Chapter 40 Good News
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Qingzhou, the governor of the Jiedushi of Pinglu, Ziqing.
"Jingshou, the clerk of the governor Cui of Dengzhou has arrived!" Song Jirong, the Pinglu Army guards, said in a deep voice outside the study.
"Come in and talk." A half-white-bearded and half-white man sat cross-legged on the Hu bed, with a small table in front of him, with three notes on it. Song Jirong had already recognized at a glance that the three notes on these were sent by him one after another. Like the current notes from the governor of Dengzhou in his hand, the three notes were also sent by Dengzhou, namely the notes from Dengzhou, King Zhao Li Shi, King Dengzhou Shi Feng Yanqing, and Sima Yuqin of Dengzhou.
Sitting on Hu's bed was Song Wei, the governor of the Ziqing Pinglu, who is now in charge of the military and political affairs of Qing, Qi, Zi, Lai, and Dengwu. Song Wei was in the southwest in his early years and fought against Nanzhao many times and made many military achievements. Last year, Wei Baoheng framed Yu Cong, and Yu Guan, the former governor of the Ziqing Pinglu, was the brother of Yu Cong, and was demoted to the Sima of Dengzhou. The court transferred him from the southwest to Qingzhou as the commander.
I was used to living a military life in the dangerous mountains and rivers in the southwest, and seeing many evil people in the southern barbarians. When I arrived at this prosperous Ziqing Town, Song Wei was still a little unable to adapt. Fortunately, Ziqing has been safe since the imperial court destroyed the separatist Li Zhengyi family. In the past year, he has gradually begun to get used to this comfortable and comfortable life.
But such good days are always not long. It has been less than half a year of comfort. First, there was a severe drought and then a locust plague. Now famines are everywhere, and refugees are constantly coming. In the direction of Xu Haiyan in the Huai and Si area, Pang Xun, who fled four years ago and was not arrested, fanning the flames and taking the lead in causing trouble everywhere. Seeing that the five prefectures of Zibo and Qing dynasties also began to become chaotic, Song Wei has recently added a lot of white hair.
He dispatched troops and generals on the top, and opened the warehouse and comforted the people, but the people on this side were still restless.
Early this morning, he received a document from the Dengzhou Bianjia. At that time, he was a little surprised that the Dengzhou Bianjia was the eighth uncle of the current emperor. For some reason, he had been arranged from the capital to the Donghai of Dengzhou before the new emperor ascended the throne. But in fact, everyone understood that King Zhao was exiled and exiled. King Zhao was a very smart, low-key and cautious person. He didn't drink well in Dengzhou, but why did he write a memorial for him? Isn't he afraid that the superiors would make taboos and connect with the ministers?
After reading the letter, Song Wei was a little surprised. It turned out that what he was reported was that a group of ten newly summoned troops from Dengzhou actually wiped out the famous bandit Xihuozhai in Dengzhou, and killed all his leaders at the scene. The good news of killing the ten thieves was originally a small thing for Song Wei, who once fought against Tubo in southern Xinjiang. However, the situation is different now. Bandits from all over the country are catching up, and the news they receive daily are robbed, and the prefectures and counties are robbed.
He has been frustrated by these news for several months, especially now that rumors are everywhere, making people panic. He now needs a victory to calm these rumors. He has ordered the various troops of the Pinglu Army to prepare to carry out a large-scale sweep and eliminate the bandits in the near future. In addition, in accordance with the imperial decree, the prefectures and counties will recruit united troops for training.
However, although Song Wei was also a general in charge of the army, he had been in Ziqing Town for a short time now and was not very familiar with the troops below. As soon as he issued an order to suppress the bandits, the various units of the Pinglu Army below had sent various military requests and reward requests to the Jiedu General's Mansion like snowflakes.
This scene reminded him of a saying, "The arrogant army will lead to the commander, and the strong commander will rebel. Although the three generations and four separatist ranks of the Li family in Pinglu, Ziqing, have been eliminated, the court has re-divided Ziqing Town and taken charge of Ziqing Town for decades. But in fact, Ziqing Town, as a powerful military town that had been separatist for up to fifty or sixty years, as one of the five separatist vassal states that once established themselves as kings with the three towns in Hebei and Huaixi Town, even if the court now controls Ziqing Town, in fact, the 37,500 soldiers of the Pinglu Army are still very fierce.
