Governor please stay

Liu Yishou obeyed Yu Wentai's suggestion and entered Fufen City alone.During this period, there were no dramas such as "when the tiger's body shakes, it bows when it accepts its head", or "the three hundred knives and axes do not change their colors in front of them".

Han Zixi, the chief officer in charge of many affairs in the city, was relieved to see Liu Yishou coming.It wasn't just him, there were nearly [-] soldiers and horses in Fufen City, and they all cheered when they heard that the "imperial court" finally came.

Because they finally don't have to take the blame anymore, the blame is now on Liu Yishou's head, what a joyful and encouraging thing for them.

Liu Yishou noticed that the atmosphere in the city seemed to be too cheerful, so he invited Han Zixi to the study room of the state government office for a secret talk.

That's right, Fufu City is very small, but its administrative level is frighteningly large. It is actually the prefectural government of Jeju!

This is the division before the three-level administration of "states, counties and counties" was changed to the two-level administration of "states and counties" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. A state is very large, um, theoretically.

Fufen City was completely empty by the surrounding Licheng City just because the economic development could not keep up and it was only used for military purposes and not for economic and cultural purposes.

Han Zixi is gentle and elegant, dressed as a literati, looks a bit unruly, and doesn't care much about everything.

"General Han, you are a literati, why do you restrain thousands of soldiers and horses to defend the city?" Liu Yishou asked curiously, he did not say "If you want to die, you can use other methods, there is no need to torture yourself."

You still have to keep a little moral in life, especially with strangers.

"Liu Dudu, you don't know something, alas, it's really hard to explain in one word." Han Zixi sighed, he was an upright official, there was nothing he couldn't tell others, including how he came to be in the current situation.

Han Zixi has the title of "General Fuguo", and this is a real general position.On the contrary, it is Liu Yishou's "General Zhengdong" who is a serious and vain job.

That is to say, Liu Yishou, who was able to lead soldiers, had a false job, while Han Zixi, who was a literati who didn't seem to be able to lead troops in war, had a real job instead.The most absurd thing in the world is this.

"Liu Dudu, the matter is like this..."

Han Zixi began to tell his story.

It turned out that when Liu Yishou was still in Luoyang, Xing Gao started making trouble.Of course, it was impossible for Liu Yishou to know such news at that time.So the imperial court sent an army led by Li Shuren and Han Zixi to suppress it. As for why it was this combination, you can roughly guess it by looking at the style of the Luoyang family.

Han Zixi is just an extra, and Li Shuren is the big one.After all, the aristocratic family should also pay attention to eating.

They want to control the military power, and think that Xing Gao is just "scabies disease".However, Mr. Bian Que, who is good at treating diseases, has long said that if scabies is not treated properly, it will also lead to death and overturn the ship.

Yuan Xu's accidental death, civil strife in Luoyang, and Yuan Ziyou's rise to power, the court urgently needs to quell the chaos of Xing Gao and concentrate on cleaning up Yang Kan.So Yuan Ziyou ordered that Wei Jun, who had already reached Weishui (the surrounding area of ​​Weifang, Shandong Province) at that time, recruit Xing Gao's refugee army.

The "honest man" Han Zixi was sent by Li Shuren to contact Xing Gao to persuade him to surrender.Of course, Xing Gao is not a fool. He pretended to surrender, while saying that he would continue to maintain contact and negotiations, while leading his troops to retreat to the northeast to show his goodwill.

Then when Wei Jun's vigilance dropped, Xing Gao personally led the army to fight back on the bank of Weishui, and Wei Jun was defeated!

Of course, Xing Gao's army was also severely damaged at that time and was unable to pursue it.Li Shuren led the defeated army all the way back to Fengfen City, one of the four towns in Henan, before stopping to set up a defense line, and sold Jinan County directly, regardless of their life or death.

But at that time, Xing Gao did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, and the major families in Jinan County escaped.

Li Shuren knew that the court's punishment would come sooner or later, so he pushed all the responsibility for the defeat on Han Zixi, who made him a "liaison officer".Not seeing Xing Gao's "bad intentions" is naturally one of the culprits, even the culprit.

Han Zixi had no words to respond to official words, after all he had no backer.

However, Li Shuren still has a bit of conscience. In the memorial, he said that Han Zixi "sticks to the city of Fufen with the heart of death", and made meritorious deeds.So Han Zixi and the defeated army under his command didn't dare to move at all.Because any action they make will cause a "crash effect" and then become a scapegoat.

