Jiang Qing

Within a few days, Qin Chengtao returned to Liangguo.

As soon as he left, Jiang Guo's envoys didn't intend to stay any longer, so they took a rest in Pingdu two days later and embarked on the road back to the country.

It was not long before the opening of the dynasty at the end of the year, and it took some time to entertain the envoys of the two countries. A lot of government affairs have already accumulated in the court and China.

Last year's autumn exams in various prefectures had been submitted long ago, and Bai Bingchen had never been free until now.Cao Bai, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, stayed in the White Mansion for half a day, and the two discussed the candidates for Chunwei's examiners.

Chunwei selects candidates from the Ministry of Rites, but uses materials from the Ministry of Officials. Bai Bingchen is in charge of the overall situation. It is inevitable to check whether the students selected for Chunwei have family members who are officials in the court, so as to avoid suspicion.

When he saw Cangzhou, Bai Bingchen was stunned for a moment, and he turned back the page that had already been turned over.

Xie Huaide?Did he pass the exam last year?

Bai Bingchen took a closer look at his dispatch household registration and confirmed that it was the scholar he had met, feeling a little emotional in his heart.

The sound became louder, Bai Bingchen put down the scroll, moved his sore shoulder and neck, and stared at the candlelight on the table for a while.

It was already midnight, and Mei Shao hadn't come back yet.

According to his habit, if he stayed in the barracks for the night, he would send someone back to inform him. Today is really a bit abnormal.

The distant bell came slowly, and after a dull sound, it seemed to be dumb, and it was silent.

Bai Bingchen was taken aback for a moment, almost thinking that he was hallucinating.

"Patriarch! Father-in-law has come to the palace and said that I would like you to come into the palace now." The servant who delivered the message hurriedly knocked on the door a few times, and the crisp knocking sound woke Bai Bingchen up.

He heard it right, it was the bell coming from the palace.

It was a bell that would ring at night only for urgent military affairs or royal turmoil, in order to fear that something would happen suddenly, and if the palace blocked the news and it was difficult to transmit the sound, the bell would be used to inform the officials in the capital that something had happened.

When the first emperor was seriously ill, Bai Bingchen blocked the news in the palace, and the first thing he sent his confidants to look at was this bell.

Later, on the eve of Zhao Zhen's accession to the throne, King Jing rebelled, and the bell was rung in the palace.

Since then, the Li country has been relatively stable, Ling Che has won both big and small battles, and the bell in the palace has never rang again.

until tonight.......

Bai Bingchen calmed down, went to the inner room, changed into his official uniform, got into the carriage, and went straight to the palace gate.

Along the way, he thought about the several lines near the border of the Li country, and still felt that there was a high probability that Qin Chengtao did something after returning to the country. At this time, he was the only one who had a reason to cause the war.

Li Guo has soldiers but no generals, and the situation of scattered soldiers and lack of generals has been maintained for too long. If it weren't for Zhao Jing and Biwu recruiting a wife to trick Ling Che, Zhao Zhen didn't even have a general who dared to send out.

Although Mei Shao has general talent, he still has to rely on field experience to feed him some general names. It is probably not his turn to send troops in such an emergency.

During the short journey into the palace, Bai Bingchen had already thought about the candidate for expatriation in his heart, and he could speak up after meeting Zhao Zhen.

In the Hall of Qinzheng, Zhao Zhen sat on the dragon chair, pressed his head, saw Bai Bingchen coming in, and said a little tiredly: "Bai Qing is here?"

Bai Bingchen looked around, besides himself, there were Zhang Jiudai, Minister of War, Minister of Household, Mei Shao and Ling Che.

"The minister is late."

"If it wasn't for the military emergency, I wouldn't have the heart to disturb Bai Qing's good sleep. Sit down."

Bai Bingchen saluted, and on the way to his seat, he cast a questioning look at Mei Shao, and he shook his head slightly as he drank tea, and Bai Bingchen's heart was slightly settled.

Not the border, which was much better than he had expected.

"I remember that when Bai Qing came back from Cangzhou, he told me about the land in Benzhou." Zhao Zhen spoke slowly, looked around the people in the hall, turned his gaze to Zhang Jiudai, and continued: "After that, I They also sent Ministers of the Household Department and Ministers of the Ministry of Industry to go to Shunjiang together, and asked Guo Shun to check the affairs of Benzhou. At that time, when Guo Shangshu and Zheng Shangshu came back, they reported that the affairs of Benzhou were just a small incident. The gangsters took advantage of the power of the state capital to run rampant, and Xiao Xiao has already paid up in full."

