Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 780 Move the capital (please subscribe!)

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"The officials should want the ministers to lead troops to attack the Song Dynasty."

Hearing Yue Fei's definite guess, Li Yan stared into Yue Fei's eyes for a long time before saying noncommittally: "You really dare to guess... Do you know that the consequences of trying to figure out the emperor's mind without authorization are very serious. , Throughout the ages, how many officials have died because of this?"

Yue Fei said convincingly: "The official family is definitely not such a fatuous emperor. Moreover, the official family must know that the minister has an iron-blooded heart and is dedicated to serving the country loyally. Kill the minister!"

Let Yue Fei tell everything, and Li Yan said it so wisely that Li Yan didn't know how to proceed with the conversation.

In the end, Li Yan could only say jokingly: "You are not self-effacing at all."

Yue Fei said: "There is no one thing that I said against my will, and there is no reason why I dare not say it."

Although every word Yue Fei spoke was from the heart and was respectful and polite, but Li Yan always felt that talking to Yue Fei was a bit difficult, even a little uncomfortable.

Based on this, Li Yan didn't want to play around with Yue Fei any more, and said directly: "You guessed it right, I am going to let you lead the army to attack Song Dynasty."

After hearing this, Yue Fei smiled happily, and then promised: "I promise to kill Zhao Song for the officials!"

Li Yandao: "Don't be too busy making promises. This year, I will let the soldiers and civilians cultivate for a year no matter what. The attack on Song Dynasty will have to wait until next year at the earliest."

After hearing this, Yue Fei said without changing his smile, "It's okay, it's already September, and there are only three months before next year, I can wait."

Li Yan said again: "We still have to wait for a suitable opportunity."

Yue Fei said: "I understand that I can wait, as long as the officials let me go and attack Song."

Now that it has been said, Li Yan simply explained it to Yue Fei, saying: "I am going to let you form a Pingnan Army to attack Song Dynasty. This army is initially set to be 30, including Yang Yizhong. The 15 troops on board and the 30 to [-] troops you brought back this time, in addition, I am going to drop a few more troops from the northern front, so I can make up a full [-] troops for you."

Hearing this, Yue Fei pondered in his mind for a while, and then said: "Can the troops transferred from the northern line be selected by the minister?"

This is actually a taboo, because anyone in power hates their subordinates to engage in hilltopism.

Li Yan asked calmly: "Then who do you want?"

Yue Fei opened his mouth and came, saying: "I want Wang Gui, Wu Lin, Wang De, Niu Gao, Wang Sheng, Li Bao, Li Yanxian, Lu Junyi, Du Po, Shi Wengong, Yang Zaixing, Li Yanguang..."

After hearing who Yue Fei asked for, Li Yan was relieved.

What Yue Fei wants is not all his old subordinates, but generals and generals who can fight.

It can be seen from this that Yue Fei's starting point is still to be able to conquer the Southern Song Dynasty in one fell swoop, and to serve the public wholeheartedly.

Li Yan interrupted Yue Fei and said: "Okay, okay, you also have to leave some generals capable of fighting for Liu Kai, Han Shizhong, and Wu Jie. Give you more generals who can fight."

Yue Fei rubbed his hands together, and said again: "Officials, you are also from the army, so you know that there must be someone who has the right to say something about wars, so Yang Yizhong and I..."

The five generals of Dazhong, including Dazhong's more capable generals, were almost all recruited, promoted, or even brought out by Li Yan himself. Therefore, they can be said to be all Li Yan's cronies.

but--

There are also some differences between this cronies and cronies.

Take the Big Five Generals as an example.

Among them, the one who has been with Li Yan the longest is undoubtedly Yang Yizhong who has been protecting Li Yan's safety before.

Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, Yang Yizhong is undoubtedly the one who is closest to Li Yan, and even Yue Fei and the other four generals of the Five Tigers think so.

In addition, Yang Yizhong is also very good at playing.

Therefore, Yue Fei was somewhat guilty of fighting for power with Yang Yizhong.

Li Yan didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "You are the marshal, and he is the deputy marshal."

Yue Fei smiled when he heard the words, and said, "No!"

After laughing for a while, Yue Fei said again: "I have carefully studied the terrain south of the Yangtze River, and carefully studied the previous wars to pacify the south of the Yangtze River. I found that if I want to completely pacify the south of the Yangtze River, I must go to the land of Shu first, otherwise , I fight here, Song Kangwang fled to Shu, that would be a big trouble, you also know that Shu is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if you have an army of 50 million, if you want to take it down, you will have thousands of troops. Difficulties are extremely difficult, so Zhang Xian and Wang Yan are bound to advance and retreat with us..."

Could Li Yan know what Yue Fei was thinking?

Li Yan had had enough of playing around with Yue Fei, so he said directly: "They are also at your disposal."

This time Yue Fei was completely happy, bowed to the ground, and said: "I promise to pacify the Southern Song Dynasty for the officials!"

Li Yan didn't force Yue Fei to issue a military order, but said: "You only care about the war, and I will settle everything else for you, and I will teach you to have peace of mind."

Yue Fei heard the words, and said: "So, if I still can't pacify the Southern Song Dynasty for the officials, I will raise my head to see the officials!"

