There is no issue of war.

The previous rumors and the matter of establishing a prince were a bit too sensitive. The Taixue political group, which is mainly composed of Ether students and Tokyo elders, still adheres to the feudal moral tradition. It is inevitable that they will be somewhat concerned about the dignity of the official family, and then appear to be restrained in this situation.

Therefore, as the last major event in the seventh year of Jianyan, Taixue's political affairs itself went on smoothly... The only ups and downs occurred during the lunch break, when several ordinary people from other places knelt down to complain outside Taixue and challenged the emperor.

Complaining at this time seems to have been planned for a long time, but the court also has a very complete system for such matters, and someone will take over and deal with it.

However, the fact that the rest of the people do not cause trouble for the officials and central ministers does not mean that the officials and central ministers do not cause trouble for the rest of the people.

That afternoon, seeing that the fourth Taixue Wenzheng was about to come to a successful conclusion, Lu Haowen slowly stood up and came to the middle of the venue. In just two sentences, he announced the secret establishment system for the Zhao family.

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It is said that "the prince was established through consultation with the central ministers without making it public; two files of edicts were made, one was carried by the official, and the two were tied under the beams of the Wende Hall. If anything happened, the imperial ministers would open it together and help them."

"Establishing a new king"...that's all.

After saying this, everyone from Zhao Guan's family and below dispersed, leaving only countless middle and low-ranking officials, imperial students, and famous Confucian elders in Tokyo, all messed up in the wind.

Many people didn’t even understand what was going on!

However, the official family had already left Taixue, and dispersed with other important ministers in front of Taixue's gate, and then went back to their respective homes to find their respective aunts.

So far, everything has been fine in Jianyan's seventh year. Even if something happens, he will have to wait until Jianyan's eighth year.

Turning back to the front of the eyes, he walked out of Taixue and respectfully sent Zhao Guan's family away with the honor guard. He did not talk about others, but only the seven or eight senior cavalry generals behind Qu Duan, the imperial cavalry commander. However, they were on the imperial street which was a bit too wide.

They gathered together and felt a little dazed for a while... Like everyone else, they were also a little confused about this secret reserve building system.

But fortunately, as an officer, he naturally has to avoid such matters, and he is not too lazy to do what other officials do, either swarming to the direction of the residence of a superior official or important minister, or gathering together for a heated discussion.

"Why are you still following me?"

After putting his hands behind his hands and looking north for a while, Qu Da suddenly turned around, frowned and spoke to his subordinates.

You didn't say goodbye either?

Everyone was speechless, but brothers Zhang Zhongfu and Zhang Zhongyan had been following this man for many years, and even Liu Qi and Li Shifu were now more accustomed to this man's words, but no one spoke up to refute him.

"I was about to ask Jiedu. It's already the annual vacation. In the next few days, even soldiers who have families near Tokyo will also go home to celebrate the New Year... Since there is nothing to do, do you want to go and have fun together?" What is Liu Qi doing?

It is most appropriate to be born in a general family.

"Where are we going to play?" Qu Duan's heart was moved, but when he saw another group of military attachés coming out from the corner of his eye, he immediately changed his tone and raised his voice on the imperial street in front of Taixue. "It's just that we are going to play, so why bother?

Many people gather together? For those who are celebrating the New Year, those who know know that we are colleagues, but those who don’t know think that I am too narrow-minded and want you to serve me after the holiday, otherwise it will be uncomfortable? What’s more,

It is rare for a civil servant to see it from afar and write a letter to us, saying that I have formed a gang to win you into the party struggle! I wonder if the Song Dynasty was destroyed by the party struggle? Where did it come from without the old and new party struggle?

Jingkang Incident?!"

After saying that, Qu Da walked away with a wave of righteousness.

However, Liu Qi, Li Shifu, the Zhang brothers and several other cavalry commanders just looked at each other and did not bother to pay attention to their immediate superiors, who were already accustomed to them. They gathered together and headed towards Maxing Street.

And since Qu Duan left alone, another Wang Yan who had just graduated from Taixue in the 10th Festival in Beijing could only bring a group of embarrassed-looking senior military attachés from the Eighth-Character Army to the door, their faces turning pale with anger... It took him half a day to recover. , but simply waved his sleeves and went home alone.

Even many civil servants, after being shouted out by Qu Da, gave up their intention to have fun and feast together on the spot and dispersed.

However, Qu Da held his head high and rode an iron elephant majesticly all the way. When he came to Donghua Gate, he continued north and walked between the Genyue ruins and Yanfu Palace. He was about to reach Jingyuan's house. I saw that there were fewer and fewer people around, but I felt a little bored... It was a rare holiday, and it was still early. If you didn't go to Ma Xing Street to look for people to drink wine and eat fish soup, why would you pretend to be dead and go home?

