Chapter 157: Expand the army again

Seeing that He Jin refused to agree, Yuan Shao thought to himself: "The son of the butcher is indeed a petty family. He is even angry for a title. He wants to win over Li Qin, but he doesn't want to give benefits. He doesn't even give verbal benefits. Then why should he surrender to you?"

Yuan Shao bowed and said, "Mr. Shizhong thought twice, maybe you can discuss with the Empress and listen to what the Empress meant." He looked down on He Jin deep in his heart, and did not persuade him much. He bowed and said goodbye and left.

He Jin stayed there for a while, but still had no idea, so he had to go home and talk about the matter with his wife. The wife also advised him to discuss with the Queen and follow the Queen's arrangements.

Mrs. He Jin advised him: "Let our daughter go to the palace for you and ask what the empress meant. Maybe the empress wants to find an uncle for the eldest son!"

"This is unlikely. How could the Empress let a martial artist like Li Qin be his uncle to the eldest son!" He Jin felt that it was incredible.

Mrs. He Jin said, "You are not the queen, how do you know she doesn't want to? Let our daughter ask you for your questions!"

After thinking about it, He Jin had no better way, so he had to send his daughter to the palace, explain the matter to Queen He, and ask what Queen He meant.

The sent by the day, and the Miss He family came back in the evening. The news came back, which surprised He Jin. Empress He actually agreed and decided to recognize Li Qin as the brother, let Li Qin be the uncle for the eldest son, and convince the emperor to let Yuan Shao pronounce the imperial edict to Li Qin. Yuan Shao, the imperial envoy, became the imperial envoy.

It turns out that the people in the palace and outside the palace have different ways of looking at problems. He Jin and his ministers had bad views on Li Qin outside the palace, so he did not think that Li Qin was too great. If you want to belittle a person, you must first really take this person very low, otherwise how should you belittle it? So He Jin believes that Li Qin is an uncle to the emperor's eldest son, which really makes their He family lose money.

But the people in the palace didn't think so. The concubines in the palace all depend on the face of the emperor Liu Hong. How much Liu Hong valued Li Qin, everyone in the palace knew that Liu Hong almost thought that Li Qin was the number one military general in the world, and regarded him as a good general given to him by God, and a meritorious minister who could defend his throne. The emperor thought so and valued Li Qin so much, so the concubines in the palace naturally thought that Li Qin was very amazing!

So when Empress He heard that she wanted to have a nepotism with Li Qin, she immediately agreed and was willing to recognize Li Qin as her brother. She also believed that in the future, the eldest son of the emperor would succeed to the throne, He Jin, the biological uncle, as a supporter, and outside the capital, Li Qin, the fake uncle, as a foreign aid, would definitely be able to sit firmly on the throne.

After hearing what his daughter said, He Jin said to his wife: "It's really unimaginable that the queen actually agreed. She is not afraid of losing the price. It's better to recognize a person like Li Qin as a brother? It's a shame to be a royal relative!"

Mrs. He said, "Listen to me, it's absolutely right. I'll ask you to ask the Empress what it means. What is it? This is the right question! You can't just think about it yourself, you have to know what the Empress thinks! No matter whether you want it or not, the Empress always has to listen to it. Our He family is counting on her!"

He Jin had no choice but to agree and found someone to revise the He family genealogy and added Li Qin's mother He family. He comforted himself that Li Qin was a descendant of Li Guang, and it was not considered as insulting the He family's family. He asked someone to follow Yuan Shao's idea and prepare a lot of gifts to win over Li Qin.

Yuan Shao was very happy to learn that He Jin had asked for the position of imperial envoy for him. At this time, he was not the warlord of the future. He was in his prime and wanted to do something. Now the most famous general in the world is Li Qin. Not only is he younger than him, he has become the lieutenant of the Qiang Hunting School and taking charge of the military power of a state. In addition to the lieutenant of the Sili, there are few military officers in the Han Dynasty who can surpass Li Qin. Even a person like Yuan Shao who is born in four generations and three kings must give Li Qin a little face. He really wants to see what kind of person Li Qin is. Is Li Lang's most righteous saying false news or facts!

The court has always been procrastinating to do things. What can be done today will definitely not be done today. If it can be delayed until tomorrow, then it will have to be delayed until the day after tomorrow. Procrastination is the norm, and decisive behavior is the abnormal state. Especially when Yuan Shao was the imperial envoy and the ten regular attendants were desperately dragging their feet, the matter was even more unreasonable. In addition, he received the urgent document from Bingzhou, and the matter of sending Li Qin to cross the border to suppress the border was delayed for a while before it was finalized.

By the time Yuan Shao finally got on the road, it was already the beginning of spring of the second year. He felt like he was walking slowly on the road. It was estimated that when he arrived in Liangzhou, grass would grow in the fields!

Yuan Shao had no choice but to do anything about doing business in Beijing, but once he left Beijing, he immediately accelerated and urged the convoy to travel day and night to Liangzhou and to Fujiao Fort.

Fujiao Fort.

The news that the imperial court promoted Li Qin to the Qiang Captain had long been spread. Everyone in the Liangzhou officialdom knew that Li Qin was the Qiang Captain, and he also treated him the same way. However, the official imperial edict had not been delivered yet, so Li Qin could not take up his post in Longxian County and could only stay in Fujiao Fort. However, he could do it again and no one would find fault with him.

