The first thousand one hundred and seventy-five chapters return to the south
Chen Qing set out south the day after Yan Jun's army returned. He made temporary arrangements. The captured horses were returned to the army, and the captured sheep were divided into four parts, one part for the Datong Prefecture garrison, and the other part for Datong.
The local government will give one share to the Taiyuan garrison and the other to the Taiyuan government office. The captured natural gold and other jewelry and wealth will be transported back to Jingzhao and turned into the government treasury.
After finishing his inspection of Datong Prefecture, Chen Qing was bid farewell to Datong Prefecture officials and military generals, and left Datong Prefecture to go south. He was accompanied by hundreds of carts, loaded with jewelry, gold, silver and other wealth, following the mighty army.
Go south.
Because Chen Qing fell ill in Datong, he returned to Jingzhao this time. The soldiers did not allow him to ride a horse again. They had prepared a large and comfortable carriage. This was Qin Huairen's new carriage. He had not had a chance to sit down yet.
After being arrested, Chen Qing was allowed to sit in the big car and drive south.
The carriage is indeed very wide, mainly because it is relatively long, with almost a dozen square meters. It is divided into two rooms, inside and outside. The outer room is very small, mainly used as a passage for getting on and off the carriage. In addition, the tea boy sits in the outer room, and the water is boiled in the outer room.
Of course, Chen Qing did not bring a tea boy, but only a personal maid Yao Mei. In fact, there was a small space in the back with a toilet inside.
The carriage is covered with thick carpet, which is very soft. People can sit directly on the carpet. Of course, a layer of quilt is required to sleep.
There was a small table in front of the car window. Chen Qing was leaning on the cushion and reading. His eyes fell on Yao Mei on the other side from time to time. Yao Mei was concentrating on practicing writing. This little lady was very smart. She was originally illiterate, but
She has only been serving her for a month, and she has already learned all the Thousand-Character Chinese. Yesterday she started learning hundreds of surnames. She started writing the tadpole Chinese, and now she is getting more and more neat as she writes.
Chen Qing admired her seriousness, her wholehearted devotion, her concentration, and not being affected by the outside world at all.
"The carriage is so bumpy, can you continue writing?" Chen Qing couldn't help but ask.
Yao Mei put down her pen, rubbed her hands and said with a smile: "Not only do I write, but I also read poems?"
"Have you tasted the charm of the poem?"
"Of course there is. With these two sentences, the noisy cicada forest is more quiet, and the bird singing mountain is more secluded. It seems incomprehensible, but if you think about it carefully, it is really like this. It means that there are no other passers-by. This quietness and secludedness means that you are alone."
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"What else?" Chen Qingxiao asked.
"There is also the poem that His Highness taught me yesterday, about birds flying across thousands of mountains, people disappearing from thousands of paths, a lone boat and a man fishing alone in the snow in the cold river. Your Highness asked me to appreciate the artistic conception. I closed my eyes and imagined those scenes. I felt
Every painting is very sad, boundless and desolate, but there are people fishing on the river, and it feels like there is suddenly a glimmer of life in the sadness."
"Not bad!"
Chen Qing praised: "Today I feel again the artistic conception of 'The old friend bids farewell to the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, the fireworks descend to Yangzhou in March, the shadow of the solitary sail is gone in the blue sky, and only the Yangtze River can be seen flowing in the sky.' Read it for yourself, there is this poem below."
Yao Mei said happily: "I will finish writing the words first, and then read the poems!"
Chen Qing smiled lazily and said: "You should make me a pot of tea first. From morning to now..."
"Oops! I forgot."
Yao Mei screamed and quickly got up to make tea.
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That afternoon, the team arrived in Taiyuan. The team rested in Taiyuan for two days before continuing south.
Niu Gao hurriedly came to see Chen Qing and brought news that surprised Chen Qing.
"Does Your Highness know Wanyan Digunai?"
How could Chen Qing not know that Wanyan Digunai, whose Chinese name was Wanyan Liang, was the next King of Jin in history, King Hailing?
"I know him, Wanyan Wushu's commander of ten thousand men. What happened to him?"
