Chapter 39 first quarter

Although Cai Jing's farewell banquet did not achieve the purpose he expected in advance, Tong Guan's indifference to him and the short time for the banquet showed that this experienced opponent was unwilling to let Cai Jing get any benefits from him.But the citizens of Tokyo have already reacted quickly to this banquet and used it to confirm many things. After the citizens heard the news of the Liao war for the first time at the beginning of the year, they paid enthusiastic attention to it. The story of "Ye Li Ma Li" was also circulated for a while and became a household name.They were right in associating this novel name with this novel war.Their attention was peaked at the ceremony of telling the temple that they witnessed on the day of Lantern Festival.After that sue to the temple—after the officials personally reported the news of the Liao attack to the spirits of the ancestors, no one doubted the war anymore.However, the news in this regard suddenly fell silent.Someone from the northwest brought news that the border guards were being mobilized.This seems to be a bit noisy, but some people retort that the transfer of troops is a common thing, how do you know that they are transferred to east, west, north, south?All in all there isn't any clear evidence that it's actively preparing.Men then deny their convictions with the same forceful reasons they used to deny skepticism.Because in this turbulent and changeable political and propaganda period, there is one thing that can be said with certainty.The imperial court's vows to the ancestors and gods are the same as its random wishes to the common people, and what they say does not necessarily mean it.

Now the townspeople have correctly deduced from this banquet that this war is not only imperative, but the time is imminent, and Tong Guan, who is in charge of the front-line military, will leave soon.The banquet and Tong and Cai's toasts and replies were so widely circulated that they were completely distorted, but it confirmed that Tong Guan's journey was imminent.As a result, the skepticism was swept away, and people once again set off an upsurge of eagerly paying attention to the war, and Tong Guan became a man of the world for a while. In some people's minds, the evaluation of Tong Guan is dual. On the one hand, it is true that his reputation has always been infamous and they despise him very much;In the officialdom, Tong Guan has become a sweet pastry that you rob and cannot analyze.The first-class friendly officials can hold a farewell banquet for him, the second-class can only use the opportunity to meet him on public and private occasions to have a word with him, and the third-class can only go around and find a path to talk to him Make an unspoken deal.In this respect, Tong Guan treats everyone equally, no distinction is made between high and low, and he only talks about cash transactions. He will give you as much as you bid, and he will give you as much as you want.Tong Guan is a man of courage and responsibility (of course only referring to this aspect of activities), and the errands assigned by him can generally recoup the capital in a short period of time, plus considerable profits.This is much cleaner than civil servants doing the same thing.Therefore, people would rather drill more ways, spend more money, and deal with him.

Sometimes, Tong Guan even behaved very friendly and reasonable. Someone called for that errand. "This one! It's a bit embarrassing for our family." He pondered for a while and replied, "The son of Privy Councilor He came to talk the day before yesterday, and he also wanted this. Although it hasn't been decided, there is a 60-70% agreement. Our family Don't look at his face, but also look at the face of my father who has been dead for a few years." He showed a embarrassed look, and then made a decisive decision, "Forget it! Who taught our children to do this? In this way, it's a deal, let our children do it. We will make another arrangement for the son of Privy He."

Although this also contains the meaning of cutting prices, people know that he is telling the truth, and what he said counts.However, he was also unwilling to let He Shumi's son, who had already paid a considerable price, suffer too much, and he didn't care whether his father was alive or not.A transaction is a transaction. From the point of view of a transaction, it is quite fair for him to dispatch personnel and distribute fertilizers.Wang Fu, Cai You, down to the transfer envoy Zhan Du, the transfer judge Li Ye, Zhihejianfu Huang Qianshan, Zhixiongzhou Heshen, also want to take advantage of this war to make big deals. .But it is a morality that is not fulfilled.Tong Guan has never paid much attention to morality, but actually abides by business ethics.