You know, there was such a big disturbance in Qingzhou and Xuzhou, Xing Gao's refugee team ravaged the Jiaodong Peninsula, Yang Kan rushed to Yanzhou, and colluded with Liang Guo.

In such a mess, someone has to come out and take responsibility.After all, the Wei State Center has not collapsed yet!And what Er Zhurong thought was to stabilize the center of the Wei state, and use the "shell" of the Wei state to realize his ambitions.

Analogous to Huan Wen in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Under such circumstances, in order to maintain the reputation and stability of the center, there is a great demand for scapegoats who should be killed and who should not be killed, and there is no limit!

Although Han Zixi is a clean official, he is not a fool, and he does not have a strong background like Li Shuren. Could it be that he rushed back to Luoyang and was beheaded by the angry Yuan Ziyou?

nonexistent!

So he stayed in Sufen City in fear for half a year. It may be that Xing Gao himself lacked some courage and strategic vision, but Han Zixi had never been in danger for the past six months.On the contrary, the local forces in Jinan County wandered around Fufen City from time to time, seeming to have evil intentions.

Han Zixi, who doesn't know how to fight, has nothing to do with those people and can only let them go.

"This matter is easy to handle. You just entrust me with the defense of Fufen City. Your Majesty gave me the right to deal with it cheaply. These are trivial matters."

Liu Yishou said broadly.

Fufen City is a pit, if someone loyal to the Northern Wei court takes over this mess, there is really no place to cry.But Liu Yishou is not an "honest person".

Occupying the city of Fufu and keeping the escape route is in itself an extreme need for survival.As for what Yuan Ziyou thinks, when has Liu Yishou been afraid of Yuan Ziyou?

That guy is about to be PUA to Stockholm by Liu Dudu, afraid of a ball.The ruthless pigeon is afraid of nothing and no one!

"Uh, General Han. As the saying goes, if you know yourself and your enemy, you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles. You have had contact with Xing Gao's army. What do you think of them?"

Liu Yishou has always been just hearsay about the army under Xing Gao's command. Basically, it looks like those vagrant troops with no education and program.

"Xing Gao's elite soldiers are all from Hebei refugees, and they are not afraid of death."

Han Zixi said in a deep voice with a solemn expression on his face.

Obviously, he was very impressed with the teams that Xing Gao could play.

"and then?"

"Xing Gao is very much supported by the refugees in Hebei, but it is only limited to the refugees in Hebei."

The situation in Qingxu is quite different from other places.

Because of the chaos in the six towns, Hebei was in chaos.And Hebei was the most densely populated area during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. Otherwise, after Yuan Shao took Hebei, how could he dare to swallow the world and go south to overthrow Cao Cao?

During the war in Hebei, Ge Rong ran rampant all the way.However, Ge Rong is an outsider from the six towns, and he is not really popular in Hebei.Therefore, many local tyrants from aristocratic families in Hebei have traveled all the way from Jishui to Shandong.

Moreover, the imperial court also set up overseas Chinese prefectures and counties in Shandong. In theory, it should be able to settle the refugees from Hebei.

But many things are not bad in general, but bad in the execution below.Similar things can be said to be common in all dynasties.

The slogan that Xing Gao yelled was "No payment for three years"!But if you think about it carefully, if it is really just not paying food, where will the military funds come from?

There are also a limited number of young ladies in aristocratic families, no matter how many there are, it is still not enough for hundreds of thousands and millions of low-level people!

If Xing Gao really overthrew the Qingxu family and won the absolute support of the bottom, let alone Li Shuren, even Er Zhurong would not be able to stand up!

Xing Gao played a cunning trick. His slogan "No food payment for three years" was aimed at the refugees in Hebei.These people came from Hebei, whether they are local tyrants or low-level people, they are now considered landless people.

Their situation is the same, the contradictions in the past are covered up by the new pressure of survival.

As for the local people on Qingxu's side, whether they are local tyrants or low-level people, they are all the people Xing Gao wants to deal with!This is also the biggest reason why Xing Gao's team did not dare to attack Jinan County easily.

Because there are very few refugees from Hebei!They are popular, only in places where there are refugees, Qingxu natives, rich or poor, do not welcome them!

This is also the biggest reason why Fufen City can continue to exist in the hands of Han Zixi, a person who doesn't understand military affairs.Water can carry a boat and capsize it. This principle is true everywhere.

"In short, I don't know how many troops you have under Dudu Liu's command. But it's not wise to continue fighting eastward."

