Wang Zhongsi is too familiar with the furnishings here, such as Fang Chongyong. The familiar driver took the other party to the "activity room" where the soldiers held the gun and gambled on weekdays, and saw that it was as clean as new, as if it was the first time to stay.

"Guo Ziyi governs the army in a good way, combining rigidity and softness. He was a fellow countryman of mine, and my father knew him well. You can trust him, and then walk around here in Hexi, see more, ask more.

Traveling thousands of miles is like reading thousands of books.

When you encounter something, you can listen to what Guo Ziyi has to say. He won't stay here for long, and when you get acquainted with the affairs of Hexi, I will recommend him as a Shuofang envoy. Even if it doesn't work, you can let him be promoted by a few levels.

Now the promotion of Datang officers has to go through the doorway, unlike in the early years, it was all based on military merit. Guo Ziyi is a capable person, and I recommend him to contribute to the country.

Although he used his power, he did not use it for personal gain, and he had a clear conscience. ”

Wang Zhongsi said with some emotion.

"Father-in-law doesn't have to say this to his son-in-law."

Fang Chongyong was made to laugh and cry by the serious Wang Zhonghei, and he didn't come to censor his father-in-law!

"You are now in the state capital of Liangzhou to join the army, and I am talking to you as an envoy of the Chishui Army, but now I have finished speaking.

Tell me about what happened along the way. ”

Wang Zhongsi waited with interest for Fang Chongyong's speech. The more he looked at this future son-in-law, the more satisfied he became, and he couldn't wait to marry his daughter tomorrow.

Fang Chongyong's "disappearance" caused a lot of uproar, and the Hexi Jiedu Mansion offered a reward of 10,000 yuan! After learning of this, Wang Zhongsi privately instructed Guo Ziyi, and asked the other party to wait quietly in Liangzhou City for Fang Chongyong to come, and there was no need to look for it like a headless fly.

"That's ......"

Fang Chongyong gave a detailed introduction to how he met Dugu Jun and Gao Shi, how he blended into Dugu Jun's team, had a good relationship with the other party and called him a brother, and how he met Hu Bandit after crossing the Ulan Pass, and then found that these people were pretended to be from the Baiting Army.

Finally, I also said that Guo Ziyi was sent to the north of Baitinghai with troops.

As for the matter of setting up a "military order" with Cui Xiyi, it is skipped. The Tubo people are ready to move, and there is no need to bury a nail between the Hexi Jiedu envoy and the Chishui military envoy.

Fang Chongyong still has a sense of the overall situation.

If he can't fight himself, he won't hinder those who can, otherwise the internal strife will lead to Tubo conquering Liangzhou City, and won't everyone die?

"When I came to Hexi to serve as a military envoy in Chishui this time, I found that the habits in the army had been greatly corrupted. I can rectify the internal affairs of the Chishui Army, but I can't reach the other armies. Listening to what you have seen and heard, it is actually a disaster caused by the strict order of Bo Reward. ”

Wang Zhongsi shook his head and sighed, not surprised by what happened to the other party.

In fact, as far as he knows, there are also examples of border troops killing all the travelers along the way after robbing, which is simply killing all the way. As long as they kill people, no one will see them do evil.

The border army of the Tang Dynasty was ruthless enough to kill the Tubo people, and it was not soft to kill the people.

So this time, Bai Tingjun actually did "not too much".

Wang Zhongsi introduced to Fang Chongyong the "unspoken rules" of the border army pretending to be bandits.

The first is that there is no room for survival, as long as it is the one who is robbed, it is absolutely the death of people and animals. Everyone acquiesces to the unspoken rules, but when the lid is lifted, it is untenable, and no one can say it. Therefore, the bitter master who has seen the "robbers" must die.

The second is that the Tang officials on the Silk Road must not be killed, and the people of the Tang Kingdom will not be killed if they can, and Zahu will depend on the situation, let it go if there is no threat, and deal with the slightest threat mercilessly.

In the end, all military envoys are aware of these things, and some even acquiesce.

Even Wang Zhonghe, who had been "parachuted" here not long ago, knew a lot of similar things, and he couldn't manage it.

He has been in the army for decades, how could he not know such a thing? If you don't do evil yourself, you have hatred for jealousy, and you have to take action when you see others doing evil, those are two completely different moral scales!

In the Hexi Corridor, whether it is right or wrong, whether it is a military envoy or a jiedu envoy, these Qiu Ba people are needed to fight with the Tubo people. If there were no generous rewards in the imperial court, similar things would always have happened, and the supporting decrees would always be just a piece of paper.

These things are not something that Wang Zhongsi, the envoy of the Chishui Army, can manage, that is Li Longji's business!

"If you go into battle in the future to command and confront the Tubo army, you will understand why the Hexi border army has to do these things. Liangzhou is not bad, but Shazhou (Dunhuang) is chaotic, and the Tang border army is not only pretending to be a bandit? People from all walks of life took turns to fight, and it was like a group of demons dancing wildly.

