Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Naturally, he has to maintain this situation carefully, and will never be dazzled by the world's sophistication, so Pan Mei's reuse is also in his plan.

Chapter 398, Heart Knot

"Deputy Marshal, I think this time it's you. The most powerful man in the war between the courts is the general."

"Every time the officials go out to fight, they let the general lead the army alone. Where can others get such trust..."

"I think the position of commander-in-chief in the future will definitely belong to the general!"

"That's up to you to say, it's a certainty."

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On the third floor of the restaurant, the wine and meat on the table were already cold, only the wine glass was still warm. Li Chuyun ignored the noise of his subordinates on the table, and kept looking at the street corner below.

He casually drank the wine in his glass, keeping his eyes on the distance: "Stop going out and shouting about these things, the officials make their own decisions, and it's not our turn to overrule."

Several generals shut up and nodded, and said no more.

Li Chuyun kept looking downstairs, drank two more glasses, his heart was full of melancholy.

The eyes never left the begging grandpa and grandson on the corner of the street. The elderly grandfather kept begging to passers-by. The young child was unkempt and curled up in the arms of the old man, avoiding the eyes of the people around him.

The chill of autumn made the skinny and young children shiver. The people who passed by were in a hurry, most of them were indifferent, so they had to quicken their pace and avoid them like bad luck. Such situations were not uncommon in Daliang, and there were countless of them in the world.

His eyes stopped on the other side, under the old willow tree by the river opposite Grandpa and Sun Road, leaning against a few idle and idle men.

Li Chuyun withdrew his gaze, he blamed his subordinates, but he didn't think about it in his heart, after all, it was the position of an extremely human minister, a position that he had to carefully think about in his dreams before.

Originally, he thought that it was not far from what he thought in his heart. If the officials didn't want to run around, then the only ones who could lead the army to destroy the Southern Han Dynasty were him, Wang Quanbin and Wang Shenqi.

Wang Quanbin is getting old, and it is unlikely that the officials will let him go again. Only he and Wang Shenqi are left. This is almost a certainty.

For this reason, he also played some tricks, or he didn't set it up, but he just didn't stop it.

The thing is that before Wang Shenqi had a commander from Hebei, probably in order to please his boss, he actually thought of starting from the Fu family and speaking for Wang Shenqi from the queen.

This matter was also told to him by the people below. If it was in the past, he would definitely tell Wang Shenqi, let him take care of his subordinates, and don't engage in such clever tricks.

Because he has been following the campaign for many years, he knows that although the officials are generally lenient, informal, and talk more kindly, they definitely don't like such methods, and Wang Shenqi and him have also fought side by side several times and fought hard.

But at the critical moment when the two might compete, he didn't tell Wang Shenqi about it, nor did he stop it, but kept silent.

If the officials hate Wang Shenqi because of this incident, his chances of winning will be even greater.

This is not a calculation, but it has deviated from many things. However, in the face of the power of one person under one man and over ten thousand people, those abandonments are simply too few.

It's just that he never expected that just when he thought he was sure of winning, the officials did another thing and called Pan Mei back to Beijing.

There was news on the day Pan Mei was recalled. The officials met Pan Mei alone in the garden outside the city and talked for half a day.

When all kinds of news came, he was teasing his smart and cute little daughter at home, and he was still thinking, it would be great if the good girl grew up quickly, such a cute daughter might have a chance to be favored by the officials, and his status would also be greatly reduced. more stable.

But after the eldest son Li Jilong told him the news, he was struck by lightning, and he was silent for a long time. After a long time, he let out a long sigh of relief.

He still clearly remembered that his son Li Jilong, who was not deeply involved in the world at the time, didn't quite understand what was going on, and he was puzzled by the change on his face, but he knew it.

The officials have been talking for so long about letting Pan Mei come back, and nine out of ten they want Pan Mei to be in charge...

Because Pan Mei has always been trusted by the officials. Back in the Zhou Dynasty, Pan Mei supervised the army almost every time the officials went on an expedition. The two complemented each other and cooperated a lot.

