Reborn Wu Dalang

Hearing Ximen Qing's words, Hu Cheng's face darkened.The girl has been away from home for many days, and there has been no news. He is worried about her safety every day.Now he regrets the engagement with Ximen Qing very much.

Ximen Qing has been urging him to meet Hu Sanniang. Generally speaking, in the homes of officials and scholar-officials, men and women are never allowed to meet before they get married, but Ximen Qing is just a rich man in Yanggu County, and his Hu family is no more It's just the landlords of Dulonggang. A family like theirs doesn't pay much attention. If the man keeps asking, then it's not impossible for the man and woman to meet before marriage.

But Hu Sanniang had already left home, so Hu Cheng could only refuse every time, and said again today: "Little sister is not feeling well and has fallen asleep."

Ximen Qing was a little suspicious, and said: "Brother Hu, every time I come here, I want to see Lingmei, but my brother always says that she is not feeling well... Could it be that there is something wrong with Lingmei's health? But she has tuberculosis or other diseases ?”

Hu Cheng was taken aback, and said, "How is this possible? The little girl is indeed in good health, so don't worry."

Ximen Qing said: "Since that's the case, next month I'll come to give the dowry, and we'll fix the wedding date, what do you think?"

A look of embarrassment appeared on Hu Cheng's face, but being stared at by Ximen Qing, he finally gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! Then do this!"

As he agreed, his thoughts turned sharply, thinking about how to deal with it.For a moment, there was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead.

Ximen Qing looked at Hu Cheng with weird eyes, and said, "Brother, what's the matter? Are you sweating so much?"

Hu Cheng said casually, "It's hot."

It was only after Hu Cheng finished speaking that he realized that something was wrong. It was still early February and the weather was still cold, so he would not be sweating because of the heat, and Ximen Qing looked at Hu Cheng even more strangely.

Hu Cheng hurriedly explained: "Just now I ran around with General Han, and I sweat a lot."

Ximen Qing didn't ask any more questions, but his suspicions grew more and more.

At this moment, Hu Cheng's heart suddenly moved, and he said, "Yes!"

Ximen Qing said, "What's there?"

Hu Cheng said: "Well..."

In fact, he has a way to deal with Ximen Qing, when the time comes, he will just accept Ximen Qing's betrothal gift, and then discuss the wedding date.It would be best for the younger sister to come back before the wedding date arrives.If the younger sister doesn't come back, then just find a strange woman from a poor family, call her a righteous sister, and marry Ximen Qing.Anyway, Ximen Qing has never seen Hu Sanniang, and he won't recognize her when the time comes.

He was overjoyed, but Ximen Qing felt that Hu Cheng was full of weirdness.That night, Ximen Qing stayed in Hu's Village, but secretly inquired about the situation in Hu's Village.

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Wu Dong had already left Hedong at this moment, all the way to the east, he had already arrived in the territory of Hebei.

Hu Sanniang, Cao Zheng, Dai Zong, Li Jun and others all followed Wu Dong, pretending to be a caravan, holding forged guides in their hands, clearing the way with money, without encountering any obstacles.

Everyone was riding on the horses, and Hu Sanniang was riding the same batch of Zhaoyeyu lion horses. At this moment, she tilted her head and looked at Wu Dong, and said, "Husband, what are you thinking?"

Wu Dong said: "I'm wondering why the Western Army is so powerful."

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help becoming interested, and they all listened to Wu Dong's words.

Wu Dong said: "The reason why the Western Army is strong should be due to cronyism."

"Ah!" Hu Sanniang couldn't believe it, and said, "Nepotism? Can this also make an army strong?"

Wu Dong said with a smile: "If it was in other dynasties, of course it wouldn't work. But in my Great Song Dynasty, this can actually cultivate a strong army."

Since contacting the Northwest soldiers and horses last winter, Wu Dong has been thinking about the reasons for the strength of the Northwest soldiers and horses.The Western Army was the only army capable of fighting at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. Later, whether it was Fangla, allied with the Jin Dynasty to conquer the Liao Dynasty, or to deal with the Jin people, the Western Army was used.

As for the reason why the Western Army is strong, in Wu Dong's view, "nepotism" is the main reason.

Just listen to Wu Dongdao: "I'm corrupt and degenerate, and the rest of the army has soldiers who don't know their generals, and their generals don't know their soldiers. But this is not the case in the Western Army. The generals of the Western Army are passed down from father to son, generation after generation, and so are their soldiers and horses." The father passed it on to his son, and the son passed it on to his grandson. After a long time like this, the army has become the personal army of the general, and naturally there is no problem that the soldiers don’t know the generals, and the generals don’t know the soldiers.”

In a sense, the Western Army belongs to the warlords of the Great Song Dynasty. The army is the private property of the generals, and the generals naturally manage it with their heart, which is naturally different from other places.

