Lu Gongzhu returned to Yulin Alley full of worries.

Lu Xizhe immediately came out and asked anxiously: "Sir, how was it that I met the young master today...?"

Lu Gongzhu said angrily: "You can come to see me yourself in the future!"

Lu Xizhe didn't know why. He couldn't understand what his father was talking about.

He is just a commoner, and he doesn't even have an official position that would make him happy.

Why go to the Imperial Palace?

Just listen to Mr. Lu scolding: "I don't know what kind of luck you, the traitor, have had..."

"Today in the palace, the officials personally asked for grace from the two palaces to allow you to come and lecture in front of the emperor..."

Lu Xizhe was ecstatic.

Lecture before the emperor?

The position is humble but noble, and there is a chance that he will be directly awarded the title of Jinshi.

"Unfaithful son!" Lu Gongzhu looked at the appearance of this unfilial son and cursed: "If you dare to say one word of evil about Wang Jiefu in front of the king, I will break your legs!"

Lu Xizhe quickly bowed and said: "I don't dare... I don't dare..."

But he was already laughing in his heart.

He didn't say that Wang Anshi's scriptures were acceptable.

But who can stop him from talking about Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi?

In the literary world of the Song Dynasty, subtlety lies here.

Since Qingli’s founding of the academy and the classical prose revival movement, the commentaries on the classics and meanings of old Confucianism in the Han and Tang dynasties have been sieved by scholar-bureaucrats, and then kicked into the garbage heap of history!

Both the new party and the old party began to advocate going back to the Spring and Autumn Period directly to pursue the true meaning of the saints, rather than the scriptures that were distorted by the corrupt Confucians of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

But what is the true intention of a saint?

Isn’t it up to everyone to understand?

Can we still ask Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi?

…

The two palaces took Zhao Xu back to Baoci Palace.

"Scholar Lu's demeanor seems to be better than that of Sima Gong!" Zhao Xu said with emotion after taking two sips of the perilla drink.

Both the Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager Xiang laughed.

Empress Dowager Xiang even touched Zhao Xu's head and said, "This is natural. The Lu Xueshi family has been our important ministers since the Taizong era!"

Zhao Xu laughed in his heart.

you do not say!

The Lu family in Shouzhou, starting from Emperor Taizong, served as ministers for four dynasties, and in Zhao Xu's generation, it was the fifth dynasty.

Only Zhao Xu's previous life turned over.

But at that time, who would have thought that a little emperor who was silent on the throne and didn't care about anything would have already memorized the words and deeds of every minister he met?

Zhao Xu raised his head and looked at the Queen Mother who was opposite him, and asked: "Mother, how is your grandson doing today?"

The Empress Dowager smiled and said: "The officials were generous and decent in the palace today. In particular, they told Academician Lu to promote virtuous people and not avoid relatives. I believe that the government and the public will praise them when they know about it!"

He also said to the Empress Dowager: "That's what the Queen Mother said!"

As the Empress Dowager spoke, she frowned and couldn't help but say: "These nephews of scholar-bureaucrats and important ministers, who were awarded the title of ninth-ranking official in the capital...jumped directly out of the sea of ​​selection, which is equivalent to reaching the Jinshi rank... …”

"They can still take part in the imperial examination. If they can get a Jinshi, they will be officials in their twenties and thirties!"

Empress Dowager Xiang quickly grabbed the sleeve of the Empress Dowager to prevent her from continuing.

The Empress Dowager also realized that such words were not suitable to be said in front of Sixth Brother.

He is still young, so there is no need to expose these adults' dissensions to him.

Zhao Xu pretended not to listen carefully and just drank his own perilla drink.

…

With a livid face, Lu Huiqing looked at an official document that was delivered to him.

"Zhang Zhijian!" He roared in anger.

"How dare you, thief!"

The official document came from Zhang Zhijian, the Superintendent of the Military and Horse Command at Fuyan Road. Zhang Zhijian told Lu Huiqing that he did not dare to raise troops until he got the order.

