The meeting lasted for a long time, and Zhao Yu repeatedly emphasized the significance of this battle, also explained the current situation, and made it clear that he would 'move the knife' against the Jingxiang Theater, and the principle was 'those who are capable go up, and those who are mediocre go down'. He will never be soft on the incompetent coward, and he will not be stingy to give him a bullet; As for the outstanding performance in the battle, he will not be stingy, and he will not be promoted and reused.

After lunch, Zhao Yu did not return to the venue, but was presided over by Wang Yinglin, and Ni Liang pressed the venue. It's also a strategy, with both of them singing red face and white face. After his own thunder, rain and dew will fall to calm everyone's emotions, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings. After all, changing generals before the war is a taboo for soldiers, and he has no need, and he is not capable of replacing all the senior generals of the three armies at present.

And Wang Yinglin went out with His Majesty Hu to wipe his ass for the little emperor and deal with the aftermath for him. After he repeated the emperor's attitude to everyone again, the words turned into hatred of iron and steel, and it was precisely because His Majesty had always trusted the generals of Jingxiang and given high hopes that he would react so fiercely, and it was precisely because of His Majesty's 'deep love that he would be responsible'.

After stabilizing everyone's mood, Wang Yinglin conveyed to everyone His Majesty's praise and reward for the Shu army. And the most surprising thing is that His Majesty actually decided to knight all the soldiers and civilians who stick to Lingxiao City, although they know that this kind of title can only be favored by individuals, and cannot let children and grandchildren inherit the title, but it will also shadow the descendants.

After being knighted, in addition to the benefits of money, ordinary civilians will also gain great reputation among the people, and if there is a lack of priority to make up for it, local officials will treat them with courtesy and dare not despise them. Officials with positions will receive more benefits after obtaining knighthoods, and money is not the most important thing, because the road to promotion after that will be smooth.

In the envious eyes of everyone, Wang Yinglin read out two edicts. First, the edict ordered all forbidden troops in the Jingxiang Theater to conduct a 20-day rectification and pre-war training. During this period, incompetent officials will be punished, removed from their posts and investigated, and officials with outstanding performance will be promoted and reused. Second, after the completion of the whole training, we will strive to conquer Xiangyang within one month and end the Northern Expedition.

Wang Yinglin then deployed the whole training. The training will be presided over by the emperor himself, supplemented by himself and Ni Liang, the commander of the imperial army, who will be responsible for the rectification of the military and political systems. The specific method was to draw points from the officials of Shangshu Province and the six departments who accompanied the camp, and together with the officials of the Jingxiang Marching Governor's Office and the Imperial Front Metropolitan Command, they formed a supervision group and sent them to the three armies to supervise and supervise.

The main work of the supervision group is to guide the reorganization work of various armies, participate in military command and decision-making, organize training and guide operations. It has the right to dispose of and appoint officials below the command level, and the officials above the command shall submit it to His Majesty for decision; Guidance can be given to the work of the various armies, and if there is a difference between the two sides and cannot be decided, it can be submitted to the camp for punishment; Decisions must be taken in consultation with the Steering Group for major actions and decisions, etc.

After the meeting, Wang Yinglin and Ni Liang met with the saint again, reported on the situation of the afternoon meeting, and asked for anything else that needed to be added. Zhao Yu also put forward two principles: First, the top should be strict and the bottom should be lenient, and the middle and high-ranking military and political officials should be strictly examined and punished severely; As for the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level, it is necessary to be lenient, with education as the main thing and punishment as the supplement. Second, it is necessary to be cautious in killing and killing less, and those who are not heinous, who have committed heinous crimes, and who are extremely angry by the people do not need to be executed immediately, and they should be given the opportunity to make meritorious service and atone for their crimes, so as to see the after-effects.

"These people should be killed, their eyes lit up when they heard the knighthood, and when they talked about the reward, they talked endlessly, they were all guys who only wanted to be promoted and make a fortune!" After listening to the emperor's request, Ni Liang whispered with some dissatisfaction.

"Hehe, you guy!" Zhao Yu looked at Wang Yinglin and said with a smile, "It's not a bad thing to want to be an official, and it's also a good thing to want to get rich!" ”

"My subordinates can't figure it out, how can it be a good thing to be an official and make a fortune?" Ni Liang frowned and looked at the emperor in confusion.

