By early September, the fighting in Song County gradually became fierce.
Due to the geographical location, rebellions by the rebels in Song County became more frequent in the counties of "Chengshi", "Juye", "Changyi" and "Dongmin" occupied by the Qingwang Party.
In comparison, the private army of the Yong Wang Party nobles who occupied "Chengwu", and the private army of the Su Wang Party nobles who occupied "Jishi", "Yuxian", "Shanfu", "Xiayi" and other places
, and also suffered a counterattack from the Beibo Army to a certain extent.
Song County's rebel army, the "Beibo Army", is different from most of the rebel armies in the world. It is not a rebel army nestled in its lair. It has a very deep-rooted popular base in Song County, as if most of the
The people of Song County were willing to provide cover for the Beibo Army.
The fighting style of the Beibo Army also caused the aristocratic private army of the Wei State to suffer a lot.
For example, if the Beibo Army decides to attack Jinxiang, a dozen or even dozens of rebel armies of varying numbers may gather in Jinxiang County within just one or two days, and they may attack the Qingwang nobles like a pack of wolves.
The private army launched an offensive. But when the Qingwang nobles transferred reinforcements from Changyi, the dozen or even dozens of rebel armies dispersed in an instant.
Afterwards, if the soldiers of the noble private army of King Qing still want to pursue, then the best possibility is to find a stronghold of the Beibo Army like Sima Song, the Marquis of Quliang. If you are not lucky, you may just find an innocent person.
of villages.
After the "Jinxiang Massacre" incident, the aristocratic private army shunned this kind of village, which did not know whether it was a good citizen or a Beibo Army stronghold. No one dared to order a killing again, for fear of being implicated in the responsibility.
This fueled the arrogance of the Beibo Army, and at the same time caused several groups of Wei aristocratic private troops to huddle in the occupied city and did not dare to show their faces. In fact, it was not that they could not defeat the Beibo Army, but that they were afraid of killing them.
Wrong person, bear responsibility.
Zhao Hongrun didn't have any good solution for this. After all, he was far away in Daliang and had no idea about the situation in Song County. He couldn't abandon his marriage and go to Song County to deal with the Beibo Army, right?
Having said that, in view of the situation in Song County, the imperial court has initially made plans to send an elite army to Song County, namely the anti-rebellion army under the command of the Southern Liang King Zhao Yuanzuo.
I don’t know whether it was the title of “Suppressing Rebellion” that made the court give priority to Zhao Yuanzuo, King of Nanliang; or whether it was King Yong Hongyu who, after deporting Hongxin, King of Qing, deliberately put Zhao Yuanzuo, King of Nanliang, who supported King Hongxin of Qing.
The uncle also left, further weakening the influence of the Qing King Party in Daliang.
In addition to the anti-rebellion army under the command of Nanliang King Zhao Yuanzuo, General Shao Hu may also lead a part of the Wei Wu army to station in Song County.
Of course, unlike Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, who was mainly responsible for quelling the rebellion, the main task of General Shao Hu was to ensure the smooth flow of the "Liang Lu Canal". In other words, the Wei Wujun under Shao Hu was mainly responsible for driving away the northern part of Song County where the Liang Lu Canal passed.
Some counties in the Song Dynasty, if nothing unexpected happened, were not the main force in suppressing the rebellion.
It is worth mentioning that the military order ordering Southern Liang King Zhao Yuanzuo and General Shao Hu to prepare to lead their troops to Song County did not come from the "General's Mansion" or the "Ministry of War", but came directly from Chui Gong Palace.
This also means that Yong Wang Hongyu has gradually weakened the power of the old enemies of the "Shangjiangfu" and "Minbu of War" in the court. The reason is very simple, because the political stance of the Shangjiangfu is biased towards the eldest prince Zhao Hongli, while the politics of the Ministry of War
The position is biased towards King Qing Hongxin.
Near mid-September, the rice in several fields in Xiangyi County of Wei State was deliberately set on fire.