He was an external military governor who only brought five hundred personal soldiers when he came. It was too difficult to tame these arrogant soldiers and generals.
On the one hand, there were more bandits everywhere, and bandits continued to come from Xu Haimi to Ziqing Town. On the other hand, rumors spread everywhere in Ziqing Town, and the people were in panic. But at this time, the tens of thousands of troops of Pinglu Army in Ziqing Town were not moved. They chose this opportunity to negotiate conditions with him, the commander of the ritual, and refused to send troops without rewards. But shortly after Song Wei took office, how could he spend so much money to reward the troops?
Song Wei was in a dilemma. It was impossible for him, the general, to take his five hundred personal soldiers to fight against the bandits himself, right?
Just at this moment, he received this good news. Song Wei immediately keenly captured the meaning behind this small good news. The reason why the Pinglu Army dared to bargain with him was because the current situation was tense, and Song Wei had no one except the Pinglu Army. But now Li Yin's good news made him realize that he was not really unavailable, at least he had the united soldiers.
The number of Pinglu Army convened in the fifth town of Ziqing this time was astonishing, with a total of 18,000 troops, equivalent to half of the Pinglu Army. Although this was just a newly recruited land unit, Song Wei knew very well that as long as he used it well, he could still force the Pinglu Army to change its current attitude.
Song Wei immediately decided to write this article well and to reward the united soldiers who made contributions in the good news!
But what surprised Song Wei was that not long after Li Shi's good news arrived, Deng Zhuangshi sent another good news. Song Wei initially thought there was another good news, but after careful reading, he was surprised to find that Li Shi and Feng Yanqing actually reported the same thing, but the list of united soldiers who made contributions was different.
In the same battle, two different lists of meritorious service appeared, which was strange.
In the afternoon, he received another official document from Sima, Dengzhou and former governor of Pinglu of the Lu Jiedu of Ziqing, and also attached a list to it, but it was the same as Li Xianxiang.
The deceased, the chief minister, Sima, and the three supreme masters of Dengzhou all sent him a report, but the governor of Dengzhou Cui Yunqing had no news.
In fact, after comparing the two different lists, Song Wei had already seen the biggest difference between these two lists. Feng Yanqing's list had one more Feng Liang and four united soldiers with the surname Wang. He asked Song Jirong to inquire who Feng Liang was. Song Jirong told him that Feng Yanqing had a nephew named Feng Liang, and everything was obvious.
Song Wei looked at the official document in Song Jirong's hand, "Have you read it?"
"No." Song Jirong was Song Wei's nephew, and Song Wei's personal military guards, and the military envoy in front of the yamen. He was the person Song Wei trusted most in Ziqing Town. He had actually read this document when he came, but he did not admit it in person. Because if he had read it, he knew that Song Wei would definitely ask him about his opinion on this matter. This matter was quite a matter of being a small matter of taking military achievements on the surface, but in fact it had already involved the power struggle in Dengzhou. To be serious, this matter even involved the struggle between the royal family, Yu family, Feng family, and Cui family. He was alone in Dengzhou. Although he had a lot of power in Dengzhou, he would never be willing to be involved in this complex relationship.
Song Wei lowered his eyelids and said nothing more. He opened the official document and glanced at it, and sneered: "As I expected, Feng Yanqing was indeed a trick of this matter. The Feng family of Bohai is a shame to have to take such a small military achievements even if they have to take over."
"Jingshuai, how to deal with this matter?"
Song Wei pondered for a long time and said, "There is a complicated matter behind this matter. Cui Feng in Dengzhou is not in harmony. Now Cui Yunqing has King Zhao and Duke Yu to support him, and Feng Yanqing is at a disadvantage. If Feng Yanqing is completely fought, then Dengzhou will be an iron bridge. But if we take action to support Feng Yanqing, it is a bit inappropriate. Although it is difficult for King Zhao to turn over, the Yu family is going to turn over. We cannot offend the Yu family because of this. I have to think carefully about this. Let's not care about Cui Feng and the other two, and reward those united soldiers first. At the same time, I immediately issued a document to inform the counties of the five prefectures of Qingqi. We should also commend and promote the united soldiers so that the Pinglu army can be anxious."
Chapter completed!