Prime Minister

Chapter 686 Lights
After the battle of Luowu City and the battle of Lanhui, both Xixia and Song Dynasty were seriously injured.

When Zhong Er retreated, he burned all the more than 300 miles around Luowu City, leaving no tiles, the old and the young were displaced, and the spring plowing was abolished, and the annual gift was cut off.

Liang Yibu sent an envoy to seek peace, claiming that as long as Suizhou and Huizhou were returned, the two countries could stop fighting.

The officials in Bianjing around him followed Wang Anshi's suggestion to discuss peace and neglect their ambitions and decided to negotiate peace.In fact, because of Khitan's intervention, it was a waste of time to seize Hengshan, and this battle also consumed Hedong. The material and financial resources accumulated by the two roads in Shaanxi for many years cannot be recovered without a few years of recuperation.

The Song Dynasty was temporarily unable to fight anymore, so the officials opened up the mutual market with Xixia, and at the same time pinned their hopes of expanding the territory on Zhang Yue and Wang Shao in the direction of Qinfeng Road.

As for Suizhou, Huizhou swallowed the meat in his stomach and would never spit it out.

This time it was just a brief peace, and there was still a big war behind the two sides.

After the officials issued a decree to reward Zhang Yue, Zhang Yue immediately went up to tell the officials that he "has neither meritorious deeds, but also has the trouble of collecting salary".

The horizontal grass comes from the Han Dynasty, which means that the grass is thrown down on the ground, which means that I have no credit at all, and the salary is collected because I have a disease, and in this bitter cold place in the northwest, my health is not very good. Arrow, so far the injury has not healed.

Zhang Yue understands the temperament of officials.

It was the emperor who was worried that the ministers of the frontier would rely on their own merits. Now he is happy because he has captured the second state of Lanhui.

Therefore, Zhang Yue said in the last sentence that he had no credit, and that the credit was due to the officials, and he sold it miserably in the next sentence to win the sympathy of the officials.

Zhang Yue said in the memorial that he should have declined, but he was afraid of disappointing the kindness of the emperor, so he took the job first.

Sure enough, the officials read Zhang Yue's memorial and replied with a letter.

This letter is also very meaningful.

In addition to a few words of comfort to Zhang Yue, the officials also said that he should let him recover from his injuries, and that he doesn't have to do everything himself, and he can delegate more things to other people.

The officials also asked Zhang Yue to raise his loyal and obedient generals as Han generals.

After Zhang Yue thought about it, he made up his own mind and hired painters to paint portraits of Wang Hou, Yu Longke and other twelve generals.

This move means that the emperor has seen you face to face.

This painting was sent to Beijing overnight, and the officials were full of praise after seeing it. It was exaggeratedly compared to the 28 generals on the Yuntai.

The officials informed Guo Kui and Liu Xixi that all major and minor matters of the appeasement department on the edge of Qinfeng Road were entrusted to Zhang Yue to decide, and the two could not control each other.

June Weiyuan Weishui River Valley.

Strong winds and heavy rains fell, and the howls continued all day and all night, and the river water also surged.

This is a rare heavy rain in ten years, covering the distant mountains and sight, and the icy cold rain hits the body, even in Xizhou in June, it is a bit chilly.

Now Zhang Yue and Wang Hou are guarding Xizhou, while Wang Shao is returning to Tongyuan Army. The progress of Weiyuan city building has also been affected.

In the evening, the heavy rain stopped a little.

The Song army started to cook, and dozens of bonfires dotted the riverbed, stretching from the river valley to the plateau with light and shadow shaking.

In addition to the Song Army, there were also civil servants, who were said to be civil servants but were actually captured by thousands of Tibetans, but Zhang Yue treated them very well.Now the men of the Tibetan tribe are repairing the tents consciously when the rain stops, women and children fetch water from the valley, cook in the pots, and children are sensible to help.

The outer circle of the Fan people's service is the camp of the Song army. Soldiers wearing Fan Yangli patrolled the upper and lower reaches of the valley. A watchtower was built on the mountain pass, and there was another on the other side of the river.

