Just when Wanyan Yinshuke and Wanyan Xiebao were busy rushing to cross the Yellow River and dig the Jixian dam of the Yellow River, releasing water to flood the land in Jixian, Weixian, Liyang, Linhe, Neihuang and other counties. On the other side of the Yellow River, in the county seat of Yanjin County, which is only a dozen or twenty miles away from the Yellow River's Ten Thousand Years New Levee, the magistrate of Yanjin County, Gao Yaoqing Gao Yanei, was wearing hemp and mourning in a secret mourning hall in the backyard of the county government office. While shedding tears, she burned paper in front of the tomb of Captain Gao Qiu...
Ah, although Lieutenant Gao is still pretending to live in the world, pretending to live is still real death after all!
Since his father is really dead, then as a filial son, Gao Yaoqing and Gao Yanei should of course go home and honor his father's filial piety.
According to the system of the Song Dynasty, any official who lost his or her parents had to apply for dismissal and return to his hometown to guard the tomb of his ancestor. That is to say, he built a thatched shed next to the ancestor's tomb and lived in it, guarding the tomb for three years. After three years of guarding, you can resume.
Of course, not all officials have to go back to Ding You as a dutiful son when their parents die. Only civil servants need Ding You for three years, and military generals only have one hundred days of bereavement leave. After Zhao Kai ascended the throne, he also canceled the 100-day mourning leave on the pretext that the Jin soldiers were invading the invaders and the military situation was critical... It would not work if it were not canceled. Father-son soldiers were popular among military generals in the Song Dynasty. The generals of the Yao family, the Zhong family, the Zhe family, and the Yang family are all in a string. Moreover, these old men, Yao Gu, Zhongshi Dao, Zhongshi Zhong, and Zhe Keke, are all very old. If one of them fails, the rest of the kids will go home and be filial sons. How can this be done?
In addition, there are many father-son soldiers serving in the army together. If his father dies in battle and marries his country, and instead of avenging his father as a son, he goes into hiding and becomes a filial son... is this still a filial son?
But it’s not just the generals who are on mourning leave, civil servants should still be filial sons! Gao Yaoqing has literary talent. According to the rules, he can go home now and guard Gao Taiwei's grave as a dutiful son for three years. If his biological mother also dies after three years, then he can stay for another three years. After that, if his aunt dies (he was born to his concubine), then it will be another three years...
But just when Gao Yaoqing learned that his father Gao Qiu was dead and was about to leave his post and return to his native Dingyou, something happened that made him laugh or cry... The official Zhao Kai asked Gao Qiu to "delay his death" and he had to continue "Pretend to be alive"!
The official issued an imperial edict. How could Gao Yaoqing, who was trying to become a county magistrate, resist?
Disobeying orders and disrespecting them is disloyal!
Moreover, the official refused to let his father die. If he disobeyed this order, he would have to let Gao Qiu stop pretending to be alive and officially die. Is this unfilial?
Unfaithful and unfilial...is this still possible?
What frightened Gao Yaoqing even more was that the imperial censor was going crazy these days to impeach his father Gao Qiu. He said that his father had evil intentions and wanted to usurp the throne! He also said that auspicious things appeared in his home, sometimes Ganoderma lucidum grew in the well, and sometimes sweet springs appeared in the backyard. He also said that his father, Gao Qiu, loved the soldiers as much as his son when he was in charge of the army and won the hearts of the soldiers... This is simply nonsense!
When Gao Qiu was in charge of the three yamen soldiers, if those three yamen soldiers didn't find some part-time jobs, they would be paupers who couldn't afford their wives or support their parents!
To really say that those who love soldiers as their sons must be the current officials... With their Kaifeng Prefecture household registration, Kaifeng Prefecture real estate, and beauties, there were people in the Song Dynasty who loved soldiers like their sons even more. ?
Thinking of this, Gao Yanei picked up another memorial to impeach Gao Qiu for his evil intentions. He opened it and saw that it was written by Qin Hui, the imperial censor!
Although this Qin Hui is not a good person, he has been promoted recently, from the imperial censor in the palace to the censor in the palace, and the official salary has also been transferred to one level... This is his reward for his mission to Jinying!
But even if Qin Hui was promoted, he would not be able to kill Gao Qiu...because now no one can capture Gao Qiu and send him to Yushitai Prison.
Therefore, Zhao Kai had no choice but to transfer all these bullets to Gao Yanei and ask him to burn them to Gao Qiu, who was under Jiuquan.
If Gao Qiuquan knew something secretly, he would have come back to find the officials who impeached him and explained it...did he have any evil intentions? Do you want to rebel against King Yama?
Gao Yanei shed tears and threw the bullet written by Qin Hui into the brazier in front of him, and muttered: "Dad, please take a good look down below. This Qin Hui is so bad. He said that you are raising dead soldiers and recruiting people in Jingdong." Ya Bing, intending to separate the regime. He also said that you want to imitate An Lushan and become Gao Lushan!
You are already pretending to be alive, how can you still be Gao Lushan? How to keep the dead soldiers secretly? You can only raise some Yin soldiers... If you really raise Yin soldiers, send a few to kill this Qin man as soon as possible! "
Gao Yaoqing was crying and burning when the door of the "little black house mourning hall" where he was was suddenly knocked, and then the voice of Lu Qian, a training officer of the Baojia Regiment of Yanjin County, came: "County Lord, It's not good, it's not good, something big happened..."
"What's the big deal?" After hearing this, Gao Yaoqing frowned and his voice trembled a little.
