Chapter 2089 Governor

After capturing a prefectural city, Song Yan immediately sent troops to attack the county towns within the territory.

There were only five thousand troops stationed in the city, let alone the county town, and Song Yan allowed people to spread the news that Xue Ping was dead. Therefore, in less than a day, the Liangzhou Army recovered the entire Shaoyin Mansion.

After capturing Shaoyin Mansion, he did not continue to launch an army.

He wanted to leave time for the rebels to evacuate.

As far as he knew, there were less than 50,000 rebels in the entire Yunhuang Province, and they were scattered in the provincial capital and three other counties.

Even if they are together, they are no match for the more than 100,000 troops led by Song Yan, let alone dispersed. What's more, Xue Ping is dead, and the rebels are leaderless. The confidence of the originally confident rebel army has been severely damaged. A big blow, only if they dare to confront Song Yan.

then.

In less than ten days, all the rebel troops withdrew from Yunhuang Province.

Then Song Yan took people to receive it and directly occupied the entire Yunhuang Province.

Then he wrote a memorial and sent it to the capital, and also wrote a private letter to his teacher Cai Zixiao.

Five days later.

Song Yan's memorial arrived in the capital.

The fall of the five northern provinces greatly damaged the vitality of the Wei Kingdom, and directly lost one-third of its territory. Moreover, as the rebel army grows, the entire Wei Kingdom may be captured.

therefore.

The whole country of Wei was in a state of confusion.

Even Emperor Wei, who was keen on enjoying himself, rarely became diligent.

so.

When he saw the memorial sent by Song Yan, Emperor Wei couldn't help but applauded, and even said: "Song Ziyu is worthy of being my appointed man to explore the beauty!"

When Emperor Wei received Song Yan's memorial, Cai Zixiao had already received Song Yan's private message first.

When he saw everything described in the letter, his face was full of disbelief. His students actually led the Liangzhou soldiers to regain the entire Yunhuang Province. At the same time, he also mentioned in the letter that he hoped that he could help him plan the Yunhuang Province. The official position of the Governor.

The governor was a third-grade Yuan official and was called a feudal official.

Therefore, when seeing Song Yan's request, Cai Zixiao couldn't help but frown slightly. He had only been an official for one year, and his promotion to Liangzhou Jiedushi was already an illegal promotion. If he was promoted to governor, he would probably be opposed by the imperial court.

But he would still try. No matter what, Song Yan was his student and his son-in-law.

The next day, morning.

The news that Song Yan had regained Yunhuang Province had spread throughout the court.

However, after Emperor Wei announced the news, everyone pretended not to know and then congratulated Emperor Wei.

Regarding this, Emperor Wei was in a good mood and asked people to discuss what reward should be given to Song Yan.

Today, Cai Zixiao is the right minister of the Ministry of Rites and one of the big shots in the court. Even if he wants to help Song Yan plan for the position of governor, he will not jump out immediately, but will let his younger brother do the talking.

However, the group of boys did not move until they received his order.

However, other officials spoke one after another.

However, the rewards proposed by this group of officials are all gold, silver or false titles, and there are no substantive rewards at all.

The main reason is that Song Yan is already the governor of Liangzhou and is only fourteen years old. If he is promoted again, they will feel uncomfortable. Even if he has made such great contributions, no one will offer to promote him.

Cai Zixiao couldn't stand it any longer. Under the signal from his eyes, one of his younger brothers, a six-level passer from the Inspectorate, walked out. He first praised Song Yan fiercely, and then proposed that Song Yan should temporarily replace Yunhuang Province. The position of governor.

It was difficult to be directly promoted to governor, so Cai Zixiao took a step back and planned an acting governor for Song Yan. As long as he made meritorious service in the future, the word "temporary acting" could be removed as a matter of course.

Although he is only the acting governor.

But it also stimulated the hearts of other officials in the court. For a while, there was a wave of opposition. Some made fun of Song Yan's age, and some made fun of how he could be promoted to governor-general not long after he was promoted to Jiedushi.

Not to be outdone, people on Cai Zixiao's side jumped out to rebut, saying that Song Ziyu was promoted based on his true ability. What's more, four of the five northern provinces are in the hands of the rebels. Who else has the ability to go there except Song Ziyu? recapture.

So the officials from the two factions quarreled in the main hall, and they barely touched the ground.

Gradually, Emperor Wei looked impatient and glanced at the eunuch beside him.

Suddenly, a sharp voice sounded: "My lords, how can you behave so noisily in the hall?"

As the voice fell, the hall became quiet.

Emperor Wei's eyes fell on Su Bingwen: "Su Aiqing, you have worked with Song Aiqing, what do you think of his talents?"

"Heavenly genius!"

Su Bingwen said.

"Then do you think he has the ability to serve as the governor of Yunhuang Province?"

"able!"

Su Bingwen said firmly.

Emperor Wei nodded with satisfaction and said in a deep voice: "Someone has come to draw up a decree and make Song Yan and Song Ziyu the governor of Yunhuang Province!"

"Your Majesty, no!"

Immediately a minister shouted.

"Your Majesty, please take back the city order!"

"Your Majesty, how virtuous and capable is Song Ziyu, and what qualifications do he have to serve as governor!"

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All the ministers were anxious and jumped out to stop Emperor Wei.

Seeing so many ministers objecting, Emperor Wei's face became a little gloomy. He looked at an old man standing at the head of the civil service and asked, "Yu Aiqing, would you like to share your opinion?"