Pan Mei guarded Tanzhou before and defeated the Southern Han army. It is also a reasonable choice to use him as the commander.

In an instant, all expectations and ambitions came to naught, and Li Chuyun became silent for the past few days, and he didn't dare to think about the remaining hopes.

Looking at the bustling street with people coming and going outside the street, drinking the bitter wine in the glass, it was only at this moment that he suddenly realized that he seemed not qualified to bargain with the officials.

No matter how high his military exploits are, there are too many people with high merits in the army, and there are many people who can stand on their own.

It wasn't until this moment that Li Chuyun suddenly realized one thing, he couldn't do Wei Qing or Huo Qubing, no matter how high his contribution was, there were too many capable people in the Qin Dynasty.

Thinking of these, suddenly it was like a broken dream, like waking up from a dream, extremely depressed.

After drinking a few bowls of bitter wine, watching the hustle and bustle outside the city, I also feel melancholy and can't lift my spirits.

After a while, Li Chuyun settled the bill, and all the generals got up and went downstairs surrounded by confusion and doubts. The customers below stepped aside one after another. Many people bowed their hands and said good things from a distance, and some bold people came up to compliment him .

After all, this restaurant is full of regular customers, and many people know Li Chuyun's true identity.

In the eyes of everyone, Li Chuyun left straight away, strode outside, took out a handful of coins and put them in the broken bowl of the grandpa and grandson who were begging on the street corner.

The old man immediately knelt down to thank him loudly, kowtowed to him, and pulled his timid and emaciated grandson to do the same.

Li Chuyun didn't care about them. Instead, he walked a few steps away and knocked down the big man who was loitering by the willow tree. The accompanying knife was also pulled out.

Two idle hooligans, no match for elite soldiers and warriors, were instantly restrained.

"Get away, don't get close to this area, and embarrass them, I'll throw you into the river and feed you bastards!" Li Chuyun threatened viciously, as if he wanted to vent all his anger.

He has always been sensitive, and his intuition is different from ordinary people. He once spotted Khitan spies among the common people at a glance when he was by the Yellow River.

The old man's eyes were cloudy, but the thin child had been avoiding the eyes of passers-by just now, mainly because of the two idle men leaning against the willow tree opposite them, and the two men also frequently looked at the grandpa and grandson.

He has seen this kind of thing a lot. Even if the weak fall into the worst situation, someone will step on them. These two people are obviously waiting for their grandparents and grandchildren to ask for some money, and they are coming out to squeeze their share.

Li Chuyun sighed, and he thought of the hard days in the Northwest, the days of sharing weal and woe with ordinary people and fighting against foreign enemies.

Suffering will always be on the weak, and he knows this best after struggling in the northwest.

Looking back, I found that the grandfather and grandson were kowtowing to him gratefully, shouting that he was a Bodhisattva who came to the world, and tears were streaming down his face.

Li Chuyun stretched out his hand to help them up, then turned around and left, feeling helpless in his heart, he couldn't change the world's affairs, and he couldn't help them forever if he could help him for a while.

"General..." After walking for a while, the general beside him hesitated to speak.

Li Chuyun turned around and said, "I'm here today, let's all go back and train well. Don't talk too much about the Southern Han Dynasty in the future. The officials will make their own decisions."

Seeing that the boss seemed to be in a bad mood, everyone took orders one after another and didn't say any more.

Li Chuyun sighed when he saw the people going away, they would not understand the feeling of the ultimate disillusionment of their dreams, there is no military general who does not desire Wei Huo's achievements and treatment, does not desire to be a wolf and live in Xuxu, and be admired by future generations.

"That's all..." He finally said a few casual words, ready to go home to tease the little daughter at home, and ignore those worldly troubles.

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"Official..."

In the Chuigong Hall, several scholars of the Hanlin Academy were cautious.

Shi Congyun was wearing a light leather armor and was carrying a bow. He was hunting outside the city with Fu Ermei, but was called back by people from the Imperial Academy and Honglu Temple.

Li Yu sent someone from Jiangnan to send Liu Wei's reply.

