Qian Song

Chapter 163 Li Cun: Song Jiang, My Chen Ping (ask for a monthly ticket!)
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A general without a plan will exhaust thousands of troops; a general without a plan will defeat thousands of troops.

In fact, Li Cun now has no shortage of generals. Whether it is Zhao Han'er, Er Ganzi, etc. that Li Cun personally brought out, or Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, etc. who were later captured by Li Cun, they are all generals who can stand alone.

But be a marshal.

Zhao Han'er, Er Ganzi and others are not capable enough.

Han Shizhong, Wu Jie and others have insufficient qualifications and credits.

This ability is not enough, promoting him to a high position is really easy to do bad things, at least it is embarrassing and useful.

The most typical example is Kong Lengzi.

At the end of last year, Li Cun sent Kong Lengzi to lead troops to recover Guangnan East Road and Guangnan West Road.

Kong Lengzi was very happy to fight Guangnan East Road, which was not guarded by many Song troops, and regained Guangnan East Road in more than half a month.

Then Kong Lengzi led an army of [-] people ([-] on Fujian Road and another [-] on Guangnan East Road) plunged into the quagmire of Guangnan West Road and could no longer pull out.

Now, a few months have passed, and Kong Lengzi is spinning around in Yizhou, Fushui Prefecture, and Nandan Prefecture, wasting manpower, material and financial resources, and losing more than 2000 horses.

The point is, until now, there has been no progress on the barbarian issue.

But then again, those barbarians rely on Kong Lengzi to be straight, and there are not so many twists and turns. There are many dangerous mountains and rivers in their place, and they are not familiar with the situation when they bully Kong Lengzi. Kill, Kong Lengzi can make these gangs of barbarians exterminate.

Row.

Aren't you bullying Kong Lengzi who can't play tricks?
Then I, Li Cun, will find someone who can play dirty with you to have fun with you.

So Li Cun sent Song Jiang, Wu Yong and others over.

Song Jiang, Wu Yong and the others found out from the locals within a few days:

The barbarians in Fushui prefecture formed their own forces, ruled in a separate country, and repeatedly conquered and rebelled.

The residents of this barbarian mainly have the four surnames of Qu, Liao, Pan, and Wu, and the leaders are all from Shang, Zhong, Xiasanfang and Beiya Township.

The current leader, Chieftain Meng Jigui, comes from the upper house. On the day of the election of the leader, he tricked Meng Quanan from the middle room and Meng Hanwei from the lower room into the mountains and failed to participate in the election in time. .

Because of this, Meng Quan'an and Meng Hanwei have always refused to accept Meng Jigui, and the residents of the middle house and the lower house are also in trouble with the residents of the upper house.

That is because they want to unite against the Huben army to fight for the interests of their tribe, so the three families temporarily put aside their grievances and join forces to deal with the Huben army.

Song Jiang, Wu Yong and others heard from Kong Lengzi that not long ago, Meng Quan'an and Meng Hanwei led the residents of the middle and lower houses to attack the Huben army, causing 300 casualties to the Huben army. The tribe has done a great job.

Knowing this, Song Jiang bought off brothers surnamed Wu in Beiya Township with 100 taels of garlic, and asked them to go back and spread rumors. Surrender to the Huben Army.

Sure enough, Meng Jigui fell into the trap and became suspicious of Meng Quan'an and Meng Hanwei.

In view of the fact that there might be traitors in his own ranks, and that the Huben army is really not easy to mess with, and has killed nearly a thousand members of their tribe, Meng Jigui wanted to negotiate peace with the Huben army first, and use a slow-down strategy to coax the Huben army away first, and then Do more calculations.

So Meng Jigui sent envoys to see Kong Lengzi.

Song Jiang did not let Kong Lengzi meet the envoy sent by Meng Jigui, but asked Wu Yong to meet this person.

Wu Yong prepared wine and meat to entertain Meng Jigui's envoy very attentively, but he was asking the envoy, "Is the chief of Quan'an safe? Does the injury he suffered last time matter?"

Meng Jigui's envoy was confused and corrected Wu Yong: "I am sent by the leader of Meng Jigui."

When Wu Yong heard this, his expression immediately changed, and he said flatly, "Why didn't you speak up earlier."

Wu Yong unceremoniously called people to come up and take away the good wine and meat, and then said impatiently: "Go back and tell Meng Jigui that if you don't want to be decapitated and the whole family be punished, immediately burn the village and the village, and raise your family." Move to live in Guizhou and accept the control of my family's officials, otherwise my family's army will destroy the village and leave no one behind."

