Prime Minister

Tiechengzhai is located on the south bank of Taoshui, at the junction of Taozhou and Minzhou.

At the beginning, the village was built under the supervision of Shen Kuo. The village is divided into four castles, and there is a temple in the center that was built in the Tang Dynasty. Longxing Temple.

Minzhou fell to the hands of the Fans, and the customs of the Fans were completely changed, but the temples have been preserved to this day.There are two iron flagpoles in Longxing Temple, which is also the name of Iron City.

After Shen Kuo built the city, Zhong Er arrived and rebuilt Longxing Temple, respected the local customs, and did not offend the common people.

There are [-] soldiers stationed in Tiechengzhai, among which the elite is a hundred troops from the Zhong family, and everyone wears heavy armor and rides two horses.Zhong Er selected two hundred fine cavalry from among the two thousand soldiers to live and live with Zhong Jia Qubu, and trained a group of elite soldiers.

This day, when he heard the news that Taozhou's Tibetan tribe had come west in a big way, Chong Er was drinking and yelled hello.

Zhong Er jumped up and threw the jug away and said, "Here comes my military exploits."

The little principal on the side faltered: "Bian Bojie claims to have 20 people, and Ji Lengpu is a famous general who is not inferior to Guizhang."

Zhong Er said: "What about a famous general? I am a famous general!"

All the officers wondered if Zhong Er had forgotten that there were only 2000 troops in the city.

But seeing Zhong Er pacing back and forth, he said: "If these foreigners are willing to obey Wang Hua, I can give them some rewards, but if they don't know what's good, I won't forgive them."

"Documents!"

With Zhong Er stroking the stubble of his chin, he said, "Immediately write a document and go to Xizhou, and the Ghost Chapter Department will attack aggressively."

The clerk asked, "Do you want the general to send troops to rescue Tiecheng?"

Zhong Er smiled and said: "We have so many soldiers, horses, money and food here, so we don't need a general to save them. Besides, the general expects that the side servants will hit the iron city, so there is no other arrangement. We just wait for the military exploits." .I turned around and pointed at this battle."

After Wen wrote the letter, it was immediately sent by the capable sergeant.

"Send an order to raise the account!"

After Zhong'e sent the order, all the officers rushed to Zhong'e's mansion.

Zhong Er bent his fingers there and counted, everyone knew that if Zhong Er bent five fingers, if the general did not come, he would be fined with a staff of one hundred, and if he did not bend ten fingers, he would be killed without pardon, without any reason. easy to use.

Last time an elementary school fell ill and came to see Zhong Er late, and Zhong Er ordered him to have his liver and gallbladder cut out.The left and right all covered their faces when they saw each other, while Zhong Er kept drinking and talking and laughing freely.

When Zhong Er bent five fingers in front of him.

All the generals were dressed neatly and rushed to the commander's mansion.No one dared to be late for a moment, no one knew how long it would take for Zhong Er to flex his fingers, what if he was in a bad mood and wanted to kill someone?
Seeing that all the generals have arrived, Zhong Er smiled and said, "It seems that you have learned to be good."

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At this moment in Dangchang City, Shen Kuo and You Shixiong are drinking each other.

Shen Kuo is a technical nerd, not good at words, but You Shixiong is very appetizing to him, and the two of them have a sense of confidant when talking about military affairs.

At this time, the two also learned the news that the Guizhang Department sent troops to Tiechengzhai, and they looked at each other.

You Shixiong said: "As expected by the commander-in-chief, Bian Sibo turned out to be the opposite."

Shen Kuo said: "I also said that he would join forces with Dong Zhan to attack Hezhou."

You Shixiong said: "Since coming to Minzhou is so high and the road is so far away, once they are frustrated, their tribes will definitely disperse! We need to send troops to rescue, and we need to rely on Muzheng to mobilize the tribe."

You Shixiong was ordered to go to Minzhou to appease the local Fan tribe according to Zhang Yue's method.After Mu Zheng came, under the call of his fame, the tribes who had waited and watched descended to the Song Dynasty one after another.

