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Volume 1: Yan Yun Chaos Volume 3: Bending the Sky Chapter 14: Qianqi Volume Ping Gang (1)

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    In March, although the West Road of Hebei in the Song Dynasty is not as frozen and snow-covered as the land near Liaodong and the Yunnei states, it is still very cold in spring. Pedestrians on the way still wrap their heads and faces tightly, otherwise they will face the cold.  The wind is like a small knife trying to cut.  Zhending Mansion on Hebei West Road in the Song Dynasty was the administrative office of this road.  A road-level envoy responsible for the transfer to Changping was established here.  ¡°No more than the Shaanxi Fourth Road that had been at war with Xixia for decades, the Hebei West Road did not appease important dispatches to places where the military and political power had full control.  When the war against Yan was going on, Tong Guan was the envoy of the various roads in Hebei and directly controlled the military and political power of several roads in Hebei.  After the war against Yan ended, this temporary and extremely powerful mission was cancelled.  It has been almost two years since the war against Yan ended, and the roads in Hebei are still in depression.  That war also caused huge damage to the land of Hebei, and the depletion of the people's strength cannot be easily pacified.  Local governance must be kept calm.  All river workers and corvees were exempted with grace and leniency.  The local dispatch officers on Hebei West Road were happy and free.  Every day I just take the minister's money to travel and have fun.  The most extraordinary thing is to redistribute some of the funds allocated from Bianliang to relieve the refugees and appease the local area. Those with conscience can just lose a layer of skin in the past two years.  If we say that in the past, local officials still had some time to spend on official duties.  Since this period of time, I have completely given up and ignored things.  The reason is also very simple, it is the palace change on February 2nd.  An earth-shattering change suddenly occurred in the capital of the Song Dynasty.  News came that Zhao Ji abdicated and became the Supreme Prince, and the Crown Prince was deposed.  And the three kings were elected as new kings.  That captured Yanjing.  Xiao Yan, the southerner who pacified Yandi.  Not as expected by others, as soon as he entered Bianliang, he was relieved of his authority and became silent from then on.  But suddenly he became King Yan of the Song Dynasty.  Judges the affairs of the Privy Council and holds military power in the capital.  Two generations of kings are in his hands!  If it weren¡¯t for the familiar husband and prime minister, he would still be in charge of the East Palace after this palace coup and countersigned these edicts and proclamations for counties all over the world.  These local officials are going to make a fuss out of nowhere!  Even after the palace coup, Bianliang seems to have maintained a reluctant political balance.  It also made a group of local officials who still couldn't see clearly the direction of the situation to be reluctant to wait for further changes.  But the shock caused by the palace change affected the entire Song Empire.  Still profoundly abnormal.  For more than a hundred years in the Song Dynasty, there were important ministers who supported the young king and some who asked the queen mother to withdraw the curtain.  There are important ministers who preside over the reform of the world.  There have been ups and downs several times, but the important ministers who still occupy the center remain undefeated.  But there has never been a powerful minister who supported the army and abolished the monarch!  Xiao Yan's move was successful.  He also killed many members of the imperial family of the capital city, leaving no one to resist them.  The Imperial Guards, said to be in the hundreds of thousands, were disbanded in January without many setbacks.  Only then did everyone in the world understand how corrupt the military system of the Song Dynasty, which placed emphasis on internal affairs and neglected external affairs, with strong branches and weak branches, had become corrupt.  The military power of the Song Dynasty had weakened to such an extent.  "How can anyone with some eyesight not see that the world is about to change dramatically?"  Even if the Song Dynasty can still maintain it.  It is no longer the original Song Dynasty.  Local officials, in addition to desperately sending people back to Bianliang to find out the news.  Just keep in touch and go to meetings to discuss.  Let¡¯s see which side will bet on this incident.  Those who are not qualified to enter the game, and few people dare to cause trouble at this time, just hope that this storm will not affect them.  Just like the Fourth Road in Shaanxi, there are officials with strong soldiers in the local area.  He even changed his past contempt for military officials and began to build relationships.  At this time, whichever force has the strongest troops will probably get a considerable piece of the pie in the future political landscape.  