"On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, there was a gathering at Cao Junsi's mansion, and I was invited to leave. I declined, and was ready to leave. But I heard that Cao Junsi's dancers and concubines would come out to accompany the guests, so I hesitated, but still left."
"On the tenth day of the fifth lunar month, during a drill in Mangshan, I personally beheaded a team leader and seven or eight other commanders who disrespected orders. They immediately used their fingers like an arm."
"Hua Tan went to Hanoi, Jijun, Xingyang, and Hedong to recruit troops and returned. The left and right guards of the Forbidden Army have each expanded to more than 16,000 people. The new soldiers are crowded among them, and the possibility of fleeing is becoming more and more likely."
"The Knights Cavalry has begun to rebuild, but there are only a thousand people, so they are not of much use."
"He Lun became the general of the left guard, but Wang Bing missed the opportunity to become the general of the right guard. Among the left guards, Miao Yuan actually became the general of the palace and was ranked with me, but I don't know whose family he came from."
"I never thought that as soon as the Forbidden Army was reestablished, so many people would come to compete for official positions. Aren't you afraid of death?"
"On the first day of June, Miao Yuan will lead his troops to withdraw from the palace city, and our troops will take over the defense."
"Yang Xianrong wanted to give me a female singer, but she refused. Was she afraid that she was not a spy? She also suggested that the King of Chengdu should be executed on the grounds that there were many rebellions in Hebei, and that the children of the King of Chengdu should be packaged and given to me. I was moved, but I righteously refused.”
"I practiced once in June in front of the Tai Chi Hall. The emperor and his ministers all lost their countenance, thinking that there were insurrectionary soldiers."
"On the first day of July, Lieutenant General Chen Jin of the Youwei Palace led his troops to take turns to guard the palace. Yang Bao, the owner of the palace, came to report secretly. Queen Yang Xianrong was trying to win over her."
"Yang Xianrong is in danger this time! It doesn't matter if he woos me, I won't talk nonsense, but Chen Jin is not sure."
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Who the hell keeps a diary? Shao Xun balled up the paper and threw it away. Not worried, he simply lit a candle, burned it to ashes, and then scattered it into the clear spring water outside the window.
I won’t keep a diary anymore, it’s boring, you idiot!
At this time, he was living in Jingu Garden. The huge manor was empty with few people.
In addition to the fifty or so recently recruited servants, there are only more than forty former first-term student soldiers from Donghai, all of whom are under fifteen years old, and the youngest is only ten years old.
The bed was also empty.
The dancers don’t have them, and the female musicians don’t have them because they don’t have the money to buy them.
As for his wife, who told Shao Xun to wait until his "market value" is at its highest before realizing it? Now his market is very good, climbing from the bottom and rising continuously, far from forming a top.
As a person from a lower-class background, getting married is a major event and must be sold at a good price.
Of course, if you really can't get a good price, or the value has depreciated, then choose a woman who suits your heart and get married - there should be a bottom line here.
Since he couldn't sleep anyway, Shao Xun didn't want to sleep anymore. He picked up a piece of silk, lit a candle, and read the words on it carefully.
The third phase of student soldiers has been recruited in March and April, with a total of 127 people. They are between ten and fifteen years old, and they are basically from Taiyuan and its surrounding areas.
Students from the third phase of Taiyuan are currently arranged to study, train and work in Panyuan.
Shao Xun often visits them.
His schedule is really tight.
If it is not your turn to be on duty at the palace this month, you will basically train your soldiers on the first day; you will rush to Yiyang on the second day to inspect the forts and train private soldiers.
On the evening of the third day, he returned overnight and stayed in Shaoyuan or Panyuan. He inquired about the affairs of the manor and dealt with any unresolved matters on the spot.
On the fourth day, we returned to Jinyong City early in the morning and continued training for another day.
On the fifth day, I went to Shaoyuan to teach the second-term students of Luoyang to check their learning progress.
On the sixth day, I went to Panyuan to teach Taiyuan third-term students.
On the seventh day, soldiers were drilled.
On the eighth day, I taught classes to the remaining students of the first phase of Donghai in Jinguyuan, teaching martial arts and military strategy. I could take a short rest at this time.
