Chapter 45: Six Hundred Miles Expedited
Pinggao County had become a huge construction site at this time. This city was so important. As soon as the Turks retreated, the Great Zhou immediately focused on their efforts to repair the city. However, the original residents in the city were turned into white bones by the Turkish scimitars. The remaining population was only one or two. They could only gather a large number of troops from behind to build and slowly migrate the people to fill them.
Li Chong is still the county magistrate of Pinggao County. With Duke Shen Li Mu's relationship, Yang Jian will naturally not offend easily. If Pinggao County is lost, the Li family's ancestral tomb may be emptied by the Turks. Li Mu almost vomited blood when he heard this. If it were his own son, he might have been angry and detained Li Chong back to the capital. However, Li Mu was somewhat pity for this dead brother and son and did not pursue him.
"Doway, dodge. 600 miles faster." A messenger planted a flag, stirring up the rolling smoke and dust, and rushed towards Pinggao County.
Hearing the shouts, the soldiers guarding the city in Pinggao County quickly moved the horses in front of the temporary construction gate. The knights who drove over were not interested in the rebuilding of Pinggao County, and changed the horses and rolled forward again.
Many people stopped their work and looked at the messenger who was leaving in confusion: "What big thing happened? You have to use 600 miles to speed up the delivery?"
"What do you think? Work quickly. How can you manage national affairs?" The little supervisor shouted.
Everyone thought about it, and the ding-dangling sounded again, but before they could finish it, the sound of horse hooves came again, and they shouted, "Doway, dodge, 600 miles in a hurry."
Everyone was shocked. In just half an hour, two messengers who passed the 600-mile rush. The 600-mile rush is the fastest message delivery speed in the Great Zhou Dynasty. There must be a major incident in the capital.
After the second cavalry changed his horse in Pinggao County, everyone could no longer help but talk, and they all guessed whether there was another war in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Now that the Turks were blocked, the rest were the South and Liang countries, or the princes and ministers rebelled.
This time, even Li Chong's heart was thunderous, and the supervisors forgot to urge everyone to work, and they all stretched their necks and looked at the disappearing smoke and dust in the distance.
Yang Tian was directing the residents of Wuyuan County to fish. In addition to farming, most of the residents of Wuyuan County were grazing. They had no habit of fishing and only used small nets in the stream. Yang Tian had to organize people to weave the net overnight. It took three days to weave two large nets, and they could be dragged directly into the water with a small boat.
There are more fish here than I imagined. Often, hundreds of kilograms of fish can be caught in one net. When people on the shore are happy to see those fat fish jumping around, they have a new food supplement so they don’t have to worry about starvation.
A cavalry came quickly from afar and arrived at Yang Tian. Before he could get off his horse, he shouted: "Report, General, the capital has sent 600 miles to speed up. Please go back to the house quickly."
Without saying a word, Yang Tian called Chi Ying over and turned over the horse. Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves "splashing, splashing" sounded, and more than ten personal soldiers behind him hurriedly followed.
When he arrived at the temporary general's mansion in Wuyuan County, Yang Tian tied the reins, and the red shadow neighed lightly, and had already stopped. Yang Tian jumped off his horse and walked quickly inside. As he walked, he asked the personal soldiers at the door: "Who sent the six hundred miles to speed up, where is the messenger now?"
The personal soldiers were about to answer when a sound of horse hooves came from afar. Before the person arrived, the voice arrived first: "Doway, dodge, 600 miles in a hurry."
Yang Tian was stunned. Could it be that the personal soldiers who had just reported the message had not been known before, and the messenger had arrived in front of Yang Tian for a moment. The legs of the war horse he had stepped on weak, and he was foaming at the mouth. He almost fell to the ground and almost fell down. The messenger did not care about the falling horse and handed a large envelope to Yang Tian: "Young Master, the master's six hundred miles of speed up."
Yang Tian recognized the messenger as one of the personal guards beside his father. He was shocked and was about to open the envelope when the personal soldier who was questioned just now reminded him: "General, there is still a letter of 600 miles inside to speed up."
