Late Tang

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Qingzhou, Ziqingpinglu Jiedushi Shuaifu.

"Jie Shuai, Dengzhou Governor Cui Shi's documents have arrived!" Song Jirong, the prison guard of the Pinglu Army, said in a deep voice outside the study.

"Come in and tell me." In the study, a half-century old man with half-white beard and hair was sitting cross-legged on the bed, with a small table in front of him, with three notebooks on it.Song Jirong recognized at a glance that the three brochures on the table were all sent in by him today.The same as the current Dengzhou Inspector's paper in his hand, the three letters were also sent from Dengzhou, namely Dengzhou Biejia, Zhaowang Li Rui, Dengzhou Governor Shi Fengyanqing, and Dengzhou Sima Yujuan. .

Sitting on Hu's bed is Song Wei, Ziqing Pinglu Jiedu envoy who is now in charge of the military affairs of Qing, Qi, Zi, Lai, and Deng.Last year, Wei Baoheng was framed by Yu Cong. The former envoy of Ziqing Pinlu Jiedu Yu Guan was Yu Cong's brother, so he was demoted to Dengzhou Sima. The imperial court transferred him from the southwest to Qingzhou as commander.

Being used to the life of soldiers and horses in the treacherous mountains and rivers of the Southwest, seeing a lot of villains from the southern barbarians, and coming to this bustling Ziqing Town all of a sudden, Song Wei really couldn't adapt to it for a while.Fortunately, Ziqing has been safe and sound since the imperial court cut off the separatist Li Zhengji family.In the past year, he gradually began to get used to this comfortable and comfortable life.

It's just that such good days don't last long. It's been half a year since they became comfortable. First, there was a severe drought and then locust plagues. Now there are famines and refugees.In the direction of Xu Haiyan in the Huaisi area, the remnants of Pang Xun, who had fled four years ago, fanned the flames and took the lead in making troubles.Seeing that Ziqing Wuzhou also started to mess up, Song Wei has added a lot of gray hair recently.

He was busy dispatching troops and generals, opening warehouses and appeasing the people, but the people on this side were still restless.

Early this morning, he received an official document from Dengzhou Biejia.At that time, he was still a little surprised that this Dengzhou Biejia was the eighth emperor's uncle of the current emperor. For some reason, before the new emperor came to the throne, he had been arranged from the capital to Dengzhou, a place on the East Sea, to be an unprivileged Biejia, but In fact, everyone understood that King Zhao was relegated to exile.This King Zhao is a very smart, low-key and cautious person. He didn't enjoy watching the sea and drinking in Dengzhou, but why did he write a book for him? Isn't he afraid that he will contact the ministers if the higher authorities violate the taboo?

After reading the letter, Song Wei was a little pleasantly surprised. It turned out that what he played was that a group of ten newly recruited united soldiers in Dengzhou actually wiped out the famous bandit Xihuozhai in Dengzhou, and killed all their leaders on the spot.The good news of beheading the ten thieves was originally a trivial matter for Song Wei, a veteran who once fought against Tubo in southern Xinjiang.But the situation is different now, bandits are coming up all over the place, and the reports received every day are not only the townships being robbed, but also the prefectures and counties being robbed.

He has been devastated by these news for several months, especially now that rumors are everywhere, making people panic.He desperately needs a victory now to quell these rumors.He has ordered the various departments of the Pinglu Army to prepare for a large-scale sweep to wipe out bandits in the near future.In addition, according to the order of the imperial court, all states and counties were asked to recruit united soldiers for training.

It's just that although Song Wei is also a general of the army, he has only been in Ziqing Town for a short time now, and he is not very familiar with the armies below.As soon as he issued the order to suppress the bandits, the various departments of the Pinglu Army have already sent various requests for military supplies and rewards to the commander-in-chief's mansion like a snowflake.

This scene couldn't help but reminded him of a sentence, soldiers who are arrogant will chase after the commander, and Shuaiqiang will rebel.Although the three generations and four separatists of the Li family in Ziqing Pinlu have been eliminated, the imperial court has also re-divided Ziqing Town and has been in charge of Ziqing Town for decades.But in fact, Ziqing Town, as a powerful military town that had been separatist for as many as five or 60 years, and as one of the five separatist vassal towns that once established themselves as kings together with the three towns of Hebei and Huaixi Town, even if the imperial court now controls Ziqing Town, but in fact, the [-] soldiers of the Pinglu Army are still very fierce.

