"I respectfully ask the angel to announce the decree!"
"Oh! Where are you Moling righteous Zhu Kui and Wujun warrior Sun Jian? They also have their will here."
When Zhu Jun heard this, he felt a little regretful. He didn't know why. It was just that they didn't bother the eunuchs to talk too much. Since Zhu Kui and Sun Jian were included, they were asked to come together.
After a while, Zhu Kui and Sun Jian hurried over after hearing the news. They bumped into each other outside the mansion and looked at each other, both of which were a little surprised.
"Wentai? He was also summoned by the general? Do you know what the matter is?" Zhu Kui asked smoothly.
"I don't know, I just urgently called for me to come."
Zhu Kui answered hastily, and did not ask any more questions. The two of them entered the hall and saw an eunuch sitting high in the hall. The two lieutenants were waiting aside and they hurriedly paid their respects.
"I am lowering my rank to Zhu Kui (Sun Jian) and seeing the general."
"Without ceremony." Zhu Jun said: "An angel sent a decree from Luoyang, which also included you, so he sent it to you."
Upon hearing this, the two of them looked suspicious and said to them, "I've seen an angel before."
"Okay, let's announce the decree."
When the four of them heard this, they knelt down one by one.
Zhang Jie took out a piece of yellow brocade cloth from his sleeve, slowly unfolded it, and read: "By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: The right middle man, Zhu Jun, Po Bocai, Peng Tuo, pacified Yingchuan, Yuzhou, and moved the town General Lang among the thieves was granted the title of Marquis of Xixiang. Zhu Kui, a righteous man from Moling, had meritorious service for his intelligence and stratagem. He was appointed as General Weilu and was worth two thousand stones. Sun Jian, a warrior from Wu County, killed the enemy bravely and had meritorious service in defeating the thieves. He was appointed General Polu and was worth two thousand stones. . I hope that Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun will go north as soon as possible, continue their efforts with the soldiers, and decide on the Yellow Turban as soon as possible, so as to restore the world to a bright and prosperous world. I admire this!"
"My ministers, please accept the order and thank me!"
The four of them bowed and then stood up. Zhu Jun stepped forward to receive the imperial edict.
After the matter was over, Zhang Jie, the little Huangmen man, knew that he was not welcome here, and when he came, Zhang Rang had ordered that he was not allowed to accept bribes. In the case of Lu Zhi, the princes in the court had long been suspicious and had been entangled. If it happens again. One thing will definitely be exposed, and Zhang Jie will most likely be pulled out to top the cylinder.
When Zhang Jie was about to leave, everyone was naturally happy and hastily sent him out of the government office, congratulating himself.
"Congratulations to Gongwei for being granted the title of Marquis of Xixiang. Huaiming and Wentai are also granted the title of General."
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
Thank you three times, Huangfu Song felt a little sad, but he was not a narrow-minded person who could not see the kindness of others. He still smiled and said: "Huaiming, Wentai, you two go back first, Gongwei and I have important things to do." talk!"
"It's General, I'll take my leave."
After the two left, Zhu Jun asked: "Yi Zhen wanted to tell me, but this time my being granted the title is related to Ziqian's being accused."
Huangfu Song nodded, talked to Zhu Jun, and then entered the mansion.
Zhu Kui returned to his residence with joy.
General Weilu is a type of general with miscellaneous titles. Since the Han Dynasty, those who have made meritorious service by killing enemies on the battlefield are often not awarded formal official positions. Therefore, when appointing, a certain title is often added in front of "general" as a sign of recognition. His official title is not certain, so he is called a miscellaneous general. For example, in the Han Dynasty, the Four Expeditions, Four Towns, Four Ans, and Siping were also included in the miscellaneous generals.
He is a military attache who leads troops when marching and fighting, and is not a permanent general. In other words, if there is a war, the court gives you soldiers and horses, and you go and fight; then after the battle is over, if you win, that's great. If you are not promoted to a permanent general, If so, your troops and horses will be returned to the court.