After the envoy returned and reported the truth, Meng Jigui was furious, and concluded that Meng Quan'an must have secretly joined the Huben army, and threatened to arrest Meng Quan'an and punish him.

Meng Quan'an was also furious, Meng Jigui used despicable means to take away his and Meng Hanwei's leadership position, not to mention that he and Meng Hanwei were not rewarded for the military exploits he and Meng Hanwei made last time, and now he is still suspected of surrendering to the enemy. But also to arrest him and punish him.

Meng Quan'an felt that he had to strike first.

So Meng Quan'an found Meng Hanwei, and discussed with the middle house and the bottom house to join forces to defeat the top house and regain the position of leader.

Who would have thought that this matter would be known by Meng Jigui.

Meng Jigui would not sit still and wait to die, he immediately led the residents of Shangfang down the mountain to kill Meng Quan'an and Meng Hanwei.

Meng Hanwei was still hesitating whether to join forces with Meng Quan'an, and after Meng Jigui was killed, who would be the leader between him and Meng Quan'an?

Unexpectedly, Meng Jigui led the upper house residents to kill them.

There is no way, Meng Hanwei can only lead the residents of the lower housing and the residents of the middle housing led by Meng Quanan to unite and fight with the residents of the upper housing led by Meng Jigui.

Meng Jigui was defeated by one and two, and was beaten out of the stockade by Meng Quan'an and Meng Hanwei in the end.

The more Meng Jigui thought about it, the more he became unwilling, so he simply led the people in the house to join the Huben army, claiming that as long as the Huben army helped him avenge him and regain the position of leader, he would surrender his family and obey the arrangement of the Huben army.

Led by men like Meng Jigui who knew the way, Kong Lengzi captured Meng Quan'an and Meng Hanwei alive in one fell swoop.

Meng Jigui wanted to execute Meng Quanan and Meng Hanwei, but was stopped by Song Jiang.

In the next matter of family relocation, the three families cooperated, and nothing happened.

As long as they didn't cooperate, Song Jiang would not urge them, but at the same time, either Meng Jigui's only son was accidentally killed by Meng Quan'an's nephew, or Meng Hanwei's wife was slept by Meng Jigui's younger brother. In short, Song Jiang always has a way to provoke the war of the three families and let the bloodletting of the three families at the same time.

Seeing that Song Jiang had no bottom line in what he did, the Meng family in Beiya Town felt his scalp tingle, so he took the initiative to approach Song Jiang, expressing that the residents of Beiya Town were willing to obey the arrangements of the Huben Army.

Song Jiang moved the residents of Beiya Town to the newly built Guihua City in Guizhou in accordance with the policy formulated by Lu Jiang and the others.

Slowly, Meng Jigui, Meng Quan'an and Meng Hanwei also realized that everything was caused by Song Jiang.

But Meng Jigui, Meng Quan'an and Meng Hanwei know the truth, so what can they do? The Huben army has already stationed in their stockade, they can't beat them again and again, and they are not Song Jiang's opponents playing tricks.

In the end, the upper house, the middle house and the lower house can only move to Guihua City, Guizhou according to Song Jiang's arrangement.

Before the result came out, Kong Lengzi took the initiative to write a memorial to Li Cun, expressing his willingness to obey Song Jiang's arrangement.

Li Cun didn't wait for the result, so he appointed Song Jiang as the resettlement envoy of Weiyi, Fushui, Nandan and other states, and asked him to take full responsibility for solving the problem of the barbarians in these states not obeying the control of the Huben army. Kong Lengzi was under his command for the time being. .

In addition to insufficient ability, insufficient qualifications and credit, it is also difficult to assume the post of commander-in-chief.

You know, the army is a place where prestige is very important. It really doesn't mean that if you are placed in the position of commander, you can command tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops.

Before, Li Cun forcibly promoted Han Shizhong several times, which actually caused criticism.

In other words, Li Cun's prestige is too strong, even if others have ideas, they dare not speak out.

In addition, those few times were all under Li Cun's nose, and no one dared to make trouble.

Otherwise, someone will definitely ask: "Why should a defeated general command us?"

Therefore, when considering the commander-in-chief of suppressing bandits, Li Cun hesitated again and again, and instead of forcing Han Shizhong to be the commander-in-chief, he transferred Su Dong back to serve as the commander-in-chief.