"Yes." Guo Zhengyang, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, arched his hands and said: "The minister and Zheng Shangshu will indeed punish the young people according to the law, and return all the fertile land they swallowed to the common people."

"Then who will tell me! Why are there peasants revolting in Benzhou! Why!" Zhao Zhen threw the military secret security in his hand on the ground fiercely, with anger in his eyes, "Look for yourself, there are black and white words written on it!" It is written that farmers in Benzhou rose up in knots, hundreds of households in one night, thousands of households at dawn, smashed government offices, tied hemp ropes on their right arms to revolt, attacked surrounding towns from the city group of Benzhou, and Benzhou has fallen Mostly!"

"If it is really resolved, why would my people rebel?"

Bai Bingchen stood there in shock, facing Zhang Jiudai and Guo Zhengyang who were also surprised, but Mei Shao and Ling Che seemed to have known it a long time ago, showing no other expressions on their faces.

Benzhou?

Benzhou is mostly a plain, and most of the people in the prefecture are engaged in farming and fishing. Because it is located in the interior of Li and has rarely experienced wars, the prefecture does not have enough troops. The fall of the state was only a matter of ten days.

"Your Majesty, I absolutely..." Under the emperor's fury, Guo Zhengyang hurriedly got up to defend himself.

"Your Majesty!" Bai Bingchen interrupted him, gave him a look, and said, "This is an urgent matter, and it is not appropriate to discuss what is right and what is wrong right now. Please make a decision early and choose the person who will put down the chaos in Benzhou."

At this time, only Bai Bingchen dared to provoke the emperor's wrath and appease the emperor's heart.

Zhao Zhen sighed deeply, realizing his gaffe, suppressed his frustrated arrogance, and said in a hoarse voice: "I am in a hurry."

"Fortunately, the incident has not yet reached the point of no return. Although the situation in Benzhou is not optimistic, fortunately, this turmoil will only be inside Benzhou, and will not burn outside. As long as His Majesty sends someone to calm down in time, it will be resolved within half a month. This is a crisis." Bai Bingchen analyzed the situation, and said directly: "Since Your Majesty has summoned General Ling and Lord Mei, he must want them to lead the troops to the east."

Zhao Zhen glanced at Ling Che and Mei Shao, and said, "What do you think?"

"The three states to the south of Benzzhou are the feudal lands of the Marquis of Nanyang, and the three states to the east are the fiefdom of the Marquis of Pingdong. The north borders Lishan to Quanzhou, and the west connects to the Chengzhou Plain. With Nanyang Marquis and Ping Donghou in town, let these rebels continue to be arrogant. , and did not dare to cast themselves in the southeast and southeast. There are deep mountains in the north, which is not easy to enter and exit. Only Chengzhou in the west is a feasible place. If the rebels want to rush out of Benzhou, they can only go west." Ling Che said with bright eyes: " The north, the south, and the east are all dead ends. As long as His Majesty sends troops to attack Benzhou from the west, and along with the army orders to bring Nanyang Hou and Ping Donghou, and order the two places to squeeze, the rebel army will be trapped in Benzhou. In less than three days, they will be caught in the urn and everyone will run away. not drop."

Mei Shao was silent for a while, then took over the topic and said: "There is only one flaw, the waterways in the south of the Yangtze River are connected, and the people in them are quite water-savvy. If the rebel army does not go by land, they will use waterways to avoid the edge of Pingdong and Nanyang, and go southeast. , It is also possible to disrupt the situation in the southeast. Besides, there are many bandits in the southeast. If they unite, this matter will be difficult to handle. I once discovered when the bandits in Cangzhou cleared the Tiger Mountain that the bandits in the south of the Yangtze River The capital is quite rich, even comparable to the state capital's military treasury. If the force is too much, the farmers will fall into bandits, and the manpower and weapons will be sufficient, and it will take a lot of effort to crusade."

"This is also what I am worried about." Zhao Zhen said: "The waterways in the south of the Yangtze River are connected. If you are not careful, water battles are inevitable. Mei Qing's water skills are naturally better than General Ling, but Mei Qing's prestige in leading troops is not as good as General Ling. Both of you are dispatched, and it is not appropriate for both of you to control the city. If this is the case, I will be in a dilemma."

"There is still a way to avoid water battles." Mei Shao said: "The minister Zeng Beizheng, if the supplies are not enough, we will use light armor and fast horses to attack at night. Arrive at Benzhou, so there is no need to calculate their scattered directions."

