Qian Song

Chapter 164 Li Cun: I want to play such a big game (ask for a monthly ticket!)
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I heard that Cai You was appointed by Zhao Ji as the Deputy Propaganda Envoy, and that he was about to go north with Tong Guan to unite with Jin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun. Cai Jing hurriedly dragged his heavy legs to Chongzheng Hall :
"The old ministers dare not join forces with Jin Mie Liao to regain Yanjing, and they are willing to retire. My son is ignorant and incompetent, so how can he be competent? I beg the officials to take it back."

Zhao Ji smiled lightly: "The Grand Master doesn't need to worry, Cai You is smart, more tempering, for him, it's a good thing."

Cai Jing heard the words and said: "If the officials insist on sending Cai You to lead the army, please follow the example of Kuo Mu."

Expand mother, the mother of Zhao Kuo.

When Kuo's mother heard that King Zhao wanted Zhao Kuo to be the commander-in-chief and lead the army to go out, she wrote a letter to remonstrate: "Kuo can't be used as a general."

The king of Zhao refused to listen, and insisted on letting Zhao Kuo lead the army to go out. Kuo Mu went to the hall and said to King Zhao: "The king will finally send him, that is, if he is not called, and the concubine has nothing to do?"

Zhao Ji thought that Cai Jing was afraid that Cai You's problems with his army would hurt him, so he smiled slightly.

——Of course Zhao Ji knew that Cai You was not talented in commanding the army, but as a supervisor, it should be fine, right?

Moreover, Zhao Ji has always wanted to promote Cai You, but if Cai Youwen is not successful in military affairs, if Cai You is not allowed to make some military achievements, how can Zhao Ji promote Cai You?

So Zhao Ji drove Cai Jing back.

Cai Jing returned home, wrote a poem, and asked someone to give it to Cai You.

The whole poem is: The old laziness is not free physically and mentally, and the book is sent with tears flowing.A century-old vow should be read deeply, and the three-volt journey will be a short rest.Watching off the flags is like yesterday's dream, and I feel new worries in my heart.Ziyi hall is full of cool breeze, come back early and get drunk.

The day before departure, Cai You entered the palace in uniform to bid farewell to Zhao Ji.

After watching it, Zhao Ji smiled and said, "It's very powerful, like a commander in chief. I'll wait for your triumphant return."

Cai You asked with a smile: "If the minister returns home after making great achievements, what will the official reward the minister?"

Zhao Ji asked without answering, "What do you want?"

Seeing that the two beauties beside Zhao Ji were good looking, Cai You said with a playful smile, "If the minister returns victorious, how about rewarding the two beauties beside the official family?"

Zhao Ji was not angry because Cai You asked him for a concubine, he laughed and neither agreed nor refused.

At this time, Cai You took out the poem written by Cai Jing from his bosom and handed it to Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji took it and saw that this poem was full of strong anti-war flavors, and even proposed that the Zhao Song Dynasty should abide by the Tanyuan alliance signed with the Liao Kingdom.

Zhao Ji asked calmly, "Who wrote this?"

Cai You replied truthfully, "My father did it."

After Cai You left, Zhao Ji asked Zhang Di to call Cai Jing.

Cai Jing heard that Zhao Ji called him to meet him, and immediately went to the palace. He wanted to persuade Zhao Ji again, not to go north to join the Jin Dynasty to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun. He even wanted to persuade Zhao Ji to continue to fulfill the covenant with Liao.

in fact--

From the beginning to the end, Cai Jing was not worried about Cai You.

Cai Jing knew how good the relationship between Cai You and Zhao Ji was, so no matter how much trouble Cai You caused, the generous Zhao Ji would definitely not deal with Cai You.

What Cai Jing is worried about has always been the Song Dynasty that he can't let go of.

Cai Jing had always supported and even been very active in the matter of Lianjin destroying Liao and recovering the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

But later, Cai Jing's attitude took a 180-degree turn.

As the chief steward who has been in charge of the Great Song Dynasty for 20 years, no one knows better than Cai Jing that the family background he built for the Great Song Dynasty in the early years has actually been defeated by Zhao Ji. If there is a war at this time, it will definitely be more defeated than won.

