Seeing Xu Ping looking at Ren Shouzhong coldly, his face became more and more ugly, Pang Ji hurriedly coughed and said to Ren Shouzhong: "The pavilion chief has been tired all the way, so it is better to go and have a cup of tea first." There are a lot of local affairs, and Yu Zhixian and I still have many things to consult with the XCMG Department, which cannot be resolved in a moment. ”

Ren Shouzhong snorted, looked at the sky and said, "No matter what happens, you guys make a long story short." The Queen Mother's decree, since we have arrived, we must set off on the same day! If you miss the hour, you can't afford to suffer. ”

After speaking, he turned his head and walked away.

He brought the little yellow gate and soldiers with him, and he didn't need to carry the people in the yamen to serve, and he took people to the market to eat, drink and have fun, and see the customs of the frontier, and he didn't come in vain.

Pang Ji and Yu Jing glanced at each other, shook their heads and smiled bitterly together.

When he set out from the capital, he got the news that Xu Ping had broken through Guangyuan Prefecture, pacified Menzhou and Langzhou and other Tuzhou prefectures in Shannan against the Great Song Dynasty, and repelled the invasion of Jiaozhi. Although Shi Quanbin returned to Kaifeng and said lively, he was catching up with the Queen Mother who was unwell, and he did not send anyone to check, and everyone was discounted about this achievement. The frontier guards were good at provoking the enemy, killing the enemy and risking merit, Xu Ping was not the first.

From the border between the northwest and the party, to the Sichuan Gorge, and then to the Jinghu Guangnan East-West Road, this kind of thing happens every few years. Xu Ping was temporarily stripped of his ministry, and after verifying the facts, he was convicted of meritorious service, and the ministers in the court couldn't say anything.

Along the way, Pang Ji and Yu Jing didn't think much about it, and it wasn't until they crossed Wuling and entered Guangnan West Road that they learned about what happened here in Yongzhou from rumors. From not believing it at all, to believing it in doubt, to being convinced of what he saw with his own eyes after entering Yongzhou. The two realized how tricky the situation was.

I thought Shi Quanbin was exaggerating the facts. I never expected that what he said was only the eleventh truth.

Now it's in Taiping County. The fact is that Xu Ping not only pacified Guangyuan Prefecture, but also annihilated tens of thousands of enemies in Langzhou, and even advanced his troops, broke through Thang Long Mansion, and captured Li Foma, the king of Jiaozhi, and a number of ministers.

It's not anyone's talk, it's the facts.

Xu Ping has always been serious in his work, and the captured officials and civilians above and below Jiaozhi have names and surnames, and even according to the roster, they can find out and interrogate people one by one. The same is true of the gold and silver treasures that were seized. Both the account book and the physical object can be matched.

If the previous treatment was not a big problem, the current problem is big.

Officials are capable, knights are rewarded for merit, and now Xu Ping has not only made contributions in Yongzhou, but also shown his ability, according to common sense, it is necessary to add officials to knighthood. As a result, there was nothing, and the official was returned to the end, why didn't Xu Ping think about it, and what did the other people who won the battle here in Yongzhou think?

Ren Shouzhong took Xu Ping and patted his ass and left. The mess was left to Pang Ji and Yu Jing. How did the two of them take over the official position left by Xu Ping? Just rely on the official notice document given by the imperial court? There are hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children in the sugar industry, and tens of thousands of people in Taiping County. Why did they listen to these two?

Among these hundreds of thousands of people, most of them are domestic servants who have been liberated from the local officials in the past few years, and they have just become the household members of the imperial court, and they know what an official notice is!

Pang Ji only felt that his head was cloudy, he thought it was just an ordinary promotion, and even when he was sent to the edge of Lingnan, he felt pity for his colleagues, and suddenly the official position he wanted to take over was very hot, and he didn't dare to touch it.

Yu Jing also felt that it was difficult to do, just to be a magistrate, but he also brought military envoys, and all the officials and troops under his rule were under his control. The soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty were difficult to manage, especially the emperors of several generations deliberately weakened the authority of the commanders, to paraphrase a sentence from Xu Ping's previous life, it was not new in the army in this era.

