Chapter 83 Drinking
It was already late, but the lights in Xiacai City were brightly lit and the sounds were buzzing.
Let me say that Prime Minister Lu Haowen personally crossed the river to work hard in the evening, but because he was worried that the Jin army still had a large cavalry in the north and the movements were unknown, he did not have a large banquet that day to reward the soldiers. However, in the evening, several clerks were unable to change their nature and gathered together again, taking advantage of Zhao Ding and Zhao Damu's mansion to drink a drink to suppress the shock.
"Han Liangchen set up an ambush to kill the general today, and he ranked first in his merits. His wisdom, courage and mightyness are comparable to those of ancient famous generals. His merits and hard work are enough to be promoted to the governor, right?" Everyone had just drank the first glass of He Sheng's wine. Before they could drink privately, the Chief Censor Zhang Jun and Zhang Deyuan couldn't wait to speak.
"The Grand Marshal Zhang must be fine," Zhang Jun was once a friend of life and death, and the current governor of Shouzhou, Zhao Ding and Zhao Yuanzhen, who was climbing up, was immediately unable to respond. "He had the title of observing envoy, but he was calm in the face of danger and was determined in command. In addition, the achievements of the isolated army to garrison Cai before was enough to be promoted to the governor."
"Okay, two of you." Lu Haowen may be the first time in the past six months to smile. "At present, the officials from both JD.com have been cleared, and even Yue Fei, Zhang Rong and others have become policing envoys. They have the name of building a festival but not building a festival. What will happen after Han and Zhang, the two Imperial Camp generals who have supported it? This matter is natural, and there is no need to discuss it too much."
Zhang and Zhao stood up to apologize, punished themselves with another cup before sitting down.
As the two sat down, Mr. Lu took the initiative to say: "In my opinion, the most urgent task is to go after the war... We can't really stay in Shouzhou as Prime Minister Wang said, right? Now, before crossing the river, Lin Maonan (Lin Qi) of the Ministry of Personnel asked me about this matter again, and I was in a dilemma for a while."
Unexpectedly, Lu Hao asked the following questions, and none of the three highest civil officials, Zhang, Zhao and Lin, responded, but they all silent.
You must be silent!
Today, the scholar Xiaolin, who was in trouble today, was getting a good start in front of Zhao Guan’s family and became increasingly disdainful of Lu Haowen. Although everyone was willing to take you as the leader of Bagong Mountain to guard against Li Xianggong and suppress Wang Shu, they all had their own opinions on such major events... Among them, Zhao Ding and Zhao Damu, as the governor of Shouzhou, wanted the official family to stay in Shouzhou. In that case, wouldn’t he, a small official who was the power to send Shouzhou that day, jumped into the role of Kaifeng Prefecture?
As for Bachelor Kobayashi himself, he had thought clearly before that he had shallow foundation, but he had many brothers and had all worked as an official in Huainan area, and his connections were all here. If he could stay in Huainan and have the help of many people, including his brothers, nephews, wouldn’t he be able to gain a complete foothold in front of the official family?
Therefore, Bachelor Kobayashi also secretly agreed to stay in Shouzhou.
As for Zhang Jun, there was no need to say anything. Bachelor Kobayashi knew what this guy was thinking... It was nothing more than just focusing on the official's wishes. Before the official made a statement or instructed him, this guy was unwilling to reveal his words.
Just as Bachelor Kobayashi was thinking about it, seeing the atmosphere was not good, Zhang Jun and Zhang Xiantai had already stepped on the little brother who was beside him, Hu Yin, the secretary of the Secretariat.
"It's a pity that the fourth prince of the Jin Kingdom was not caught!" After Hu Mingzhong was stepped on, he immediately put down the meat in his hand and said nonsense. "Otherwise, he could definitely be exchanged for the Second Saint..."