Han Zixi took a sip of his wine and let out a long sigh.When he sent troops last time, he had direct contact with Xing Gao.This person is basically a son of a family with a local bureaucratic temperament, not a bandit leader in a cottage, the kind who speaks foul language.

And it can be seen that Xing Gao is very popular in the local area.Of course, if you rob some people of their money and give it to others, you will also be loved by those people, which is human nature.

"Xing Gao knows that things are gathered together and people are divided into groups, and he is very smart to take advantage of the conflicts between refugees and locals."

Liu Yishou sighed with emotion.

Qingxu natives, no matter they are wealthy families or ordinary people, are naturally "proprietors". Even the lowest-level people have at least a thatched hut, and it is impossible to sleep in the open.

So Xing Gao's choice, his vision, is indeed vicious, and his heart is cruel enough.

Xing Gao showed no mercy to the poor people in Qingxu, and still regarded them as targets of oppression, because he wanted to please the refugees from Hebei.As for the family members among the refugees in Hebei, they have culture and strength, but they have lost their land.

Hit it off with Xing Gao!

It is not unreasonable for people to grow to tens of thousands of people in a few months.

Now Liu Yishou finally felt Xing Gao's pulse, and felt a little at ease.The most frightening thing in the world is the unknown. Once the truth is known, even if it is a poisonous snake or a beast, it is not impossible to deal with it!

"However, there is one thing that seems strange."

Han Zixi fumbled through his cuffs, found a few copper coins, and put them on the table for Liu Yishou to watch.These coins are very exquisitely cast, much better than the Taihe Wuzhu of Wei State.

"This... seems to be Liang Guo's Tianjian five baht."

Liu Yishou also took out a few copper coins, which were Taihe five baht coins, the official currency of the Northern Wei Dynasty.From a comparison, it can be seen that the casting technology of Tianjian Wuzhu is obviously superior.

"This was captured from the army under Xing Gao's command."

Han Zixi said thoughtfully: "And there is more than one person. It seems that Liang Guo is funding Xing Gao, and it is unknown."

Emperor Wu of Liang, Xiao Yan, did not engage in the Northern Expedition, but instead funded Xing Gao, a refugee?

Liu Yishou felt that Han Zixi's evidence was true, but his deduction was far from accurate.If Xiao Yan had this courage, would Chen Qingzhi's Northern Expedition have only 7000 people?

He couldn't even bear to spend money on his own people, would he fund the Northern Wei refugee team whose success rate was almost zero?

Liu Yishou shook his head and said, "This doesn't look like Xiao Yan's style of doing things, but I have a guess."

Xing Gao eats big households, and there are not so many big households in the local area for him to eat.These are disposable, and if damaged, it will be difficult to regenerate.Therefore, it is obvious that Xing Gao's source of income may be related to Liang Guo in the south.

The five baht money that Han Zixi gave to Tianjian is the evidence.

But it would be a bit arbitrary to say that Xiao Yan supported it.Liu Yishou felt that there might be another reason.

"Smuggling is rampant in a family of the Liang Kingdom. The ferry at Jiankang is covered with sails all year round. When you leave the Yangtze River estuary and go north along the coast, you can reach the seaport of Qingxu. The cargo is unloaded not far from the exit of the Yellow River, and then the cargo is shipped. In Jiankang, this seems to be a way to make money."

Liu Yishou expressed his guess, and I'm afraid it was very close to the truth.

It's a pity that Han Zixi didn't understand, he asked suspiciously: "But why do the aristocratic families of the Southern Dynasty trade with Xing Gao? What can they give Xing Gao?"

If Xing Gao traded with the aristocratic family of the Southern Dynasties, it would be necessary to barter, using local "native products" in exchange for urgently needed grain, cloth, and weapons.There is a ghostly use for the copper coins of the Southern Dynasty, which can neither be eaten nor worn.

Therefore, there is only one possibility, and that is that Xing Gao "eating blacks", robbed the trade routes from the Southern Dynasties to the Northern Wei Dynasty at sea, and used the looted things to maintain the army!

So this news is very critical, it shows that Xing Gao's finances and provisions are by no means as fragile as Liu Yishou and others thought before.

"It's nothing, maybe some of the aristocratic families he robbed are smuggling with Nanchao."

Liu Yishou said calmly.It's a big taboo to talk lightly and deeply, and he doesn't need to explain his conjectures to Han Zixi too thoroughly.However, this trip to Fufen City was really worthwhile. The biggest gain is probably not the city, but the conversation with Han Zixi.

