"These guys are so stupid!" Shen Faseng laughed. He polished his short knife carelessly. The grindstone rubbed against the steel and made a creaking sound: "I could beat them down at the age of thirteen!"
"They were born farmers, and during the Southern Dynasties, your ancestors were generals on horseback. How can they compare?" Wang Wenzuo sighed: "If you have nothing to do, go over and teach them. Just treat them as your family." ’s part.”
Shen Faseng, who had been free for a long time and felt itchy all over, responded and walked into the crowd. Wang Wenzuo let out a long breath and began to think again. Although there were only a few hundred people, it was a complicated matter to organize them into an army with a corresponding number of weapons, armor, supplies, equipment, and livestock. He kept writing and scribbling on that piece of paper, as if he was changing the plan in the company before traveling through time.
Datang Shandong, Chengshan Port (Yantai).
Faint light penetrates the morning fog on the sea surface and shines near the horizon.
"Is that the morning light?" Liu Rengui asked.
"No, that's a star!" replied the attendant.
"They are the stars of the Tang Dynasty. I don't know if we will see each other again!" Liu Rengui sighed.
On the trestle not far away, the captain was giving orders. The porters were transporting heavy cargo to the ship along the swaying gangplank. The sailors were climbing up and down the mast, busy fiddling with the rigging and sails in preparation for the upcoming voyage. prepare for. At this time, a strong wind blew, and the ship shook violently. A porter accidentally fell from the springboard into the sea, splashing water columns, which caused a burst of exclamations.
"Quick, go save people!" Liu Rengui walked to the shore and shouted: "Put down the rope!"
"Liu Shijun! The wind is so strong, we'd better wait for two more days!"
Liu Rengui turned around and saw a green-robed official standing behind him, with a worried look on his face: "Liu Shijun, the stroke in Hong Kong is so severe. If you can still get it at sea, you should wait for two more days!"
"Brother Yuan, I am now a sin-stricken person, no different from the white robe. You should not behave yourself like a king!" Liu Rengui smiled bitterly: "Don't you know what kind of person Li Yifu is? If I had waited two more days Day, I'm afraid what's waiting is for me to be sent back to Chang'an for questioning. There is still a glimmer of hope when I go to sea, but there is only a dead end if I stay!"
When the green-robed official heard this, he could only sigh. It turns out that Liu Rengui was originally from Henan, and he was able to become an official because he was proficient in literature and history, and the Li Yifu he just mentioned was the third rank of the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and Tongzhong Shu at that time. (That is, the prime minister was customized in the early Tang Dynasty. He was appointed by Zhongshu Ling, Shi Zhong, and Shangshu left and right servants as prime minister. In Taizong's time, the post of prime minister was not easily given to others. It was usually only given to elders and important ministers for the purpose of sending salary. And with his own body Those who hold other official positions are prime ministers, and "participate in government affairs", "participate in political affairs" and other titles are added after their official names to show the distinction. In the seventeenth year of Zhenguan (643), Emperor Taizong appointed Xiao Yu as the crown prince's Taibao, and Li Jing as Zhan Shi , both of them added the third rank of Tongzhongshumen, which is the same as Shizhong and Zhongshuling. From then on, the third rank of Tongzhongshumen became synonymous with the prime minister. After the official title, there is no third rank under the Zhongshu family. Those who are under the Zhongshu family are not prime ministers and cannot participate in the political affairs hall.)
This Li Yifu was originally a man who was hiding in the emperor's house. Later, he wrote to the emperor to depose the king and the queen and establish the Empress Wu. He became the confidant of the Empress Wu and was favored by both the emperor and the empress. During his tenure as prime minister, he formed a large number of cronies, sold his official positions and gained titles, became extremely powerful, and committed illegal acts. Chun Yu, a Luozhou woman, was very beautiful and was imprisoned. Li Yifu ordered Bi Zhengyi, the prime minister of Dali Temple, to secretly release her as a concubine. Duan Baoxuan, the Qing of Dali, suspected her. Tang Gaozong ordered Liu Rengui and others to be interrogated in the matter. Li Yifu was afraid that the matter would be leaked, so he forced Bi Zhengyi to be killed. Tang Gaozong learned about it later and did not hold Li Yifu accountable. Therefore, Li Yifu was very resentful of Liu Rengui, so he drove him out of the court and became the governor of Qingzhou. Later, when the Tang army conquered Baekje, Liu Rengui was ordered to supervise the shipping, but the fleet was hit by a storm and sank. Li Yifu took the opportunity to send Yuan Yishi, the supervisory censor, to interrogate the case and attempted to take the opportunity to execute Liu Rengui. Although Yuan Yishi defended him and believed that the storm was caused by the weather and not by human power, Liu Rengui was dismissed from his official post and joined the army in white clothes. This time, due to the chaos in Baekje and the unknown sea conditions, no one was willing to go across the sea. Only Liu Rengui accepted the order and took the responsibility to lead the reinforcements across the sea as the governor of Fangzhou to inspect the school.
"Brother Zhengze!" Yuan Yishi looked around and said in a low voice: "Yi Mansion looks gentle and courteous. He will smile happily when talking to others, but he is wary of underworld thieves. Anyone who is in the position of Prime Minister or Assistant and has the slightest dissatisfaction will be put to death soon. Even if you lead the troops to sea, he will never give up, so be careful! "
"Brother Yuan, don't worry!" Liu Rengui pulled off the jade pendant from his waist and threw it to the ground with all his strength, smashing it into pieces: "When I go to sea this time, I will be like this jade. I will either die from the enemy's sword, or I will return with unparalleled achievements. I will never He will let the body of a dignified husband be humiliated by a pen-and-knife clerk!"
When Yuan Yishi saw this, he knew that Liu Rengui had already made up his mind that he would rather live in ruins than in ruins. Although he felt a little unlucky, he still nodded: "In this case, I will only have Brother Zhu Zhengze to go out this time. The East China Sea is calm and the country has returned home!"
Si Xiang City.
"Chen Bo, this is yours!" Wang Wenzuo handed a piece of cloth and a bamboo tube filled with copper coins to the Sanhan recruit in front of him.
"Thank you, Captain!" The recruit's accent was a little weird. He took the coins and cloth with trembling hands, kowtowed and stepped aside, letting the people behind him come forward to receive their pay.
"Wen Zuo, do you really leave nothing?" Liu An asked in a low voice.
"I'm not a miser, why should I keep money!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "If you want people to work for you, you have to give them the money to settle down first, right? Besides, we are going on an expedition in the snow this time, there is no way out, or we will win a big victory , or a big defeat, no matter what, these money cloths are useless!"
"Then what are your chances of winning?"
"If the Baekje people were prepared, they would lose 10% of it; if they were not prepared, they would lose 50%!" At this point, Wang Wenzuo sighed: "Three generations of generals are taboos in Taoism. The war is fierce and the war is disaster. How can there be a guarantee of victory! If I can't come back this time, please Wulang, please ask the monk to recite the sutra for me in front of the Bodhisattva a few more times!"
Looking at his friend's calm face, Liu An's thousands of words turned into one sentence: "Amitabha, if you kill the enemy and serve the country, the Bodhisattva will definitely protect you!"
"May the words of Wu Lang be good!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile. He returned to the wooden table, picked up the cloth and copper coins, handed them to another recruit on the opposite side, and took out a bunch of meat from his pocket to add to it: "I remember Your wife just gave birth to a baby, right? Go buy some chickens, stew them for your wife, and add some milk!"
