Chapter 67: Rewards for meritorious deeds (Part 2)
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"Damn Wang Zongqi!"
Liang Fangping, who was one step slower than the selection army, was furious.
Although he was a eunuch, Liang Fangping was not willing to serve in the palace for the rest of his life, even if that person was the current emperor Zhao Ji.
Tong Guan’s path to success gave Liang Fangping hope - Liang Fangping felt that the path Tong Guan took was exactly the path he wanted to take.
So, Liang Fangping began to read military books, and talked about military books and strategies to others, creating a look that he knew soldiers very well.
I have to say that Liang Fangping was very successful in his own marketing.
Soon, Liang Fangping entered Zhao Ji's eyes.
Zhao Ji asked Liang Fangping about the strategy of war with military letters and wars, and Liang Fangping answered like a stream.
This made Zhao Ji very happy and thought he had obtained another child warrior.
It was also Liang Fangping's luck.
The battle between Song and Xia broke out soon, and Liang Fangping was sent by Zhao Ji to the Western Army as the military supervisor.
The army under Liang Fangping's supervision was the army of the Zong family led by Zhong Shi.
This kind of family army was one of the most capable troops in the late Northern Song Dynasty.
As a result, Liang Fang made military achievements while lying flat.
but--
Going to war with the Zhong family army is truly a meritorious service.
But Zhong Shizhong, especially the head of the Seed Master, was as smelly and hard as the stones in the thatched cottage. His words were not heard by the two brothers Zhong Shizhong, which made Liang Fangping, who wanted to make achievements by leading troops to fight like Tong Guan.
What can you do!
The Zhong family is deeply rooted in the military and is not something that Liang Fangping can provoke now.
Liang Fangping could only choose to endure and wait for his own opportunity to command the army.
Now that the opportunity has come, Liang Fangping has really got the opportunity to command the army.
Liang Fangping secretly made up his mind to make military achievements and make the world admire him.
However, as the military achievements were about to be obtained, Wang Zongqi actually refused to obey Liang Fangping's orders because he was Gao Qiu's confidant, and even snatched away all the military achievements that originally belonged to him, Liang Fangping. This was simply disgusting!
Liang Fangping has decided that it is necessary to disobey Wang Zongyi on the battlefield.
At this moment, someone outside the tent shouted: "Report to the capital supervisor, Commander Cai of Jinwu Army sent someone to deliver the good news."
"Good news?"
Liang Fangping frowned and thought to himself: "Maybe he caught the rebels' tail and killed some rebels."
This little achievement was meaningless to Liang Fangping. What he wanted was the great achievement of regaining Linpu or defeating one or two battalions of rebels.
Therefore, Liang Fangping said with some ease: "Go and bring the people who report the victory in."
After a while, Liang Fangping's personal soldiers led a strong soldier in.
Liang Fangping didn't raise his eyelids while having tea and asked, "What other great victory did your Jinwu army win?"
Not long ago, the Jinwu army wiped out the Song Jiang Yijun, and had already won a great victory and made a great contribution.
Moreover, in order to boost morale, the promotion and reward of the soldiers of the Jinwu Army has been reduced.
I won’t talk about the promotion and rewards of others. Cai Shen himself was promoted three levels, from Bingyilang at the 46th level to Dunwulang at the 43th level, becoming an ambassador. He was one step away from being the deputy envoy of the Ministry and entering the fast lane for the promotion of military officers’ military merits. After another level, Cai Shen could still be awarded the title of Wu Yilang. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were regulations that starting from Wu Yilang (from the seventh level: the 42nd level of military officers) to the highest martial arts doctors (the seventh level: the 15th level of military officers), the system of double-transformation of military officers (that is, military officers with military merits are from Wu Yilang or above, and each official transfer is transferred to two officials).
Generally speaking, this step is the most difficult to take. Many military officers are stuck here all their lives - this step requires real military achievements to be able to take over, which is too difficult for many military officers who are not good at fighting.
After Cai still joined the army, his starting point was higher than that of most military officers, and he became the 46th-level military officer at the beginning.
Of course, no one will think that Cai Shen has a high starting point. You must know that if Cai Shen did not insist on abandoning literature and following martial arts, then with Cai Shen's status as the fourth in the subject, the starting point would definitely be higher. In terms of level, it would be at least ten levels higher, or even more than twenty levels higher.
But then again, since Cai has still entered the Wu Pao, it makes no sense to mention the fourth place in the current academic year. Once he enters the Wu Pao, he has to follow the Wu Pao path.
In this way, Cai still left very fast, at least in Liang Fangping's opinion, Cai still left very fast.
Therefore, Liang Fangping was a little disgusted with Cai's practice of still striving for military achievements. He thought to himself: "How old are you, just climb up desperately. Do you want to be ranked third like ours?"
Unexpectedly, the soldier who came to report the victory in the Jinwu Army actually said, "My Jinwu Guards Fengdu Superintendent and Wang Xuanfeng ordered the rebels to be stopped. Under the leadership of my general, our Jinwu Guards rushed to a hundred miles and finally intercepted the rebels in Jishan Village and fought three times. They fought three times. They captured 1,336 rebels' heads, captured 362 rebels alive, and killed six rebel leaders. They were vanguard Suo Chao, Black Tornado Li Kui, shakuhachi Leg Liu Tang, two-headed snake Jie Zhen, Shenxing Taibao Dai Zong, Saiguan Suo Yang Xiong, captured the rebel leader Pu Tian Diao Li Ying, forcing the rebels to dare to advance eastward, and could only escape to Hebei in a panic. Now that our Jinwu Army is still biting and killing the rebels, the results may not increase again."
"What?"
When Liang Fangping heard this, he stood up suddenly!
