Chapter 32 Thirty-second round of the Zhitong Judgment offering advice to the imperial envoy Yong Fu Heng beat drums to the governor's office
On the second day Zhang Guangsi left Jin Province, Kaer Jishan sent Fu Heng a hundred thousand urgent documents in Lai County, reporting to Piao Gao that "Xiao gathered five thousand bandits and besieged the city for three days. The soldiers and civilians in the city fought hard to resist the enemy. There seems to be an intention to go down. At present, there are only a thousand exhausted soldiers in the city, and 30,000 people, relying on the city's fortifications to resist with all their strength, and its momentum cannot last. I implore Xiantai to send troops quickly to save the urgent need." Yun Yun.It is extremely urgent.After reading it, Fu Heng's nose was already sweating: all the newspapers have said that there are only a thousand bandits on Tuo Tuo Peak, so how can there be such a "five thousand" people?Zhang Guangsi is a proud general. It is obvious from a glance that he sent three gangsters who only knew "white knives go in and red knives come out" to lead Shanxi's weak battalion soldiers, but he didn't go there himself. It is really difficult to bear the four-character crime of "faulting the country".
Fu Heng thought for a moment, sealed the original, and immediately sat down to write a memorial to Qianlong, detailing the situation of coming to Jin Province and the process of handing over military power with Zhang Guangsi. At the end, he wrote: "I will leave the provincial capital tonight to go to Yanmen Pass to handle military affairs. It is urgent Lead the army to attack Tuo Tuo Peak in Heicha Mountain, smash the enemy's back, and use the strategy of "surrounding Wei and saving Zhao" to suspend the enemy's momentum and Xu Tu wiped it out. We must not use this small area to mobilize several thousand bandits to pay homage. I am so ashamed and hurried to play." After finishing the memorial, he wrote to Liu Tongxun, asking him to second Blind Wu to serve in the army for defense.
"These three items will be urgently dispatched to the Military Aircraft Department within 800 miles." After Fu Heng finished writing, he tossed a pen and breathed a sigh of relief, and handed the documents to Ghoshha: "Tell our people to prepare horses and go to Yanmen Pass in Daizhou tonight. !" As soon as the words fell, the outside reported in and said, "Li Shiyao, the general judge of Lishi Prefecture, pays his respects to Mr. Fu!" Fu Heng saw that the sky was already dark, and he was so anxious at this moment, how could he care about seeing this little general judge?He waved his hand and ordered: "Just say that the imperial envoy already has an order, and the civil servants are gone now!"
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Suddenly Fu Heng changed his mind, Lishi is adjacent to Lin County, but only a hundred miles away, so he must know the enemy's situation in detail, so it's good to call him in and ask.Thinking about it, he said: "You guys prepare your luggage, I will meet this man." Then he turned his face to Geshha who was holding the documents in a daze, and said, "What are you doing standing there? The gangster is thousands of miles away, and you lost your head?" Shiha hurriedly said: "I'm a veteran. I can't move until you give the final order." Then Fu Heng waved his hand and ordered him to go on an errand, seeing Li Shiyao approaching quickly.
"Li Shiyao, um..." Fu Heng restrained his impatience, and walked slowly, until Li Shiyao saluted and stood up before saying: "I saw your name in Eshan's disciple record. 'Shiyao', the name is very familiar. I just remembered it, but did you?" Li Shiyao's shrewd triangular eyes flashed brightly, and he bowed and said, "That's Mr. E's misremembering. The humble post is the emperor's disciple. Long live God personally took it and gave him the poem. Personally 'punish' me to come to Shanxi to serve as the general judge." Fu Heng remembered the anecdote that Qianlong went to the examination room to win a mad student, and couldn't help laughing: "I've heard about this before, but I don't know that you are That man. But I'm very busy right now. I don't have time to be funny with you. What's the matter with you coming to see me?"
Li Shiyao said: "I just met Ka Zhongcheng. A clearer over there told me about the situation in Heicha Mountain. He came to see the imperial envoy to offer advice!" Xi He was smart, and said: "This is a matter of Lin County. You are the judge of Lishi, and you have to reach out for other prefectures and counties?" Li Shiyao said: "The sixth master is wrong."
