My country is dead again [Rebirth]

After returning to Pingdu at the end of June, Shen Ci left the capital in July, and went to Cangzhou to reorganize the Cangzhou army left by Pei Yuankai with Xie Ruzhuo's imperial decree. Wu Xianrong might make an inch.

The generals of the Cangzhou Army who are still there are very knowledgeable about current affairs. Pei Yunjing should have given some instructions before. As soon as Shen Ci came, he helped to reorganize the army and stabilize the morale of the army. After more than half a month, the Cangzhou Army recovered. Face, you can go to the battlefield to face the enemy.

Shen Ci paid attention to Beidi's situation, and saw that Zabusu still had no intention of doing anything, and had been wandering around Suifang, but Yild's fifth and sixth sons were already fighting bloody battles, Xie Ruzhuo asked Zhabusu, knowing that the opponent would not fight for the past two years, Shen Ci temporarily took the post of the Cangzhou Army's chief general, led the Cangzhou Army to fight two battles, exercised his muscles and bones, and then left Qiu Ming behind. He played to the court again and went to Jiangbei to fight.

Dazhao survived in name only, Xu Zishen was dead, the Jiangbei clan brought the prince to hide in Huaixi tremblingly, under the banner of Dazhao to strengthen the city defense, hoping to be safe.

Helplessly, apart from Xu Zishen and the lieutenants who followed him, Dazhao really couldn't find anyone else who could lead the army to fight. state.

So in the next year, the Jiangbei family took Xu Zishen's son and fled from east to west. They didn't stay in one place for two months. Without Xu Zishen, Shen Ci would not be able to meet opponents on the battlefield. I think it's meaningless to fight like this.

In March of the sixth year of Longxing, the whole territory of Huaixi was broken.

In October, the entire territory of Huaidong was breached, and Jiangbei returned to Dayu.

Lu Jin had already practiced an excellent escaping technique, and once again slipped away with the prince and went to the middle of Sichuan.

Shen Ci non-stop turned to Shuzhong, Yue Tingchuan turned his head and went to Jiangnan, continuing to deal with the dead but not stiff Dazhao.

In June of the seventh year of Longxing, the middle of Shu was conquered.

In August, Jiangnan was breached and Dazhao was destroyed.

In the next three years, Xie Ruzhuo didn't meet Shen Ci very often every year, and each time they got together for no more than a month. Shen Ci traveled between Lingnan and Northern Xinjiang, and from time to time cleaned up the messy vassal kings and bandit forces in Lingnan. , Sometimes the war in northern Xinjiang was urgent, and he ran to Cangzhou to lead the army against Beidi, crossing the entire Dayu every year, running from the southernmost to the northernmost, and from the northernmost back to the southernmost.

In the ninth year of Longxing, Zhabusu returned to Beidi, and Shen Ci took the time to join Song Qingge with [-] soldiers and horses through Wanyang, and entered Beidi. He kept his promise and helped Zhabusu with housework.

In the winter month of that year, Yiled died of poisoned wine, the fifth prince and the sixth prince died of random arrows, and the south of Beidichagan River belonged to Zabusu. Zabusu took some time to clean up the door and stabilize the situation. So he gave up fighting Dayu and went north instead, persistently harassing Hu and Lu.

In this way, the war in northern Xinjiang ceased. Although there were still heavy troops stationed, there were few battles. Hu and Lu's people would occasionally run to this side, but it was just a small fight, which would soon subside.

Shen Ci could finally put his mind on Lingnan, this place was poor and bad, and he had never been here in his previous life, so it was really hard to fight, and he and Yue Tingchuan had been around here for two or three years and still haven't cleaned it up.

Until the end of spring in the 11th year of Longxing, when they returned to Pingdu in the previous life, Lingnan was finally taken back from the whole territory.

So far, the whole territory of Dayu has been cleared, and the troubled times have come to an end.

When Shen Ci was not in Beijing, Xie Ruzhuo and him still wrote letters to tell each other about their lovesickness. Every time they went to a place, Shen Ci would still send back a stone. The rosewood box could no longer hold it, so he found it again. Another box that was exactly the same continued to be loaded. Among them, Shen Ci also sent back a stone the size of a goose egg. It was blue and blue, with a smooth surface. It was beautiful, but this one took up one-third of the box, and it was almost necessary to take it out again. Here comes the third box.