Considering that Su Dong is really too young, Li Cun was afraid that Su Dong would not be able to hold back, so he transferred the veteran Liang Jin back to serve as the capital supervisor.

Of course, Li Cun did not forget to continue paving the way for Han Shizhong.

——Li Cun appointed Han Shizhong as the deputy capital commander, and led an army alone, so that Han Shizhong could not only participate in high-level decision-making, but also lead the army to fight.

For this, Li Cun was not completely relieved.

——While Song Jiang was governing the barbarians, Li Cun never led his army to the south, but watched the progress of the combination of Su Dong, Liang Jin, and Han Shizhong in Hangzhou to suppress the bandits.

It wasn't until Li Cun felt that Sudong and the others would be fine, that Li Cun led his army south to clean up the two small countries of Annan and Champa...

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Knowing that Li Cun had gone south, Wang Fu immediately ran to Chongzheng Hall to report to Zhao Ji: "Officials, Li Cun has gone south!"

Zhao Ji hurriedly asked: "Are you sure?"

Wang Fu said confidently: "I have confirmed it repeatedly. To prevent accidents, I sent someone to go to Quanzhou to confirm once. Thief Li has indeed led his army south to attack Annan and Champa."

Zhao Ji said in his heart, "God help me."

Wang Fu brought up the old story again: "According to the report from Hezhizhou, the Jurchen's offensive is fierce and invincible. If we don't send troops in the Song Dynasty, Yanjing will definitely be occupied by the Jurchen."

Zhao Ji asked: "Is this imminent?"

Wang Fu replied: "The time is ripe. If I, Da Song, don't act again, it will be too late for regret."

Zhao Ji still did not let go, but asked again: "If the Northern Expedition, who should be in charge of the army?"

Wang Fu replied: "Looking at the ministers in the court, Tong Taifu is the only one who has experience in commanding hundreds of thousands of troops."

Wang Fu's words hit Zhao Ji's helplessness.

There were tens of thousands of officials in the Zhao Song Dynasty, but Tong Guan was the only one who had the experience of commanding hundreds of thousands of troops.

——Zhao Ji naturally ruled out generals like Zhong Shidao and the others.

Therefore, Zhao Ji also felt that if he wanted to regain Yanyun Sixteen States, he had to let Tong Guan come back.

——Last year, shortly after Tong Guanyihe came back, Zhao Ji made Tong Guan an official.

However, Zhao Ji did not expect that Wang Fu would recommend Tong Guan, he secretly said: "Aren't Wang Fu and Tong Guan political enemies?"

How did Zhao Ji know that Wang Fu had no choice but to recommend Tong Guan to him.

Tong Guan always remembered the incident of Wang Fu stabbing him in the back, that is, Wang Fu used Zheng Juzhong to snatch his privy envoy from him.

Since he was retired from office and had nothing to do, Tong Guan began to deal with Wang Fu.

In fact, Tong Guan didn't do anything, he just visited Cai Jing once, and then Wang Fu approached Tong Guan impatiently, and warned: "Since the Grand Tutor has retired, he should enjoy his old age in peace, why bother?"

Tong Guan said mercilessly: "The old man is not as young as you Wang Xianggong, but he is much younger than Cai Taishi. Cai Taishi doesn't realize that he is old, so how dare I take a break?"

Although Tong Guan didn't mention at all that he wanted to help Cai Jing regain his prime minister, after Wang Fu returned, he still suffered from insomnia for several nights.

Cai Jing's ups and downs and three times as a prime minister made a deep impression on Wang Fu.

Therefore, although Cai Jing is almost eighty years old, Wang Fu is really not sure whether Cai Jing will make a comeback for the fourth time.

And what Wang Fu is most afraid of is losing his aspect, that is, losing the wealth in front of him.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a few days, Wang Fu decided to compromise with Tong Guan.

Wang Fu found Tong Guan and promised to help Tong Guan get out of the mountain again.

And Tong Guan also made a promise that he would not help Cai Jing to reunite.

With the help of Wang Fu, Tong Guanluo became an official and served as Xuanfu envoy of Shaanxi and Hedong and Hebei.

The Liao Kingdom was about to perish, and Li Cun went to distant Annan and Champa, and there were rebellions everywhere in Li Cun's territory. If he took this opportunity to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, Zhao Ji felt that he would become the Zhao Song Dynasty The sinner of history becomes the sinner of history.

