The happy life of the devil and the devil

Ten days later, Ling Yucheng rushed to the north bank of the Qingjiang River, pushed away the big oilcloth umbrella that the guards brought up step by step, stretched out his hand, and used the palm of his hand to catch the rain that hurt his skin.

In the violent storm, the torrential whitecaps churned and roared.In the wind and rain, the surface of the river becomes wider and wider, and the light boat in the distance is like a dead leaf, thrown up and down by the river water, and every time it makes people feel that it will capsize in the next moment.

...Luckily they still have boats.Ling Yucheng withdrew his hand, and lightly gathered the coir raincoat tightly.After capturing Wenxi County, they split up into three groups and rushed all the way to the bank of the Qingjiang River day and night.As a result, when they rushed to the ferry, they found that the boats were densely packed. None of the fishing boats, ferry boats, and merchant ships were taken away or scuttled.

Ling Yucheng's first reaction was to ask the guards to send a message: "...cut that Xiao Congyu to me."

He could neither face up to difficulties and lead his troops to retake the natural danger of Niaoling; nor could he make a decisive decision, lead his subordinates to retreat quickly, and assemble the army to hold on to the danger; What are you doing!

In good conscience, if one of the above three things can be achieved, Ling Yucheng still thinks that this guy is a good material to make. Although he doesn't want to use it, it doesn't prevent him from packing him up and sending him back to Yuan Shao.But such a thing...is it a waste of Yuan Shao's rice grain to send it back?

Not to mention that the logistics are tight now, every point of capacity is precious, okay!

Fortunately, as soon as the words came out of his mouth, he thought that the status of the prince of the country was still useful, so he changed his mind in time.Now he is detained in Jinchuan, the largest city on the north bank of the Qingjiang River. It is said that he is still on a hunger strike every day, and the sergeant who guards him has to pinch his nose and force-feed him every meal.

While recalling the process of capturing Jinchuan City, Ling Yucheng's thoughts were interrupted by riding a fast horse from far to near.Riding a horse in this kind of rainy day is definitely not a pleasant thing: the heavy rain blinds the eyes, the road is soaked softly, and the horse will stumble on the field ridge at any time-but, if you want to come here from Jinchuan City where Xingyuan is stationed, Something must have happened, Xi Jun couldn't wait for a moment, and hurried to report to him.

"My lord," the messenger cavalry began to rein in their horses from three feet away, but the horse's hooves kept slipping on the river bank, and it barely stopped when it came straight to him.Ling Yucheng almost suspected that if he couldn't rein in the horse, the cavalryman would simply rush him down the river, and then climb up from the water in disgrace:

"The people in Anzhou are in chaos! The people in Xichuan are in chaos!"

"Bastard!" After exhausting all his self-control, Ling Yucheng didn't curse out on the spot.

Xichuan is the largest city in the north of Suluo after Hirano.Although Anzhou is not big, its city is solid and its terrain is dangerous—to make matters worse, Anzhou City is guarding the main traffic route from Xiangping to Pingye City!

As soon as these two places were in chaos, the north of Suluo would immediately be full of wars.There is no need to count on the luggage from Beiliang to here, even the summer grain just harvested from the north of Niaoling, whether it can be transported across the mountain is also a problem!

Fortunately, fortunately, they captured half of the plain...

"What is Li Manxin doing!" Ling Yucheng whipped his whip hard, turned the horse's head, and rushed towards Jinchuan City at full speed.The personal guards immediately followed up one after another. Only the cavalryman who had just reported the letter was left desperately trying to calm the horse. After a long time, he turned around, whipped his horse fast, and chased after the water splashing in front of him.

In Jinchuan Xingyuan, Xi Jun was pacing back and forth in front of the government office lobby. If a letter wrapped in oiled paper hadn't been sealed in a letter box in his hand, he would have crushed it to pieces.Seeing Ling Yucheng jumping off the horse, his eyes lit up, and he immediately walked up in three steps at a time, holding the letter box with both hands:

"My lord, this is a letter written by Guangwu Wei Li Manxin!"