The letter received has already filled the whole box, Xie Ruzhuo also opened the second box, and put the envelopes neatly according to the time. The stone is getting more and more innovative, but the words on the letter have not improved at all, it is still ugly Only he can understand it himself. Sometimes the war is urgent, and the writing is rushed, and the writing is so fast that even he has to recognize it for a long time before he can even guess what it is about.

He did not know how much he sighed because of this, but General Shen fought so hard for Dayu, it is not good for him to keep nagging about such trivial matters, and in the end he could only continue to struggle to decipher the flamboyant handwriting , but no matter how it is written, after getting it, the courtiers of Qianqing Palace will still see the emperor take the trouble to look at it hundreds of times, and put it on the pillow at night to accompany him to sleep.

After Lingnan was captured, Shen Ci handed over the affairs there, and said that he would return to Beijing to stay for two or three months. Xie Ruzhuo was happy for a while, but who knew that he came back, but after only staying for a month, it was reported that Qi Junmao was ill heavy news.

Things in the previous life are getting farther and farther away, and this year is the last year they don't want to recall in the previous life. They all forgot about this incident for a while. After receiving the news, Shen Ci hurried to Haimen with the Cangzhou Army Reinforcement, to prevent the Qiang people from taking advantage of the opportunity, so that Haimen is almost in danger like in the previous life.

When Shen Ci left, Xie Ruzhuo was very worried. In his previous life, Shen Ci left the same place and never came back. In this life, he was still worried. He handed over a letter every few days, even for the convenience of delivering the letter. , also used the autumn hunting as an excuse to go to Lezhou to stay for three months.

Lezhou has become a palace again, but the five years since it was established here as the capital, it has brought prosperity to this city close to northern Xinjiang. Talented people also like to visit this place, go to the forum of Guozijian to find out, and take a look at the mulberry locust tree that was planted by Du Ruo at the beginning of the sacrificial wine.

But the prosperity of Lezhou did not make Xie Ruzhuo feel better. Under the continuous fear, Xie Ruzhuo began to have nightmares, and he was always frightened into a cold sweat in the middle of the night, and his spirit quickly became depressed. More than a dozen imperial doctors took turns to see and see For no reason, they all feel that this is a heart disease, and it is not a solution to go on like this. Some people are planning to go to Taoist priests to exorcise evil spirits.

When Xie Ruzhuo was about to be bedridden because of this heart disease, Shen Ci finally came back.

Xie Ruzhuo, who woke up from the nightmare, saw Shen Ci with wet eyes, thinking it was another dream. Shen Ci squeezed his face and kissed his hand, and he confirmed that it was not a dream. The tears stopped in an instant I couldn't help but cried aggrievedly.

Shen Ci felt distressed, picked him up and held him in his arms, and said softly: "It's okay, it's okay, I'm back. Be good, don't cry."

"I have nightmares every day, dreaming that you were shot by an arrow and turned into a jar of ashes. I seem to have returned to my previous life, sitting alone in the snow, drinking with your ashes in my arms, how can the peach blossoms on the tree die?" I can't open it..." Xie Ruzhuo lost a lot of weight again, his shoulder blades were a little protruding, his face looked smaller, tears covered his whole face, buried in Shen Ci's arms and said in a hoarse voice, "I'm going to die soon , Shen Ci, I'm dying...you can't go anymore..."

At this time, Xie Ruzhuo looked like a soft rabbit again. Shen Ci pinched the rabbit's ears and comforted him: "I won't leave, I won't leave, I will stay by your side from now on."

"Yeah." People in their twenties, who cried like a child, were happy again after being coaxed, Xie Ruzhuo rubbed Shen Ci's neck, the familiar temperature gave him comfort and peace of mind, these days The worries finally dissipated, and he fell asleep next to Shen Ci in a short while, with both hands clutching Shen Ci's sleeves tightly in his dream, and finally Shen Ci could only lie down with him and hold him together sleep.

Xie Ruzhuo slept for a whole day, and finally regained the spirit that was about to be exhausted before. When he woke up and saw Shen Ci was still by his side, he felt more refreshed and had the mind to deal with things.

It was only now that he knew that the reason for Shen Ci's return was that Haimen was no longer worry-free. Zabusu, who had beaten Hu and Lu into retreat, received a letter from Xie Ruzhuo. Half of the territory, so part of the soldiers and horses were divided to fight against the Qiang from the east.

