Although Shangguan Yuanji only replied to Cai Song with sixteen simple words, these sixteen words were very learned.
Firstly, he was reminding Cai Song that you can do anything, the only thing you can't do is form cliques for personal gain, which is also the thing that the king is most afraid of. Pointing this out can be regarded as Shangguan Yuanji's reward for Cai Song's 50,000 taels of gold.
.Secondly, he was warning Cai Song that if you dare to form a party for personal gain, you will definitely die. The reason why he warned Cai Song like this was actually to help Feng Country.
After a battle to defend the country, Feng State's territory was riddled with holes, its national power was greatly damaged, and it had no time to take care of itself. At this time, Feng State was most afraid of chaos in Ningdi, and currently the only ones who can cause trouble in Ningdi are the Cai family, which has an outstanding reputation.
If the Cai family colludes with cronies and suddenly rebels, Feng State will be unable to take care of it.
Shangguan Yuanji's reply is not only to appease Cai Song, not to let him jump over the wall, but also to deter him. No matter how you mess around in the eight counties of Ningbei, how you take bribes and enrich yourself, it doesn't matter. As long as you don't form a party for personal gain, the king will not
He will punish you. His intention is to stabilize Cai Song first, and when the mainland of Feng Kingdom has settled down and has no worries anymore, then he will be able to deal with Cai Song's court with ease.
On the second day after Zhang Xin reported Shangguan Yuanji, before Tang Yin could talk to Shangguan Yuanji, the latter took the initiative to come to the door and also moved the 50,000 taels of gold that Cai Song gave him to the palace.
In front of Tang Yin, Shangguan Yuanji told Tang Yin the whole story of why he accepted Cai Song's heavy gift.
After he finished speaking, Tang Yin finally understood Shangguan Yuanji's painstaking efforts. He nodded repeatedly and praised Shangguan Yuanji for doing the right thing. If Cai Song was anxious at this time, it would be extremely detrimental to Feng Guo and also a huge hidden danger. For Shangguan Yuanji,
Tang Yin only accepted half of the gold handed over, and allowed Shangguan Yuanji to move the other half back to his home intact as a reward from the king.
On the other side, Shangguan Yuanji's reply was sent back to Ningdi Liangzhou. After Cai Song read it, he suddenly felt that the hut was open. It turns out that the most intolerable thing for the king is to form cliques for personal gain, so he would just not do it. As long as he can
If you have a rich family and a lifetime of wealth, why do you have any political affiliations or selfish interests?
After receiving the reply from Shangguan Yuanji, Cai Song, who had been worried for the past few days, felt relieved and praised in his heart that the fifty thousand taels of gold were worth it. Sure enough, the news of Zhang Zhe's impeachment reached Tang Yin, but Tang Yin not only did not impose any punishment
, on the contrary, he also praised Cai Song for his meritorious service in governing Ningdi, promoted his official position to the second rank, and granted him the title of earldom.
Such a reward made Cai Songle almost confused. Without asking, he knew that his heavy gifts must have played a role in allowing Shangguan Yuanji to speak kindly for him in front of the king. Later, Cai Song also sent heavy gifts to Shangguan.
Yuan Ji, and wrote a letter to express his gratitude to him.
Shangguan Yuanji not only received the benefits, but also received Cai Song's gratitude, and also won the monarch's recognition and appreciation. He had the best of all three and was exquisite in both aspects. His smooth handling of affairs and his skill in handling affairs were evident.
Zhang Zhe's intelligence and talents are not inferior to Shangguan Yuanji's, but his way of doing things is far different from Shangguan Yuanji's. Of course, Tang Yin also saw Zhang Zhe's outright personality and appointed him as the censor to help him.
Supervise hundreds of officials.
After this incident, Cai Song continued to live his comfortable and comfortable life in Ningdi. However, he was reminded by Shangguan Yuanji that he no longer held banquets in the house easily, nor invited guests casually, deliberately pretending to be low-key, but he
Their efforts to obtain wealth have become even more aggressive and unscrupulous.