This allowed Liu Yishou to intuitively understand certain characteristics of Xing Gao's army. For example, in the ranks of Hebei refugees, they are like gods. buy.

And Qingxu's local aristocratic family can be safely used as a spearman, even if they don't win over, the other party will never be able to take refuge in Xing Gao's side.

There is also the military strength of Xing Gao, I am afraid that it needs to be re-evaluated, maybe the other party is more difficult to deal with than Ge Rong.

"We are about to march into Jinan County. How about General Han taking his troops back to Xuchang City to protect our rear?"

Liu Yishou asked politely.

With Fufen City, where is the rear of Xuchang needed? The defeated army can directly cross the Yellow River from Fufencheng to Hebei.Han Zixi was not stupid, he instantly understood Liu Yishou's kindness.

He cupped his hands excitedly and said: "Then thank you, Commander Liu, you can send people to take over the city at any time. I'll just take a few people to Xuchang. This imperial army and the city's weapons are all for your restraint to use."

Become!

Liu Yishou calmly breathed a sigh of relief.

Chapter 165 You Just Stand Here Don't Move Around

"Liang Jun only has 7000 people, but he actually defeated more than [-] defenders in Suiyang. What do you think you did? Even if you kill more than [-] pigs, you can't kill them all in one day!

And Yang Chun, how long did it take to lose Suiyang?Just one day!He surrendered the next day! "

In the imperial study room of Luoyang Palace, Yuan Ziyou spat furiously at the calm-faced Fei Mu, almost spraying his saliva on his face.But Fei Mu didn't feel aggrieved.

He even thought it was a little funny.

Well, after all, he wasn't the one who lost the battle!The annihilation of Yang Chun's army in Suiyang was actually not a bad thing for Fei Mu.Because Yang Chun's son, Yang Yu, is also in Xingyang City now, and he is used by Yuan Ziyou to check and balance himself.

Yang Chun surrendered Yuan Hao in Suiyang, so Yang Yu actually lost the qualification to check and balance himself.With greater freedom, what's so bad about it?

At this moment Fei Mu wanted to laugh out loud, he had been waiting for this day for a long time.

But on the surface, he still looked sad, as if he was very sad.Oh, by the way, and Li Shuren.This guy was not in Suiyang at the time, but in Qiaojun, a hundred miles away.There are several rivers running through it, and it is the granary that supplies grain and grass for Suiyang.

As soon as he heard that Yang Chun led the army to surrender Yuan Hao, Li Shuren ran away with more than 10 people guarding the granary, heading north along the Bian River.Yuan Hao controlled more than [-] horses at once, and he was unable to pursue Li Shuren under his powerlessness.

Although he ran back, Fei Mu was not worried about these crooked melons.Instead, he was a little worried about Qing Xu's situation.

If Liang Jun can consolidate the Suiyang defense line, Liang Jun will continue to attack, and then vigorously support Yang Kan on the Qingxu battlefield, and then make peace with Xing Gao.

Then, Liang Guo will be able to carry out a "pincer attack" on Xingyang, that is, encircle Xingyang from two directions, the south and the east.If it really came to that point, Fei Mu couldn't bear it, and Er Zhurong had to step in.

Thinking of this, Fei Mu cupped his hands and said to Yuan Ziyou: "It is better to send someone to inform Prime Minister Er Zhu (Er Zhu Rong), and let him integrate Jinyang's sharp soldiers and go south, so that there is no danger."

When nothing happened in the country, Yuan Ziyou wanted to kill Er Zhurong right away, but when the building was about to collapse, Yuan Ziyou found that there was no one who could handle the matter by his side. Er Zhurong can't go out.

Now that Er Zhurong has been named "Prime Minister" and compares himself to Cao Cao, his ambition is clearly revealed.Although Yuan Ziyou controlled some people in Luoyang City, many of the courtiers were Er Zhurong's eyeliner and cronies.

Yuan Ziyou doesn't do anything, everything is easy to talk about.As long as he moves a little bit, there will be a bloodbath in Luoyang city without Er Zhurong's order.

"That's great, but I'm afraid that far away water won't make sense of near fire. General Fei has been worrying about Xingyang."

Yuan Ziyou said with a blank face, it felt like eating a big pot of blowflies, it was so disgusting.He obviously hated Er Zhurong to death, but now he has no choice but to beg him to lead troops south to "save him".