The Hu merchants over there, the big caravan has hundreds of camels, and the attachés are one or two thousand, and the small bandits are really not their opponents. ”

Wang Zhongsi said with some emotion.

His tolerant attitude towards the border army pretending to be bandits greatly surprised Fang Chongyong.

Seeing Fang Chongyong's expression of disappointment, Wang Zhongsi smiled and said, "But you have dealt with it properly, why don't you go out of Liangzhou City with me now and go to the Chishui Army garrison to have a look." In Chiwu Town, there is a red spring rising from the ground, which is very spectacular. ”

Wang Zhongsi suggested.

Fang Chongyong readily agreed.

In fact, Wang Zhongsi is also doing this to protect Fang Chongyong, Liangzhou City is too big, and there are hundreds of thousands of people living there, among which there are mixed fish and dragons, which is far less safe than Chiwu Town, where the Chishui Army is stationed.

"That's fine, then let's go. By the way, do you know how far Baitinghai is from Liangzhou City? ”

Wang Zhongsi thought of this stubble and asked a little funny.

"Isn't it just a few dozen miles bigger?"

Fang Chongyong looked inexplicable, and didn't feel that there was a problem.

"Dozens of miles? No, no, no, to be exact, nearly three hundred miles! ”

Wang Zhongsi said with a smile on his face.

"The Bai Ting Army traveled hundreds of miles to rob dozens of monks?"

Fang Chongyong's whole person is going to be bad, why are these Qiu Ba so unparticular about doing things.

"No, that's where they're smart. In addition to the people who did it, the shops along the road may have eyeliners, and they can know where the monks have gone at any time.

And here in Liangzhou, you must not use the distance to judge the time it takes for the army to march. In some places, it is difficult to see the winner or loser in life and death between dimensions, and it can't move a few feet away in a year; In some places, running for thousands of miles can be broken with one blow, and there are battlefields within thousands of miles of opening and closing, and there is no common practice to follow.

Although Baitinghai is not close to Liangzhou, the water and grass are fertile all the way. People can't walk on two legs, but horses can run like flying, and they are like walking on the ground, and it doesn't take a lot of time to go back and forth.

A horse farm of the Chishui Army is just south of Baitinghai. More than half of the 13,000 horses in the army came from there. ”

Hearing this, Fang Chongyong breathed a sigh of relief, he thought that he had almost killed Lao Guo. It turns out that the "far" in Lao Guo's heart is not the same thing as the "far" in his heart.

They all misunderstood each other's meaning, but in the end, they magically fit!

"Let's go."

Fang Chongyong yawned, followed behind Wang Zhongsi, and then got into a carriage and left Liangzhou City.

Chiwu Town is really dozens of miles away from Liangzhou City, and it will arrive in a short time. It's a pity that Fang Chongyong was too tired and had fallen asleep in the carriage, so he couldn't watch the famous "Red Spring" for the first time.

……

Hakuteongkai is not a sea, but it is indeed a beautiful place.

This shallow lake is a shallow lake where glacial snow water rushes down from the Daisetsuzan Mountains to the end of the low-altitude plains. The surrounding water and grass are abundant, cattle and sheep are flocked, and water birds inhabit. The reason why it is called Baiting Sea is because the water here is white, so it is named.

The Tang army set up the Baiting Army here, in addition to warning the Turks of a sudden southward movement, another purpose was to take care of the horse farms around Baiting Hai that belonged to the Tang army, and to supervise the collection of taxes on herdsmen who grazed their herdsmen.

That's right, ordinary people have to pay taxes when they cut down a tree in the suburbs of Chang'an, so why don't they have to collect the fertile grassland for herdsmen to graze?

This money was collected reasonably, because the Tang army protected the safety of their cattle and sheep.

In the early morning of this day, the sky had just spit out the white of the fish's belly, and several small boats were heading towards the north shore of the Baiting Sea. This kind of boat is a special means of transportation at Baiting Sea, with a wide bottom and a particularly shallow draft.

Because the garrison of the Baiting Army, partly on the south shore and partly in the center of the lake, a very small fortress was built.

It is also known as "White Pavilion Fort".

This Baiting Fort was not built by the Tang Dynasty, but was built in the Western Han Dynasty, and after the Tang Dynasty was rebuilt, it became the current appearance, which was the headquarters of the Baiting Army.

After these ships docked, on one of the boats, several strong men in sackcloth clothes came down, and they looked around. Then they saw a few middle-aged men dressed as Turkic merchants who had been waiting for a long time not far away, and walked straight over.

"Where's the stuff?"

One of the leading Turks asked in a proficient Liangzhou Chinese dialect.

"On board, what about the money?" The leading young man who had come down from the boat asked eagerly.

"In the carriage, a mile from here."

Hearing this, the young man seemed relieved.

"You inspect the goods first, the robe from Chang'an, the golden threaded Buddha robe! If it is sold to Tianzhu, I can't even think about what the price is. The goods are absolutely fine! ”

"That's a sight to be, of course."

The leading Turkic merchant nodded to a Turkic entourage beside him, who seemed to be inspecting the goods after getting on the ship, and then came back and whispered in the ear of the leading Turkic merchant for a long time.

