(First update provided)
In the meeting hall of the Shaanxi General Envoy Department in Jingzhaofu City, there were all high-ranking officials wearing purple and crimson colors. Most of them had military qualifications, and a few had literary qualifications. However, it is impossible to tell the difference from the official uniforms. The civil and military official uniforms of the Northern Song Dynasty were exactly the same. But looking at their movements and behavior, we can still distinguish their cultural and military talents.
Because the world of the Song Dynasty has been in chaos recently. When troubled times come, warriors will naturally raise their tails!
Therefore, the warriors gathered in Shaanxi Province today are not as calm and submissive as before. Each voice is louder than the other. They all talk loudly, and from time to time, a bunch of curse words will pop out of their mouths. .
These fighting men in Shaanxi are not like the polite Bianliang warriors. They are located on the border and have frequent wars. Regardless of where these military officers come from, even if they are children of aristocratic families who have read poetry and books since childhood, they will be infected with the unruly and unrestrained habits due to spending years and months with a bunch of vulgar soldiers.
Now we are seeing the end of the Song Dynasty, and all the generals, Yao and Liu who were on top of them in the past have suffered heavy losses on the Wannian Xindi battlefield! If the Song Dynasty still wants to survive, it will have to rely on the efforts of these young and middle-level generals who were in the second and third rates in the past.
Just thinking about it makes me feel comfortable. How can I lower my voice?
The Western Army began to flourish during the reign of Renzong, and it has been more than a hundred years. How many characters have emerged during this period? How many families of generals have been raised? But the Western Army only has so little oil and water...more wolves and less meat! Moreover, the wolves of the Zhong family, Yao family, and Liu family will eat first! The rest of the families can only drool on the sidelines.
Things are getting better now. The war is getting bigger and bigger, and the situation is getting more and more chaotic... Not only do we have to fight against the Jin, but we also have to keep an eye on the Western thieves in the west. I heard that the Generalissimo of the Hedong and Hebei soldiers and horses, Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, is also not there. Stop, support troops in the east of Hedong, and openly separatist rule - when did the Song Dynasty have such a prince? It’s simply a death wish! It was enough to pamper him when the late emperor was around. Now that the late emperor is gone, he will definitely need a large army to attack him!
These Western generals all know that fighting costs money! The three armies have not moved yet, and the rules and regulations will come first! Before the soldiers go into battle, rewards are prepared in advance... There is no need to wait for the two armies to confront each other, all kinds of items and rewards have already arrived!
If you are lucky and win a battle, or you can turn a small defeat into a victory, you will have to add additional money!
After calculating all the benefits, can these generals not feel very happy?
Wang Shu, the general judge of the Shaanxi Transportation Department and the official responsible for the production and sale of salt, and Zong Zejin, an old official in his sixties who came from Sichuan and was about to go to Cizhou, were also in the meeting hall of the General Production Department. , all frowned at the group of high-tailed military attachés and said nothing.
The two men are quite different in age and have very different officialdom experiences. Wang Shu had a successful career in the officialdom, and because he was familiar with military literature, he fell in the eye of the Grand Prime Minister Li Bangyan. Now he has reached the position of general judge of Shaanxi Caosi and in charge of salt affairs. Moreover, he is also highly appreciated by Qian Gai, the envoy of various general organizations in Shaanxi Province. He often discusses military affairs with him, sometimes even staying up all night... If he continues to develop along this route, he will become a military leader in a few years. The general who oversees the army will be Commander-in-Chief Fang.
Zongze's official career was bumpy. He was a Jinshi in the sixth year of Yuanyou. He had been an official for more than thirty years, but he had been bouncing around as a county magistrate. He only became a general judge in the fifth year of Zhenghe. In the first year of Xuanhe's reign, he probably became discouraged. Zongze, who was sixty years old, begged to retire and return to his hometown. As a result, he was given a false position to promote Hongqing Temple.
I thought I could live in peace and security, but for some reason I was accused of despising Taoism, and the Emperor Long Yan was furious and assigned him to Zhenjiang as a superintendent. Later, when he was amnestyed, he was released and became an official again - he originally went home to farm, but he had to be arrested and put under supervision. After two years in supervision, he was given an official position again!
I really don’t know what kind of stupid thing Zhao Ji did?
Anyway, Zongze, who originally wanted to retire, had no choice but to continue to be an official, and the official became bigger and bigger... First he was Tongpan Bazhou, and at the beginning of the eighth year of Xuanhe, he got Zongzheng Shaoqing, but he didn't wait until Kaifeng Mansion was besieged when he took office. Therefore, Zongze stayed in Jingzhao Mansion and entered the shogunate of Qian Gai, the general envoy of various departments in Shaanxi Province, to advise him.
After the siege of Kaifeng Prefecture, Zongze encountered a strange official fate. Hebei military marshal Yun Wang Zhao Kai, who had nothing to do with him, suddenly recommended him to take charge of Cizhou affairs and military affairs, and to promote the camp... ..The power of the state was handed over to him!
After receiving the news, Qian Gai, Wang Shu and others all suspected that there was some special relationship between Zongze and Zhao Kai!
And Zhao Huan, who "should have drowned", after he fled to Yingtian Mansion and ascended the throne, he also approved Zhao Kai's memorial recommending Zongze. In order to stabilize Zhao Kai, Zhao Huan was invited by the Hebei Marshal at that time. "Nothing is wrong". So by some mistake, Zongze became an official under Zhao Kai!
But before Zongze could take office, news of Zhao Kai's rebellion came from Hedong... Now Zongze was really embarrassed. Whose official was he?
While Zongze was seriously thinking about which end he was in, footsteps came from behind the screen, and then he heard the roll call coming out.
