"Brother Mu Xi, with your grades you can definitely stay in Hanlin Academy. Why did you sign up to come to Bian'an County to replace the former local official?"
"Brother Heyi, I don't believe you didn't receive the message. Is it that simple this time?
Why go to Hanlin Academy? Drafting official documents every day, and accompanying the emperor like a tiger. Although it talks about weight, the risks are also great. How many new scholars fall directly into this position every time they take the imperial examination?
It's better to come here. I've heard that the Holy Emperor is very fond of this time. Although it seems to be a loss on the surface, he didn't go to the Imperial Academy and came here to be a local official.
But we have to understand one thing: Who should we please the most when we become officials in the court? Isn't it your Majesty?
And His Majesty's eyes are here now. As long as you do well here, your Majesty's purpose is achieved, and His Majesty remembers you, then Jane is in the heart of the emperor, which is more useful than what you did in Hanlin Academy. many!
Do you dare to say that this is not what you came for? "
The other Jinshi who was called Heyi stopped talking. Naturally, he also received the news that this time the court really planned to completely take back control of Bian'an. In order to completely eliminate the Zhao family's control of Bian'an County, All current chief officials of Bian'an County need to be replaced.
And just as the Spring Festival ended, these new scholars had an extra path.
Those who did not receive the news naturally entered the Hanlin Academy, while those who received the news invited themselves to Bian'an. Those who did not know would really think that they came because of their ideal of governing the country and bringing peace to the world.
Just half a month ago, when the Zhao family began to form an army, Zhao Duan's tolerance for the Zhao family reached its limit and he immediately summoned his ministers to completely uproot the Zhao family.
And if the Zhao family is eliminated, the degree of control of Bian'an County by the Zhao family will inevitably lead to chaos in Bian'an County.
In order to avoid this situation, Zhao Dan simply gave this year's new scholars an extra option, that is, let them come here to replace the original officials of various prefectures and counties.
Three years, only three years, after the imperial court sends people to take charge of these prefectures and counties, these Jinshi who took the initiative to apply here can be transferred back to the capital immediately.
And their grades will be automatically upgraded to three levels after being transferred back. This is the compensation given to them by the court.
And if there is an opportunity for promotion in the future, if they report it together with the same period, they will definitely have a greater chance.
In short, this is a gilded journey.
Anyone with some connections in the family squeezed in.
Li Dingguo, on the other hand, did not stop there after dealing with the Japanese army. Instead, he directly used the matter of pacifying the Japanese army to attack Heyue City.
No matter how many lackeys sent by the Zhao family are eliminated, they may not be able to help prove it. The people of Huangshan Mansion will not be harmed, so the best way is to directly eliminate the source of the problem!
Just get rid of the Zhao family.
Furthermore, news came from Bianjing that the Japanese army had entered the country. They were responsible for cleaning up the rest of the Zhao family's forces in the entire Bian'an County. They only needed to attack Heyue City and deal with the Zhao family's lair.
So with Eunuch Gao and three other people from the palace, Li Dingguo led more than 20,000 people and headed straight for Heyue City.
The more than 200,000 miners previously brought from Daxing County began to secretly transport them to Subei County in batches under the arrangement of Feiyun Trading Company. The rest were directly treated as auxiliary troops and were taken along by Li Dingguo to Heyue County. , Feiyun Trading Company will continue to transport them away in batches on the way.
On the other side, He Xini of Daxing County heard that the Bianhe River embankment had been built and was waiting expectantly for the return of his 200,000 people.
But he didn't know that he was destined to wait in vain.
In mid-May, Li Dingguo came to Heyue City with an army of 20,000 people. He no longer concealed it and directly let the 10,000 Tatars ride on their war horses.
Heyue City was besieged by a large army for the next time after hundreds of years of stability.
Seven thousand infantry blocked the north gate of Heyue Fucheng, and 13,000 cavalry galloped back and forth around the entire Heyue City, completely surrounding Heyue City.
Naturally, the Zhao family had known about such a big movement for a long time. As soon as they learned of the defeat of the Zhao family's army, the Zhao family immediately launched a cleansing operation against Heyue City, completely turning the entire Heyue City into the Zhao family's property. territory, and then quickly integrated the forces in the city to form a defense team of more than 5,000 people and began to prepare various defense materials.
Although they are surrounded now, the Zhao family is not panicking. They have made preparations, and with a strong city like Heyue Fucheng for defense, they think that they can't do anything to them just by defeating the Japanese army.
Moreover, the head of the Zhao family, Zhao Ansheng, has begun to mobilize forces from all Zhao family branches in the county to come for support.
With the strength of the Zhao family in Bian'an County, Zhao Ansheng was confident that he could assemble at least 30,000 troops within half a month.
It was time for the Zhao family to fight back. He must let the Japanese army know why the Zhao family could be called a noble family!
After that, the entire Bian'an County was cut off from the outside world. When Li Dingguo led his army to besiege the city, not even a bird could fly out of the city and was directly shot down to feed the soldiers.
He was not in a hurry to attack the city. He just surrounded the entire Heyue City and did not allow anyone to enter or exit.
In other places in Bian'an County, due to the news that the main line had been lost, the Zhao family's forces in various places were fighting on their own. Under the clearing up one by one by the Japanese army, the Zhao family's forces in Bian'an County were pulled out one by one, and the local Regardless of whether they are related to the Zhao family or not, all the officials would rather kill the wrong ones than let them go and replace them all.
In half a month, at the end of May, the imperial court's cleaning work of the entire Bian'an County finally came to an end.
After the last county town with a branch of the Zhao family was captured and dealt with, the Japanese army rushed towards Heyue Mansion.
The attack on Heyue Mansion has been prepared for a long time. The Ping Japanese army will attack the city together with the Japanese army.
The imperial court also wanted to take this opportunity to compete between the Japanese-defeating army and the Japanese-defending army, to see which one was more powerful.
Early morning on the first day of June.
The morning fog has not yet dissipated. Outside Heyue Mansion City, on the distant horizon, a fiery red color appears on the horizon.
"Report!
There is an army of nearly 30,000 people approaching seven miles behind our army. "
Without reporting to his subordinates, Li Dingguo, who had already received word that the Japanese troops would arrive at Heyue Mansion this morning, was already waiting outside the tent.
Now I can see the fiery red with my own eyes.
He immediately gave the order: "Send the order to the entire army, assemble the army! Prepare for war!"
It's not that he made a fuss. Although he knew that the Japanese army would not attack them, after all, the two sides belonged to two armies, so they still had to take necessary precautions. The kind of people who didn't even take precautions and thought that the boss was a family. They must have been in the same group, and they didn’t even know how they died!
The ordering soldiers received the order and took the order. Soon the entire Ping Japanese army was organized into a military formation and put into a posture to prepare for war.
Li Dingguo also rode to the front of the army and looked at the approaching Japanese army from a distance.
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(End of chapter)
