Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 447 Fang Xuanling Has Arrived

Wang Pingan sat on the blanket, closed his eyes, and remained silent.

Everyone in the tent also stopped talking, the matter was obvious, and there was nothing to guess.Ashina Qibo'er sobbed softly, he is young, but he understands the truth, there is no need to be anxious now, he can only wait for Wang Ping'an to make up his mind.

After a full quarter of an hour, Wang Ping'an opened his eyes again, and said: "If Gu Lantian wanted to increase the strength of Yumen Pass and deter the enemies on the grassland, then he doesn't need the soldiers, I will support him anyway. I still want to go back to Beijing, Zheliu County's army can be given to him and let him command it."

Di Renjie shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that's not the case. If it's really for the purpose of defending against the enemy, it's a normal requirement to divide your troops, brother. Why use crooked methods? He still has other purposes."

Su Dingfang said: "Want to rebel and become king? By the way, has he hinted how many troops will be divided?"

Ashina Qi Boer shook his head and said, "There is no hint, there is no mention of dividing troops at all."

Wang Pingan rubbed his nose and said: "I won't stay in Zheliu County for too long, he should know this. Then he will divide my troops... Divide the troops under his name, and the commander who commands me Isn’t the army the same, the Turkic soldiers will fight for him, what’s the difference?”

Su Dingfang immediately said: "That's a big difference. The army belongs to Zheliu County. If there is a war, he can command it, but according to the rules, it is regarded as a borrowed army. He has to provide food and supplies, and if guest soldiers are required to fight, he has to send out two soldiers." However, if the army is divided, it will be regarded as his direct subordinate, and the imperial court will increase the food and salaries for him, and in order to make more Turkic soldiers submit, the imperial court has always provided double the food and salaries for the government soldiers, to set an example, And the food and salaries of the frontier soldiers are also doubled!"

Wang Pingan said, "So that's it. So every time Gu Lantian gets a soldier from me, it's equivalent to getting four people's food and wages, and he can triple the army!"

Di Renjie shook his head and said: "No, brother made a mistake, it was four times. He will not pay the Turkic soldiers the food and pay they deserve, but let the Turkic soldiers graze in Zheliu County to support themselves. In other words, it is the elder brother You use the property of the fief to raise an army for him, and the food and pay he gets can expand the army four times."

Wang Pingan tilted his head and said: "That is, if I give him [-] Turkic soldiers, he can not only command these troops to fight, but also use the share of the [-] Turkic soldiers to receive another [-] soldiers' pay! How many soldiers are there now?"

Ashina Qi Boer said: "He has [-] soldiers now, but the government soldiers only have [-], and the rest of the auxiliary soldiers are treated like the county soldiers!"

Everyone in the tent came out in unison, okay, this abacus is really good enough!If Gu Lantian really married into the Wu family and threatened Wang Pingan to give him soldiers and horses, only 5000 men were needed, and his army soldiers would immediately become [-], not counting the [-] Turkic soldiers who were distributed!

This Wu family is really valuable!

Wang Ping'an thought for a while and said, "Then if I don't give him troops, but report to the imperial court with 20 Turkic soldiers, wouldn't the imperial court want to provide me with food and salaries for [-] troops? This seems unlikely!"

Su Dingfang and Di Renjie said at the same time: "Of course it's impossible!"

Di Renjie rushed to say: "The Turkic soldiers are assigned to Yumenguan, and they are the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. If the elder brother reports directly, he is still a Turkic soldier. The treatment cannot be the same!"

Su Dingfang glanced at Di Renjie, and said again: "But the imperial court will divide the grassland according to the number of Turkic soldiers reported by Lord Hou. In fact, the more you report, the happier the household officials will be. They can't wait for you to report 100 million. They It can be distributed to you with pastures for 400 million people to graze!"

Wang Pingan waved his hand and said, "No way, wouldn't the grassland have to be allocated to the Turkic Grassland?"

Su Dingfang let out a hey sound, clapped his hands and said, "They will only give you the Turkic pastures!"

Di Renjie looked at Ashina Qibo'er and asked, "The imperial court promised to give you the pasture, right? Which one did you get?"

Ashina Qibo'er lowered his head and whispered, "It's the pasture of the Dayan tribe."

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the tent understood, turned around and returned to the original point. This is the Tang Dynasty's immediate national policy against the Turks.
There are Turkic people who come to surrender and want to benefit. It’s okay. The Tang court has never been stingy in this regard.

