Chapter 461 Lingzhou Defense Envoy
Hubili thought that what Hulan said was absolutely true. He asked Mengge if he saw it. The girl also advised her brother to stay away from the battlefield and be careful of cannonballs. Hulan was right, we should make some plans.
Brother Meng said disdainfully that he was lucky, so what was there to be afraid of?
Let’s talk about what’s happening right now…
At dawn the next day, the main force of the Mongolian army suddenly retreated, leaving Li Quan's Shandong militia to block the counterattack of the Shenwei Army. This time, the Mongolian army retreated quickly, and unlike last time, they did not take away jars and pots, but picked up the important ones and moved the necessary ones, and also captured a group of local skilled craftsmen and sent them into exile.
This made Old Cao, who was guarding Jiankang Prefecture, very boring.
He and Miao Gui were determined to give him a good fight and had just gathered the troops when Hubili suddenly slipped out of their hands like a loach.
Li Quan of Shandong was even more cunning. He knew that the Mongolian army was retreating, so he immediately launched a charge and then retreated. When the Shenwei Army caught up with him, he did not even rescue the reinforcements, but directly ordered the rear guard to scatter and escape.
So, Lao Cao regretfully asked Miao Gui to take care of the aftermath, and he boarded the official ship and returned to Chengdu.
In Lin'an Prefecture, wars broke out successively in the northwest and Jiangdong. Shi's son asked his shuttle envoy Xie Lingyun to stay at home and recuperate.
However, the two wars between the new Song Dynasty and the Mongolian army started in the northwest and ended in Xuzhou, and ended almost at the same time. Because he was isolated from the news, when he received the information that the northwest war had ended, Xuzhou had already stopped fighting for five days.
This guy immediately arranged for Xie Lingyun to go to Jiankang Prefecture to mediate.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Yulin was not in Jiankang at all, and even the Lord of Cao had set off to Chengdu. Xie Lingyun immediately went back to report the situation. Shi's son weighed the pros and cons and immediately said with a smile that while the water in the river was good, he would ask Mr. Xie to take another trip and go directly to Chengdu to do his job.
Xie Lingyun wanted to go to Xishu to talk to his niece, but he didn't show it on his face. He said lightly that Chengdu had told him to do his job in Jiankang Prefecture, so it might not be appropriate for us to go to Xishu.
When Shi's son saw that Xie Lingyun refused, he thought it meant he was not listening to him.
He said with a little dissatisfaction: "National affairs are of great importance and cannot be delayed. In the first half of the year, the navy of the Shenwei Army marched on the Yangtze River in a show of force, and we in Liangzhe lost several counties at the estuary and on the sea."
If the affairs of Liangzhe are not dealt with in time, there will be more trouble than good. Mr. Xie, please take the trouble to go there.
He then asked the eunuch to take out a purse, took it and handed it to Xie Lingyun with a smile, saying that there were two thousand strings of silver in it, which would be used as travel expenses for Xie Lingyun.
Xie Lingyun pretended that he couldn't refuse, and agreed reluctantly. He went back and packed his bags to set off.
After ten days of bumpy journey, Zhao Yulin and Wu Yuqi arrived in Lizhou to visit Chen Chen's father. However, they found that Chen Yun, the pacification envoy of Lizhou Road, seemed to have lost a lot of weight. He said with concern that although political affairs were important, his father should also take care of his health.
The old man was humiliated after Chen Chen was reported by the Ministry of Personnel for accepting the jade pig, and he couldn't find a place to vent his anger. Before he could finish his words, he ignored Yuqi's anger beside him: How can I be as idle as a good son-in-law, traveling around and having fun. Now, the Ministry of Personnel caught him and published a document to let the whole world know that Chen Chen was not clean, so are you happy?
Zhao Yulin was stunned for a moment and said awkwardly: It's just a small matter, Chen Chen just likes a few little things, he is not really taking bribes to make profits for others.
