Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 262 Cochin Assist
What Li Buqi said in the Chongzheng Palace spread throughout Bianliang City that night, causing another outrageous disturbance.Those civil servants and most of the literati may not have agreed with Yu Jing in the past, but there is no doubt that they are the same type of people as Yu Jing in terms of only writing articles and swearing but not doing anything practical.Therefore, Li Buqi gave Yu Jing a comment of "more success than failure", which made these people feel the same way. In order to maintain his tall image of justice and omnipotence, it is natural to criticize Li Buqi verbally and pen.

After Li Buqi got up, he randomly picked up a few newspapers.Glancing at the content on the front page, he couldn't help laughing when he saw that the Guozijian newspaper and several tabloids run by literati scolded him for overreaching and cheering for Yu Jing.

This effect is what he wants. Only when this matter is heated up, people will pay more attention to Guangnan.As for Yu Jing, if he was branded "incompetent", he would definitely not be able to turn over.According to the history he knew, the war should last until next year, and it was Di Qing who led the troops south to settle the matter.Now he, Li Buqi, can stand up and talk without having a back pain. He insists that he can solve it in two or three months and it can be solved better than these civil servants. Anyway, these civil servants are now fighting against each other. opportunity for talent.And as long as there is no comparison, Yu Jing has no chance to wash away the suspicion of "incompetence".

He mourned for Yu Jing in silence for 3 minutes.In fact, he really wasn't aiming at Yu Jing, but who made Yu Jing meet at the right time.Now he waited to see how patient the emperor was.He knew that Zhao Zhen was not a firm-willed person, and would change his mind from time to time. He wondered if he could man these civil servants to make the war protracted.

Li Buqi was smiling, but Zhao Min asked with a worried look: "Officer, I wonder when the official is going to go to war?"

Li Buqi was taken aback: "Let's go to war?"

"That's right. Didn't the official say that he would go to Guangnan for five years? The official never targets the target indiscriminately. Since he said so, it must be settled." Zhao Min said leisurely.

Li Buqi chuckled, put his arms around Zhao Min's waist, put a hand on her swollen belly and smiled, "I can't help it. Haven't you seen your officials being scolded for being bloody? I hope Yu Jing This group of people can stand up and wipe out Nong Zhigao immediately, and save your family officials from being exposed to the poisonous sun."

Zhe Yinghui just came in and said with a smile: "The official's words are insincere. I'm afraid my thoughts have already flown to Guangnan by now?"

Li Buqi smiled embarrassingly, and put gold on his face: "Didn't Fan Xiwen say 'worry about the world first', your husband is a hard worker, who will let those officials fail."

Just as he was saying this, a servant girl outside reported that someone had come to the palace.

Zhao Zhen sent someone so early, it seems that he must have not slept well last night.

Li Buqi went outside and saw that the person was Wang Zhongzheng.Wang Zhongzheng did not announce the decree, but said to him quietly: "The officials want to hear their thoughts on Guangnan, so please invite them into the palace."

Li Buqi did not agree, but said: "There are some matters in Guangnan that need to be carefully considered. Some of the ideas I said yesterday were just temporary ideas, and I still need to carefully consider them. You go back and tell the officials, give me three days, and I'll take care of you." Draw up a detailed statement and present it to the officials."

Wang Zhongzheng knew that Li Buqi's writing of memorials was different from that of ordinary civil servants. All arguments needed to be supported by a large amount of data and facts, so it was natural to be slower.This is not the first time that Li Buqi asked for a delay in admission, so he nodded and said: "That's it, the little one will reply to the official family like this."

Three days later, Li Buqi really wrote a thick book and handed it to Zhao Zhen.Zhao Zhen's eyes lit up, and he quietly summoned Li Buqi to discuss this tie for two days.To be honest, he was deeply attracted by the prospect that Li Buqi described to him, but for several days in a row, it has become politically correct to protect Yujing and demote Li Buqi, who was desperately defended by the court officials, and he, the emperor, also Don't dare to be its edge.Moreover, some of the measures Li Buqi wrote in the zhazi were unprecedented, and he could not judge whether it was right or wrong, so he had to keep the content of the Zhazi confidential according to Li Buqi's request, and did not mention this matter for the time being.Seeing Li Buqi's unhurried appearance, it made him completely relax his vigilance against Li Buqi's undisguised behavior of demanding officials and power that day.

What the emperor didn't expect was that after Li Buqi's words spread, many people were concerned about whether Li Buqi could be the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. ask.Concubine Zhang Gui has always been favored and proud. In order to get an official position for her uncle Zhang Yaozuo, she can make Zhao Zhen unable to step down in front of the ministers.Now when asked about Li Buqi, since he is bolder than others, and there is an obvious support for Li Buqi in his words.

Zhao Zhen knew that Concubine Zhang Gui had been displeased with Li Buqi all the time, and thought that Concubine Zhang Guifei wanted to take the opportunity to drive Li Buqi to Lingnan, so he asked displeasedly: "My concubine, why do you care about Guangnan affairs? ?”