At that time, he went to inform him that Tao Gu, a Hanlin scholar, was very cautious, and his words were very euphemistic. He said that Liu Yu's words were "very disrespectful" and the like, which were all polite words.

But Shi Congyun had already guessed that it would not be a good word.

The two Hanlin scholars and Honglu Temple officials who were waiting were very nervous, because Liu Kui didn't say anything good in his reply letter and was very disrespectful. They were afraid that the officials would get angry.

After a while.....

"Hahahaha..." It was actually the official's laughter that came from above. Everyone looked surprised, and when they looked up, they saw the official was laughing, with a happy face, as if they had seen something interesting. Immediately looked at each other very puzzled.

Shi Congyun really laughed happily, not because he was angry, but because he was really amused.

Liu Wei's letter is indeed very arrogant, for example, you are the emperor, and I am also the emperor. It is normal to say that the Southern Han Dynasty will never submit, and if you have the ability, you will meet on the battlefield.

But at the end, he couldn't hold back for a while. In his letter, Liu Yan talked about how he was the son of the Jade Emperor and was blessed by heaven. If he dared to send troops to the Southern Han Dynasty, he would be punished by heaven.

He also vowed to give him the content of "popular science" scourge, locusts, great drought, epidemics, the sun does not come out, etc. He also said that the reason why the Southern Han Dynasty was defeated in the autumn war was because God had the virtue of good life , I didn’t want the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty to wantonly kill the soldiers of the Central Plains, so the soldiers were defeated...

As an atheist of later generations, Liu Yan's serious exposition almost made him burst out laughing, and it took him a while to catch his breath.

Facing the puzzled officials, Shi Congyun said directly to Tao Gu, "Don't pay attention to him, let's just make our own preparations. If he is the Jade Emperor's son, then I am the Jade Emperor,"

Then he said to Tao Gu: "The most important thing is that you have to write the Annals List recently. You can ask Guo Tingwei to write down the benefits brought about by the tax reform near Chengdu. Learn and talk more."

"Are the officials planning to carry out reforms?" Tao Gu asked.

Shi Congyun didn't play with him about the unfathomable power of the sky, and said directly: "Let the people of the world understand and gain insight. I don't have that kind of plan, so you just write it, and you don't need to show it to the prime minister of the Zhengshitang."

Emperor Shi naturally had his plans......

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Chapter 399: Emperor Shi's Growth

The winter in Daliang is cold and dry, shrouded in heavy mist, the scattered corners of the houses can be vaguely seen, the delicate roof tiles are looming, and the thick white snow covers the streets and alleys.

From time to time, some noisy and trivial voices can be heard in the mist, the trivial noise of tinkling, and the hustle and bustle of parents.

Unknowingly, the end of the year is approaching, the recruitment of the new navy is coming to an end, and the training has begun in full swing.

On the banks of the Bian River, Shi Congyun invested heavily to dig a huge school ship pool along the river bend, which was used for both new ship experiments and naval training.

In the middle of the winter month, the new navy formed an army. Shi Congyun Shengjia came to the Bian River in person, Liu Renshan, Guo Tingwei, Pan Mei and other generals accompanied him, killed cattle and sheep to send Fanqi, and then the waves symbolizing the new navy Jiaolong Panqi was handed over to Guo Tingwei, announcing the establishment of the new navy.

Moreover, this new water army also belongs to the ranks of the Forbidden Army, which is completely different.

The Forbidden Army is a professional soldier, supported by the state and equipped by the state. It usually does nothing but conduct military training. It is very elite and completely different from the local Xiangbing and militia.

Most of the Xiang army and the militia are recruited during wartime, or go home after serving for a period of time, and most of the time they still need to work in agriculture and farming as conscripts, which is very different from the professional army.

However, it is definitely a huge expense for the current country to support 20 professional soldiers, and ordinary countries cannot support it at all.

But Qin State needs, 20 standing army is necessary for Qin State, and even needs to be expanded.

In the end, the new navy was established as Cangbo.

