I’m Marquis in Great Tang

Ganzhou Administration, Zhangye.

Although Zhangye County is not the most prosperous area, but under Liu Hongcheng’s governance, the house is not closed at night. You must know that Zhangye is the land of Western Regions. Since ancient times, Western Regions is the land of chaos. Many people are not enlightened and run wild. However, Zhang Ye under Liu Hongcheng’s rule achieved this effect.

Not only benefited from Liu Hongcheng’s moral education, the most important thing is that Liu Hongcheng’s methods are tough. For those who do not obey enlightenment and those who do not abide by etiquette, the thunderous method is applied.

In a short time, Zhangye Dazhi.

Liu Hongcheng has a very high prestige in Ganzhou. Moreover, he is not only good at governance, but also well-versed in the law of commanding troops because of his family history, so even with only a few soldiers, he manages Ganzhou properly.

Provincial Governor Mansion, in the study room.

Liu Hongcheng is dealing with government affairs.

He has encountered a lot of things now. The reason is that because of the war in Suzhou, many Great Tang merchants fled back, and many Xia Country merchants fled. Even because of the war, the people’s livelihood is also Affected, food prices and commodity prices have begun to rise. All these need to be stabilized by Liu Hongcheng. This is precisely the case. Liu Hongcheng has a lot of things, and he is busy all day long.

“dong! dong!”

A knock on the door suddenly sounded.

Immediately after the door was pushed open, Liu Hongcheng’s staff entered.

The staff’s name is Guo Zhao, who came from Cháng’ān. His ancestors used to be glorious, but Guo Zhao’s generation had fallen in the family for a long time, and his family was extremely poor. The Imperial Court recruited scholars, but he failed the exam several times. On the recommendation of his old friend, he went to work with Liu Hongcheng and made suggestions for Liu Hongcheng.

Guo Zhao entered and said: “Provincial Governor, the Imperial Court is here!”

Liu Hongcheng did not dare to delay, so he quickly got up to meet him. When he reached the door, he saw the summoned Housekeeper. Liu Hongcheng bowed and saluted, in accordance with the etiquette of receiving an edict.

The servant directly read the edict. The general content is to promote Liu Hongcheng and appoint Liu Hongcheng as the governor of Ganzhou, the governor of military affairs, and at the same time recruit ambushes and organize troops to prepare for the offensive of Xia Country.

After Liu Hong took over the edict, he knew from the bottom of his heart that the situation on the front line was definitely not good, and Li Shimin must have been defeated at the front line.

Otherwise, Li Shimin would not pass the order in person.

Promote him back.

After Liu Hongcheng sent away the servant, he took Guo Zhao to the study. On the way to the study, someone entered and presented a letter to Guo Zhao. The two entered the study. After the guest and host were seated, Guo Zhao quickly glanced at the message sent. He was shocked and said solemnly: “Provincial Governor, defeated, the army led by His Majesty is in Changbaipo, Jiuquan County. Lost. According to the information so far, only a few thousand of His Majesty’s 100,000 troops have fled back.”

After hearing this, Liu Hongcheng couldn’t help but sucked in a breath of cold air. “It’s no wonder that His Majesty promoted me as the governor of Ganzhou, in charge of military and political power, and even asked me to recruit soldiers. Although I had expected that His Majesty might lose, I didn’t expect it to be so terrible. However, His Majesty lost ground. The damage is so huge, what about the situation on the Xia Country side?”

Guo Zhao said: “Xia Country’s army has also suffered huge losses, consuming countless troops. A rough estimate is that at least seven to eighty thousand troops have been damaged. , And even more. But the specific data is unknown. In a word, the situation is very unfavorable right now. The defeated soldiers led by His Majesty are on the way to retreat, and they are estimated to arrive in Zhangye County.”

Liu Hongcheng said: “In such a situation, you have to be prepared to meet it.”

Guo Zhao said: “The humble post thinks that the emperor may be able to approach, but may not stay.”

Liu Hongcheng said: “What’s the reason?”

Guo Zhao said: “The reason is very simple. Now, in Great Tang, there are beacons and rebellions everywhere. The domestic situation is unstable, and the emperor His Majesty must hurry back. Stabilize the situation. Once the best time is missed, the consequences will be disastrous.”

Liu Hongcheng is nodded, and this is the reason.

At this moment, soldiers sent a letter saying that Li Shimin led the army to arrive in Zhangye.

After Liu Hongcheng learned of it, he went to the city gate to greet him.

After Liu Hongcheng and Guo Zhao’s entire group arrived, they waited quietly. After about two quarters of an hour, Li Shimin led thousands of remnants to arrive. Liu Hongcheng stepped forward quickly and saluted: “Leader Liu Hongcheng, meet His Majesty.”

Li Shimin is still a little embarrassed now, and the soldiers under his command are quite exhausted. After all, after entering the territory of Ganzhou, although a small amount of food was replenished in the town, it did not delay time or change clothes. Therefore, the crowd had endured the hardships of a long journey, and they looked tired and decadent. .

Li Shimin nodded and said: “Liu Qing, I only need to supplement food and equipment, and the rest are not needed. You provide half a month of food and grass, I will rest for one hour here, and then leave directly.”

Liu Hongcheng said: “The minister obeyed!”

He immediately arranged for people to allocate grain and equipment from the granary in the city, and supplement the grain and weapons to Li Shimin. In fact, he only carried the grain and equipment. , It took a big one hour, this is still helped by Li Shimin’s soldiers. After all the arrangements were completed, an hour had passed, so Li Shimin said it was one hour off, but in fact he left after one hour off.

After Li Shimin left, Liu Hongcheng began to recruit soldiers and strengthened the guard in Ganzhou.

After Liu Hongcheng just started to guard, specific news of Li Shimin’s defeat began in Ganzhou. The news was that Li Shimin had lost tens of thousands of troops and Great Tang’s domestic beacon smoke. All around.

The news came out, making the county town, which was a bit turbulent, even more undercurrent.

For a time, public opinion began to fly in the sky.

Causing people were alarmed.

After Liu Hongcheng got the news, he sighed, because this is what happened. Liu Hongcheng couldn’t refute the rumors. The only thing he could do was to continue the conscription, strengthen the defense in Ganzhou, and at the same time arrange for outposts to inquire about frontline news, ready to fight.

In fact, even so, Liu Hongcheng is very nervous.

The situation is too unfavorable.

Although Xia Country suffers a huge loss, Du Qi’s strength lies in it, especially Du Qi’s streak winning streak, and its influence is growing. As long as Du Qi’s army is coming, Ganzhou must be precarious in wind and rain. Even in various places under Du Qi’s rule, people live well and have a wealthy family. Following Du Qi is not bad, so many people will be excited and easily deceived.

these all are Liu Hongcheng wants to deal with.

So much so that he is so busy now, spare no effort to resist things.

It’s just that no matter how prepared Liu Hongcheng is, bad-mouthing public opinion dominates, and countless people dislike Liu Hongcheng. Even many officials in the government talked privately that Ganzhou could not keep it. Moreover, some businessmen, after meeting with Liu Hongcheng, vaguely mentioned the loss to Du Qi, and persuaded Liu Hongcheng to drop.

Liu Hongcheng refused one after another.

He is impossible to return to Du Qi.

He and Du Qi discussed it carefully, there was hatred. Because his brother Liu Hongji died in the hands of Du Qi. Liu Hongcheng is reasonable in every circumstance, in public or in private, and both are impossible to surrender.

His choice is to fight to the end.