Lord of the House

The raindrops hit the leaves of the tung tree with a rustling sound. The twilight was already thick, and the raindrops slid through the air, like silver threads appearing against the dark background.

Song Jia walked to the threshold and called Sister Zuo Lan, who was serving in the outer wing, to come in and add a few more candles to brighten the light in the room.

Lin Fu sat there like a stone sculpture and read the pond copy, ignoring these trivial matters.

The news that the Donghu troops were pressing up to encircle Jinhai had already reached Chongzhou at noon today, which meant that the main force of the Donghu people had started a new round of offensive after two months of rest after entering the customs.

Song Jia walked back and stood beside Lin Fu, tidying up the messy pond that he looked through.

These are the information collected around the Donghu people. Although many of them are only words, but with so much manpower and effort, the information and reports collected are overwhelming.

In the past, these intelligences would be sorted and sent to Lin Fu, but Lin Fuyu was worried that the officials of the Ministry of Intelligence were inexperienced and missed any important information. , ready for him to consult at any time.

At this time, a new pond came in from outside, and it was a thick stack. Song Jia picked it up first, and picked the important ones for Lin Fu to see.

"The Donghu people are so fast!" Song Jia picked out a copy of the pond and handed it to Lin Fu.

This letter is not about the Donghu people's war in the north.

It was less than a month after the fall of Datong. The Donghu people set up a county in Datong, appointed government officials such as the prefect, prefecture, and county. They also set up a military household, and set up military villages and other officials. Farming war...

In addition to Datong, the Donghu people also appointed prefects, magistrates and other political officials in various counties in eastern Hebei. In eastern Hebei, in addition to abandoning the fields outside Jizhou to raise horses, in the counties of Changli and Linyu, the farmland was reclaimed without registration, and the tenants were made up as military households. Among the three military households, a regular military household was incorporated. In addition to providing manpower to farm for the military households, the military households still had to pay land rent and taxes.

This policy of the Donghu people is to abandon the old predatory policy in the occupied areas, and **** suppress the local gentry and gentry, so that the general households can be entrusted to the tenants, so as to reduce the direct expenditure of Donghu in raising the army. The original tenant farmers also had a certain appeasement effect.

In addition, Donghu also induced refugees to go out of the customs to occupy land in western Liaoning for farming.

Compared with the unstoppable progress of the Donghu people in the war, these actions of the Donghu people in the newly occupied area made Lin Fu even more concerned.

"The princes of the temple have always regarded Donglu as barbarians, but how many people can come up with such a powerful means?" Lin Fu sighed slightly and said, "The Liang family has occupied Shandong for nearly two years, except for the barely 60,000 yuan. There are many troops, but there is no way to convince people. If you don’t compare, you don’t know, and when you compare, they are dwarfed.”

Song Jia smiled slightly and said, "If Liang Xi and Liang Chengchong were really outstanding people, they wouldn't have defeated the Donghu people in Chentangyi. In the end, it was the imperial court's stubbornness and stubbornness that gave the Liang family a chance to succeed again. It is an extravagant idea to hope that the Liang family can hold Shandong. The Liang family is unwilling to retreat and dare not enter, but it is a fluke in my heart, and I hope that the Donghu people will stop in Yanji. This kind of mentality of the Liang family, How similar is it to some people in Jiangning? Once the Donghu people swept Yanji and then marched south, the Liang family would collapse like a mountain, and it would likely collapse in a battle!"

"The Donghu people are in strong force in Yanji, and the Liang family doesn't dare to go in and fight, but if the Liang family wants to retreat, where can they retreat?" Lin Fu shook his head, Song Jia was an outsider and could stay out of it. Commenting on the current situation, but all these things worry him.

In the past, in addition to the self-conquest of Liao, there were three sources of grain and grass for the Donghu people to fight. One was the rice grain supplied by Korea. Last year, there were about 200,000 shi, which was not much, but it could make up for what the Donghu lacked. It is the Huhus in Yanxi who supply the livestock to supplement their meat and milk. It is difficult to estimate the exact amount, but it will not be in the minority; the third is the looting on the battlefield...

For a long time, the number of pawns used by the Donglu to fight has been maintained at around 100,000, and the previous mode of raising grain can barely maintain.

