Poor Family Chapter 849

  Chapter 849 Returning to Jingzhao

  Since the plague broke out in Tokyo and withdrew his troops, Wanyan Xie had been very busy in the past few months. Finally, the plague in the army was quelled. The Emperor Jin ordered him to wipe out the anti-golden rebels in Hebei and Hedong.

  Wan Yanxie also sat in Yanshan Mansion, and ordered Zong Han and Zong Wang to be responsible for suppressing the uprisings on the East Road and Hebei Road respectively.

  Wan Yan Xieye's Marshal's Mansion is the original Liao Dynasty Palace. He is now the emperor's younger brother, and all the maids and concubines in the original palace have become his women, enjoying the imperial life of the Sangong and Six Courtyards in advance.

In the morning, Wanyan Xie was also listening to Wanyan Xiyin's report in the study. Wanyan Xiyin is one of the rare people in the Wanyan family who has both civil and military skills. He is currently in charge of the government affairs of Hedong Road and Hebei Road, and is also in charge of intelligence collection in the Song Dynasty. .

   "I got the exact information that Li Yanqing has been appointed as the Northwest Third Road Economic Strategy Envoy, and is currently leading the army to Jingzhao. It is estimated that there will be war in the Northwest."

Wanyan Xie also pressed his temples, and said with a very headache: "Now is the recovery period of the army. We have suffered heavy losses by fighting Bianliang once. We lost 100,000 people in the battle and the plague. The wolf lord is very dissatisfied with us. If we can make a big move Bing, I have already led the army to sweep the Song Dynasty, the timing is not right!"

  Wanyan Xiyin whispered: "Did we suffer a lot last time?"

Wanyan Xie also sighed, "The dead are mainly Bohai soldiers and Khitan soldiers. The Jurchens did not lose much, but the Plague Jurchens killed 30,000 people. Lord Wolf is very annoyed by this matter. He still wants to appease Bohai The great chief, Awuna, promised to make Awuna's daughter a noble concubine, and they reached an agreement that the Bohai people would have a one-year truce, and the Wolf Lord would also like to stop the war for one year, restore his military strength, and attack the Song Dynasty again in the autumn of next year."

  Wanyan Xiyin rolled his eyes and said: "It's better to let the Han soldiers go out to fight in Guanzhong, surrendering more than 200,000 people, it's a pity not to get up."

Wanyan Xie also took a few steps behind his back, and finally decided: "Just use the Han soldiers from Yanshan Mansion, and the Hebei Han soldiers will also deal with Zongze's army and the bandits from all over Hebei. In addition, I will write a letter to Li Qianshun. The Northwest Offensive Jinxia and the two countries cooperate to fight."

After being away from Jingzhao Mansion for a whole year, Li Yanqing finally returned to this deep and thick yellow land. Li Yanqing has always had a special feeling for Jingzhao Mansion, otherwise he would not have called his army Jingzhao Mansion military.

   This morning, the army entered Tongguan, and Cao Xing led more than a dozen generals out of Tongguan to welcome Li Yanqing.

  The two laughed and hugged, Li Yanqing punched Cao Xing on the shoulder, "I heard that you are becoming a father?"

Cao Xing raised two concubines in Tongguan, and not long ago one of them gave birth to a son for him. This incident made his grandfather Cao Ping very unhappy. You must know that Cao and the Gao family were engaged. He had a son without going through the door, which made it difficult for grandfather Cao Ping to explain to the Gao family.

  Cao Xing smiled wryly and said: "Then what can be done, the Gao family has strict rules, and the marriage must be postponed until August. I can't let my son stay in the stomach and not come out!"

  Li Yanqing slapped him, "What's the big rule? Of course he can't do it when he's in mourning. Forget it, I won't tell you. You can explain to the old man yourself, and tell me about the battle situation on Qinfeng Road."

   "I don't know the details. I just heard that the Xixia army attacked Fengxiang Mansion three times, but Liu Kai led the army to repel them. They didn't attack again afterwards. The two sides were in a state of confrontation."

   "Do you have a contact method with Fengxiang Mansion?" Li Yanqing asked anxiously.

  Cao Xing nodded, "You can use Yingxin to contact, but you can't get there directly. You have to go to Jingzhao Mansion."

   "Okay! I'll write a text message to Liu Wei, and you can forward it to him for me."

   Li Yan immediately wrote a short message in thin silk, put it in a mailbox and handed it to Cao Xing.

After resting in Tongguan for half a day, the army continued westward, but Li Yanqing and Liu Tie led three thousand troops to Fengxiang Mansion. Fengxiang Mansion is today's Baoji and is the west gate of Jingzhao. If it is lost, Jingzhao Mansion will face a huge threat .

  Although the 3,000 troops are small in strength, they carry a thousand flying fire mines, which is enough to withstand the siege of the Xixia army.

  Li Yanqing knew in his heart that Shanxi Road and Qinfeng Road were the dishes of the Kingdom of Jin. The reason why the Xixia Army attacked Fengxiang Road was actually to consolidate the occupation of Xihe Road.