After the Xiangyi County magistrate reported this matter to the court in horror, the court paid special attention to it and immediately ordered Liang County and Yingshui County to be more vigilant, and ordered the local county magistrate to organize county soldiers and township warriors to patrol to prevent thieves.
Destroy the autumn harvest.
After Zhao Hongrun learned about this, he shook his head.
He also felt that it was very likely that Song County's Beibo Army had sneaked into the Xiangyi area and set fire in an attempt to burn down Wei's harvest this year, and try his best to prevent Wei from having enough military supplies to send elite troops to Song County after the autumn harvest.
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But having said that, this approach is indeed a bit stupid.
The reason is very simple, because the Beibo Army simply cannot send too many men to burn the fields, and the county magistrates in various places are not fools. If they learn that a large wave of human bee pupae have poured into Liang County and Yingshui County, they will definitely report it to the court.
But if too few people are sent, will the fire be able to survive?
More importantly, after the Wei State acquired Sanchuan County and Shangdang County, Yingshui County was no longer the main grain-producing area of the Wei State. In Sanchuan County, especially Shangdang County, the Wei State had opened up
How could countless fertile fields have their harvest affected that year because of a Beibo Army?
It is no exaggeration to say that, except for the local nobles or civilians who had their rice burned and suffered heavy losses, this incident was almost painless to the Wei State.
It may also be because of this thought. Except for the burning of some rice fields in Xiangyi County, nothing like this has ever happened again. Most of the generals of the Beibo Army also realized that this measure was indeed effective.
It's a bit stupid.
On September 11th, Zhao Hongrun and his younger brother Huan Wang Zhao Hongxuan, Zhu Zongwei and Jie Ziu, Wen Qi, Zhou Min and others, as well as Que'er and other nightingales, went to the rolling hills in the eastern suburbs of Daliang.
And among these hills, on one of the hills, there is the spiritual temple of Zhao Hongrun's Sixth Prince, Shuyi Wang, Zhao Yuanli.
On this day last year, Zhao Yuanli, the uncle of the Sixth Prince, sadly committed suicide by taking poison because he was implicated in the Zhongyang Rebellion. Later, Zhao Hongrun observed the filial piety for one year for the Uncle Sixth Prince who had treated him as his own son since childhood, and the period has just expired today.
It is worth mentioning that when Zhao Hongrun and his party came to the temple of Uncle Liu Wang, Zhao Ying, another righteous daughter of King Yi Zhao Yuanli, was already waiting there with dozens of nightingales. This shows that Zhao Ying
, Sister Zhao Que indeed has deep feelings for Zhao Yuanli, their adoptive father.
In fact, the memorial temple of King Yi Zhao Yuanli is no different from the tomb at this time, because the bones of this sixth uncle were already included in the royal tomb last year, which is under the largest main mountain in this stretch of hills.
In the royal tombs, the bones of the kings of the Wei Kingdom and some noble officials are buried here.
However, I don’t know if it is to prevent someone from robbing the tomb and stealing the funerary objects in the royal tomb. Even Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Hongxuan, the descendants of the Ji Zhao family, have no idea where the entrance to the royal tomb is. It is said that only the clan masters it.
Follow the road to the royal tomb and how to open the royal tomb.
While everyone was preparing for the sacrifice, King Yu Zhao Yuan'e, accompanied by several generals such as Shao Hu, Long Ji, Yi Gu, Zhao Bao, etc., climbed the hill.
"Uncle Five Kings."
Brothers Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Hongxuan quickly saluted King Yu Zhao Yuandai.
It can be seen that King Yu Zhao Yuan'ai was also in a low mood today. He shook the small pot of wine in his hand with a forced smile and said to Zhao Hongrun: "Hongrun came to mourn Yuan Ren today, why didn't he send someone to inform the fifth uncle?
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Zhao Hongrun responded with an apologetic smile.