If the money and food are not distributed in time, they will make trouble, and if the reward is less, they will make trouble, and even the soldiers below will feel that they are in an unhappy mood. Especially for civilian officials and soldiers, first of all, they must win the hearts of the soldiers, otherwise they will wait to look good. Theoretically speaking, the power to command the army lies in the three ya, although they have less control over the army, but the soldiers have to manage the same. As long as the soldiers below make trouble, the board will hit the commander first, and the soldiers will be mainly Fusui.

This kind of thinking of managing the army was especially obvious after Taizong, to put it bluntly, it was still the first to prevent internal strife, and the second to defend against foreign enemies, so as to prevent the authority of the commander of the army from being too heavy and threatening the imperial power. Which commander can deal decisively with the soldiers when they make trouble, and can still be punished afterwards, is called a capable minister, and the history books should be written in a big book.

Xu Ping knows this very well, especially after seeing one of the holy policies handed down by Taizong, that is, when the soldiers are making trouble, they meet the troublemakers and severely punish the commanders, so they basically ignore the Yongzhou Xiang Army and pack it to Sang Yi to lead. In a tough battle, Xu Ping would rather use cane sugar to serve the township soldiers than use the Xiang army, which is also due to this concern. Xu Ping is not smarter than other people in this era, but he has more knowledge beyond a thousand years, and there are things that others dare not think, but Xu Ping can see and understand.

Yu Jing wants to appease the Xiang army under his rule, in the case of Xu Ping getting this kind of ending, what will he use to appease?

When Pang Ji and Yu Jing were turning these thoughts in their hearts, Xu Ping had already called over the sugar department and the important officials in Taiping County, and began to make friends with the two.

Han Zong, who was also promoted to the cane sugar business, also changed his official position this time and was transferred to Yongzhou General Judge. Zhizhou Feng Shenji is a military minister, Xu Ping can act as an agent, and he will be sentenced to one position when he returns to office, but it is indispensable.

At this time, Xu Ping was full of resentment, and he was not in the mood to deal with official affairs, the actual handover affairs were all Han Zong to Pang Ji, Fang Tianyan to Yu Jing, and some major things Xu Ping added on the side.

Whether it is Cane Sugar or Taiping County, all kinds of account books and books are clearly understood, and the handover of affairs is not troublesome. The personnel arrangements that really need Xu Ping to explain to the two of them are more than how people are available, who should be careful and strictly controlled, where can Xu Ping think of in a hurry? is just to explain a sentence of military affairs to Sang Yi.

After sorting out these things, it was past noon, and it was late in the evening.

The rain still doesn't stop, and the sky and the earth are foggy, which makes people anxious.

Ren Shouzhong ate to his heart's content in the restaurant outside, and the little yellow door he carried with him held an umbrella and returned to the official hall of the yamen with a swing.

Seeing the door, shaking the water droplets splashed on his body, Ren Shouzheng said in a sharp voice: "It's been a day, why are there so many people?" Prisoner Xu Ping, hurry up and pack up on the road, there is still a long road ahead! ”

"What a prisoner! The imperial court just asked Xu Ping's Ministry of Industry to wait for the order, and you will become a criminal official in your mouth! You are just a chamberlain, and you are loyal to you, do you want to pass on the holy decree? ”

Hearing the harsh words, Ren Shouzhong was frightened, and the strength of the wine dispersed a lot, and when he turned his head, he saw that Yu Jing, the newly appointed Taiping Zhixian County, was glaring at him angrily.

Although he has the position of envoys, in the eyes of Wenchen, the image of Ren Shouzhong's inner servants is really bad. In the capital, you can also use the name of the Queen Mother to shake your prestige, and once you get caught, it is difficult to say what will happen. As an inner servant, the most terrible thing is to be said to be a false messenger, once this crime is put on the head, it is that the gods can't save it.