The person named by Emperor Wei was Yu Fan and Yu Zhongqing, one of the three chief ministers in the cabinet.

"Your Majesty Song Ziyu is too young, I'm afraid he won't be able to assume the position of governor!" Yu Fan said solemnly.

Hearing this, Emperor Wei's face became a little colder.

Cai Zixiao's face also darkened.

"Li Aiqing, Xie Aiqing, what do you think?"

Emperor Wei looked at the other two pavilion elders.

Mr. Li Ge's name is Li Fei, also known as Dongli, and he is the chief minister of the cabinet.

Xie Ge's elder name is Xie Di, his son is Mou, and his opponent is his second assistant.

However, the answers of the two made Emperor Wei object very much. Li Fei's answer was that it was up to the emperor to make the decision. He neither objected nor agreed, and directly threw the ball back to the emperor.

Xie Di directly expressed his opposition, citing Song Yan's qualifications and citing many examples.

For a moment, Emperor Wei's expression was a little ferocious: "Since both Xie Aiqing and Yu Aiqing are opposed to Song Yan being the governor of Yunhuang, then you two might as well recommend the candidate for the governor of Yunhuang!"

"I recommend Liu Qian, the Minister of War!" Xie Did said.

"I also recommend Liu Qian, the Minister of War!" Yu Fan also said.

However, as the chief assistant, Li Dongli had a hint of amusement on his lips.

"Do you think Liu Qian can conquer the other four provinces after becoming governor?" Emperor Wei asked coldly.

"this?"

Both of them were speechless.

If it was really that easy to regain the four northern provinces, then Lu Qi would not have been defeated and killed.

Therefore, the two cabinet ministers did not know how to answer.

"I give you five days to recommend the candidate for Governor of Izumohuang, but there is a prerequisite. The other four provinces must be recovered. Otherwise, don't blame me for cutting off his head and retreating from the court!"

Emperor Wei left angrily, with no intention of achieving it, which made him very uncomfortable.

But fortunately, he left such a problem behind, leaving Yu Han and Li Dongli to have a headache.

Originally, there were many people planning to become Governor Yunhuang.

But after Emperor Wei put forward that precondition, who would dare to agree?

Unless you think you have had enough.

Although Song Yan wiped out more than 100,000 rebels, there were still 400,000 rebels in the other four provinces.

A few days flew by.

The meeting starts again.

Emperor Wei looked at the group of courtiers below and said calmly: "My dear friends, do you have a suitable candidate for the governor of Yunhuang Province?"

For a moment, everyone was silent.

Seeing this scene, Emperor Wei felt quite proud and sneered secretly: "If there is no suitable candidate, then I will issue an order!"

Everyone was still silent, and then Emperor Wei appointed Song Yan as the governor of Yunhuang Province on the spot, and ordered the Ministry of Household Affairs to send millions of stones of grain to Yunhuang Province.

The ministers who had been silent finally couldn't bear it anymore.

One million stones is not a small amount.

The first person who jumped out was a minister from the Ministry of Revenue, claiming that the Ministry of Revenue simply couldn't provide that kind of food.

"If you can't get it, go get it for me. Are you going to let my army go hungry to fight those rebels?" Emperor Wei shouted angrily.

"Your Majesty, before the Northwest Province suffered from drought, most of the grain from the Ministry of Revenue was transferred away. Later, Marquis PY went to the Northwest Province and took away a lot of food. Now the Ministry of Revenue does not say one million dan, even ten I can’t even bring out ten thousand stones!”

The Minister of Hube came out and said.

Hearing this, Emperor Wei's face became extremely ugly, and finally he gritted his teeth and said: "Collect two million taels of silver from my inner treasury to buy grain and send it to Yunhuangxing Province!"

"Your Majesty is wise!" Baiguan said quickly.

Three days later.

The emperor's imperial edict arrived in Yunhuang Province.

When he got the official seal, Song Yan felt that his luck was flowing towards him. After some investigation, he found that his luck had increased by more than 100,000 yuan.

Five days later.

One million stones of grain were escorted to Yunhuang Province.

But Di Qiu, who was sent to receive the food, soon came back angrily.

Because most of the military rations delivered are mixed with stones and sand. It would be good if one million shi of grain can have 100,000 shi. In addition, there is also a lot of grain that has been old for many years and has become moldy. Let alone people, even if No animals can eat it.

After learning the news, Song Yan went to investigate in person. As expected, it was as Di Qiu said. He couldn't help but laugh in anger. This Weiguo official was actually greedy to this level.

If he had continued to hang out in the Weiguo officialdom, he would have had no choice but to suffer the loss of being dumb, but he had no such idea at all, so he immediately wrote a secret letter and sent it to the capital.

Ordinary memorials would go directly to the cabinet, but secret memorials would be sent directly to the emperor.

Of course, not everyone is qualified to write a secret book. Only high-ranking officials of third grade or above are qualified. Song Yan just met this requirement.

Therefore, one day later, Emperor Wei received a secret message from Song Yan.

After opening the secret fold, Emperor Wei immediately dropped his beloved glass.

It's too much, it's really too much. This batch of food was bought with the money he pulled out of his inner treasury. As a result, those moths actually dared to do that.

He immediately dispatched the secret agency Xuanyiwei to Yunhuang Province to conduct verification.

The person who came to deliver the food was a chief of the Ministry of Household Affairs. After seeing that Song Yan refused to accept the food, he panicked. He asked to see Song Yan many times but failed, so he wanted to leave directly. As a result, Song Yan led his troops to He was surrounded.

Until Xuan Yiwei arrived.