rain, win a hundred battles, die for a lifetime, go east and west, and sweep away the chaos." Today, we broke the Golden Vulture Technique, beheaded 70,000 Jin soldiers, and recovered six cities including Shunchang, which was an unprecedented victory since the founding of our dynasty. I was very relieved, and awarded Yue Fei, the commander of the Northern Expedition, as the Xuanfu envoy of Henan, and opened the palace with the three divisions to manage all important military and political affairs in Henan Province. The rest of the meritorious generals talk about their merits, and they will be rewarded, and I dare not be selfish, and the generals also know it. ”
"Wechen thank Your Majesty Longen."
Liu Chan's reward for Yue Fei can be said to be extremely heavy, especially the opening of the palace and the three divisions and the management of all important military and political affairs are unprecedented since the founding of the Song Dynasty. Not only Yue Fei, but the other generals were also very excited. Coaches are so well rewarded, let alone other generals. Don't say it, Your Majesty is magnificent!
"General Yue, please get up." Li Ruoxu helped Yue Fei up, and said to the other generals kneeling next to him, "Please also get up." "Li Ruoxu is actually very familiar with Yue Fei and the generals of the Yue family's army, there is no way, who let him stay in the Yue's army before.
In late September of the fifth year of Shaoxing, when Yue Fei returned to Ezhou, he had a severe attack of eye disease, and he had no choice but to hand over military affairs to Zhang Xianhe and Li Ruoxu, who served as the counselor of Yue's army. In the seventh year of Shaoxing, Zhao Jun conspired with Qin Hui and refused to allocate the Huaixi Army to Yue Fei, and also sarcastically mocked Yue Fei to his face. So Yue Fei was angry, resigned and dismissed, and went back to his hometown to guard the tomb. Later, Li Ruoxu personally went out and persuaded Yue Fei for six days in a row before Yue Fei finally came out of the mountain.
Later, Zhang Jun misemployed people, which led to a military mutiny in the Huaixi Army. Zhao Gou was furious because of this, Zhao Jun took the blame and resigned, and he flew away after being the prime minister for a long time, which was really fateful.
"Ruoxu, since you entered Beijing as Si Nong Shaoqing, we haven't seen each other for a long time." Yue Fei said to Li Ruoxu with a smile.
"yes, yes. We all thought you had forgotten about our old brothers. Wang Gui interjected on the side.
"Why, I think you're too late, how could I forget you. Seriously, I really miss the days in the barracks, not as bad as the DPRK and China. ”
"Is something happening in the DPRK?" Yue Fei asked suspiciously.
Li Ruoxu looked at the sky, then at Yue Fei, and complained: "You don't want me to talk to you while enduring the scorching heat of the sun." This is not hospitality! ”
"Hahaha, please, please. We have prepared a big house for you to live in, so you can be satisfied. ”
"Don't talk about living first, go and prepare a big meal for me, if you want wine, I'm going to starve to death." Although Li Ruoxu is a civilian official, he has been staying in the Yue family army before, and he does not have the elegance of a civilian official at all, but is very heroic. What's more, looking at a group of old brothers now, he doesn't feel stranger at all.
Then, Li Ruoxu saw Yue Yun: "Yue Yun has also grown up, he is not the same as before, and he has gained a lot of weight." ”
Yue Yun wanted to die in his heart, although he could fight in the army, he had the lowest rank and was often the object of discussion among the elders. This is also why Yue Yun does not directly hold an official position in the Yue family's army, but serves as the commander in the Beiwei army. No way, during a meal, everyone found that there was no topic, and then they talked about him. This kind of thing is fine once, but it's really annoying to have more things.
Yue Yun was curious, he really didn't know how Huo Qubing stayed in the army at the beginning, after all, the commander at that time, Wei Qing, was his uncle. In fact, Huo Qubing and Yue Yun are similar, which is why Huo Qubing has always cooperated with Wei Qing to fight, instead of directly obeying his command, and he really can't stand that group of people.
"Uncle Li, it's been a long time." Yue Yun clenched his fists and said.
"Long time no see, long time no see, have you married, do you want me to introduce you to one."
Yue Yun wanted to die even more in his heart.
When the generals came to Manxianglou, Li Ruoxu poured himself a bowl of wine as soon as he sat down, and then drank it all: "Cool, I haven't drunk the spirits of the north for a long time, and the capital is really not something I can bear." ”
"If you like it, I'll give you a few altars when you go back this time."