"For some reason, he led 6,000 cavalry to the south, probably with the intention of plundering Yangzhou. However, he crossed the Huaihe River and fell into the trap of the Song army. His retreat was cut off by Wang Jian's 20,000 troops, and he was defeated by Liu Qi and Yang Yizhong.
An army of 50,000 surrounded him, and the entire army of 6,000 Jurchen cavalry was destroyed. Wanyan Digunai was captured alive by Liu Qi in the Huaihe River and sent to Lin'an. It is said that the court was in great joy."
Chen Qing sneered and said: "This Wanyan Digunai originally wanted to attack Xuzhou secretly, but Xuzhou was invulnerable. He was not willing to return without success, so he led his army south. This man only came to the Central Plains last year and did not understand the situation in the Central Plains.
Maybe they still have the impression of the Northern Song Army, thinking that their 6,000 cavalry can easily defeat hundreds of thousands of Song troops, so it is normal for the entire army to be destroyed if they underestimate the enemy."
"Your Highness, I heard that the imperial court changed its name to Shaoding, probably because of this victory."
Chen Qing burst into laughter. Shaoding was the historical title of Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty, and it was actually used in advance. However, he also understood that the imperial court had an army of 500,000 people. Except for the troops of Yue Fei and Wu Jie, they had almost never wiped out 6,000 soldiers.
The battle examples of the Jurchen cavalry, whether it is the Jurchen cavalry in the broad sense or the Jurchen cavalry in the narrow sense, such brilliant results are really rare for the imperial court, so it is reasonable to celebrate the victory by changing the year name.
But what Chen Qing was worried about was whether the emperor would get carried away because of the war and start the northern expedition to Shandong.
If the imperial court really decided to make a northern expedition to Shandong Road, then the first battle would be Haizhou, which would conflict with its own plan.
Chen Qing immediately wrote a pigeon letter and ordered Niu Gao to send it to Lin'an on a flying pigeon.
Two days later, Chen Qing's army left Taiyuan City and continued southward, marching toward Guanzhong in a mighty manner.
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Lin'an is still immersed in the joy of the victory over the Huaihe River. This year's Shangyuan Lantern Festival also has a lot of related content. For example, each child carries a victory lantern in the hand, and the words "triumph and victory" are written on the lantern.
Celebration lanterns were lit everywhere, vendors were selling victory cakes, and the palace was also a scene of joy and victory.
Under the atmosphere of celebration between the government and the people, the emperor Zhao Gou inevitably became a little inflated.
Not only did he change his reign name to Shaoding, he also had the idea of competing with Chen Qing. Of course, he did not want to break out a war with Chen Qing, but compete with Chen Qing. If Chen Qing can do it, he can do it too
Do it.
Chen Qing regained Henan Road, so why couldn't he regain Shandong Road?
This seed of competition was quietly planted in Zhao Gou's heart when he received the battle report last year, and it began to grow crazily in his heart in the past two months.
Starting from this year, Zhao Gou increased the salary for the soldiers. He also learned from the Western Army and paid the salary in the form of land in the soldiers' hometown. However, he was not as generous as the Western Army. The monthly salary for the Western Army soldiers was two thousand dollars plus one acre of land.
, the cheapest land costs five guans per acre, and the monthly salary of Western Army soldiers is actually seven guans, which is much higher than that of ordinary people, so ordinary people are willing to serve as soldiers.
It looks like a lot, but it's actually not much. Twelve acres a year, and ten years of service as a soldier only earns one hundred and twenty acres. The average length of service for soldiers in the Western Army is ten years. If they perform meritorious service, there will be other land.
As a reward, most of the Western Army soldiers had two to three hundred acres of land after they retired. Even if they were not small landowners, they were considered rich farmers.
But Zhao Gou was stingy. He only paid his soldiers the usual salary every month and only three-thirds of land every month. He could only earn ten acres of land after serving as a soldier for three years.
But this is already pretty good compared to before.
Starting from December last year, grain harvest information from various places began to be collected in Lin'an. Zhao Gou was very concerned. He wanted to go to the north again, and grain was the top priority.