Chapter 149 Requesting a reward
() Although Wu Yong and Lin Chong also drank a lot of wine, they were still clear-headed and didn't think that others seemed to be imaginative.
Because the two of them, Zhu Wu and Gongsun Sheng, are both people who know Song Qing best. To say that Song Qing has no ambitions, they also don’t believe it, but they believe that, as Song Qing said, the time is not yet ripe.
Now the world is almost in chaos. There are Jin people watching the tiger in the north, and there are Song Dynasty, which is still unstoppable despite the storm. Not to mention some other forces, now Shandong firmly supports Liangshan. Other places may not know what Liangshan does! If Song Qing was given to the throne at this time, it would undoubtedly be like putting him on the fire.
So the two ignored everyone's hot gazes, looked at each other, and shook their heads firmly.
Pei Xuan pondered for a moment, approached Wu Yong, and whispered: "Old scholar, the brothers' contributions are getting bigger and bigger day by day. It is not a solution to always suppress this way. He can manage his current identity and it seems that he can no longer reward him. So, are you thinking of a solution?"
To put it bluntly, I still want Song Qing to take the throne, but Pei Xuan's words are not unreasonable. The generals of Liangshan conquered the cities and resisted the robbery, and they made great contributions. The problem is that in the official position, Song Qing was just a general manager and could not reward everyone with justification. This is indeed a problem.
"What are you muttering about?"
Song Qing noticed the situation on their side and interrupted with a smile.
Wu Yong, the old man, said quietly: "We are discussing this battle. Who has the greatest contribution? How will the general manager give me rewards?"
Pei Xuan secretly gave a thumbs up, and he was worthy of being a military advisor. He was indeed a terrible person and did not ask the general manager to take office at all. However, if the general manager said this, if he didn't understand it, there would be something wrong with his head.
Song Qing's expression froze. To be honest, he had thought about this problem before, but he was afraid to face it, and even escaped.
When the emperor was in his dream, it was definitely not the time. But now he has not raised the flag to rebel and he still holds an official position in the Song Dynasty. So the question arises, what kind of identity should he reward the generals?
But if you always keep the credit of the generals high and just draw a big cake for them, who would be willing to follow you if this continues?
Wu Yong pondered for a moment while pinching his sparse beard, his eyes lit up suddenly and he said, "Master, how would the imperial court react after learning that we had defeated the Jin soldiers?"
Song Qing understood a little. Wu Yong meant to threaten the court to grant him an official position. However, he didn't know much about the official positions of the Song Dynasty and couldn't think of any official position. After thinking for a while, Wu Yong would take care of himself and he went to drink with the generals.
Wu Yong pulled Pei Xuan and called Zhu Wu, Xiao Rang, Chai Jin, and Chen Dong again. Several people discussed it, and then Xiao Rang took the pen and submitted a memorial to the old emperor.
The memorial was that Song Qing worked hard and made great contributions, which was to resist the invasion of foreign races, and to promote the prestige of the Song Dynasty outside the territory. Such meritorious officials should be rewarded, so the court asked the court to issue an order to grant Song Qingquan the Shandong affairs, establish the official Yi Tongsansan, and add the title of Minister of War.
This official position is amazing. If the court agrees, Song Qing will really become the king of Shandong who will take charge of the army and dismount and control the people.
Although the official position is not small, Wu Yong and others believe that the old emperor will agree. After all, you are wrong first. Why don’t you give some compensation now?
This memorial was not sent to Liangshan by his own people, but was handed over to Wang Shiyong who came from Dengzhou. I believe that when the prince and the old emperor saw Wang Shiyonghe's memorial, they knew what to do.
After the celebration banquet, the generals of Liangshan began to carry out a new round of intensive training for the soldiers. Facts proved that Song Qing's foresight was correct, so he had to improve his own strength in order to cope with larger-scale wars in the future.
Liangshan collected nearly 60,000 war horses from the Jin soldiers this time, and more than 40,000 were used for the wounded ones. Therefore, Song Qing decided to expand the number of cavalry to 30,000, and distribute the remaining war horses to the garrisons of various prefectures, and sell the wounded war horses to merchants and people at a discount.
According to the proposal of the veteran General Hu Yanzhuo, another 5,000 were selected from the 30,000 cavalry to be trained as heavy cavalry. As for the heavy infantry he proposed, it was not adopted by Song Qing.
Song Qing had seen heavy armored infantry holding a mo knife in the novel. The novel describes such heavy armored infantry as the nemesis of the cavalry. However, he did not think so. No matter how heavy the armor is, it is also a flesh and blood body. If there is no gunpowder, it might be a choice from time to time. Now that the firearm is so developed, it will be a bit of loss if it is used to resist the impact of war horses.
This time when fighting with the Jin soldiers, Wu Yong and others implemented Song Qing's will well and did not use firearms on a large scale. Therefore, when fighting against the Jin soldiers, once the firearms come on the field, they will definitely have unexpected results.
Infantry training is mainly to cooperate with cavalry and attack the high city and large ports, while strengthening discipline and obedience to avoid swarms on the battlefield.
The news about Liangshan people and horses were handed over to the old emperor's Long Shu case, along with the memorial drafted by Wu Yong and others.
The old emperor's first reaction was that Song Qing had a problem with his brain. Will he be stupid? Who can cure you in the future with such a big official position? Isn't it a legitimate way to recruit soldiers and horses?