Even if someone finds fault, it doesn't matter. Zhang Qin, who thinks he is the guardian of the horn, can settle all opposition forces. Whoever dares to find Li Qin's fault, he will go to find someone's fault. He will definitely not be procrastinated and will definitely be decisive.

This time, Li Qin decided to expand his army to 10,000. In fact, as the Qiang Hunting School Captain, it was not necessary to have a direct army. When going to fight, the Qiang Hunting School Captain often recruited soldiers from various counties and formed the Qiang Hunting Army to suppress the rebel Qiang. However, because the suppression of the Qiang tribe by the previous Qiang Hunting School Captain was too cruel, and the bloody massacre not only did not ease the rebellion of the Qiang people, but instead increased the rebellion, and the rebellion continued for years.

As the war was too high, the number of troops sent naturally increased. It was not possible to gather troops from each county every time. The troops from each county were gathered. After a war was over, before the disbandment was disbanded, the next battle was about to start. The expenses of the counties that had gathered were too high. Therefore, the Qiang Hunting School Captain gradually had its own direct troops, and the governor of Liangzhou allocated food and wages to farm near Long County. The number of people was limited, and no more than 10,000 people were allowed.

Leng Zheng was defeated and died. The Qiang-guarding soldiers under his command suffered heavy losses. Li Qin did not accept them all, but instead picked out the strong Qiang-guarding soldiers, about 3,000 and organized into the Fujiao Army. With the original 2,000 Fujiao soldiers, there were more than 5,000 and nearly 6,000. Li Qin converted one thousand auxiliary soldiers into Fujiao Army combat soldiers, and thus, there were nearly 7,000 Fujiao soldiers.

The remaining quota of 3,000 people was divided into two, and the quota of 1,000 people was distributed to each county. In order to allow their forces to enter the Fujiao Army, the county magistrates would naturally send their relatives to each county, which would strengthen Li Qin's control over each county, and the remaining quota would be recruited from the Qiang and Di tribes.

Although Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou rebelled with a large number of Qiang, Di and Hu people, in fact, the Qiang and Di tribes in Liangzhou were not united, especially the small Qiang tribes that were betrayed by them. They took advantage of Li Qin's opportunity to recruit soldiers and took the opportunity to correct the situation and wash away the name of rebel Qiang and become an official army. Li Qin also took the opportunity to win over the Qiang people in Liangzhou, so that they could fight uniformly under his banner and strengthen unity.

In less than a month, Li Qin recruited all the soldiers, reorganized them, and started training. Now he is getting closer and closer to the Yellow Turban Rebellion. He dares not waste time and can train the army quickly. Then as soon as possible, everything should not be too late.

Two months later, although the spring in Beidijun came late, it was already blooming. The fortresses in Fujiao Fort went to the fields to cultivate. If nothing unexpected happens, then this year would probably be another bumper year. Even if the population in the fort increased sharply and there was not much food or grass accumulation, it would not be difficult to chew it for a year.

On this day, Li Qin was watching the soldiers' exercises on the school military field. Someone came to report that the imperial envoy from the court had arrived, only fifty miles from Fujiao Fort, and the Yulin Army who was fighting in front of the battle station had arrived.

After hearing this, Li Qin immediately called someone to call the Yulin Army who reported the news and asked, "Did the imperial envoy come to my Fujiao Fort? Why didn't Longxian send someone to notify me?"

When the Yulin Army saw the famous Li Qin, they were naturally very respectful and replied: "When General Li said that, the imperial envoy came directly in order to hurry up and was afraid of delaying major events, so he did not go to Long County."

"Which adult came to issue the imperial edict?" Li Qin was a little puzzled. If it was a eunuch who came to announce the imperial edict, Zhang Qin would have to mutter a long time in advance, but Zhang Qin had no movement this time. Could it be that he was not a eunuch?

Yulin Jun said: "It is General Yuan. General Yuan’s name is Shao, and his name is Benchu. He was appointed as the General of the Central Army!"

Li Qin whispered and laughed, "Is it Yuan Shao? How could it be him? He really respects me!" He came to the end of the Han Dynasty and met many celebrities, but he didn't expect that Yuan Shao could actually be an imperial envoy for himself.

Yu Linjun hurriedly said, "General Li, why don't you give back to General Yuan? According to the distance, he should be here today. General Yuan walked very quickly."

"We should welcome you, let's go together!" Li Qin called Meng Mu and asked him to prepare a banquet to entertain Yuan Shao. He also sent someone to notify the county magistrate Tang Jie, and then took a group of generals to greet Yuan Shao.

The welcome team of more than 100 people walked less than twenty miles away and saw a large group of cars and horses coming in front. It seemed that they had brought a lot of gifts this time. The Yulin Army rode out and went to report the message to Yuan Shao first.

After a while, several riders rushed towards Li Qin, and the first one was handsome and dressed as a general. It seemed that he was Yuan Shao. Li Qin smiled and slapped his horse to meet him.

As he was far away, he heard Yuan Shao shouting immediately: "Is General Li in front of him? Yuan Shao, Yuan Benchu, this person is polite. I have heard of General Li's name for a long time, and I am well-known. Today I saw General Li's heroic figure. He is really a hero!"
Chapter completed!