In the previous life, Shen Ci had never fought against the Qiang people, so he suffered a loss at the beginning, but in this life, just like the battle against Xu Zishen, practice makes perfect, and with Zabusu's side to help, it is not difficult to destroy the first wave of the Qiang people's offensive In just one month, the Qiang people were blocked from Haimen, and Zhabusu also regained that half of the territory, driving the Qiang people a little further away from Haimen.

Wu Xianrong was bored in Xishan, so he accepted the invitation to help Haimen, and came to calm down the scene. Shen Ci had heard that Xie Ruzhuo was ill, so he immediately dumped Haimen to Wu Xianrong, and hurried to see if he was still there. Xie Ruzhuo who was unable to return to Beijing in Lezhou.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xie Ruzhuo wrote another letter to Zhabusu. The trade route he opened with Beidi before only went to the north of Chizhou at most. Now he can allow the trade route to go as far as Jiangnan, connecting the north and the south, and completely connecting Dayu and Beidi. connect.

This matter has never been mentioned in the previous life. Xie Ruzhuo mentioned it now, and Zhabusu naturally has no reason to disagree. He immediately heard the string song and knew the elegance. He wrote back and promised to wait for him to clean up Hu and Lu and unify Beiyuan. I will come to fight with the Qiang people again. After all, compared to Dayu, Beidi is closer to the territory of the Qiang people, and there are more common collisions. It is a serious disaster, and it is guaranteed that the four towns in the northern border of Dayu will not need to fight for at least decades.

Xie Ruzhuo was satisfied, he took Shen Ci back to Pingdu when he recovered.

After returning to Beijing, Xie Ruzhuo decreed to change the layout of the four towns in northern Xinjiang. Although the four towns still existed, they still appointed a commander-in-chief to garrison them, but above the commander-in-chief there were two governors, each in charge of two places. Haimen and Xishan were jointly managed, collectively called Haixi, and Wu Xianrong was the first governor. Cangzhou and Wanyang were managed jointly, and Song Qingge was the first governor.

In addition, Xie Ruzhuo also mentioned in the imperial decree that when northern Xinjiang needs joint operations in the future, the imperial court will send another governor to lead the four towns. On weekdays, the affairs of northern Xinjiang will be decided by the two governors except for the transfer of troops to leave northern Xinjiang. Troop deployment is also included.In the four towns, starting from the commander-in-chief, the appointment, dismissal and promotion all belong to the imperial court. The governor has no right to interfere, but can only manage, but has no actual direct relationship.

Two of the generals from the four towns have gone, and there is a lack of generals who can stand on their own. Moreover, the current structure of northern Xinjiang also has the taste of silos. Knowing how long it will be put on hold, maybe decades later, the forces of the four towns in northern Xinjiang really became the warlord families of the previous dynasty, and they can no longer be shaken, and Dayu will be in chaos again.

Therefore, it is inevitable to centralize and disperse forces. Wu Xianrong and Song Qingge have helped him a lot, and these should be given to them. However, the power given to Northern Xinjiang by the imperial court was still too great, so Xie Ruzhuo made some restrictions to change the past. All matters of the four towns are based on the situation of the commander-in-chief alone. The governor is still a big official in the frontier, who can dispatch troops and generals, but the generals below are under the direct management of the imperial court's military department. If they feel that the governor's decision is wrong, they can also report to the court. Power is also restrained. It seems that the governor's name is very scary. After careful calculation, the power in his hand is incomparable to that of the previous general.

Ten years after Xie Ruzhuo ascended the throne, the fighting in Dayu basically subsided. Even Shen Ci had returned to the capital, obediently returning to be the admiral of the three major battalions. Give it away to someone else.

However, Shen Ci caused headaches for many people in the capital. Whenever Shen Ci went to court, he would either not speak, and when he spoke, he would insinuate Sun Bingde, and it was common for him to curse unceremoniously.

Later, let alone Sun Bingde, all the officials were a little afraid of him. I have never seen such a fearless person. He can pretend that he did not hear ten words of abuse, and dare to come back. In the back of his head, he didn't take things seriously at all, and he didn't have any sense of accomplishment after scolding, and he was so angry that he was half dead, why bother?

So because of this strange reason, Shen Ci lost his ears a year later. Sun Bingde and all the officials gave up staring at him. Shut up and don't talk again.

For this result, he was naturally happy to see the result, and he became a mute in court contentedly. Only when he was about to doze off, Xie Ruzhuo would call him suddenly and ask a non-painful question, forcing him to He said a few words.

During the ten years of Dayu's smooth journey in the war, many things happened in the court.