The Geshhas on both sides were startled.Since Fu Heng was a young man with a high position, he was also a relative of the emperor, and he was very powerful. There were hundreds of officials who came to see Fu Heng, and there were even those who slandered him. , but never seen before.I was worried about Fu Heng's attack, but Fu Heng smiled silently and asked, "What's wrong with me?" "I, Li Shiyao, consider myself a national scholar. A national scholar should take care of the affairs of the world." Li Shiyao said loudly under the lamp "This is my duty. Linxian and Lishi depend on each other with lips and teeth. Can you not be cold if your lips are dead?" Fu Heng pondered, staring at Li Shiyao silently.For a while, he still couldn't figure out whether this person had real talent or was just here to speculate for favors.After a while, he said: "Don't talk about these empty things. What plan do you have for me?"
"Besiege Wei and save Zhao. Go straight to the bandit's lair to relieve the danger in Linxian County!"
Fu Heng looked up to the sky and laughed, and said: "Sure enough, I have insight! But I have already thought of it. Tonight, I will set off to go to Yanmen Pass to transfer troops, first to attack the cottage, and then to make progress. It has already played the role of today's sage." Li Shiyao saw Fu Heng's sarcasm in his eyes Staring at himself, he just nodded slightly.Said: "Master Mingjiu looks down on me. Because I am a small official!" After saying that, he beat Qian'er, saluted, and left.Seeing that he was so rude, Fu Heng was so angry that his hands and feet became cold.With a shout: "Stop!"
"Sixth Master!" Li Shiyao stood steadily, turned around and asked nonchalantly, "What's the matter?"
"I'm too indulgent with my subordinates, and I'm used to them being rude. It's hard to raise a villain!" Fu Heng's face was white, "I have so many important things here, I have an extraordinary interview with you, and listen to you bragging about being a 'national scholar' and offering boring tricks, Why do you look down on you? You are extremely presumptuous!"
Li Shiyao stared at Fu Heng's fierce eyes without any fear, suddenly smiled and said, "Excuse me, my lord: How far is it from here to Yanmen Pass in Daizhou?"
"Seven hundred and twenty miles."
"Without eating, drinking, sleeping, and fast horses, it will take two nights and one day." Li Shiyao said, "From Daizhou to Heicha Mountain, turn back and go southwest, it is another 800 miles, and thousands of people and horses are running for their lives. It will take at least ten days! This kind of 'encircling Wei and saving Zhao' is unheard of and unseen!"
Fu Heng was shocked when he heard this!Unexpectedly, the self-proclaimed clever plan of "surrounding Wei and saving Zhao" is just a false name and unrealistic.Fu Heng took a strenuous step forward, staring at the overbearing Li Shiyao, his face was blushed and white, he muttered for a while, and finally said: "I didn't expect everything to be wrong...Mister..." He soon spoke fluently "May my master forgive me, Fu Hengmenglang, there must be a clever plan to teach me!" He said and bowed to the ground!
"Sixth Master, how can I be worthy of it?" Li Shiyao saw that Fu Heng was so willing to defile his honor and condescend to be a corporal. It may not be acceptable." Fu Heng pulled the chair over and pushed Li Shiyao to sit down. While ordering people to serve tea, he also sat down, and arched in the chair again, saying: "The soldiers are fierce and the war is in danger. A surefire solution? It’s better than mine, so I’ll use it.”
Li Shiyao bowed in return, sat up straight and said eloquently, "It has been more than ten years since the bandits of Heicha Mountain gathered on Tuo Tuo Peak. It was only last year that Piao Gao and a female disciple went to spread the Zhengyang Sect, and they really raised the flag and set off the cannons." Let’s get up—it turns out that they are both bandits and farmers, resisting the government’s taxation and forcing the big households to reduce rent and exempt rent. When the officers and soldiers came to the Yamen, they went to Tuofeng Mountain Village. After the officers and soldiers went, they went down the mountain and continued to farm. In fact, during the Kangxi period, this place was still a Taiping. The holy ancestor came back from the west expedition, crossed the Yellow River east, and passed by Linxian County. The people once donated a thousand stones of oats and pushed them to the front of the army. exist……
"But after the second year of Yongzheng, several bad county magistrates came one after another, imposing exorbitant taxes, levying miscellaneous taxes, various names, and desperately earning money - not for corruption, but for an evaluation of "excellent political performance", which made The rich and the tenants are all poor. Think about it, in this land where the mountains are cold and the soil is thin, if the fire consumption is added to a penny and seven cents, can there be anything wrong?" Li Shiyao glanced at Fu Heng and said, "Sixth Master, don't think I'm lying. In fact, this is the source of the chaos. Even if the bandit chaos is quelled this time, the army will still look the same after leaving!"