The soldiers of the Song army held up the lanterns in their hands and stared at the passage to and from the valley.

As for the unfinished Weiyuan Fort, a half-commanded cavalry lived there. Stables, canteens, food halls, barracks, middle halls, and workshops were all built in it, and a well was dug. It has all internal organs.

The Song army in the fort was busy eating, only the blast furnace in the workshop was still smoking, and the craftsmen were still pounding iron. The orange-red fire and the sound of iron hammering in the workshop penetrated through the rain curtain. It brought a different kind of vitality to Weiyuan Fort.

Zhang Yue is now holding a wooden bowl and wooden spoon to line up with the generals to eat. As a state magistrate who can manage the army when he is on horseback, and the people when he is dismounted, Zhang Yue also eats with the soldiers and generals in the poor Weiyuan Fort. separated.

Zhang Yue made a big bowl of hot porridge, oily flakes floated in it, and sat down at the dining table made of Jianmu.There is a plate of mutton on the dining table, and there is tea to relieve the greasy after the meal.

There is no shortage of beef and mutton in Tongwei Village, but vegetables and fruits.

Zhang Yue ate a few mouthfuls of hot porridge, and then heard someone report: "Report to the sheriff, there are people coming from the downstream."

After hearing this, Zhang Yue said, "It must be people from the Guangrui Army who have arrived."

Speaking of this, Zhang Yue left the porridge that he hadn't eaten a few mouthfuls, and rode out of the castle with a few followers.

Zhang Yue rode his horse in the rain for a few miles, and saw more than two hundred soldiers slowly advancing along the slope. They saw that when they arrived on horseback, there was no expression on their faces, and everyone had a smile on their faces. Numb and extremely depressed.

Zhang Yue got off his horse and asked, "Who is the leader?"

After a while, a tall man came out and sang: "The villain Guangrui's army is all head-to-head. On the order of Mr. Jinglue, he came to Tongwei Village to go to Xizhou Magistrate Zhang!"

Zhang Yue patted him on the shoulder and said: "It's good if you come, you will be a brother from now on."

Zhang Yue glanced at the vast number of heads on the road behind this person and said: "However, the barracks of Weiyuan Fort can only accommodate 5000 people at most, and if you include family members, you can only live in half."

"You have to live in tents first."

All the soldiers were stunned for a while, and then they all tensed up and said: "The little people treat the body of the crime and dare not force it. I don't know where the county guard is?"

Zhang Yue glanced at the other party and said, "I am!"

"You are?" Zhang Sai asked in surprise.

Zhang Yue laughed and said, "What are you doing to lie to you?"

Dutou Zhang Sai suddenly turned his head and said excitedly to the back: "Boys, this is Zhang Junshou!"

After Zhang Sai finished speaking, he immediately bowed down, and the Guangrui soldiers behind him also followed Zhang Sai and bowed down on the ramp in the rain.

There was the sound of the torrent in the valley, but Zhang Yue could still faintly hear the whimpering and choking of hundreds of men.

Zhang Sai said with tears: "I am waiting for the body of sin to live on until today, but I only ask the sheriff to take him in!"

Zhang Yue helped Zhang Sai up, and Lang said: "Okay, I will take you in from today!"

"Xie Junshou...a great kindness!"

Zhang Yue looked at the faces of Zhang Sai and the 200 people, and suddenly there was anger. Their eyes were no longer so numb. There were bits and pieces of hope in everyone's eyes, and finally there was a little smile on their faces.

Zhang Yueju shouted condescendingly to the soldiers on the ramp: "Guangrui Army generals obey orders!"

"Follow me into the city!"

Zhang Yue led the horse and returned to the city with the soldiers. As the governor of the state, he felt that he was also burdened with the expectations of so many people.

This can be regarded as a burden, and it is also his courage to go down this road.

Walking up the hillside, the lights of Weiyuan Fort are already in front of you!
(End of this chapter)