Chapter 509 The story of General Qi
Han Zhenhan smiled and continued to speak, ignoring Wen Tianxiang's sincere recognition of Confucianism.
"He was appointed by the court at that time on a very rich land in the southeast, but no one was willing to go anywhere. The previous magistrates sent to him were either killed by foreign enemies or dismissed from his official position because of the unfavorable defense of the border. It is not ruled out that General Qi was thrown there because he was intentionally harmed by the political enemy..."
Everyone is willing to listen to the story, even the talented Wen Tianxiang is the same.
"After arriving at the place where he was in office, General Qi did not take the initiative to go to the border to defend himself as he had thought, but began to train the local protection teams in various places, and took out a lot of money to the surrounding villages. The big villages built city defense, trained the local people, and arranged reasonable prevention mechanisms. This allowed the local people to have the ability to protect themselves and establish a beacon tower to promptly transmit the attacked alarm mechanism."
Wen Tianxiang's eyes lit up here, which made local people, especially ordinary people on the border, have the ability to protect themselves. Wen Tianxiang once thought that this coincided with his own ideas. Moreover, after Han Zhenhan said this, it was very systematic, but it didn't sound like a story compiled by Han Zhenhan, which made Wen Tianxiang listen more seriously.
"After doing this, General Qi began to bribe his boss, almost bribing his immediate boss with all his wealth."
"What? Bribery of his boss?"
Tianxiang heard Han Zhenhan's words very seriously, but when he said this, Wen Tianxiang was suddenly stunned and could not believe his ears. He just wanted to protect the country and protect the people and seek benefits for the people. But why did this person start bribing his boss after he finished the basic defense work? Is he going to prepare to join the corrupt officials?
"You listen to me, otherwise I won't say it..."
Wen Tianxiang had no good expression. He lowered his head and stopped talking. He just added a sip of food and pressed a sip of wine, and then looked at Han Zhenhan as if waiting for Han Zhenhan to continue talking.
"After bribing his boss, General Qi began to pay tribute to the court in a large amount of money and unkind businessmen, as well as landlords who had affair with foreign enemies when foreign enemies entered the country and sent food and grass to foreign enemies. Part of the money collected was used by General Qi to manage his boss, and the other part was used by him to start business."
When Wen Tianxiang finished doing business, he glared at him again.
"It's insulting..."
Seeing Han Zhenhan looking at him, Wen Tianxiang and put it back in a word before he finished speaking, Han Zhenhan wanted to laugh in his heart, but he continued to speak seriously.
"Because he is located on the border and is relatively rich around him, General Qi soon gained a lot of wealth. In the second year, he began to screen out outstanding soldiers from various village protection regiments, and selected a large number of miners from several mines. He then began to train these recruits with his own military rules and training methods, and the military funds of this army were completely supported by his own wealth, including all weapons, equipment, and military rations and military salaries."
When talking about this, Wen Tianxiang was finally no longer surprised and frowned. He said before that Wen Tianxiang was not a young man who had entered the court for three or two days, and his learning ability was very fast. He could not become the prime minister later, nor would he be called the Three Heroes of the Song Dynasty after the ages.
"After training the new army for a year, his main force had more than 20,000 people, and the Baoxiang Group, which could be mobilized in the local area, had more than 50,000 people to fight. Then he began to recover lost territory and rescue the people occupied by the enemy. However, when the enemy found that their scattered soldiers could no longer take advantage, he not only did not give up, but began to send 100,000 troops to General Qi's position to provoke the war, and also took a walk to our court to attack us. However, in the past two years, General Qi had already managed the upper and lower levels, and had long tied the corrupt officials on this line. The news that was unfavorable to General Qi was suppressed by the high officials on this line."
When Wen Tianxiang said this, he opened his mouth in a "oh" shape. He actually had such an operation and could use corrupt officials like this. Shouldn't he drive them out of the government? But General Qi really defended the people and land on the border. So is it true or evil? What is the law of the country? Of course, this is just what Wen Tianxiang thought in his heart, and he did not say it to Han Zhenhan.
"Has that 100,000 troops sent by the enemy been blocked by General Qi from the country?"
"Of course, not only was the 100,000 army blocked by General Qi, but he also took the initiative to report the results of the battle. However, the memorial only said that the enemy was weak and scattered and blocked by the Baoxiang Group, which protects the territory and the people. However, it was not a long-term solution and needed the support of the court. In this way, the court mobilized a large amount of food, grass, weapons and rations in the nearby prefectures to support General Qi, and also sent a general, leading a 50,000 army to General Qi's territory."
Speaking of this, Wen Tianxiang's eyes once glared. The general sent here must have come to grab the credit.
"But in fact, General Qi had already arranged a very timid general to come to him through his own power. The 50,000 reinforcements were not placed on the battlefield by him, but he sent them to the mine to mine. In the end, the timid general was arranged in the flower building by General Qi, and stayed for half a year. 50,000 miners and 50,000 laborers, how much money can they earn? Of course, the money, food, equipment, and other things allocated by the court were allocated to him by General Qi."
Chapter completed!