Chapter 354: The army that cannot entertain the people

The content of this conversation soon came to the palace. The little emperor Zhao Ji held the secret letter handed over by Cao and Zhang. This time he didn't show it to anyone, and hid alone in the study and slowly savored the secret letter.

In the secret complaint, Cao and Zhang described the situation of the war chess deduction, and then fully described the situation of the "Battle of the North Shore" leaked by the war chess deduction. The two of them continued to talk about the calculation ability of Zhao Xing's aides. Cao Yu also sighed in the secret comment: "In the past, I heard that Zhao Li people were good at using the power of heaven and earth, using grass and trees, suppressing people with power, and winning with power. Today, I saw it.

I used to see Zhao Liren's record, and I often thought it was unreliable. There were some traces of ghosts, gods and demons, and they were incredible. But now I know that before the war started, Zhao Liren could calculate every step properly and even estimate the accidents that occurred. Such talents were so chilling when they thought about it. Are humans? Gods? Looking up to the mountains!"

Later, Cao Yu talked about Zhao Xing's Israeli student in his letter. He said: "I have heard from the sea merchants in the past that the world in the West and the South Oceans is not wilderness. Today, I still feel shocked when I heard this person talking about Western formations. It turns out that the people in the West and the South Oceans are also studying tactics, but this is the first time I heard this. I was sweating in a cold sweat when I heard this: Khitans communicate with Dashi, Maliba (the name for Yemen in the Song Dynasty). What I heard on that day, did the Khitans already know? In this way, our emperor Song fell into the Khitan's back. Isn't this worrying...

I have also asked Zhao Liren why he chose Western formations - Zhao Liren explained: Information determines judgment. What he needs most now is to judge the most suitable means to attack the Liao people. For this purpose, he must obtain as much information as possible - even if it comes from the West."

Zhang Dunli's letter was exactly the same as Cao Yu. With his admiration throughout, he was excited and analyzed the faint changes that occurred between the Song and Liao dynasties due to the appearance of firearms and grounds: With the maturity of Zhao Xing's new tactics, the day when the imperial court restored Youyan was about to be expected.

After reading this passage, Zhao Ji was excited. He circled the circle in the hall and said to himself: "It's inappropriate, it's inappropriate. Guangdong Gunners are the Guangdong Risk Corporation who pay the money to pay for it. This military and national weapon cannot be controlled by the local government. It's inappropriate!

Overseas are not wilderness, but rocks on other mountains... Cao Yu was too worried. When it comes to his understanding of overseas, the Khitans could not catch up with our emperor and Song Dynasty. Zhao Xing started his career with sea trade, and his understanding of the West was actually comparable to that of the Khitans. In this way, the imperial court was blocked.

The temple calculation is calculated, Uncle Zhao stationed troops in the Yellow River, whether the temple calculation is calculated. He fought with the Liao people, and it ended in a hurry, and whether the temple calculation is calculated... These all need to be discussed in court..."

When Zhao Ji was planning in the hall, Zhao Xing had already been called up to his feet. In front of the team were the main peace talks between the Song and Liao countries - Jiang Zhiqi and Wang Shiru. Behind the team were Zhang Dunli. Zhao Xing and Shuai Fan were all studs, and followed the two envoys toward the capital.

Cao Yu's departure team reached the border of Daming Mansion. After Cao Yu left, Zhao Xing's team had several more children. This was the next generation of heads sent by Zhang, Wang and Cao Sanxing. In addition to these three generals, the Shi generals also temporarily added them after learning the news. The Shi generals' joining also allowed Zhao Xing to catch all the front lines of the Song Dynasty.

The team slowly moved forward and learned that the people who signed a new contract in Song and Liao dynasties spontaneously gathered on both sides of the official road to welcome him.

Since the Chanyuan Alliance, the frequent small-scale harassment of the Liao Kingdom has forced the Song Dynasty to maintain a huge army in Hebei. Although the newly signed "Wuqing Alliance" is a local contract, in the new contract, the Liao people agreed to regard small-scale looting as a crime and were willing to accept the wanted request of the Song Dynasty court, which also means that the annual "grass-killing valley" has finally subsided.

Therefore, although the court could suppress the news of the fight between Song and Liao, the local events on the river bank seemed to be quarreling like a group of ducks. But the people along the way kept a low-key intention regardless of the court. They spontaneously surrounded the road and showed their inner joy on their faces. They couldn't help but rush to the Song army who had escaped from their bodies and cheered.

