Xinshun 1730

Chapter 55 Persuasion
"elder brother!"

"Third Master!"

Mantou and Bell jumped up at the same time, calling for the people they cared about, and rushed to the door.

In the yard, Du Feng had just jumped off his horse, while Liu Yu was still arranging his clothes on the horse's back.The brocade suit and Xiuchun knife that Huncheng Xunwei got mixed up hadn't had a chance to wear it a few times, so he came back from no man's land with great difficulty and quickly changed into it.

"Yo, it's good to eat here. Mantou, you're getting fat."

Mantou came to Liu Yu's side, smiling happily, helped Liu Yu off the horse and said, "Third Master is so dark and thin."

The meeting between master and servant is full of tastes, but when it comes to true love, it is still far inferior to the reunion of brothers and sisters next to you.

Like a bird returning home, Du Ling circled Du Feng several times.

I haven't seen him for more than half a year, and I have been holding back my stomach full of words, but now I can't say a word.In the end, it just turned into a cry, a word that contained an unknown number of longings.

"elder brother!"

"Okay, okay, don't cry. Didn't I come back? I didn't lose arms or legs. Where's dad?"

Stretching out her hand to pat the top of her sister's head, Du Ling stretched out the back of her hand to wipe away the tears that had already dripped down her chin. Knowing that her brother was busy, she said, "I'll call."

After finishing speaking, his unbound feet took a step forward and came to Du Feng's horse in two steps.

With a shake of his head, the black and straight braids came around in front of him, he bit his teeth, stepped on the stirrup, and, like a flying swallow, sat sideways on the horse's back.

He didn't let the horse turn around at all, kicked the horse's belly hard, ran two steps in the yard, jumped over the low fence of the courtyard wall, and turned into an afterimage towards the north.

It is said that after serving in the army for three years, seeing a split peach can make one's imagination run wild.Liu Yu also followed a group of rough men for a year, but now that he saw a girl, his heart thumped for nothing.

Then he turned his head away, thinking that he was not in charge of his own marriage, and he didn't know who his cheap father was going to marry him with.

I just hope that my future daughter-in-law is not a boundless person, and it is better to have a common language, then it will be regarded as a high incense.

After a while, Du Qian, who was a little lame, hurried back from outside riding a horse.

A man in his 40s is very dexterous on a horse, and he took off a pair of crutches from the saddle when he got off the ground.

Limping on crutches, he walked up to the two of them, first squeezed his son's shoulder, nodded, and then looked at Liu Yu.

"Father, let me introduce you. This is the honorary guard in front of the palace, the son of Yi Guogong at the time, Mr. Liu Yu Liu."

"Lord Liu, this is my father. He is now the captain of Zhechong Mansion in Handuoli."

The nominal official positions of the two are equally large. Du Qian was cut from the northeast to the northwest, and Liu Yu has a good father.Although Xunwei is the same as the fifth rank, Du Qian still saluted Liu Yu first. After Liu Yu returned the salute, he stretched out his hand and helped Du Qian into the house with Du Feng.

There was no one else in the room, so Liu Yu roughly talked about the ins and outs of the journey.

He didn't go around in circles either. After talking about what happened, he got straight to the point.

"Master Du, Ming people don't speak dark words. At the beginning, I wanted to borrow Du Feng's strength. He was young and I was intimidated by him. I knew that Master Du would Such a single seedling, presumably, is willing to fight with me for the sake of my son."

"Firstly, I have such an idea, and secondly, after getting along for a long time, I have hit it off with him. This matter is not only for me, but also to find a way out for him."

Du Qian took out his cigarette pouch, holding a wooden splinter in his hand to gently pick the smoke oil inside.After Liu Yu finished speaking, he put down his cigarette pouch, tilted his head to look at Liu Yu, and said with a smile, "Master Liu is very calculating. He only hears about cheating sons, but rarely see cheating fathers. My hometown is Yuncheng, Liu Yu My lord is very proficient at 'making money on Liangshan'."

After listening to Liu Yu's ins and outs, Du Qian understood why the emperor gave such a strange decree to himself, a small official the size of a sesame mung bean.

Everyone in the circle knew about the robbery of the caravan in Handoli Acropolis.But they didn't kill the good and take the credit, and none of them thought what was going on. The idea of ​​the soldiers and bandits was also simple: I am guarding the border here, what's wrong with robbing you for some money?
The reason why the army of the people of later generations has the three major disciplines and eight precautions is also very simple - because it is the normal state of the old army to reverse all the three disciplines and eight precautions.

The only two "wonderful flowers", one is the Yue family army, and the other is the group of people who helped to defend the city during the Warring States period. At least it is clearly written that the demolition of the house should be compensated at the original price, and the rice and grain levied must be registered clearly. Contract account.

Everyone knows this kind of normality.

The minister understood, and the emperor also understood that if Grandpa Yue dared to take out the account book when he was checking the accounts, he would be so moved that the account checkers were about to cry, thinking that something was wrong.

But since ancient times, the imperial court has always demanded people according to the standard of "sage", and then the emperor's selective law enforcement is a holy grace as thunder and rain.

Everyone knew about the robbery of the caravan, but no one dared to say that it was not a crime.

This matter can be big or small. When Du Qian received the weird edict, he understood that this matter was no longer a matter, at least it was past the past.

It's an honor to say that my little fifth-rank official was able to receive the imperial decree. In addition to the awl of my grandma who pierced Sun Zhixie in my family, I finally have another family heirloom.

Seeing what Liu Yu said straight to the point, Du Qian stopped being bureaucratic, and asked directly: "Master Liu still has such thoughts, it is because His Majesty did not directly order you not to do it. Your Excellency came to me specifically, presumably Feel capable of persuading me. I might as well listen."

