Chapter 68: Rewards for meritorious deeds (2)
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If you are unlucky, how could Cai Shen give Liang Fangping and Wang Zongyi the opportunity to share the contributions, and forget about those who can also be related to the contributions that Zeng Xiaoyun and others have made?
Therefore, while delivering good news to Liang Fangping and Wang Zongyi, Cai still delivered good news to Zeng Xiaoyun and others, and asked them to send someone to discuss how to write the good news.
Cai is certainly not a little boy who spends money.
The reason he did this:
First of all, he can use this to establish good relationships with his direct leaders, so as not to interfere with others and suddenly cause variables, causing him to have blood flowing with the soldiers of the Jinwu Army.
Secondly, Cai Shen is preparing to poach these people's corners, but it's been a day or two. This time, he finally gave Cai Shen a chance to blackmail them. If Cai Shen does not use it, how can he be worthy of himself?
In short, the division of military merits led by Cai Shen went smoothly. At the same time, a large number of potential low-level small schools and even the lowest-level soldiers poured into the Jinwu Army to supplement the Jinwu Army.
Soon, Cai Jian and others finally reached an agreement, and then a good news sent to Tokyo Bianliang City with an accelerated force of 800 miles.
After receiving this good news, Gao Qiu was overjoyed and went to the palace to report the good news to Zhao Ji overnight.
Coincidentally, Wang Fu and Cai You were also having fun with Zhao Ji in the palace. Wang Fu and Cai You put on short clothes and narrow pants, smeared in green and red, mixed with singing and dancing artists and dwarfs, saying that many scoundrels and sluts and sluts were joking and floating words from the market, to win Zhao Ji's favor. Zhao Ji had a lot of fun. In addition, Cai You found a gap to tell Zhao Ji that Li Shishi was incorporated by Zhao Ji, Zhao Yuannu was stolen by the stolen coach Liuxiang, and a group of literati and poets were preparing to pick up another courtesan to enrich their spare time. At present, Wang Zhongduan has the highest voice. Cai You carefully told Zhao Ji about Wang Zhongduan's extraordinaryness and instigated Zhao Ji to meet Wang Zhongduan, saying that she was not surnamed Zhao, so there was no need to be any taboos. Zhao Ji was a little moved.
At this moment, Gao Qiu arrived with a good news.
Gao Qiu was not as conservative as Cai Gan and others. He directly expanded the results achieved by the Jinwu army several times, and swore to Zhao Ji that as long as the Song Jiang army entered Hebei, it would be difficult to fly.
There was nothing he could do if Gao Qiu said so much. He had been in charge of the Central Imperial Guard for many years, but the Central Imperial Guard never fought any decent battles. Even when he was promoted to the Grand Marshal, he had to rely on gilding into the Northwest Imperial Guard, which made Gao Qiu very embarrassed.
Now that the Central Imperial Force has finally made great progress, how could Gao Qiu not make a big fuss about this?
When Zhao Ji heard that Song Jiang's group of rebels was about to be wiped out, he was very happy. He said, "Is it going to be wiped out so soon?"
Gao Qiu was prepared for a long time. He spread the map in his hand and explained to Zhao Ji: "The tens of thousands of troops of the Central Imperial Guards completely sealed this area. This group of rebels could only go north to cross the Yellow River to Hebei. There are eight Hebei imperial guards, including Qianning, Yongjing, Baoding, Xin'an, Ansu, Yongning, Guangxin, Shun'an, etc., with nearly 200,000 troops. Our Central Imperial Guards annihilated thousands of rebels with 500 Jinwu Guards. The Hebei imperial guards have nearly 200,000 troops. If even these less than 10,000 rebels cannot be suppressed, it would be unfair to spend tens of millions of dollars on them every year."
After hearing what Gao Qiu said, Zhao Ji also felt that it was not difficult to destroy Song Jiang and his gang.
Gao Qiu said again: "If this group of rebels had not run away and would not dare to fight with our central imperial guards, our central imperial guards would have wiped out it long ago. Now this group of rebels was severely defeated by our central imperial guards, and was driven into the encirclement of the Hebei imperial guards by our central imperial guards and completely destroyed it. It was a matter of time."
