After noon, according to tradition, Zhao Xu moved to Chongzheng Hall.

Here he gave a banquet to all the ministers and congratulate the envoys of the country.

At this time, he was a little tired.

After all, he got up before 5 o'clock in the morning and has been busy with state affairs until now.

Physiologically and mentally, a little tired.

Fortunately, after the banquet began, he was able to rest.

Because he was still in the cold and yin, no matter whether it was the Liao envoy, the Xia envoy, or anyone else, he would not come to him to celebrate his birthday.

Therefore, after eating some food, Zhao Xu leaned on the bedding and began to sleep

After resting for half an hour, Zhao Xu became energetic again.

At this time, Guo Zhongxiao, who should have been responsible for the etiquette in the palace and supervised the ministers, came to Zhao Xu lightly: "Your Majesty..."

Zhao Xu looked at Guo Zhongxiao, was a little curious and asked, "What's the matter?"

Guo Zhongxiao wanted to speak but stopped.

Zhao Xu sat upright and waved, and the guards with the imperial equipment around him made a way out.

Guo Zhongxiao then came to Zhao Xu and whispered: "Your Majesty, I saw that the Si had just received an urgent report from Mingzhou..."

"Hmm?" Zhao Xu looked at him.

Guo Zhongxiao took out a seal from his body and presented it to his hands: "This is a memorial to the Mingzhou minister Mu just handed it to Beijing with a hurry."

Zhao Xu's expression suddenly became solemn.

Chen Mu has always reported to him through the Madu shop since he took office in Mingzhou.

This is the first time Chen Mu used an urgent horse to deliver it.

He took the actual seal submitted by Guo Zhongxiao, and then took it apart after inspection.

Then, Zhao Xu's expression became playful.

Because, Chen Mu said that in November, the Chameng State envoy Pu Mawu and dozens of people landed in Mingzhou and submitted a token of the Mingzhou government and a letter of state to the Mingzhou government.

So, the Mingzhou government sent people to escort these people to Beijing.

But...half a month later, Mingzhou received a report from Yuezhou and Hangzhou.

An accident occurred at the border between Yuezhou and Hangzhou - a fire in the inn, and no mission survived.

After Zhao Xu finished reading it, he stroked his hands.

Then he looked towards the Gao family in the hall.

His eyes were sweeping around the Empress Dowager's nephew Gao Gonghui, his clan brother Gao Zunye, his clan brother Gao Zunli, Gao Zunlu and others.

Finally, his eyes fell on Gao Zunlu.

Because Gao Zunlu's current mission is to use the deputy envoy of the Imperial City as the commander of the military commander of Hangzhou, and his subordinates are in charge of the seven commanders of the Hangzhou Xuanyi Army.

The so-called Xuanyi Army was an imperial guard established in the prefectures and counties in the Renmiao era in order to cope with the increasingly urgent military pressure.

His idea of ​​building an army came from the "local military theory" proposed by Chen Guan, a minister of the Zhenmiao era.

The so-called local military theory is that when Chen Guan saw the imperial guards in the Song Dynasty, he often harassed the people and even complained in the local area. At the same time, because these troops were all foreigners, they were neither familiar with local geography nor had the motivation to protect their hometown.

Therefore, when facing foreign enemies, they often have no will to fight, and many troops often collapse at once.

It's just that he can't do anything and harm the people.

Chen Guan believes that if local villagers are used as the army, it will be different.

In his vision, the local villagers are all locals and will definitely not attack their fellow villagers.

At the same time, they are familiar with the place and have the motivation to defend their hometown.

When facing foreign enemies, you will definitely fight hard and never retreat.

After listening to Chen Guan’s theory, Zhenmiao thought it was very reasonable.

But what about...

unrealistic!

Because, if the villagers in the hometown are recruited to guard the countryside for soldiers.

There are indeed many problems that can be solved, but the country obviously cannot recruit so many new soldiers outside the huge and bloated imperial guard system.