"The general envoys of various Shaanxi roads and the appeasement envoys of Yongxing Military Road have arrived!"
Zongze and Wang Shu glanced at each other and quickly stood up. A group of Western Army generals who were talking loudly and vigorously had to stop their discussion with a smile, and then stood in a class according to their rank and official position. As soon as he stood up, he saw the old man Qian Gai, who was almost 70 years old, staggering out. Behind him was Fan Zhixu, the younger Yongxing military pacification envoy and who also knew the affairs of Jingzhao Mansion.
The two old men were a little sluggish. Looking at the eager faces below, they didn't know what to say.
Because the two of them had already mobilized King Qin once before, they collected hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the Sixth Route of Shaanxi and let Zhong Shidao, Yao Gu and others take them to Kaifeng Mansion... Now it looks like a meat bun beat a dog!
In fact, this is not the worst thing... Because the martial arts style is very strong here in Shaanxi, and the Western Army has been flourishing for more than a hundred years, countless people from southern Shaanxi have taken the path of military service and obtained official status, opened generals, and become A wealthy family!
In terms of this huge wealth effect, meritorious service in the military has surpassed the imperial examination (the scholars in Shaanxi are not high-level and cannot rely on the group of academic masters in the southeast), and has become the first choice for Shaanxi men to advance.
Therefore, there are not many imperial examination families in Shaanxi, but there are families all over the place where everyone practices martial arts... I died in the battle, and I still have a son! There is no elder brother, but there are still brothers. In addition, in addition to the regular Forbidden Army in Shaanxi, there are also a large number of archers (at least more than 100,000) in the camp. This is to serve as soldiers in the fields. As long as the fields are still there, Shaanxi warriors can be found who are willing to join the army... ...So it is very easy to replenish troops in Shaanxi.
But what makes Qian Gai and Fan Zhixu embarrassed is that they don't have much money in their pockets anymore!
Shaanxi has soldiers but no money!
As the climate in Shaanxi becomes increasingly dry, the Silk Road is no longer as prosperous as it once was for various reasons. Therefore, Shaanxi has become increasingly poor since the middle and late Tang Dynasty...
Although Shaanxi has gathered the most powerful troops in the world, it has no money to raise troops!
During the more than a hundred years of the rise of the Western Army, the Song Dynasty court had to transport a large amount of money, grain, silk and silk from the Central Plains, Jiangnan, and Sichuan to Shaanxi every year.
However, since the gold thieves invaded, the goods, money and food from the Central Plains and Jiangnan have stopped going to Shaanxi. Only Sichuan continues to provide blood transfusions to Shaanxi.
But that little Shu brocade is really not enough!
Therefore, when the King of Military and Qin Dynasty was called back last time, the old foundation of the Shaanxi Transport Envoy was completely wiped out... Now that the battle is defeated, there will definitely be many killed and disabled, and this pension is not enough. Any idea where to get it?
Now Zhao Kai has rebelled again...
Of course, you can’t tell the people below about the empty treasury!
Thinking of this, Qian Gaien coughed and smiled faintly at his generals: "I just received news from Hedong. The former Hebei Army Marshal, King Yun Zhao Kai, has really rebelled! On June 16, in Hedong Taiyuan Prefecture proclaims himself emperor...it’s really crazy!”
"It's simply lawless!" Fan Zhixu also chimed in, "Since the founding of this dynasty, has there ever been such a bold and reckless prince?"
After hearing the words of Qian Gai and Fan Zhixu, the expressions on the faces of the Western Army generals present became even more excited!
Because they have understood that this time the enemy is not the terrible gold thief, but Zhao Kai who is separatist in Hedong!
Although they also knew that Zhao Kai defeated the gold thieves at Niangziguan and solved the siege of Taiyuan...but it was still much safer to fight Zhao Kai than to fight the gold thieves in Kaifeng Mansion.
Kaifeng Mansion is a dead end with no solution!
The Wannian Dam cannot be built at all... If the Wannian Dam cannot be built, Kaifeng Prefecture will be flooded at any time!
Moreover, if Jiudun is under the dam, the main force of the gold thieves will inevitably be attracted, so if the battle of the dam is not fought, it will become a battle between the main forces of the Song and Jin armies.
And the main forces of the Song and Jin armies fought on the edge of the Yellow River... The loser must be the Song army!
In comparison, hitting Hedong is much easier!
It doesn't matter if Taiyuan is difficult to fight, just fight slowly... As long as the court has enough money, everyone has the confidence to treat Zhao Kai as a Western traitor and Taiyuan Mansion as Xingqing Mansion!
Even if the fight lasts for a hundred years, it will be no problem for our descendants to continue fighting!
Thinking of this, the generals patted their chests and expressed their opinions one after another.
"Commander-in-Chief, Commander-in-Chief, don't worry, you two, with our Western Army men here, taking Taiyuan will be easy!"
"Yes, that fellow Zhao Kai is so crazy that he actually dares to proclaim himself emperor! Just give the order. The general will immediately mobilize his troops, kill in Taiyuan, and capture this rebel king!" "
"Commander-in-Chief, Commander-in-Chief, Zhao Kai has rebelled, and the whole world will punish him! You two give the order!"
Qian Gai saw that all the generals below were eager to try, and finally felt relieved. He nodded and said: "You are indeed the pillars of the country... With you here, Zhao Kai, a traitor, will definitely not be able to capture Shaanxi!"
Capture Shaanxi?
what happened?
A group of Western Army generals were stunned, and no one shouted anymore.
Fan Zhixu added: "I just received an urgent report from Hezhong Prefecture and Xiezhou... The rebel king Zhao Kai has led an army of 100,000 to fight from the direction of Jiangzhou! You don't need to go to Hedong, you can general in Shaanxi This thief will be killed!"
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