Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 416

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The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

When Luo Cheng got up early in the morning, he heard a report from his own soldiers, saying that the new Deputy Envoy of Henan Province was out to see him.

"Arrest the deputy envoy?"

"It was the general guard of Qi County, who has now been promoted to deputy envoy for arrest and prefect of Xingyang."

When Luo Cheng heard it, it turned out that the teacher Zhang Xutuo was promoted to the deputy envoy, and he said quickly, "Then I am a benefactor, why didn't I report it earlier?"

"That man turned out to be a handsome mentor, and he didn't say anything."

Luo Cheng didn't even wash up, so he hurried to the front to meet Zhang Xutuo.

"Teacher, I didn't expect you to come in person. I should be the one to visit you."

I haven't seen him for two years, Zhang Xutuo seems to have more wrinkles on his face, his back is still straight, but his face is more weathered.In the past two years, Luo Cheng fought and fought in Liaodong, while Zhang Xutuo was begging for arrests in Henan, just like a tinker, sewing everywhere.But after the bandits were wiped out, a group of bandits rose up there, and the bandits demanded more and more.

He stood there, looking at the young man whom he accepted with pity in the past, but now he has become his immediate boss, and his heart was complicated.Looking carefully, I found that the longer Luo Cheng grew, he was really majestic. He was eight feet tall, and his body became stronger, and his bulging muscles could stand out through his clothes.

Especially those eyes, the eyes that have experienced many things.

Experienced, matured.

"Actually, I just arrived. I heard that you haven't woken up yet, so I asked people not to disturb you."

Luo Cheng smiled and took Zhang Xutuo's hand and entered the room together, "The teacher is here, and I, a student, have to go twenty miles away to meet him. I didn't even know that the teacher had been promoted to be the deputy envoy and prefect of Xingyang Yes. Congratulations, teacher, Gaosheng prefect."

Xingyang is just to the east of Luoyang, and the city of Xingyang County is in the famous Hulao Pass.Hulaoguan is the east gate of Luoyang, the eastern capital, and it is very important.

Zhang Xutuo's promotion to the prefect of Xingyang fully shows that his performance in Qi County in the past few years has been seen and appreciated by the emperor.

"It's quite helpless to say it. In the past two years, I have heard that you fought in Liaodong, where you broke the city and destroyed the enemy. I am very envious. You are fighting against foreign enemies, but I spend all day hunting for bandits in Henan, saying yes Bandits, in fact, those people are just a lot of people who are desperate, and there are very few real bandits. My hands are already stained with the blood of countless people, and many people call me an executioner."

This is a heavy topic.

Indeed, there were not so many bandits and bandits during the Renshou years of Kaihuang, and now bandits are everywhere suddenly, but they are actually just ant people who are forced to survive.

But Zhang Xutuo, as a soldier, is also a local official in charge of public security, and it is also his duty to suppress bandits.

One side is to maintain order, and the other side is to demand survival. Neither of them is just, but this kind of cannibalism really cannot be put on the table.

"I also killed too many people in Liaodong, and caused too many murders."

"As a soldier, killing is our profession. As long as we don't kill for the sake of killing, it is enough to satisfy the conscience of heaven and earth." Zhang Xutuo comforted him.

"How is the family?" Luo Cheng asked about his hometown in Qi County.

"Not very good." Zhang Xutuo also just got the edict of promotion, and immediately rushed to Donglai from Qi County after receiving the edict.

"In the past two years, there have been bandits everywhere, especially after the flood of the Yellow River last summer, which flooded more than [-] counties on both sides of the bank, and millions of people were affected. They followed the thieves. They crossed the land like locusts, looting everywhere, and some vicious thieves even kidnapped people and killed them for food."

Because of Zhang Xutuo sitting in the township of Qi County, the situation is finally better. Changbai Mountain, a place that once became a den of thieves when the world was in chaos, has never been in chaos.

Although many thieves gathered in Mount Tai, Zhang Xutuo also went to raid every once in a while, but the thieves didn't really become popular.

"By the way, Fang Xuanling is now the magistrate of Qi County, Du Ruhui has also been promoted to be the magistrate of Beihai County, and your father has just been promoted to magistrate of Zhangqiu County."

Of the twelve counties in Henan, only Qi County is in the best situation, and among the ten counties in Qi County, only Zhangqiu is in the best situation.In addition, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were both members of the court, and Luo Gui's son is now the Duke of the state, so naturally they all got promoted this time.

Originally, my father was a county lieutenant, and at most he was promoted to the master book, but this time he was directly promoted to the county magistrate, and he didn't have to move his place.

Fang and Du were each promoted to the rank of county magistrate.

"Actually, we are all thanks to you. Otherwise, we would not be able to rise so fast and so high." Zhang Xutuo lamented that after fighting all his life, he is not as good as his young disciple Luo Cheng. Disciple Guangcai was promoted to the position of prefect.

"That's teacher, you have managed Qi County very well."

"The Eastern Expedition is finally over. Although it failed, fortunately it didn't take too long." Zhang Xutuo sighed. Although 40 soldiers and horses were lost in Liaodong, more than 70 soldiers and horses were finally returned. Coupled with the fact that the millions of civilians who were conscripted before were able to return to their hometowns, there is hope that this raging chaos in the Central Plains can be restored.

No matter how jubilant those thieves and bandits rebelled against the people before, it was only because the main force of the Weifu had gone to Liaodong.

No matter how troublesome it is, it is nothing but bandits, thieves, and rioters.

Zhang Xutuo, relying on the old and weak county soldiers and township bravery left behind from various places, can do his best to maintain it. It is only a matter of time before the soldiers return to their hometowns and restore the peace of the place.

Luo Cheng took the teacher to have breakfast together, drank some morning tea, and chatted while eating. Luo Cheng also learned a lot about the current situation in his hometown in Qi County. He used to know a little bit through family letters.

Hearing Zhang Xutuo talk about the bandit sieges in Zhangqiu in the past two years, Luo Cheng also felt that it was extremely dangerous. When he heard that the Luo family in Zhangqiu was now well-known in Henan, he was also very surprised.

"Female general Luomen? Binbin and Fourth Sister-in-law have actually trained a battalion of women with eight hundred shrews?"

"It's not nice to call a shrew. It should be called a healthy woman, no, it's a healthy... scarf." Zhang Xutuo said hehe.

"In the past two years, if it weren't for the help of you and the Luo family, I would not have been able to maintain the stability of the place. Now, Shubao is my vanguard general, and your father and brother are my strong backing. Your daughter-in-law is very Amazing, and your two black and white female servants are also quite amazing. Now they are called black and white Shuangsha by the thieves. As for your daughter-in-law, they are called the Rouge Tiger by the thieves. famous."

Luo Cheng couldn't laugh or cry.

Luo Cheng decided to return to his hometown in Zhangqiu, Qi County that day.

"The New Year is approaching, so I will seal the Suoya in advance and go home to celebrate the New Year."

"You are an ambassador of consolation and arrest. You should be patrolling places." Zhang Xutuo reminded Luo Cheng.

"It's more important to go home for the Chinese New Year reunion. As for visiting places, let's talk about it after the Chinese New Year."

(End of this chapter)