One Piece of Song Dynasty

Southern weddings are still held at night. On the wedding night, the red candles were burning high, and the sound of drinking and noisy outside the door was endless. Yue Fei and Li Wa, dressed as newlyweds, bowed to their mother-in-law. The mother-in-law singled out this happy day to say what she had been holding back for several days, in order to let Yue Fei remember it forever. She said seriously: "You knew that Zhang Zhu built a shrine for you, but you didn't stop him. You just had a small victory, so you became complacent?"

"I don't dare." Yue Fei immediately blushed. The mother-in-law picked up the paper-cut that had been prepared and said: "Nowadays, with internal and external troubles, it is the time for the country to employ people. If you can make great achievements, the country and the people will naturally remember you forever. Why do you need to build a shrine? Look at what this is." "

When Yue Fei saw the four words "Serve the Country with Loyalty" on the paper, his mother-in-law took out a steel needle and said, "Mom, I want to pierce these four words on your back so that you will always remember them and take off your clothes."

On Li Wa's happy day, her mother-in-law wanted to tattoo her husband, but she didn't hire a professional craftsman to do it. Just when she was about to stop him, Yue Fei took off his shirt, turned his back, and exposed his back for his mother to tattoo. The mother-in-law pasted the paper-cut words on Yue Fei's spine, covered it with ink, and then pierced the thick ink tremblingly, and blood beads immediately gushed out from Yue Fei's skin. Yue Fei was in pain. When his mother-in-law finished tattooing the words, she soaked them in acetic acid. The words would never fade. Li Wa picked up the mirror and let Yue Fei look at it. Yue Fei had seen it and thanked his mother for his teachings. Then his mother-in-law asked him tearfully if he was in pain. Yue Fei naturally shook his head and did not dare to say it hurt.

As soon as Yue Fei put on his clothes, Fu Qing opened the door and drunkenly held up the bag. From it fell a gold hairpin, a gold cup, a gold candlestick and other items: "This is Fu Qing's wedding gift to Brother Yue."

"Where did this come from?" Yue Fei picked up the gold cup and his face darkened. Fu Qing quickly explained that it was captured by Qi Fang who had just driven away the rebels. Yue Fei then handed him the wine: "Brother, why do you need to be so generous to your mother? This is Fu Qing, the most powerful general in the Er army, and he is also a life and death brother with you."

Fu Qing knelt down and kowtowed to his mother-in-law with a bang, and then kowtowed to his sister-in-law with a bang. Seeing his recklessness, his mother-in-law smiled and said: "What a reckless man. You are good brothers. You must take care of each other in the future."

"That's natural. Brother, my brother's money has been used for gifts. You should take care of your brother and lend him a few more coins to spend." Fu Qing said with a shameless smile. Yue Fei put his gift money into his bag, put in a few coins, and warned: "Go back to the camp early, we still have to go to work tomorrow morning."

Fu Qing shouted carelessly: "That won't work. My brother is very happy today and won't come home until he's drunk." While they were making a fuss, Zhang Xian hurried in and reported that the water thief Guo Ji had come to attack. Fu Qing stood up and scolded: "Damn, this thief knows how to join in the fun. I'll go gather the team right now."

"You have drunk too much. Stay and guard the camp while the others follow me to meet the enemy." Yue Fei took off the red flower on his chest and went out immediately. Fu Qing stopped him: "Am I the most powerful general in the army? How can I not go to war?"

"The camp is the foundation of our army. We must execute military orders." Yue Fei had already left. Li Wa and her mother-in-law rushed to the door worriedly, watched Yue Fei and others hurried away, and hurriedly told Yao Da to go out and find out the news. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law could not sleep well all night.

At dawn, Yao Da heard the news of Yue Fei's defeat from a sedan bearer who was rushing around. He hurriedly came back and called Li Wa, asking Li Wa to send Fu Qing to reinforce. What kind of opinion could a woman have? Li Wa immediately came to Fu Qingjun accompanied by Yao Da.