Because he stood too hard, Liang Fangping's teacup was scraped to the ground by him and fell to pieces!
But Liang Fangping didn't care about these things at all. He came to the Jinwu soldiers who reported the victory in three steps, stared at the Jinwu soldiers who reported the victory in two steps, and asked, "What you said is true?"
"Every sentence is true!" the soldier said without hesitation, and then said: "Here is a good news from my general to the governor. The governor can take a look at it myself."
When Liang Fangping heard the words, he grabbed the good news and read it word by word.
After reading, Liang Fangping was overjoyed!
yes!
This battle was fought by the Jinwu Army, but don’t forget that the Jinwu Army was under the leadership of Liang Fangping, so there must be a contribution from Liang Fangping in this!
Liang Fangping walked around excitedly with the good news!
But as he walked, Liang Fangping's steps slowly stopped.
Liang Fangping thought of something, which may cause variables to Liang Fangping's great achievements.
This is because Liang Fangping did not lead the army to catch up with Song Jiang's rebel army in time, and then let Song Jiang's rebel army flee to Hebei.
If this matter is too big, Liang Fangping would have missed the opportunity to fight. If this is the case, then it would be good if Liang Fangping was not punished, not to mention the reward. The key is that this may ruin Liang Fangping's future.
Liang Fangping regretted it very much: "Why am I greedy for the small tricks of sesame and mung beans? Otherwise, this overwhelming trick would be ours!"
Liang Fangping thought to himself: "If these battles in Jishan Village were not fought by Cai Jian, it would be easier, but... hey!"
As Liang Fangping thought, if the Jishan Village battles were not fought by Cai Jian, but by those generals who had no followers, Liang Fangping could have taken it as his own. At most, he would give some money to the generals who fought this battle, but Cai Jian was not able to fight this battle. Not to mention that Cai Jian was a member of the Cai family, they had a very good relationship with Liang Shicheng and Gao Qiu, and they all had channels to reach the sky. Just talking about Cai Jian's identity as a literati made Liang Fangping dare not be greedy for Cai Jian's achievements. You should know that literati are not martial artists who can't say they can't speak. Literature writes something casually and resonate with other literati, which is enough for Liang Fangping to drink a pot of it.
"What should I do?"
Liang Fangping started walking around again.
Sudden!
Liang Fangping saw the Jinwu Army soldier who was winning the victory from the corner of his eyes.
Liang Fangping frowned and asked, "Why haven't you gone down yet?"
The soldier said: "My general has another sentence for the villain to tell the governor himself."
Liang Fangping thought about it and then asked the Jinwu Army soldiers who reported the victory: "What are your generals asking you to bring?"
The soldier said: "My general said that Dujian is a celebrity around the official family and is most familiar with the official family's preferences. He hopes that Dujian can send someone to help him write this good news so as not to violate any taboos of the official family and make the official family furious."
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When Liang Fangping heard Cai Jian's words conveyed by the soldiers, he immediately realized that Cai Jian was not ready to reveal his secrets, but instead was ready to share his military achievements with him.
Now, Liang Fangping was really happy - if Cai still cooperated with this matter, Liang Fangping's great achievements would have completely failed.
Although Liang Fangping also knew that Cai still couldn't give him this great contribution in vain, Liang Fangping didn't care - as long as Liang Fangping could make great contributions this time, Liang Fangping was willing to pay the price at any cost.
Liang Fangping changed his previous attitude and not only allowed the Jinwu army soldiers who would win the future to bring good wine and food to greet him, but also rewarded him with fifty copper coins.
When the Jinwu army soldiers who came to report the victory went down, Liang Fangping immediately called someone to call his confidant general Tian Shizhong - he was about to send Tian Shizhong to bargain with Cai Jian.
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Wang Zongyi's big tent.
After Wang Zongqi sent Cai Jian to report the victory, he asked his generals: "What do you think?"
A commander named Dou Kangcheng said, "I don't expect Cai Ziyin to be able to intercept the rebels. She has won so many battles in a row. I really underestimated him before."
Another general named Tang Yong said, "What's the point of talking about this matter now? The most urgent thing is to never cause fire to burn yourself."
Wang Zongqian received Cai Jian's letter of help from Liang Fangping and ordered Liang Fangping to reinforce Cai Jian. This was nothing, but Cai Jian stopped Song Jiang's rebel army, which made Wang Zongqian feel very uncomfortable. Wang Zongqian thought about it with the soles of his feet, and he could also think that Liang Fangping would definitely make a big fuss about this matter. Therefore, if this matter is not handled well, Wang Zongqian would be in great trouble, even if Wang Zongqian was Gao Qiu's confidant.
Dou Kangcheng said: "This matter is not difficult. The person sent by Cai Ziyin just now said that he hopes that the general will send someone to discuss the next trend of the vanguard selection army. The general can take this opportunity to discuss with Cai Ziyin what to do with Cai Ziyin. Both the general and Cai Ziyin are disciples of the Taiwei and have a friendship with each other. Cai Ziyin will not refuse to sell the general's face. As long as Cai Ziyin cooperates, the general will not be responsible, but may be able to share some credit. After all, the Jinwu Guard is also our vanguard selection army sequence."
Tang Yongze was a little worried and said, "I'm afraid Cai Zi would speak loudly because he could speak a lion. I've fought with him. Although he is usually elegant and polite, he is actually unwilling to suffer any loss. I guess he will definitely ask the general for a war horse. He has been thinking about the general's war horse for not a day or two."
Wang Zongqiu said, "Can you still care about these things now? We only blamed us for being so lard at that time. If we were not greedy for the regaining Lin Pu's merits and reinforced the Jinwu Guard, how could we fall into such a field... Alas!"
Chapter completed!