Shu Chen

Chapter 449
238 AD, the first year of Shaowu.

Yes, the Great Han Dynasty was changed to the Yuan Dynasty, the emperor Liu Chan was established as the prince, the Yuan Dynasty was changed to Shaowu, and the amnesty was granted.

But everyone knows that Shaowu's reign title is intended to succeed the former emperor "Zhangwu", which shows that today's great Han has escaped the "Jianxing" period of the defeat of Yiling and was trapped in Bashu, and has a history comparable to that before the Battle of Xiangfan. The national strength and the determination to stand against Wei Wei.

However, people's attention was attracted by another matter.

Zheng Pu, who was praised by the prime minister a long time ago as a public servant, and was later awarded the position of the prime minister's direct official, unexpectedly resigned from his post and became the general of Zhenxi, holding the festival and supervising the military affairs of Liangzhou.

Although he is still a servant, and there are many things about big men coming and going, people can taste something unusual from it.

Gein now has Li Yan in charge of the Supervision and Examination Office, and most of Zheng Pu's duties as directors have not been awarded, why not let him not retain this position and also the title of Zhenxi General?
Of course, they just muttered twice in their hearts about this kind of doubt.

After all, they still take warning of the consequences of speaking out loud like Liu Yan and Yang Yi.

In the second ten days of the second month of February, people gather at Luomen in Jixian County.

In the main house of the Yishan Bieyuan of the Lu family, Zhang Yan, who had been pregnant for a long time, was fixing Zheng Pu's hair and arranging his clothes, and whispering various instructions in his mouth.

Every time Zheng Pu goes out to fight, she always does this.

Only this time, there was a little worry and a little heartache in her voice.

After relieving her grief and getting rid of her illness, she suddenly discovered that Zheng Pu's temples were only a little frosty and white, but they turned pale within two months at the turn of winter and spring. Unresolved wrinkles.

But in his thirties, he is so old!

When Zheng Pu got up, she finally couldn't help but bury her head on his shoulder, and murmured in a very depressed mood, "Husband, don't be eager to avenge your elder brother. I can wait three, five, or even ten years for my concubine." .The concubine is young and lonely, and the eldest brother also died before the battle, but I beg my husband to take care of himself."

Zheng Pu listened quietly.

Wrapping her arms around her shoulders, gently rubbing her nose against her ears, smelling her tenderness and worry.

When he was young, he patted her on the back and said slowly, "Wendaimo is worried, wait for me to return."

After saying that, he turned around and strode away without looking back.

In late spring and March, Zheng Pu went to the small basin where the Zuli River entered the Dahekou (later Jingyuan County).

During the time of Emperor Ling, this place belonged to Tanyin County, where both agriculture and animal husbandry were developed, as well as fishing and hunting. Therefore, it has always been the place where the garrison of Tanyin City Fortress garrisons.

It was only later that Liangzhou fell out of line and the dignity of the Han court was trampled into the dust. Therefore, rebellions and horse thieves were rampant in the counties and counties in the northwest. As a result, the Li Shu and nomadic tribes here all migrated or were slaughtered. No one lives anymore, leaving only ruins and bones The rubble silently spoke of desolation.

After the Han army captured the fortress of Shuyin and restored the Hexi Corridor, this place became a military station again.

As soon as Fei Yifu was in charge of Wuwei County, he moved the boy servants who had been loyal to Wei Haoyou's family and some captives here, and divided them into fields, pastures and fishing grounds to provide food and fodder for the garrison in Shuyin City Fort.

But it is a pity that the army of Confucian governors who rebelled against the Wei Dynasty Xiahou came from Helan Mountain to trap Wuyin, and the farmland here was also destroyed a lot.

At least, nearly half of those farmers were captured by the Wei army and taken to Yuyin to serve as coolies and civilian husbands in the army. They died of exhaustion and freezing to death when they were only one year old.By the time Wei Yan broke through Xia Hou Confucianism and solved the siege of Yuyin, there were only a few hundred of these farmers living in the fields, alas.
Naturally, the farming here still needs to be re-established.