Fu Qing woke up from a hangover. When he heard that Yue Fei was defeated, he immediately ordered his troops and led the sleepy soldiers out of the camp. He saw Yue Fei and Zhang Xian returning to the camp with the victorious soldiers from afar. When Yue Fei saw Fu Qing going out without permission, he immediately became furious: "The military ordered that the sky cannot move and the earth cannot move. If you leave the camp without my order, you will be dragged out and beheaded."

"Brother came out of the camp under the order of my sister-in-law. Sister-in-law, help me." Fu Qing was grabbed by Zhang Xian and others and shouted hurriedly. Li Wa also said: "I heard that my husband was defeated, and the slave family was very worried, so they asked Brother Fu to come to the rescue. It's good that everything is fine now."

"Shut up, ladies, you can't interfere in military affairs, you can't go in and out of the military camp. I'll spare you this time, get out of here immediately," Yue Fei shouted angrily. Li Wa was startled and ran out shyly holding back tears. Fu Qing smiled and said: "My sister-in-law has been spared, so my brother should be spared too."

"You will be spared the death penalty, but you will be beaten with forty army sticks." Yue Fei gave the order and walked in front of the soldiers with stern expressions without looking back. Fu Qing was held down and beaten, and he kept shouting: "Hey, brother! Why are you trying to break the control of my brother and Yue? Oh, please be gentle."

At this time, Zhang Jun, who was on the front line in Shaanxi, had just received Li Xin's decree in the name of Zhao Gou. After reading it, Zhang Jun said to himself: "The emperor's decree is so strange."

Zhao Kai next to him asked: "Privy Zhang, what decree has the emperor sent?"

Zhang Jun replied: "The emperor wants to send new county lieutenants to the counties under the three roads of Chengdu Fuchuan Road, Tongchuan Road, and Kuizhou Road, and he also wants to reorganize the army. The old and weak soldiers in each county will be eliminated and expanded to one. Thousands of people, the old and weak who have been eliminated will be given to us for three months, and we will no longer need to take care of them after three months."

Zhao Kai frowned and said: "The emperor wants to reorganize the Xiang army."

Zhang Jun nodded and said: "Not only that, all military personnel of the Xiang Army will be paid the same monthly salary, and they must be paid in full every month."

Zhao Kai was shocked: "Then the food and salary expenses will increase by hundreds of thousands of dollars every month."

Zhang Jun said: "Not only that, the emperor also canceled the monthly payment in various places."

Zhao Kai spread his hands and said: "Then our pressure will be greater."

Zhang Jun suddenly laughed and said: "Don't panic, Mr. Zhao, I haven't finished speaking about the emperor's will. In view of the great financial pressure on us, the emperor will send us yuan, but if there is not enough left, let us Find ways to make up for it, and the pressure will be relieved after three months."

Zhao Kai breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The emperor sent the money, then I have no problem, but why does the emperor keep mentioning three months? What will the emperor do after three months of reorganizing the troops?"

Zhang Jun shook his head and said: "I don't know about this, but reorganizing the Xiang army will also help us increase our strength in Sichuan and Shaanxi. Let's do it according to the emperor's will."

Zhao Kai nodded and said: "Okay, I understand."

That day, Li Xin was reading memorials from various places. Lu Yihao and Zhao Ding rushed in to report that Wu Shu had withdrawn from Lin'an and Liu Guangshi surrendered the rebel general Fu Xuan, which greatly boosted the military's strength. Li Xin thought for a while and prepared to order Liu Guangshi and other ministries to lead troops to pursue him.

Zhao Ding frowned and said: "My lord, this may be a bit difficult. When the emperor authorized Zhang Jun to be the general manager of finance and personnel affairs in Sichuan and Shaanxi, I was worried that other generals would follow suit. Now Liu Guangshi has come forward to request that they be granted the title of general manager according to the Sichuan and Shaanxi system. Jurisdiction over the property, personnel and military power of the area.”