"Military law cannot be abolished." Wanyan Loushi answered calmly. "In fact, it was my fault at the beginning. My back hurt the most before the rain, so I made a mistake in the amount of food and grass that should be sent here... If someone from their town had come to explain clearly, I would have changed it, but they just used old food and watered horse feed to fool me, so I can't let them off."
Wanyan Huonu nodded in understanding at first, but then sighed.
Wanyan Loushi followed the voice and laughed: "You are the commander-in-chief of Wanhu, and I am also the commander-in-chief of Wanhu. If the commander-in-chief is dissatisfied with the commander-in-chief, he can speak up. Why are you sighing and pretending?"
That’s right… Wanyan Loushi and his son Wanyan Huonu actually held the same official position and military rank at this time, both were Wanhu and Dutong.
It's not that the female officials were promoted too quickly, but that Wanyan Loushi had reached the limit of hereditary promotion... Under the hereditary system, when it came to Meng'an, the usual rank of commander was Wanhu, and the temporary identity for commanding military tasks was the general of various recruiting offices and military affairs offices. Going up further, the military position was the positions of marshals in the capital's marshal's office, and the political position was Bojilie.
In fact, considering the changes in the functions of the Marshal's Office, the general commander, who previously had the actual power of a marshal, now has less general power.
This should be due to the problems caused by the chaotic system of the Jin people, but it may also be related to Wanyan Loushi's background.
Because according to rumors, the Wanyan in Wanyan Loushi's name is not the Wanyan of the royal family, but the surname given to the Wanyan tribe after it defeated the Qishui tribe. Then the true identity of Wanyan Loushi as the head of the Qishui tribe is a bit like a position between a house slave and a royal family member.
But no matter what, perhaps it was precisely because of this background that although Lou Shi had outstanding military achievements and was trusted by both superiors and subordinates, and in fact had long enjoyed the command of the Western Route Army, he was never able to have the title of marshal and had always been the commander-in-chief of the Shanxi Military Command.
Of course, on the other hand, the fact that both father and son were commanders-in-chief and Wanhu also proved the prominent status of the Loushi family in the Jin army. Moreover, no matter what, no one could shake Wanyan Loushi's authoritative position in the Jin army's western army...even the marshal could not appoint or remove Wanyan Loushi's Wanhu, because the full name of Wanyan Loushi's Wanhu identity was Huanglongfu Wanhu.
It is the Huanglong Mansion where the enemy attacked Huanglong directly, which is a reflection of Wanyan Loushi’s special status.
Stop talking nonsense.
Wanyan Huonu heard her own father's joke, but she was still a little serious: "Dad... I still remember that day when my father and I defeated 200,000 Song soldiers here. At that time, you asked me to rescue the Song soldiers who fell into the water, and ordered the entire army not to slaughter or rob the people without authorization. You also appointed a large number of Song people as local officials. Logically, this should be the power and virtue that the Song people mentioned, right? But why are the Song people on both sides of the river still unwilling to be obedient to the Jin Dynasty?"
"Maybe the emperor of Song has returned again?" Wanyan Loushi looked at the rain in front of him and thought about something. "Why should I be a submissive subject to others when I can be my own family?"
"What about Xijing (Jin Xijing, referring to Datong)?" Wanyan Huonu immediately retorted. "Xijing was originally the territory of Liao, and the Khitans had long been gone. As a result, when the Mongols rebelled, they also joined the rebellion, and spent the entire winter suppressing the rebellion in the north, wasting their chance to move south..."
Wanyan Loushi thought about it for a while and shook his head: "That means there is something wrong with our Great Jin's strategy."
"Dad, I think we should learn from Hebei and give all the land and population to Meng'an and Mouke, and kill people like Zhe Keqiu..." Wanyan Huonu finally couldn't bear it anymore and said what she wanted to say. "Don't let the Song people rule the Song anymore!"
Wanyan Loushi finally narrowed his eyes and looked at his son carefully. He wanted to ask his son, is the situation in Hebei better?
Are the hundreds of thousands of so-called rioters in Taihang Mountains, who cannot be killed or defeated, stronger than the rebellion of the Khitan nobles in Datong?
The Khitan nobles rebelled, and Wanyan Loushi led his troops there, easily defeated them, and killed them all. But has there ever been a single day of peace in Taihang Mountains in all those years?
However, after a moment, the famous general of the Jin army suppressed his inner impulse, because he understood that it was normal for these young people to have similar ideas... He also thought so when he was young, but as he experienced more, his ideas gradually changed.
And the most critical problem is that he doesn't know what is right.
Should Hebei learn from Shanxi and follow the Song rule, or should Shanxi learn from Hebei and enfeoff Meng'an and Mouke in the local areas? Or is it that neither of them is right?
After all, at the moment, neither strategy has achieved its goal, and neither Shanxi nor Hebei is safe.
Thinking of this, the Jin army general frowned again and said, "This matter should be discussed by the king, the commander-in-chief and Bojilie. You and I should not say more... You go down and rest for a while, and wait for your brother to come back, and then we will discuss military affairs."
Wanyan Huonu immediately shut up... Although he had already entered middle age and his official position was theoretically equal, he was just an ordinary general in front of his father except for the father-son relationship. So, seeing that his father was actually a little unhappy, how could he dare to say anything?
Moreover, his father's old injury was unbearable on a rainy day, so how could he just go down and enjoy it? So he simply stood there with his sword in his hand like an ordinary guard.
Just like that, the father and son, one sitting and the other standing, sat quietly on the dilapidated Tongguan watchtower, letting the spring rain get heavier and their vision become hazy, and no one knew what each of them was thinking.
However, this silence did not last long. In less than two quarters of an hour, the sound of horse hooves could be heard on the road east of Tongguan. Then several riders galloped into the pass and turned under the watchtower.
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