He is a Jiedu envoy from outside, and he only brought five hundred soldiers with him when he came. It is really too difficult to tame these arrogant soldiers.

On the one hand, there are more and more bandits all over the country, and thieves are constantly coming from the direction of Xu Haimi to Ziqing Town. Standing still, he chose this opportunity to come to discuss terms with him, the commander-in-chief, to seek benefits, and refused to send troops without rewards.But Song Wei just took office not long ago, how could he spend so much money to reward the troops?

Song Wei was caught in a dilemma, it would be impossible for him, the commander-in-chief, to take his five hundred soldiers to fight against the bandits in person, right?

Just at this time, he received this good news.Song Wei immediately grasped the meaning behind this small victory. The reason why Pinglu Jun dared to bargain with him was because the situation was tense right now, and Song Wei had no one available except Pinglu Jun.But now this good news from Li Rui made him understand that he is not really unavailable, at least he still has solidarity soldiers.

In the five towns of Ziqing, the number of the Pinglu army convened this time is astonishing, a full 8000 people, equivalent to half of the Pinglu army.Although this is just a newly recruited soil group, Song Wei knows very well that as long as he uses it well, he can force the Pinglu Army to change its current attitude.

Song Wei immediately decided that he must write this article well, and he must reward the group of soldiers who made contributions in the victory report, and reward them heavily!

To Song Wei's surprise, not long after Li Rui's good news arrived, Governor Deng Shi sent another good news.At first, Song Wei thought it was another good news, but after reading it carefully, he was surprised to find that Li Rui and Feng Yanqing actually reported the same thing, but the list of united soldiers who made meritorious service was different.

In the same battle, there are actually two different batches of meritorious service lists, which is strange.

In the afternoon, he received an official document from Dengzhou Sima and former Ziqing Pinlu Jiedu envoy Yu Guan, which also included a list, but he had the same idea as Li Rui.

Bie Jia, Chang Shi, Sima, and the three senior assistants in Dengzhou all sent him reports, but Cui Yunqing, the governor of Dengzhou, did not hear from him.

In fact, after comparing the two different lists, Song Wei has already seen the biggest difference between the two lists, which is that there is one more Feng Liang on Feng Yanqing's list, and the unity of the four surnames Wang is missing. soldier.He asked Song Jirong to find out who Feng Liang was, and Song Jirong told him that Feng Yanqing had a nephew named Feng Liang, and everything became clear.

Song Wei looked at the official document in Song Jirong's hand, "Have you read it?"

"No." Song Jirong is Song Wei's family nephew, and also Song Wei's personal guard and envoy.It can be said that Song Wei is the most trusted person in Ziqing Town. He has actually read this official document when he came, but he did not admit it face to face.Because if he said he had read it, he knew that Song Wei would definitely ask him his opinion on this matter.This matter is no small matter. On the surface it seems to be just a small false leading role, but in fact it has been involved in the power struggle in Dengzhou.To put it seriously, this matter even involved the struggle between the royal family, the Yu family, the Feng family, and the Cui family. Although he is a prisoner, although he has a lot of power in Dengzhou, he is absolutely unwilling to get involved in this complicated matter. in the relationship.

Song Wei lowered his eyelids, didn't say anything more, opened the official document and glanced at it, sneered and said: "Sure enough, as I expected, this matter is indeed caused by Feng Yanqing. The dignified Bohai Feng family, such a small amount of military merit It’s really embarrassing to pretend to be a leader.”

"Jie Shuai, how to deal with this matter?"

Song Wei pondered for a long time, and said: "The back of this matter is very complicated. Dengzhou Cui Feng disagrees. Now Cui Yunqing is supported by King Zhao and Yu Gong, and Feng Yanqing is at a disadvantage. If Feng Yanqing is completely defeated, then Dengzhou is all about the iron bridge. But if we take action to support Feng Yanqing, something is wrong. Although it is difficult for King Zhao to turn over, the Yu family is about to turn over. We can't offend the Yu family because of this. , I have to think about it carefully, how about this, let's ignore Cui Feng and the other two, first reward those united soldiers, and immediately issue an official document to inform the counties of the five prefectures and counties of Qingqi, and let's reward and publicize the united soldiers, okay? Let the Pinglu army worry."

"Jie Shuai is wise, everything is under your control, and my subordinates will follow your orders immediately." Song Jirong bowed and stepped back.