In Huazhou City, Yao Pingzhong and the Xu family brothers, as well as other commanders of Shaanhua Road, left on the same day. At that time, they felt that the fire was big, and later these generals thought about it, and when the new officials took office, it was nothing more than a town and a mountain. When Qu Dashuai's enthusiasm passes, it will naturally be too peaceful. The envoy he came from Jingyuan to appease him wants to gain a firm foothold, to put it bluntly, he can't rely on us? Especially the brothers of the Xu family, especially that Xu Jiu, his strength is the most in the entire Shaanxi Hualu.

As a result, these generals gradually discovered that things were not so simple. As soon as Qu Duan arrived in Huazhou, he dismissed the original state jurisdiction and replaced it with his own generals. The part of Hezhong Mansion, because of the thieves, the original commander of the soldiers and horses died on the battlefield, and now he is an old prefect in his seventies, waiting for the Xuanfu Yamen to send someone, and Qu Duan also occupied this position. And it was cut first and then played, and his generals had already recruited troops on the ground in Hezhong Mansion before reporting to Li Gang.

This is not the end, in Xu Wei's previous era, officials liked to write red-headed documents, and Qu Duan often had a decree to come down. No, recently, they have been shouting that we must rectify military discipline, especially to eliminate the black sheep in the army, and strictly prohibit plundering the people and oppressing the good people. Xu Weijun's discipline was already strict, and he didn't take it seriously, and was busy with the training of the army and the recovery of production.

In the blink of an eye, in June, Xu Wei's painstaking efforts during the New Year bore fruit. This year, the wind and rain are smooth, and there is a bumper harvest in the area under the jurisdiction of the Dingrong Army. Everywhere you look, there is a patch of golden wheat. Because Dingrong suffered **, Li Gang was exempted from taxes and imperial grain for three years. There is an order from above, Xu Wei naturally cannot interfere, but this authority is over ordinary people. Those refugees who fled from Hedong were organized into village soldiers, and they were all under the control of Xu Wei. There is no conclusion as to whether the grain cultivated by these people should be collected by the army or by the Caosi.

To explain here, generally speaking, the roads of the Song Dynasty are roughly equivalent to the later provinces, but there are differences. There are roughly three kinds of military and political organs along the way, one of which is the "Transshipment Envoy Division", which the commander is called the Transshipment Envoy, or "Cao Division" for short, and has considerable power. It not only manages the taxes and grain collection along the way, but also takes charge of inspecting officials, maintaining law and order, counting prisons, and recommending talents.

The second is the "Mention of the Criminal Prison Division", which the chief called the Mention of the Criminal Prison, referred to as the "Constitutional Division". He was in charge of judicial affairs along the way, reviewing state files, and investigating state officials who failed to perform their duties in prisons, that is, it also had the power to supervise officials.

In addition to their own work, the first two divisions also have an important role, that is, to monitor and contain the third and only military department, the Economic and Pacification Mission, referred to as the "Shuai Division". However, in this way, although the local forces were prevented from gaining momentum, there was no subordinate relationship between the three divisions, and there was no unified leadership. In view of this, Li Gang was born as a propaganda envoy who took charge of the overall situation.

But even so, there are problems. For example, in this area of Shaanxi, there are now six roads in Shuaisi, but there are only two roads in Caosi, because Shaanxi is a merger of the former Qinfeng Road and Yongxing Military Road. Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, not only the official system was chaotic, but also the administrative divisions were chaotic. In this way, it is Xu Wei who benefits. He sent soldiers to plant the grain that the villagers had cultivated, and after leaving enough grain and rations, he levied some of them. For the sake of prudence and for the sake of temptation, he reported the matter to Li Gang, but no one cared. It is said that it should be reported directly to Qu Duan, but the Shaanxi Hua Shuai Division has just erected the banner, and various affairs have not yet been operated, and it is only at the stage of issuing "Jun Decrees" from time to time.

By July, the situation in Hedong was beginning to change. In the battle of Xiaoxi Mountain, Li Zhi was beaten in pain and retreated to Taiyuan. With the support of the Jurchens, they quickly regrouped, annexed Fen and Liao Prefectures one after another, and won the first army. In the past, he was full of thoughts about the entire Hedong, and his strength was inevitably scattered. This time, because of the constraints of the "Jingkang Peace Conference", after taking the Weisheng Army, he stopped there. In view of the solicitation of the Shaanxi side of the Great Song Dynasty, Jin Guo felt that the support for Li Zhi was not enough, so he provided assistance in all aspects, especially the military. It is said that Li Cheng has raised another army of 100,000 troops, and is stepping up training, looking at Hedong and Shaanxi.

Xu Wei, as the head of the Hedong Righteous Army, kept an eye on him all the time. He successively instructed Ma Kuo and other leaders of the righteous army to dig deep ditches, accumulate grain, and slow down the use of troops. The rebels of all walks of life generally acted in accordance with his intentions, focusing on training on the one hand and farming on the other, and taking advantage of the temporary peace brought about by the "Jingkang Peace Conference" to develop vigorously. But it still happened in July.