After the war, Fei Yi moved all the farmers who had escaped from the butcher's knife to Jincheng County for resettlement, and instead used Wei army prisoners as coolies for military settlement.Just out of fear of captives gathering in crowds to defect or cause trouble, the scale of Tuntian was much smaller.

In this way, it is easy to understand that Zheng Pu, who was appointed, regarded this place as the first stop of his appointment.

Whether it is to transfer grain and fodder from Jincheng County or Wuwei County to Shuyin City Fortress, it is too far away, and it is too time-consuming and labor-intensive.

In order to support future wars, he must restore the farmland here to its previous scale.And fortunately, there is no need to open up wasteland and there is no shortage of cattle, horses and livestock to plow the fields, this year's spring plowing will not be delayed.

Yes, it can catch up with spring plowing.

After making a decision with the prime minister, Zheng Pu asked Fei Yi and Liu Yin to take care of this matter.

Today, Liu Yin, who is guarding the fortress of Shuyin, has led more than a thousand soldiers to transfer farm tools and grain seeds to this place, and is busy with the Wei army captives repairing houses, digging ditches and digging fish ponds.

When the scouts came to tell the time, he was sweating profusely digging the reservoir.

Coming from a wealthy family, he can't do farming and mulberry work, so he can only choose this kind of hard work to show the soldiers that we share weal and woe.

"Lead my war horse."

In return, he threw the long pick in his hand casually, and told the other generals to continue to urge the soldiers to be busy, and took a few followers to greet them with unclean faces and without changing their clothes.

When he saw Zheng Pu's banner from a distance, he knew why Zheng Pu, who was appointed in the first month, came so late.

In addition to the [-] heavy infantry directly under him, the prime minister also asked Zheng Pu to bring [-] armored cavalry to Hexi.

This also made him faintly realize: Maybe Zijin came to Hexi to serve, not just to replace General Jiang, but also to use troops against Helan Mountain?

Well, even the emperor Liu Chan didn't know about the plot of the prime minister and Zheng Pu.

With doubts, Liu Yin galloped forward to greet her, and bowed his hands with a smile, "Zijin, long time no see."

"It's true that I haven't seen brother Xiuran for a long time! But I don't want to. When I meet brother again, my face is covered with dirt like a husband!"

As usual, Zheng Pu first made a joke before driving the horse to walk side by side with him, "Well, Brother Xiu Ran, send a retinue first, and lead the Death Battalion and Jiaqi to station in the Fortress of Yuyin."

"it is good."

Liu Yin nodded, and sent his followers to lead the way as he said.

Then he took Zheng Pu to inspect the spring plowing and animal husbandry in the small basin of the river mouth.

"Zijin, the envoy Sima who is in charge of this place was transferred from Zhangye County by Fei Shijun. Last year, Hexi had the most abundant grain from the farmland under his jurisdiction."

"The Hu people who are in charge of herding cattle and sheep were selected by Xiaoqi General Zhao Yihong from the tribe of Liang Yuanbi in the Guanchuan River Valley. That tribe had also herded here before. They are familiar with the habits of livestock and can prevent cattle and sheep from eating poisonous weeds by mistake."

"I don't know anything about farming and mulberry, so I asked many small officials to ask them. They said that if the weather is good and there are no locusts and insects, the autumn harvest can provide food for five thousand infantry for half a year after deducting the winter rations of the villagers. .”

The horseshoes walked slowly along the way, Liu Yinxu babbled, and Zheng Pu nodded frequently.

When the sun set and the horses returned to the camp, Zheng Pu finally asked what Liu Yin was looking forward to, "Brother Xiuran, how is the morale of the Shouhou army now? Is it worthy of a deadly battle?"

"Morale is high and everyone wants to fight to the death."