Under the appearance of Mu Zheng, the Minzhou Fan Department gathered [-] Fan troops to rescue Tiecheng.

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Huangshui flows through the foot of Qingtang City.

As the largest city in Hehuang, the scale of Qingtang City can only be compared with Liangzhou Prefecture and Qinzhou City.

Since Xixia broke the Silk Road, merchants in the Western Regions switched to the Qingtang Road (Qiang Middle Road).This road is farther, but the Qingtang tribe is more enthusiastic and considerate to the caravan than the Xixia people, so the scale of Qingtang City has become larger and larger over time.

Today's Qingtang City is divided into east and west cities, the west is Wangcheng, where Dong Zhan lives, and the east is the shopping mall, which is specially for merchants who come to trade.

At this moment, a fierce debate broke out in the royal city of Qingtang City.

The debate was carried out by the Prime Minister's Chamber and the King's Relatives Chamber.

The two revolve around whether to cooperate with Bian Sibo to attack the Song Dynasty.

Ali Gu, who presides over the meeting of the lord's relatives, strongly advocates attacking the Song Dynasty. He has recently replaced Dong Zhan and held most of the power in Qingtang City.

Knowing that Bian Sibojie had made his own claim to rebel against the Song Dynasty, Ali Gu didn't agree with it at first, but now he has to support his actions.Because he knew what it was like, once the Song people defeated Bian Sibojie and Leng Jipu, it would be very difficult for Qingtang City to resist the Song Dynasty army.

However, the National Prime Minister's Chamber of Commerce, composed of all the elders, resolutely opposed the request to send troops to attack the Song Dynasty.

Because all the elders have caravans under their command and have made a lot of money through trade with the Song Dynasty, Zhang Yue is very generous to them, exempting half of the city entry tax for the caravans under their names, and also He took the initiative to open an account for them in the quality warehouse in Xizhou City.

Everyone has [-] salt money in their account, and they can buy whatever they want.Even if you don't buy it, the interest will be paid every year.

They are also willing to deposit all the money earned from the caravan trade into the quality bank of the Song people.

Once the war between the Song Dynasty and Qingtang City broke out, all their savings in Qingtang City would be in vain.

They also had good reasons for their opposition. This war was first provoked by the servant Bojie, who was the first to be rude, and the Song Dynasty was not at fault from the beginning to the end.So we don't want to offend Zhang Yue and destroy the hard-won peace for the sake of side servants.

Looking at the plausible leaders of the Tibetan tribe, Aligu really didn't know what to say to these short-sighted elders.

He had contacted Xia Guo before and wanted to ask them to send troops together.

Unexpectedly, Xia Guo learned from nowhere that the Song Dynasty and the Qingtang Dynasty planned to jointly attack Liangzhou Prefecture. They suspected Aligu's request was their plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain, and rejected the request to send troops to cooperate.

Seeing these chattering elders, Aligu finally couldn't help but said: "Today you have to go if you want to go, or you have to go if you don't go."

The elders glanced at it, ignored Ali Gu's fury and continued to argue.

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And at the time of endless debate in Qingtang City.

Zhang Yue has already led his elite troops to send troops from Xizhou City, and now he is braved the heavy snow to cross the bare bones mountain, to take the confidant of Taozhou.

Looking at the endless high mountains and the overwhelming snow, Zhang Yue couldn't help but think of crossing Maxian Mountain when he went out for the first time.

The scene at that time is still vivid, and now it is the scene of heavy snow over the mountain.

Ling Zhang felt emotional.

When he was stationed on the top of the mountain, he saw a long marching army, and his heart suddenly felt heroic, and he remembered the poem he sang when he said goodbye to Han Qi.

To cross the Yellow River Bingsaichuan, will climb Taihanghang snow-covered mountains.

Come leisurely fishing on Bixi, suddenly take a boat dream day.

The road is difficult, the road is difficult, there are many divergent roads, where is it now?There will be times when the wind and the waves cleave, hang the clouds and sail straight to the sea.

This poem was originally used to comfort him when he was demoted, but reciting it in front of him strengthened his heart to defeat the enemy.