Ling Yucheng took the letter and scanned it at a glance.The first is the shocking two lines of characters:

Xichuan guarded Tu'an, robbed the women of the people, and forced the local wealthy households to rebel.Now Tu'an has died at the hands of the rioters. Cui Bin, the leader of the rioters, incited the people of Xichuan to defend the city to the death!

Anzhou guarded Dalima and sent out the people to transport the luggage. The pressure was too much, which caused civil disturbances.There are more than [-] people involved in the rebellion, killing all the Anzhou garrison, and Da Lima Lai's confidantes escorted him, only to save himself!

Looking further down, there are still many disturbances, large and small.Li Manxin, who was ordered by him to sit in the northern part of Suluo, to appease the region and ensure the back road, complained in the letter, and he was almost screaming: the local officials dispatched urgently, almost five out of ten, had to cause something to happen to him !

Ten days of work!They had just swept through the north of Suluo, which was trembling under the iron hooves of the army. It only took them ten days to press the gourd and scoop it up. It's not flat here and there!

Ling Yucheng resisted the urge to rub his eyebrows.Guangwuwei, who was originally from the Xia people, was left in the north of Suluo. They were originally expected to appease the local area-they must be much more proficient in this business than the barbarians in deep mountains and old forests like Baishanwei and Heishuiwei.Who knew that when the local officials urgently dispatched from China arrived, not only did the two parties fail to cooperate sincerely, but they disrupted the whole situation instead!

What a mess!

Come on, let's go, anyway, it's raining and we can't enter the army, so I just have my hands free to clean up this mess!

Under the order, Luo Sha, deputy general of Xuanjiawei, led three thousand troops and stationed in Hirano City.Reorganize the Suluo garrison on the spot.

Li Manxin, the deputy general of Guangwuwei, led five thousand troops to wipe out the rioters in Anzhou immediately.After the rebellion was put down, advance to the northeast at full speed, and open up the transportation route from the plains to the border of Great Liang.

He ordered Li Zhongcheng, the general of Heishui, to lead [-] troops to Xichuan to wipe out the rebellious party and appease the people.After suppressing the chaos, advance to the northwest to control Daxing, Langlin, and Heishuili. At the same time, defend against possible enemies in Pingan Prefecture in the northwest of Suluo.

Order, Li Gansheng, Lieutenant General of the Baishan Guard...

A series of military orders were quickly written, and Ling Yucheng re-read it for the last time. He was about to take off the small seals and stamp them one by one, but stopped at the moment he opened the ink pad box.

... Those local officials, what should they do?

According to his past temperament, the local officials were incompetent, ineffective, corrupt and perverted the law to the point of ruining the good situation he had achieved, just cut it off.On the left and right he has the Son of Heaven sword in his hand, and there is no one who can't cut first and then play.

Speaking of which, the first time he arrived in Qingzhou, he was willing to sort out all the evidence and tie people and things back to the capital.

But, is this right now?

Hesitating and hesitating, hesitating and hesitating.It wasn't until the ink in the inkstone was almost dry that Ling Yucheng woke up and picked up the ink stick, sharpened it a few times in a hurry, and then quickly started writing.

"Order, all the troops will stick to their positions and not interfere with local affairs. Anyone who beats, insults or kills local officials without authorization will be severely punished!"

Then, he rolled up the urgent autographed letter from Li Manxin, plus a hastily written report, stuffed it into the letter box, and tied it carefully on the pigeon's back.

Ling Yucheng brought a total of five groups of carrier pigeons with him on this northern expedition.Carrier pigeons are a good thing. It takes four thousand miles from Jinchuan to the capital city of Beiliang—the straight-line distance is also [-] miles. With two wings spread out, it only takes one day to fly.However, this thing is delicate after all, and it can fly back, but there is no such thing as flying back again. It can only be transported by manpower for a long distance, and it cannot be transported to the front line in a hurry.Therefore, it is not used for non-emergency matters. Even when Xiao Shishi was assassinated last time, Ling Yucheng only sent the memorial back on horseback instead of flying pigeons to deliver the letter.

