To be fair, these five brothers and five governors were stronger than the nine prefects of the Lin family at this special time. They were really a winning hand... because the nine prefects were appointed one after another over several decades, while the five governors of the Xin brothers were appointed at the same time.
In fact, before Bagua Mountain, there was a saying in the army that there were four great generals in the imperial camp: Liu, Zhang, Han and Xin. Liu was Liu Guangshi, Zhang was Zhang Jun and Han was Han Shizhong. These three were generals in independent areas, while Xin referred to Xin Xingzong who led a group of brothers.
However, a hero does not brag about his past achievements, but only says that fate is playing tricks on him now. Xin Xingzong, who is good at welcoming people, would never have thought that he would be robbed of the emperor's favor by the ruffian Han Wu... This is simply the most ridiculous thing in the world!
It's really about splashing Han Wu's water.
Not to mention the Xin brothers themselves, even the people who feed the horses in the imperial camp know that the reason why they brothers ended up in their current situation is simply because of the three words "Han Shizhong".
Apart from the fact that the emperor and Li Gang, the prime minister, deliberately separated the brothers for the known reasons, the two major blows suffered by the Xin brothers were actually at the foot of Bagong Mountain. One of them was that they failed to participate in the Huaibei Camp Breakout, thus becoming a second-rate unit in the imperial camp; the other was that during the reorganization, the very senior Xin Xingzong was stopped at the position of commander and became indistinguishable from the crowd.
However, the planner of the battle in Huaibei was actually Han Shizhong himself. It was not known whether he did it intentionally or unintentionally, but he never mentioned these brothers in front of the emperor. As for the emperor's actions during the reorganization, it was apparently to save face for Han Shizhong... There was no other way. At that time, the emperor was going to march west, namely the Left Army of the Imperial Camp and the Central Army of the Imperial Camp. According to the tradition of the Song Dynasty army, the two sides were originally in conflict with each other. If Xin Xingzong really showed up, with Han Wu's domineering attitude at that time, I'm afraid he would really turn around and secretly draw his knife!
They all say that the government is partial to Han Wu. The civil officials say so. Zhang Jun also says so. For example, Wang De and Wang Yasha talk nonsense when they drink, saying that if the government had not been partial to Han Shizhong, he would have been so and so by now... However, the civil officials think that partiality is a dispute between civil officials and military officials; Zhang Jun and Zhang Boying think that partiality is simply a fight between the victors for favor; even Wang De, do you think he dares to say "partiality" in front of the government? He talks as if Wang Yasha is not the highest-ranking officer in the imperial camp.
In fact, the biggest victims of the government's partiality towards Han Wu were none other than the Xin brothers. However, compared to Zhang Jun and Wang De, the Xin brothers now had no ability to even protest their injustice...
"defense!"
Just as the Xin brothers were waiting for the drums to sound from the central army, someone suddenly spoke from outside the barracks. "Is the defense there?"
The so-called defense means defense.
A few days ago, several officials in the secondary capital worked with the Ministry of Personnel to sort out the various appointments made in the previous period, and made a rough patch for the various messy dispatches pointed out by Emperor Zhao… For example, Zhang Suo, the two-route governor, was someone who Emperor Zhao appointed without even promoting to a cabinet position. However, this time, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Personnel, he was promoted from a direct scholar of the Longtu Pavilion to a scholar of the Zizheng Hall in one go.
There were also Ma Shen, Liu Hongdao and others who were given various benefits. Li Gang was even specially given the title of Jiedushi, making him a unique figure who was both a prime minister and an envoy.
Correspondingly, the commanders of the various departments in the Imperial Camp were also unified in terms of their ranks, and most of them were only at the level of deputy envoys. Wang De was only the 30th rank of Wujie Dafu, on par with Yue Fei, and was not yet the chief envoy of various departments. Only Xin Xingzong had the longest experience among them. He was the training envoy of Yao County in his early years, and he did not make any mistakes this time, so the central government had no choice but to give him the title of defense envoy of Yao County.
As for Wang De's recent mumblings, wishing to use this military achievement to be promoted to the position of commander-in-chief and concurrently the defense envoy of the four walls of Nanyang, that is another matter... This assignment was a bit confusing because of the two sieges of Tokyo.
Back to the present, according to the titles of that time, the Xin brothers in the central army of the imperial camp are naturally the Great Xin of Defense and the Little Xin of Doctor. It is fortunate that this is the case, otherwise they would all be commanders. If the five brothers gather together one day, how should they be called?
Three Daos are the best in the world? Four Yongs are unrivaled in the world?
"It's Hu Hongxiu." Xin Yongzong was excited when he heard the voice. "He is a rare scholar in the army, a man with his own ideas, and a man of great ability. Let's listen to him."
The eldest brother Xin Xingzong shook his head repeatedly upon hearing this, but he disagreed: "This person certainly has ideas, but they are very ideas, and they have been very distant these days. Given our current situation, I'm afraid there is no way for him to give us any ideas."
But having said that, he had already arrived outside the military quarters. He was a serious scholar who had been with Fan Qiong and his brothers for more than a year in the Jing Kang Hou She. He was also a man with "hands and eyes all over the place". The Xin brothers were in a lonely situation now, so how could they neglect him?
So, the two brothers actually went out together to greet and ushered in this mere 'Baoyi Lang' Hu Hongxiu into the house... Baoyi Lang was exactly the same official title that Niu Gao had just obtained from General Cui in Luoyang a few days ago. It was the fiftieth rank among the fifty-three ranks of military officers in the Song Dynasty, and was about twenty ranks lower than Yue Fei's Wujie Doctor.
In history, Niu Gao was Yue Fei's deputy commander, and Hu Hongxiu was Yue Fei's chief of staff and a general of one of Yue Fei's armies.
Let me tell you, Hu Hongxiu is about twenty years old this year, with a white face and tall figure, a full forehead, and long nose. If it weren't for the slightly conspicuous knife scar on his temples and the leather belt he wore, he would be the template of a good boy outside Donghua Gate... In fact, this person was born in the Imperial Academy. He gave up his pen and took up arms during the Jing Kang period. Then he was in charge of guarding the city wall under Fan Qiong. Later, Fan Qiong defected, so he abandoned Fan Qiong and followed the brothers Xin Daozon and Xin Yongzon who were going from Hedong to Nanjing (Shangqiu) in search of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, so he is here.
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