Steel Dynasty - Chapter 146

[Chapter 146 Granting an Officer]

“Your Highness!”

Xiao Ming approached, Luo Xin cupped his fists and saluted.

Jumping off the horse, Xiao Ming asked Luo Xin to forgive him. At the same time, he looked at the fifty-year-old man next to him and said, “If I’m not wrong, this is Niu Ben, General Niu.”

Niu Ben looked up and down .

The King of Qi suddenly saw a bit of Xiao Wenxuan in Xiao Ming. He bowed and saluted, and said, “The guilty minister Niu Ben has met His Highness the King of Qi.”

“General Niu is so disrespectful. I can’t stand the old general’s treatment. “

“Thank you very much.” Xiao Ming said with a smile, “Old general, please follow me to the palace to explain.”

The three of them entered the palace together, and Xiao Ming asked Luluo to prepare tea for the three of them.

In the main hall, Xiao Ming invited Luo Xin and Niu Ben to sit down. At this time, he saluted Niu Ben and said, “The old general has suffered. My father has felt guilty over the years. He deeply regrets that he did not keep the barbarians out of Shanhaiguan. Especially Let me apologize to the old general on his behalf.”

Niu Ben was no longer the unruly Niu Ben. He stood up and said, “How dare you, the sinner, be a gift from His Highness? I am extremely grateful that Your Majesty can think of me as an old man. “

The old general is too humble.” Xiao Ming said with a smile: “The old general has made great achievements in battle, and I admire him deeply. I hope that the old general can help me break the danger of the barbarians going south.”

Niu Ben heard this. Said: “Luo Xin was hesitant to speak just now at the city gate. Your Highness talked about it again this time. What happened?”

Xiao Ming and Luo Xin looked at each other, and then told them what happened in the court. all over.

“These thieves who eat inside and outside and cause harm to the country and the people, if I, Niu Ben, were here, I would definitely skin them.” Although Niu Ben’s temperament has become somewhat restrained in the past five years, this incident still made him very angry.

“Old general, there is no need to be angry. This is the fact. We can only do our best and obey fate.” Xiao Ming said.

Zhan Xingchang had already gone to Cangzhou to repair the city wall at this time. He took almost all the cement produced in Qingzhou City with him. He only hoped that he could build Cangzhou City into an unbreakable fortress.

“Hey, it’s pitiful that Your Majesty now has to fight with the barbarians to destroy their arrogance. These thieves are really a bunch of killers.” Niu Ben said.

After a pause, he said: “But if we can frustrate the barbarians from going south, we can also let the barbarians know how powerful our country is. From now on, there will be no talk of Suigong and marriage.”

“Exactly, so I only hope that the old general will help me this time. Wang Yiyi,” Xiao Ming took the opportunity to say.

Niu Ben nodded and said slowly: “I have committed a crime, and your Highness will not abandon you. I will go through fire and water without hesitation.”

Xiao Ming felt relieved. He originally thought that Niu Ben would still hate Xiao Wenxuan for sending him to hard labor. , I didn’t expect Niu Ben’s temperament to be less violent than legendary.

In this way, he has truly reached the level of a commander-in-chief.

For Niu Ben, a fierce man, Xiao Ming naturally did not expect him to defend the city. One Cangzhou City Lu Fei was enough, and his heart was far beyond that.

The large area of Guanzhong land outside Cangzhou City was once the homeland of the Chongqing Kingdom. If it could be recovered, it might be possible to further expand its fiefdom.

The most important thing is that if we can capture Shanhaiguan, we can keep the barbarians out of the pass, and we no longer have to worry about the threat of barbarians.

“General! General!”

When the three of them were drinking tea and talking about the barbarians, Lu Fei’s voice suddenly came.

Then Lu Fei walked in excitedly and looked at Niu Ben, “General, is it really you?”

Niu Ben was a little surprised to see Lu Fei, “Lu Fei?”

“General, it’s me.” Lu Fei said excitedly.

Xiao Ming and Luo Xin looked at each other, and Xiao Ming couldn’t help but ask: “Old general, do you know Lu Fei?”

When Lu Fei passed by the Qingzhou government office just now, he heard two foreign guards talking about escorting Niu Ben, and asked carefully Only then did he understand the reason and immediately came to Prince Qi’s Mansion.

Lu Fei said at this time: “When the general was in Cangzhou City, I was his personal guard. Later, the general returned to Chang’an, and we local soldiers stayed behind.”

“Hey, this is all old news. But looking at you, it seems that you are very trustworthy in front of His Highness, yes, yes, I was right about you back then,” Niu Ben said.

Lu Fei was a little excited and said: “I dare not forget the general’s teachings.”

Xiao Ming’s eyes looked back and forth between the three of them. In the past, there was only Lu Fei in the Qingzhou Army, but now that Luo Xin came, the two started arguing.

Now comes Niu Ben, and it seems that he can completely suppress the two of them.

And this Niu Ben has some skills in running the army, and the soldiers under his command are very disciplined. In this way, he can rest assured that Lu Fei and Luo Xin will not argue endlessly and affect the training of the Qingzhou Army.

Moreover, Niu Ben was a former general. He was able to lead hundreds of thousands of troops with ease and was very proficient in various military matters.

Unlike Lu Fei, who hasn’t established a management system in the military yet, and doesn’t know how to use military funds in his hands.

Xiao Ming was so angry that he had to take back the money and give it to Pang Yukun, asking him to manage it on his behalf.

Now that Niu Ben is here, the management system in the military should not be a problem. When the military and political affairs are separated, it will be easier for him to fully control the military and political affairs and avoid mutual interference between the military and political affairs.

The experience of later generations told him that the army should not mix with administrative officials, otherwise it would easily lead to chaos.

For the army, all that is required is to obey orders and not to have one’s own thoughts.

No matter who leads the army, the allegiance of the army must be to him.

And this is one of the reasons why he established a long history team in the army. The long history represents him, and he controls the army’s thoughts to prevent the army from chaos.

In this way, whether it is Lu Fei, Luo Xin, or Niu Ben, the prerequisite for them to command the army is to get their own instructions. When I want to capture them, the army will still be as stable as Mount Tai, and will not change due to the change of coach. .

This is a qualified army for him.

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Ming is not worried about Niu Ben, Lu Fei or Luo Xin, because the army belongs to him, and Lu Fei and others are only responsible for commanding the army to fight and perform their respective duties.

After Lu Fei’s mood calmed down for a while, Xiao Ming said: “Old General, since Lu Fei was once your subordinate, it seems that only you can control this thorn. In this way, the commander-in-chief of the Qingzhou Army This position must belong to the old general.”

In addition to the title of vassal king, Xiao Ming also holds the position of governor of the six states, and the military symbols of the six states are in his hands.

Even if Lu Fei mobilizes the army, he still needs to recruit soldiers.

This Commander-in-Chief is a military position in the Great Chongqing Kingdom. Under the Commander-in-Chief are the Commander-in-Chiefs in charge of each state, and now the Qingzhou Army is the strongest army among the six states.

After all, with Xiao Ming’s current financial resources, he can only focus on cultivating an army.

(End of chapter)