Chen Yun was furious, and put down the tea bowl heavily and asked him: What? It's still a trivial matter? It's a trivial matter if the whole world knows about it and I lose face?
I want to ask you, brother, how big of a problem does it have to be to be considered a problem?
Fairy boss, Zhao Yulin thought that he must have accidentally stepped on dog poop when he went out early this morning, and quickly apologized to his father-in-law. He said that he did not remind Chen Chen enough, which made Chen Chen careless and made mistakes. He must discipline Chen Chen strictly in the future.
Chen Yun finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat down to drink tea.
Seeing that the two masters were so at odds with each other, Zhao Yulin dared not stay long. After serving them carefully for a while, he said goodbye and went to stay in the inn. He set out early the next morning to continue his journey. It took him another half a month to get back to Chengdu. Cao Youwen and Huo Fenghuang had already returned.
Zhao Feiyan immediately invited all the officials in Taijian Hall to discuss state affairs. After he introduced the war in the northwest, Lord Cao explained to them the situation of Jiangdong resisting the attack of the Mongolian army. The officials were all delighted to see that the northwest had won a great victory and Lingzhou had been recovered, and Jiangdong had also successfully resisted the Mongolian army.
Meng Gong made a self-examination to the officials: It was his own fault for not keeping a strict control over his subordinates, which led to the creation of a vicious tiger in Ezhou. The Ministry of Justice has already verified the criminal facts that the short-legged tiger and the former Ezhou prefect colluded with each other, forced the purchase and sale, and collected tolls to exploit the villagers. Geng Feihu, the governor of Ezhou, acted decisively and legally, and was praised by people. He was proposed to be transferred to Jingzhou.
Fan Zhong immediately said that it was not Meng Gong’s fault, but it was a very small number of people who were so bold and reckless.
Zhao Yulin knew that Meng Gong said this specifically for him. He was the one who discovered the crime of the dwarf tiger. Meng Gong indulged and tolerated the dwarf tiger because the dwarf tiger had saved his life. Eventually, he raised a tiger and made it a threat. A fierce tiger on the battlefield degenerated into a vicious tiger that preyed on the people. It was he who made up his mind and sent a special investigation team from the Ministry of Justice to Ezhou to investigate the dwarf tiger criminal gang.
When the guy learned that the people from the Chengdu Criminal Department had arrived, he suddenly attacked the special case police, trying to stop the investigation. Fortunately, Meng Gong knew how powerful the dwarf tiger was, and he had a lot of people around him, so he specially dispatched a team of capable law enforcement officers from Chengdu to go there, otherwise he would not be able to suppress the dwarf tiger.
Even so, when the criminal police of the Ministry of Justice were carrying out the capture of the dwarf tiger, an accident occurred, resulting in one death and three injuries, which made our General Meng feel extremely guilty.
Zhao Yulingeng added that he nominated Cao Youwen's guard captain as the acting governor of Liangshan and Geng Feihu as the acting governor of Jingzhou. He also nominated Wang Gui to resign from the military and transfer to the post of defense envoy of Lingzhou, and never mentioned the dwarf tiger incident.
All the gentlemen had no objection and passed it with unanimous applause.
Then, Fan Zhong looked at Zhao Yulin and said that he planned to set up Huaiyuan Prefecture in Xingqing Prefecture. Xingqing Prefecture in Western Xia had never recovered after being massacred by the Mongolian army. We, the new Song Dynasty, had to garrison there for a long time after recovering it. The previous dynasty had set up Huaiyuan County there, and he proposed to upgrade it to a prefecture to strengthen defense, and the prefecture was named Huaiyuan Prefecture.
After hearing this, everyone applauded and agreed. The people of Song Dynasty all had a sense of pride in the Song Dynasty. Fan Zhong proposed changing the name of the state back to Huaiyuan State, which was exactly what they wanted.
This was also Zhao Yulin's real thought. He wrote a written report in Lingzhou and made the arrangements at that time.
Seeing that everything had been settled, Zhao Feiyan invited them to the back hall for a drink.