If there are Turks who have surrendered and report that there are 1 people in their tribe, then the Tang court will definitely be very amiable and considerate of this tribe, and give the tribe a nomadic pasture for 4 people, or even bigger, but this piece The grassland is in Turkic territory!
The Tang Dynasty is the Central Empire, and the Turks are the subjects of the Fan Kingdom. Theoretically speaking, the Turkic grasslands are the territory of the Tang Dynasty.Then it is legal for Datang to assign a certain piece of pasture to a certain tribe.But if a certain tribe really wants to go to this pasture to graze, it has to drive away the original tribe on this pasture, because the original tribe has not been canonized by the empire, so it is illegal, even if it leads to war , then a certain tribe is also on the side of justice and will receive the moral support of the empire!

In this way, the Tang court could make the two Turkic tribes fight each other without sending a single soldier and without spending a single son. Grassland brothers, and the former Sui Dynasty continued to use it, and it was still used in the Tang Dynasty!
Wang Ping'an slapped his thigh and said, "If you say that, it's better to distribute the army to Gu Lantian! Anyway, in his name, I can get real food and salary, but I can only get the pasture!"

Everyone in the tent looked at him with weird expressions, even Ashina Qiboer was so surprised that he didn't even care about crying, and looked at Wang Ping'an with a strange look on his face!
Military power, that is military power, are you really willing to let go?If Gu Lantian knew that you were so forthright, why would he force him to marry Mrs. Wu?But then again, don't say he couldn't think of it, we couldn't think of it either!
Wang Pingan stood up and said, "Qi Bo'er, you should go back tonight to see Gu Lantian, and tell him that when I arrive at Yumen Pass tomorrow, I have something to discuss with him. I know everything in his mind. Everything is negotiable, but he can no longer make things difficult for you!"

After a pause, he said again: "Tell him, if Yumenguan is short of troops, I can support some of them. If it is less than [-], it can be discussed. Tell him this!"

Ashina Qibo'er was overjoyed, but a little flustered, said: "Master, doesn't that mean you bowed your head to him?"

Wang Pingan smiled and said: "Bow your head? My head is not so good. I will share [-]% of the benefits he can get from this matter. If he can put me under the table, I will share [-]%. But, Er Yitian does five, half and half, he doesn't even think about it, and the soldiers can only be assigned to Yumenguan in name, so tell him straight, there is no need to be embarrassed!"

Ashina made a sound, and thought to himself: "It's still the master who came up with such a clever trick!" He nodded in agreement, trotted out of the tent, and went back to Yumen Pass.

Di Renjie smiled and said, "Brother, it's not that Gu Lantian wants to take advantage of you, it's you who took advantage of him!"

Wang Pingan said with a smile: "One step further into the abyss, one step back to open up the sea and the sky! I take one step back, and he goes further. I will share the bulk of the salary, but he will be responsible for the report. If there is any trouble in the future, he will have to fall into the ditch!"

Everyone in the tent laughed in unison: "That's how it should be, who asked him to plot against us first!"

After talking for a while, everyone went back to their accounts and rested.

Early the next morning, Wang Pingan ordered the camp to be pulled out, and the Turkic people crossed the river in batches.But after all, there are too many people, and the gate on the side wall is small. Although Lieutenant Linhe is in charge of more than a dozen beacon towers, he only controls one city gate. It takes a lot of time for more than [-] Turkic people to go out one by one. .

The Turkic people brought a lot of large carts, and many old and weak people sat in the carts. When crossing the river, they had to get out of the carts. They walked slowly on the ice, but everyone was in a hurry. The scene was very chaotic, huddled together, yelling!
Wang Pingan did not cross the river, but stayed at the end and was watching the Turkic people crossing the river. Suddenly someone came to report, and a group of people came behind, saying that they were imperial envoys from Chang'an.

Wang Ping'an was taken aback. Why didn't anyone inform him of the imperial envoy from Chang'an?He asked: "Who is the imperial envoy? Is he here to announce the decree to me?"

The soldier who reported the letter shook his head and said, "I asked, but I didn't say anything. It seems that I am not an imperial envoy."

Wang Pingan rode his horse back, and saw a group of chariots and horses approaching from a distance, carrying the banner of the Tang Dynasty. On a cart, stood a purple-robed official, holding the cart shed with one hand, and holding the cart with the other. Is waving at myself!

The purple-robed official smiled and shouted: "No disease, the old man sees you coming!"

Wang Pingan was taken aback, isn't this Fang Xuanling, why did he come here?When the prime minister left the capital, he should have notified the local officials along the way. Although he was on the way, he could see that Fang Xuanling was going in the same direction as himself, so why didn't he notify himself in advance?
Trotting to the front of the convoy, Wang Ping'an got off his horse, saluted Fang Xuanling, and said with a smile, "So it's Mr. Fang. I haven't seen you for a long time. You are in good spirits!"