Fu Heng leaned forward and said with a smile, "I'm not impatient to listen. I'm eager to hear your good strategy."
"Lin County is four hundred miles away from the provincial capital, and Heicha Mountain is only three hundred miles away. We are about three hundred miles away from Shishi to Heicha Mountain." Li Shiyao's eyes flickered, "The imperial envoy ordered five hundred elites from the provincial capital. From here to the west, I went back to the county in the starry night——in order to prevent the bandits from Heicha Mountain from disturbing me in Lishi, I trained two thousand militiamen, and I have assembled a thousand. I led the militiamen from south to north to Heicha Mountain, and we were in Ma Fanghui soldiers took advantage of the emptiness to attack Heicha Mountain. This is the real rush. Piao Gao and the others thought that the imperial envoy would transfer soldiers from Yanmen Pass, so they boldly attacked Linxian County. Once they attacked the prefecture and county, it was easy to create momentum. It can raise military salaries, and secondly, Tuo Tuo Peak will be more reliable if we take down Lin County, and it will be very convenient for soldiers to escape to the north of Shaanxi even if the soldiers are overwhelmed."
Fu Heng thought to himself, this is indeed a dangerous move, but it does take advantage of the two opportunities of surprise and speed.Thinking about it, he asked, "As far as you know, how many troops does Piao Gao have?"
"Five thousand people are definitely not there." Li Shiyao said with a smile: "It's a common trick for local officials to report bandit cases. If you lose, you can explain it, if you win, you can claim credit." His words changed and became extremely sharp: "But Please pay attention, my lord, the local people have been abused by the government, and there are incidents of helping the bandits and rejecting the officials to come out to help fight Taiping boxing and take advantage of the fire. That's why the momentum is great."
Fu Heng thought about it, with this thousand and five hundred fresh troops, it is indeed possible to fight with surprise soldiers.Even if Tuo Tuofeng could not be defeated, Fan Gaojie's Yanmen Pass soldiers and horses just came to meet him.So although it is dangerous, it is almost foolproof.I think of my grandfather, Fucha Hailan, who led a thousand cavalry to raid Yangzhou. During the siege, the Ming army used iron hooks to hook the collarbone and put it on the city wall.The young aristocrat's blood boiled all over immediately, he stood up abruptly, and said, "It's time for a man to make meritorious service!" Then he turned to Li Shiyao and said, "You don't want to go back to Lishi, just stay with me as a military counselor. You discuss the name of Dao. After the mission is completed, I will report it to Ming Sheng! It is not too late, I will go to the governor’s office to ask for soldiers and pay. You write a letter and order you to arrive in Masai within three days. Fang is on standby!"
"Yes, I understand!"
Fu Heng didn't speak anymore, put his sword on his waist, and took a few soldiers to fly on his horse. He galloped wildly in the wind and headed straight for the governor's office in the dark streets.
It’s the time of Haishi. It’s the end of March. The night is cold and cloudy. The gates of the governor’s yamen have already been closed. Knock your teeth while eating peanuts and wine.Hearing the sound of the horse's hooves, they all stood up hurriedly, looking around in amazement, several riders flew down.The gate official Liao Qingge hurriedly yelled:
"Who? Stop!"
"It's me." Fu Heng came striding forward with a horse whip in one hand and a sword in the other, his face could not be seen clearly under the dim light, and he said: "I am Fu Heng, the imperial envoy. If there is something urgent, I need to see Kaer Jishan immediately."