After Du Ruo had been in the Imperial College for three years, he was transferred back to the Ministry of War to serve as a servant because of his outstanding achievements in government affairs. It happened that the first batch of Imperial College students had finished their studies and passed the examination to enter the Imperial Academy. Although Du Ruo had only been in the Imperial College for three years, This group of students are all top-notch, and they will definitely become the leaders of the younger generation in the future, and with Du Ruo as a teacher and student, everyone can clearly see that the direction of the court will change in the future.

The New Deal introduced by Sun Bingde that year has continued in the past few years. In order not to smash his own brand, Sun Bingde has spent a lot of thought. Every year, he convenes six departments to make advances for the next year. He can be said to be conscientious. In the end, Sun Bingde had a lot of credit for the treasury's silver being in surplus all the time, otherwise Xie Ruzhuo would not have been able to return the 20 taels of silver borrowed by Zhabusu with interest within five years.

There are bound to be drawbacks to this government order. At the beginning, Xie Ruzhuo and Du Ruo guessed that they were close to ten. There are still many loopholes that the six departments can exploit. It is also difficult to see that when encountering emergencies, the Sixth Department can rely on outsiders' lack of understanding of the specific situation, make small things bigger, and big things bigger, and take the opportunity to dig up a sum of money that is more than actually needed. There is no way to find out, and if it is not returned, it seems that the court does not pay attention to this matter.

These disadvantages exist every year, and Sun Bingde is sometimes tortured by these people, but generally speaking, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. After several years, the corruption has been curbed, and it has changed a lot compared with the past. The disadvantages of this are also controllable, and this is unavoidable, and the future can only be discussed later.

Corruption in central Beijing was almost cured. In the seventh year of Longxing, Sun Bingde began to focus on local corruption.

Xie Ruzhuo understood before that Sun Bingde needs one or two political achievements to improve himself. Having six new policies is not enough, and another one will be better. Since he has already planned to punish corruption, it is better to do it thoroughly. Reputation is also a stroke of rich ink and color.

On the local level, Sun Bingde's method refers to the current practice of the Six Departments. The local government of Dayu is self-sufficient in maintaining daily expenses. On the contrary, there are more corruption than the Six Departments, and some places are as high as the sky and the emperor is far away, and they don't even know what's going on inside.

Now, like the six ministries, local money expenditures need to be budgeted at the end of the year and reported to the imperial court. After that, each additional money has to be reported again to ensure clear revenue and expenditure, and this content will also be counted in the performance evaluation of local officials. Among them, if the report is not timely and the income and expenditure are unknown, the performance inspection will have a great impact.

In order to implement this second new policy, Sun Bingde has been busy for a long time. At least the first three years are not free. Like the sixth department, it will take five or six years to stabilize. Let's take a look at the effect and make up for the shortcomings in time.

Xie Ruzhuo still didn't get involved in this new policy, there are more advantages than disadvantages, some people are willing to work hard, he is happy to be free, and when Sun Bingde is busy, he has no time to compete with him, life is even more comfortable.

However, the rivalry between Sun Bingde and Du Ruo has always been there. Since Du Ruo was transferred back to the Ministry of War, the rivalry between the two can be said to have been completely raised to the front of the stage. It is inevitable that you will come and go to each other in the courtroom on weekdays, but it is also inevitable. Neither one completely overwhelms the other.

In the 13th year of Longxing, there were three vacancies in the cabinet, including Han Zhen. Because of a small matter in his family's field, he was caught by the officials and made a fuss, and officials from Du Ruo's faction were behind the scenes. Finally, Han Zhen offered to resign , went home to retire, Du Ruo was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War without any suspense, entered the cabinet during the court push, and became the youngest cabinet minister since the founding of Dayu.

Once in the cabinet, the cabinet will have the right to veto during the cabinet discussions, and the battle between Sun Bingde and Du Ruo has become increasingly tense.

But everyone could see that Sun Bingde was doomed to lose in this game, maybe he knew it himself, but he just didn't want to admit defeat.

Even Han Zhen has retired and returned to his hometown, and the cabinet ministers who entered the cabinet with him are also old, but the group of people who followed Du Ruo gradually grew up and stood at the center of the court. Influx of more and more young people.

After all, Dayu's court changed blood with the passage of time.

This was a doomed ending. If Sun Bingde hadn't tied Du Ruo back then, he wouldn't have won the hearts of the young officials. In this game of chess, he was doomed not to win to the end. But thinking about it carefully, he also sat in this position for more than ten years. It seems that if you really want to say that you lose, you just lose to time.