And on Hebei West Road, there is also a rare military horse in the Song Dynasty that can barely fight in the field - the Yongning Army adapted from the ashes of the Huanqing Army.  At this moment, the town is truly settled.  For a time, it also became the focus of local attention.  Wang Zhen and Ma Kuo serve as the commander-in-chief of this Yongning army.  When I first left Bianliang, life was a bit miserable.  The central government was almost bankrupt at that time, although it was not like the Hedong Shenwu Changsheng Army who had almost no money when they left the town.  The fee that the Yongning Army could get for opening the town was only a few hundred thousand dollars.  The area controlled and defended by the Yongning Army is extremely vast.  Not only are the roads in Hebei covered, but the land of Yan is also nominally within the scope of Zhenfu.  They also blocked the Eight Routes of Taihang from the west. When urgent, they could come out from there to force the Shenwu Changsheng Army in Hedong to shoulder the important task.  Such a vast defense area and such an important mission.  What is the use of the mere hundreds of thousands of dollars in Kaizhen military expenditure? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????but the high-ranking officials and their relatives have a lot of industries here, and they are intertwined.  Wang Zhenma Kuo did not dare to be as lawless as Xiao Yan. In the name of Jurchen invaders, he purged local forces from Taiyuan Prefecture to Yuzhou and then to the east edge of the river.  However, the people in Hebei Province were exhausted due to the war against Yan.?, the local treasury is empty. Even if the Bianliang Central Committee has instructed the local government to fully support the Yongning Army's opening of the town, it really can't support much.  What¡¯s more, how many local civil servants will wholeheartedly cooperate with these Qiu Bajun men who speak with a Shaanxi accent and have no local roots?  Since entering Hebei West Road, everything has been difficult.  Just setting up a Zhending camp almost emptied all the money.  The grains transferred from the Hebei West Road Transshipment Department are all old grains for many years.  A group of soldiers almost started making noise and causing trouble.  There were also local wealthy families who designated the place where the camp was to be set up and occupied their ancestral property. They even went to the wild forest to collect firewood and cook rice. They got into lawsuits and the dispute lasted for more than a year.  In the end, Wang Zhen had to bite the bullet and scolded more than ten auxiliary soldiers who went into the wilderness to collect firewood, and then he barely passed the test.  The so-called Hebei Barrier Yongning Army, in the past two years, has tried its best to maintain its own survival, not to mention being sent out to fight in the field.  The reason for this situation is also very simple. It turns out that the Forbidden Army stationed in various places in Hebei Province is a mess.  Although it cannot compare with the huge military investment of Shaanxi Fourth Road, it is still a gold mine of more than millions of dollars every year.  Local civil servants and the stationed imperial army generals divided the wealth among them.  In fact, I don¡¯t know if there are still 20 to 30% of the army left. Even if it is still in the army, they are just local civil servants and local servants of the forbidden army generals stationed there.  Now that the Yongning army has opened the town, they will dig out millions of dollars of property from their pockets a year.  If we don't give these old Shaanqiu a little bit of ugliness, why don't we treat them like grandfathers?  It is best to rush back to Shaanxi Huanqing Road.  That's how everyone is happy.  The first step in the Song Dynasty¡¯s reorganization of Hebei¡¯s defense.  It has been stuck in the quagmire ever since.  Wang Zhen Ma Kuan originally planned to recruit the remnants of the Han army from the original Liao Kingdom in Yandi.  Recruit Hebei warriors who had participated in the war against Yan to reorganize Hebei's defense lines.  At the same time, the grand plan to establish a military stronghold in the Eight Trails of Taihang almost went bankrupt from the beginning.  For the past year or so, I have been struggling to survive.  But as the news of the palace change came, after finding out what changes had happened in Bianliang.  The local officials on Hebei West Road suddenly changed their attitude towards the Yongning army.  The military pay, which had been delayed for several months, was immediately delivered.  Some of the minister's money was even withheld.  The grain originally allocated was stale, but now it¡¯s all good rice and noodles.  Fresh vegetables, fruits and meat.  Everything is available.  There were even large and small altars of wine, as if they were going to reward the entire Yongning Army for a few months.  The local wealthy families that had been competing with the Yongning army for land suddenly ceased their activities.  As soon as the dispute between the army and the people was resolved, it disappeared into thin air.  Not to mention that local civil servants who had never looked down on generals like Wang Zhenma Kuo came to pay their respects in an endless stream, and all kinds of gifts were piled up in several rooms.  