Liao Qingge squinted his eyes for a long time before he recognized Fu Heng, and hurriedly said with a smile: "The humble official will invite you immediately. But at this moment, our Zhongcheng has already slept. It will take a while to report to the back hall on the first floor and second floor. Zhongtang Sit down, sir, we'll go in right now!" He said, making a beating, took two Geshihas, and opened the door to go in.Fu Heng was full of anxiety, going back and forth in circles, counting the time.Seeing Karjishan, notify the garrison flag battalion to mobilize troops, gather and lecture, even if we set off immediately, it will be at the beginning of Ziweichou, how far can we go tonight?Thinking about it, he looked up and saw the dusty hall in the east wall fence, and with an idea, he pushed the gate open.Go in, flip over the handle of the whip and beat it fiercely.The dull "dong dong dong..." sound immediately resounded in all directions!
In the afternoon, Kaer Jishan had a meeting with Sahalang, the feudal official, to deal with the transportation of grain and grass to the Daizhou camp and the special treatment of the soldiers. He went back to the Yamen and played the game of birds for a while. He just fell asleep with his fifth wife "Xiao Qiao" in his arms. Before the matter was over, I heard the sound of a drum and rain in front of me.He opened the door in draped clothes and shoes, and saw a few girls and servants standing at the second door looking at this side at a loss.Ka Erjishan asked angrily: "What's going on outside? Did Taiyuan City come in with thieves?" There was also a knock on the second door while talking; outside Liao Qingge shouted: "Master Zhongcheng, Imperial Envoy Mr. Fu Liuye I need to see Zhong Cheng, there is something urgent!" Xiao Qiao just put on her clothes at this time, and came out with her robe and boots in her arms, and several family members were busy changing into official uniforms for Karji Shan under the eaves.
"Come on!" Kaer Jishan was very unhappy, striding out, cursing inwardly: "Wherever I go, I will disturb you!" But he asked Liao Qingge: "Sixth Lord, what's the matter? Did you come to pass it on?" Holy decree?"
"It's not like an elephant. But Liu Ye seems to have military affairs, and the few people he leads are fully armed. They even wear cowhide armor."
"You go and tell them to open the middle door, and I will greet you at the signing room."
Liao Qingge ran out, and the door opened in a short while.Ka Erjishan's forehead was full of anger, but he also came to his senses at this moment: the person who came was a young upstart, and he must not be offended.Seeing Fu Hengwei stepping in majesticly, Kaer Jishan greeted him with a smile all over his face, and said, "Sixth Master, I was really shocked! I was writing a book at the back, and the drums were pounding on the mountain. To be honest, I haven't heard of it yet." How about the sound of drums beating!"
"How dare you disturb me at night if there is nothing to do? I am in a hurry!" Fu Heng smiled slightly, and followed Kaer Jishan into the signing room. Instead of sitting down, he stood and said his plan to rush to Tuo Tuo Peak immediately. ... "I don't want anything now, give me five hundred strong men, and tell Sahalang tomorrow, and each family member will give three hundred taels of silver. I will wait here and leave immediately."
Ka Erjishan was really startled: "Master Liu, this is not a joke, is it? I have only seen this kind of thing in the theater." But he soon realized his gaffe, his tone became solemn and calm, and he frowned Said: "This place is three or four hundred miles away from Heicha Mountain. There are high mountains, dense forests, dense roads and dangerous roads. Thousands of bandits are entrenched in it. It is very risky to attack like this. In case of a fall, we cannot explain to the court. Five hundred People are trivial matters, and money is easy to deal with, just the guard camp of the governor's yamen is enough, but..." He shook his head again and again, and stopped talking.
"You saw it in the theater, but I read it in the book." Fu Heng didn't want to quarrel with this glazed egg governor at all. He smiled coldly, turned to the desk, and wrote on the rice paper with a pen:
Then the Shanxi governor's yamen immediately dispatched five hundred soldiers to Fu Heng, the imperial envoy, to take orders.
This order!
After finishing writing, he handed it to Karjishan: "I'll give you this, don't worry?" Karjishan glanced at it, and suddenly laughed, "Zhongtang, I'm also a man of seven feet! Bing, you take it away immediately. I don't want this warrant, I share honor and disgrace with your lord!" After saying that, he burned the warrant on the lamp.Fu Heng looked at Kaer Jishan in amazement and said, "He is a man from Manchuria!"