A large collective canteen was built in Jinguan City, where all the people doing official business could queue up for meals with their ID cards. A small canteen was also built behind Courtyard No. 9 for the temporary meals of the officials of the Central Court.
Everyone went in and had a nice meal before going home. Fenghuang had some complaints about Wu Yuqi, muttering that she was still monopolizing Ge'er after she got home, which was too much. Brother Yulin was hers tonight.
The girls immediately burst into laughter.
Yangjin asked with a smile: Sister Fenghuang, are you going back to the room to rest now? I have something to discuss with you.
Fenghuang gave a wicked smile and said: No hurry, no hurry, sister will go back to the room and prepare some hot water for you.
The girls burst into laughter again.
Zhao Yulin was very embarrassed. After taking a sip of tea, he asked Yangjin what she needed to discuss with him?
She said that the officials believed that Hongzhou and Jiankang Prefecture had returned to the New Song Dynasty, and should become independent routes and return power to the people, and there was also Jinghu North Road.
Zhao Yulin suggested changing the names to Jiangsu Road and Jiangxi Road. He felt that it was a bit strange that the first-level administrative units of these roads all went from the south to the north, from the east to the west.
Yangjin understood immediately, she was also used to the name in later generations, and said yes immediately, Jiangsu Road and Jiangxi Road were unified for the first time, all administrative divisions could be adjusted uniformly, anyway, documents and seals had to be remade, including personal ID cards. So it was just right to change the road name.
As for Jinghu, since Jinghu South Road has been corrected, it is better to keep the corresponding Jinghu North Road.
Zhao Yulin nodded and said it was up to her. He still needed to communicate with Mr. Du from the Ministry of Revenue on what to do. He felt it was time to sort out these administrative divisions.
Yangjin nodded immediately and asked him what about Henan? Should it be called Henan Road?
Just as Zhao Yulin was about to answer her, Fenghuang had already entered the room, pulled him up and left, saying with a smile that it was better to discuss official matters in court. Brother has to balance public and private matters and not neglect family affairs, right?
All the women in the room understood and immediately burst into happy laughter.
The couple went back to the room and worked for half the night, talking back to back. Fenghuang sighed about the big flower bed under her, saying that they hadn't slept on this bed for a long time, and the bed was upset, and the creaking sound just now was so loud.
Zhao Yulin was speechless. He turned around, hugged the woman and asked her: Can't you be more reserved? You are all over 30 years old.
The woman said proudly: "Yangjin said, 'At thirty, you are like a wolf, and at forty, you are like a tiger.' I am a tigress." As she said this, she kept poking him with her little butt.
Fairy Banban , he is completely convinced by this woman.
The next day, at the Central Council meeting, Fan Zhong and Du Fan jointly proposed an adjustment of the road-level administrative divisions. Naturally, the officials followed Zhao Yulin's proposal to rename Jiangsu Road and Jiangxi Road.
He did not raise any objection to the appointment of pacification envoys in various routes. He only said that places like Henan Road and Jiangsu Road were still war zones, so the column-level generals of the Shenwei Army would temporarily take on military control and return power to the people after the situation stabilized.
You all have no objections.
Next, the Minister of Water Resources Yu Jie proposed to overhaul the water conservancy project.
Yu Jie believed that winter was the right time to build water conservancy projects. The court should make arrangements in advance and mobilize manpower and material resources to repair water conservancy projects to lay the foundation for spring plowing and planting next year.
Zhao Yulin was of course happy, and this is what people did in later generations. It is impossible to repair ditches and canals in one stroke. Some of them need two, three or even longer years to complete. How can we do it without planning in advance?
However, everyone hesitated when they saw the cost proposed by Yu Jie.
The Ministry of Water Resources is in charge of the country's water conservancy. The total amount of money allocated for each construction project is 8 million strings of cash, which is really not a small amount.
Zhao Feiyan looked at Ma Ling'er in the back row, wanting to hear her opinion.