He also asked the Yongning Army diligently if they wanted to set up a separate camp, and Hebei West Road would certainly provide all conveniences.  If you want to recruit new soldiers, all the expenses will be borne by Hebei Province.  Several generals from the former Hebei Forbidden Army who had the deepest hatred against Wang Zhenma Kuo were even included.  The general has come up with all the tricks of asking for forgiveness.  Seeing a few fat men with their bare upper bodies tied with canes shivering in the cold wind outside the festival hall, Wang Zhen and Ma Kuo really didn't know whether to laugh or cry at that time.  For most of the Yongning Army officers and soldiers.  Local civil servants acted like this.  On the contrary, it made them curse even more.  Maybe we should fight to the death with King Yan, so we spent some bad money to get some drinks in order to look good.  When we were here suffering from hunger and cold, and were looked down upon, where were you?  He treats us soldiers as so contemptible!  "But King Yan is really a hero. He has done such a world-shaking undertaking, so he can vent his frustration for us."  I only regret that we were not lucky enough to follow such a heroic figure from the Huanqing Army to the Yongning Army!  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  ~ The Yongning Military Office of Zhending Mansion has been moved to the city.  It turned out that a good official property somewhere was cleaned up and given to the two generals of the Yongning Army for the festival.  Wang Zhen and Ma Kuo were not the kind of people who wanted to enjoy happiness, so they felt more comfortable in the army.  But now, taking advantage of the change in attitude of local officials, everything is open to support.  It is also necessary to set up the government office closer to the civil servants to facilitate the transportation of funds and materials to the army at any time.  It is also convenient for communicating with people of this generation.  Wang Zhen and Ma Kuo were both afraid of poverty. At this time, while the local civil servants were in chaos, they hoped that the army could get a little more.  Who knows when the limelight will turn again, and the military ministers will be at a disadvantage again.  It is different from the local snakes in the Western Army and the daring King Yan who sits in the center.  The Yongning army is still a little weak, and it is an out-and-out guest army in Hebei.  The foundation is not so solid that it cannot be shaken no matter how the situation changes.  At this moment, the two of them were dressed in casual clothes and were pointing at the wooden figures in the festival hall.  The strength of the Yongning Army is really too weak. The old foundation is only the remaining seven or eight thousand Huanqing Army.? Among them, there are only five thousand soldiers who can fight.  When we arrived in Kaizhen, Hebei Province, for more than a year, not only did we not increase the number of employees, we even lost some.  Life was too hard, and many people died of illness while fleeing.  At this time, we must quickly recruit strong people to expand our strength, and we can no longer be confined to one place, we must expand.  However, the two of them were pointing at the key passes at the border between Hebei Road and Yandi.  Even on the wooden map, the passages leading into and out of Hedong from the Eight Paths of Taihang were deliberately avoided.  After giving instructions for a while, I heard Ma Kuo mutter: "When the troops enter the Yan region, our Yongning army does not have three years to operate, so don't expect such a move. And with the rise of the Jurchens, the Hulu people will have to go south sooner or later. Hebei  There are already original defense measures at the border between Yan and Liao. These places need to be restored immediately. If the Jurchen Tatars move south, they can still resist slightly. "Wang Zhen just shook his head: "Zichong.  During the Battle of Yan, I have walked back and forth with you countless times. Don¡¯t you know what happened? The water barrier used to hinder horses from galloping, but now it is occupied by people.  Fertile farmland. All the military forts were abandoned, and not even one of the ten soldiers and horses was left in the area. Even if the troops were deployed in Yan Land, even three years would not be enough!  Now we have less than 10,000 soldiers, and only 5,000 soldiers, including very few cavalry troops. If we don't have 50,000 troops and horses, how can we use them?" Ma Kuo also shook his head. It turns out that he is a member of the Western Army.  The rising star was summoned by Zhao Ji several times.  He is also a figure who participated in the maritime alliance with the Jurchens.  Not only was he skilled in bow and horse, and had the ability to lead troops, he was also a rare figure in the Song Dynasty who knew the inside story of the Jurchens.  All the way here, overtime and overtime migration were used.  In his early thirties, he joined the horizontal class.  As the deputy commander-in-chief of an army, he was given the important task of Hebei.  If it weren't for the evildoer Xiao Yan.  