Now that we have come to this point, is it still possible to turn back?

Just as he was thinking about this, Qu Da suddenly raised his head and saw a man riding a mule in front of him. He was usually dressed in simple clothes. He first came towards him, and then he left the road and went into the ruins of Genyue. Naturally, he was angry:

"Xiahou! Where are you going in this outfit?"

It turned out that the person who wanted to avoid Qu Duan was none other than Xia Houyuan, a close confidant of Qu Duan who was disguised as a civilian.

One more thing to say here is that these days, it is impossible for the imperial court to completely clean up the feudal elements of the army, especially at the stage from commander-in-chief to commander-in-chief. After Zhao Guanjia focused on the grassroots level of the army, it can almost be called an army. The layer with the most obvious feudal elements.

The commander-in-chief at each place commanded an army, held military power as a general, and shared financial and personnel rights with the court. Both parties worked hard to achieve a tacit understanding and not cause trouble to the court. The commander-in-chief took the second place, and had to work with the commander-in-chief. Minister and the imperial court are all going around, and I still have a great say.

It is even exaggerated to say that under special circumstances like Li Yanxian, there was no inspection of troops and horses all year round. The imperial court only provided him with ordnance, food, fodder, and various other military supplies according to the regulations of the imperial camp of 20,000 soldiers in the past, but now it was based on the regulations of the imperial camp of 30,000 soldiers.

How to divide and allocate the money specifically is left to Li Yanxian's discretion.

In fact, everyone knows that Li Yanxian's tribe is divided into three. He has a core force of seven to eight thousand imperial battalions, which are stationed on both sides of the Yellow River in Shaanxi Province and are given priority. The remaining money, food and military supplies are another Divided into two, half is given to the Zhai family who was born in Luoyang, and the other half is given to the rebels from Zhongtiao Mountain, Taihang Mountain, and even further north... Li Yanxian himself probably doesn't know the specific number, but it must be more than 23,000. Much more than ten thousand.

Even after Dong Xian, who was in the Zhai family's system, won the battle that day, he took advantage of the opportunity of the army to fight on all fronts and asked to be promoted to commander. It was not that simple. It had the meaning of taking advantage of the situation to break away from the Zhai family's system and become a regular army.

Only Zhao Guan's family and the imperial court were so confused that they were happy to see the results and then just followed the trend.

But back to the present, when it comes to trusted school officials, this is of course an excellent feudal tradition since ancient times. The Zhao family has trusted commanders in front of them, and the generals who are full of feudal remnants will inevitably have trusted school officials in front of them. These people Most of them were from the same hometown of the commanders, pro-soldiers, descendants, or all three.

Han Shizhong had Jieyuan at the beginning, and after Jieyuan was created, Chengmin was born; Yue Fei also had Wang Gui, Tang Huai, and Zhang Xian at the beginning. After they were made and developed one by one, they also had Bi Jin, a close confidant.

The official was complex, doing chores and leading soldiers to invest; even Wang Yan, who had just been ridiculed by Qu Duan, the Eight-Character Army's starting point was not similar to that of other places, but there was a similar role next to Xiao Fan who joined the army, and now he has become a commander, but

Because of this, he and Wang Yansheng broke up.

As for Qu Duan himself, he was different from others... He rose up in chaos, and within two years of his rise, he was brought back by Hu Yin and Wan Qixi sent by Zhao Guan's family. He was in a position where he could kill or not.

Fortunately, he was whipped in front of the Wende Hall and idled for another year before he finally went to lead the army again. Then he resettled the imperial cavalry and became the commander-in-chief, but he never got enough regulations, that is,

After defeating Xixia, he gradually became stronger.

As the saying goes, every success brings glory to everyone, and every loss brings loss. Such ups and downs have made Xia Houyuan, his trusted primary school, still a trusted primary school for many years.

I think back then, when Wu Jie captured Qu Duan, Xia Houyuan was the one who followed him to the end. Now, although he has probably survived, he still needs a big battle to gain military merit before he can leave Qu Duan and go out to become an official.

"How did Jiedu come back so early?"

Xia Houyuan was called out by Qu Duan and had no choice but to turn around. However, he pretended that nothing had happened and calmly got off the mule. He stood beside the iron elephant with his hands crossed and asked each other with an honest look. "The Taixue side is already fine.

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Seeing this person's appearance, Qu Duan's original intention of ridiculing him suddenly disappeared... It's not that he didn't want to ridicule, but he knew that the other party would pretend to be stupid no matter what he said, and no one could do anything to anyone, but he was the most confidant.

