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Zhao Xu looked at Wang Yue with some surprise, "When did Lord Wang call your family's guards? How come I don't know anything?"

When Wang Yue saw Zhao Xu's eager look, he thought that this guy seemed to be Song Shenzong who supported Wang Anshi's reform. It turned out that there was a restless heart in him, no wonder he was brave enough to reform.

Seeing Zhao Xu was very curious, he smiled and explained, "When the young prince found out that there was indeed an assassin, I sent someone to notify the Wang family's guards. It just so happened that my family's caravan went to Zhengzhou, so I asked us to go north first, just to meet up with them."

As Wang Yue and Zhao Xu were talking, a dozen arrows suddenly appeared behind the assassins who were blocking the way, and instantly shot down seven or eight people.

After two consecutive waves of arrows, more than a dozen guards appeared on the front and back sides, each of them holding ordinary spears.

But they were obviously using the soldiers' battle formation, and with their precise coordination, the assassins who blocked their way were killed in a short while.

Zhao Xu also knew a little about battle formations, so he was somewhat shocked and said, "Lord Wang, your guards are actually proficient in the art of combined attack in battle formations?"

Wang Yue certainly couldn't tell all of his strength to the royal family, not even to Zhao Xu. He said very seriously, "Your Highness, have you forgotten my calligraphy?"

Zhao Xu was stunned for a moment, then asked in confusion, "Lord Wang's courtesy name seems to be Yan Hui?"

When he got to this point, he immediately made up his mind and said, "So Lord Wang is determined to take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, so he studies battle formations, right?"

Wang Yue did not refute, and pretended to be helpless and said, "Yes, but it's too much trouble to raise these guys. The more than 30 people I transferred this time are all elites, so they can cooperate so well. They are not as good as the soldiers in the army."

Zhao Xu smiled and said, "Lord Wang, you don't have to hide anything in front of me. Which noble family doesn't have some family guards? We, the royal family, know this well."

Seeing Zhao Xu say this, Wang Yue pretended to be very emotional and said, "After all, my family's hairline is a bit late, and it can't compare to those aristocratic families, so I still have to be low-key."

Zhao Xu nodded thoughtfully, and then said solemnly, "I understand. Lord Wang is reminding me to keep a low profile after entering the palace, right?"

Wang Yue was a little surprised. He didn't expect Zhao Xu to be able to draw inferences from one example. He said to Zhao Xu helplessly, "Your Highness is right. Compared with other grandchildren of the emperor, your background is a little poor. Keeping a low profile will be good for both you and them."

Seeing that Zhao Xu was so attentive to him, Zhao Xu bowed respectfully and said, "Thank you for your reminder, teacher. I will be more careful in the future."

Wang Yue saw that Zhao Xu was treating him as a disciple, and he understood that Zhao Xu was testing him. He thought that among all the grandchildren, the emperor seemed to have taken a liking to this one, and it seemed that he could make an investment in him in advance.

However, he was going to travel through the heavens anyway, so it was impossible for him to recognize his master. So he was respectful but said vaguely, "Your Highness values ​​Yan Hui so much, Yan Hui will definitely do his best to repay Your Highness!"

However, Zhao Xu thought that Wang Yue was reminding him to avoid suspicion. After all, he was just an ordinary grandson of the emperor. Excluding the children of Prince Yan and Prince Yong, there were still four princes including him.

It may take a long time to reach that position, so you must keep a low profile at this time.

So he said respectfully, "Thank you for your teachings, teacher!"

……

Imperial Palace, Fu'an Hall

The emperor listened to Zhao Xu's account of the entire trip after returning to the palace. It was not much different from what the Imperial City Bureau had investigated. He was very satisfied and said comfortingly, "Don't worry, I have arranged for the Imperial City Bureau to officially take over this matter. I will definitely not let the mastermind get away with it."

Zhao Xu was very moved and said, "Thank you, Grandfather Emperor. If it weren't for Lord Wang, I wouldn't have been able to see you this time. Please, please give Lord Wang some rewards."

The emperor was a little unhappy when he heard this. Was this child planning to make friends with the court officials? He asked calmly, "Oh, I wonder what Xu'er is thinking? Tell me."

Zhao Xu seemed not to notice the emperor's temptation. He scratched his head and said a little embarrassedly, "Grandpa Huang, Lord Wang's family is not short of money, but Lord Wang cares about his family the most. Why don't Grandpa Huang reward Lord Wang's family? It will surely be better than rewarding Lord Wang himself."

The emperor heard what Zhao Xu was thinking. He thought that this child was well-behaved and sensible, and had not yet thought about winning over the ministers, so he smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll do as you say. I'll ask your grandmother to issue an imperial decree later."