In the Bianliang, the Great Song Dynasty, outside the Wansheng Gate, the Hanlin Chengzhi Zhao Ting stood in the official road in a big red robe. Behind him was the eunuch Liang Shicheng. The latter held a red satin covering the earth and sky plate in his hand, and stood in a arrogant manner in the road.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Zhiqi obediently stopped and made way. Seeing this, Zhao Xing and Shuai Fan jumped off the horse and waved their hands to stop the army's advance. The two of them winked slightly and moved forward single.

Walking to the empty plate that Liang Shicheng asked, Zhao Xing was still interested in teasing Liang Shicheng: "The big pavilion is secure, it's very heavy."

Liang Shicheng laughed awkwardly, his expression calmed down slightly. Zhao Xing then untied his sword and placed it on the plate. He then took off his three hand guns, a scimitar, a dagger, a hand axe, a nail hammer, and a silver seal from his body...

Zhao Xing's weapons were piled up on the plate. When Shuai Fan untied his sword, he didn't know where to put it. But Liang Shicheng now knew why Zhao Xing let him take it firmly. He only felt that the things in the plate were as heavy as Mount Tai, dead, so heavy, so heavy-

The officials of the Song Dynasty carried many ornaments, but as a general in charge, in addition to the sword used for ritual staff, they were just military talismans. However, Zhao Xing seemed to have many more weapons than others, and the handsome fan was even more abnormal. He only had two swords and was waiting with a huge hammer in his hand... Liang Shicheng was anxious and hurriedly greeted: "Mr. Zhao, let go of his hand, and tolerate it - the Guangyi sword is enough."

Zhao Xing laughed, picked up the sword and the gun again, and did not go back to his waist. When Shuai Fan saw it, he stopped teasing Liang Shicheng. He handed the huge nail hammer back to the servants and put the light Yi Jian on the tray in Liang Shicheng's hand. Then, the two of them took a step back and bowed to Liang Shicheng to sign up: "My teacher, the bachelor of Fuwen Pavilion (Bachelor of Baowen Pavilion), the Guangnan Transportation Envoy and the Commander of the Army (Mizhou Guard and Guangnan Military Case Officer) Zhao Xing (Shifan) was ordered to go to Beijing to report, and it was like Yi Jian to remove the sword."

Liang Shicheng quickly shouted in a sharp voice: "The edict ordered the wine!"

The rule set by the Song Dynasty was that when the generals went to the expedition returned to the capital, they had to untied their swords outside the Wansheng Gate of the capital. Before entering the capital, the soldiers who went to the expedition should also put their weapons into cloth bags to express their "dare not to disturb the holy carriage with their weapons." In contrast, the officials would give the soldiers and generals to the expedition to the expedition to the expedition to the expedition to the expedition to the expedition to the expedition to the expedition to the expedition to the expedition to the expedition to the expedition to the expedition to the expedition to the expedition to the expedition to the army - this may be the origin of "release the power of military power with a cup of wine."

Liang Shicheng shouted this sentence, Shuai Fan turned around, raised his right hand high, and rushed to the soldiers to order: "Three armies, unarmored the armor and spears---As long as the command: the gun is under the shoulder, remove the gun and the gun is worn."

The so-called "removing gun pierce" means removing the bayonet from the muzzle; "wearing gun flower" means stuffing a decorative flower ball into the muzzle. The function of this flower ball is to prevent water and dust from entering the barrel. It is an essential equipment in the era of smoothbore guns.

"Wow wow wow wow", three neat sounds passed by. The Demon-Eliminating Army of the Suzaku Army completed the "gun down the shoulder" action. Immediately afterwards, a metal brittle sound was heard, and a triangular bayonet was unscrewed from the muzzle and put it in the waist. The action was quite neat, but the remaining action was only described as messy.

The soldiers stuffed gun flowers into the muzzle with all their hands and feet - this gun flowers are not gun flowers set by a unified specification. Zhao Xing left a little autonomy for the soldiers here and allowed the soldiers to order their favorite gun flowers. Therefore, the gun flowers of the Suzaku Soldier and the Demon-Eliminating Army looked very personal. Some gun flowers were similar to modern cartoon toys, and they were exaggerated head shapes of various animals, such as the cute bear head, the hideous wolf head, and the funny sea dog (seal).

In addition, because this army is called Zhuque, the magic-removing demons, many soldiers' guns are of various shapes, and there are also two peacock unicorns inserted into the muzzle of the soldiers. The peacock unicorns are one-third of the length of the gun. The straight vertical sky is in a swaying shape.