After the Jingkang Peace Conference, the Hedong Righteous Army controlled Pingyang, Zhaode Prefecture, Jiang and Zezhou. Pingyang Mansion was originally occupied by the rebel army led by Ma Kuo, and when the combined forces of Hujie and Li Jin fought a decisive battle in Xiaoxi Mountain, he led his people to attack Zhaode and use it as a foothold. Leave some people to guard Pingyang. However, the terrain to the north of Binh Duong Province was relatively flat, which was not conducive to defense, so the rebel army occupied the southern part of Binh Duong. Li Zhi reorganized his army all the way down and found that the north of Pingyang was still a terra nullius, so he occupied the three counties of Fenxi, Zhaocheng and Huoyi. And stationed thousands of troops here, often provoking the rebels. On the day of Qixi Festival, the Hongdong County rebels, who were only a few dozen miles away from Zhaocheng County, "encountered" Li Zhi's rebels in the suburbs. More than 20 people died in the Pingyang Righteous Army, which was terrible, and the Hongdong County Righteous Army relied on the strength of the crowd, forgot Xu Wei's instructions to the back of their minds, and poured out to find Li Jun for revenge. The two sides fought outside Zhaocheng County, the righteous army was defeated, and the division was defeated. As if premeditated, Li Jun sent more than 8,000 troops to take Hongdong directly, and then continued to pursue the righteous army without stopping at all. Without Ma Kuo in charge, the Pingyang Rebels had no intention of fighting and retreated all the way south. This carelessness was withdrawn to the territory of Hazhong Province.

On 15 July, Xu Wei was inspecting the soldiers of the Tunken Township in the original territory of Jiezhou. Zhang Qing Pegasus sent someone to chase him back, saying that something had happened in Pingyang. When Xu Wei heard this, he put down the affairs at hand and immediately rushed back to Dingrong City. As soon as he entered the city, he found that the situation was not right, the streets were in chaos, and the Hujie soldiers were maintaining order. The targets of the "repression" were all men in blue clothes, and a few of them even carried weapons. There was no time to take care of it, and ran all the way back to the Zhijun Yamen, Zhang Qing was already waiting outside the door. Seeing him come back, he stepped forward and pulled the reins, and the first sentence was: "Qu Dashuai is not kind to this matter." ”

Xu Wei knew that there must be a reason for this, so he hurriedly asked, but Zhang Qing didn't answer, but only put his mouth at the government office: "You can come in and take a look." ”

After a few steps inside, I saw five or six people squatting or sitting in the aisle outside the public hall. There is a large basket of steaming steamed buns on the ground, and a large wooden basin holds cooked beef. Those few were eating happily, choking so much that they rolled their eyes and kept talking, like starving ghosts reincarnated, how many days have they not eaten?

"Lord Zhijun is back, you have something to say." Zhang Qing stepped forward and shouted.

Those hungry ghosts raised their heads and saw Xu Wei, just like a lost baby seeing their mother, they couldn't take care of eating, they pounced over one by one, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and cried before they could say anything, and kept saying that they wanted to ask Mr. Xu to be the master. There was a commotion, Xu Wei was annoyed by crying, and shouted: "You fucking say it!" Otherwise, what do I know? ”

The soldiers moved a chair out for him, and after Xu Wei sat down, one of them took out a piece of Zhu Ji from his arms and presented it to Xu Wei.

"Mr. Xu! The villain really didn't expect that the brothers were not folded in Li Jun's hands, but fell under the knife of the official army! The leader of the rebels fell to his knees and wept. As soon as these words came out, Xu Wei Huoran got up! Pointing at the other party, he sternly said, "You can eat things indiscriminately!" Don't talk nonsense! You have to know the weight of your words! ”

The leader of the rebel army kowtowed again, gritted his teeth and said: "The villain uses the head of the person on the item as a guarantee, and there is no lie!" Otherwise, please take care of the Fa-rectification on the spot! As soon as he took the lead, others insisted that it was true.

Xu Wei's face was ugly, Zhang Qing's previous sentence had already made it clear who the owner was, what did this guy want to do? You shake the official authority, just pretend, and dare to use your brains on the Hedong Righteous Army!

Suppressing his anger, he said solemnly: "Get up and speak." ”

Only then did several volunteer leaders get up and tell the truth of the matter. Li's army attacked the southern border of Pingyang, but the rebels were defeated and retreated all the way to the neighboring province of Hazhong. I had long heard that Hezhong had returned to Shaanxi, and had made a separate route with other state armies. The scattered rebels thought they were safe, but as soon as they arrived at the foot of Ji Mountain, they were intercepted and killed. The opposing side was all fully armed troops, the infantry rushed in front, the archers shot in the back, and the hungry rebels had no strength to resist at all, and immediately scattered in all directions. This part of them knew that Xu Wei was in Dingrong, and they rushed all the way to seek refuge.

"Are you sure it's a fully armed officer?" Xu Wei's eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked in a deep voice.

"No mistakes! That weapon, that armor, there is no one else except the officers and soldiers! Although there is no flag! The leader of the rebels replied categorically.

Xu Wei turned his back and lowered his head and thought for a long time. The people next to him didn't dare to speak, and after a while, I saw Mr. Xu turn around and say, "You guys go first." ”

When the leader of the rebel army heard this, he was anxious. I thought to myself, isn't it the protection of officials and officials? Or someone that Mr. Xu doesn't dare to offend? We rose up to fight against Jin, it was in a loyal heart, is this wrong? Why is it so difficult! There's not even a place to talk about it! Rather than this, it was better to have lowered Li Zhi to be happy!

"Please dare to ask Chief Xu, this matter ......" the leader of the rebel army said in a tone that was not quite right.

Zhang Qing glanced at Xu and immediately reprimanded: "Zhijun has his own opinions!" First go and restrain the rebels in the streets. Speaking of this, he paused, and added, "Go out from the west gate, go straight for three miles, and there is a ruined temple." Go to that place and settle down, and eat and drink with your own yamen. ”

After speaking, he glanced at Xu Wei again, and after he nodded, he waved his hand and said, "Go ahead." ”

Several volunteer leaders didn't say anything more, and after bowing to Xu Wei, they left the government office. As soon as they left, Zhang Qing immediately asked, "What's the matter?" And sludge? ”

I don't know where this sentence provoked Xu Wei, he shrugged his shoulders and sneered: "And the mud? Lao Tzu muddies the waters for him! Fuck the x! ”