It is already a rare exception among the military officials of the Song Dynasty.  Since his official career is going smoothly, even if Ma Kuo is young and mature, he will inevitably feel proud of his success.  But the torment of the hardships of opening the town for more than a year has made him thinner and more mature, and the greenness on his face has faded away.  There are even wrinkles on my forehead.  After listening to Wang Zhen's words, Ma Kuo could only sigh, and then said proudly: "No matter how difficult it is, we will do our best! Nowadays, it is rare for civil servants to not be constrained, recruit strong people as soon as possible, and occupy the place first. Then again.  Secondly, we have been delayed for too long near Zhending. If the Jurchen Tatars settle in the Qianliao area, they will go south at any time! " If it is said that Wang Zhen is old, it is even more obvious than Ma Kuo.  It turns out that he was reused by Tong Guan and betrayed the group of generals of the Western Army.  For a time, he was also an important minister valued by the central government. He will definitely join the third government office in the future, and he will be given the title of Taiwei.  But he didn't expect that Tong Guan would be removed from his command, and the victorious army trained by Wang Zhen would fall under Xiao Yan's command.  He, Tong Guan's confidant, also kicked and controlled a defeated former Huanqing army.  For more than a year, everything under Tong Guan's command has never gone smoothly for the town's opening.  It turned out that when he was Tong Guan's confidant, he proclaimed the governorship of Hebei and used Tong Guan's power to trouble the local officials in Hebei who were responsible for supporting the Yan army.  Now, these big turbans have come back with a double revenge.  Now a muscular man in his early forties, his hair is a little gray.  Although Ma Kuo has gone through many setbacks, he still has a spirit of vigor in his bones.  Wang Zhen nodded and then shook his head: "even if we don't mention the management of the border defense line fortress, where did the soldiers come from? It stands to reason that there is no owner in the Yan area now. There are so many scattered Han troops, not to mention so many people who were killed.  How come there are no soldiers who have been demobilized from Hebei? Even if they take the initiative to recruit during these days, are they all dispersed back to their hometowns? " Ma Kuo pointed to the direction of Tanzhou on the map:  "It is said that a powerful man with a certain surname has arisen in Tanzhou, and the integration of Yan and Liao people has dispersed the embers. Now it has become very powerful. When the general disappears, there will be a steady stream of merchants from Tanzhou selling horses, pearls, and furs. Will I return to the south?  It's just strange that if this Yu Qiang was from the former Liao Dynasty, he would just integrate the remaining people of the Liao people. How come there are so few Hebei warriors? Is it possible that he was also taken over by him even though he was trapped in Zhending Mansion these days?  Saojin was not allowed to advance even an inch, but Ma Kuo was still concerned about the situation in Yandi.  Collect as much intelligence as possible on the north.  The merchants who came and went because Yan Land had restored basic order were Ma Fan's biggest source of intelligence.  However, we can only know about the rise of a force in Tanzhou. The real inside story is not very clear. We can only make some vague guesses.  When it comes to the news that most of the Hebei daredevils have disappeared without a trace, both Wang Zhen and Ma Kuo fell silent.  The two of them are also people who have been staying in Yandi and Hebei for so long. Why can't they guess some clues.  At that time, the backbone of Xiao Yan's generals, in addition to being from the Western Army, were also people from Hebei Daring Warriors!  Xiao Yanping and Yan Junma also tried their best to recruit many Hebei warriors.  These Hebei athletes, who were pressured by the Western Army and forced to fight hard, and who took credit for the Western Army, were an important part of Xiao Yan's extremely powerful Shenwu victorious army.    If Tanzhou is a force arranged by Xiao Yan, then in addition to integrating the remnants of the Liao people, it would be a matter of course to recruit the scattered Hebei warriors smoothly.  You know, Xiao Yan has been in Tanzhou for a while.  He also suddenly turned around from Tanzhou and marched straight ahead, taking Yanjing in one fell swoop and destroying the last main force of Xiao Qian, the king of the Liao people!  Regarding this topic, even if there were only two of them in the festival hall, neither Ma Kuo nor Wang Zhen were willing to say more.  They can only signal to each other.  ??Xiao Yan has been laying out plans since the time of Yan.  A disloyal heart.  It's so obvious.  No wonder they have done such a big thing in Bianliang!  For Xiao Yan.  Wang Zhen and Ma Kuo had complicated moods.  Xiao Yan's heroic attitude of working hard.  But as a man, there is no one who is not convinced.  Starting from nothing, to reach this point is even more of a miracle.  And precisely because of his career in Bianliang, the Yongning army rarely had a few good days.  