Northern Dynasties

Outside the city of Jingzhou, the team to welcome the triumphant army lined up tens of miles away, and all the faces of the crowd were filled with enthusiastic smiles, whether they were sincere or not.

"Come on, come on, Li Dadu will return home with a big victory!"

As the guard of honor representing the general appeared in view, the crowd became more lively. People on both sides of the road clapped and cheered, and some people followed and shouted to cheer on both sides of the team.

Originally, such a short time in the town was not enough for Li Tai to have such a great reputation among the people.But in the past period of time, although he led the army to go out to fight, the silk and gold cakes piled up on the high platform in the east of Rangcheng City showed his presence all the time.

Among the people's word of mouth, the most mentioned is the faith and heroism of the new envoy. As for the original cause of this incident, it has become an unimportant matter.

With the early withdrawal of several groups of people, the news of the complete victory of this expedition also spread in Jingzhou.

For a while, the popularity of Li Tai, the new envoy, reached a peak again. Although most people had never seen this new envoy, it did not prevent them from spreading word of mouth and running around to tell the truth about this new envoy. deeds.

He is just and forthright at home, but tough and powerful outside. For the people of Jingzhou who are located on the border and suffer from all kinds of chaos, such a person is naturally their most ideal chief.

To welcome the triumphant division today, although there are calls and organizations from the elders in the prefecture and county, there are also many people who sincerely welcome such a governor in the prefecture to govern.

Li Tai was in the team, and he was quite relieved to hear the shouts and cheers from the people on both sides of the team.

One of the reasons why local tyrants are able to become bigger and control the resources and order in the village is that they bully their superiors and their inferiors, deliberately obstructing the transmission of information, so as to seek their own interests.

For example, when Li Tai himself entered Kansai at the beginning of the year, he used the information gap to play futures, harvested a handful of powerful people in Wuxiang County, and earned himself the first pot of gold.

So every time he goes to a new place, he always finds a way to bypass the inherent local social structure and rural order, and after getting enough attention, he puts forward his own ideas and plans, so as to win recognition and support to the greatest extent.

Now he wants money, money, and soldiers, even if he is in a different place, and he is a powerful Nanyang here, he can't think of any way to fight against such an officer.

Accompanied by the cheers of the crowd all the way, Li Tai entered the city surrounded by his own soldiers. After returning to the state capital, he briefly chatted with Cui Qian and Dou Chi who were staying here to find out about the state affairs during his absence.

There is no backlog of affairs in the state that needs to be dealt with urgently. After all, the entire state capital was in a state of near shutdown before his arrival.Now because of his triumphant army, there are things to do, such as the distribution of rewards for the heroes, the resettlement of the soldiers and civilians captured in Fancheng, and so on.

In order to maintain this momentum, Li Tai thought for a while and decided to take a short break first. After two days, he will reward the troops and distribute rewards in the military camp outside the city, and try to let these state and county soldiers disband and return before the winter arrives. Township.

As for the resettlement of the people who moved from Fancheng, of course, Cui Qian and other state officials should be in charge. Combined with the current situation in the state, they should come up with a feasible plan as soon as possible.

After explaining this, Li Tai had time to go to visit his father who came to Rangcheng a few days earlier, and to avoid the embarrassment of father and son being alone, he brought his cousin Cui Qian who had just been assigned a task.

Li Xiao has a strong ability to adapt to the new environment. When Li Tai and Cui Qian arrived, he was leading a few servants digging the ground among the gardens in the backyard of the state capital. Seeing them walking, he did not stop the meaning of.

"It's fine for Aye to order his servants to do these trivial matters. Why do you need to do it yourself?"

The backyard of the state capital looked a bit barren indeed. Although the vegetation had withered, there were still many dead branches and roots left. Seeing his father's robes stained with mud, Li Tai walked forward and said with a smile.

"I'm an idler, I should do some idle things, I can't just sit in the door and treat others to feed and drink."

After Li Xiao heard this, he replied casually, then pointed to the yard with withered trees and said to Li Tai: "Since you were young, you don't like to do housework, and you are even more tired of farming. Whenever the farming is busy, you always have to wander outside. Refusing to go home. I thought I would change after I became an adult, but this residence is still like this."

Hearing his father rambling about the old things about his laziness and laziness in his youth, although it was not his own doing, Li Tai also felt a little ashamed.

Cui Qian laughed and said: "Uncle misunderstood Ah Pan. He is not lazy to clean up. It's just that when I entered the state, he led the army and hurriedly set off, before he had time to enter the state capital. Ah Pan is now comparable to when he was a boy. He is much more diligent, and he managed a prosperous family business in Kansai, which made us elders feel ashamed."