Knowing that he was about to leave a handle for a while, Ren Shouzhong didn't dare to mess around with a group of civil servants, so he changed the topic and said: "I don't have a verbal dispute with you, the Queen Mother's will, Xu Ping must leave today." If it's too late today, why don't you clean up? ”

Yu Jing said with a straight face: "As long as the sun hasn't risen tomorrow, it's all today, you have passed on the Queen Mother's decree, just follow Xu Ping's Ministry of Industry, what is the noise!" ”

Hearing this, even Xu Ping and Pang Ji on the side looked at Yu Jing with strange eyes. Yu Jing has always been moody and angry, and he has very few words, giving people a very dull feeling. But this person in history who is one of the "Four Ministers of Qingli", once he has a seizure, he can catch the emperor and spray for a long time, Ren Shouzhong was caught by him, just scolding two sentences is already considered to be his young and not in the limelight.

Ren Shouzhong's prestige is that others have something to ask him, and he can rely on a group of henchmen to get his hands on it. The civil affairs official in the foreign country did not expect to beg him for promotion, and his hand could not reach under the door of the Chinese book, and he could not help it to look at his face.

Seeing that several people inside were glaring at him, Ren Shouzhong's face was sneering: "And see how long you can drag it out, I'll wait outside, and after the hour, you look good in front of the Queen Mother!" ”

After speaking, he flicked his sleeves and turned around and walked out of the official hall with a few small yellow doors.

Watching Ren Shouzhong leave, Yu Jing said to Xu Ping: "If you offend this eunuch, you may have to suffer some hardships on the way to the Ministry of Industry, which is despicable and reckless!" ”

Xu Ping said: "Since he arrived here, he has been pretending, and he has already offended, and it is not bad for you." Forget it, don't talk about it, think about it again, what else do you want to ask me? ”

Pang Ji and Yu Jing went to their respective subordinate clerks to ask about some specific matters, to see if there were any omissions, and asked Xu Ping to answer in time.

At this time, both of them understood that their next ministry was not easy, and now the situation in Yongzhou is very good, and once it is messed up in the future, it will have a rather bad impact on their future careers.

Xu Ping used to hold several positions, but now he is divided into four people, Yongzhou Feng Shenji and Han Zong, Cane Sugar Wu Pang Ji, and Taiping Army Yu Jing. In addition to Feng Shenji and Han Zong working with Xu Ping for many years, which is relatively easy, Pang Ji and Yu Jing will be quite tricky in the future.

Pang Ji is known for being a official, and has gone through nearly 20 years of officialdom experience, but in the face of the big stall of sugar business, he still has the feeling of not knowing where to start. If you count the family members, there are hundreds of thousands of people under the sugar service, and how many states in the entire Great Song Dynasty have such a large population? Even in Kaifeng Mansion, excluding the army, officials and palace personnel who are not under the rule, there are not many more people. Not to mention the situation in the south, the expansion of the sugar business to the south and west, the affairs are far more complicated than a large state.

Yu Jing is a little better, he is a native of Meizhou, Guangnan East Road, and he has geographical convenience. Although Taiping County is also a large place, its population is only a large county, and he can handle civil affairs, the only thing is that the Xiang army is a bit tricky. In fact, according to the trajectory of history, most of Yu Jing's exploits came from this land, and the highest point of his life was the rebellion with Di Qingping Nong Zhigao, and now he just came here in advance.

Xu Ping stood alone in front of the door watching the rain, with mixed feelings in his heart. Since coming to Yongzhou six years ago, in a few years, the population of a single state here has far exceeded the entire Guangnan West Road at that time, and the wealth produced by the sugar cane business is equivalent to the sum of several roads, not to mention the military exploits in the frontier, but in the end, this is the end.

For no reason, I remembered Cao Wei, the first general I had seen at this time when I was in Zhongmu. At that time, Cao Wei was brilliant in Shaanxi, and he wrote an edict in the court, Cao Wei didn't say a word, cleaned up slightly, took an old slave, and rode a donkey away from the Shaanxi Governor's Office. Ten years later, I was faced with this fate. (To be continued.) )