Selling front-line officials and winning warlords is a privilege that Tong Guan should enjoy as a military leader, but the boundaries between it and Wang Fu and Cai You are still unclear.Wang and Cai didn't have his skills and courage, and they didn't want to take any risks, but they had the same big appetite.They don't like Tong Guan's style of monopolizing power and saying what he says, and they don't want to give up his strength.The two of them often join forces to attack Tong Guan with a two-to-one advantage, forcing him to give up part of the benefits he has already obtained.The Fufang is their spoils.Because of the uneven distribution of spoils, quarrels and even fights, swords drawn and swords drawn, the relationship is very tense, which is a common occurrence.Sometimes Tong Guan was cornered, so he simply made a veil gesture and said angrily: "The Dazai and the scholar are happy, so please go to the North Road in person. Our Tong is happy at home, why not do it? Why bother marrying someone else?" Clothes? We are the ones who suffer, and others get the benefits."

Wang and Cai knew that they wanted to drive him out but they still didn't drive him away. How could he be willing to throw off this black gauze hat.But when the incident broke out, everyone didn't look good, and sometimes they had to give him three or four points.Only when the power and strength are roughly balanced among the three can their relationship be more harmonious. Since the establishment of the Xuan Fu Envoy Division on the Xiongzhou front, although there has not been a formal battle, it has to hand over a copy, sometimes even two, or three copies to the Xuan Fu Envoy who is remotely controlled in Tokyo every day. An urgent report means that its personnel have business to do, and it is not a free meal.

The content of the emergency report was almost uniformly attacking the Western Army High Command, not saying that it was ignorant and good at initiating military provocations, or that it was stagnating and delaying military opportunities.Provoking a war without permission and delaying a stay are a pair of diametrically opposed words. The Xuanfu envoy draws a line as thin as a hair between the two. If the command exceeds or fails to reach one ten thousandth of this line An inch is enough to constitute a serious crime.There are many great inventors in the Xuanfu envoys. They built a single-plank bridge over the key points that cannot be stepped on, so that those who cross the river will stumble and fall. This is the best way to "crime".Moreover, they had to resort to falsification.Fabricate some information about wasting military supplies and filling military pay, implying that not all personnel in the command headquarters are as clean as a monk who eats vegetarian food.

Zhixiongzhou Heshen, who considers himself the commander-in-chief of the Hebei Frontier Defense Forces.From time to time, there are documents to declare the Jingfu housing.The Hebei frontier defense army originally belonged to four military regions: Gaoyangguan, Dingzhou, Damingfu, and Zhendingfu. Since the Chanyuan Alliance, the soldiers stopped begging for peace, these military regions have long been in name only, and some remnants are left General, it is only enough to bully the people in the local area, and it is impossible to establish a military headquarters.He Shen, the nominal commander, actually has no teacher to command, so he has to be good at geographical victory and work hard on espionage work.He did send some people to sneak into the Liao territory, and constantly reported to the top the military information that was obtained from the interview, only obtained from rumors, plus his own subjective assumptions, and created entirely with rich imagination.

The established national policy sets the tone for the espionage work, and the espionage work provides the necessary "factual" basis for formulating the national policy, and the two cooperate very tacitly.It is said that He Shen was appointed as the deputy capital commander by default. He had no other capital to use, so he had to sell his skills in creating these very subjective espionage work, so as to obtain a position that could rival the master of the capital controller. While Wang, Cai, and Tong were arguing about dividing up the spoils, they also took some time to discuss the so-called military affairs.They took the following corresponding measures based on some intelligence documents from the Xuanfu Envoy and He Shen.

To fight a war, even if it is just a war in name, you must have a reliable army. Although the Western Army has been transferred to the front line, it is an old-fashioned teacher, and it is by no means a benevolent generation. many.Therefore, they unanimously decided to let Tong Guan lead a trustworthy army to the north.They planned to draw 50,000 horses from the forbidden army in the capital to serve as the Xuanfu envoy's personal guard, and he would take them directly to the front line.Firstly, with the momentum of the Zhuang Xuanfu envoy, secondly, it can restrain the Western Army so that it has scruples and does not dare to do anything wrong. Thirdly, it can also adjust and adjust the Imperial Army, inserting a large number of relevant personnel, and trying to find a way for them to get in. .This is really killing three birds with one stone.

