Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Li Si'en has just received a new appointment: Governor of Huazhou.All the acquaintances congratulated him, this is a "high official"!Li Sien forced a smile on his face.

Is it a good thing?It seems to be true, Huazhou has a rich household registration and prosperous business travel. It is Shangzhou under the jurisdiction of Henan Province. The governor is from the third grade, an absolute leader.Being a governor here not only pays a lot of money, but also earns a lot of gray income - this is the reason why everyone wants to become an official in a wealthy place.

But compared to Li Cunxiao, it is still far behind.

Li Cunxiao is the governor of Yaozhou, also in Shangzhou, but he was ennobled as Marquis of Jinxiang County, and 1500 households were enfeoffed.This time of conquest of Hebei, he made meritorious service and added [-] households.

In addition, the saint also gave Li Cunxiao a new house in Zeshanfang, Luoyang.It was newly built on the former site of Tongping Zhangshi in the former Tang Dynasty and Zilou Shide's house in Qiaoxian County, and the specifications are not low.

On the other hand, he himself surrendered Youzhou, and only got the title of Earl of Lucheng County, and he was granted a thousand households.The house is in Wenroufang, the former residence of Master Wei, the governor of Tang Bozhou.

The titles and mansions are all missing, and even the goods are also missing a lot—Li Cunxiao got a lot of rare treasures from the south, and the quality is too bad.

Of course, he also knew that Li Cunxiao took the initiative to surrender from the land of the three states, which was fundamentally different from his surrender when the soldiers approached the city.

If it wasn't for his uncle's pity, Youzhou's status is also very high, he wouldn't even get the governor of Huazhou.But what he compared was Liang Huaijin, who surrendered Weizhou, was granted the title of county magistrate, and granted food to 2000 households, which was even better than Li Cunxiao's treatment.

Although he was guarding the borders of the Qing and Tang Dynasties at this time, rectifying immigrants from Tubo and Weibo, he was scolded every day, and he heard that the ancestral graves of his hometown in Bozhou were destroyed by people, but—I can do it too!You destroy the ancestral graves at will, on behalf of the ancestors, I don't care about these, because my family doesn't have such things.

well!Li Si'en sighed lightly, he has no soldiers, and he is about to take office in Huazhou. From now on, he will be a phoenix without hair, so don't mention anything else.I hope that one day my uncle will remember that he can lead troops to fight, and give him another chance to make meritorious deeds.

The sky was overcast again, Li Si'en rode on his horse, took a few entourages with him, and took a last look at Youzhou City.

"Haha! Khan conquered Youzhou, the army behind the mountain broke up, and those who surrendered surrendered. It's so good to be connected with Ruyuan and Xianyou Palace!"

"Xianyou Palace has been looking forward to Khan's visit for a long time. It's time to visit for the Chinese New Year, right?"

"It's time to go see it, and then conquer the Khitan and fight those thieves. It's a long time ago that they didn't like it. They killed so many of us last year."

"From now on, the grassland will belong to the Supreme Khan!"

On the post road, there was a burst of hearty laughter, occasionally mixed with high-pitched voices.The speaker is dressed in fur and braided hair, and he doesn't shy away from others at all. He sounds like a rough grassland shepherd.

Sure enough, Li Si'en turned his gaze away, only to see hundreds of horses galloping towards them.The leader has white beard and hair, but he is energetic and looks forward to his own strength.The others followed closely behind him, maintaining respect, it seemed that this person was the leader.

"Tuobajin!" Li Si'en knew this person and had fought against him before.

When Youzhou was still in the hands of King Jin, there were many conflicts between the various armies and the Xia people in the area behind the mountains. Tuoba Jin often led his troops south to Ruyuan to help King Xi go to Zhu. Everyone is an "old acquaintance".

"Hey, isn't this Li Junshi?" Tuoba Jin reined in his horse, squinted his eyes for a while, and asked with a smile.Tuoba Jin didn't say the following words, but Li Si'en could imagine it himself: You also surrendered?

"Tuoba palace supervisor, long time no see." Considering the need to maintain a good relationship with his colleagues, Li Sien bit the bullet and greeted.

Tuoba Jin is the supervisor of Xianyou Palace, managing three thousand households and 32 thousand households.

These powers are actually nothing, and they only control the population of a county in the Central Plains, but who makes them the emperor's slaves?There is no need for Li Sien to offend him.

Tuoba Jin looked at Li Si'en's makeup, and said: "It seems that General Li has been promoted." He is the righteous nephew of the saint, and he has made a contribution to the city. It is very common to be promoted to an official.

"Going to Baima to take up his post." Li Si'en replied, "Tuoba Palace Supervisor is full of travel and dust, presumably he is here to meet the saint?"

"The sage conquered Youzhou, how could he not come to congratulate him?" Tuoba Jin didn't answer directly, and turned to
And said: "Huazhou is a good place, the heartland of the Central Plains is much better than the grasslands, General Li is blessed."

To be honest, the sage once promised that the four palace supervisors, Wanhu, and Qianhu can enter the court as officials.Conscientiously helping the sage manage the tribe, leading troops to fight, Tuoba Jin also wanted to make progress, although he was quite old.

"It's all the grace of a saint." Li Si'en smiled.

"General Li is busy, so I will take my leave." Tuoba Jin cupped his hands on the horse and said. "Tuoba Palace Supervisor is free to do so." Li Si'en returned the gift.

More than a hundred riders left one after another, heading towards the post.

Li Sien watched their leaving figures thoughtfully.