With the deepening of the war, the logistics supply lines will be elongated, and the transportation consumption will increase; if the battlefield is disabled, the income from looting will be more and more restricted. Moreover, the scale of the subordinate army will also increase, which will aggravate the shortage of food and grass... …

If the Donghu people did not change their mode of raising grain, it would be difficult for them to use large-scale troops southward in a short period of time after they conquered Yanji.

This is also the main basis for the Liang family to judge that the Donghu trend ends in Yanji, Gu Wuchen believes that Qingzhou can be held, and Jiangning believes that an effective line of defense can be established between Hehuai.

On the other hand, Liang's family and Jiang Ning's judgment on the size and combat power of the surrendered army was also seriously insufficient.

Most people thought that the subordinate army was under coercion, and its combat power was very limited. If the Donghu people wanted to prevent the end of the subordinate army from being too large, they would definitely control the size of the subordinate army. Most people thought that once the Donghu people invaded Jinjun and Yanji, To control such a large area, the original force must be diluted, and the force that can be used for going south is naturally limited.

"In this case, we can no longer pin our hopes on the First World War," Lin Fu said, throwing the hand tang copy on his desk, "The Donghu people are likely to use the siege of Jinhai to rectify the subordinate troops. Wait for them to go south. When the time comes, you can use the subdued troops to lead the front, and the Huhus of Yanxi can flank, and the elites of Yandong headquarters can shrink in the back and recuperate."

"It's very simple, you would fight like this," Song Jia said. "It's hard to judge now, it's the reaction of the Cao family."

At this time, a guard came in from the outside and reported that the convoy from Qingzhou was about to arrive outside Beicheng, and Lin Mengde had already left Beicheng to meet him.

Lin Fu instructed the guard: "Send someone to tell Madam..."

Lin Fu wanted to persuade Gu Wuchen and Gu Siyuan to give up the idea of ​​guarding Qingzhou, but it had little effect. Instead, Gu Siyuan rushed over to convince Huaidong to support him in commanding troops in Qingzhou-Gu Siyuan could not make public appearances when he came to Chongzhou.

Zhao Qinmin went to Yandu to meet with Gu Siyuan two days in advance. After counting the time when Gu Siyuan arrived in Chongzhou, Lin Fu asked Lin Mengde to go out of the city on his behalf to meet him. He would wait for Gu Siyuan with Gu Junxun in Chongzhou City.

The more intelligent people are, the more stubborn they will be. Even if they hit their heads, they still refuse to look back.

Fundamentally speaking, it is also a serious and difficult to persuade difference between the two sides in the judgment of Donghu's fundamentals - Gu Wuchen, Gu Siyuan and others are more willing to believe and stick to their own judgments, and they do not believe in Huaidong's analysis and judgment of the current situation .

It's no wonder that anyone's cognition has limitations...

Before Huaidong rushed to eastern Zhejiang, who would have thought that Huaidong would still have the ability to maintain 60,000 or 70,000 troops and horses after cutting off the Jinhai food route? Who would have thought that Huaidong, while maintaining the current 70,000 troops, would still have the ability to secretly support the Red Jacket Army to build the Huaisi Defense Line?

At this point, Lin Fu could only give up his previous position and barely maintain the Dongyang lineage.

Lin Bie stood up with his arms up and listened to the sound of the rain outside the window, he couldn't help sighing, and waited for Gu Junxun to come down the mountain and went into the city to wash the dust for Gu Siyuan together.

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On a rainy day, the road was slippery, and the speed of the cavalry team slowed down a bit, and when night fell, the faint shadow of the northern city wall of Chongzhou could be seen far away.

At the corner of the car, a lantern was set up to illuminate the road, and the dim yellow halo illuminated the rain, and a little light penetrated into the carriage. Raindrops hit the roof of the carriage, Gu Siyuan wearing a green shirt, casually stretched his legs and sat on the soft couch. Today's Gu Siyuan has a thick short moustache on his lips, his face is frosty, his eyes are deep, and his expression is solemn.

The change of people is really wonderful, not to mention Gu Siyuan, Zhao Jin, who straddles the horse next to the carriage, pierces his armor and carries a knife under the rain, with a high bearing.

Who can connect him with the young Jiangning boy who only knew how to run birds and dogs and do evil things back then?

Sometimes Zhao Qinmin didn't know whether to thank Lin Fu or to hate Lin Fu. The only son, Zhao Jin, broke Lin Fu's leg. Although he treated him carefully, he was always a little crippled when walking, leaving him disabled, but Zhao Jin has changed his mind since then. He studied and practiced martial arts with great care. After Zhao Jin went to Qingzhou with Gu Siyuan, he quickly used it as a confidant.