That is to say, generals with no name usually have no troops under their command. No matter how many elite soldiers you train in the world, they will be returned to the court. You have to lead them yourself. You can only lead a few soldiers home, and then according to your Stay at home and live a good life with your salary, and wait until the court needs you to fight, otherwise you will sit and eat and wait to die.
Seeing Zhu Kui coming back, Shu Shu'er had been waiting outside the door for a long time, trotted up to meet him, and asked in a chirpy voice: "Brother Kui, why did the general summon you so urgently? But something happened to the surrender of the soldiers?"...
He has never been a smiley person, but he kept smiling today and said, "No, no, it's a great event. Your husband, I, have been appointed as general, General Weilu."
"What, really?" Shu Shu'er said in disbelief. She also heard that Zhu Jun wrote to the emperor to express his merit for the Battle of Yingchuan, but she thought that he would only be rewarded with some money, food, Shu brocade, titles and official positions. After the Yellow Turbans were pacified, they were rewarded based on their merits.
Seeing Zhu Kui smiling and nodding, knowing that he was not lying, he smiled at the gate and saluted: "The daughter of the people pays homage to the general."
"Hahaha, madam, please get up quickly!"
The two sang together and entertained themselves.
"Okay, Shu Shu'er, you go find Wang Qian and say this... Do you understand?" After whispering for a while, he restrained the joy and arrogance in his heart and ordered: "Go! I have something to ask for. Sir, let’s talk alone.”
Then, walk to Xi Zhicai's room.
The two of them talked in the room for a long time, and Xi Zhicai couldn't understand why the imperial court suddenly awarded Zhu Jun three people, one as a rural marquis, and two as generals. If the chaos was over and the rewards were based on merit, it would be more or less. Now the two people's contribution is not to this level, and he can't understand it.
Naturally, I don’t have enough information to analyze it, so I just imagine that it’s not a genius, but a god.
The discussion was fruitless, so Zhu Kui had to leave. He wanted to go to the military camp first to announce the news, and at the same time he also wanted to reward his subordinates.
Zhu Kui's military camp.
Zhou Tai, Gan Ning, Wang Cheng, and Guan Hai were summoned, as well as Liao Hua, the brothers Big and Little Hu, who had been serving as personal guards by his side, and Du Hong. There were several convenient small benches placed in the camp. This is specially made military supplies.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Zhu Kui stood up, raised his hands to his sides, and announced, "This morning, an angel came from Luoyang. The general called me. Your Majesty appointed me to be General Weilu."
The eight people in the tent were stunned when they heard this. Liao Hua was the first to come to his senses and knelt down half-kneeling to congratulate him. When the others saw this, they remembered to say congratulations first and also half-kneeled down.
"Congratulations to the general (eldest brother) for being promoted to General Weilu."
Zhu Kui smiled and sat down again: "Get up, there is no need to be polite. Although I was promoted to general this time, it is really a blessing from heaven. We should do our best for the country and put an end to the Taiping Road chaos as soon as possible."
"Since I am a general, you can no longer be the leader of the team. You will follow me in vain. Zhou Tai, Gan Ning, Wang Cheng, and Guan Hai will follow my orders."
When the four of them heard the sound, they immediately folded their hands and bowed their heads to wait for their orders.
"I will promote you and four other people to the rank of military commanders. Each of them will be composed into one piece. Each piece has two pieces of music. Each piece can be used by thousands of people. If necessary during war, one more piece can be added."
"I have the order, thank you General!"
"Well, you each go down, reorganize your troops, make a plan with me, and then find a way to select soldiers from among the surrendered soldiers to make up the troops."
The imperial court sent eunuchs here. Although they only read out the imperial edict and had no other orders, everyone understood that it also meant that the army should go out as soon as possible and defeat Zhangjiao as soon as possible.
"It seems that there will be another war soon."
Sure enough, on the next day, Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song summoned the generals for a formal military meeting.
This time Xi Zhicai and Zhu Kui arrived together. They arrived a little early, and soon Sun Jian, Cao Cao and other generals and lieutenants took their seats one by one.
