Guo Kui is the leading figure of the Song Dynasty military. It is obviously too extravagant to use it to serve as an advisor to Wang Jinghui. This kind of thing can be met by finding an ordinary civilian in the Privy Council. However, Guo Kui has a high appeal in the military. If he wants to start the reform of the Song Dynasty military system, he must have a prestigious military figure to waving flags and shouting for it. Otherwise, according to the traditional policy of promoting civilians and suppressing military affairs in the Song Dynasty, the military will have the power of resistance to obstruct the progress of military system reform. After all, many people are vested interests under the old system, and this army is also very similar to the civil circle of the court.

In Wang Jinghui's plan, military system reform cannot be a few regulations that literati kept in a small house and thought about behind closed doors. There must be experts as advisers. While understanding the military system of the Song Dynasty, Wang Jinghui also fully exchanged opinions with Guo Kui. Wang Jinghui was a military doctor in the past time and space. He did not know much about military affairs, but he was still clear about the military academies and other systems in later generations. He summarized some of the military systems he knew in later generations and combined with the existing military system. Wang Jinghui believed that although his military reform system would not make the Song army invincible all at once, it was at least much better than the regulations proposed by Wang Anshi in history.

Although Guo Kui is now the Chief of Staff of the Song Dynasty, his role is still very leisurely. Now there is not the peak of the Song and Xia confrontation, and the border is unusually calm. This is mainly because there is internal strife within the Western Xia and is unable to pose an effective military threat to the Song Dynasty.

Since Wang Jinghui made plans to the court a few years ago, hoping to send monks and Taoist priests to the two top enemy countries, Xixia and Liao, and was given high-level officials in the Song Dynasty. Although it was relatively failed to send Taoist priests to the outside, Buddhists achieved great success. Xixia and Liao themselves had a strong Buddhist foundation, and coupled with the intentional promotion of the Song Dynasty, these monks quickly gained a foothold in the two countries.

Because Wang Jinghui knew that medical skills were very important in the process of spreading Buddhism, he conducted simple medical training for these Buddhists. In addition, the Song Dynasty medicine was highly valued, and these monks themselves knew some medical skills. Although their level was not very good, they were highly respected in the Western Xia and Liao Kingdoms. Not only did they enjoy a high reputation among the people, but they were also loved by the powerful and powerful officials of the two countries, and various donations also followed, which made this plan a profitable deal in the later period. The spies of the Song Dynasty who were mixed were also very well hidden, and they sent various information about the enemy country to the Song Dynasty from time to time, making the Song Dynasty no longer know nothing about their opponents as they did in history.

In view of the smoothness of the monk's delivery plan, Wang Jinghui's first step in reforming the military system was to reform foreign intelligence. Before the Song Dynasty, there were almost no foreign intelligence agencies. Once the two countries confronted each other, the external intelligence was almost unknown. Wang Jinghui's arrival greatly reversed this phenomenon. In this era, I'm afraid no one knows the importance of foreign intelligence than Wang Jinghui. But it cannot be said that the ancients did not pay attention to this. It was not that the Song Dynasty did not carry out this work before. It was not that there was no awareness of this aspect. Everyone knows the principle of "knowing yourself and your enemy and winning every battle", but they just don't know where to start.

Now that Wang Jinghui has provided them with a way to start, the rest of the matter is much simpler, but Wang Jinghui feels that the intelligence structure is obviously still in its infancy, and there is not even a special agency to take charge of its specific affairs. He just generally collects all the information obtained into the Privy Council. These huge and useless information not only make the Privy Council complain, but also easily provide misleading information to the Privy Council and the Secretariat. This is what Wang Jinghui only knows by talking to Guo Kui.

Although the intelligence system in the Song Dynasty was not created by Wang Jinghui, it has a great relationship with him. He is an important initiator. Since he learned about the specific situation of the intelligence system, he could no longer pretend to be invisible. After all, it is important to the intelligence system. Wang Jinghui once knew very well in the time and space of his life.

In fact, the intelligence work of the Song Dynasty cannot be called a "system" now. It is just a prototype in a mess in the beginning. There is no clear affiliation between the top and bottom. Almost every lurking monk who scatters it back all the information obtained in his hands. This amount of information is extremely terrible, and it also makes the intelligence transmitters and analysts complain secretly.

After fully communicating with Guo Kui, Wang Jinghui and Guo Kui jointly wrote a letter to Emperor Zhao Xu, and proposed reforms to the intelligence system in the Song Dynasty and gave a detailed plan. In this plan, Wang Jinghui proposed a general intelligence system framework based on his poor intelligence knowledge. From intelligence classification analysis to the network that collects intelligence, he also focused on suggesting training of intelligence personnel. In the middle, Guo Kui's useful supplements made the intelligence system finally look a little after the discussion between the two. Wang Jinghui also sighed in his heart that he could only do this step. If it goes further, it will be beyond his ability. There is really no inventory in his belly.