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"I... Although the Jin army was defeated, they still have combat power. There are two armies in the north to support them. It is a helpless thing to not be able to pursue them." Zhang Jun came to his senses for half a day, but he was extremely helpless and quickly smoothed out the situation. "Even the Jin army's big villages were demolished and ignored them. The bodies and wounded were transported across the river to be placed tomorrow. How could he talk about catching Jin Wushu?"
"Speaking of this, I don't know what the casualties and the results of this battle are?" Zhao Ding also hurriedly asked about him.
"As far as we know below, there are not many minor injuries in this battle, but the majority of seriously injured and disabled people and those who died in the battle account for 2,000 people... As for the capture, it is probably similar, but there are many Jurchens, Xi, and Khitans." Hu Mingzhong thought slightly and replied immediately. "And there are many Han'er Army subdued, and there are also 1,000 people. This was personally investigated by the official during the day."
"For one, it's a great victory!" Lu Haowen sighed with relief.
"Don't forget that there are two Meng'ans who were cut off after crossing the river rashly. This battle actually killed four complete Meng'ans of the Jin army before and after!" Zhang Jun also sighed. "And it is not as good as the design of Liangshanpo in the north. It takes advantage of the land to surround less. Today's battle can be called a tiger's teeth extraction, and Han Liangchen is a real-name general!"
"Yue Fei and Zhang Rong are not just incompetent people." Hu Yinfu looked at each other seriously.
"Not bad!" Bachelor Kobayashi finally answered.
"It's all the officials who know people." Lu Haowen continued to beat him, but suddenly remembered something. "Let's talk about it... what are the officials busy all day today? How can Ming Zhong have free time to come here?"
When the prime minister asked where the official family was, Hu Mingzhong, who was a close minister in the forbidden area, naturally did not dare to neglect it. He immediately stood up and told him seriously: "Report to Mr. Lu, after the battle this morning, Yang Yizhong turned around, and the official family personally went on horseback to inspect the battlefield, inspect the casualties and the deaths. Before the afternoon sunset, he personally took charge of the Jin army camp. While supervising the demolition of the camp, he also packed up the war horses, armor, gold, silver and silk seized from the camp in public, and then divided them into various departments in public..."
"How did you divide it?"
"The officials took the third one, and the remaining ones were ten. Han Shizhong's tribe won the fifth one, Zhang Jun's tribe won the third one, Wang De and Fu Qing's tribe won the first one, Yang Yizhong, Hu Yantong, Qiao Zhongfu and Zhang Jing's four generals got the first one..."
"It's a good thing to divide, but Qiao Zhongfu and Zhang Jing actually took it with Yang Yizhong and Hu Yantong, instead of being with Wang Yasha and Fu Qing. It seems that the government still took the words of the three thousand soldiers directly under that day seriously?" Lu Haowen frowned.
"It should be that."
"But it's still inappropriate." Lu Haowen nodded slowly, then shook his head again. "The official family shouldn't take the third one first... This is not to say that King Zhang and others will be divided on the official family for this matter, but in the eyes of these foreign generals, wouldn't the first three be taken fundamentally cheaper Yang Yizhong, Hu Yantong, Qiao Zhongfu, Zhang Jing and other generals? From today's contributions, the first few generals are far inferior to Zhang and Han." At this point, Lu Gong paused slightly before continuing to say. "It would be fine if he had been with Guangchen as he used to be. Since he had carefully considered it, these three points would be awkward. In my opinion, the official family had a general idea of the distribution of the military ministers. There was no need to involve too much, too detailed..."
"Mr. Lu misunderstood." Hu Mingzhong immediately responded seriously after Lu Hao asked. "It is important to know that the capture in the camp is also classified. The three points taken by the official in the camp today are cloth and copper coins. They are used as pensions and resettlement for serious injuries and disabled people and those who died in the battle. They have never crossed the river. So they carefully distributed them to the generals according to the previous distribution of casualties, so they let them keep them first. Everyone in the army was dissatisfied. Han Liangchen took the lead in entering the camp, but he took all the more than 2,000 war horses stored in the camp. The official first did it at first and did not know it. Later, he mentioned this matter again. He calculated the war horses by two points. In this way, Zhang and Han had nothing to say for the next distribution."