Zhao Ji was even happier when he heard this. He suddenly remembered something and asked, "Who is the commander of the Jinwu Guard who killed thousands of them with 500?"
Gao Qiu said: "Report to the official family, it's Cai's."
"Cai still?"
Zhao Ji was a little confused for a moment - obviously, Zhao Ji, who was busy with all kinds of things, had forgotten who Cai was still.
Zhao Ji then looked at Cai You and said, "The surname is Cai..."
Cai You hurriedly answered: "It's my sixth brother, my second uncle's son."
After Cai You reminded him, Zhao Ji finally remembered who Cai was, and he said, "But Cai Ziyin, who abandoned literature and followed martial arts?"
Cai You replied: "That's right."
After receiving Cai You's affirmation, Zhao Ji said: "No wonder he wanted to abandon his literature and follow the military. It turns out that he is really proficient in leading troops to fight."
Gao Qiu had received Cai Shen's heavy gifts, and Cai Shen made him look so big this time, so he praised Cai Shen without hesitation: "It's not just proficient. If he goes through more than ten or twenty years, we may have another Di Hanchen in our Song Dynasty."
When Zhao Ji heard that Gao Qiu compared Cai to Di Qing, he was very surprised. He said, "You are so optimistic about Cai Ziyin?"
Gao Qiu bowed deeply and said, "That's right."
Gao Qiu said again: "I have been working in Wu for more than ten years and have only met two young people with this potential. One is Liu Qi, the son of Liu Ziwen (Liu Zhongwu), and the other is Cai Gan. They will be famous generals in the future and will be able to lead our great army in the Song Dynasty to achieve repeated military achievements."
Gao Qiu is also Zhao Ji's absolute confidant. Therefore, Zhao Ji believed in Gao Qiu's words. Moreover, Cai's contribution was real, so Zhao Ji asked Gao Qiu: "So, according to my beloved, how to reward Cai is still appropriate?"
Gao Qiu said: "According to the achievements made by Cai, he can be promoted from Dunwulang to Wugonglang for many times, and has been promoted to twelve levels in a row. However, I think that the official can show Cai to be kind and upgrade him one more level, so that he can be allowed to enter the rampant deputy envoy (the second level of deputy envoys in various departments is generally not a necessary step for the promotion of a martial official). In addition, the Jinwu Guards he commanded can be promoted to the Jinwu Army, allowing him to serve as the commander and command the Jinwu Army, and continue to wipe out the Song Jiang rebels for the official."
To be honest, according to the merits that Cai still made, this reward is not an exaggeration.
Moreover, even if he was promoted to level 13, Cai was still just a small military officer from the seventh grade, which was not worth Zhao Ji's worries about.
but--
Zhao Ji still attaches great importance to the opinions of Cai You, the playmate. He vaguely remembers that Cai You had thought about honing Cai Gan, so he turned his head and asked Cai You: "My dear, do you think Cai Gan can take on this position?"
The reason why Cai You disagreed with Cai Jian's direct establishment of the army was mainly because he cherished his own feathers and did not want to be affected by Cai Jian's future.
Now Cai You has proved to Zhao Ji with practical actions that he is "selfless". In this case, if Zhao Ji wants to be promoted to Cai Jian again, it has nothing to do with him, Cai You. Why should he be a villain in vain?
Besides, Cai You can't take 20% of Baixiangju shares in vain.
Therefore, Cai You said: "I thought my sixth brother was just a fool and had no ability to command troops. I was afraid that he would miss the major affairs of the government, so I wanted to polish him and let him give up the military journey and return to the civil journey. Now he has proved that he has the ability to command troops. In this way, he can follow the military and be able to defend the land and peace for the government. As for the promotion and reward that Taiwei Gao said, I think it is reasonable. After all, the sixth brother is a Jinshi today. If he had not abandoned the civil service and followed the military, he would have been a seventh-rank official."
