Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 436
"It's feasible, let Princess Luqiu take care of this matter." Shi Congyun put down Luqiu Zhongqing and Wei Renpu together submitted the plan, which was the specific deployment plan for the north.

It was the final result of half a month of careful consideration by the Privy Council and several prime ministers of the Zhengshitang.

"Official, what about the candidate?"

Shi Congyun thought for a while, "The western front was handed over to Yang Jiye. He was stationed at Yanmen Pass and knew the local people's conditions."

Luqiu Zhongqing hesitated, "Officials, Yang Jiye's surrender was only a matter of two years ago. It is not known whether this person is reliable or not. Is it inappropriate to let him hold the power and have an overview of the power?"

"It's okay, Yang Jiye can rest assured." Shi Congyun said, he had a lot of contact with Yang Jiye, and he felt confident, but at the same time he also explained: "This matter must be explained to Xiang Xun from the south, and let him cooperate with Yang Jiye."

"Yes."

"The east of the Taihang Mountains will be handed over to Guo Jin. He is very skilled, so let Li Hanchao cooperate with him." Shi Congyun paced and thought while making personnel arrangements.

"In this way, the troops in Guanbei are still not enough, and the large-scale increase of troops in the north is afraid of overwhelming the snake." Shi Congyun hesitated, and suddenly thought of something, "Fortunately, the Tianxiong army did not disperse back then."

Emperor Shi suddenly remembered that he still had an elite army in Hebei, which was the Weizhou Tianxiong Army. After the old father-in-law Fu Yanqing went to Luoyang for the elderly, there were two opinions on whether to disband the elite Tianxiong Army.

One faction felt that the opportunity was not lost, and they should immediately take this opportunity to disband the Tianxiong Army and solve the problem of separatist regimes that caused chaos in the world from the middle of the Tang Dynasty to the present. Besides, the soldiers in Weizhou are all elite soldiers, and they are also arrogant soldiers. The most important town of Weibo in the Tang Dynasty continued.

One faction felt that disbanding directly was an overkill. Hebei was already facing the pressure of the Liao Kingdom, and it was flat. If the Tianxiong Army was disbanded at once, who would guard Weizhou and its surrounding areas.What's more, if so many well-trained soldiers are dismissed and returned to the people, if they can't find a job, they are likely to become bandits or bandits, causing riots.

Shi Congyun did not immediately disband the Tianxiong Army after weighing the balance. Instead, he sent his most trusted confidant General Shao Ji to Hebei to take over, and every few months he found a reason to transfer some senior generals of the Tianxiong Army to the capital to serve as officials. Arrange the confidant generals in the forbidden army to go there.

The most frequent time was last year's martial arts examination. Shi Congyun called the generals of the Tianxiong Army to see the outstanding military officers in the world, and praised their bravery in the camp of the Forbidden Army. Let them serve the court.

Then he asked Dong Zunhui to lead some imperial troops and officers to Shao Ji's place to listen to orders and fill in the vacancies.

Today, two years later, the Tianxiong Army is basically under the control of the imperial court and can be used with confidence.

"Let Zhang Zhenghai take another four battalions there, the rear army stops in Weizhou and does not go north." Shi Congyun instructed.

"promise!"

"Let's go and make arrangements. Discuss with the people in the Political Affairs Hall about the paperwork, and send it to me for a look after it's done," Shi Congyun said.

"Yes!"

As the country's highest military institution, the Privy Council can arrange military deployments but cannot lead troops, and resolutions ultimately require the emperor's seal to take effect.

Emperor Shi didn't want to control the details by himself. He was responsible for explaining the matter and the result of the ruling. How to do it was the business of the people below.

In early October, seventy large ships sailed up the southern coast, escorted by thousands of sailors, arrived at the Bian River.

Shi Congyun led Xiao Huanghua to the river to see it in person, and also led hundreds of cavalry.

These seventy large ships were seized by the navy at the mouth of the South Han Kingdom. They were privately hidden by the Lord of the Southern Han Dynasty, and they were planning to take them away with them.

A large amount of gold and silver treasures, food and seeds, and a large number of beauties were all prepared by Liu Wei to run away, but they were cut off by the Qin army.

Shi Congyun was very happy, thinking that this war really paid off!
The tightness of the treasury has been greatly eased.

The items on the seventy boats alone are enough to earn back all the money for this trip, and he also heard that even the pillars in the palaces of the Southern Han Dynasty are inlaid with gold, so he must write to Pan Mei and let him lay down The capital of the Southern Han Dynasty also scraped off the gold on the pillars and brought them back.

A few days later, Shi Congyun sent people to count and take over the belongings, and also called officials from the Ministry of Industry, because there were still many seeds in these things, which were prepared by Liu Wei for his escape life. Very thoughtful.