Many cities in the Feng Kingdom were rebuilt, the most important of which was the southern gateway of the Feng Kingdom, Baguan.
Because the Zhen army used plague tactics, the plague raged in Ba Pass. In order to prevent the spread of the plague and to prevent Mo State from seizing the opportunity, Ba Pass was completely burned down. Now Feng State is basically rebuilding a city here.
Tang Yin spent a lot of money on this pass fortress, allocating a huge amount of gold and silver to build two cities in succession. Of these two cities, one was built on the original site of Baguan, and its name was still Baguan, and the other was built on Pofengkou.
And named it Xingfeng City. Xingfeng City can not only block the loophole of Pofengguan, but also echo with Baguan, killing two birds with one stone.
While rebuilding the city, Tang Yin began to recruit troops on a large scale. The scope of recruitment also expanded from Feng Kingdom to eight counties in northern Ningbo. Regardless of whether they were Feng people or Ning people, as long as they were willing to join the army, the Feng Army would accept them all.
In the battle against the Sichuan and Zhen coalition forces, Tang Yin could see that Ning Bing's combat effectiveness was not strong, but it was not that Ning Ren was born weak, but that he was not trained enough. As long as he trained according to Feng Jun's methods, Ning Ren and Feng Ren's combat effectiveness
Actually it's the same.
At the same time as recruiting troops, Tang Yin promulgated the second Nayan Order and Military Expedition Order, whose scope still included the eight counties of Ningbei.
During this period of time, although the Ning people were still hostile to the Feng people, they had lessened a lot. The Ning people also gradually accepted the fact that the Ning country was divided between Feng and Mo. As soon as Tang Yin's decree to recruit talents and troops was promulgated, people came to participate
There are also many Ning people. This indicates that the Ning people have gradually integrated into the Feng Kingdom, but similarly, as the Ning people gradually enter the Feng Kingdom court, real factions appear in the Feng Kingdom court.
Currently, the person with the highest official position in the Feng Kingdom in Ning is Zuo Shuang. In the war with the Sichuan and Zhen coalition forces, Zuo Shuang commanded the Western Border Army and made many military exploits. He also solved the crisis in Jinyang, which earned Zuo Shuang the appreciation of Tang Yin.
and trust. In order to commend Zuo Shuang's meritorious service, Tang Yin promoted Zuo Shuang to the rank of general and granted him the title of marquis. He also changed the discriminatory name of the Western Border Army to Feilong Army.
Another legion composed mainly of Ning people, the New Army, was also reorganized by Tang Yin. The New Army played an indispensable role in guarding Jinyang. The battle was so difficult that the New Army of 100,000 people was almost wiped out. During the battle with the enemy, the New Army
The army fought side by side with Tang Yin and showed tenacious fighting spirit. He would rather die than retreat. Now Tang Yin no longer regards the new army as cannon fodder. He promoted the new army commander Nan Ye to the rank of general and renamed the new army Huwei Army.
At this point, the Feng Kingdom officially has seven main armies, namely the Pingyuan Army, the Sanshui Army, the Chifeng Army, the Directly Affiliated Army, the Sky Eagle Army, the Feilong Army, and the Huwei Army, among which the Feilong Army and the Huwei Army belong to the Ningren Army.
Tang Yin uniformly stipulated that the strength of each legion should be 150,000. In addition, the Tongmen garrison was reduced to 100,000 and formed its own system, completely separated from each legion.
In the past, the Tongmen garrison was drawn from various legions and accounted for many positions in each legion. For example, the Sanshui Army had a total strength of 170,000 to 80,000, but in fact the number of combatable troops was only 120,000 to 30,000.