In fact, when he came here this morning, he had thought about whether to inform King Yu Zhao Yuanji, but then he thought about it. This fifth uncle has always been in poor health. He keeps coughing even if he takes more than two steps on weekdays, let alone
How about walking a mountain road like this?
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun did not send anyone to notify him, but unexpectedly, King Yu Zhao Yuan'e came anyway accompanied by Shao Hu and others.
Using a cane, King Yu Zhao Yuanqi came to the tomb of his brother Zhao Yuanli and poured three glasses of wine for the latter. Then he took brothers Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Hongxuan and began to tell some past events about their brothers.
Last year, King Yu Zhao Yuanke had a premonition that something might happen in the country. When he rushed to Daliang, King Yi Zhao Yuanli had committed suicide by taking poison. After all, the two brothers could not see each other for the last time. This made King Yu Zhao Yuanke quite sad. However, at that time, the Wei State was facing the Korean War.
, Chu, Qin, Sichuan, and Nangong were besieged by the five forces, leaving no time to express the sadness in my heart.
"Yuanli... Hey, I have been hurt by love in this life. It seems to be free and open-minded, but in fact it is not. If it were back then... Hey, forget it, it is useless to mention it now." Zhao Yuanli, the king of Yu, sighed and shook his head.
Zhao Hongrun also deeply agreed with the exclamation of the Fifth King Uncle.
Zhao Hongrun has always believed that Liu Wangshu Zhao Yuanli was a very talented person, but he was also a bit naive in some things.
For example, back then, due to Xiao Shuai's pleading, Zhao Yuanli agreed to the former's request and quietly took the former prince Zhao Yuanli and his son away from Daliang. This led to Wei Emperor Zhao Yuanxi accidentally killing Xiao Shuai in a rage, which triggered the subsequent "
"The Xiao family of Nanyan" was punished.
Another example is that Zhao Yuanli trusted Xiao Luan, thinking that the latter just wanted to clear up the grievances between Xiao Shuai and the Xiao family of Nanyan. However, he did not expect that Xiao Luan was no longer the Xiao Luan he was familiar with back then, so he eventually ended up committing suicide by taking poison.
Sometimes Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but wonder, if Zhao Yuanli, the Sixth Prince's Uncle, mustered up the courage to express his love to the later Xiao Shuai, would the subsequent development be completely different?
Of course, as Yu Wang Zhao Yuanke said, it is useless to think about these things now.
Waiting until dusk approached, after finishing mourning for the Sixth Uncle Zhao Yuanli, Yu Wang Zhao Yuandai said meaningfully to Zhao Hongrun: "Hongrun, as far as the Fifth Uncle knows, you have taken your Sixth Uncle as a role model since you were a child, but in fact
, He is because grief is greater than death. Even though he has many talents, he cannot calm down... He is not as free and open-minded as you imagine." At this point, he paused and continued: "Don't try to imitate me.
...According to my understanding of Yuan Li, this should be what he wanted to say to you at the end, but couldn't save his face and mentioned it to you."
After speaking, he patted Zhao Hongrun on the shoulder and left with a cane.
Looking at the backs of Yu Wang Zhao Yuanke and his entourage leaving, Zhao Hongrun remained silent.
In fact, he had already realized that "the most handsome man in the Wei Dynasty" was not something worth boasting about for Uncle Liu Wang. Instead, it was a heart-wrenching injury. Only he who knew nothing at that time could do it.
I mistakenly thought that Uncle Liu Wang lived a free and open-minded life.
Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but feel a little confused, because he suddenly found that the object he once longed for and the goal he was chasing had gradually become blurred.
At the same time, in Daliang, a group of people delivered a secret letter to the Prince's Mansion and Prince Xiang's Mansion at the same time.
After taking it apart and viewing it, the eldest prince Zhao Hongli and the king of Xiang Zhao Hongjing showed similar expressions of shock, and then a look of ecstasy appeared on their faces.