Gunshichong is said to be a shortcut across Dafu Mountain, but it is actually a wild ditch full of rocks. In spring and summer, rainwater from the surrounding mountains will gather here, but in the dry season of autumn and winter, the river bed dries up, and people can barely walk on it.
The terrain is slightly more beautiful than the cliffs on both sides.
The situation on the trail on the North Ridge of Tongbai Mountain is similar.
If this road was easy to walk, it would not be delayed until now, waiting for Xu Huai to develop it.
However, combined with the topography of the North Ridge of Tongbai Mountain and Dafu Mountain, this road is one of the few in the mountains that can be used to build bridges and plank roads.
The biggest problem right now is the huge cost, and it will not take three to five months to open this road.
One day and one night, Xu Huai and others crossed the Beiling and appeared on the other side of Huaiyuan Town at Jinkou. Their robes were in tatters, but they were carrying knives, bows, and armor. The townspeople on the other side thought that there were bandits coming through the mountains. Many of them thought they were bandits coming through the mountains.
People panicked and fled to the city, and the guards at the top of the city almost sounded the warning bells and drums.
In the fifth year of Tianxuan's reign, King Wang entered Huaiyuan via Yanzui Cliff. Huaiyuan was a standard prosperous town in the southeastern valley where the Huai River and Baijian River intersected.
Although it experienced a bandit rebellion that lasted for more than half a year, Huaiyuan Town Port was not attacked by the coalition forces of various villages. Only the surrounding houses were demolished and bricks, stones, beams and wood were used to build earthen walls to resist the bandits.
During the bandit rebellion, a city wall was built in Huaiyuan. At that time, a makeshift measure was adopted, which was to continue filling the walls with rammed earth on top of the earth wall. Compared with the rammed earth city wall built by the regular plank building method in the Eight Classics, the foundation was much worse.
In the past two years, in order to prevent the city wall from being washed away by heavy rains, each family raised more than 20,000 yuan of money and grain to cover the city wall with bricks and stones, and even built a wall on top of the east and west gates where the horse path passes through the city.
Gatehouse.
At this time, Huaiyuan stood in the valley between the northern and southern ridges of Tongbai Mountain. Although it was not large, it was still quite large, not to mention that the houses and courtyards in the city were lined up one after another, making it even more neat and prosperous than an ordinary small county town.
Much more.
However, Huaiyuan had never been able to establish a county before this. The official official organization was the Huaiyuan Inspection Department, and the inspection envoy was not Deng Gui, but Tang Jiyao who was transferred from Dengzhou.
Although Deng Gui said that he had made great contributions in quelling the banditry in Tongbai Mountain, except for being promoted to two ranks as a casual official and receiving some silver rewards, he actually did not get a more important task in Tangzhou or Lusi. A year ago, he was the inspection envoy to Huaiyuan.
After his term of office expired, he was transferred back to the Capital Deployment Department on South Jingnan Road to serve.
Tang Jiyao was similar in age to Deng Gui, and had a similar resume. He was a military officer and served in the army. He once served as a commander in the Forbidden Army stationed on South Beijing Road, and took turns serving as an inspection envoy in several patrol villages.
Tang Jiyao was newly transferred here and had no old friendship with the people in Tongbai Mountain. Fortunately, Jin Longquan was transferred to the county as the commander of the county sword archers. Xu Wujiang was able to replace Jin Longquan as the commander of the rural camp of the inspection department. In fact,
Mastered the right to speak within the inspection department.
Not only were the rural camps filled with old soldiers who had participated in the suppression of the bandits, but the clan forces of the big surname also underwent a major reshuffle after the banditry in Tongbai Mountain. The Xu family, the Tang family, and the Jin family became more united. Although Zhong He did not follow
Xu Huai and others went north, aiming to obtain fame, but they always agreed with Xu Wujiang no matter what happened to the township officials.
Tang Jiyao was not a newbie. Like Deng Gui who had just arrived in Huaiyuan, he would always blame Xu Wujiang for anything that happened in the Inspection Department. He was also happy to stay in Huaiyuan for many years and would replace him when his term was up.
land.
Since Xu Huai had arrived in Huaiyuan, he did not have time to rush to Lutai Village to reminisce with his clansmen. Instead, he crossed the river directly on the ice with Wang Ju, Xu Wujiang, Xu Wukun, Su Laochang, Zheng Tu, Fan Yong and others and entered Huaihe.
Yuancheng, rushed to see Tang Jiyao.
"The wild tiger is back!"
Before Xu Huai and Xu Wujiang entered the city, a bombardment broke out in Huaiyuan.
Thinking about his coquettish performance in Huaiyuan, it would be difficult for others to forget him.
"Why are you so depressed? You haven't had a horse for so many years. Did you suffer a big defeat in the north and fled back in despair? I heard that the army on the east side of the river was beaten very badly!"
"Have you not seen that Manghu has kidnapped so many Orcuna in the north and sent them back to Tongbai Mountain in the past two years? How could he be defeated? If he really suffered a defeat, he would definitely get into trouble with the barbarians. How could he escape so easily? Look at them like this
Son, it’s probably because he didn’t know how to bend his mind and offended Shangfeng. Maybe he killed Shangfeng in anger and fled back to Tongbai Mountain.”
"Speaking of Manghu's taste, he has a really strong taste. There are so many orchids, but he can't pick out a few that are attractive. They are all fat, strong, and smelly. He even sent them back as if they were treasures! You think Miss Liu has too many
A Shuiling beauty, can’t she satisfy this fool?”
"Xu Huai, why did you go back to Huaiyuan?"