Seeing that the emperor agreed immediately, Zhao Xu smiled with his teeth showing and said innocently, "Thank you, Grandpa Emperor!"

Chapter 219: Repel the invasion of Jiaozhi!

The emperor enjoyed a rare moment of family happiness until someone reported that Zhang Mao, the commander of the Imperial City, wanted to see him. Only then did he let Zhao Xu go back to rest.

After Zhao Xu left, Zhang Mao quickly walked in. After he bowed, the emperor frowned and asked, "What did Wang Yue discuss with Xu'er all the way? You must have found out clearly."

Zhang Mao said very respectfully, "Your Majesty, the people below reported that Lord Wang and Prince Xu have been discussing military tactics and battle formations, and it seems that they have been talking about the Sixteen Prefectures of Smoke and Cloud."

The emperor was stunned for a moment, then he burst into laughter. It was just like what Wang Yue said in his book Young Song Dynasty, young people just like to be enterprising. The Sixteen States in Smoke and Clouds were the pain of the entire Song Dynasty. He had also had this idea when he was young.

After he sighed, he asked some details out of curiosity, and then said with some doubt, "Yan Hui has a deep understanding of the art of war!"

Zhang Mao didn't know whether the emperor was saying good things or bad things. He hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't understand these things, but Lord Wang was able to pass the imperial examination. I think he must have been a descendant of the literary star. He should know something about those things in books."

The emperor couldn't help laughing when he heard this. He waved his hand and said, "I'm afraid it's someone like Zhao Kuo."

Zhang Mao heard this and said quickly, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid Lord Wang is not just talking about war on paper. My servants have found that the guards of the Wang family, as long as they are sent out from the family, all know some battle formations.

Therefore, when Wang's business transports goods, it is safer than other business houses. Many other merchants like to follow the Wang's caravan, for fear of encountering bandits or something like that."

This touched the emperor's sensitive nerves again. He frowned and asked, "Does Wang's Company have many guards?"

Zhang Mao was stunned for a moment, but he immediately understood something. He explained calmly, "There is no exact statistics, but the teams we know transporting goods usually have dozens or a hundred people, depending on the value of the goods. If you add up the total, there are probably more than a thousand people, but they have never gathered together."

Hearing that there were only a thousand people, the emperor breathed a sigh of relief and continued to ask, "What kind of business does the Wang family run? What do the guards wear?"

Zhang Mao knew this was the key point, so he quickly said, "The Wang family mainly deals in soaps, perfumes, etc., and they also make some salt permits with the Bai family. As for their guards, they all use wooden shields, short spears and bows and arrows when they travel."

The emperor breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately asked, "No armor and crossbows?"

Zhang Mao shook his head and said with certainty, "I haven't seen it!"

The emperor was really worried that the imperial tutor he had chosen would be a restless person. Now that he saw that Wang Yuejia seemed to be very well-behaved, he breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand to let Zhang Mao leave.

After Zhang Mao left, the emperor thought about it and felt that Wang Yue had been teaching the prince for some time and it was time to change someone else, otherwise Wang Yue's influence on the prince would be too great.

……

June, the seventh year of Jiayou

The results of the investigation into the assassination of the emperor's grandson Zhao Xu have been revealed. It was all done by Prince Yan. In addition, the emperor's grandson, who was sent to the palace by Prince Yan, spoke inappropriately, so he was expelled from the ranks of the emperor's grandsons and demoted to a commoner along with Prince Yan.

As for the remaining followers of Prince Yan, more than a dozen were dismissed from office and their property was confiscated, and many were beheaded.

The imperial grandson sent into the palace by Prince Yong was also formally banished from the palace and was also cut off from the emperor's lineage.

At the same time, the emperor's grandson was sent to Yongzhou to be with his biological father. Although the remaining followers of Prince Yong's party were not found to have a direct relationship with the assassination, they were still demoted a lot.

Everyone was used to all this, but the only thing that was a little puzzling was that Wang Yue, the popular lecturer in the Hanlin Academy, was suddenly sent to serve as an official in a remote area.

The place where I was an official was a little far away, in Yongzhou, which bordered Jiaozhi State! Border conflicts would occur there from time to time.

If Wang Yue's rank had not been promoted, directly from the fifth rank to the fourth rank, everyone would have thought that Wang Yue had disliked the emperor.

After all, being transferred from a Beijing official to Yongzhou is a disguised form of exile to Lingnan!

Only some bigwigs in the court knew the emperor's intention.

Because Wang Yue demonstrated his mastery of military strategy when escorting the emperor's grandson Zhao Xu, the emperor planned to have Wang Yue personally watch over Prince Yong to prevent him from taking any extraordinary actions.

Of course, we also have to indirectly guard against the Kingdom of Jiaozhi. This country is always restless and will send people to harass us every once in a while, which is really annoying.