The soldiers below were all calling for King Yan.  "At least this Xiao Yan is very popular with martial artists!"  Moreover, Xiao Yan defeated the Khitans and defeated the Jurchens. This solid record made Ma Kuo admire him even more.  He knew that the Jurchens were in danger.  But now in the Song Dynasty, Wen Tian and Wu Xi were playing, and when the Jurchens were marching south, Xiao Yan was the only one who could be regarded as the mainstay!  "But Xiao Yan's behavior of manipulating two generations of kings and his domineering behavior also made people like Wang Zhen and Ma Kuo, who came from a family of generals, deeply disgusted.  Moreover, the two of them also knew that as they were not far from Bianliang and had a rare army that could barely fight, Xiao Yan's hostile forces in the court would definitely take advantage of them.  Let's have a fight with Xiao Yan!  But the Yongning Army is not stronger than the Western Army, and now its military morale is even more towards Xiao Yan.  I'm just afraid of issuing a military order to march to Bianliang.  The whole army will collapse in a great uproar.  And even if the morale of the army is stable, what can the Yongning Army do to fight Xiao Yan?  There is the main force of the Shenwu Ever-Victorious Army in the east of the river. From a high position, they look down on the side of the Yongning Army.  Xiao Yan of Bianliang was also organizing and training a new army. The resources of the entire Imperial Guard Army were in Xiao Yan's hands, not to mention that Xiao Yan was also a master of making money.  If you have money, you can have soldiers. It doesn't take half a year. Bianliang Shao said that there are 50,000 King Yan's troops and horses that can go into battle.  And the two of them also vaguely guessed that Xiao Yan also deployed an army in Yan. This was a strong army that integrated the embers of the Liao people and had almost the entire resources of Yan, as well as the strong warriors from Hebei!  With Xiao Yan¡¯s arrangements on three sides, where does this battle begin?  So the two of them discussed the Yongning Army's expansion arrangements and had a tacit understanding to avoid the key roads from Hebei to Hedong.  Avoid direct confrontation with Xiao Yan.  But how long can such self-deceiving procrastination last?  What should we do when the central government comes to mobilize the Yongning Army?  This was the beginning of the bloody internal struggle in the Song Dynasty.  Or should he support his troops and respect himself and become a warlord in a vassal town from now on?  No matter which one, it is not a choice Wang Zhen and Ma Kuo are willing to make.  Especially for Ma Kuo, he was well aware of the ferocious nature of the Hurrays named Jurchens who were now based in the hometown of the Liao people!  The Liao Kingdom, whose combat power was far greater than that of the Song Dynasty, was wiped out under their iron hoof. The Song Dynasty not only failed to reorganize its armaments, but also had a tendency to engage in internal strife.  Could it be that the Song Dynasty was about to fall like the Liao Kingdom?  There was silence for a moment in the festival hall.  Both Wang Zhen and Ma Kuo were livid, and they were no longer interested in discussing how to expand the strength of the Yongning Army.  At this time, I saw the four flags of the army outside the door and respectfully reported: "General, I have a guest to pay my respects." King Ma Kuo was the boss who was impatient. How could these civil servants and turbaned men be so unhappy in their work?  .  We are not vengeful and domineering people. Now that we are open to supporting the Yongning Army, the past can be forgotten.  Do you still think that since we are the kings of Yan, there will be trouble in Zhending Mansion?  "But this is the time when Hebei local government needs full support, as long as they come wearing civil official robes to worship."  Wang Zhen and Ma Kuo had already taken note of the flags and circulated them all.  The two of them could only gather their energy, tidy up their clothes, and go out together.  I still have to put a smile on my face, as I have to go and have a good time today.  The two of them walked straight out of the middle door, and the visitor was already politely welcomed into the second hall to wait.  When Wang Zhen and Ma Kuo walked in, they saw a civil servant in a purple robe standing up to greet him from a distance.  Both Wang Zhen and Ma Kuo knew this man.  It was Yu Wenxuzhong who was the backbone of the Qingliu princelings and once announced the victorious army of Yanjing!  I haven¡¯t seen him for more than a year, he turned out to be a suave and clear-minded think tank.  In addition to his appearance, he has also aged a lot.  The eyebrows are full of gloomy color.  But his magnanimity is still the same as before, and he is free and easy when bowing.  Wang Zhen and Ma Kuo looked at each other.  Someone has finally arrived from Bianliang. Is it possible that the center of Bianliang is finally going to break up with Xiao Yan?  And where will the Yongning Army go?  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!  ps: Tickets, votes, votes
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