Fang Xuanling jumped down from the carriage, helped Wang Ping'an, and said with a smile: "In recent years, I always feel that my body is not as good as before. This winter patrolling the border, I thought it was a hard job. But I didn't want to. It's getting better and better!"

Wang Pingan said with a smile: "Then I want to congratulate Mr. Fang." After being polite, he asked again: "I don't know why Mr. Fang came to Yumen Pass, but you came to find Mr. Fang?"

Fang Xuanling shook his head and said, "This old man is here to deal with the surrender of the Turkic people. By the way, General Wang Wendu is also here. Come, this old man introduces you."

Wang Wendu got off from a carriage at the back. Although his legs and feet were still inconvenient, he could stand up on his own, and as long as he didn't move around, he really couldn't tell that he was a person with leg problems.

"My lord, you and our old Wang are close people. We were a family 500 years ago. Our ancestors slept on the same bed!" It looked like he wanted to hug Wang Ping'an, but his feet didn't move.

Wang Pingan snorted, and thought: "Which general is he from Weifu, I have never seen him before, he must not belong to Zuo Wuwei." With a smile on his face, he took a few steps, came to Wang Wendu, and clasped his fists Said: "General Wang, is this the first time we've met?"

But Wang Wendu didn't care, took Wang Ping'an's hand, shook it again and again, and said loudly: "I have heard about the name of the prince for a long time, but it is a pity that I have never met. Fortunately, the old man sent me to patrol the border. We have never seen each other in Chang'an. But I met you at Yumen Pass, you said it was a coincidence, is it destined?"

Wang Ping'an thought to himself: "The intimacy is a bit too much. This kind of intimacy is either asking for something from me, or being jealous of me!" It's really a fate!"

Fang Xuanling smiled and said: "Don't talk about fate, you two, come here!" He waved to the two of them, and climbed into the car again, squinting his eyes, looking at the Turkic man who was crossing the river.

Wang Ping'an and Wang Wendu yielded to each other and came to Fang Xuanling's car.Wang Wendu was standing by the side of the carriage, and a servant came to help him, and helped him into the carriage.Seeing this, Wang Pingan asked, "General Wang, is your leg inconvenient?"

If Wang Wendu met Wang Pingan before he arrived in Ganzhou, he would definitely say that he has a leg problem and ask Wang Pingan to show him.But ever since Fang Xuanling agreed to help him seize Wang Ping'an's military power, his thoughts have changed. He doesn't want to owe Wang Ping'an any favors. to this point!

Wang Wendu shook his head and said: "It's okay, it's okay, I've been riding a lot on the road, and I feel a little numb, it will be fine after a while!"

Wang Ping'an said nothing, climbed into the carriage, stood beside Fang Xuanling, and looked towards the Hulu River.

There is still some distance from the river bank. Standing on the carriage, you can just see the Turkic people crossing the river, and you can see the panorama.

Fang Xuanling looked at it for a while, and said: "There is no disease, there are more than [-] Turkic people, it is really not easy to control, you have worked hard during this time!"

Fang Xuanling has been in politics for a long time, and he can be described as a treacherous and slippery person. He has slipped to the point of far surpassing the loach. There is a huge trap in his words, just waiting for Wang Ping'an to jump into it!
Compared with others, Wang Ping'an is much better at human relations, but if he is compared with Fang Xuanling, playing politics with the founding prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, then he is far behind.

One word from Fang Xuanling threw Wang Ping'an into the pit!Wang Pingan immediately nodded and said: "Yes, there are so many people, and they are all Turks. Their living habits are very different from those of the people in the Central Plains, and more than half of them are old and weak, and they lack food and clothing. , It’s really not easy. Xiaguan feels powerless, but for the sake of the future generations of my Tang Dynasty, Xiaguan has been gritting his teeth and finally brought them to Yumen Pass.”

What he said was modest, and he did not forget to praise himself. It was very decent, and it was in line with the usual style of reporting in the officialdom.It's just a pity that what Fang Xuanling wants to listen to this time is not the usual style, but only the literal understanding!
Fang Xuanling said: "The burden is too heavy, the old man can see that you feel powerless. It is good that you can persevere, but to deal with such a big matter, diligence alone is not enough, experience is also needed Just do it!"

He pointed to the river and said, "Look, the Turkic people crossing the river is very chaotic.

(End of this chapter)