You can't say that with such decoration, the murderous team just now became an imperial guard that could be used for street performances, which is cute and cute...

Zhao Tingzhi looked at Zhao Xing with satisfaction, and the army obediently put away the sword and gun. He raised the imperial edict in his hand and shouted in a straight voice: "The imperial edict, the Demon-Eliminating Army of the Suzaku Army entered the camp to order the school, Your Majesty gave Lambs and wine, and the army looked for the missing to thank him."

After Zhao Tingzhi announced that the soldiers had completed their movements and stood quietly - yes, they were standing quietly. There were confused troops on both sides of the road, and murderous aura was condensed in the middle of the road. Musketeers were silent.

Looking at the confused army in front of him, Zhao Tingzhi was stunned - as an army that is very capable of fighting, he didn't know how to entertain the people. Is this still an army?

That's right, Zhuque, I don't know how to entertain the people.

It has to be said that Shuai Fan is very good at training soldiers. Under his strict training, even when facing the fierce Liao cavalry, soldiers can form corresponding formations and fight against the enemy soldiers according to the instructions of the officers. Their training areas are diverse, which is enough to make all modern soldiers feel swelling when they hear their names... However, they only did not train ceremonial guards - military etiquette that conforms to the characteristics of the Song Dynasty.

The regular imperial guards, when they heard Zhao Tingzhi announce this ceremony, they should bow to the mountain and shout: "Long live! Long live! Long live!"

But now after Zhao Tingzhi announced, the soldiers stared at him blankly. After a long time, some soldiers who had worked as experts in the Shaanxi army remembered the etiquette of the business, but they all looked at Zhao Xing and waited for the order. After Zhao Xing made a gesture, they bowed and cheered: "Long live long, long live long, long live long."

The mighty and neat army just now disappeared. After many soldiers shouted slogans, the remaining soldiers remembered what to do. They added a cheer in a slight manner. This made Zhao Tingzhi look gloomy and said resentful: "I often heard that the soldiers under Lord Zhao are very good at fighting and sweeping across the small countries in Southeast Asia. I didn't expect that they were so ignorant, hum!"

Shuai Fan rolled her eyes and said to herself: "If you shout slogans neatly, can you defeat the enemy? Can you improve our combat effectiveness? These useless things are just a ceremony. What if everyone shouts in a bad manner? They have no effect on our combat effectiveness."

Zhao Xing laughed and smoothed out the situation: "The boys came down from the front line - Lord Zhao, why bother to blame a victorious army?"

Zhao Tingzhi glared at Zhao Xing hatefully.

What the other party said was indeed reasonable, and Zhao Xing, who had made great contributions, was about to be valued. At this moment, Zhao Tingzhi and Zhao Xing were in a dilemma, which was not in line with the wishes of the young emperor. He thought for a while and raised his voice and continued: "The official has an order. Since the Guangnan Gunners came into force, they have never ordered the school. Today I will return to Beijing to submit the presentation. I will borrow this reward. Please verify it and ask Lord Zhao to send someone to help."

Now, after the new emperor ascended the throne, who was the hottest in the court? It was not Han Zhongyan who was determined to cleanse the adultery in the Qing Dynasty, nor Zeng Bu, the important minister of the two dynasties. It was the Zhao Ting and Lord Zhao in front of him.

As soon as Cai Jing left, Zhao Tingzhi successfully replaced Cai Jing's "position". He was named the "right servant of the Shangshu and the Secretariat of the Secretariat. This is of course very well reflected his position in the emperor's heart. However, speaking of this, Zhao Tingzhi is indeed a high-quality person - at least stronger than Cai Jing who fell down the wind. The "beautiful prospect" in front of him did not penetrate his mind. He decided to take this opportunity to do something, at least leave a good reputation in history of "excluding the Yuanyou Party members without any effort". Therefore, he specifically asked for this job of issuing the imperial edict and blocked Zhao Xing's route to the city.

In fact, Zhao Tingzhi spared no effort to attack Su Shi and his Yuanyou Party members. He was ridiculed and ridiculed by Su Shi and his disciples in his youth. The young Zhao Tingzhi was promoted to the Pavilion. Su Shi once said that he "has no choice for this to gather villains, but he has no choice for his studies and practices." Zhao Tingzhi "deeply titled him" and could not attack.

With this teacher, the young Sumen disciples were unable to remain calm. Even Huang Tingjian, a kind man, made an "office joke".