Tuoba Jin came to Youzhou obviously because he received the order from Miansheng.Most of the hundreds of people following him were Wanhu, Qianhu or famous warriors from Xianyou Palace.

What is the saint doing?He didn't quite understand.

"Let's go!" Li Si'en waved his hand and told his followers to go on the road.

And just when he was about to leave, dozens of riders rode across the post road and headed towards the post.Looking at their hair accessories, most of them are kunfa, either Khitan or Xiren.Considering the distribution of the Yanbei Grassland, it is obvious that King Xi went to Zhu, and even he himself was among them.

Li Si'en didn't want to look too much, so he walked away with his followers.

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Li Cunxiao was also packing his bags and preparing to leave.

When he surrendered last year, the sage allowed him to be the governor of Yaozhou, saying that he would go to office after the war.Now that Youzhou has recovered, according to his understanding, the battle should be over, right?It's a pity that the saint said that he hadn't finished the fight yet, so he couldn't go to the post yet, so he could only continue to lead from a distance.

Fortunately, everyone in Yaozhou was very knowledgeable, so they specially sent Governor Shi over to report to him the situation in the state.Li Cunxiao was drowsy after hearing this, and before the meeting ended, Chang Shi specially took out a stack of silver dollar bills and slipped them to Li Cunxiao, saying that this was the filial piety that the whole prefecture gave to the envoys last year.

This looks like it!Li Cunxiao put away the stack of silver bills that could only be circulated in Chang'anfang City, and his attitude became much more amiable. Then he sent Chang Shi away, and asked him to do (as fast) as possible (as fast as possible) money).

The Qingyi army now has 3000 paces, and more than [-] people who stayed behind in Xinyigui are said to be turned into state soldiers on the spot. Two states.

Most of those left behind were old, weak and remnant soldiers, Li Cunxiao didn't care anymore, he could do as he liked.He has just received an order to serve as the envoy of Linyu Pass to suppress troops and horses, and to replace the [-] Dragon Warriors left behind at Linyu Pass.

The Longwu army assembled in the Macheng area, the German army went to Pingzhou, and the Huaihai Daozhou soldiers marched to Shicheng County.

This was publicly announced by Ge Congzhou, the commander of the Youzhou camp at the military meeting yesterday—the Qizhou camp had just been abolished, and the Youzhou camp was quickly formed, basically with the original team.

Guide, Longwu, and Qingyi armies, plus Huaihai Daozhou soldiers, totaled 5000 people. They were all under the command of the deputy envoy of the battalion, the envoy of Yingping Township, and the temperance of Zhao Wang and Shao Siwu.

To be honest, Li Cunxiao was still very curious about Shao Siwu's title of "Support Envoy".But Ge Congzhou just let the ministries start and deploy in place, and didn't say much.

After returning from the meeting, Li Cunxiao discussed with his staff, and everyone agreed that the Khitan might be attacked. The ministries would assemble before the battle, and it might be the beginning of the Chinese New Year.

But Li Cunxiao felt that things were not that simple.From a purely military point of view, this deployment is very intriguing. It seems to be intercepting and suppressing. Who is the target?
He knew something, but he still couldn't figure it out.However, an incident raised by an aide inadvertently opened his mind.

The aide said that he had heard that the imperial court intended to convert all the Longwu and Guide armies into government soldiers. Few, probably only [-] to [-]%, most people still want to continue to be recruiters.

But the imperial court has been trying to find ways to reduce the number of recruits over the years.

In the past, there was a deliberate consumption of various non-directed imperial guards. Later, the imperial guard absorbed part, the state army absorbed part, and the old retired a part.
Part of it, but there are still a lot of leftovers, so we have to send out government soldiers and town soldiers.

According to the information obtained so far, there are quite a few soldiers in the Feng and Sheng prefectures in the Yinshan area, and the main force is the remaining troops after the dismissal of the Zhongwu Army.The source of soldiers in Anton Mansion is the Second Army of Longwu and Guide, and there are currently more than 8000 soldiers.

In addition, there are recruits such as Yinshan Town Army and Qingtang Town Army, which were actually formed by surrendered troops from various walks. For example, the first town of Qingtang Town came from Weibo, and the town was controlled by surrendered general Liang Huaijin.

And Fubing, or military households, need trilogy.According to people from the Longwu Army, Xincheng and Fushun sent thousands of households from Bohai to the counties of Andong Prefecture, and most of them were assigned to the soldiers of the government.As soon as this incident happened, the number of people who were willing to be soldiers increased sharply, but the parts have already been divided.
The aides asserted that the imperial court might have wanted to capture more slaves as a "reward" paid to sergeants who volunteered to serve as government soldiers.

Li Cunxiao felt that this judgment was too damn reasonable!There are 2 soldiers in the Longwu and Guide armies, and at least tens of thousands of songs are still missing. It is really possible for the imperial court to find a way in Youzhou.

He was secretly happy that he had seen through the true meaning of the court. Unexpectedly, some staff members leaked the news, and some soldiers of the Qingyi Army knew about it, and then an outrageous thing happened: someone actually wanted to be a government soldier.

Li Cunxiao was speechless about this.He didn't expect the bitter hahas from Guizhou and Zhuozhou to be so eager for slaves and land.

He should have expected this a long time ago, because the rewards of the Qingyi army were not many, and they had lived in the bitter cold frontier fortress for a long time.For them, being a government soldier actually improved their standard of living.

This thing is messed up!Li Cunxiao suddenly felt that the tribe he had gathered with great difficulty was about to collapse.

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