Taking a deep breath, Liu Yin, who has almost been stationed in the city or siege since the Northern Expedition, tried hard to suppress the fire in his heart, "Zijin knows that the army is composed of Wenrong recruits and military exercises, and most of the soldiers are grateful for their kindness. Last year I heard about the battle of Quwu Mountain, and the soldiers of the two ministries clamored for Sima to ask me to write a letter to the prime minister, asking for the war to avenge Wen Rong. I know that the prime minister has his own thoughts about whether to fight or not, so I didn’t write a book, and I spent money It took a lot of thought to appease them. But."

At this point, Liu Yin paused for a while before continuing, "However, at the beginning of the year, the Qixi army learned that Zijin would supervise the military affairs of Liangzhou with festivals, and they knew that Wenrong and Zijin were the family of in-laws, so everyone was looking forward to it. Zijin came and led them to the battle. Zijin, the people of the Bi and Hu clan are brave, seldom literate and love to fight to the death. If you have no intention of sending troops to Helan Mountain, you need to find a good reason to appease them."

Ok?
It has been more than ten years since the Suihou army was established, and they still have to worry about disrespecting the general's orders?
Hearing this, Zheng Pu raised his eyebrows and looked at Liu Yin, and asked softly, "Brother Xiu Ran, does it mean that the Qihou army has shown signs of instability?"

"That's nothing."

Liu Yin shook her head hastily, "It's because they are stubborn. If Zijin has no reason to appease them, I'm afraid they will disturb Zijin so that she won't be pure."

Hmm, disturb me so I can't be clean?

Zheng Pu was even more surprised.

But soon, he knew what it meant.

At this moment, the servant Qi Yacuo, who was driving the horse to clear the way, suddenly ordered all the trilogy to draw their swords, and protected Zheng Pu: more than two hundred soldiers are rushing forward with swords!

Looking at the tattoos (similar to praying mantis tattoos) exposed on the neck and the back of the hands, they should be soldiers from the Ministry of Enforcement.

"You can't turn back what you want!"

Liu Yin was shocked by this turn of events, and immediately dismounted and squeezed out of the guard circle of Qi Yacuo and the others, yelling, "Yujun abandons his blade! Stop! Anyone who dares to approach the former will be punished!"

Liu Yin still has the morale of the army.

After a loud cry, those soldiers and soldiers bowed to the ground.

But the dressed-up man drew his blade and slashed his face, then slapped his chest with the blade and shouted in unison, "General Zhenxi, please lead us to avenge Governor Zhang!"

It also led to the shouts of all the soldiers.

"revenge!"

"revenge!"

"Shut up!"

In an instant, Liu Yin's beard and hair were all stretched out, and he strode over to kick the leader to the ground. He waved the whip in his hand and lashed his head and face, cursing, "As a Sima, I have no military discipline. Calling up the soldiers to make trouble, I really think I dare not act with military law!"

The Sima of that department was also stubborn.

When he was beaten, he still scratched his neck and retorted, "The general will be killed if he wants to, anyway, we just want to avenge Governor Zhang!"

Not surprisingly, the shaman behind him clamored again.

"revenge!"

"revenge!"

"To shut up!"

The furious Liu Yin yelled, "Anyone who makes noise again will be punished with fifty rods, dismissed from the army, and punished as slaves!"

After roaring, out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Zheng Pu driving his horse towards him, and continued to slap the Sima ruthlessly with his whip, "You have no military discipline! You are making noise and making trouble!"

He knew what Zheng Pu was like.

If he was really annoyed, it would be common for him to order the Sima of the Ministry of Life to be chopped off.

Now he doesn't whip a few more times to show his responsibility, fearing that Zheng Pu will act with military law.

"Brother Xiuran, stop hitting me."

Under the guard of Qiyacuo, Zheng Pu did not dismount, but looked down at Sima and asked, "Do you want to avenge Governor Zhang by making noises for the soldiers to come out to stop me?"

"Back to the general, yes!"

Hearing the words, the Sima of the Gou tribe sat upright and bowed his head in salute, "General, if we don't stop our Gobu tribe from asking for a fight, the soldiers of the Gobu tribe who stayed in the fortress of Yuyin are also willing to die!"