On the evening of the second day, Fu Heng's 800-mile memorial was delivered to the military plane.That night, Neqin was on duty, and seeing that it was an urgent matter of bandits besieging the county, he ordered the eunuch Qin Yu, who was on duty at the Military Aircraft Department, to report quickly to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and followed behind to wait for the order at Yongxiangkou.After less than a bag of cigarettes, Gao Wuyong brought Qin Yu over, "Ming Neqin will see you right away."
"Local officials are taboo about stealing and harming the country. It's extremely hateful!" Qianlong read the memorial and urgent report documents, pushed them aside gently, and said, "Shanxi has always reported that there are only a thousand people in Piaogao. Why are there five thousand bandits?" You don’t go to the military plane to check these things, and you don’t care about going to the study, I really don’t know what you do every day!” Neqin wanted to explain a few words at first.Hearing Qianlong's scolding, including himself, he had no choice but to swallow a mouthful of saliva, and said with a smile: "The emperor is responsible. There is a particular point here. In order to get a good reputation, the civil servants always whitewash the peace and say that their achievements are fair. There are many flowers; the military officer, who makes a fortune by suppressing thieves and thieves, always has extremely dangerous information about the enemy. It's better to set up a patrol inspection branch in each county, which is not under the jurisdiction of the county magistrate, but under the local garrison. In this way, the civil and military forces supervise each other, and the situation may be different. Quite a bit." Qianlong thought for a while, then smiled and said, "Yue Fei said that civil servants don't love money, military officials are not afraid of death, and the world is at peace. Now that civil and military officials are afraid of death and love money, what should we do in the future! Stay here. You go to Fourteen Baylor's Mansion, and report the Shanxi bandit situation and Fu Heng's handling strategy to Master Fourteen. If he has no objection, you don't have to come here. If you think it's inappropriate, you can come in again tonight. Bring me the words of Fourteen Baylor. I won’t go into the inner palace tonight, so I’ll read the memorial here.”
Neqin repeatedly agreed and withdrew.Qianlong thought the lights were too dim, so he asked someone to light two big candles behind him, and read the memorials one by one.Because Gao Heng reported that the bandits in Jiangxi had collapsed, the area around Luoxiao Mountain had been cleared up.Qianlong pondered for a while, dipped his pen in cinnabar and criticized:
If it's good, it's good, if it's over, it's not over.Where is the bandit leader Qu Kui?Pass the prisoner to Beijing to show me!You haven't visited the former enemy in person, so how do you know that it's been clarified, and you really went to Luoxiao Mountain?I see that you don't do anything more, follow Yi and others to deceive you, and turn to deceive my Tiancong?I don't believe it if I don't capture the leader of the bandit and come to Beijing to test his skills!
Wrote it and put it aside.Looking at another copy, it is the record of Yin Jishan setting up righteous warehouses in Nanjing, accumulating grain on a daily basis, and providing relief in times of shortage.Qianlong wanted to let it go, but took it back again, and approved a few words:
understood.This is an act of being in power with sincerity, so don't do it boldly to avoid resentment and suspicion.The root of wealth in the south of the Yangtze River.In the hometown of humanities, there is your little Yin here, so I don't bother my heart.
After finishing writing, I carefully read Fu Heng's notes, consulted Linxian's emergency report documents, pondered for a while, and wrote:
You listed the situation in Shanxi in detail, do you want to leave room for evading punishment in the future?The first task of the imperial envoy this time is to suppress the thieves wandering on Tuo Tuo Peak, and the daily affairs of entertainment have made the enemy stronger. Who will take the blame for this?The bandits in Jiangxi have been wiped out.If there is a fall in Shanxi, even if I do not commit any crimes, what face do you have to see me?
He leaned back and sighed, suddenly thought of Tang'er, and was about to comfort and encourage Fu Heng, when Gao Wuyong came in and reported, "Neqin and Fourteen Baylor, please see me at the entrance of Yongxiang. The palace gate has been unlocked, please invite The purpose is to open the door and let people go.”