Concubine Zhang Gui always speaks straightforwardly, which is why Zhao Zhen likes her.Today she also went straight to the point: "The government doesn't know about it, right? When they heard that the national debt was going to be issued, many people asked the slave family. Who didn't know that Li Buqi had Tao Zhugong's ability? He asked the government to issue the national debt, although only The annual interest of five cents, but the benefits it brings are probably more than that. Even if the slave family has some money of its own, it is also tempted."

"Oh, so that's the case." Zhao Zhen was still puzzled: "I heard from the report of the Imperial City Secretary that the interest of Bianliang's loan is much higher than that of this national debt?"

Concubine Zhang Guifei said: "My family only knew about it after listening to those people. There are times when the loan cannot be collected, and there are also borrowers who make donations and run away, which is very troublesome. Besides, the past two years have been either drought or flood. The debt is the land, and there is no future. Therefore, if you have money, it is better to put it in Li Buqi’s hands to earn interest. Money is the most reassuring in Li Buqi’s hands.”

Hearing too much pillow talk, Zhao Zhen also felt itchy in his heart, but every day when he went to court and saw a group of courtiers with cold eyebrows, he withered, and could only wait and see in secret.

And Li Buqi never commented on the war in Guangnan since he demoted Yu Jing to nothing, but often introduced some geographical knowledge of Guangnan and neighboring Jiaozhi and Dali in newspapers.

So history still develops roughly according to the original process.The civil servants also worked hard this time, exhausting all kinds of tricks and finally ensuring the needs of the Guangnan War, but the repeated defeats of the officers and soldiers made Zhao Zhen's patience less and less.Pang Ji also found that the emperor was becoming more and more impatient. When he realized that Nong Zhigao's troops were pointing directly at Jingxiang, he had to suggest that Di Qing lead the troops to go south to suppress the rebellion. way.

Sending troops to the south to counter the rebellion has always been said by civil officials to be a desperate approach because it consumes too much money and food, and they are strongly discouraged.But now the situation is stronger than others, and the reality has proved that Li Buqi is correct.

Yu Jing was burdened with the responsibility of fighting for the voice of the civil servants, and he was under a lot of pressure. At this time, he finally couldn't bear it anymore, and repeatedly wrote to ask for borrowing troops from Jiaozhi to attack Nong Zhigao. 2 people's army rations and [-] guan of silver coins.But Zhao Zhen agreed under the persuasion of Pang Ji and others, and promised that the court would give Jiaozhi another [-] guan after the matter was completed.Five days after Di Qing's army set off, there was a secret report from Yongzhou, Guangnan, saying that the Jiaozhi people had entered Yongzhou City.

After Nong Zhigao occupied Yongzhou City, he only stayed for a few days before leaving, and no one was left to defend.After the Nong army left, the officials of the Song Dynasty came back to appease the people, but they suddenly saw the Jiaozhi soldiers and claimed to help the Song Dynasty to fight against Nong Zhigao.They were invited to help in the battle, so the magistrate of Yongzhou ordered the Jiaozhi army to station outside the city, and bought cattle and wine to go out of the city to reward the army.But unexpectedly, the Jiaozhi army took this opportunity to capture several officials, stormed in, plundered wantonly, and occupied Yongzhou City.

When the imperial court sent someone to question Yu Jing about this matter, the Guangnan Station of the Police Division sent a military report saying that on the fifth day of October, the Cochin Army landed in Qinzhou by boat, and the local officials went to the labor army, but the Cochin Army expelled the officials of the Great Song Dynasty. Occupying towns and looting wantonly, many local officials and people were killed and injured in response to their theory.Now the Transshipment Department of Guangnan Capital is suppressing the news and sending people to negotiate with the Cochin people.But at the end of the report, it was mentioned that the Jiaozhi people seemed to want to occupy Qinzhou and other places, and had no intention of leaving to fight against Nong Zhigao.

When this news was sent to Li Buqi, Li Buqi was really surprised.In his memory, the Cochin people did not invade when Nong Zhigao rebelled in history, but now it seems that history has changed.

He looked through the past intelligence briefings again, and found that this variable was not surprising.Because there were many merchant ships from the Great Song Dynasty traveling to and from Cochin and Champa, the merchants from Cochin and Champa often went to Guangzhou for trade with the ships, including the eunuchs around Cochin King Li Dezheng.Naturally, when Li Buqi was investigating the inside story of Jiaozhi and Zhancheng, it was obvious that Li Dezheng also understood the inside story of the Song Dynasty better than in history.Nong Zhigao, who now has only 2 people, has been rampant on the two roads in Guangnan for more than half a year. If Li Buqi stood in Li Dezheng's perspective, he would also think that the Song Dynasty's army is a pile of waste, and it would be strange not to take advantage of the fire.

But this is also good, since Jiaozhi jumped out by himself, it will be more reasonable than Li Buqi to find a reason to clean up Jiaozhi in the future.And since Cochin is involved, the battle will be even bigger. There are people in Song Dynasty who can win this war, but Li Buqi is the only one who can agree to the war at the lowest possible cost.Li Buqi didn't believe that anyone would dare to obstruct him from being the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

(End of this chapter)