The rest of the 50,000 or 60,000 people are in Tongmen. Now Tang Yin stipulates that the strength of each legion is 150,000. It seems that the strength of each legion has been reduced, but in fact, the combatable soldiers of each legion have been greatly improved.
increase in magnitude.
Feng Kingdom was rebuilding and expanding its army in full swing. At this time, an unexpected and interesting thing happened in Ningdi. The Tia envoy came to ask for help.
When Feng State and Du Ji jointly sent troops to Ning State, Feng State wanted Hedong County, and Du Ji wanted Ning State to withdraw its garrison in Tia. In the end, both countries achieved their goals. This was a long time ago. Now Feng State has destroyed Ning State.
, but Duki still failed to defeat and annex Tia.
The Duji army has been besieging the city of Tia, the country of Tia, for half a year. They have tried all means, but they have not been able to capture it. Until now, the two sides are still at war.
The Tia envoy came to Liangzhou, met Zhang Zhe and Cai Song, and asked them to send troops to rescue Tia. The reason for the Tia envoy was that regardless of whether Ning State was annexed, the original alliance between Tia and Ning State still remained.
Now, since Feng State has annexed Ning State, Feng State should inherit Ning State's alliance and assist Tia.
Now that Cai Song was living a comfortable life, he almost didn't even think about his willingness to send troops to fight, and rejected the Tia envoy on the spot. Zhang Zhe felt that he should ask the king and the court about this matter first.
In his opinion, he left the envoy of Mingtiya to stay in Liangzhou temporarily, and then wrote to Tang Yin to report Mingtiya's request for help.
Tang Yin is currently busy with the reconstruction of the city and the reorganization of the Feng Army. Regarding the rescue of Tia, he has the same attitude as Cai Song. He refuses without even thinking about it. However, Qiu Zhen had a different view. He stopped Tang Yin and said
The matter was raised publicly at the court meeting and asked the ministers to discuss it again.
Feng Guo has no time to take care of itself, so how can he still have the energy to assist Tia? Moreover, Feng Guo and Du Ji have secretly signed an alliance. Even if they want to send troops, they will send troops to help Du Ji fight Tia. It is impossible to turn around and fight against Tia.
Dukey battles.
Qiu Zhen raised this matter in the court, but most of the generals did not express their opinions. Civil servants unanimously opposed it. Tang Yin even felt that Qiu Zhen was unnecessary and there was no need to discuss the matter in the court.
Seeing that everyone thought that Tia should not be aided, Qiu Zhen frowned and said worriedly: "Duki is in the north of our country, and Tia is in the west of our country. If Duki annexes Tia, then Duki will dominate the northwest of our country.
It is a huge threat. Du Ji’s ambition may not stop at Tia. If he suddenly attacks our country in the future and sends troops from the northwest, our country’s situation will be worrying.”
To be precise, Duji is located in the north of Ningdi, and Tia is in the west of Ningdi. However, the eight counties in northern Ningbo have been swallowed up by the Feng Kingdom and have now become the territory of the Feng Kingdom, so Qiu Zhen calls himself our country.
After hearing what he said, before others could speak, Zhang Xin burst into laughter and said: "Xiang Qiu is overly worried! Duji is just a small barbarian country, how can it pose a threat to me, Dafeng? Even if it annexes the small country of Tia,
It’s nothing to worry about. Besides, our country has an alliance with Du Kei, and it’s impossible for Do Kee to use troops against our country.”
Tang Yin nodded, agreeing with Zhang Xin's words.
Qiu Zhen disagreed and said: "Du Ji is weak now, but that won't be the case after annexing Tia. Tia has various advanced technologies, and Du Ji's army is brave and good at fighting. If the two are combined together,
, the Duke Army will become an army that will be feared by any opponent."
"I think... Prime Minister Qiu is being too alarmist?!" Zhang Xin raised his eyes and looked at Tang Yin.
Tang Yin remained silent.
At this time, another person stood up and spoke, expressing his agreement with Qiu Zhen's point of view.