In mid-August, Xu Ping officially played, asking to lure and annihilate the main force of the Western Envoy Cheng Yu to hide the flowers and hemp. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the recital, Xu Ping lists the reasons for this. The core two points are to use the annihilation of Yuzang to shock the hearts of the people in Xifan, so that those tribes who are close to the party know that they are afraid. Another is the important strategic location of the West Envoy City, which is the intersection of the middle line and the north line from Chang'an to Jincheng County since the Hantong Western Regions, once the West Envoy City is occupied, it can threaten Lanzhou across the mountains in the northwest, and threaten Huizhou along Zulichuan in the southwest. The road through Tibet in the Tang Dynasty was the Pingxiang Road on the southern route, and the road around the West Envoy City was the Horse Husband, which was relatively desolate, and it was all deserted after not entering Tibet. But although the road is abandoned, the foundation is still there, and it is not difficult to reopen.

Xu Ping thought that he had thought it through as much as possible, and the court should agree to it, but he never expected that such a clear strategy would still cause a quarrel. Li Di expressed his support, but Chen Yaozuo and Han Yi opposed again. They believed that Qinzhou was mostly local soldiers and horses, and there was no elite main force of the forbidden army, and it was too risky to start a war with a large number of enemies, and once it lost, Longyou would be unstable. If the party is allowed to occupy Qinzhou, the whole situation will deteriorate, so we should try to be safe. They suggested that it was still necessary to build a large city in the Gangu area, cut off the road to the south of the western envoy city, and then slowly map it.

Reasoning is incomprehensible. You said that you should be aggressive, he said that when you use troops, you should think about defeat before you think about victory, you said that you have considered all kinds of possibilities and made corresponding arrangements, he said that he is not afraid of 10,000, he is afraid of just in case, or seek stability first.

A few recitals, even if they were all rushed by 800 miles, half a month had already passed. Xu Ping didn't bother to pay attention to the various official documents of the Privy Council, and according to the original plan, let Lu Fang cooperate with Yang Wenguang to start a detailed exploration of the terrain around Gangu and prepare to build a city. Regardless of whether to fight or not, this city still has to be built, and when the time comes, Yu Zang Huama will come over, and Xu Ping will have the final say on how to fight. The general has the right to act cheaply outside, after all, it is to look at the results of the battle, as long as the battle is won, everything is easy to say.

Li Di is coarse and hard-natured, and his popularity in the center is not very good. There are actually quite a few officials who support Xu Ping, but they are unwilling to echo Li Di, making the situation quite passive.

In September, the autumn is crisp, the valley is still green, but the jungle on Xiaolong Mountain has been dyed.

On the Longban Road, which has been renovated, a sturdy man in his thirties carries an iron sword on his back and leads a green donkey carrying luggage, slowly walking from east to west. Looking at the picturesque scenery of the surrounding mountains and forests, he suddenly looked up to the sky and let out a long roar.

The whistle was high-pitched, the breath was long, and a flock of birds flew around in the woods next to it.

Xiqing was escorting the convoy of Sansi Shop from Fengxiang Mansion back to Qinzhou, and was startled when he heard this long whistle. Qin Fenglu is now a large army assembled, and there is naturally no need to worry about thieves and strongmen on the busy Guanlong Road, so he can't help but be curious.

Hit the horse forward, looked at the man leading the donkey, and said happily: "I don't know what this brother is called?" Below is the celebration of Qinzhou Sansi Shop, and everyone is called 'little supervisor'. Seeing that his brother is rich and handy, he must not be an ordinary person! ”

The man smiled: "I am a native of Qingzhou, Jingdong, surnamed Wang, a single name, when I was a child, I learned fencing with the masters in the township, and often walked between the mountains and forests. A few years ago, when I went to Lingnan, I was used to seeing the scenery there, and suddenly I saw this autumn color, and I didn't feel it. ”

With a festive "oh", he was a teenager, curious about these wandering characters, and couldn't help but want to make friends. After getting off the horse, he said happily: "Qinzhou is the land of the extreme west, how did my brother come here?" ”

Wang Tu said: "The use of soldiers in the west is the time for men to make meritorious contributions!" I was recommended by the villagers to get an errand in the Northwest Army. ”

Festive and excited: "Did it turn out that he was in the army?" All kinds of characters in Qinzhou, there is no one I am not familiar with, it is better to be peers. ”

After saying that, let the convoy lead a horse, let Wang Tu ride, and his donkey was tied to the cart.