This can also be considered as a training for Wang Yue and to see what Wang Yue is capable of.

Moreover, the emperor was afraid that Wang Yue might be upset, so after issuing the imperial edict, he gave Wang Yue special advice and encouragement, which allowed Wang Yue to take office as soon as possible.

Yongzhou, prefecture

When Wang Yue first took office, he went alone, leaving Minglan with the children to accompany the old lady in Kyoto.

He did not let his father and mother go with him. He only brought his own guards, a total of 200 people.

Even so, Wang Yue was still not reassured and added more staff to the Wang Family Trading Company in Yongzhou.

The ministers had no objection to Wang Yue's reaction to bringing so many guards. After all, it was not easy to become an official without sufficient strength to protect oneself, especially in a place like Yongzhou.

Yongzhou borders Dali to the west and Jiaozhi to the south. In addition, there is the internal threat of King Yong, and many chieftains have declared themselves kings. It is indeed not easy to be a prefect here.

In the first year of Wang Yue's arrival, in addition to firmly controlling the 3,000 Hunan troops in Yongzhou, he had been dredging the river in the territory. He used this year to establish good relations with the counties, towns and even villages in the territory.

Because Wang Yue still did not conscript forced labor to dredge the river this time, but instead hired young and strong people to dredge the river by paying them every day, not many people objected.

He was experienced and in just one year he had dredged all the rivers in the area and had a general understanding of the situation in Yongzhou.

Because many villages in the territory are under self-management, after Wang Yue's gesture of goodwill by dredging the river, they were very supportive of Wang Yue.

The father and son of King Yong, who were exiled here, originally did not take Wang Yue seriously. When they found that Wang Yue did not seem to have any intention of targeting them, they secretly contacted some villages.

However, after Wang Yue dredged the local river, the villages in various places immediately changed their stance, no longer had any contact with King Yong, and some even sold out King Yong.

Therefore, in the second year of Wang Yue's tenure, Prince Yong had been reprimanded by the emperor many times. Out of fear, Prince Yong soon fell ill and died.

After his death, the young King Xinyong became much more obedient and no longer had any inappropriate thoughts.

The reason why the Yong Palace gave up was entirely because Wang Yue used money to make Yongzhou a solid block, and persuaded each village to trade their specialties with the royal caravans.

The chieftains of each village became wealthy by following Wang Yue. Not only did they make a lot of money themselves, but they also made life better for the people in the village.

No matter how the Yong Palace tried to win them over with money, the chieftains of these villages could still tell the difference between having one meal full and having every meal full.

In the third year of Wang Yue's tenure, the Jiaozhi Kingdom felt jealous of the wealth of Yongzhou. They colluded with local chieftains and wanted to take the opportunity to capture Yongzhou. Even if they could not occupy this land for a long time, they could at least plunder it.

What Jiaozhi didn't expect was that the Wang family's business had been operating here for three years, and of course there were many spies, so Jiaozhi's every move did not escape surveillance.

Wang Yue secretly mobilized the young and strong soldiers in the state, leaving only a small number of old, weak and disabled soldiers in various places. In the gorge leading to Nanning City, he wiped out the 30,000-strong coalition force of Jiaozhi and Tusi in one fell swoop.

Seeing the victory of the Yongzhou army, local chieftains also sent troops one after another. They originally wanted to express their regret that they were just delayed on the road.

They were also worried that Wang Yue would no longer lead them to make money, and then they would lose more than they gained, so they had to save face.

Wang Yue did not bother with these chieftains. After all, when it came to interests, it was already good enough that they did not fight together directly.

However, he still kept the major chieftains as guests in Nanning, and led his 10,000 soldiers and the chieftains' coalition forces totaling more than 30,000 people. Taking advantage of the fact that the Jiaozhi Li Kingdom was unprepared, he broke through several border cities. In just less than a month, he conquered Jiaozhi Liangzhou Yihua Shenglong and headed straight for the capital Daluo City.

The king of the Li Kingdom in Jiaozhi was horrified. They had never dreamed that the Northern Song army would react so quickly. According to previous experience, when the Northern Song border was attacked, it would take at least half a year for the army to engage in battle. However, this time, they had already invaded the capital in less than a month.

However, it was too late to mobilize troops at this time, so the Emperor of Jiaozhi Li State simply chose to surrender.

After all, in their view, if they surrendered and submitted a letter, the Song Dynasty would withdraw its troops.

But this time they were wrong. Not only did Wang Yue not leave immediately, he also proposed to use the two states of Lianliangzhou and Yihua, which were in contact with the Song Dynasty, as a buffer zone.

There cannot be any Jiaozhi garrisons or officials in the buffer zone, and of course no Song Dynasty officials or garrisons either.