Of course he knew that Yanjin County was on the edge of the Yellow River, and the north bank of the Yellow River... was the battlefield where the Sanshan Floating Bridge Camp commanded by He Guan fought against the gold thieves!
If the Sanshan Floating Bridge is damaged, Yanjin County will be in danger!
"Quick, come in!"
Hearing Gao Yanei's call, a short, fat man in his forties and wearing a purple robe opened the door and came in, sweating profusely.
He probably ran all the way to the county government office and was still gasping for air after entering the "little dark room"!
"Lu, Lu Tiha, what happened?" As soon as Gao Yanei saw Lu Qian breathing heavily, his face turning purple, and his expression frightened, he knew something was going to happen, so he quickly asked.
"Golden thief, golden thief has crossed the river!" Lu Qian stamped his feet and almost screamed.
"Crossing the river? This...how is this possible?" Gao Ya's heart almost broke, "Aren't there soldiers stationed at the Sanshan Floating Bridge? How could it be lost so quickly?"
"You didn't come from the floating bridge!" Lu Qian shook his head, "You crossed the river directly from Ji County!"
"Then...where are Taiwei He's soldiers?" Gao Yanei quickly asked, "Why didn't he send troops to stop the Jin soldiers from crossing the river?"
"How many soldiers does Lieutenant He have?" Lu Qian shook his head and said, "He must have tried his best to defend the Sanshan Floating Bridge. How can he defend the entire dam?"
"What, what should we do?" Gao Yanei immediately thought of running, "Lu, Lu Tixia, prepare your horses quickly, go and gather men..."
Lu Qian was frightened after hearing these words, and shook his head repeatedly: "You can't do that, County Lord... The gold thieves are so ferocious that Yanjin County's regiment training team cannot fight against them. It is better to guard the city now and not to wander outside." Fight!"
"Langzhan? Are you squandering your money?" Gao Yanei was anxious, "I want to abandon the city and leave..."
"You can't be a county magistrate!" Lu Qian is an old subordinate who has followed Gao Qiu for many years. Although his official position is not high, he still received many favors from Gao Qiu. Now of course he has to repay Gao Yanei, and he can't watch him go to the road of death. ! "
"Lord of the County! You have signed a military order!" Lu Qian said, "If you abandon the city and leave, how can the officials let you go?"
The Song Dynasty did treat scholar-bureaucrats favorably and did not kill the heads of civil servants very often. But Gao Yanei signed the military order himself and bet his head on it. He was willing to admit defeat... So if he dared to abandon the city and escape, Zhao Kai could justifiably have him killed.
But Gao Yanei was still afraid... The gold thieves were so vicious, and if they fell into their hands, wouldn't they be dead?
Seeing Gao Yameni's silence, Lu Qian said again: "County Lord, don't you know about Cai Jing's death and Cai Mao's exile of Zhu Yajun? Cai Mao can't be saved, let alone the County Lord?"
That's right, how could Cai Mao be more noble than Gao Yanei? For such a big official, he directly destroyed his writings since his birth, and was exiled to Lingnan, and would never be released... If Gao Yanei had committed the same crime as Cai Mao , how could it not be beheaded?
"Then, the county won't leave!" Gao Yanei sighed, with a sad face, "Is that okay?"
Lu Qian crossed his hands and said to Gao Yanei: "The gold thieves are crossing the river in batches now, and they should arrive at Yanjin City soon. At that time, we will ask the county commander to come to the city to take charge of the defense to reassure everyone. Of course, we will defend the city. The official and Lin Tiha will make arrangements for the matter, so the county magistrate does not need to worry about it."
Gao Yanei himself does not know how to fight, but he has people under his command!
One Lu Tiha and the other Lin Tiha were both low-level officers in the Sanya Forbidden Army. Although they had little actual combat experience, they had both served as instructors of the Forbidden Army and knew how to train troops and build standardized city defenses—— The Song Army was inherited from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and it can even be traced back to the Sui and Tang Dynasties. There is enough inheritance, and a set of rules has long been formed on how to build cities and set up camps.
Lu Tiha and Lin Tiha are both knowledgeable. Therefore, under the leadership of the two of them, the defense of Yanjin County was also in place. There were everything from horse faces, tiger falls, and sheep and horses walls, layer upon layer surrounding the city wall.
It is extremely difficult to conquer such a city!
So when Yin Shuke and Wanyan Xiebao saw the defenses up and down the Yanjin City at noon the next day after crossing the Yellow River, they had to take a breath.
Is this too strong?
A small Yanjin County town is like this. What can Kaifeng Prefecture become if it cannot be fortified?
"Yin Shu Ke, this... this city doesn't seem to be easy to defeat! Should we..."
Wanyan Xianbao was still a little timid and wanted to give up when he saw it from a distance.
Yin Shu didn't really want to fight. Just when he was about to express his agreement, someone beside him suddenly became unhappy.
"Isn't it just a small county town? Although it is strong, it is only so big! We might as well capture it and consider it a victory, right? Besides, it will take a few days for my father to cross the river. We have nothing to do, so why not just Let’s practice with this Yanjin first!”
Yin Shuke glanced at the person who spoke. He was a very powerful-looking young man named Wanyan Sheyema. He was the legitimate son of Wanyan Zonghan. He was very favored and had both civil and military skills. He was also the eldest brother of Wanyan in this generation. The future prospects are limitless!
"That's fine!" Wanyan Yinshu nodded, "Since you have said so, Mr. Lang... how about we give him a dozen for three days?"