No matter what Zhao Ji really thought, he felt that this was the only and best chance to recover Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, so he had to act.

The political spark of romanticism, which had already been silently extinguished in Zhao Ji's heart, was rekindled and burned more and more vigorously, making Zhao Ji's blood boil.

At this moment, the Yintai Division suddenly presented an urgent report to Zhao Ji.

This is a memorial from Daizhou Zhizhou, and there is also a golden man's border letter at the back of the memorial:

Recently, the country's soldiers and horses galloped to Baishuipo, and the Khitan emperor scattered the goose tent in World War I, and the Khitan emperor escaped and fled north.The army and horses of our country have arrived behind the mountain, the counties and counties have been pacified, and the soldiers and horses have been stationed. Please tell the border guards in the Song Dynasty not to take the opportunity to lead and take in the fleeing people, so as not to cause trouble for the country.

Seeing this news, Tong Guan couldn't help sighing, his regret was beyond words.

——For a long time, Tong Guan wanted to recover the nine states of Yundi first, and then go to recover the seven states of Yandi. Who would have thought that the Jinren had already captured Yundi first.

Liang Shicheng brought a map, and then helped Zhao Ji find the location of Baishuipo.

Zhao Ji saw that Baishuipo was on the edge of Liaoxi capital, and secretly thought it was a pity that such a large piece of land was snatched away by Jin Ren.

Wang Fu said: "Weakness and ignorance are also good at martial arts. If our Great Song Dynasty does not send troops to the north to attack Yanjing, Yanjing will be occupied by Jurchen, and the old land of the Central Plains will no longer be owned by our Great Song Dynasty."

Tong Guan said: "The Hu captives are not trustworthy, they are not good at production, they are only good at plundering, if the Jurchens occupy Yanjing, when they are poor, there is no guarantee that they will not move south to attack our country."

Zhao Ji felt that what Tong Guan said was very reasonable.

Zhao Ji thought optimistically again: "Now Yanjing is in chaos, and the army is going north to suppress the border. Maybe the people of Yanjing will really be like what He Shen said, eating pots of pulp, and welcome Master Wang to save them from the fire and water."

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji said: "I have decided to go north to patrol the border, and the army will go out in three days!"

Wang Fu took the initiative to say to Tong Guan: "Tong Xuanfu, please lead the army to go north. Food and grass are heavy, so I will support you!"

Wang Fu spoke very openly, but just as Tong Guan left on the front foot, Wang Fu came back alone on the back foot.

Seeing Wang Fu go and come back again, Zhao Ji was puzzled: "Ai Qing has forgotten something?"

Following Zhao Ji's words, Wang Fu said: "I forgot to remind the officials that Tong Xuanfu is about [-] years old, and he is commanding an army of hundreds of thousands in Hebei, Shaanxi, and Hedong. Don't be careless."

Wang Fu's reminder made Zhao Ji's heart tense, but he said duplicity: "As the saying goes, you don't need to be suspicious of people."

After a pause, Zhao Ji said again: "However, as Aiqing said, Tong Aiqing is already sixty-eight, so we should find a pair of hands for Tong Aiqing in case of accidents. Who does Aiqing think is more suitable?"

Wang Fu straightforwardly recommended: "Cai Shaobao made a lot of contributions in suppressing the bandits last time. It can be seen that he is quite talented in commanding troops, and he is also loyal and reliable. It is most suitable for Tong Xuanfu to be the deputy."

Wang Fu knew that Cai You was Zhao Ji's most trusted person.

One of the secrets of Wang Fu's rapid promotion is to study Zhao Ji's heart deeply and make suggestions in time.

Wang Fu's proposal is very much in Zhao Ji's mind.

Therefore, Zhao Ji issued an edict and appointed Cai You as the deputy envoy of Xuanfu in Hedong and Hebei.

After Cai You learned of this, he was both excited and a little worried. He ran into the palace overnight and said to Zhao Ji: "I am willing to go through fire and water for the official family, but I don't know how to be a good envoy?"

Zhao Ji said bluntly to Cai You: "Tong Aiqing is old and faint, and his behavior is sometimes perverted. The truth is often hidden. Once the side affairs change, the court will do a lot of harm. Aiqing is my humerus minister, no one can compare, Therefore, Aiqing is called Deputy Xuanfu Envoy, but she is actually in charge of the army."

Cai You suddenly realized, and took this job...

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(End of this chapter)