When the news of the great victory of the Hao Kang River and the return of Renduo Baozhong to the Great Song Dynasty reached Tongchuan Fort, where the Taoxi Shuai Si was located, Zhong Fu, Wang Hou and Wu Haowen were arguing in the Shuai Si's festival hall.

Oh, to be precise, it should be the young and vigorous Wu Haowen who is arguing with Xining and Jingyuan to appease the deputy envoy Zhong Fu alone!

And Wang Hou was just embarrassed, he couldn't believe that a person who was not even a Beijing official dared to quarrel with the deputy marshals of the two roads. Zhong Fu is a civil official of the sixth grade, a dignified courtier, and a confidant of Cai Xianggong!

Wu Haowen's backstage, Han Zhongyan, had already fallen to sentence the Daimyo's Mansion, how could he dare to quarrel with a big man like Zhong Fu? Could it be that the right minister Su Dongpo supports him? It seems that Su Dongpo can't break the rules of officialdom for the sake of choosing someone, right?

The rule of officialdom is that civil officials are better than military officials, and they are also civilian officials, and the officials are one level older than one level to crush people, and Zhong Fu is more than one level older!

And Zhong Fu's request is not too much...... He just didn't believe in the number of beheadings and prisoners of the knights in front of the temple and the dragon warriors, and wanted to reduce it by half.

This kind of thing is very common in the Northwest Army - the beheading of meritorious service is not necessarily beheaded, and many times it is discussed by superiors and subordinates.

The subordinate reports 1000, and the superior gives you a halt to convert 500, which is not too much...... How can Wu Haowen's words be so deadly, the nearly 40,000 beheaded prisoners are true! One less is willing to listen to sin.

Isn't this not giving Zhong Fu face? You can't do that......

"No, absolutely not!" Wu Haowen's head shook like a wave drum, "The number of beheadings and prisoners of the knights in front of the palace and the dragon warriors will never be fake. Because their beheadings and captives can be exchanged for houses in Kaifeng Mansion! Therefore, Gao Taiwei and Wang Taiwei will definitely strictly inspect and will not allow them to make false claims. ”

Wu Haowen is really right, Gao Yu and Gao Taiwei are really serious about counting heads, issuing house deeds, and making white slips...... He, an official, to put it bluntly, relies on flattery, but at the same time, he can still distinguish priorities. Now that Zhao Ji wants to make a contribution, of course Gao Yu has to count the heads with his heart, this is not difficult, if he messes up again, the favor of the official family may be gone.

As for making money and drinking soldiers' blood or something, he Gao Taiwei still rares these two small money? He followed Wu Haogu to join the Republic Bank and the Jiehe Commercial Market, and his net worth was already more than one million.

According to the logic of the officialdom of the Northern Song Dynasty, he is already unworthy of wealth - how much money can be made by an official! His money has reached the level of the ruler, and the official is an envoy. And he is not like Wu Haogu, who is an official with the ability to make money, and leads the officials and nobles to get rich together.

Therefore, Gao Yu, who is well versed in the unspoken rules of officialdom, will not make money now, and he has to quickly save credit for promotion! If you can open a family, this wealth can be passed on to your children and grandchildren safely.

"Won't it?" Zhong Fu's face was already quite ugly, he was a dignified deputy marshal of the two roads, and he had been in the Northwest Army for many years, and he was an old minister who had assisted Li Xian and Zhang Qi.

Now that he is being scolded like this by Wu Haowen, a junior who has no hair on his mouth, can he not be angry?

"No!" Wu Haowen shook his head again and again, "Xia Guan can vouch for Gao Taiwei and Wang Taiwei." ”

Zhong Fu snorted: "You guarantee?" You are a candidate, what qualifications do you have? ”

Wu Haowen was stunned by him, and he didn't know how to pay back for a while. In fact, he has this qualification, because Zhao Xiaoyi and Feng Erniang have already established a friendship that is not very pure......

Wang Hou didn't know Wu Haowen's special background, but he knew that Zhong Fu was powerful, the last time he opened up Hehuang, Zhong Fu was engaged in Xihe, Jingyuan, and Qinfeng, and was his top boss.

With this qualification alone, Wang Hou has to help him speak. However, Wang Hou also stayed in Kaifeng Mansion and knew that the Wu brothers were all favored ministers of the official family. And Wu Haowen's elder brother Wu Haogu is also the proud protégé of the right minister Su Dongpo. Although Su Dongpo can't deal with Cai Jing's henchman Zhong Fu, it's not a trivial matter to appease Taoxi, who has a military capital?

Wang Hou said that he was really a little envious of his opponent Brother Cha, Brother Cha only needed to figure out how to clean up the enemy, and he didn't have to think about the dark arrows and all kinds of blind commands shot from Xingqing Mansion.

And the military attachés of the Great Song Dynasty always have to fight with the enemy while dealing with endless political disputes, have to endure the bullying of civilian officials, and have to be blindly tossed by official families or civil officials who don't know anything......

Faced with the quarrel between the two civil officials who were quite tough in the background, Wang Hou was really in a dilemma, so he had to open his mouth to play a round: "It's better like this, don't report the beheading and live prisoners for the time being, and wait for the Zhong envoy to send someone to investigate, how about reporting again?" ”

Zhong Fu was about to nod his head in agreement, but Wu Haowen said: "The number of beheadings and prisoners has been reported to the official family." ”

"Escalated?" Wang Hou was stunned.

"It's a hidden text!" Wu Haowen's answer surprised Zhong Fu and Wang Hou, "The knights in front of the palace and the dragon warriors are the personal soldiers of the Son of Heaven, and every move must be reported to the heavens in time." Therefore, Xia Guan and Gao Taiwei have already reported through the horse.