"Please!"
As Qianlong said, he leaned down to get off the kang, because he was only wearing a robe, he hurriedly ordered someone to tie a belt, and put on a moon white silk poplin jacket. Just finished dressing, Neqin and Yunyu had already entered.Seeing that Yunyu was going to make a grand ceremony, Qianlong hurriedly supported him, with a smile all over his face, and said, "Uncle Fourteen, we will avoid this layer when we meet in private in the future! When I was young, Lao Wuchang and I rolled in your arms. Wanting grasshoppers like candy, thinking about it is like what happened yesterday, now that the names are different, if I restrain myself a bit, what's the meaning of the word "Tianlun"?"
"Wan Sui said so, but I dare not be a minister!" Yunyu almost shed tears, and said: "According to Fu Heng's style of play, Lin County can't be kept. Lin County can't be kept, Piao Gao opened the way to escape to northern Shaanxi. There are hundreds of thousands of stone grains stored in Yulin City in Shaanxi. In the bitter cold place in northern Shaanxi, the folk customs are tough. If Piao Gao takes root here, he will become a formidable enemy! It must not be ignored, so Kui Ye came to see the emperor. Some measures should be taken." Qianlong was shocked all over, took a breath, looked at Yunyu and said nothing.Yun Yu took out a copy of Shanxi Maps from his sleeve, unfolded it and laid it flat on the table. He said with his fingers that it was almost the same as Li Shiyao's opinion, and then said: "Rushing thousands of miles, the heart is the general. Now Fu Heng is rushing to attack the distance In fact, it's more than 1,500 miles! If I were Piao Gao and set up an ambush in the Ehutan area of Baishigou, Fu Heng's thousands of exhausted soldiers might be wiped out!"
Qianlong watched and listened, cold sweat broke out on his head, he turned and sat down on the chair, and sighed: "Scholars misunderstood the country, I hired the wrong person!"
"The general was born in battle, and I have also lost battles. The Lord used young people to train soldiers in peacetime, and the purpose is good." Yunyu said calmly, "The most important thing at the moment is to remedy. First issue an order to order the governor of Shaanxi to dial five Thousands of troops blocked all the crossings of the Yellow River from Jia County to Baode to prevent the bandits from fleeing westward. They ordered Lishi County, Lin County, and Xing County to requisition all the boats at the crossings, and burned them as a last resort. Ordered Shanxi The governor, Karji Shanti, mobilized the troops of the whole province and waited for them. Look at Piao Gao's movements, and then make plans. That's all I can think of now."
Neqin was listening, and felt that what Yunzhen said was too dangerous, so he said: "Fourteen Lord, Piao Gao may not have such great ambitions, maybe he hit Lin County to collect food and grass. He returned to Tuo Tuo Peak! He also They may not dare to set up an ambush at Evil Tiger Beach in Baishigou. After all, this is a gang of thieves. Now, in the name of the imperial court, an order has been issued to rush to Daizhou for eight hundred miles, so that Fan Gaojie will stand by and stand by. If Lin County falls, then It seems safer to make a recovery plan. Such a large-scale war across the province is not good for people's hearts." After hearing this, Yunyu only smiled and said: "Of course it's best to worry too much. I am a person who worries unnecessarily sometimes. Please pay attention to this. I'm exhausted from running, and I can't run more than 400 miles a day. I don't know about Zhang Guangsi's other abilities, but the strictness of the military order seems to be credible." He raised his face proudly again.
"Everything is handled according to the Fourteenth Uncle, but with secret decrees." Qianlong gave Neqin a hard look, "This is a war, do you take it for granted? Ridiculous!" Yunyu said: "What Neqin said was sent to Daizhou. You should still try, and plug the loophole if you can. If you don’t take chances, you will be more sure.”
Qianlong frowned and thought for a while, then said: "Uncle Fourteen just said, I thought, Shanxi is mainly military, while northern Shaanxi is mainly political. It's time to change the grain stored in Yulin. It's the spring famine. Storehouse relief, and give all the food to the people in northern Shaanxi!"
"My lord is holy!"
Yunyu's face was beaming with joy, this was the first time he sincerely admired Qianlong