In June of the 15th year of Longxing, Sun Bingde retired from his official position and returned home.

Xie Ruzhuo was not surprised by this, so he pretended to reject three invitations and three invitations with him, and finally agreed helplessly. The cavalry of the big battalion escorted him back home in fine clothes.

At the practice banquet, Sun Bingde was a little drunk, and Xie Ruzhuo was also drunk, and they talked a lot with Sun Bingde, and no one could understand what was said afterward.

Xie Ruzhuo said that he and Sun Bingde were old enemies in the previous life. In the end, Sun Bingde was forced to leave by himself and died in depression. In fact, he was very sad because he felt that neither he nor Sun Bingde had done anything wrong. Everyone has their own merits and demerits. In this life, Sun Bingde is willing to take the initiative to retire, but he is very happy, and insists on pulling Sun Bingde to ask over and over again if this is a reconciliation, and don't hold grudges against each other, right?

Shen Ci frowned when he heard it, and hurriedly dragged people back to Qianqing Palace, really afraid to continue, what if someone believed the words of the past and present?

On the day Sun Bingde left, he climbed up to the tower of Fushun Gate and took a last look inside and outside the palace city. Just as he was about to leave, he saw Du Ruo coming up.

The two looked at each other in silence for a while, but it was Sun Bingde who looked into the distance again, and said first: "Cheng Jingmo will be old in a few years, and you should be the chief assistant of the cabinet. Congratulations."

Standing beside him, Du Ruo looked over with his gaze. The early morning sky was sparsely clouded and the sun was still slowly rising. He shook his head and smiled and said, "What do you want to congratulate, Teacher? Congratulations, Ping is my world now? But The teacher knows that there can never be only one faction in the imperial court, and the new officials also dislike my political views, and when they grow up, they will replace me one day."

Now Sun Bingde is no longer the chief assistant, Yuan Weng who has been called for more than ten years can no longer be called, and today, even the emperor has offered to reconcile, there is no need for the two to compete again, Du Ruo called back I missed the long-lost teacher.

Du Ruo looked sideways at the silent Sun Bingde, and found that he was indeed much older. His originally straight back was obviously bent, and there was more silver frost on his sideburns than before. The once deep eyes were cloudy.

The world is most afraid of the reminder of time.

The chief assistant who led the emperor to the north with high spirits to prop up the chaotic court situation was already old.

"When His Majesty left Lezhou, he was also very drunk. He told me that in the end we are all just a few lines in the history books. What we hold on to now will end up being given to others, and it will be used as wedding dresses for others. Now that I think about it, Your Majesty is the one who thinks the most clearly among us." Sun Bingde's old voice sounded slowly, "You still call me teacher, but I have nothing more to teach you. I hope you will You can let go of your obsessions, and don’t be obsessed with them.”

Du Ruo's eyes were hot and humid. It had been more than ten years since he and Sun Bingde ran counter to each other back then. The two of them never talked as quietly as they do today. There was no sarcasm with hidden meaning, and there was no open and secret confrontation. It was just like when he was studying with Sun Bingde in the past. Sun Bingde calmly talked to him about the classics in the book and the current affairs of the court. Time will take away the vigor and youthful appearance, but it will also take away the sharp edges and sharp burrs, so that everything will return to the old calm.

"It seems that the teacher hasn't been back to his hometown in Huaidong for more than 20 years. It's better to go back and have a look now." Du Ruo turned his head and said shyly, "Students will visit the teacher when they have time."

"You're busy in the future, come and see what this old man is doing?" Sun Bingde said with a light smile, "One day you have a chance to pass by Huaidong, just come and have a cup of tea with me."

"Okay." Du Ruo followed up with a smile, "Student remember."

Sun Bingde glanced back at the direction of the cabinet and said, "Fangzhou, your time has come."

Many officials from the court and the central government also came outside the palace city, and they all came to see them off. Du Ruo bowed and watched Sun Bingde turn and leave, his back disappeared into the shadow of the corner of the stairs.

He looked at the mountains and rivers in all directions, and the blazing sun of June rose behind him, shining brilliantly.

The author has something to say: Lao Sun's ending has been arranged long ago and has not been changed. His behavior cannot be judged by a simple concept of right and wrong. Perhaps many figures in history cannot be judged in a few words, nor can they simply say Whether it is right or wrong, political machinations may be like this, everyone has right and wrong.

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