Huangfu Song in the hall stood up and said: "Everyone, I will be rewarded a few days ago. The eunuch Zuo Feng was ordered by the emperor to go to Lu Gong to supervise the army. I didn't want this eunuch to take the opportunity to ask for a bribe from Lu Gong. Lu Gong was honest and refused, so he slandered Lu to His Majesty. The Duke was too timid to show his strength, so he avoided fighting and ignored his divine grace. In anger, His Majesty stripped Duke Lu of his military power and escorted him to the capital. Dong Zhuo, Governor of Xiliang, Hedong, has taken over Duke Lu's duties."
"Ah, Lu Zhonglang suffered such injustice..."
"The eunuchs are causing chaos in the country..."
"Why is Your Majesty so confused..."….
It was a big taboo to change generals before the war. After hearing this, the generals cursed, worried, and complained for Lu Zhi. Zhu Kui also sighed in his heart: "Lu Zhi had a fierce temperament, which is why he caused this disaster. But in history, this No one died because of this incident, but I don’t know how he got away with it later.” He turned his head and asked Xiang Xi Zhicai softly: “Sir, do you think this incident in the north will have any impact?”
"Zhicai heard that Dong Zhuo had made meritorious deeds when he was fighting against the Qiang in Xiliang. He was a man who knew military affairs. I think the situation in the north will not be won even if it is victorious, but it will not be corrupted."
Xi Zhicai thought for a while and said.
Seeing that even Xi Zhicai said this, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun also thought of this, so the generals could discuss the matter calmly.
But what they didn't know was that in the official history, Lu Zhi could have defeated the three Zhang brothers, but after Dong Zhuo changed Xu Xu Tuzhi's strategy to a strong attack, the entire army was defeated by the three Zhang Jiao brothers. This is what everyone has experienced. Something unexpected happened.
It's just that Zhu Kui is funny in his heart. Dong Zhuo is an expert in foreign wars and an outsider in civil wars. He has won consecutive victories by killing foreigners and is very famous in the north. That's why Emperor Ling will use him to replace Lu Zhi. He doesn't want to know that once the Han people fight against the Han people, It was a complete defeat, not to mention the defeat at Zhangjiao. Later, the whole country turned against Dong, and then retreated from Hulao and Luoyang. They were defeated again and again, and only returned to Chang'an with Xiliang as their back. This is a very appropriate implementation of the saying "You can stop foreign troubles but not control internal troubles." if.
"Silence." Zhu Jun said: "After discussion, I, Huangfu Zhonglang, decided that the army would rest for a month, and now we are preparing to march out again in three days. We will first pacify the Yellow Turbans in the East County of Yanzhou, and we plan to join Dong Zhuo's army to surround Guangzong on three sides before winter. .”
"It's just that Nanyang Wancheng is still occupied by Zhang Mancheng and nearly 100,000 thieves. This is the old place of Guangwu Zhongxing. We must leave a general to conquer them. Otherwise, letting them cause trouble and disturb the emperor will be a big sin."
Everyone present heard Zhu Jun's words and once again discussed privately, how could the credit obtained by leaving the army to conquer Zhang Mancheng be as great as that achieved by the northern army's attack on Zhang Jiao? Moreover, it was impossible for the army to allocate more troops, but only about two troops and horses were able to defeat Zhang Jiao. Ten thousand regular soldiers were born. Historically, Zhu Jun did not march north to Zhangjiao. After pacifying the three counties of Yingchuan, Zhu Jun stayed in Runan and Nanyang until Zhang Mancheng and other ant bandits were completely eliminated.
Zhu Jun had a narrow victory because of his small number of soldiers. It was not as good as Huangfu Song's victory in the Northern Expedition, pushing the ancients and conquering the rotten. If Huangfu Song hadn't pushed for his merits, perhaps even the rural princes would not have been granted the title.
"The last general Zhu Kui is willing to stay and conquer Zhang Mancheng."