Emperor Zhao Xu was very interested in this letter. His understanding of intelligence was only at the level of detailed writing. After seeing this letter, he immediately summoned Wang Jinghui and Guo Kui to the palace to discuss matters, inquired in detail about the current situation of the Privy Council's intelligence work, and raised many questions about the letter, some of which were very funny, which made Wang Jinghui and Guo Kui a little amused-Emperor Zhao Xu thought this was a game of cats catching mice!

The attention of the superiors can speed up the operation of events. Wang Jinghui still understands this simple truth very well. He patiently explained the importance of the intelligence system with Guo Kui in detail, and also listed some detailed achievements in history, which allowed Emperor Zhao Xu to slowly enter his role. You should know that military martial arts is what this young emperor most favored. Although the intelligence system seems to be just an institution that invests a lot of money, its return rate is also amazing. It can greatly speed up the speed of war, effectively guarantee the result of the war, or even change the end of the war, or do not use war at all. Just do some tricks to greatly damage the opponent's strength. This effect can not help but move Emperor Zhao Xu. In the end, Wang Jinghui simply brought out the example of Zhao Kuo in the Battle of Changping, and Emperor Zhao Xu has a deep understanding of the role of the intelligence system.

Emperor Zhao Xu summoned Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo, Zeng Gongliang and others to Funing Hall to carefully review the letters of Wang Jinghui and Guo Kui. These people are now busy with the military farming of the Xiang army. Now after seeing this letter, Wang Anshi immediately realized that Wang Jinghui seemed to have new ideas about the military aspects of the Song Dynasty. It is estimated that this letter was just a way to throw a stone to ask for directions, which gradually made him feel a little alert.

This letter was carefully prepared by Wang Jinghui and Guo Kui. It can be said that the structure of the intelligence system is the most perfect. Of course, there are many problems in the middle. If any person who works on intelligence in the future comes to see it, they can point out a lot of loopholes, but it is really valuable now. Besides, the group of people called by Emperor Zhao Xu, except for Wen Yanbo who is quite proficient in military affairs, Wang Anshi and Sima Guang only have extraordinary visions. They can see the benefits to the Song Dynasty, but they can't give any better supplementary opinions, so this letter was easily approved.

Guo Kui originally thought that he had entered the Privy Council as the Chief of Staff to be the chief of staff and would not have any big achievements. But after this letter from the intelligence system and some very hidden words from Wang Jinghui, he felt that he was of great use and gradually got out of the shadow of life. Another thoughtful person was Wang Anshi. He was increasingly unable to understand Wang Jinghui now. After the real army was stationed in the farm, he really didn't understand what Wang Jinghui was thinking in his mind. Why did he punch him in his sleeve when he was about to submit it, Wang Jinghui would step one step ahead of him.

What did Wang Anshi and Guo Kui think? Wang Jinghui didn't care. As long as his suggestions were passed by the ruling top leaders, it would be enough. He believed that although his suggestions were not the best, they were definitely beneficial to the Song Dynasty. As the saying goes, gathering sand into a tower, he believed that changes in history would slowly accumulate strength from these little by little, and no one would calculate all the difficulties like gods to solve them. Even historians from the future could not.

Perhaps an intelligence system cannot solve many problems, but the smooth passage of this letter has truly provided a source of motivation for Guo Kui. Perhaps this guy has been suppressed by civil officials since he was re-transferred back to Biandu. Now, he suddenly saw a place where he could play his role, and began to eat his calories without any choice. Wang Jinghui also noticed this, which was a gain from him and also thought it was a good phenomenon. Guo Kui appeared in Wang Jinghui's study more and more times.

Although he was quite happy to cooperate with Guo Kui, Wang Jinghui was not in a hurry to implement the military system reform. On the one hand, it was because the field of this reform was not familiar to him. Although the Zhao family's policy of suppressing martial arts was not very good, the Song Dynasty was the only dynasty in which no military general rebelled and began to seize power. In Wang Jinghui's view, the huge internal changes were more terrifying than the invasion of foreign races. Especially in this relatively not very urgent era, he was afraid that the balance of civil and military undermined due to his excessive conceit was destroyed, which led to disasters. Secondly, he was also very conflicted in his heart: the rapid reform of the military system is naturally conducive to taking the initiative in the Western Xia and Liao Kingdoms, but now the court's attention is all focused on the military farming of the Xiang army, and Wang Anshi's reform was also blocked at his doorstep. He also wanted to repeat the same trick to use military system reform to delay the implementation of Wang Anshi's new laws and regulations again. The contradiction between the two also made him very distressed.

Fortunately, the military system reform cannot be thoughtful in one or two days. Even with Guo Kui, an old horse who knows the way, Wang Jinghui still did not form a general framework for military system reform in his mind. Just explore it slowly. Anyway, he doesn't want Wang Anshi to be as anxious as he wants. He still thinks about everything carefully. If his decision-making fails to hit the emperor and the ministers' confidence in him, it will be more than worth the loss.