Therefore, the two generals on Yanyan Road whom Lu Huiqing ordered to mobilize are still in the camp and have not set off yet.

The originally expected strength of five generals now only has three generals from Hedong Road.

The most terrible thing is that Zhang Zhijian didn’t tell him until now and before the war that I won’t come!

Lu Huiqing knew very well that Zhang Zhijian was seeking revenge on him.

Zhang Zhijian was originally one of his subordinates. He was originally assigned as the commander of the Taiyuan army and was in charge of the military affairs of Goulin Mansion.

But last month, because he opposed his sending troops to attack Caogu, he was impeached by Lu Huiqing and was demoted to the military commander of Yanyan Road.

I thought that Zhang Zhijian should be more honest and sober after going to Yanyan Road.

Unexpectedly, he got worse!

"What should we do?" Wang Jin, Lu Huiqing's staff and fellow countryman, asked.

"What else can we do?" Lu Huiqing unbuttoned her clothes impatiently: "Without him, Butcher Zhang, we won't kill pigs?"

"Issue a general order to mobilize all selected forwards from the other nine generals!"

"This..." Wang Jin swallowed: "Is there too much movement..."

"What if Beiluo makes some changes..."

The Selected Front is an elite ace that appeared under the Song Dynasty's generals' art of war. It is composed of elite warriors who are selected from among the generals by each general's supervisor.

They have the best equipment, the highest treatment, and they are all cavalry!

It can be said that in the Song Dynasty, the selection of the vanguard army was the spearhead of the attack and the main force of the battle - in some places it can even be said that - except for the selection of the vanguard army, the rest were just a ragtag group of people waving flags and shouting.

There are a total of twelve generals on Hedong Road, and the total number of Han and Fan cavalry and infantry is almost 140,000.

The total number of optional vanguard troops is less than 7,000!

This is the result of Lu Huiqing's painstaking efforts after taking office.

Otherwise, it would be amazing if there were more than 3,000 forwards to choose from.

As for the Song Army in Hedong, its main mission has never been to use troops against the northwest.

Instead, it was to defend against the Beilu cavalry who were condescending and could attack southward at any time, and to provide flank protection for the Song army in Hebei.

Therefore, Lu Huiqing only dared to mobilize three generals for this border patrol. If there were more, there might be loopholes in the defense!

Because the main force in Hedong must defend the northern invaders!

"I can't control that much anymore!" Lu Huiqing said with red eyes.

He looked at the map in front of him.

The scouts have determined that it is in the hinterland of the Western Bandit's left wing, the Divine Warrior Supervisor.

A large group of Western bandits and Qingqi have appeared in the Mingtang River area.

The number of people is at least 10,000!

In addition to the left wing Shenyong Division, its own cavalry and the party members and Qiang tribes that can be recruited, a combat strength of 20,000 to 30,000 people can be mobilized.

But he only has three generals, which is not enough! Absolutely not enough!

After losing the cooperation of Yanyan Road, Lu Huiqing could only have the confidence to fight this battle by mobilizing the entire Hedong elite selection team!

Because Lu Huiqing already knows what the Western Thief's goal is?

You can tell just by looking at the map.

The left-wing Shenyong Division headquarters of the Western Bandits has been located in the Mingtang River in the upper reaches of the Jialu River for the past few decades.

This place is located about a hundred miles south of Ningxifeng and is a plain formed by the impact of the Jialu River.

The water and grass are plentiful, the land is fertile, and it is located high up, controlling the Jialu River and the Tuwei River, the two lifelines across the eastern foot of the mountain.

Jialu River and Tuwei River meander through the entire eastern foot of Hengshan Mountain and then merge into the Yellow River.

And at the place where the Jialu River merges into the Yellow River, the turbulent north bank of the Yellow River.

Jialu Village stands on the bank of the Yellow River, controlling the entire north bank of the Yellow River. It is like a nail embedded in the jurisdiction of the Western Bandit's Zuoxiang Shenyong Division.

From Jialu Village to Mingtangchuan, it is at most two hundred miles!

For the cavalry, one day and one night is enough.
To be continued...