On the ninth day, we went to Yushanwu to inspect and train private soldiers.
On the tenth day, he took some 5,000 soldiers from his headquarters out of the city to practice military formations.
As for socializing, I am only free at night.
He was so busy that Concubine Pei was surprised.
After reading the directory of Taiyuan student soldiers, Shao Xun took the wooden slip and wrote some simple comments based on his impressions for future comparison.
This writing lasted until midnight. He picked up the letter Mi Huang wrote to him and read it carefully.
The Mi family is an indigenous noble family in the East China Sea, so the information is naturally not very well-informed.
He mentioned in the letter that Sikong sent envoys to Youzhou, Yuzhou, Bingzhou, Jizhou and other places to call on all the officials and princes to join forces to attack Wang Yong of Hejian, and announced all his major crimes.
There were only a few Fang Bos who responded and were not very interested. Only Wang Jun, Sima Teng, Sima Mo, and Sima Hui responded and actively organized their troops and horses to gather in the direction of Luoyang.
King Sima Mao of Dongping was panicked after hearing the news. With the persuasion of his staff, he sent an envoy to Donghai to meet Sima Yue and expressed his willingness to give up Xuzhou and become the governor of Yanzhou.
Sima Yue was so pleased that he proclaimed himself the governor and governor of Xuzhou on the spot - the original governor of Xuzhou, Zhou Fu, was promoted to Tingwei last year and later transferred to Henan Yin.
At this point, Sima Yue captured Xuzhou without any blood, which can be described as a great victory.
The letter ends abruptly here, leaving plenty of room for imagination.
Shao Xun deduced himself and felt that after Sima Yue settled Xuzhou, he would definitely lead thousands of newly recruited royal troops and Xuzhou soldiers to the west and return to Luoyang.
Is this the "Return of the King"?
Tens of thousands of troops are crossing the state, aren't others afraid? Could he also be coveting other big states along the way? For example, Yuzhou?
The governor of Xuchang was Sima Hui, but the governor of Yuzhou was not him, but Weiyuan general Liu Qiao.
Is there any good guy who can stop him?
After writing his reply to Mi Huang, Shao Xun stood up and poured himself a bowl of water.
At this time, he regretted confiscating the kindness of offering the sheep. There was no one around to serve him, which was an insult to his status.
After drinking the water, he picked up the letter from Jijun.
Yu Chen came to Ji County in early April to take office, and brought with him a thousand soldiers, which were divided between Yao Yuan and Zheng Gou'er, the leaders of the building, with 500 soldiers each.
Yu Chen expressed his gratitude in the letter, because the counties in the world did not have regular troops and horses, so these one thousand people were of great use.
At the same time, he bluntly stated that the situation in Hebei was chaotic, with thieves and soldiers everywhere, and wars continued. He planned to use this thousand soldiers as the backbone, recruit strong men, defend the city, and vow to fight the traitors to the end.
In addition, he also ordered the nobles in each county to deploy troops to block various intersections to contain the bandit army.
Obviously, Yu Chen was more experienced and did not rashly ask various aristocratic families to send troops to the county to help defend the city, because he had no idea who was the enemy and who was an ally, and was generally very cautious.
Shao Xun learned from his letter that there were currently many groups of people making trouble in Hebei, and the most powerful one was from Gongshi Fan.
This person is a former general of Sima Ying, who participated in the siege of Luoyang. At this moment, he led a group of defeated soldiers from Yecheng to join the army in large numbers. It was rumored that the number of soldiers was tens of thousands.
Shao Xun thought about it and realized that the powerful families in Hebei were probably involved in the rebellion. Otherwise, how could Gongshi Fan easily cause trouble?
It’s interesting to think about these aristocratic families.
When Sima Ying became violent and extravagant, they all abandoned him. When Sima Ying was deposed, he regretted it again. He felt that the people of Hebei had missed a golden opportunity, so he supported the rebellion of Sima Ying's old troops.
These rebels are more rebellious than me.
He was an old rebel, and he was still rebellious until the Tang Dynasty.
After writing his reply to Yu Chen, Shao Xun went to bed with his clothes on. Early the next morning, I temporarily changed my itinerary to Yushanwu and went straight to Cao Fu's mansion.