After realizing this problem, Cai Jing repeatedly persuaded Zhao Ji to give up the unrealistic dream of recovering the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

But Zhao Ji didn't take it seriously.

In Zhao Ji's impression, the Zhao Song Dynasty was still rich, and it was still a powerful dynasty that swept Qingtang and Xixia had to move the Liao Kingdom out in order to preserve itself.

Zhao Ji asked Cai Jing: "At the beginning there was a change in the Qingtang Dynasty, and the Taishi repeatedly urged me to raise troops to recover Qingtang. As a result, I sent Tong Guan and Wang Hou to send troops, and the Qingtang Qiang was wiped out in the First World War. In the Qingtang area, I also sent Tong Guan to expedition to the remnants of the Qingtang Dynasty, all the way to the Western Regions, greatly increasing the prestige of our Great Song Dynasty, why did the Grand Master lose his former ambition and become so timid?"

Cai Jing smiled wryly: "It's not that the veteran has become timid, but the situation is different."

Zhao Ji and Cai Jingji talked with the duck, and in the end, the two monarchs and ministers who had joined hands and created many brilliance broke up unhappy.

Zhao Ji thought that Cai Jing was really old, so he ordered Cai Jing to become an official soon, and let Wang Fu, who was young and energetic, support the Lian Jin to destroy the Liao Dynasty and recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, to take over Cai Jing's class.

After Cai Jing came to Chongzheng Hall, Zhao Ji deliberately left Cai Jing alone for half an hour, and then said to the uneasy Cai Jing, "How about changing "Sanfu Zhengtu" to "June Wangshi"?"

After speaking, Zhao Ji asked Zhang Di to return Cai Jing's poems that he had corrected.

Seeing this, Cai Jing sighed leisurely, then apologized to Zhao Ji and left.

Back home depressed, Cai Jing dragged his inconvenient legs up and down the courtyard with tears in his eyes.

One of Cai Jing's favorite singers came over and asked Cai Jing by his arm, "Why is the Grand Master crying?"

Cai Jing stopped in his tracks, looked up at the sky, and was very sad: "I cry for the teacher."

The allusion of the crying master comes from Uncle Jian, a veteran official of Qin State in the Spring and Autumn Period.Qin Mugong refused to listen to Jian Shu's dissuasion, and insisted on sending troops to attack Zheng Guo.Uncle Jian predicted that Qin Jun would never return, so he cried to see Qin Jun off.As a result, the Qin army was ambushed by the Jin army in Xiaoshan, and the whole army was wiped out.

At the end of April, Tong Guan, who was unwilling to go with Cai You, the person who watched him, had already led his army northward.

On May [-]th, Cai Youcai took a long time to leave Bianliang City in Tokyo with a team of people and headed north.

As soon as Cai You walked to Chenqiaoyi, he didn't know whether he was afraid of the war or what was going on. The two flag soldiers ran away suddenly. Fu Fushi), was also taken away by them.

In addition, before the expedition, there were also omens such as meteors and white rainbows penetrating the sun, and the birth of Xuanwu, and the death of both snakes and turtles.

Cai You's entourage was discussing a lot, and many people felt that they were in danger this time...

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After reorganizing the army, Li Cun renamed his army.

The troops guarding the north, Li Cun named it the Beifu Army, and the five armies under it were the Beifu, the front, the left, the left, and the middle army.

The troops guarding the west were named by Li Cun as the Xifu Army, and the five armies under it were respectively the front, back, left, and middle armies of the Xifu

The troops guarding the south were named by Li Cun as the Nanfu Army, and the five armies under it were respectively the front, rear, left, and middle armies of Nanfu.

Among the three troops in the Central Military Region, one of them was the Dongfu Army.

The Dongfu Army was mainly used to guard the city of Hangzhou. The five armies under it were the Central Army of the Dongfu, the Front, the Front, and the Left, and the Central Army of the Dongfu.

The above twenty armies,
Each army has 1 horses, each with a commander, a senior supervisor, and a deputy commander.

Each army has four battalions under its jurisdiction, with one, two, three, four as the battalion name (for example, the first battalion of the former Beifu Army), each battalion has 500 troops, and each has a commander, a mid-level supervisor, and a deputy commander.