It's not easy to fight or scold Tijiren... He simply frowned at Tie Xiang and said, "It's already over there at Taixue. Let me ask you, before you go out in the morning, let you go to Yuetai to check the duty list.

, and then privately inquired about the New Year rewards, did you do it carefully?" m :(/

"I worked hard, but it didn't work out." Xia Houyuan saw that his family asked him about business matters, and he responded solemnly. "People from the Imperial City Department, the Military Command Department, and people from the Fangfang Department went together today...

…I didn’t dare to say a word, I just walked around with them for a long time and just came back.”

"Oh." Qu Da understood clearly in his heart, but continued to confront him seriously. "Have you found anything?"

"There was no trouble in the lightly-armed Tibetan army of Deputy Dutong Li (Li Shifu), and they were all just grateful to the officials for their kindness. Zhang Da and Zhang Er (Zhang Zhongfu and Zhang Zhongyan) had always been watched by Jiedu in person, but there was nothing wrong with it. On the contrary, Deputy Dudu Liu

In the two armored cavalry teams led by Tong (Liu Qi), it seems that some accounts and personnel statements were made, and the military commander took the opportunity to expose them." Xia Houyuan said something.

Qu Duan frowned again: "Those newly recruited Fanqi are all country bumpkins. Of course, in their first year in Tokyo, they will feel good about everything they see. Liu Qi was born in a general family, and his subordinates are full of such dirty things, but he understands it in his heart.

If you don’t have the energy to change, it’s like a dog that can’t change and eats shit... These are all to be expected.”

Xia Houyuan just bowed his head in front of the mule and pretended not to hear.

"That's fine!"

Qu Duanfu thought about it again, but shook his head in response. "The officials wanted to take the annual leave to catch us off guard. They just don't want us to get involved. They just don't know... they will have their say after the new year."

"Jiedu is right, I think so too." Xia Houyuan responded immediately.

Qu Duan also nodded immediately, but soon raised his eyebrows: "So you are going to have a good time by yourself? Are you going to have a drink on Ma Xing Street?"

Xia Houyuan had no choice but to be honest: "I made an appointment with a few colleagues when I was in the camp...Besides, it's already evening, so I can't go to the north of the city to watch the Cuju competition? I can only watch the exhibition match tomorrow afternoon."

Qu Duan responded coldly and silently throughout the whole process.

Xia Houyuan, on the other hand, knew what the other party meant, but he would rather die than dare to say that... If he really let Qu Duan go, would they, a group of school officers, go to have fun or suffer, and would he, Xia Houyuan, still be here?

He was mixed up in the army... So after a few words to fool him, he could only pretend to be stupid and stand there, dumbfounded and silent.

The two were in a stalemate for a while. It was rare for Qu Duan to feel sick to his stomach because of the other people's anger, but he had no choice but to flick his sleeves, move the iron elephant on his crotch, and go home.

However, just as Xia Houyuan climbed onto the mule with relief, he heard someone yelling from behind: "You can only listen to a song when you call a prostitute! Otherwise, if the officials find out from the Imperial City Department, you may not be able to do it in this life."

It’s time for the Commander!”

Xia Houyuan nodded casually and hurried away.

And let's not mention how Xia Houyuan went to Ma Xing Street to engage in revenge consumption. He only said that on the other side, he returned home in Jingyuan, where he was greeted by his old wife, young son and servant girl with beaming faces.

But Qu Da himself had experienced the previous two incidents, but he just felt aggravated and a little deserted.

I watched for a long time inside the door, and my wife was all confused. Only then did I realize that the house awarded by the officials in Jingyuan was extremely large, and my family had a small population... There was nothing I could do about it, just like Yue Fei killed him for the sake of military discipline.

He killed his own uncle, and Qu Da also killed his own uncle for military discipline... Therefore, unlike other important ministers who have countless children, nephews, and relatives, his place has a much smaller population, and it is mostly veterans.

As for these veterans, those who have families now go to take care of their own families, while those who don't have families have long taken advantage of the excitement to have fun. How can they hang out in the house?

Of course it seems deserted.

In this way, Qu Da felt more and more unhappy. He just hurriedly changed his clothes and went to the study room to summarize the key points of today's political affairs... Unexpectedly, when he came to the study room, he suddenly saw

I received an invitation, and then, as if by chance, I spoke directly to my family and left on foot.

After walking out the door, he just walked around the Jingyuan twice, and finally came to a house with the same rules as his own, and then he boldly entered the house.

This is actually the home of Dazongzheng Zhao Shi? It turns out that just a few days ago, Zhao Shi?'s eldest son Zhao Bufan was suddenly transferred to the imperial camp, but instead joined the cavalry and became a direct subordinate of Qu Da.

This is a ceremonial invitation.
To be continued...