Hearing this, Li Xiao paused for a while when he turned the ground, and then laughed at himself a little later: "So far in my life, I'm just an old man in the wild. I don't know how my son's business is. When talking about the old things, It’s just that I don’t know how to pick up what I have lost and persuade him in the present, hoping that he can handle things well, but I’m stuck in my own knowledge and my words don’t convey the meaning.”

Hearing his father's self-deprecating sound, Li Tai couldn't help being deeply moved.

In fact, not only their father-son relationship, but many father-son relationships in the world are a bit twisted. As a father, he has a dignity in his heart that he wants to maintain, but he has to face the reality of the old and the new, and the son's strength and father's decline. It's hard to teach my son what he wants.

Especially when the son is engaged in some highly professional work, it is even more difficult to point out. Sometimes he will emphasize his majesty as a father in a critical way in life to cover up and avoid the fact that he is aging and gradually being eliminated .

It's just that Li Tai's achievements are obvious to all. It is bound to be a little difficult for Li Xiao to recall the majesty and feeling of being a father after reuniting after a long absence.

"Usually, I was afraid of being laughed at, and always concealed my laziness in front of others. But Aye knew that I was deep, and he could see through the bones with a single glance. Fortunately, my cousin decorated me a little bit, and Aye knew that I would not show my ugliness and disrespect in front of others, so I should do the same." How much will you forgive?"

While speaking, Li Tai rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward, wanting to take the hoe from his father, but was pushed away by his father.

"Where is a person, what should he think about! I have Lin'er to take care of the family, and I can live in the fields, but you are in charge of the family and the country, how can you waste your time with such idle things! Hurry up, don't disturb the old man's idle time." interest!"

Li Xiao laughed and scolded twice, pushed Li Tai out of the garden, and signaled him to hurry up and get busy with his business.

Li Tai saw that this old comrade knew how to entertain himself, so he decided to have dinner with his father at night, and then went to the front hall of the state capital with Cui Qian.

Two days later, in the barracks outside the city, Li Tai personally presided over a grand reward meeting. The soldiers who went out this time received various rewards according to their merits.

Strictly speaking, there are not many real combat missions in this expedition, and the front-line operations are basically undertaken by the troops brought by Li Tai from Guanzhong.As the main gains, Xiaruo Garrison and Fancheng were all guards who voluntarily surrendered, and naturally they did not have any great achievements such as being the first to fall into the battle.

In order to make this reward conference look more grand, Li Tai also specially drafted some credit items, distributed rewards in different ways, and distributed a considerable amount of silk rewards to those Jingzhou tyrants who went out with the army in full view, and many people There is more than one time to receive rewards.

Of course, this is to continue to strengthen his bold and generous personality, and at the same time, it is also telling these Jingzhou tyrants that he has given out the reward without discount. If you don’t get it, you have to think about it. Who was it that was deducted!

Even if these tycoons distribute the rewards to their troops fairly and break through Li Tai's blatant divorce scheme, he will not suffer a loss. At least he can let these tyrants and their respective tribes understand who they follow to have a future.

After some rewards, all the soldiers of the army were very happy, but those tyrants who did not respond to the call and led their troops to follow and fight could not help but feel regretful.

Nowadays, after autumn and winter, all kinds of production activities have come to an end temporarily. If they go out with the army, it will not only shorten the relationship with the new envoy, but the rewards they get will also make their winter more comfortable. .

But no matter how much they regretted it, it was already too late. After this rewarding conference was over, Li Tai's preliminary preparations were basically completed, and the policy of throwing coins could come to an end.

The attack on Xiangyang was successfully concluded, and it was natural to deal with state affairs next.At the moment, there is a state matter that has been backlogged for many days to be dealt with, that is, the disappearance of three tyrants.

When this happened just now, Li Tai built an earthen platform outside the east gate of Rang City to offer a reward, and now more than half a month has passed, so of course we have to test the effect.

Because this incident caused quite a stir at the time, and even Li Tai, the governor of the prefecture, was under considerable suspicion, so he also summoned prefectural and county officials and representatives of the local townships to gather in the prefectural capital to discuss and resolve this matter. matter.

"The last general pays homage to the envoy!"

Huang Fuhu and other representatives of the three suffering masters went to the hall to pay homage to Li Tai, and they couldn't help but feel a little nervous when they saw the full-seat battle in the straight hall.

Li Tai looked down at the three of them, and said with a kind smile, "Before, the state government offered a reward and asked you to wait for the three to collect news. How is the reward now?"