The King of Liang, the feudal lords outside the town, and the generals inside

He was forced to take in a burden that hadn't fully grown. This dog looked like a plague-stricken quail, and he didn't look like he could eat meat.

Bai Yu put his index knuckles against his chin and pondered for a while, then told Qiu Ye, "Go to the pasture outside the city and squeeze some goat milk to feed it."

Qiu Ye agreed, but didn't move.

"how?"

Qiu Ye hesitated, "Well, Your Highness, what does the general mean?"

Bai Yu was silent for a moment, then sneered and said, "I don't want to make it easier for him if he's upset."

This milk dog was too small and difficult to keep. Bai Yu specially found someone to take care of it carefully, and went to the pasture outside the city every day to squeeze fresh goat milk to feed it.

After ten days, the pup of the full moon is very cute. He blinks his big eyes and wags his tail at people when he is free, and grabs Baiyu's trouser legs and is about to climb up.

As soon as he took it off, the guard at the gate came in again to report that General Yan was coming.

Bai Yu's teeth itch with hatred, and hurriedly asked Qiu Ye to hide the dog.

The plague god looked around in the backyard, but he didn't find the dog.

"I lost it." Bai Yu blushed without heartbeat, "I ran out by myself."

"Yo, that's really unfortunate." Yan Xun sat down on the stone bench, "Did His Highness send someone to look for it?"

Bai Yu said indifferently: "I looked for it, but I didn't find it."

Yan Xun let out an "oh" and didn't pursue further.

When he was leaving, he threw another big yellow dog to Bai Yu. Bai Yu didn't want to pay any more attention to him, but when he saw the dog, he kept silent.

This dog looks very much like rhubarb, the dog he raised when he was a child, and now he has buried him in the lonely smoke of the desert in the frontier.

But this one is different from Rhubarb, it is a pregnant bitch, and Bai Yu takes care of it more attentively, bringing Lucky, who has just been full moon, to keep her company.

"You can call it Jinbao." Bai Yu patted its head, "Here, this is Lucky, your godson. Get to know him."

Zhaocai disappeared that night, and the servants panicked and said that they saw a black shadow passing over the roof ridge in the backyard.

Qiu Ye immediately wanted to take someone to investigate to see which assassin and snitch were so bold that they dared to break into Prince Liang's mansion.

Bai Yu waved his hand, "No need, I know who it is."

After this time, Yan Xun didn't go to Baiyu's mansion for a long time to hang out. He only met when he was in court, and he didn't have anything else to say except a few quarrels about political affairs.

Until Jin Bao gave birth to five cubs, Yan Xun came again.

As soon as Bai Yu saw him, she went to court, but she couldn't kick him out, so she just refused to let him go to the backyard.

"Isn't there something shady hidden in the backyard, Your Highness?"

Bai Yu stood in front of Yan Xun, refusing to back down, "You have taken away wealth and wealth, and you have also stolen your fortune, what are you doing here again?!"

"If you count the days, the pups will be born. Of course I'm here to take them away."

Bai Yu put her hips on her hips and widened her eyes, "You don't really like these dogs at all, why do you want to snatch them from me! I've already developed feelings! Gentlemen don't take away people's love!"

Bai Yu still couldn't win Yan Xun, he watched Yan Xun lift the five cubs into the cage one by one, and wanted to lead them into Bao.

Bai Yu was really anxious, and went up to pull the rope, "Just leave this one to me, and give you the five smaller ones."

"They are so small, how can they do without a mother?"

Bai Yu refused to let go, "Then you wait another month, and come and take them away when they grow up!"

"No, no, no." Yan Xun insisted, "I'm going to take it away now."

Bai Yu stared at him without speaking.

Yan Xun didn't say a word, he just stood there and looked back calmly.

Bai Yu's eye circles turned red, and her eyes were suddenly wet.He gritted his lower teeth, sat down on the ground, hugged the dog's neck and didn't let go.

Yan Xun: "..."

"Your Highness, please get up. You are the supreme prince and the head of civil servants. What do you look like?"

Bai Yu raised his head and yelled at him, "Jin Bao looks exactly like Rhubarb, don't you know?! You did it on purpose! On purpose!"

Yan Xun let go of the dog's leash, and said in a calm tone, "You can have such deep feelings for a dog you raised when you were young, so do you know what kind of relationship we military generals have with our brothers who live and die with us? "

Bai Yu was startled.

"You only know how to reform the system, separate the soldiers and generals, and prevent the generals from rebelling, but like now, you are reluctant to let me take away the dog you have raised for more than ten days, let alone an army that the generals have worked so hard to cultivate? I know You do this to prevent the generals from developing feelings with their soldiers, and to make the military power stronger than the imperial power. In fact, it is also a kind of protection for us. But you have to think about it sometimes, people are not grass, sometimes there must be such a relationship between soldiers and generals Only with a feeling of mutual dependence and mutual trust can this army be invincible.”

Yan Xun's voice has always been light, as if it carried a hint of desolation and desolation in the yellow sand of the desert.

He said: "What is it, please think twice, Your Highness."

After he finished speaking, he bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Highness."

Until Yan Xun left the palace, Bai Yu was still sitting on the ground hugging Jin Bao's neck, watching the direction Yan Xun left without blinking.

Qiu Ye wanted to help him, but Bai Yu just waved his hand, "Let me be quiet for a while, and don't let anyone come in the backyard."