Liu Yu laughed, and said directly: "It's too early to get rid of the benefits. Let's talk about the benefits first."

"First, my father is the Duke of Yi, and my uncle is the Duke of Xiang. If Brother Du really enters the Martial Virtue Palace in the future, I will cover him in the capital."

Du Qian nodded, cupped his hands and said, "If you have something to say, thank you first."

After just talking about this benefit, Du Qian's mind became active.

It's just that there are people in the court who are good at being officials. Even if his son can be admitted to the Wude Palace, if it doesn't matter, it will be difficult to mix.Although this Liu Yu is not the eldest son of Yi Guogong, but His Majesty can choose him as a guard, obviously the future is limitless.Not to mention the relationship in the capital.

Walk around a little, even if you get close to him usually, someone will give you a high look.

Ordinarily, he, Zhechong Duwei, is also a fifth rank, neither big nor small, but in fact, one of the Zhechong Mansion captains in the Songhua River area counts as one, and they all have no backers.As long as there is a bit of background, it is impossible to be in this kind of place.

The government soldiers are not the elite of the fifth battalion, and they do not receive or receive military pay.The chief of the government soldiers, regardless of the military pay, never farts loudly.

Speaking of it, it may not be as good as a stable guard who checks whether the horses are qualified every year during the conscription: at least he is a person who can make the government soldiers go bankrupt and exchange horses with a single sentence.

As the captain of Zhechong, he didn't care about the land or the money. The only thing he could manage was the distribution of the field and horse pastures of Fubinggong. With such a small amount of power, everyone could still be polite.If he didn't bring people to plunder the caravan to find some money for these government soldiers, these wild soldiers would not obey him.

With such connections, even if His Majesty pardoned Du Feng's crime of robbing the caravan and was admitted to Wude Palace, if it doesn't matter under normal circumstances, he might be thrown into that corner and become a petty official for the rest of his life.

Of course, if you can be admitted to Shangshe and be rated as Shangshang, which is equivalent to the roll call outside Donghuamen, that is another matter.However, this is not realistic, and belongs to the category of everything in dreams.

Seeing that Liu Yu was about to continue talking about the rest of the benefits, Du Qian waved his hand and said: "Master Liu, if there is any benefit, that is enough. But the order above is for me to strictly guard. If something goes wrong, my The head is gone, and the dog will probably be implicated as well."

"I just want to know, what is your lord planning to do? To put it bluntly, I have been in the frontier army for so many years. I can see if your lord's method can be used. If it works, I am naturally willing to follow suit. Work hard, fight for a good future for the dog."

"But if it doesn't work... don't blame your lord. I can't afford to bet."

Seeing that Du Qian is also a straightforward person, Liu Yu was very happy. It is much easier to talk to this kind of person, just Chen Ming.

"It's actually easy to say."

"Sun Wuzi said: Benefits to lure them, chaos to take them, strength to prepare them, strength to avoid them, anger to scratch them, humbleness to be arrogant, loss to work, relatives to leave them, attack those who are unprepared, By surprise."

"The key is to lure people out of profit and take them out of chaos."

"Zhao Zhi Li Mu, large-scale animal husbandry, crowds filled the fields, Xiongnu invaded small, pretending to be invincible in the north, entrusted by thousands of people, Shan Yu was overjoyed when he heard about it, and led the crowd to the big one, most of the herds formed a strange formation, flanked left and right, and broke Killed more than ten thousand horsemen of the Xiongnu."

"The world is full of prosperity, all for profit. The Huns are good horses, and Li Mu has been in the border for a long time, so he naturally knows it. Lord Du has also dealt with the Raksha Cossacks for a long time. Doesn't Lord Du know what the Cossacks like?"

"It is difficult to defend a fortress without people. The Cossacks are not difficult to defeat if they leave the fortress. A fortress of 500 people cannot be attacked by 1000 people without guns; but if it is a fortress with more than a hundred people, is it really impossible to attack?"

"Attack the fort, attack the fort, if there are no people, the fort will naturally fall."

The cigarette bag in Du Qian's hand shook, but he forgot to take a bite.Although Liu Yu dropped a few books, Du Qian had heard the story of Li Mu.

"You mean...to lure the Rakshasa people out of the city to plunder with property, and we ambush and attack? As long as we kill people...the fortress can't be defended naturally?"

Liu Yu nodded and said: "I captured a few Raksha people. I heard from them that in the hinterland of Raksha, those Cossacks even robbed Raksha's official ship a while ago. The captured Cossacks were hanged on the cross. The Don River floats down to warn those people. Although Lord Du often robs caravans, he still doesn’t have the guts to rob official ships, right? The Cossacks dare to rob even Rakshasa official ships. What about the caravan?"

"When I went to Raksha Castle that day, the Cossacks were rascals, so they snatched my hat. It's just that everyone was carrying guns, and there were more than a hundred people. They didn't dare to do anything when they approached the castle."

"However, if there is a 'caravan' of dozens of people, full of goods, the ship sinks in Heilongjiang, and it is difficult to move. It can only wait for rescue, build a ship, raise a bonfire and emit thick smoke, luring the Cossack scouts to check ...Could it be that those Cossacks will be indifferent to this fat?"

"Catching birds in winter, throwing a handful of rice, and making a basket is better than climbing a tree to find a bird's nest; catching badgers in summer, throwing a piece of rotten meat and putting a rope on it, is better than risking being bitten by a badger." digging out tree holes in danger.”

"Lord Du often robs caravans, but he doesn't have the guts to rob official ships like the Cossacks. Thinking about it differently, if Lord Du was the leader of the Cossacks, he would even dare to rob official ships. Would you do such a business? To rob or not to rob? To rob or not to rob?"

(End of this chapter)