So far, the overall framework of the Great Qin Forbidden Army has been established, and the main Forbidden Army with the infantry as the main force is "Controlling Crane" and "Hujie".The main forbidden army "Long Jie" and "Iron Cavalry" mainly consist of cavalry.The main force of the forbidden army, "Yulang" and "Cangbo", are mainly naval forces.In addition, the army "Shenhuo" mainly uses firearms.

These seven armies constitute the main framework of the Qin army.

Shi Congyun also asked the Ministry of War to remake the banners for the Seventh Army, so that each army could be more recognizable, let soldiers know their banners, and enhance cohesion.

At the end of the winter month, Shi Congyun ordered the allocation of funds to convene various departments of the Forbidden Army for a grand contest.

But this time is completely different. Compared with the previous Martial Arts Examination's bow, crossbow, riding and shooting subjects, there are many new subjects, all of which are named by the emperor himself.

These projects overlap with the usual trust training, and they are all team projects that require the cooperation of multiple people.

For example, a group of five people carry a heavy log race together, a group of eight people row a boat race, a group of 20 people bundle their left and right legs to race, a team of ten people melee, etc.

They are all projects that emphasize the cooperation and mutual cooperation of comrades-in-arms, rather than the previous kind of single-handedly fighting fiercely to select the top talents, and even the final reward is to be with everyone, and the rewards are even more.

From these arrangements, the soldiers also felt that the officials were different from the generals in the past, not simply emphasizing individual bravery, but more about the cooperation and trust among comrades-in-arms, and the ability of the team was greater than the bravery of individuals.

Because there are many team projects, more people are also involved, the camp is in full swing, very lively, there are endless cheers and shouts every day.

Such excitement even dispelled the severe winter cold.

Surrounded by all the generals, Shi Congyun watched all this at Yu Jiangtai, seeing the winter mist steaming in the heat, and the killing noises on the school field, he was very satisfied.

On the snow-covered field in the distance, there were crowds of people, and the soldiers surrounded several floors inside and outside, shouting to cheer up the people inside. Whirling snow.

Looking at the barracks in full swing, he turned his head and said to the general behind him: "You all have your own skills and experience, and you must be good at teaching soldiers how to fight.

Especially the training of the navy, Liu Renshan, Guo Tingzhi, Si Chao, etc., must be better than me, so I will not force you how to train the navy, and I will not guide experts from outsiders.

But there is one thing you must not forget, the trust training I created is essential every day, and I will send people to the army every month to do ideological work for the soldiers, at least let them understand why they are fighting, you must cooperate, and you must cooperate. Pay enough attention to it. "

"Promise, ministers, please remember carefully." Everyone clapped their hands in agreement.

For these things, Shi Congyun has always been very concerned. The ideal army in his heart must be a highly cooperative, close cooperation army that knows what it is fighting for.

The expansion of the army has been basically completed, and the framework of the main force of the Forbidden Army has been fixed, which has become the biggest thing the court has done this year after the destruction of the Northern Han Dynasty.

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In the twelfth lunar month, the end of the new year is approaching, and Shi Congyun was finally able to relax.

He took his concubine, the queen, and two children to see the snow outside the city, and to burn incense at the Daxiangguo Temple. He didn't believe it, but the wives believed it.

This year is an unusually peaceful year, rare and leisurely and relaxed. Shi Congyun also changed his usual routine and held several palace banquets. However, his father, his mother, and the young lady came to the palace for a reunion.

They also asked people to bring Zhao Shijian's father to live in the palace for a period of time.

Zhao Shijian's father is Zhao Ying's son, and he is well-informed. When Shi Congyun was a general of the Forbidden Army, when he went to visit him, he still liked to answer and kept a distance. .

Unexpectedly, now that eight or nine years have passed, the former young general of the Forbidden Army has become the current emperor, and his daughter has become a noble concubine.

This time his old father-in-law did not dare to refuse, and came soon.

In fact, Shi Congyun also sent a lot of money and gifts to his old father-in-law one after another during this period. At first, he still refused to accept them, fearing that he would get involved with the warlords and be liquidated if the situation changed in the future. There have been too many lessons like this in the past few decades.