Yang Tian stopped unpacking the letter and walked into it hurriedly. The hall was filled with people. Shi Wansui, Da Xihong, Li Gang... Almost all the senior executives of Xuanlong Army in Wuyuan County arrived, obviously they were shocked by a 600-mile letter in front.
A messenger inside was also Yang Jian's personal guard. When he saw Yang Tian, he was immediately happy and took out a letter from his arms: "Young Master, the master's six hundred miles of speed."
This letter is much smaller than the second letter, but it is also very thick. Yang Tian first took it apart, took out the letter paper and looked carefully. The expression on his face became more and more surprised, and he was extremely excited: "Here we are here, we are finally here."
Yang Tian was suffering from his unfamiliarity with history. Although he knew that the Sui Dynasty would later be the Zhou Dynasty, he had no idea of what to do and when, so he was always careful, for fear that the wings of his butterfly would change history. If Emperor Yuan died early today and Yang Jian became the prime minister, he was finally sure that the history of the Zhou Dynasty in the Sui Dynasty had begun.
Yang Tian didn't know that just over twenty days ago, the entire Suiguo Duke's Mansion almost overturned. After learning that Yang Jian was safe and sound, Dugu did not send the messenger, otherwise he might have scared Yang Tian to death, thinking that history had changed.
He received two letters of 600 miles in one day, which was unprecedented. After seeing Yang Tian open the letter, his face was extremely excited. The general of the Xuanlong Army desperately wanted to know the content of the letter, and stretched his neck one by one to wait for Yang Tian to speak.
Seeing Yang Tian dazed and dazed, Li Yuan finally couldn't help it: "General, what happened? Why did the court issue two bans and 600 miles in a row to speed up?"
As soon as Li Yuan opened his mouth, the others shouted: "Yes, General, what happened?"
Some people even guessed: "Will there be turmoil in the capital?"
"Did the Southern Dynasty call come?
"How is that possible? You didn't see the general smiling. There must be something good."
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Yang Tian refused to be happy and said, "No, we can go back."
When they heard that they could go back, all the generals were happy. They had been away from Beijing for two months and had another great victory. They happened to go back and make meritorious service and receive rewards. There is no war now. They have to participate in the construction of cities and appease the people. They are hard and tiring. They are not their good deeds. Many people have long wanted to retreat, but the Turks have not completely retreated and are embarrassed to say it out.
No one could hide the joy on Yang Tian's face. Of course, he could not say that the emperor was dead at this time. His father was happy as the prime minister. When the emperor died, it was a little sad to show some sadness. However, he could not pretend to be at this time. Moreover, the longer the matter is kept, the better, so he had to avoid the important things and make everyone happy.
Many people were still secretly wondering that they would just ask Xuanlong Army to return to Beijing, so why bother sending two letters to expedite the 600-mile rush? It was just that Yang Tian didn't say it clearly, so it was difficult for them to ask.
Yang Tian put away the opened letter and did not unpack the second letter. He first asked Li Gang: "Counselor Li, how long can the Xuanlong Army be assembled."
"It will take three days to return to the general." Li Gang quickly replied.
Yang Tian was stunned: "It takes so long? No, there is no time. I will send a messenger immediately. Xuanlong's army will all withdraw to Wuyuan County before noon tomorrow. If you can't get there, you can go directly to Pinggao County to gather. You must set out before tomorrow."
"Yes." Li Gang replied loudly, knowing that something big must have happened in the capital, but Yang Tian didn't say it out, otherwise Yang Tian would not be so anxious. The Xuanlong Army had already supplemented the two thousand soldiers, but these two thousand people had been sent to more than ten towns to maintain order. It would be easier to gather them all in one day.
"Da Xihong."
"I am in a humble position."
"I am telling me that the Le'an Gong immediately draws three thousand soldiers from Pule County and arrives at Pinggao County within four days."
Da Xi Hong was stunned. There were only less than one thousand remaining soldiers in Pule County. After Yang Tian came, he vigorously strengthened the troops on the front line. Now there are 5,000 county soldiers in Pule County, most of which are guest troops transferred from other places. It is easy to transfer 3,000 people back to Beijing, but it is too difficult to get these county soldiers to travel five or six hundred miles in four days.