Each battalion has five commanders and horses, with one, two, three, four, five as the command name (for example, one battalion and one commander of the former Beifu Army). For each command of 500 troops, each has a commander, a low-level supervisor, and a deputy commander. name.

Each command has five teams under its jurisdiction, with one, two, three, four, five as the team name (for example, one battalion commanded one team in the former Beifu Army), each team has 100 people and horses, each has a team general, an assistant supervisor, and a deputy team will be one.

Each team is divided into eight teams, each team has 12 people, and each team has a leader.

Each even is divided into two corps, each with six members, each with a corps leader.

The other hatchbacks of the Central Military Region are the Jinwu Army and the Habayashi Army.

The troops in these two compartments are both Li Cun's relatives and field troops, with about 5000 troops in each compartment.

Each compartment has jurisdiction over the front, rear, left, right, middle, and personal guards.

Each army has five battalions of standard infantry, plus one commanding firearms soldiers, one commanding heavy armored infantry, and one commanding cavalry.

In addition, the Jinwu Army and the Habayashi Army each have a Shenji Battalion, a Heavy Armored Infantry Battalion, and a cavalry of 3000 horses. And the Tabai Army, the Habayashi Army is the Shenji Rear Battalion, the Heavy Armored Infantry Rear Battalion, the Personal Guard Rear Army and the Beiwei Army.

This time Li Cun stayed at home to suppress the bandits were the Jinwu Army's front, rear, left, right, and middle five armies and the Tabai Army. Li Cun stayed in Hangzhou in Hangzhou The city guards the home with the Dongfu army.

Before setting off, Li Cun called Su Dong back, and said in front of Su Dong, Yan Xiaoguang, Liang Zhen and Cao Cheng that if Su Dong's suppression of the bandits did not go well, at most he could transfer the front, left and right troops of the Dongfu Army. The three armies, Dongfu Central Army, Dongfu Rear Army, Shenji Front Battalion, Heavy Armored Infantry Front Battalion and Personal Guard Front Army are not allowed to move at any time.

And the army led by Li Cun this time going south is the Habayashi Army, a fully organized Habayashi Army.

As for the navy led by Li Cun, it is the majority of the East China Sea navy.

In total, Li Cun led a total of more than [-] land and water troops this time when he went south.

In addition, Li Cun also brought [-] civilian husbands and all the ships.

Obviously, Li Cun meant to destroy the two small countries of Annan and Champa and evacuate them.

Some people may think, Li Cun really wants to play such a big game, right?

That's right.

Li Cun is going to play so big.

A large part of Li Cun's current fiscal revenue comes from maritime trade.

It is no exaggeration to say that whether Li Cun's life is good or not depends largely on how Li Cun's maritime trade is doing.

Under such circumstances, whoever dares to touch Li Cun's Maritime Silk Road must be Li Cun's mortal enemy, the kind who will never die.

Not to mention, unless Annan and Champa are really hard nuts that Li Cun can't chew, Li Cun will destroy Annan and Champa.

When Cai You set off with his troops, Li Cun happened to arrive in Qiongzhou.

There are six counties in Qiongzhou: Qiongshan, Tingmai, Wenchang, Shecheng, Lingao, and Lehui.

This time it was Lingao County that was ransacked by Champa. It is said that nearly [-] people were captured by Champa.

Champa, that is, the Champa people, their current king is Harivarman IV, named Yang Bu Ma Die, Zhao and Song Dynasty granted him the title of Inspector Sikong and Yushi Doctor, Huaiyuan Army Jiedu, Linzhou Guannei The envoy of observation and disposal, the king of Zhancheng, has a good relationship with the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Annan, they call themselves the Li Dynasty, and their current king is Li Gande. At the beginning of his succession, he ordered Li Changjie to lead the navy and Zong Quan to lead the army to invade the Zhao and Song Dynasty on the grounds that he was threatened by the Zhao and Song Dynasty. In Lianzhou, Lianzhou, killing and setting fire everywhere, more than 5 people died in the Zhao and Song Dynasties, and about 5 people were captured.The Xining War was triggered, and the two sides won each other.After fighting for two years, the two sides negotiated a peace, Annan got the truth, the Zhao Song Dynasty got the name of the suzerain, and the Song army returned to the north.