The old emperor was indeed not stupid, because he quickly realized that Liangshan was threatening himself! He originally hoped that the Jin soldiers could destroy the needle that was stabbed in his heart. At worst, he could give the Jin Kingdom more money to buy the place occupied by Liangshan like buying back those states. However, he never expected that the arrogant Jin soldiers were wiped out by Liangshan.
After Liangshan repelled the Jin soldiers, he began to train his troops. What do they want to do? Could it be that they really want to raise the flag to rebel? If they really rebel, who can defeat them?
The older the old emperor became more and more angry, and his cheeks quickly became swollen.
He covered his cheeks with his hands and said to Liang Shicheng, who was standing beside him with his eyes slanted, "Liang Parcel! Liangshan is now like my teeth, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to treat. What are your good ideas?"
Liang Shicheng's eyes turned and said, "If you go back to the official family, I am good at serving the official family. If you want to talk about state affairs, it will not work. Why don't I call Lord Wang Fu for you? With his wisdom and strategy to plan the country, I believe there must be a way to solve the problems of the official family."
The old emperor glared at Liang Shicheng and thought to himself, I didn’t usually see you talking less, so it would be nothing if I mentioned Liangshan like this? But what I said is, Lao Wang has a way to help him complete things that even his ancestors can’t do. It shouldn’t be difficult to come up with a way to deal with Liangshan?
Thinking of this, he ordered Wang Fujin to see him, but he didn't notice the smile on the corner of Liang Shicheng's mouth.
Wang Fu relied on his false contributions to not taking Liang Shicheng seriously. How could Lao Liang be willing to be wronged? He had already contacted a group of court officials and was carrying out the plan to overthrow the king in an intense manner.
Wang Fu has indeed become a little arrogant recently. He is disdainful of someone impeaching him for money to buy back the country. Anyway, with the old emperor, how can you do anything to me?
When he heard the emperor's message, he immediately rushed over and waited. However, after hearing the old emperor's troubles, he was also stunned. He thought that you two had never played together, so he asked me to find a way for you? How could I have any good solutions!
After his eyes flashed over Liang Shicheng beside him, Wang Fu immediately realized that it was this dead eunuch who was messing around. He was furious and wanted to expose his collusion with Liangshan, but then he pressed this unwise idea.
You said that Liang Shicheng colluded with Liangshan? What about the evidence? You can’t say that Wang Fu himself was also present at that time?
I secretly hated myself, but I also knew that I could not shake the status of the dead eunuch for the time being, but it doesn’t matter, Rizi is still alive!
He frowned and pondered for a while before saying, "Your Majesty, I am so frank that the imperial army is busy suppressing the rebellion, so he is temporarily unable to take into account the bandits of Liangshan, but he must not agree to such a dream-like request. My idea is to drag it, to the court army to free up his hands, and Your Majesty is rich in all over the world, and Your Majesty can afford to drag it over. How can Liangshan be able to drag it over the court in a corner? When the time is right, you will be able to wipe out the bandits of Liangshan in one fell swoop."
Wang Fu didn't know that the old emperor was most afraid of who said that the court's treasury was full and full, that's nothing! Even the salary was almost impossible to pay.
Before Shen could scold Wang Fu, someone suddenly said loudly outside the hall: "This is a chaotic country, and the father must not believe it easily."
Everyone turned their heads and looked at them, but they saw the prince Zhao Huan walking in from outside the hall, saluting the old emperor first, then turned to Wang Fu and said, "Do you know how far the imperial treasury has reached? If you drag it down, the Maritime Warehouse Department will not even be able to collect one tael of silver."
Zhao Huan had not told his father about Mingzhou, so the old emperor still didn't know that the Maritime Bureau, which paid the most money to the court, had been sealed by Liangshan.
After asking Zhao Huan in detail, the old emperor almost turned his back. Now there are chaos, and many places cannot be given taxes and silver in the capital. Liangshan has sealed the sea routes again. Song Qing wants my life!
After all, I was used to being a turtle, so I quickly suppressed the fire and said to Zhao Huan patiently: "What good advice does the prince have?"
Zhao Huan sighed. He didn't expect that things would develop to this point today. The Jin soldiers retreated. What did Liangshan's fierce soldiers want to do? The answer seemed to be out. If he did not agree to Song Qing's conditions, Liangshan would really be able to do anything.
He bowed and said, "Father, my son's minister means that you might as well agree to him first. Anyway, it doesn't cost the court anything. What the court has to do now is to raise your strength, and it is really not appropriate to make any major moves."
It’s still my son who understands me!
After the old emperor sighed, he became the boss again and handed over the matters related to Liangshan to the prince to handle. He went back to continue his immortal cultivation.
Zhao Huan bowed to see his father away, turned around and smiled at Wang Fuyin, saying, "Can Lord Wang be ready to be loyal to the new prince?"
Wang Fu was stunned when he heard the prince say this. He was indeed very close to several princes, but he never thought about changing the prince. Where did the prince’s words come from?
He knew that his god, Liang Shicheng, had ordered someone to secretly forge a secret letter that he wanted to be loyal to Prince Yun and support Prince Yun as the crown prince, and then accidentally got it by the crown prince.
It has endangered his own safety, why doesn’t Zhao Huan hate him? He is now collecting evidence from Wang Fu, and he will be taken down in one fell swoop when the evidence is conclusive.
Chapter completed!