Until now, Ling Yucheng was willing to let go of a group only when Wen Xi was defeated and his troops suffered a severe setback—mainly because this defeat would change the course of the entire battle, otherwise, the casualties of 2000 or [-] people would be nothing. qualifications.And right now, it's the second group.

The letter was sent, but the response was far from fast.Ling Yucheng calmed down and started to reorganize the major towns from the south of Niaoling to the bank of Qingjiang River, verifying the population, collecting taxes, and surveying the terrain.Xuanjiawei is used to doing these things—or in other words, Xi Jun, who has been in Qingzhou for a long time and replaced Ling Yucheng in governing the fief, is used to doing it.The work was arranged in an orderly manner, and Ling Yucheng actually enjoyed some rare peace.

Suluo is different from Beiliang. The mountains are undulating, and the whole country is cut into many pieces by the mountains. Many towns are hidden on the flat land in the middle of the mountain, or on the other side of the mountain.And taking full control of these towns means at least doubling the number of garrisons, and work that may not be completed in half a year. For Ling Yucheng and Yuan Shao, the cost is too high, and it contains uncontrollable dangers.

Therefore, the night before the troops were sent out, their strategy was to advance along the thoroughfare as soon as possible, occupying several major cities and important passes - Anzhou, Pingye, Niaoling Pass, Jinchuan, until they captured the Suluo King's Capital, Forcing the whole territory of Suluo to give up resistance.

However, now that the midsummer torrential rain season has arrived, and since the Qingjiang River has become unsuitable for forced crossing, then it is time to go back and clean up those small towns that are not on the traffic arteries, and sort out and reorganize the Suluo army.More occupied towns mean more local officials, and I don't know if His Majesty will have time to send...

Luo Sha's first reply letter arrived soon.

"My lord, that Pingye guard is really a headache," the young general who was sent back to Pingye City by Ling Yucheng and recuperated his wounds complained in the letter, "He can't even speak Suruo! Of course I can't either! He has already learned almost a hundred sentences—it’s okay if he doesn’t know it, he doesn’t want to take the tongue out for a walk, look around, he just stays in the government office and listens to the reports of the local officials!”

"That's not bad. Li Manxin complained to me, saying that the Anzhou guard can't do anything but whip people. What's the use of him!"

In consideration of timeliness, the local officials dispatched by Yuan Shao this time are mainly young people, and most of them are drawn from the Tiele Department and Bohai Department near Suluo, who are proficient in riding skills.The Ministry of Officials spent a day desperately checking personnel files, and then urgently sent transfer orders, ordering these officials to immediately hand over the work at hand and arrive at their posts within a time limit—most officials had both legs worn out when they rushed to their new positions. His skin was torn apart, and he would collapse on the ground when he got off his horse.

After all, not everyone can keep up with Ling Yucheng's marching speed.

The narrower the range of choices, the lower the quality of officials.It's a trivial matter not to know the Suluo language. There are quite a few people who fell ill when they arrived at the destination, and there was a guy who was busy drinking flower wine and playing with women.But the most troublesome thing is the lack of coordination between the garrison troops and local officials.

Among the first batch of 23 towns, there are eight, and there is a language barrier between the garrison and the civilian officials!The composition of the army brought out by Ling Yucheng this time is inherently complicated. The officials of the Bohai Department met the garrison of Guangwuwei, or the officials of the Tiele Department faced the troops of Baishan and Heishuiwei. Hundreds of stones, grain and grass all depend on gestures!

However, when civil servants change places, they need to be ordered by the official department, and the garrisoned troops need to be transferred for defense. They have to send reports to the chiefs of the various ministries step by step, and then send them to the front line by flying horses, and Ling Yucheng will give instructions in person...

Before the upper management had time to discover, analyze, and solve problems, the chaos had already occurred.

The author has something to say: Your Majesty: Talent reserve is a big problem...