Ling Che pondered for a while, and said: "I think this method is feasible. It will take at least ten days for the rebel army to annex Benzhou completely. And it will only take three days for Zipingdu to rush to Benzhou."

Bai Bingchen frowned. He knew that Ling Che was talking about fast horses reporting military information. He changed horses every time he passed the post station, and the horses and people never stopped. It took three days to travel from Pingdu to Benzhou.However, it will take seven days at most for the army to march, food and supplies. What's more, Ping does not have the troops to take him away.

"It will take more than ten days for the Jinxi army to be transferred to Pingdu." Bai Bingchen frowned and said, "Don't say that the garrison army is not yet ready to take it to the battlefield, even if it can be brought, Pingdu cannot do without them. "

"Then we don't want the Western Jin Army." After Mei Shao and Ling Che said these words in unison, they both saw a little bit of sympathy in each other's eyes.

Mei Shao smiled and made a "please" gesture to Ling Che, motioning for him to say.

"The army's luggage will inevitably drag down the itinerary. Since we want to fight fast, we can't wait for the Jinxi army to come." Ling Che stood up, and said to Zhao Zhen: "I know that even Ping has no soldiers to lead, and I don't need to bring him from Congping." Soldiers. Tomorrow morning, with one minister, three horses, and two or three retinues, you can leave the capital and only go to Benzhou."

"You...alone?" Zhao Zhen was stunned by his outrageous words.

"One minister is enough!" Ling Che showed some youthful blood, "Two or three ministers came out of Pingdu together. They didn't have any baggage on them, and they were inconspicuous, so they were not easy to scare the snakes. From west to east, there are many state capitals garrisoning troops. , I got your Majesty's order to withdraw troops all the way from the state capital and bring them to the city of Benzhou. It is fast, saves the burden of transportation, and can catch the rebel army by surprise. It is the best way at this time. The minister is thick and thick. After calculation, as long as the military forces of a few major states are gathered, the number of soldiers and horses will probably exceed [-], and they can arrive in Benzhou within ten days."

Bai Bingchen pondered for a moment, and said, "Ten thousand soldiers and horses are really too few."

"Since the time can catch up, I will not be in a hurry to enter the city of Benzhou. As long as His Majesty writes the edict personally, he will be connected to the Marquis of Nanyang and Marquis of Pingdong. As a backup, supply food and grass, and it will be safe.”

"What does Mei Qing think?"

"I think it's feasible."

Zhao Zhen glanced at Bai Bingchen silently, but Bai Bingchen twisted the corner of his clothes and did not express his opinion.

He vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't grasp it.

Obviously the most worrying issues of military strength and generals have been resolved, and there is nothing unrealistic in Mei Shao and Ling Che's words. According to their deduction, this is indeed the best and fastest way.

But he just couldn't nod his head.

It rang out again.

Zhao Zhen's questioning eyes still fell on him. Following the emperor's eyes, everyone in the hall looked at Bai Bingchen.

Maybe it was really because I was too cautious, and the decision tonight was made too hastily and quickly, and I was a little uncomfortable for a while.

Bai Bingchen thought about this, finally nodded, and said: "I think this method can solve the urgent need. However, I still have two opinions. First, His Majesty's edict must be clearly stated, and Marquis Pingdong and Marquis Nanyang must personally Leading the troops out, General Ling will be safe from future troubles."

"Secondly, after General Ling arrives in Benzhou, not to mention every day, at most three or four days, he will send out military orders to return to the capital." Bai Bingchen said to Ling Che: "In this way, Your Majesty can feel at ease in Pingdu."

"It's all according to what Prime Minister Bai said."

"In this case, General Ling will lead the troops out of Benzhou. I will make a decree now to bring Nanyang and Heping Donghou's edict together with the state government's military orders. I will prepare them for you." Zhao Zhen solemnly asked : "General Ling sets off tomorrow morning, be careful all the way, I will wait for your triumphant return, and celebrate the victory for the general."

"I will live up to your majesty's entrustment."

"Mei Qing, you are familiar with the terrain in the south of the Yangtze River, so stay here to discuss the marching route for General Ling. If it is late, you can rest in the palace and don't have to go back." Zhao Zhen stood up from his chair and said to Bai Bingchen: " Bai Qing will follow me to draw up the imperial edict, and the others will leave."

"Your Majesty... I don't need to rest in the palace..." Ling Che hesitated for a moment, showing a rare bit of shyness, and said softly: "Before I leave, I want to go back Princess Mansion..."

Zhao Zhen froze for a moment, his eyes softened a little, and he replied, "Okay."

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