Seeing that Cai You didn't object, Zhao Ji looked at Wang Fu again.
Although Wang Fu has many problems, he is the minister of the prime minister after all, and will be the prime minister below one person in the future. Therefore, based on Cai Jian's age, he felt that he should not be promoted to Cai Jian like this. You must know that there is no reward for the reward and the title cannot be granted. In the end, there will be only two endings. Either Zhao Ji killed Cai Jian or Cai Jian committed Zhao Ji's rebellion. Therefore, in Wang Fu's view, whether it is for the Song Dynasty or Cai Jian, he should not be promoted to Cai Jian like this.
But Wang Fu was about to open his mouth and tell him the reason, when Liang Shicheng, not far away, suddenly waved his hand without a trace, indicating that Wang Fu should not disturb Cai Shen's promotion.
Seeing this, Wang Fu swallowed the words he had already said, and changed his words: "Only people can be convinced if they have merits and punishments."
All three important officials agreed, and this was really just a small military officer from the seventh rank, no need for the Emperor Zhao Ji, as the emperor, so Zhao Ji no longer hesitated and said, "Then follow the one whom Gao Aiqing was raised, and the promotion to Cai was still the right Wulang, and the reward of Cai was still the Xuanzanshe, the commander of the Jinwu army, and the reward of Cai was still the armor, a good horse, and twenty silver and silk."
There is nothing to say about the commander of the Right Wulang and the Jinwu Army. One is the 34th rank of military officers (equivalent to the military rank of later generations), and the other is the real power, that is, the military officers who command the first army (that is, 2,500 people).
The Xuanzanshe of the Hemen is a joint position. The addition of the martial arts official means an outstanding reserve talent who can shoulder heavy responsibilities, which is equivalent to a key training target.
It is not difficult to see from the reward Zhao Ji gave to Cai Shen that Zhao Ji is also optimistic about Cai Shen. At least under the praise of Gao Qiu, Cai You and Wang Fu, Zhao Ji is optimistic about Cai Shen.
In just over ten days, the reward was reached by Cai Jian. The soldiers of the Jinwu Army cheered and only Cai Jian was still calm, and there was not much joy on his face.
All the generals were puzzled and asked.
Cai still replied: "I am waiting for your promotion."
The generals suddenly realized: "It turns out that the general was not happy about his promotion, but he was worried about the fact that our promotion was not yet received."
This made the generals even more respectful to Cai Sun.
A few days later, all the rewards of the Jinwu Army soldiers were gradually reduced, and Cai Shen's face finally began to feel happy.
Only when Cai Jian's most anticipated order to allow Cai Jian to recruit troops and expand his army came down, Cai Jian's face was truly full of smiles.
With the promotion and reward, there was also an order to continue to suppress the bandits - the Privy Council ordered Zeng Xiaoyun and Liang Fangping to lead the bandit suppression army north to completely wipe out the Song Jiang rebel army with the Hebei imperial guards.
Although the Jinwu Army was upgraded from a battalion to an army, it was still affiliated with the bandit suppression army.
However, the Jinwu Army had just experienced a great war and wanted to recruit troops and expand the army. Therefore, it was not in the first-mover sequence, and belonged to the emergency force - Zeng Xiaoyun. Liang Fangping and others did not even want to ask the Jinwu Army to fight. According to their statement, it also gave others some opportunities to make contributions.
Because Cai Shen is generous and good at being a human being, the top and the others who suppress the bandits all accept Cai Shen's affection, and they are most embarrassed to give Cai Shen a shame.
Therefore, Cai still asked Zeng Xiaoyun and Liang Fangping for instructions, saying that there was no war between the Jinwu army on both sides for the time being, so he wanted to take a detour to Xiangzhou to recruit some Xiangzhou soldiers there. Zeng Xiaoyun and Liang Fangping only discussed it for a little and agreed.
After obtaining the consent of Zeng Xiaoyun and Liang Fangping, Cai Jian quickly led the Jinwu army to the cradle of Yue's army, Xiangzhou...
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Chapter completed!