Li Yan's tone eased, and said: "After a few more days of rest, you can start to form the Pingnan Army."

Yue Fei said: "I have rested enough, I will discuss with Xu Xianggong and Zhu Xianggong about mobilizing the army in a while, and then I will meet with Yang Yizhong as soon as possible, and then I will go to Shaanxi to meet Zhang Xian and Wang Yan."

Seeing Yue Fei acted so resolutely, Li Yan couldn't dissuade Yue Fei's enthusiasm, so he acquiesced to Yue Fei's idea, and then changed the subject: "I heard that you brought Yun'er into the army?"

Yue Fei replied: "This kid often fights with people in the village, and he hurts people from time to time. His mother, alas, don't say anything, so as not to pollute the ears of the officials... My mother is getting old, and Yun'er is at home. There is no way to discipline him, so I can only bring him with me and discipline myself."

After all, Mrs. Liu couldn't bear the loneliness. During Yue Fei's absence, she abandoned her mother-in-law, Mrs. Yao and several children, and left alone, and her whereabouts were unknown.

Such an unfaithful and unfilial woman, it is no wonder that Yue Fei, who believes in loyalty and filial piety, is unwilling to mention her.

Li Yandao: "You are not yet thirty, if there is a suitable one, just find one, otherwise, how many more will I reward you?"

Yue Fei said: "Thank you for the kindness of the official family, but the women you rewarded to the minister, all of them can't bear hardships, and they are not the same as the minister."

Speaking of it, I really don't blame the beauties that Li Yan rewarded Yue Fei for this matter.

Yue Fei's salary and rewards are quite a lot, which can be counted among the hundreds of Chinese and military officials, but he is too generous to his soldiers and common people, which made his family poor. After the beauty went to his house, They are all at the beck and call of old mothers. How can those beauties who have never suffered before endure it?
In the end, Yue Fei returned all those beauties.

If this matter were placed in the hands of other emperors, they would definitely have some thoughts about Yue Fei, "Yue Fei is not good at women, and he is not good at money, and he even distributes all his property to his soldiers and common people. Isn't this trying to buy people's hearts? , what does he want to do, does he want to rebel?"

This was also the main reason why people speculated that Li Yan wanted to refrigerate Yue Fei some time ago.

But Li Yan didn't. Li Yan, who knew Yue Fei very well, knew clearly that what people like Yue Fei pursued was a higher level of spiritual pursuit, not vulgar material pursuit.

Therefore, Li Yan did not refrigerate Yue Fei, and made more use of Yue Fei.

It was precisely because of this that Li Yan didn't insist on seeing that Yue Fei didn't want the beauty he gave him, let alone think too much, but said: "Then you can find one yourself... But I'm ugly as I said earlier, my senior middle school General, you can’t even have a wife, I’ll give you two years, if you still can’t find one, I’ll give you a hundred.”

Yue Fei replied with a bitter face: "No!"

Li Yan did not continue this topic, and said again: "I heard that this child Yue Yun is born with supernatural powers. He is only ten years old. He is a fierce general who is hard to beat by ordinary generals?"

A rare kindness appeared on Yue Fei's face, and he said, "This kid was born to be a soldier."

But Yue Fei quickly changed his tone, and said again: "But this child is only ten years old, if the officials don't want him, let him stay with him."

Although he feels sorry for Yue Yun in his heart, Yue Fei also knows that Li Yan is going to hand over 30 troops to him, so he should keep a hostage for Li Yan.

Unexpectedly, Li Yan said without even thinking: "A natural soldier should belong to the battlefield, he should go to the battlefield with gold and iron horses, and return the corpse wrapped in horse leather. Besides, Yue Yun is your son, why stay by my side? I have more than 200 sons, how can I still steal your son? You Yue Pengju, don’t try to test my mind. I said that I will give Wan’er to your Yue family, and I will give it to your Yue family. How can you go back on your word? You are acting like a villain Save me the belly of a gentleman."

If others heard this, they would immediately kneel down and plead guilty to Li Yan!

But Yue Fei didn't, he happily confirmed with Li Yan: "Official, do you agree with me to bring Yun'er by my side?"

Li Yan said leisurely: "If a dynasty wants to prosper, it is impossible to rely on only one or two generations. Therefore, in addition to fighting the country, we must also train young people. You are doing the right thing. Why don't I support it? "

Yue Fei heard the words and bowed: "I thank the officials on behalf of Yun'er."

Li Yan asked Yue Fei to get up, and then said: "Although I have more than 400 children, Wan'er is the only eldest daughter. Therefore, I don't want her to marry a mediocre person. You should train Yun'er well and let him be like you." Like you, become a loyal and brave general.”

Hearing this, Yue Fei could no longer express his respect for Li Yan with any words. Thousands of words were finally reduced to one word: "No!"

Li Yan didn't want Yue Fei to have a grudge against him for not allowing him to station in Yandi, and this matter was about to be announced to the public, Li Yan said again: "Pengju, the reason why I don't let you station in Yandi is actually because One reason is that I am going to move the capital, and the new capital is Yanjing..."

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(End of this chapter)