However, it is by no means an easy task to draw 50,000 infantry and cavalry from the incomplete imperial guards in the capital.The imperial army, which is said to have a quota of 800,000, actually only exists in the roster that is paid by name.No one has the kind of fairy ability to bring the dead back to life, rejuvenate the old, and turn nothing into nothing. He can remove the ghosts that have been registered in the roster, have not yet been canceled, or have become old men with white teeth, or who have not been recognized by his grandfather at all. The fictitious names of people born by mothers are transformed into lively soldiers who are mobilized to form an army.Tong Guan kicked the hollow ball to Gao Qiu, and Gao Qiu, an expert in Cuju, gave the ball to Liang Fangping, the deputy commander of the Dianqian Division, who in turn kicked it to the infantry commander Si Duyu. Waiting for any irrigation.He Guan worked really hard, and actually selected 20,000 people from the living and dying Forbidden Army (only the official brigade team can't touch, otherwise it would be easy), and temporarily recruited them among the vagrants in the capital. It took 20,000 recruits to barely make up a large army.This satisfied Tong Guan, and He Guan and Liang Fangping ascended to the sky, and immediately obtained the right to bargain with their superiors in certain transactions. Gao Lian sold and bought now, without any credit, and immediately put his last two nephews into the new army as middle and senior officers. During this military preparation, Gao Lian, who was more agile than anyone else, had already seen that it would be profitable and risk-free. He calmly stuffed his two sons and five nephews into the transfer. Division, Xuanfu Division and troops.Their Gao family is really full of talents, both civil and military, and there is no shortage of people. The other officers of the Sanya army were moved upon hearing the news, and they also signed up to serve on the front line one after another in order to make progress.They are also unfamiliar with the business of the bank, but fortunately, the task entrusted to them by their superiors is limited to training this newly recruited army in a short period of time so that they can walk in an orderly manner, advance and retreat in an orderly manner, front and rear, left and right, without confusion, and swing their hands smoothly. With a gun, the crotch can run a horse, which can be used by the superior for a review. However, it is not easy to complete these tasks! One day, Liu Kai saw the coaches of the Imperial Army training recruits on the teaching ground.The instructor shouted five and six, was sweating profusely, and worked very hard, but the recruits were like urchins in the school, hiding around and refusing to obey.Tell them to move forward, they tend to retreat, tell them to turn to the left, and they turn to the right, causing many jokes.Liu Qi went back and told his family about the situation. "Nephew, with this situation, they can go to the battlefield?" Zhao Long, who was bedridden and recuperated, asked with concern. "It's far away!" Liu Kai shook his head dissatisfied, "These vagrants are lazy and lazy, how can they listen to the military law for a while?" "Even if the training is almost done," Ma Kuo added, "Don't look at them swinging and running on the training ground. Once on the battlefield, they see the enemy and fight with real knives and guns, but again It's different." "When you go to the battlefield and meet the enemy, as long as you can hold the gun firmly in your hand and swallow the saliva in your mouth, you can fight." Zhao Long added again, "How can they do these two things?" This is a talk from experience, but both Mrs. Liu Qi and Mrs. Qin don't believe it. Is there anyone in the world who can't swallow saliva?They looked at their husbands, but Liu Qi and Ma Kuo nodded in agreement with Zhao Long's words. Liu Kai and Ma Kuo, both professional soldiers, remember that when they went to the battlefield for the first time, their mouths were dry as if they were about to emit smoke.They are from a military family and have long-term mental preparations for war. Even when they first enter the battlefield, they will experience such a physiological abnormality. How can these recruits who have joined the army in a hurry and have not been well trained be able to handle it?Needless to say, they were very concerned about this. But Wang Fu and Tong Guan had another idea. They didn't require recruits to be able to swallow saliva, wield