"Hahaha, then thank you Pengju. Don't you know, the DPRK and China are really in chaos now, and they can't figure it out at all. I managed to pick up this errand and I'm sure I'll be here for a few days. ”
Yue Fei looked at Li Ruoxu suspiciously: "Eh, what's wrong, we haven't received any news from Lin'an here." ”
"Huh? You still don't know about Qin Xiang? ”
"Oh, you said this, this prince has already told us before." Yue Fei's expression was relieved, it turned out to be this matter.
"Did you say that?" Li Ruoxu was surprised, so calm, Yue Fei knew that the rebel army had been under the command of Qin Hui, and he was still so calm. He, Li Ruoxu, knew that Qin Hui and Yue Fei had never dealt with each other.
"Yes, why should Ruoxu be so surprised, isn't it just that Qin Hui knelt in front of the palace gate to apologize, although the matter is indeed a bit big, but it has not reached the point of affecting the government." Yue Fei has almost never been the prime minister of Putrajaya Qin Hui in private, and the same is true for Qin Hui.
Li Ruoxu smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Hey, that's what you're talking about." I'm talking about His Majesty's special order for the rebel army to form a separate army, and named it the Xiliang Army. In the future, if there are any rebels from all over the country who want to join the army, they will all be under the jurisdiction of the Xiliang Army. ”
"That's a good thing." Yue Fei didn't quite understand, what was wrong.
Li Ruoxu looked at Yue Fei and said word by word: "Then guess who the rebel army is under its command." ”
Seeing Li Ruoxu's expression, Yue Fei felt a shadow in his heart, and asked with luck, "Hu Kang?" ”
Li Ruoxu shook his head.
"Zhao Xiang?"
Li Ruoxu continued to shake his head.
Yue Fei finally gave up: "It can't be Qin Hui." ”
"It's Prime Minister Qin, this time Your Majesty's reward for the Yue family army is too generous, and you still have all the power in the army in Henan Mansion. In order to appease the Lord and faction, His Majesty had no choice but to give Qin Xiang the military power of the army all the way, and ordered him to lead the rebel army, but he did not need to go to the battlefield. ”
"Not going to war?" What is the name of the commander who does not go to the battlefield, it is better to let himself lead.
"Your Majesty said that the rebel army is responsible for plundering the Jin army on the border, and Qin Xiang can stabilize the army in the court."
Yue Fei sighed helplessly, okay, as long as Qin Hui doesn't come to the front line. Hey, but it's really bad. The rebel army, which was supposed to cooperate well with him, suddenly became a subordinate of a political enemy, and he really didn't know what to say.
"Is there anything else going on in the DPRK? Is the prince Zhao Ying good? "Yue Fei was very disappointed with Zhao Gou before, so he directly contacted the prince. As a result, he found that Zhao Ying was actually a staunch main battle faction, and his ability was quite good, so he was very eager for Zhao Ying to become the crown prince.
But it's a pity that Yue Fei really didn't expect Zhao Gou's qi to be so small, so he was on the table once, and asked Zhao Gou to make Zhao Ying the crown prince, and it was because of the Jin Kingdom that Yue Fei was on the table. In this way, Zhao Gou directly drove Yue Fei out of Lin'an and sent him to the northern front.
But now, Yue Fei has regained confidence in Liu Chan, after all, although the prince is good, he is the emperor. With the support of the emperor, who wants to wait a few decades to become the emperor's crown prince. However, Zhao Ying is not bad, and Yue Fei is still very concerned about him.
"The relationship between His Majesty and Zhao Xiang is very tense, even if the palace gate is closed, he will occasionally scold Zhao Xiang." The corners of Li Ruoxu's mouth twitched, it was also the first time he had seen an emperor scolding Zuo Xiang with a holy decree.
Fortunately, Zhao Ding is the main battle faction, and the main and faction want to see Zhao Ding's jokes, and they don't stop Liu Chan. Zhao Ding himself was also loyal, and he had no complaints about Liu Chan. As for Han Shizhong, it's even simpler, just if Your Majesty supports the Northern Expedition, other things have nothing to do with him.
"This..." Yue Fei couldn't think of what to say.
"As for Zhao Ming, it's not bad, it's okay to behave in the world, and he hasn't made any mistakes. However, the son is more expensive than the mother, and the one in the palace loves Zhao Xuan very much. ”
Although Zhao Xuan is romantic, he is very elder. Not only Wu Guifei, but even Zhao Gou also loves Zhao Xuan very much. Because of this, he has been able to live in Lin'an, but unfortunately, it is now Liu Chan. Liu Chan can't bear this kind of guy the most, he can't figure out anything, and he just keeps having fun.
"Well, it's fine."