The most famous one in the Western Army is the Zhong family. It has been hundreds of years since Zhong Shiheng, Zhong Shidao, and Zhong Shizhong's generation.In addition to the Chong family, the Zhe family is also well-known. This family has been passed down for a longer time, almost throughout the entire history of the Song Dynasty.In addition to the Zhong family and the Zhe family, the more famous Yang family generals in history actually belonged to the Western Army system.The Yang family was originally a family from Hedong, and later it also guarded the northwest, and it was passed down from generation to generation.It's just that the Yang family has fallen, and in Yang Zhi's generation, he is just a petty official, and later generations call Yang Zhi just a "Kansai swordsman".

In addition to these high-level generals, mid-level generals are also passed down from generation to generation, and soldiers at the lower level are also passed down from generation to generation.

For example, in the family of Zhong, maybe the father is a soldier of the old manager, and when the son is born, he becomes the soldier of the manager of the small species, and when the grandson is born, he is the soldier of the little species.

Although such a private army system cannot create a truly strong army, the strength of the army cannot be too weak.

Li Jundao: "The governor is right. This is indeed one of the reasons why the Western Army is strong. However, although the Western Army is strong, it bullies and humiliates the people. It is much more hated than the army in the interior."

"Oh?" Wu Dong was taken aback, it was the first time he heard this statement, and said: "Is there another matter?"

At this time, Dai Zong, Zhang Heng, Tong Wei, Tong Meng and others all nodded, expressing that what Li Jun said was right.

These people stayed in Shaohua Mountain for a period of time, and they already had a strong understanding of the style of the Western Army and what virtue the Western Army was.

Historically, the Western Army was ordered to crusade against Fang La. Because of the chaos, the people feared the Western Army far more than Fang La's rebellious army.

In fact, this is far from being a drawback of the ancient private army system. In order to maintain the enthusiasm of the soldiers, a certain degree of looting must be allowed, otherwise the soldiers will have no morale.In the later Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan formed a private army to suppress the rebellion against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After each war, he allowed his soldiers to plunder and rape women everywhere. This is the same reason.Where Zeng Guofan went, "Zhijiao slaughtered all species, and the corpses poured into the Yangtze River without flowing." No matter men, women, old or young were killed as military exploits, the people at that time were far more afraid of Zeng Guofan's army than they were of the Taiping Rebellion. fearful.

Wu Dong discussed the Western Army with everyone. He felt more and more that the military system of the Song Dynasty was a "wonderful flower". The Central Army stationed in Bianliang was vulnerable. On the contrary, the private army passed down from father to son in the Northwest became the most powerful in the Northern Song Dynasty. army.But the Western Army Ping La is okay, and it has indeed made meritorious deeds in resisting Xi Xia, which seems to be very strong.But in the end, the Song Dynasty united with Jin to fight against Liao, Tong Guan led the Western Army to conquer Liao, and the Western Army was vulnerable to the Liao people.Later, when the Jinren came, the Western Army was also vulnerable to the Jinren. It can be seen that this strength is also a fake strength.

Everyone pointed out the country all the way, and they came to Shandong within a day. They were eating in a small tavern that day. The paper was handed over to Wu Dong.

After Wu Dong saw this piece of paper, he was stunned for a while, and then he couldn't help laughing.

"Governor, what's the matter?" Cao Zheng asked.

In fact, Cao is the highest intelligence leader in the Mainland, and this tavern is also the establishment of the Intelligence Department.But now that Wu Dong is here, he can only hand over the information to Wu Dong, so naturally he dare not read it in advance.

Wu Dongdao: "It's like this. There is a Northwest general named Han Shizhong who intercepted and killed us in Yanggu County in front."

"Han Shizhong?" Everyone was taken aback, they had never heard of this person.

Li Jundao: "Great Governor, how many soldiers and horses does he have?"

Wu Dong said: "There are about 1000 people."

Li Jundao: "Why don't we go around Yanggu County?"

Wu Dong smiled and said, "No, we'll pass through Yanggu County!"

The more he thought about it, the more ridiculous it was now, that Han Shizhong was actually stationed in Dulonggang!If it was any other place, Wu Dong really had to take a detour just to be on the safe side.But in Dulonggang, which is Liang Shanbo's territory, it couldn't be easier to deal with Han Shizhong.

He didn't even need to use a single soldier to take down Han Shizhong.

"Han Shizhong, this is a famous general of later generations. Even his wife Liang Hongyu is a famous general of the generation. I am going to deal with the Koreans now, and I will also deal with the Liao and Jin people in the future. I am short of generals. This is really sleepy. Pillow, such a famous general was delivered to me by himself, I can't let it go!" Wu Dong laughed again.

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