At the same time, Li Yanqing ordered Wang Gui to lead 7,000 cavalry to Qingzhou. Li Yanqing had an intuition in his heart that he was sitting in the three towns in the northwest, and there might be moths in Wanyan Xieye. Tongguan and Pujinguan must enter The state of war prevents the golden soldiers from crossing the Yellow River.

At present, there are 100,000 Song troops on the Northwest Third Road. In addition to Li Yanqing's 50,000 Jingzhao troops, there are also 25,000 people from Shaanxi Road and 25,000 people from Qinfeng Road. On the one hand, it is basically enough, but I am afraid that the Jin soldiers and the Xixia army will attack from east to west, and the army will not be enough to fight on both sides.

  In addition, cavalry is also a big problem. If Xihe Road is not taken back, there will be no place to raise horses.

Li Yanqing ordered the army to station outside the city. He himself led hundreds of cavalry into Jingzhao City from the east gate. Ma Shan, the prefect, greeted him from the city with a smile. Yang Xuzhou, the former prefect, was transferred to Bashu, and Li Gang took over as prefect , but soon, Li Gang was transferred to Tokyo to serve as Prime Minister, and Ma Shan, the former general judge, took over the post of magistrate as a matter of course.

  Ma Shan had a very good relationship with Li Yanqing, but now that Li Yanqing is in a high position, he needs to be more courteous.

   "The low-ranking Ma Shan sees the Taibao!"

  Ma Shan wanted to greet Li Yanqing a little more easily, but Li Yanqing was wearing a golden helmet and armor, and his aura was too strong. Ma Shan was immediately frightened and softened, and stepped forward to salute with lowered eyebrows.

   "Ma Tongpan, long time no see, no, I should be Ma Zhifu now, congratulations Gao Sheng!"

   "In front of Li Taibao, how can I be regarded as a high-ranking person, I am ashamed!"

   "Okay!" Li Yanqing smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Get on the horse and talk!"

   Ma Shan was overwhelmed by the flattery, quickly got on his horse, and led Li Yanqing into the city.

  Compared with last year, Jingzhao City was much more lively. At this time, Ma Shan asked in a low voice, "I heard that Mr. Cai passed away?"

  Li Yanqing nodded, "He passed away half a month ago. He was eighty years old, so he died a long and happy life."

  Ma Shan was a little sad, "It's a pity that I can't go see the old man for a ride."

   After Cai Jing passed away, he resumed his title of Lu Guogong, posthumously named Zhongping, and Zhao Goute prepared his descendant Fuling to return to his hometown for burial.

   Cai Jing's death has gradually faded in the court, but he never thought that Ma Shan would never forget it.

  Li Yanqing didn't say much about it, he looked towards an open space.

Li Yanqing remembers very clearly that there is a large open space next to the east gate, which has been abandoned for decades, overgrown with weeds and infested with wild foxes, but the wasteland has disappeared and houses have been built, but the construction is very simple, all of which are rammed with mud Even the door is made of rough wooden boards, which completely looks like a slum.

Ma Shan saw that Li Yanqing had been staring at those mud houses, so he explained: "It was built by immigrants who escaped from the east of the river. It used to be the land of Ci'en Temple, and these refugees were asked to temporarily set up tents, but they directly built houses. There is nothing the Ci'en Temple can do, and it is useless to complain to the government."

   "How many refugees escaped from Hedong Road?" Li Yanqing asked.

   "A total of three groups escaped, more than a million people, but most of them scattered to Bashu, Hanzhong, Fengxiang Mansion and other places. There are about 300,000 people staying in Jingzhao Mansion, and we have 100,000 people in Jingzhao City."

  Li Yanqing's heart moved, isn't this a good source of soldiers? He asked again: "What do the 300,000 people do for a living in Jingzhao Mansion?"

"Everything is done, most of them are tenants, renting other people's land, and working as waiters in restaurants. In the first few months, it was really chaotic, and the government couldn't take care of it. Later, I gradually got along and settled down. After entering Guanzhong, although most of them live in hardship, at least there is something to eat!"

   "Then why didn't the commander-in-chief think about recruiting soldiers from refugees?"

   Ma Shan smiled wryly and said, "Recruiting soldiers requires money! It is difficult to raise military expenses for existing soldiers, so where is the money left to recruit new soldiers?"

   "But as far as I know, the imperial court has used all the taxes and taxes from the Third Northwest Road as military expenses, and also transferred a large amount of money and food from Bashu. Is the military expenses still not enough?"

Li Yanqing was really puzzled, he wasn't talking nonsense, he had done careful calculations, in addition to paying military expenses, there should be enough money to recruit soldiers on the side of Zhong Shi Dao, with the experience of Zhong Shi Dao, he wouldn't be ignorant of what he was facing. The pain of insufficient troops when flanking.

  Ma Shan scratched his head in embarrassment, "I don't know much about this either. I just heard a few words from Marshal Zhong. I really don't understand the specific situation. Otherwise, I would ask Wu Canjun to come and talk to the Taibao."

  Li Yanqing nodded, "This matter is very important, I need to ask Yan Canjun about the situation immediately."

  (end of this chapter)

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