"So that's it." Xianggong Lu was a little embarrassed and nodded repeatedly. "Things are so tortuous, and the official family has their own decisions. But I, the old man, have thought too much. To be honest, today I saw that you assisted the official family to have such a great victory, and the country may have a chance to breathe. I almost wanted to resign..."
Hearing this, everyone quickly stood up to comfort me... This said that Mr. Lu was in charge of court affairs, and he made great contributions in this battle, and his military achievements were vaguely surpassed Mr. Li; that said that the country was still in turmoil and a great victory was only a period of boosting people's hearts, and it was still far from stability. Mr. Lu should not abandon the country and the government easily when this national crisis was in trouble. Even Mr. Kobayashi, who had always been scheming, finally praised him sincerely, and said that Mr. Lu had worked hard in Bagong Mountain in three or four months.
Obviously, these important officials are still the same. They hope that Mr. Lu will continue to be so confused, and that he will continue to have a prosperous official career and shelter everyone from the wind and rain... It is best to be the minister in a mess, and then accompany the official family to restore the two rivers and rebuild the country.
In this case, then a few young and experienced people can still be a serious husband under the arrogance of Mr. Li!
However, Hu Yin and Hu Mingzhong were still young. After everyone finally persuaded Mr. Lu to stop, the atmosphere at the banquet became good, and everyone was happy, but this guy continued to report seriously:
"The good teacher, Xianggong Lu, knew that the official had assigned a reward in the evening and visited the wounded again. Then he asked me to come back alone. He and Yang Yizhong took the drinks to find someone to drink, so I got there!"
As soon as these words came out, the seat immediately became quiet.
"Ming Zhong, why didn't you say it before?" After a while, Zhao Ding and Zhao Zhizhou couldn't bear it for a while.
"I didn't ask about my husband before." Hu Yin spread his hands and asked.
"But look for the two Zhang and Han?" The chief censor Zhang Jun followed closely behind.
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"It's okay." Lu Hao asked and sighed. "You can't have the official family's private confrontation with the generals every time, but you and the civil officials are drinking somewhere else? Since you are not looking for Zhang Han, are you going to drink with the generals in front of the imperial court?"
"Not... the officials said that the officials were looking for more than two people. In addition to two people, Zhang and Han, there were Jie Yuan, Liu Bao, Wang Sheng, and the ordinary soldiers in the army, all of whom were prominent heroes today, with more than a hundred people going to drink together on the Huaihe River!" Hu Yin quickly added. "One of the team generals with a nickname called Li Laosan was the one I went to find in person... The guy was arguing at the beginning, saying that he had no great contribution today, but he died two brothers. He did not want to be embarrassed to come to the banquet. In the end, his chief general Liu Bao personally passed the oral order before calling him."
After hearing this, everyone was speechless, feeling that the wine in front of them was gone.
"Why didn't Ming Zhong finish it all at once?" Zhang Jun was also extremely helpless.
"It was clearly Brother Yuan Zhen (Zhao Ding) who interrupted me." Hu Mingzhong was still calm.
Everyone became more and more helpless.
Finally, Lu Hao asked the reason and smiled slightly, showing the prime minister's demeanor: "Since the official family had something to say before the war, it is necessary to make a promise at this time, why should you and I care? Besides, the honor and favor after the war should be the soldiers, and you and me should be careful in the court. That place is where we can display our talents... You said, where should we go after the war?"
Zhang Jun, Lin Jingmo and Zhao Ding looked at each other. First, they all looked at Lu Xianggong, and then at Hu Mingzhong, who looked innocent, were helpless and had a lot of thoughts.
ps: Sorry, this chapter is all about this one today. It’s really a bit of a card. I don’t even know what to write on the shelves... Let me think twice... cruel!
Chapter completed!