Although the royal family of Jiaozhi Li State was unwilling to agree, they had to agree to this request under the knife point, and took the initiative to write a letter to set up a buffer zone, which was sent to Tokyo by envoys.

While waiting for the letter, the 80,000 troops of Jiaozhi Li State arrived, but they could only stay outside the city and dared not attack. Wang Yue used this time to transfer the guards of Wang's Trading Company from the territory of Song Dynasty.

After so many years of development, the Wang family's business guard team is no longer just a thousand people, but a full 20,000 people. It's just that they were originally spread all over the country and were not very conspicuous.

Wang Yue was optimistic about this place and planned to take this so-called buffer zone for himself as the base of the Wang family, so he recruited most of the guards.

Chapter 220: Wang Family of Jiaozhi!

Imperial Palace, Daqing Hall

The emperor took a look at the letter from Jiaozhi, and then asked the eunuch to pass it to the ministers below for circulation. After several important ministers had read it, he frowned and asked, "My lords, what do you think of the buffer zone proposed by Jiaozhi?"

In fact, they had already discussed these things below. Wang Yue's memorial entered the palace earlier than Jiaozhi's letter. The emperor also hurriedly summoned all the prime ministers and had already made a decision. Now he just needed to check whether there were any mistakes in the content of the letter.

After hearing the emperor's inquiry, the Minister of Culture took the initiative to step forward and said, "The buffer zone is within Jiaozhi, which shows Jiaozhi's sincerity. I think it is feasible."

After hearing this, the other ministers also hurriedly seconded the proposal, but Lord Ouyang expressed a different opinion. He bowed and said, "Your Majesty, under the governance of Governor Yan Hui, the chieftains in Yongzhou have been loyal to the Song Dynasty, which is why they are united and can quickly counterattack.

But Jiaozhi was just unprepared, not incapable of fighting. If we simply acknowledge the buffer zone, I believe that after Governor Wang withdraws his troops back to Yongzhou, Jiaozhi will surely occupy these buffer zones again."

The emperor was also worried about this, so he asked hesitantly, "What do you think should be done this time? If the Song Dynasty does not agree to set up a buffer zone, I'm afraid other countries will be wary."

Lord Ouyang said very solemnly, "Your Majesty, I think a buffer zone can be set up, but Yongzhou, no, the entire southern Guangxi route must also be prepared for Jiaozhi to mobilize troops at any time."

Han Xiang understood Lord Ouyang's intention, and said solemnly, "Your Majesty, I second the motion. I recommend Wang Yue to be transferred to the post of the Governor of Southern Guangxi and be in charge of Jiaozhi."

The emperor hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "In that case, invite Yin Zhu, the governor and pacifier of the Southern Guangxi Route, to come to the capital to report on his duties, and promote Wang Yue to the governor and pacifier of the Southern Guangxi Route."

The actions in the capital seemed to be very fast, but it took half a year for the imperial edict to reach Yongzhou.

Wang Yue did not expect that Renzong would be so courageous as to promote him directly. Although the General Manager and Pacifier of Southern Guangxi was only a fourth-rank official, he had only been the prefect of Yongzhou for more than two years, and it was not yet time for him to be evaluated for promotion.

However, he did not despise his high rank. After knowing that he was promoted, he did not rush to withdraw his troops, but began to integrate the garrison in southern Guangxi. The originally insufficient troops were all replenished, and training was in full swing. He even directly summoned more than 10,000 garrison troops and garrison troops from various states for joint training.

Wang Yue was in no hurry to withdraw his troops, and the chief commanders of the various chieftains in the army were even more reluctant to go back, because they were the bosses in the Jiaozhi Imperial City, and their lives were many times better than those in the mountain strongholds.

Moreover, after the news was passed back to the mountain stronghold, many young and strong men in the mountain stronghold also headed for the Jiaozhi Imperial City. Their army was not as clearly organized as Wang Yue's subordinates. As long as they picked up an axe, they could immediately become soldiers.

In more than half a year, the number of troops from Yongzhou in the imperial city more than doubled.

Wang Yue turned a blind eye to the matter and watched the local chieftains do whatever they wanted in the Jiaozhi Imperial City.

After all, everything needs to be compared. Only when the people of Jiaozhi feel the evil of the chieftain can the Wang family's talents be controlled.

The King of Jiaozhi was the first to be unable to bear it, and he quickly contacted various tribes and donated large quantities of food, fodder, gold and silver. Only then did the local chieftains retreat, but they only retreated from the imperial city to the Yihua buffer zone. Only the 10,000 soldiers from Yongzhou returned to Yongzhou.

At this time, a large number of Wang family's manpower had arrived at the so-called buffer zone. Combined with the manpower of Wang's trading company, Liangzhou basically belonged to the Wang family.