When he went to court again, Bai Yu proposed reforming the system again.

This time, the imperial army was divided into twelve guards, each led by a general who was in charge of the training of the army.Including the imperial guards in the capital, there are thirteen guards in total.

In addition, the post of governor was established.There are five governors in total, who are in charge of military affairs in the five regions of the country, but they do not command the army. The dispatch and recruitment of the army is the responsibility of the Ministry of War.

As a result, the Ministry of War and the commanders of the five armies depend on each other, making it difficult to monopolize military power.

In addition to the fact that the imperial army directly obeys the emperor's orders, the twelve generals under it can also contain each other.The possibility of twelve generals rebelling at the same time is almost non-existent.

The last point is to set up the post of Grand Marshal of the World's Soldiers and Horses, which will be held by the most capable general.In case of war, the Ministry of War will transfer one or two of the twelve guards to the generalissimo. The generalissimo will be the commander of the Chinese army.

As soon as his suggestion was put forward, many ministers responded, and the military commander didn't have much objection. The only question was, who is the commander-in-chief of the world's soldiers and horses?

Bai Yu looked at the emperor and returned to his throne without saying a word.

The emperor thought for a moment, and said: "I think the prime minister's new strategy is very good, you can give it a try. As for the general of the world's soldiers and horses..."

"Then it must be General Yan."

"General Yan is the top general in the first place, who else can he be?"

"But how I listen, it seems that in the prime minister's new policy, the position of Marshal of the World's Soldiers and Horses is a vacant position in peacetime, and he has no military power."

"That's right."

"How can we do that? How can our general give in to a vacant position! The general is too wronged!"

"I don't have military power at ordinary times, and it seems good to be the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army during wars. We also have a lot of wars in Dazhou."

Yan Xun quietly listened to the discussions of the generals behind him, and vaguely understood something.He frowned slightly, his eyes trembled, and he turned his head slightly to look at Bai Yu.

Bai Yu stood at the first place among the civil servants, staring at the wat board without speaking.Sensing Yan Xun's gaze, he involuntarily turned his gaze to that side, and quickly retracted it stiffly, his heart gradually beating violently.

"Yan Aiqing." The emperor spoke.

Yan Xun looked away and stepped out.

Bai Yu and the emperor had already discussed this matter in private, and today it was formally raised.Therefore, the emperor's imperial decree was not postponed, and it was issued immediately, "Today, I set up the post of Marshal of the World's Army and Horses, and the imperial decree was issued immediately. You are still General Yan in normal times, and you will be Marshal Yan in case of war."

Yan Xun thanked you.

The emperor's eyes were meaningful and fell on Bai Yu, "As for the selection of the generals of the Twelve Guards and related matters, I will leave it to the prime minister. You can also discuss it with the general. After you have made a plan, come and discuss it with me in detail." .”

"The minister obeys the order."

After waiting for the next court, he went out of the Taihe Gate. After exchanging greetings and saying goodbye, all the officials got into their sedan chairs.

"What are the prime minister's plans for the candidates for the leadership of the twelve guards?" Yan Xun asked.

Bai Yu smiled and said: "The general is the leader of the military generals, the generals are good and bad, and the generals must be very clear."

Yan Xun said indifferently: "Don't dare. The prime minister is in charge of this matter, so naturally I should listen to the prime minister. I can only offer a few suggestions."

"I must seriously consider the general's suggestion."

Bai Yu turned his gaze and looked at the person not far behind Yan Xun who hadn't left yet.

"General Chunyu seems to have something to say to the general."

Yan Xun looked back, Chunyu Jing really stopped there, with a hesitant look on his face.

Bai Yu smiled and said, "General Chunyu will be one of the twelve generals. I trust him both emotionally and rationally."

Yan Xun glanced at him, but didn't make a sound.

Bai Yu nodded, "Farewell."

He got into the sedan chair and left.

After he left, Chunyu Jing came over hesitantly, "General."

"how?"

"The last general, the last general..."

"Ok?"

Chunyu Jing gritted her teeth and said, "I have something to ask at the end. The prime minister changed the military system for the second time, is it for the general?"

Yan Xun raised his eyelids slightly and glanced at him, "Let's listen."

"The general feels that the purpose of the prime minister is to weaken the power of the general and make the general gradually become a nameless one—if it wasn't for the fact that he had no military power in his hands during the war, the commander of the twelve guards was in charge of the army all year round. Isn't it in comparison... ..."

Yan Xun didn't speak.His pupils were lighter than most people's, with a hint of brown, which added a bit of indifference to the whole person.A glance like that will always give people a feeling that the rain is about to come.

Chunyujing knew she had made a slip of the tongue, so she immediately fell silent.

Yan Xun looked at him for a while, smiled slightly, and raised his hand to pat him on the shoulder, "Don't just look at things on the surface, not to mention you still look at it with your own emotions. This is okay for me, no more Talking about it with others won't do you any good."

Chun Yujing was about to say something, Yan Xun emphasized his tone, and said: "Prime Minister Bai's new policies are all approved by the emperor's personal pen, that is what the emperor means. You can speculate freely behind your back, if the emperor finds out, you Have you thought about the consequences?"

Chunyu Jing shivered, her lips were tightly closed, and she nodded.

Yan Xun turned his head and watched Bai Yu's official sedan chair disappear around the corner.

"What's more..." he whispered, "he's not what you said."