"Military Secretary." Looking at Cao Fu who was yawning continuously, Shao Xun bowed and saluted.
Cao Fu rubbed his eyes and sighed: "Last time I asked you to stay, you pretended to be noble, and now you are so anxious. Go, Xiaohong is on the couch, help me treat her."
"Military Secretary!" Shao Xun had no choice but to increase his tone.
Cao Fu chuckled and said, "Young man just can't keep calm. What's the matter? You're not used to the pure life and you want to fight?"
After careful calculation, Luoyang has indeed lived a peaceful life for more than half a year since Zhang Fang retreated, and it was much more comfortable.
"Is Sikong going back to Luoyang?" Shao Xun asked straight to the point.
After hearing this, Cao Fu pondered for a moment and asked, "What do you think?"
"Sikong has taken charge of his own duties as governor and governor. It may take a year and a half to settle down." Shao Xun analyzed carefully: "But can Sikong wait?"
"Sikong really can't wait." Cao Fu glanced at Shao Xun approvingly and said, "Since the Northern Expedition to Yecheng, Sikong has been away from Luoyang for a year. Many events during this period have nothing to do with Sikong. If this continues, Luoyang will still be Sikong Is it Luoyang?"
"What the military commander said is absolutely true." Shao Xun nodded in agreement.
Dangyin was defeated miserably, and Luoyang was sacked. Sikong was not around.
Zhang Fang went south and tried to capture Luoyang, but Sikong was absent.
The defenders went north to meet the emperor and returned to Luan capital, but Sikong was not there.
Hundreds of officials went up and down to discuss the world's major affairs, but Sikong was not around.
The people of Luoyang spent the first month of the year in peace and harmony, and then sowed spring seeds in preparation for the harvest in August. Sikong was not here yet.
It seems that it doesn’t matter whether there is Sikong or not.
Would it be better if the Jin Dynasty did not have these sect kings fighting back and forth?
If Sima Yueruo still fails to realize the problem, the staff around him are not up to standard!
"Sikong will come back and personally preside over the chaos." Cao Fu said.
"Where is the chaos?" Shao Xun asked.
"Chaos in all directions." Cao Fu glanced at him and said.
"A full-scale attack?" Shao Xun was shocked.
Cao Fu also sighed and said: "I don't know what kind of people are around Sikong. They are arrogant and come up with bad ideas. They are indeed attacking on all fronts. Wang Hui of Fan Yang has led his army northward, traveling under starry night to aid Hebei. General Sikong will lead his troops back to Luoyang , presided over the Western Expedition."
"Is this true?" Shao Xun confirmed again and again.
"Really." Cao Fu said with a long sigh. He didn't know why he sighed. After a moment, he added: "Sikong is also planning to capture Liu Qiao along the way and control Yuzhou and hand it over to King Fan Yang."
Weiyuan General Liu Qiao served as the governor of Yuzhou for three years, and he did not get along very well with Sima Hui, the governor of Xuchang. Sima Yue wanted Sima Hui to serve as both the governor and governor of Yuzhou and to be his right-hand man.
With enemies on all sides, should we say he is arrogant or confident?
"Did Sikong ever think that Liu Qiao would not submit?" Shao Xun asked.
"Of course I have thought about it."
"Then why did you let King Fan Yang lead his army north?"
"Because Pingchang Company (Sima Mo) suffered repeated defeats and lost troops and territory, it was impossible to save him."
Shao Xun understood.
Hebei was originally dissatisfied with Sima Yue. If Gongshifan, Hao Chang and others were allowed to continue making trouble, more people would join in and oppose Sima Yue. Therefore, it was necessary to cut through the mess quickly and pacify it quickly.
"Thank you, Commander, for telling me." Shao Xun saluted and said, "I will go back and train my sergeants now, so that they can be ready for battle at any time."
"Just wait for Sikong's order." Cao Fu nodded and said: "The total number of Xuzhou's armies is no less than 30,000, and Liu Qiao has few soldiers. Sikong must want to personally lead the army to suppress him, just like Sima Mao did in the past."
"No." Shao Xun responded.