Both Champa and Annan are now semi-feudal and semi-slavery societies, and there are still a large number of slaves in their societies, most of whom are domestic slaves.

Champa and Annan plundered Li Cun's population this time, and they went back to be slaves.

Li Cun didn't know whether others could bear this kind of thing, but Li Cun definitely couldn't bear it anyway.

So, Li Cun came—with the idea of ​​destroying Annan and Champa.

but--

There is no rush to eliminate Champa and Annan, Li Cun will play with them slowly.

In Li Cun's view, the most urgent thing is to deal with the pirates who have become more and more rampant recently and resume maritime trade, that is, to open up his own economic lifeline first.

Speaking of exterminating pirates, many people may have a headache, thinking that in this vast sea, where can I find those pirates who don't know which island they are hiding on?
The former prefect of Qiongzhou and the former commander of the South China Sea Navy, who were taken away by Li Cun, think so.

But Li Cun, who has been in maritime trade for five or six years, doesn't think so. On the contrary, Li Cun thinks that these pirates are very easy to deal with, at least much easier to deal with than the two small countries of Champa and Annan.

The so-called insider thieves cannot attract outsiders.

Pirates are also human beings, and they also need to live. Without supplies on land, no matter how rich they are, they will definitely starve to death.

Therefore, pirates must have accomplices on land, and many pirates are even pretended to be people on land.

So who are the accomplices of these pirates?

Don't worry, it's definitely not the poor. These people have the courage to rob with knives. If they are still poor, it means that these pirates can't make a fortune, so don't worry about them.

The accomplices of those pirates, and even the pirates themselves, were members of the gentry, at least the rich people near Qiongzhou.

Thinking about it, Yu Yancheng actually knew it.

Of course, you can't say that all rich people are pirates or people related to pirates, but based on Li Cun's experience, there will be absolutely no wrongful convictions if one family is killed every other.

Before he arrived in Qiongzhou, Li Cun ordered the officials of Qiongzhou to gather all the gentry and gentry in Qiongzhou, in the name of welcoming him.

Although Li Cun has not ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he is the actual lord of this land.

Therefore, no matter what these wealthy gentry in Qiongzhou think, they all have to obediently send important people to welcome Li Cun's arrival, otherwise they will definitely find it difficult to find happiness at home.

As soon as Li Cun arrived, he quickly sent troops to detain the people sent by these wealthy gentry.

Li Cun directly asked Yu Guang, the newly appointed magistrate of Qiongzhou: "You can handle this matter well, or I will transfer Song Jiang to help you?"

Yu Guang knew that Li Cun, who had a lot of time to manage, didn't have much time to waste on these pirates. He also knew that the reason why Li Cun appointed him to be the magistrate of Qiongzhou was because he liked his wit and ruthlessness.

Now that Li Cun used Song Jiang to provoke him again, Yu Guang naturally knew better that Li Cun was urgent to solve these pirate problems.

Yu Guang smiled slightly, and said confidently, "There's no need to bother Song Anyan to go this trip, I can take care of small matters."

After finishing speaking, Yu Guang bid farewell to Li Cun, and then led the dozen or so people he brought from Hangzhou to meet the wealthy gentry in Qiongzhou.

Li Cun noticed that there was a person behind Yu Guang who seemed to be the master executioner who killed Niu Meng and Zhu Yu.

Seeing this, Li Cun was relieved.

That night, a few innocent or helpless people contributed the hiding places of several groups of pirates, and they were even willing to act as guides and lead the Tiger Army to capture these pirates.

Afterwards, the newly appointed South China Sea Navy was in charge of Tong Ji, so he personally led the South China Sea Navy to attack everywhere and took all these pirates away.

have nothing to say.

All the pirates were hanged on Qiongzhou Port, and their families were all rewarded to the soldiers of the Huben Army who made military exploits. All their properties were confiscated. His family, the stubborn ones, are guilty of the same crime as the pirates...

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(End of this chapter)