In May, the Jiying Hall of the Great Song Palace, the grand ceremony of talent swinging was held here every three years. This time, there were nearly 800 qualifying Jinshi who participated in the palace examination. Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, who were exhausted by Wang Jinghui's military farming policy, were still cheered up, and all the eyes of the court were focused on the palace examination. Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and the various political camps behind them were very clear. This ceremony of talent swinging was not only about selecting materials for the country, but also an important way to strive for more reform talents in the reform camp represented by Wang Anshi. Don't you see that Ouyang Xiu, who is famous all over the world, did not have any teacher a day before entering Huaying Academy, but his disciples and old officials were all over the world. The reason was that he presided over three palace examinations. The Jinshi and other talents selected for each palace examination should respectfully shout at the teacher when they saw him.

The chief examiner in the court has been decided - Wang Anshi, and Chen Shengzhi, Sima Guang, Su Shi and others are also among the examiners. However, after Wang Anshi became the chief examiner this time, the reformists were destined to occupy a dominant position in the palace examination. Although the opposition from the ministers in the court to Wang Anshi as the chief examiner was like a wave, Emperor Zhao Xu was unmoved at all and insisted on letting Wang Anshi be the chief examiner to show his importance to him. Emperor Zhao Xu's favor for Wang Anshi also reached a new peak.

The most interesting thing is that in this dispute between the examiners, someone even wrote to the emperor. He asked the son-in-law Wang Jinghui to take the lead in the examination. He said that the son-in-law, as a bachelor of Longtu Pavilion, was knowledgeable. Not only was he famous in poetry, but he also wrote books and talked about classics. This is his only choice to take the lead in the examination! Wang Jinghui almost laughed to death after hearing this. No one knew how much goods he had in his stomach, and he was still very clear. Compared with Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, his knowledge could not stand scrutiny.

However, what made Wang Jinghui drop his chin was: Emperor Zhao Xu had actually considered it seriously. However, the censor's bulletin chapter followed closely - impeaching the official who wrote the letter to give this bad idea, and the prince-consort became the chief examiner. Wouldn't this class of candidates become Wang Jinghui's students? Moreover, the prince-consort was young and could not convince the public. Emperor Zhao Xu just smiled this bulletin chapter and didn't take it seriously at all, because he had never thought about letting the prince-consort be the chief examiner, but wanted him to be an ordinary examiner like Su Shi. These officials below would all misunderstand!

However, although Emperor Zhao Xu has just succeeded to the throne and is very young, it does not mean it is easy to deceive. He has no long-term view. He asked Wang Anshi to be the chief examiner, but among the examiners, except Su Shi, who was very clear on the side of the reformist faction. The political stance of other people, such as Prime Minister Chen Shengzhi, is self-evident, which is also a kind of balance - the ancient emperor's way. It is precisely based on this balance consideration that Emperor Zhao Xu still called Wang Jinghui to Funing Hall to discuss matters - specifically discussing the palace examination.

Emperor Zhao Xu still let Wang Jinghui be one of the examiners. What he thought was to treat Wang Jinghui as the lubricant and weight of the two factions - Wang Jinghui had almost never turned to any faction. Since Wang Anshi came to power, he raised the banner of reform and caused ups and downs in the court. This made him somewhat disappointed. With the prince consort, he could eliminate the conflict between the two factions. As for the censor's bullet chapter, the issue of becoming bigger by the prince consort. Emperor Zhao Xu didn't even believe it - and although Wang Jinghui's reputation is high, his official position is not matched with his reputation, and he has also repeatedly treated him.

The emperor who wanted to promote him said that he did not need a high-ranking position, so as not to break the rules of Emperor Taizu and Taizong set the rules. It was enough to only require land and titles as rewards. Besides, Wang Jinghui was also his brother-in-law, and he was surrounded by spies who were deployed by the prince-consort in the imperial palace since the time of Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu. The royal family was the first to know about any disturbances. Although the prince-consort had crossed the line in many places, they were all within the tolerance of the royal family. The prince-consort also explained these initiatives to the emperor, and there was no secret at all. What else should we do to make the royal family feel at ease with him?!

Although this was the first time in the history of the Song Dynasty, it did not rebound much. The ministers in the Funing Palace knew Wang Jinghui for a long time or two, and they all had deep friendships. People like Zeng Gongliang also had deep interests with the son-in-law, so they naturally would not object. As for the issue of the censor, the attitude of the two generations of emperors to the accumulated high-profile signs on the desk as a mountain. Whether Zhao Shu or Zhao Xu were the emperor, they were not foolish monarchs. The emperor's trust in the son-in-law has greatly damaged the censor's idea of ​​defeating the son-in-law as an advancement.
Chapter completed!