However, Cheng Yi, the postmaster, left the posthouse early in the morning, holding a fishing rod in his hand. He wanted to carve out a piece of ice and catch fish leisurely for a long time to pass the boring time. However, he did not want to see Xu Huai and others coming towards him.
Walk over to the Inspection Department.
After the city wall was built in Huaiyuan, the inspection office and the posthouse were moved into the city, and the military stronghold on the west bank of the Baijian River became idle.
The post station also handed down documents. Cheng Yi knew more about Yunshuo's fiasco than ordinary people, but it was limited to the public post notes and the discussions of the people who passed them on. Therefore, when he saw Xu Huai suddenly appearing in Huaiyuan, he was also more informed.
for surprise.
"Old Cheng, it's a good time for you to be here. Come with me to see the Tang military envoy!" Xu Huai grabbed Cheng Yi and said.
Although Yi Cheng was a low-ranking official, he and Tang Jiyao were the only two people stationed in Huaiyuan on behalf of the state and county; Xu Wujiang, the capital general, and other military commanders were mostly elected by the local government.
Xu Huai now wants to take over everything in Huaiyuan, including of course the Yi Chuan that Cheng Yi is responsible for at this time.
Tang Jiyao also did not bring his family to his appointment. He got drunk last night and picked up a girl from Tianxiang Pavilion and fucked her hard | After doing it for half a night, he thought it was the New Year. At this time, Shanshan got up from the kang and heard the noise in the front office.
, walked over to see what was going on, only to see Xu Wujiang leading a large group of unfamiliar-looking warriors straight into the Yamen.
Although Tang Jiyao tried his best to keep a low profile on weekdays and coexisted peacefully with Xu Wujiang, almost leaving all the affairs of the township department to Xu Wujiang and the others, he was still the inspector and the only person with official status in Huaiyuan.
At this moment, he couldn't help but lower his hand and asked: "General Xu, who are they? How can they break into the government hall with swords and bows at will?"
"But Tang Langjun? My subordinate, Xu Huai, was ordered to lead his troops back to Huaiyuan to establish a county and put it under the jurisdiction of Caizhou to prepare for the raids. This is the imperial edict. Please read it, Tang Langjun!"
Huai directly handed the edict, transfer orders and other edicts in hand to Tang Jiyao for reading, and said, "This matter was originally going to be reported to the Lu Division and the Prefectural Court, but the captive soldiers will go south to invade Hehuai at any time, so I would like to ask Tang Langjun to read the edict."
Please give us convenience first after writing!"
"The Red Guards are about to attack Bianliang, how come it is so fast?" Cheng Yi asked in shock.
"Things are a bit complicated. I'll explain it to you after Mr. Tang is at his convenience!" Xu Huai said.
Time was too tight, and they had already spent three days on the way. He did not have time to explain the current complex and serious situation one by one. To explain, he had to wait until the chiefs and chiefs of each village were summoned to explain together.
According to normal procedures, Xu Huai's imperial edict should first be presented to the supervisors on Jingnan Road. The supervisors would send the document to Tangzhou and review the boundaries with Caizhou officials before Huaiyuan could be officially merged into a county.
Placed under the jurisdiction of Caizhou - Xu Huai directly presented the edict, so Tang Jiyao could deny it.
However, people's names are like trees' shadows. Tang Jiyao had never met Xu Huai before, but before and after he was transferred to Huaiyuan, Xu Huai was mentioned by many people.
As an inspection envoy, Tang Jiyao, even though he was only at the bottom of the ninth rank, still knew more about the situation in Hedong and Hebei than Chang De. He knew that the situation was serious now, and Xu Huai had an imperial edict on him. If he added to the problem,
Don't you think the head on your neck is too stable?
To put it another way, even if the edict is false and it was forged by Xu Huai, it should be the prefectural court and the prefectural military and horse supervision department who dispatched troops to Huaiyuan to fight against rebellion. Can he be as stubborn as Xu Huai?
"The situation is critical and everything should be kept simple. How dare Tang not give convenience to Xu Junhou?" Tang Jiyao bowed his hands and saluted.
Xu Huai, as the inspection envoy of the capital, also knew Huaiyuan. In addition to the 2,500 regular soldiers in his headquarters, he was also ordered to recruit 2,500 rural soldiers for training in Huaiyuan. If Huaiyuan was not removed from Tangzhou, Xu Huai would
At this moment, in Tangzhou, he was already the second and third-ranking figure under the governor Dong Cheng, as well as the general magistrate. The military status of all the Caosi officials was inferior to that of Xu Huai.
Since Tang Jiyao believed that the edict was true, he certainly treated it with great respect.
"Tang Langjun, if you want to stay in Huaiyuan to fight against the bandits, I will try my best to recommend you to the defense envoy. If you want to return to Biyang, I may have to wait for many arrangements in advance before sending someone to accompany you.
See Dong Zhizhou to handle the handover!" Xu Huai said.
"It doesn't matter. I'll go back to Biyang first to report this matter in front of Dong Langjun!" Tang Jiyao now knew that the Yan army was defeated, the remaining Khitan lands in Yunshuo, Yanji and other places were under the control of the Chihu people, and Taiyuan was besieged.
He did not realize that Bianliang might fall into enemy siege, but no matter what, he did not want to rush to Bianliang King Qin.
And he was a military official under the jurisdiction of the Capital Deployment Department on South Beijing Road. He wanted to leave, but Xu Huai couldn't force him. He immediately summoned several clerks from the Inspection Department's yamen and the military personnel team to read out the imperial edict.
A simple handover ceremony is completed.
Tang Jiyao was also quick and easy. He found two old soldiers to pack their bags, asked for a piece of paperwork from Xu Huai, handed the inspection department's Yamen to Xu Huai, and rode directly to Biyang...