In that case, the finances will go bankrupt directly.

Therefore, if you do things according to Chen Guan's method, you can only abolish the original imperial guards.

Is the original imperial guards so easy to lay off?

Millions of imperial guards, food and clothing!

If they get angry, they are afraid they will build a new official family!

Therefore, in the Zhenmiao era, the "local military theory" was only circulated among the scholars and officials and never became a court policy.

However, when time came to the Qingli period, with the Song Dynasty's imperial guards defeating three battles in the northwest, they lost a lot.

In panic, Renmiao adopted the suggestions of Xia Shu, Han Qi and others and picked up the "Tu Soldier Theory" again.

Therefore, a new army was established and named Xuan Yi, which was widely set up in key areas of prefectures and counties in the world to recruit soldiers.

Within three months, he recruited as many as 100,000 troops and formed 288 Xuanyi Army commanders!

And the problem lies here!

Because it was formed in a hurry, Xuanyi's army is mixed with all kinds of people.

Back then, half of the Song Dynasty was shocked, and to this day, the rebellion of King Ze of Beizhou, which Wen Yanbo talked about was still about. It was the soldier riot launched by the Maitreya Cult after infiltrated the Xuanyi Army of Beizhou and took advantage of the power of religion.

According to the theory of "Wuqian Cock", when a king's lie appears in Xuanyi's army, it means that there must be thousands of king's lie hidden in Xuanyi's army in other places.

Although Renmiao did not know the theory of Wu Qianchijiu, he still intuitively realized the dangers of Xuanyi troops from all over the country.

Therefore, after the Wang Ze Rebellion, in order to monitor Xuanyi's army in various places.

Ren Temple began to send relatives and ministers to various places, using these people to monitor and suppress them in order to prevent new kings from appearing.

Although doing this prevents the emergence of new kings.

But he also directly asked Renmiao to use Xuanyi's army to represent the imperial guards stationed in the country, suppress the local government, and enrich the military strength.

The reason is very simple - who are the relatives and ministers?

What a beast kept in the zoo of Dasong!

The beasts that are kept in captivity are still beasts.

If it is a beast, you must eat meat.

Renmiao has never studied in modern times and does not know how to create new wealth and feed these guys' belly.

So, what should we do if these foreign relatives and ministers who left the capital are hungry?

Of course, it is the old way, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and water to eat the water.

Therefore, Xuanyi's army in various places was directly synonymous with bandits and road dominance in the Song Dynasty.

If Zhao Xu remembered correctly, Han Gang, the eldest brother of the prime minister Han Jiang, was trapped in the hands of Xuan Yi army back then, and he failed from then on and had no future.

It was Han Gang who fell that the political resources of the Han family were concentrated on Han Jiang, Han Wei and Han Zhen.

Qiu Ba of Xuanyi's army dared to attack the prime minister's son.

What else do they dare not do or cannot do?

And just so happened that Zhao Xu knew that Gao Zunfu and Lu Jiawen had already hooked up in Jiaozhou.

Zhao Xu knew, and even acquiesced to what these two guys did in Jiaozhou and Guangxi.

And what they did was the most harmful was naturally Chameng and Zhenla.

According to Zhang Dun's report, Chameng and Zhenla also sent envoys to Yongzhou to file a complaint in November.

But Zhang Dun ignored them!

Now, a city-chat mission has landed from Mingzhou and is about to enter Beijing.

What are they doing?

Could it be here to sue the emperor?

It just so happened that Gao Zunlu and Gao Zunfu had a good relationship.

Just so happened that Gao Zunlu was the governor of the Hangzhou military commander, and his subordinates were in charge of the Hangzhou Xuanyi Army.

And Hangzhou is a must-pass place for Chameng missions!

When the Chameng State delegation left Yuezhou and went to Hangzhou, it encountered a fire in the inn, and the mission was not alive!

So many things come together.
To be continued...