When Zhao Tingzhi was a child, his family was poor. After becoming an official, he hated others about the fact that his family was poor the most. Who dared to touch on this sensitive topic? That is, "demonizing Zhao Tingzhi". When Zhao Tingzhi was a child, he rarely ate steamed cakes. After becoming an official, he thought steamed cakes were the best delicacies in the world. Back then, he worked in the hall with Huang Tingjian, and every day the servants would come to ask them what they had. Zhao Tingzhi always said, "Eat steamed cakes tomorrow."

One day, everyone gathered to have a meal and wanted to make a drink order. Huang Tingjian wanted to joke with Zhao Tingzhi. He said: Let's do such orders today, each person said five words. Among these five words, the first four words together are the fifth character. Zhao Tingzhi didn't know that there was a deception. After thinking about it, he said: "He Nu condemned Gui Wei." Huang Tingjian immediately said: "Let's force to be correct and straight."

These five words are exactly homophonic with the Shandong dialect of "eat steamed cakes tomorrow". My colleague burst into laughter, and Zhao Tingzhi couldn't get out of the market.

Since then, Zhao Tingzhi has become a complete opposition to Su Shi: He will oppose any Su Shi agrees, and he will agree with any Su Shi opposes, including Su Jun disciples - including Zhao Xing.

After the "Wutai Poetry Case", Zhao Tingzhi instigated the court to issue a ban on the destruction of the steles and steles written by Su Shi in various places. In addition, Zhao Tingzhi spared no effort to personally preside over the burning of Su Shi's articles. The content covers Su Shi's poems, Su Shi's articles, Su Shi's copybooks, Su Shi's dragon bone water carts...all of them are burned.

This also caused Zhao Mingcheng, the son who has always been highly praised by Su Shi and his disciples. He had to turn from openly to underground. Whenever he met Su, Huang and others would secretly collect the copybooks. According to Li Qingzhao's records, he was often beaten by Zhao Tingzhi after getting married. Li Qingzhao's father Li Gefei was also persecuted by Zhao Tingzhi because of Su Shi's disciple.

Zhao Tingzhi is a paranoid who doesn't even let his son go against Su Shi. He has the opportunity to humiliate Zhao Xing, but he doesn't want to let him go. At this moment, he is at the intersection, thinking about it, constantly asking himself - what to do?!

Zhao Xing's contribution this time was to look at the ministers and the entire Song Dynasty officialdom, and he could not find a comparable person.

Not to mention that the new emperor ascended the throne, it was the five hundred Suzaku army that entered the city and helped the new emperor to successfully resolve the powerful minister Zhang Dun who opposed his ascension... This is more of a contribution than supporting him. No matter how he slandered Zhao Xing, be careful not to touch the bottom line in the hearts of the little emperor - who knows what secret agreement and activities the two have?

In addition, how did the meeting of the National People's Day come to the court held this year? I watched the little kings of the South China Sea who were willing to come to celebrate the congratulations and admired the civilization of the Song Dynasty. Of course, this kind of admiration was beaten, and was beaten by the two great men in front of me. Who can compare with such great achievements?

Under Zhao Xing's oppression, those kings made the right choice between "destroying the country" and admiring the Song Dynasty, which also raised Zhao Xing's reputation in the Song Dynasty to an unparalleled level.

Even if Zhao Xing's military achievements are ignored, the astonishing achievements made by Zhao Xing in civil affairs cannot be ignored. Not to mention his achievements in Mizhou and Yangzhou, only Huanqing. After Zhang and Zhao Xing, although Huanqing had worked closely with the Xixia people and spared no effort for many years, even such a "man-made disaster" still could not suppress Huanqing's fighting spirit. The court only sent a seventy-year-old old man Fan Chuncui back to Huanqing, and under the joint pressure of Lu Huiqing and the Xixia people, the Xixia people retreated with all the way.

This political achievement cannot be ignored anywhere.

What's more, Zhao Xing's achievements in Guangzhou for six or seven years were even more incredible.

Let’s talk about the Tongzheng first. Facts prove that Zhang Dun asked Zhao Xing to be in charge of the Guangnan Coin Censorship. This appointment may be the most correct thing he has done in his life. Originally, the amount of money minted in the Song Dynasty was only a small proportion, but after Zhao Xing arrived in Guangnan, he adopted a new machine. This change alone made Guangnan account for half of the Song Dynasty in the amount of money minted.