When asked, it turned out that Wang Tu's family was poor since he was a child, and it was difficult to live, so he went to Wang Qiao, a fellow of the same clan in Zizhou, and followed the study of art to eat a mouthful. Wang Qiao's family was plundered by the Khitan southward rangers in the Xianping years, he entered the Khitan alone alone, searched for many years without results, returned to the township and did not ask about the world, called himself "Zo Shi Weng", just fencing and talking about soldiers, thinking that one day the imperial court would go north to attack the Khitan, and he fought the sword to avenge the north. It's a pity that I waited until I died, and I didn't wait for this day.

When Shi Yannian went to Langzhou, he once summoned these familiar Jingdong Yi people to Lingnan to make contributions, and Wang Tu also went there after Wang Qiao's death, and achieved the palace with military merits.

After Fan Yan was impeached and removed from office by Pang Ji, it is now Wang Yan and Sun Wei who are in charge of military affairs in Yong Langlu. People, sometimes it's not clear, these two people had a grudge with Xu Ping and were sent to Lingnan, but they didn't expect to get mixed up there. Jiaozhi has already been eaten by the two of them, and now the south is attacking the city, and the west is attacking the mourning prison, and even Dali is terrified every day. The current Lingnan has long been in a different situation.

Wang Tu and these people went to Lingnan with Fan Wei and Shi Yannian, once a son of heaven and a courtier, now that Wang and Sun are in power, their lives are not easy, so they simply come back and find a way out. Li Di is a native of Jingdong Road and Puzhou, and he has been an official in Jingdong Road many times, and he is friendly with Fan Wei, and he mediates between them, and arranges most of these people to Qinzhou, at least Shi Yannian takes care of them here. In fact, Fan Wei was impeached repeatedly, and he had the intention of attacking Li Di, and Li Di, who was not a party member, could not prevent it.

Listening to Wang Tu's Lingnan experience with great interest, I couldn't get tired of listening to it. Although Xiqing is wandering around with Director Zheng, he still feels that the outside world is very big, and his knowledge is too little, so he wants to go out and have a look one day. It's human nature, who hasn't been at such an age?

Wang Tu came from the west of the capital, his kind of army is not the official transfer of the Privy Council, to be recruited by the Qinzhou Marshal Mansion separately, the previous official military function belt, but on the road can not enter the post house to stay, to bring their own dry food.

After many years in the army, Wang Tu has also saved some savings, and he can still afford to grit his teeth and mount. It's just that he has learned from Wang Qiao since he was a child, even if it is thousands of miles away, he is a person and a donkey, and he comes with big strides. Moreover, he had long heard that horses in Qinzhou were cheap, and the price of a horse in the capital could buy a few good horses in Qinzhou, so he would not spend that unjust money.

After leaving the capital for many years, I also miss the joy and celebration, and from time to time I ask Wang Tu about the current changes in the capital.

Wang Tudao: "The capital is the first metropolis in the world, and now it is even more incredible. Originally, the northwest used troops, and it should be difficult for the imperial court to use them, but when I got there, I realized that it was far from the case. Since last year, some veteran and important ministers of the clan have taken the initiative to write to the imperial court to ask for a reduction in salaries to help the war in the northwest, but they have all been refused. Although there was a war in the northwest, the imperial court was not short of money at all, and where was it willing to reduce their favors. In addition, I heard that Master Cheng, who is now in charge of the third division, once told people that the court is different from before, not by not spending money to save money, but by sending out more money, the richer it is, and I don't know what the truth is. ”

happily said excitedly: "My brother is not a businessman, so naturally I can't figure it out, but I have been in the Sansi shop since I was a child, but I can figure it out." Now the money is printed by the bank, and only when it is sent out to buy goods, really made something, and then returned to the hands of the imperial court, is it real money. This is what Mr. Cheng's words meant. ”