a gun, or run a horse on the battlefield.None of this matters.Because according to intelligence and their optimistic estimates, Emperor Tianzuo has fled and the Liao court is on the verge of collapse. As long as the imperial army bluffs and shows off their power on the front line of Hebei, the remnants of the Liao Dynasty will surrender.There is no real war.Regardless of the Western Army, regardless of this recruit, they are prepared but not used.They didn't want the Western Army to take advantage of this advantage for nothing, and they were also afraid that the teacher Zhong would not listen to the restraint and self-propelled.If a few battles are really fought and the Western Army is given the opportunity to make contributions, then the cultivation of teachers will be even more domineering and difficult to control. Didn't the "Art of War" have the words "Soldiers do not fight" and "Subjugate others without fighting".Tong Guan's task here is not to let the Western Army but to let them get the harvest by themselves.On the point of restraining the Western Army from doing meritorious service, Wang Fu and Tong Guan have the same interests and opinions, although Wang Fu doesn't like Tong Guan taking power alone. In order to restrain the Western Army, in addition to letting Tong Guan lead an army to the north, they were also afraid that the teacher would be difficult to control and would be disobedient, so they specially asked the officials to formulate the "Three Strategies of the Imperial Brush" by themselves.The imperial pen wrote it and gave it to them for safekeeping. The content of "Three Strategies of the Imperial Brush" is nothing more than admonishing the frontline generals not to fight seriously with the Liao army, but to let it surrender on its own, which is the best policy. Convinced that a large-scale "Temple Confession Ceremony" and a pot of "Xinfa Quail Soup" handmade by the beloved concubine can make Wanyan Agu beat the obedient Xuanhe monarchs and ministers, and naturally believe in a bravado military parade, a bluff It is very certain that the Liao court can bow its head and submit to the border by reining in troops to patrol the border. This is a very certain thing.Why is it necessary to expend a lot of energy to train an army that can really fight? Holding this optimistic idea and thinking that everything was ready, Xuan Fu envoy Tong Guan met Sheng Zou to ask for his graduation, and took the opportunity to make a request that he had long envied.It is requested that the imperial military band "Jun Rong Zhi" be temporarily loaned to the Xuanfu Department for use. "On the day when the humble minister is successful," he wished, "Bi Jun Rong went straight in front of the army, singing and dancing, and went straight to Yandu. The dead Liao emperors and ministers heard the sound of the golden drum and were frightened. The elders of Yanjing listened. Juntian Guangyue pays attention to the majesty of the Han family, wouldn't it be very prosperous!" The officials generously promised to temporarily call "Jun Rongzhi" to the Xuanfu Department, and personally checked the almanac, and chose the auspicious day of the zodiac on the tenth day of April as the day for the army to go to the north.On the scheduled morning, all the officers and soldiers will be inspected at the Dajiaochang, and the officials will personally go to the "Duansheng Garden" in the fasting palace to observe the ceremony, participate in the inspection, and farewell for the army. All of this was expected, except for one thing that was greatly unexpected by Xuanfu envoy Tong Guan. The officials suddenly added Cai You as Xuanfu's deputy envoy in Hedong, Shaanxi, and Hebei, and accompanied the army to the north. Tong Guan, who was in a brisk mood as if he had gone to the orchard to pick an overripe peach, now added Cai You, who was even busier than in the past few days to receive the farewell banquet, make big deals, and generously promise the work. The day of success.I used four hundred li express delivery to give priority to Yanjing's soil instrument to the relatives and friends of the capital.It's called a "gift", but it's actually a business.People know that the so-called soil instrument can be divided into good and bad.Tong Guan and Cai You are only interested in profit, they don't recognize their relatives, and they never give away gifts for nothing, unless you are willing to be their spy in Beijing, passing news for them to inquire about the market, and doing everything they need your help for them.