After seizing Dali, the amount was even larger and unimaginable. Nowadays, 80% of the copper coins in the entire Song Dynasty were cast in Guangnan, and the new coins were without exception, non-hole round coins made by new stamping machines.

In addition, the local taxes paid by Guangdong Maritime Bureau have also increased year by year. Now the wealth paid by Guangdong has accounted for more than 40% of the entire Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, where the famine has just subsided, such an important official who has mastered the amount of money minted by the Song Dynasty, has frequently won victory on the battlefield and expanded territory for the Song Dynasty. He has just obtained an equal agreement on the war against the Liao Dynasty. Even if he is not in the face of the soldiers, he will also be in the light of the Liao envoys in the peer-to-people, and will make things difficult for him.

With this change of thought, Zhao Tingzhi nodded slightly, turned sideways and said, "Mr. Zhao, please enter the city."

Zhao Xing looked at Zhao Tingzhi blankly and hesitated for a moment. Seeing that Zhao Tingzhi was still gloomy and without any expression, he looked at Shuai Fan again in confusion. Shuai Fan was also surprised. According to the rules, the court should send a flattery envoy to welcome the soldiers of the Victory Returning Court, and at the same time welcome the envoys of the Liao Kingdom who were accompanying him. Why is it just a Hanlin minister Zhao Tingzhi coming forward?

"Is that over?" Zhao Xing asked in surprise.

Jiang Zhiqi also felt that it was too much. He stepped forward and pointed to the frame of the Liao Kingdom behind him and asked Zhao Tingzhi: "Sir Zhao, where are the rest of the people?"

Zhao Tingzhi had a gloomy face and replied coldly: "Being under Wansheng."

Wanshengmen. It is commonly known as "Deshengmen" among the people, also known as Wan'anmen. The famous Jinmingchi is on the south side of Wan'anmen. Inside the city gate is Duting West Post, where the diplomatic envoys of Xixia in Beijing live. Duting West Post faces the capital guards, which is specially stationed troops from foreign enemies to Beijing. The Song Dynasty used this act of drawing troops from other places to move the capital as a means to restrain local towns.

A little further away from Wan'anmen Square, there is also a famous "Master's Building" - Banlou. Because of the existence of this building, the area has become a famous gay area in the Song Dynasty. When it gets dark, the streets are full of masters - commonly known as male prostitutes.

The Wansheng Gate is generally not open, and only the soldiers who welcome the victory and return to the court will be grandly opened. The usually closed Wan'an Gate also caused inconvenience for the people of Tokyo to come and go. For this reason, the court opened several other corner gates to facilitate the people of Bianliang City to enter and exit, and the most famous corner gate is Xishui Gate.

Logically, the court should welcome the envoy to the palace to welcome the envoy, but now, the envoys of the court do not step out of the Wan'anmen Square and stay in the city gate. After Zhao Tingzhi made way, Zhao Xing raised his eyes and saw that under the city gate, several officials from the Privy Council and the minor officials of the Ministry of War bowed to the place with apologies.

Is this a neglect or is there another arrangement?

Jiang Zhiqi lowered his face and waved his sleeves to scold him. Zhao Xing took the lead and waved his hand to order: "All the troops, enter the city!"

Behind Zhao Xing, Shuai Fan took a step forward and whispered unwillingly: "Sir, Zhao Tingzhi is humiliating us! What's wrong with the imperial court? Why only send such low-ranking officials to come out to please me? Do you want me to have a sensation..."

At this time, with Zhao Xingdi's order, the Guangnan army began to enter the city in a row. The great humiliation made their faces flush. They pouted and stepped heavily. The heavy sound of horse boots waved in the city gate, rumbled like the thunder before the storm.

Zhao Xing pondered and replied as he walked: "Maybe it was not targeting us--the court sent Lord Youzhengyan Jiang to serve as an envoy. He originally wanted to sign a country-to-state agreement, but we signed a local agreement. I can imagine that the censors must have exploded...

Jiang Zhiqi just wanted to have an attack because the court did not send a flatterer of a fairly qualified class. However, if Wang Shiru came to submit a letter of state as a local official in Nanjing, then the court sent several minor officials from the Privy Council and the Ministry of War to be worthy of his identity - the Celestial Empire is a ritual, and this kind of welcome ceremony is more convenient than anyone else."

When the frame entered Wan'anmen, Wang Shiru's face was also very gloomy. The court did not send a flatterer with a very standard, which made him feel like he had lost his identity.
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