At the same time, Pan Mei also brought a memorial, which said that he was planning to launch a general attack on Panyu after October [-]th.

In the city of Panyu, defenders have come out at night and surrendered to them one after another, and it is expected that they will be captured soon.

At the beginning of October, Shi Congyun went to his younger sister's house to reunite with his parents and family and had a meal.

After returning to the palace, he went to Zhou Xian to visit his little princess Zhao Min.

Usually when eating in the palace, I like to go to Huarui's. The herbal diet she makes is the most suitable for Shi Congyun's taste. After all, he eats too much fish and meat, and Emperor Shi wants to live a simple life.

On the sixth day of October, news came from the northwest that Fengxiang Jiedu envoy and Ximian Biandu deployment Wang Jing died at the age of 76.

Shi Congyun was really sad when he heard the news. Wang Jing was the one who supported him. He fought with Wang Jing for the first time when he led the army. Before he knew it, it was ten years ago.
Shi Congyun couldn't help feeling that time flies and time flies.

Although he wanted to weaken the Jiedu of the feudal town, he still respected Wang Jing very much.

Wang Jing's life is also quite legendary. He was born in an ordinary peasant family. In his early years, he joined the general Wang Tan of the Later Liang Dynasty and participated in the war against the Later Tang Dynasty.

After the fall of Houliang, he surrendered to Houtang.At the end of the later Tang Dynasty, Zhang Jingda followed Taiyuan to surround Chen and besieged Taiyuan.After surrendering to the Later Jin Dynasty, he was treated favorably by Shi Jingtang, the ancestor of the Later Jin Dynasty.

When Tianxiong Jiedu envoy Fan Yanguang launched a rebellion, Wang Jing divided his troops and refused to defend.

When the Khitans invaded south, Gao Xingzhou and others defeated the Khitans in Qicheng.

After Liao Taizong died of illness, he took advantage of the situation to counterattack the Henghai Navy and expel Khitan.

In the second year of Xiande's command, he set off to conquer Houshu. At that time, Shi Congyun was still the number one under his command, and he took a lot of care from him.

Wang Jing was born in the army, but he was lenient in politics, and he was able to stick to his own views. He mainly cared for the people and was loved by the people.In the later Han Dynasty, there was a famine in Khitan, and more than 5000 people from Youzhou came to Cangzhou. Wang Jing appeased them and allocated land to them.

After discussing with the officials, Shi Congyun issued an imperial edict to present Wang Jing Taifu, posthumously titled King Qi, and posthumously named "Yuanjing".

With the death of Wang Jing, the power of Fengxiang Town will also be withdrawn.

After discussions in the court, it was unanimously agreed that there would be no longer Fengxiang Jiedushi, and that Fengxiang Mansion, like prefectures and counties, should have authority to know the affairs of Fengxiang Mansion.

As for the prefect candidate, everyone finally recommended Liu Xigu, the magistrate of Qinzhou.

Although Liu Xigu is a scholar who has read a lot of poetry and books, his style of doing things is not like a scholar, and he is more iron-blooded. Since Shi Congyun and Wang Jing took back Qinzhou, he has served as the magistrate of Qinzhou for a long time.

There are many bandits on the border of Qinzhou, and it is close to the tribes of Tubo, so the conflicts are fierce.

After Liu Xigu took office, he first announced the kindness and credit of the imperial court, and then led troops to take the children of ethnic minority chiefs as hostages in the mansion, so that the border could be peaceful.

In fact, as early as two years ago, Shi Congyun wanted to transfer him back to serve as the Minister of the Ministry of War, but because there was going to be a war in the south, he was afraid of something happening in Qinzhou, so he was allowed to continue to sit in the town. Now that there is a vacancy for the magistrate of Fengxiang Mansion, Emperor Shi immediately thought of it this person.

The ministers also had no objection, and felt that Liu Xigu was a capable person, enough to be the magistrate of Fengxiang, so the imperial edict and the book were issued in that month.

On October 26th, Shi Congyun was pulling Zhou Xian and Mrs. Huarui to play games in the Long Live Palace. The two beauties made him a little bit reluctant to leave. At this time, the battle report came from the front line, and Panyu was broken!
Shi Congyun was so excited after receiving the battle report that he almost forgot to put on his pants and rushed to the Chuigong Hall.

However, Luqiu Zhongqing and others who were waiting in the Chui Gong Palace did not look so good.

Shi Congyun was puzzled, they were not happy about such a big happy event?
So he even asked the officials to read the battle report to him. After listening to it, Emperor Shi's face was gloomy, and he was so angry that he almost cursed.

Immediately said: "Bring me the people from Dali Temple, go to the south immediately, and find out what's going on for me, and who made it, I will chop off their heads!"

The eunuch didn't dare to say more, and immediately went to summon the officials of Dali Temple.

(End of this chapter)