"Ah."

Zheng Pu made a nasal sound and continued to ask, "Aren't you afraid that I will act according to military law when you act like this?"

"Don't be afraid! If the general allows us to fight, I am willing to kill myself to apologize!"

"Courage! Get up, I promise."

"Really?"

The Sima's eyes were bright, and he got up from the sand in a blink of an eye. Regardless of the blood on his face, he bared his teeth and asked, "When will the general take us to battle?"

Boom!
As soon as the words fell, he was kicked to the ground by Liu Yin again, "It's your turn to ask questions in the military decision-making! Go back with your soldiers!"

"Thank you, General! Thank you, General!"

He didn't care, he got up again, smiled and saluted, and turned around to bring the soldiers back to the camp as he said.

"Wait!"

But he was called out by Zheng Pu again, "You have no military discipline, you make a noise and cause trouble, you should be executed according to the law! Seeing that you are fighting for the country, you will have a reduced crime, and you will receive fifty sticks when you return, and you will be fined for half a year!" The rest of the shadow followers will all have twenty sticks and a one-month salary!"

Uh.
For a moment, Sima of the Goubu was stunned.

The whip in Liu Yin's hand swung down again, and with his back to Zheng Pu, he blinked at the Sima of the Ministry, "Thank you, General, for not killing me!"

Immediately, Sima of the Goubu understood.

He quickly saluted and thanked him, turned around and took the soldiers away.

Seeing their disappearing figures, Liu Yin took over the horse led by his subordinates and jumped up, a little ashamed to confess to Zheng Pu, "My lax discipline made Zijin laugh at me."

"No problem."

After waving his hand, Zheng Pu continued to drive his horse forward, "However, after Brother Xiuran returns, don't use your personal wealth to benefit them. The army has its own laws, and when the governor is outside, you can do whatever you want Just avoid it."

Uh, Zijin actually guessed that I would use my family wealth to supplement the soldiers of the Hu tribe who were punished?
Liu Yin was surprised.

But looking back and thinking about it, I was relieved.

When the army of the Wei State was besieged in the fortress of Yinyin, the fact that he used gambling to encourage the soldiers to persevere had long been known to the army. Now it is not surprising that Zheng Pu can guess what he is going to do.

"Hey, I can't hide it from Zijin."

So he smiled embarrassedly, and couldn't help asking, "Zijin, the prime minister sent you to supervise the battle in Liangzhou, is it because our army will conquer Helan Mountain?"

"Hey! Ba Pu will offend me in Helan Mountain!"

You Fufeng in Guanzhong, accompanied by Guo Huai, Guanqiu Jian and others, patrolled the Chengguo Canal along the Chengguo Canal. Sima Yi, the governor of Wei Yongliang who was plowing in the spring this year, saw the news that Zheng Pu had left Liangzhou, and immediately There was a sigh of emotion.

After saying that, he passed the military cloth and silk in his hand to Guo Huai and Guan Qiujian for circulation.

The two of them looked the same.

After the Battle of Quwu Mountain last year, Sima Yi asked them to discuss with other Liaojun troops. At that time, it was determined that the Shu army would not enter Guanzhong due to food shortages, but would definitely attack Helan Mountain again.

It's just that he didn't guess that Ni Shu was actually sending Scar Pudu to fight Liangzhou.

"Captain, Bapu is very cunning in using troops, and is known for his ingenuity. The final general thinks that Deng Shizai is a book, and don't send an army to defend."

After watching the military situation, Guo Huai was the first to speak out.

"Captain, I see the same thing as Boji."

Guan Qiujian, governor of Yongzhou, also followed up, saying, "Therefore, Da Sima said, 'The one with scars is a big problem for Wei's', and he is deeply afraid of it. Although Deng Shizai has general strategies, he will not be there in the end. I'm afraid it's not scars. Opponents, we should reinforce them."

(End of this chapter)