"There is a smell of blood on the robe, and if it is sold to the temple of Tianzhu like this, it may be disliked. We have to spend a lot of money to deal with these problems. In this way, I will sell 10 pieces, and this price is very sincere. ”

The Turkic merchant smiled slyly and said with fear.

The golden thread of the Buddha clothes is ten times, hehe, it is better to grab it directly.

The Turkic merchant knew that he was asking for a price, and he waited for the counter-offer, isn't that how the business was done?

"Yes."

The young man who spoke before nodded slightly, and did not bargain, which was somewhat unexpected.

The Turkic merchant was a little surprised, but he still gave a few words to the people around him.

After a while, a carriage came, and several Turks brought down a box of coins, opened the box, and inside were all gold and silver coins popular in the Persian Diet, all styles, like a hodgepodge.

"There must be a lot of money, and the loss of the exchange money is also counted, and the more is the wine money for you."

After speaking, the Turkic merchant nodded slightly to the young man, admiring the other party's knowledge.

"Go and carry the goods to the wagon. The hanging horse that can't fit it is carried on a horse. ”

The Turkic merchant commanded his subordinates.

Soon his men began to get on the boat to carry things, and at this moment, the young man took advantage of the Turkic merchant's inattention, pulled out the short knife from his waist and stabbed him directly into the abdomen!

"You ......"

The Turkic merchants couldn't believe that Bai Tingjun was an "old friend" they had worked with for many years, and had always been known for their good reputation, and they had never missed an appointment, but they didn't expect it to be so ruthless when they turned their faces!

"Kill you, these are mine, what else do I need to pay you for."

The young man smiled wryly, drew his dagger, and kicked the Turkic merchant to the ground.

His attachés were also skilled in fighting, and the Turks on the ship, in the carriage, and on the shore were killed almost without any reaction.

There were no casualties on his side.

"Envoy Xin, your move is really powerful! These Turks never imagined that this time it would be an army envoy! ”

One of his subordinates ran over and patted him on the back and said.

The young man who had just spoken to the Turkic merchant was actually Xin Yunjing, the envoy of the Baiting Army!

Xin Yunjing was born in the Longyou Xin family, and many of the children in his family are military generals in Hexi, which is quite powerful. The name of the Baiting Army is the army, but in fact, the strength of the army is not as good as the larger guards, a typical "short-clothed gang wearing long shirts".

"You lost all the fish charms, and you made a bunch of shit for me to wipe your ass! Whether you can save your life this time, I can't guarantee it. Let's go, take the stolen goods back to Baitingbao, Cui Jieshuai should send someone to investigate. ”

Xin Yunjing was angry and kicked the man who had just slapped his ass.

The soldiers of the White Pavilion who were dispatched in civilian clothes loaded the box of coins and the blood-stained robes onto the ship. He loaded the corpses of many Turks onto another ship, cleaned them up, and left!

On the mound not far away, Ah Duan looked at Guo Ziyi with dissatisfaction and said, "You...... There is a different heart! ”

Waving his hand slightly, Guo Ziyi was too lazy to talk nonsense to a bureaucratic servant who couldn't speak well in Chinese, and he would naturally explain it to Fang Chongyong when he went back.

When the two sides were fighting just now, he could indeed order his own cavalry to rush down. But what happens after rushing down?

Tear your face directly with Bai Tingjun?

There was such an unexpected change in Fang Chongyong, Guo Ziyi didn't know how to deal with it, let alone make his own assertions, because this is a question that has no standard answer.

The Baiting Army killed the Turks, which naturally proves that this "financial route" will be cut off from now on, at least for a few years, otherwise the reputation will be stinky, who would dare to do business with the Baiting Army?

Once the Turkic man in charge of receiving the goods died, the rhetoric on the side of the Bai Ting Army was rich, and in short, there were no taboos. Anyway, if people die, there is no proof of death, although they can't wash away the suspicion of robbery and murder, but they can muddy the waters!

They can even say that they are playing a game before and after, and those Turks are Turkic spies! It's the Chishui Army that spoils their good deeds!

This kind of situation of "the public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable" will be very unfavorable to Wang Zhonghei, because after all, he has just landed shortly after the Chishui Army envoy. The Chishui Army may not all listen to him, but the Bai Ting Army is estimated to be completely united. In the case of not being able to do it, the Chishui Army, which has strong troops, will suffer losses if it fights with others.

Guo Ziyi believes that since things have changed unexpectedly, it is appropriate to take a step back and observe the situation before formulating new countermeasures.

Of course, he thinks so, but it's not easy to say what Wang Zhongsi and Fang Chongyong think.

"It's a mess!"

Guo Ziyi sighed lightly and muttered to himself, silently remembering Xin Yunjing, the envoy of the Baiting Army.

It's a ruthless character. Be ruthless to outsiders, and even more ruthless to yourself.

"Back to Chiwu Town!"

Guo Ziyi ordered in a deep voice.

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(End of chapter)