"What, Master Da Xi, are there any difficulties?"
"No." Da Xihong immediately reported.
Everyone felt something was wrong, and the Xuanlong army would just return to Beijing. Why do they have to draw border county soldiers? They all became nervous.
Yang Tian quickly sent an order to draw more than 30,000 troops from various prefectures and counties, and ordered them to arrive at the town where the Xuanlong army had returned to Beijing and join them together at that time.
When everyone was stunned when they heard Yang Tian’s continuous orders, Li Gang asked: “General, if there is no imperial edict, some prefectures and counties will refuse to implement it.”
Li Gang said tactfully. Although Yang Tian had the position of the general manager of the front line and could draw personnel and material resources of various counties and prefectures, it did not mean that he could draw troops into the capital at will. Otherwise, if any general on the front line could lead troops into the capital, the country of the Great Zhou would have been in chaos. If Yang Tian transferred Da Xi Changru to Pinggao County, it was still normal to mobilize the subsequent mobilizations if there was no order from the court, it would be equivalent to rebellion.
Yang Tian looked at everyone's suspicious faces, knew that everyone was suspicious, and he smiled: "Don't worry, everyone, I have no intention of rebellion, the order to mobilize troops is already here." After saying that, Yang Tian opened the second 600-mile ban on the closure of the letter, which was exactly an imperial edict.
Yang Tian unfolded the imperial edict, which clearly stated the intention of letting Yang Tian lead troops into the capital, and gave Yang Tian the right to patrol and dismiss officials along the way.
The imperial edict was passed to each general, and only after everyone's suspicion was released. Although Yang Tian had established his prestige in the army, everyone was not blindly following Yang Tian let them rebel.
"Okay, this official document of the decree will be issued to all prefectures and counties along the route. If anyone dares to refuse, they can be killed on the spot."
"Yes." All the generals reported that Yang Tian is completely different from several months ago, and no one dared to doubt whether Yang Tian really knows how to kill people.
Early the next morning, the Xuanlong Army teams distributed in various towns arrived one after another. Many teams received Yang Tian's orders and set off overnight. When they arrived, except for the two hundred people from the farthest city, all the soldiers gathered together. Yang Tian was deeply satisfied with the Xuanlong Army's effective rule and immediately ordered the entire army to return to the capital from Wuyuan County.
A few days later, the Xuanlong army had arrived at Pinggao County, and the two hundred people behind us also chased after him. Nearly 10,000 soldiers from all over the country had gathered here. Da Xi Changru also happened to arrive, and he actually made these soldiers in the state run for more than 500 miles in four days.
When he arrived in Pinggao County, the news of Emperor Tianyuan's death had already been heard. As the prime minister, Yang Jian, all military news from the governor inside and outside the governor, also came. Everyone had different opinions on Yang Tian. The prime minister and Cao Cao also started his career as the prime minister.
Yang Tian was a little anxious. According to logic, Yang Jian should not be in a secret funeral and then use the emperor's will to kill those who oppose him. This will happen naturally. As soon as the news of Emperor Yuan's death spread today, Yang Jian, the prime minister, was immediately sitting at the crater, and accidentally burned to ashes by the fire spurted out of the volcano.
Although Yang Tian firmly believed that Yang Jian would succeed because although he didn't know the process, he had already known the result, and still couldn't help but feel a little scared. Yang Jian's biggest advantage was that he occupied Chang'an and had the title of righteousness. He had an advantage that he could act in the name of the emperor. Now this advantage is gone with the funeral of Emperor Tianyuan. Can the situation be stabilized by the name of the little emperor alone?
The Xuanlong Army was all one and two horses. When he arrived in Pinggao County, Yang Tian could return to Beijing with the state soldiers. At that time, tens of thousands of troops arrived in Chang'an City together and could immediately stabilize the situation. Now he could not tolerate the slow march of the state soldiers, so he could only take the two thousand Xuanlong Army back first.
However, it is difficult for anyone to command these state soldiers. Yang Tian’s generals are not qualified, and Yang Tian is not familiar with the others. If the tens of thousands of state soldiers rebelled in this episode, they would be shooting themselves in the foot.
Chapter completed!