Moreover, Gao Taiwei has already issued 400 house deeds, and the insufficient part has also been IOU. Do you think we can still take back those deeds? ”

"Why not? If there is a false claim, the reward should be withdrawn, and the crime should be punished severely! ”

Zhong Fu was already a little angry by Wu Haowen. , a two-way deputy marshal, was actually confronted by a person who was selected. If this Wu Haowen was a military attaché, he would have ordered to take people and engage in military law. But Wu Haowen is a civil official who was born as a jinshi, and he is also a civil official with a background......

Wu Haowen, who had a backstage, didn't buy his account at all, and retorted at the time: "Is the prime minister trying to destroy this elite army of the Son of Heaven?" The knights in front of the palace and the dragon warriors started from the first battle of Ba Jinbao, all the way to Wachui Village, Donkey Horse Slope, Longzhu Heicheng, Mazong Mountain, Zongge River, and now they are still fighting hard with the West Thieves in the Haokang River, and they are about to win again. Almost no battle, and invincible! Moreover, the Taoxi Shuai Division has not given a reward of a penny and a foot of silk, and the soldiers are so desperate to get the real estate of Kaifeng Mansion.

Now that the battle is almost over but you turn your face and don't admit it, can you be reasonable? Aren't you afraid of messing with the military morale of the knights and dragon warriors in front of the palace? Aren't you afraid of ruining the official's plan to defeat the Western Thief? ”

That's a bit of a damn! Wu Haowen was actually threatening Zhong Fu with a mutiny. Mutinies were not uncommon in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty. However, the mutinies were all the troops stationed in the locality, and there was no mutiny of the Kaifeng Forbidden Army, and there was no precedent for the mutiny of the army in front of the palace.

After all, the army in front of the palace has a good salary, and from time to time it can be rewarded by the officials, and it rarely goes to the front line. Do you really think you are the tooth soldier group of five generations and ten countries?

Moreover, how well the knights in front of the palace and the dragon warriors were treated, Zhong Fu also knew. The knight has 1,500 acres of professional land and a lot of additional rewards. The Dragon Warrior has four times the income of the forbidden army. How could such a soldier mutinied?

Therefore, Wu Haowen's threat was ineffective at all, Zhong Fu just sneered: "This official has been ordered by Lu Xianggong, that is, to strictly investigate false reports and false achievements!" Let's see, who dares to disturb the morale of the army? ”

There was murder in his words! It is one thing for the soldiers to make trouble, but it is another thing for someone to disturb the morale of the army and incite mutiny.

This is the elite of the army in front of the palace! If people incite a mutiny, whether it is justified or not, the officials will not tolerate this army.

After all, it doesn't matter whether the army in front of the palace can fight or not, whether it is obedient or not is the most important thing.

And the elite in front of the palace in front of him, who cut off tens of thousands of people's heads, really can't be described as "good......

Just when Wu Haowen and Zhong Fu were arguing, one of Wang Hou's aides sent the good news of the great victory of the Haoqian River and the return of Renduo Baozhong.

"14,800 beheaded, 8,201 captives, of which 3,856 were the heads of the western thieves, 3,000 and 51 were captured by the western thieves, and the thief chieftain was loyal and obedient! What a victory, an unprecedented victory! ”

Wu Haowen took the battle report and looked at it, and shouted loudly: "Zhong Envoy, the knights and dragon warriors in this battle hall have made their first contributions!" ”

Is it the first achievement? Zhong Fuxin said: The first merit is obviously Uncle Zhang, if he hadn't designed to surrender Renduo to protect his loyalty, the battle of the Haoqian River would have been easy to fight!

However, Zhong Fu didn't say this to Wu Haoming, but turned his head to Wang Hou and said: "Deal with the road, why don't we leave for the Ancient Bone Dragon City immediately, and go to Renduo to protect this thief chief for a while." ”

Of course, the purpose of his trip to the Ancient Bone Dragon City was not only to meet with Renduo Baozhong, but also to count the heads - the Northern Song Dynasty army did not pay special attention to the "first merit", in fact, it couldn't cut much. Therefore, the troops below will not keep those stinky heads for too long, and generally let the higher-level Fusi officials inspect them and then dig a pit and bury them. As for the raw prisoners, they will not be caught and sold, and they will be detained for a period of time at most and released.

Therefore, it is impossible for Zhong Fu to go to Huangzhou and Shanzhou battlefields to inspect the heads and prisoners one by one, so he can only fight with Wu Haowen, which is really a bit cheap. But the heads and prisoners on the battlefield of the Haoqian River are still there, just to go and check it.

In addition, Zhong Fu also wanted to take the opportunity to intervene in the war between Zhuoluo City and Qin Wangchuan. Wang Hou was the pacification envoy of Taoxi, and Zhuoluocheng and Qin Wangchuan were north of the Yellow River, which was not at all under the jurisdiction of Taoxi Shuaisi.

Therefore, a new economic and strategic pacification envoy will definitely be established, and Zhong Fu is now the deputy envoy of the two ways of pacification, and he is fully qualified to serve as the economic and strategic pacification envoy of this new pacification department.

And in the current battlefield north of Lanzhou, apart from him, the deputy envoy of the two routes, who else is qualified to lead the attack on Zhuoluo City and Qin Wangchuan? In fact, he himself asked for orders to go to Taoxi Fusi to investigate the number of beheadings and prisoners, and he also brought the veteran Shiji, so he had the intention of making contributions.

Wang Hou, Gao Yongnian, and Tong Guan were all officials of the Taoxi Fusi, so how could they cross the border to command the war north of the Yellow River? Zhang Shuye, the governor of Lanzhou, is qualified, but his official is too young and he has no experience in commanding large wars.

Therefore, Zhong Fu felt that he was the only choice!