At this moment, two horses came in front, and informed that Lin Mengde was waiting at the long pavilion in front of him. Gu Siyuan's trip could not be made public, and he had to hide it from the Liang family. The only people who greeted him when he went out of the city were only two or three Lin Mengde, and there was no ostentation.

Gu Siyuan nodded to show that he knew about this, so he let the knight who came to report leave and asked Zhao Qinmin, "How much will Huaidong sincerely welcome me?"

Zhao Qinmin said: "For the young master to come here, the envoy Lin Zhizhi and the young lady also specially asked the city to prepare a garden. The decorations and utensils in it are all arranged by the young lady herself, so I am afraid that you will not be used to it..." Zhao Qinmin It can only be said that, in his opinion, Huaidong still did not give up his efforts to persuade them to prepare for their withdrawal from Qingzhou.

Tang Haoxin had no ambitions for his two sons before his knees, and the wealthy family in the field was satisfied, so he focused on supporting his son-in-law Gu Wuchen; if Gu Siyuan did not change his past, he was always a **** and enjoyment, Gu Wuchen would naturally only support his son-in-law Lin Fu. one person.

Things didn't turn out that way.

In the **** battle of Jiyang, Gu Siyuan was greatly touched, and he suffered from the past. After inheriting from Men Yin, he followed Tang Haoxin to Qingzhou to become an official, and he taught Tang Haoxin wholeheartedly and gained a lot. Tang Haoxin died in office, and Gu Siyuan helped the coffin to go to Tongguan for burial. Returning to the east during the Great Chaos in Hehuai, he recruited refugees along the way to select Jianyong. With the assistance of Yang Pu, he compiled an elite fighting force loyal to the Gu family, and outwitted Suining in the Huaisi war to build his career. When he entered Qingzhou again, Gu Siyuan inherited the political prestige and contacts left by Tang Haoxin, and joined forces with Chen/Yuanliang, Du Juefu, Zhang Jinxian and others when they were in charge of the transportation of the Shandong section of the Jinhai Grain Road. *Liang's forces infiltrated Qingzhou. Later, he married Du Juefu's young daughter, and the marriage with the Qingzhou local gentry Du Shi completely established Gu Siyuan's status in Qingzhou~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Huaidong and Qingzhou came from the same line of Dongyang. It is necessary, but again, there is competition between the two.

Of course, Lin Fu's achievements and deep roots in Huaidong's management are incomparable to Gu Siyuan. In this case, Gu Wuchen can only mainly support Huaidong, so as to form a political pattern of foreign vassal and inner minister of Dongyang Department as soon as possible.

Even if there is a competitive relationship between Huaidong and Qingzhou, the competitive relationship is still very weak, and the contradiction is not so prominent.

The Donghu people wantonly invade, and Yanjing will fall. For Qingzhou, since it is a crisis, it is also a turning point!

Yanjing and Jinhai are about to fall one after another, and Shandong will be directly threatened by the Donghu cavalry, but at the same time Shandong will also become the front line against Donghu. Before the fall of Yanjing, people in Jiangning would not immediately support the new emperor, but they had reached a consensus to strengthen defenses in Hehuai, Shandong and other places and establish a military defense line to protect Jianghuai.

In addition to nearly 4,000 elite soldiers, the Qingzhou people headed by Gu Siyuan and Chen/Yuanliang also controlled nearly 20,000 transport troops deployed along the Jiaolai River. As long as they can get the support of Jiangning, the 20,000 transport troops can be quickly compiled as pawns and filled in the city north of Qingzhou, forming a military center that shields eastern Shandong.

In this way, Gu Siyuan, who was currently the governor of Qingzhou Prefecture, was able to rise to become a frontier vassal commander in control of military power in almost one step.

Such an opportunity, even if there is a risk of directly confronting the Donghu cavalry, who would easily let it go?

Lin Fu opposed keeping Qingzhou, probably because he was worried that after Gu Siyuan's rise in Qingzhou, the adults and other officials of the Dongyang Department would turn to support Qingzhou? Zhao Qinmin secretly speculated in his heart, and at the same time thought that his son-in-law is always inferior to his son. When adults have a choice, how can they put all their life's efforts on son-in-law? My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter