Emperor Qianlong: the beginning of his glory

Chapter 59: Zhitong Sentences and Offers Advice to the Imperial Commissioner Yong Fu Heng Beats Drums and Governor's Office (1)
On the second day Zhang Guangsi left Jin Province, Kaer Jishan sent Fu Heng a hundred thousand urgent documents in Lai County, reporting to Piao Gao that "Xiao gathered five thousand bandits and besieged the city for three days. The soldiers and civilians in the city fought hard to resist the enemy. There seems to be an intention to go down. At present, there are only a thousand exhausted soldiers in the city, and [-] people, relying on the fortifications of the city to try their best to resist, and the momentum will not last. I implore Xiantai to send troops quickly to save the urgent need." Yun Yun.It is extremely urgent.After reading it, Fu Heng's nose was already sweating: all the newspapers have said that there are only a thousand bandits on Tuo Tuo Peak, so how can there be such a "five thousand" people?Zhang Guangsi is a proud general. It is obvious from a glance that he sent three gangsters who only knew "white knives go in and red knives come out" to lead Shanxi's weak battalion soldiers, but he didn't go there himself. It is really difficult to bear the four-character crime of "faulting the country".

Fu Heng thought for a moment, sealed the original, and immediately sat down to write a memorial to Qianlong, detailing the situation of coming to Jin Province and the process of handing over military power with Zhang Guangsi. The army rushed to the Tuo Tuo Peak of Heicha Mountain, smashed the enemy's back, and used the strategy of "surrounding Wei and saving Zhao" to suspend the enemy's momentum and Xu Tu wiped it out. It is absolutely impossible to mobilize thousands of bandits in this small corner of the country to pay homage to the saints. I am extremely ashamed and hurried to play." After finishing the memorial, he wrote to Liu Tongxun, asking to second Wu Xiazi to serve in the army for defense.

"These three items will be urgently dispatched to the Military Aircraft Department within [-] miles." After Fu Heng finished writing, he tossed a pen and breathed a sigh of relief, and handed the documents to Ghoshha: "Tell our people to prepare horses and go to Yanmen Pass in Daizhou tonight. !" As soon as the words fell, the outside reported in and said: "Li Shizhou General Judge Li Shiyao pays homage to Mr. Fu!" Fu Heng saw that the sky was already dark, and he was so anxious at this moment, how could he care about seeing this little general judge?He waved his hand and ordered: "Just say that the imperial envoy already has an order, and the civil servants are gone now!"

"tie!"

"return!"

Suddenly Fu Heng changed his mind, Lishi is adjacent to Lin County, but only a hundred miles away, so he must know the enemy's situation in detail, so it's good to call him in and ask.Thinking about it, he said: "You guys prepare your luggage, I will meet this man." Then he turned his face to Geshha who was holding the documents in a daze, and said, "What are you doing standing there? The gangster is thousands of miles away, and you lost your head?" Shiha hurriedly said: "I'm a veteran. I can't move until you give the final order." Fu Heng then waved his hand and ordered him to do the errand, and he saw Li Shiyao approaching quickly.

"Li Shiyao, um..." Fu Heng restrained his impatience, and walked slowly, until Li Shiyao saluted and stood up before saying: "I saw your name in Eshan's disciple record. 'Shiyao', the name is very familiar. I just remembered it, but did you?" Li Shiyao's shrewd triangular eyes flashed brightly, and he bowed and said, "That's Mr. E's misremembering. The humble post is the emperor's disciple. Long live God personally took it and gave him the poem. Personally 'punish' me to come to Shanxi to serve as the general judge." Fu Heng remembered the anecdote that Qianlong went to the examination room to win a mad student, and couldn't help laughing: "I've heard about this before, but I don't know that you are That man. But I'm very busy right now. I don't have time to be funny with you. What's the matter with you coming to see me?"

Li Shiyao said: "I just met Ka Zhongcheng. A clearer over there told me about the situation in Heicha Mountain. He came to see the imperial envoy to offer advice!" Xi He was smart, and said: "This is a matter of Lin County. You are the judge of Lishi, and you have to reach out for other prefectures and counties?" Li Shiyao said: "The sixth master is wrong."

The Geshhas on both sides were startled.Since Fu Heng was a young man with a high position, he was also a relative of the emperor, and he was very powerful. There were hundreds of officials who came to see Fu Heng, and there were even those who slandered him. However, such a Zhima official accused Fu Heng of being "wrong" But it has never been seen.I was worried about Fu Heng's attack, but Fu Heng smiled silently and asked, "What's wrong with me?" "I, Li Shiyao, consider myself a national scholar. A national scholar should take care of the affairs of the world." Li Shiyao said loudly under the lamp : "This is my duty. Linxian and Lishi depend on each other. Wouldn't it be cold if the lips are dead?" Fu Heng pondered, watching Li Shiyao silently.For a while, he still couldn't figure out whether this person had real talent or was just here to speculate for favors.After a while, he said: "Don't talk about these empty things. What plan do you have for me?"

"Besiege Wei and save Zhao. Go straight to the bandit's lair to relieve the danger in Linxian County!"

Fu Heng looked up to the sky and laughed, and said: "Sure enough, I have insight! But I have already thought of it. Tonight, I will set off to go to Yanmen Pass to transfer troops, first to attack the cottage, and then to make progress. It has already played the role of today's sage." Li Shiyao saw Fu Heng's sarcasm in his eyes Staring at himself, he just smiled slightly.Said: "I understand that adults look down on me. Because I am a small official!" After saying that, he beat Qian'er, saluted, and left.Seeing that he was so rude, Fu Heng was so angry that his hands and feet became cold.With a shout: "Stop!"

"Sixth Master!" Li Shiyao stood steadily, turned around and asked nonchalantly, "What's the matter?"

"I'm too indulgent with my subordinates, and I'm used to them being rude. It's hard to raise a villain!" Fu Heng's face was white, "I have so many important things here, I have an extraordinary interview with you, and listen to you bragging about being a 'national scholar' and offering boring tricks, Why do you look down on you? You are extremely presumptuous!"

Li Shiyao stared at Fu Heng's fierce eyes without any fear, suddenly smiled and said, "Excuse me, my lord: How far is it from here to Yanmen Pass in Daizhou?"

"720 miles."

"Without eating, drinking, and sleeping, it will take two nights and one day to use fast horses." Li Shiyao said, "From Daizhou to Heicha Mountain, turn back and go southwest again. It will take at least ten days! This kind of 'encircling Wei and saving Zhao' is unheard of and unseen!"

Fu Heng was shocked when he heard this!Unexpectedly, the self-proclaimed clever plan of "surrounding Wei and saving Zhao" is just a false name and unrealistic.Fu Heng took a strenuous step forward, staring at the overbearing Li Shiyao, his face was blushed and white, he muttered for a while, and finally said: "I didn't expect everything to be wrong...Mister..." He soon spoke fluently "May my master forgive me, Fu Hengmenglang, there must be a clever plan to teach me!" He said and bowed to the ground!
"Sixth Lord, how can I be worthy of it?" Li Shiyao saw that Fu Heng was so willing to condescend to honor him as a corporal, and quickly returned the gift, saying: "The opinion of Chu Yao may not be good, and it is a dangerous move. I am afraid that Liu Ye It may not be acceptable." Fu Heng pulled the chair over and pushed Li Shiyao to sit down. While ordering people to serve tea, he also sat down, and arched in the chair again, saying: "The soldiers are fierce and the war is in danger. A surefire solution? It’s better than mine, so I’ll use it.”

Li Shiyao bowed in return, sat up straight and said eloquently, "It has been more than ten years since the bandits of Heicha Mountain gathered on Tuo Tuo Peak. It was only last year that Piao Gao and a female disciple went to spread the Zhengyang Sect, and they really raised the flag and set off the cannons." Let’s get up—it turns out that they are both bandits and farmers, resisting the government’s taxation and forcing the big households to reduce rent and exempt rent. When the officers and soldiers came to the Yamen, they went to Tuofeng Mountain Village. After the officers and soldiers went, they went down the mountain and continued to farm. In fact, during the Kangxi period, this place was still a Taiping. The holy ancestor came back from the west expedition, crossed the Yellow River east, and passed by Linxian County. The people once donated a thousand stones of oats and pushed them to the front of the army. exist……

"But after the second year of Yongzheng, several bad county magistrates came one after another, imposing exorbitant taxes, levying miscellaneous taxes, various names, and desperately earning money - not for corruption, but for an evaluation of "excellent political performance", which made The rich and the tenants are all poor. Think about it, in this land where the mountains are cold and the soil is thin, if the fire consumption is added to a penny and seven cents, can there be anything wrong?" Li Shiyao glanced at Fu Heng and said, "Sixth Master, don't think I'm lying. In fact, this is the source of the chaos. Even if the bandit chaos is quelled this time, the army will still look the same after leaving!"

Fu Heng leaned forward and said with a smile, "I'm not impatient to listen. I'm eager to hear your good strategy."

"Lin County is four hundred miles away from the provincial capital, and Heicha Mountain is only three hundred miles away. We are about three hundred miles away from Shishi to Heicha Mountain." Li Shiyao's eyes flickered, "The imperial envoy ordered five hundred elites from the provincial capital. From here to the west, I went back to the county in the starry night——in order to prevent the bandits from Heicha Mountain from disturbing me in Lishi, I trained two thousand militiamen, and I have assembled a thousand. I led the militiamen from south to north to Heicha Mountain, and we were in Ma Fanghui soldiers took advantage of the emptiness to attack Heicha Mountain. This is the real rush. Piao Gao and the others thought that the imperial envoy would transfer soldiers from Yanmen Pass, so they boldly attacked Linxian County. Once they attacked the prefecture and county, it was easy to create momentum. It can raise military salaries, and secondly, Tuo Tuo Peak will be more reliable if we take down Lin County, and it will be very convenient for soldiers to escape to the north of Shaanxi even if the soldiers are overwhelmed."

Fu Heng thought in his heart that this was indeed a dangerous move, but it did take advantage of the two opportunities of surprise and speed. After thinking about it, he asked, "As far as you know, how many troops does Piao Gao have?"

"There are absolutely no 5000 people." Li Shiyao said with a smile, "It's a common tactic for local officials to report bandit cases. If you lose, it's easy to explain, and if you win, it's easy to claim credit." His words changed and became extremely sharp, "But please Your Excellency, pay attention, the local people have been abused by the government, and there are incidents of helping the bandits to refuse the officials to come out to help fight Taiping boxing, taking advantage of the fire and looting. So the momentum is big."

Fu Heng thought about it, with this thousand and five hundred fresh troops, it is indeed possible to fight with surprise soldiers.Even if Tuo Tuofeng could not be defeated, Fan Gaojie's Yanmen Pass soldiers and horses just came to meet him.So although it is dangerous, it is almost foolproof.I think of my grandfather, Fucha Hailan, who led a thousand cavalry to raid Yangzhou. During the siege, the Ming army used iron hooks to hook the collarbone and hang it on the city wall.The young aristocrat's blood boiled all over immediately, he stood up "shua", and said, "It's time for a man to make meritorious service!" Then he turned to Li Shiyao and said, "You don't want to go back to Lishi, just stay with me as a military counselor. I will give In the name of your council, I will send you an envoy and I will report it to Ming Sheng! It is not too late, I will go to the governor's office to ask for soldiers and pay. You write a letter and order you to arrive in Masai within three days with a thousand militiamen from Lishi Fang is on standby!"

"Yes, I understand!"

Fu Heng didn't speak anymore, put his sword on his waist, and took a few soldiers to fly on his horse. He galloped wildly in the wind and headed straight for the governor's office in the dark streets.

It’s the time of Haishi. It’s the end of March. The night is cold and cloudy. The gates of the governor’s yamen have already been closed. Knock your teeth while eating peanuts and wine.Hearing the sound of the horse's hooves, they all stood up hurriedly, looking around in amazement, several riders flew down.The gate official Liao Qingge hurriedly yelled:

"Who? Stop!"

"It's me." Fu Heng came striding forward with a horse whip in one hand and a sword in the other, his face could not be seen clearly under the dim light, and he said, "I am Fu Heng, the imperial envoy. I need to see Kaer Jishan immediately if I have something urgent."

(End of this chapter)