"Does Wang Xiang want to be an official?" Zhao Yu smiled again, turned his face to look at Wang Yinglin and asked.

"This ......" Wang Yinglin didn't expect the emperor to ask himself, and he didn't know how to answer.

"Hehe, there are many people in the world who want to be officials, but few people dare to publicly state that they want to be officials, but they hide this idea of themselves strictly, and treat those who want to be promoted with contempt, I think it is hypocrisy!" Zhao Hao said with a smile, "Actually, it's not a bad thing to want to be an official, just like some people like to write books to pass on to future generations, and some people want to be passionate about landscapes and want to become an idle person, there is nothing unseemly." ”

"Besides, there must always be someone to be an official, and it is better to let those who want to be officials be officials than to order those who do not want to be officials to do so, and it is better than the difficult order of a strong man to be an official, and it is much better to be an official!"

"Your Majesty, my subordinates think that there are few good people who want to be officials, and they work hard one by one, maliciously flattering, and they are all useless, once they become officials, they want to get rich, and they are corrupt and bribed, and the people have become dirty officials." Ni Liang shook his head and disagreed.

"What you say is not unreasonable, but it is also too erect." Zhao Hao nodded and said, he knew that Ni Liang was born in the bottom society, and he had a bad feeling for officials, and at that time it was also the darkest time in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Everyone wants to be an official, but the purpose of being an official is very different. For example, people like Wen Xiang and Wang Xiang who have great ambitions and are worried about the country and the people want to be officials, naturally in order to resist foreign humiliation, enrich the country and strengthen the army, and benefit the people; However, there are also people like Chen Yizhong who become officials in order to seek personal interests and collect money, and these people are appointed as officials and use unscrupulous means to become officials, and the result is to mislead the country and the people. ”

"Well, the subordinates understand that it is to ask good people to be officials and bring bad people to justice. Our current reorganization of the army is to remove bad officials from their posts and let good people become officials. Ni Liang thought for a while and said.

"So what do you think is a good person and who is a bad person?" Zhao Yu nodded and asked again.

"A good person is naturally supported by everyone and satisfied with Shangguan; The bad guys are the cowardly and cowardly, and they are spurned by everyone. Ni Liang replied.

"Hehe, your idea is simple and clear, but you have to see the other side of things." Zhao Hao smiled bitterly and said, this fool is simple, and if he goes to organize the army with this kind of thought, he is really not at ease.

"Some officials do not seek merit but seek no fault, act in a calm and stable manner, and do not do anything that is slightly risky. In the eyes of Shangguan, there is nothing wrong with it, and he is not a bad person in the eyes of his subordinates. Therefore, the spring breeze is proud, and the progress is smooth; However, some officials enforce the law impartially and act without fear of the powerful, so they will inevitably offend many people, making both superiors and subordinates dissatisfied. So which one do you think is a good official? ”

"Of course, the officials who do things are good officials. Officials who don't do things...... Just like the mud bodhisattva in the temple, good people and bad people burn incense to it and ask it for blessings. And the bodhisattva does nothing, so no one can offend. If a bodhisattva could really promote someone to an official or help someone get rich, those who didn't get promoted and made a fortune might have complained to the Buddha. Therefore, the Bodhisattva can be admired by all people and worshiped by all living beings, and the mystery lies in the fact that he never does anything, in fact, he is a mediocre official. Ni Liang pondered for a while and said seriously.

"Well, then do you say I'm a good emperor?" Zhao Hao asked again.

"Your Majesty, of course, is a good emperor!" Ni Liang said without hesitation, "Your Majesty loves the people like a son, exempts and exempts taxes and taxes, so that the cultivators have land and are loved by all the people." And Your Majesty marches and fights, and will be brave in front, strategizing and invincible, and who will not be respectful of the army! ”

Not necessarily. In the past, I implemented the integration of the government and the people to pay taxes, and taxed the official gentry, and those gentry hated me to the core, and submitted several times to the Queen Mother to depose me. And this time I came to Xiangyang, I executed more than a dozen generals, and there must be some people who want to say that I am cruel and unkind, and I am good at killing generals, and I must be very dissatisfied with me. Zhao Hao smiled.

"Then Your Majesty is also a good emperor. Your Majesty's introduction of a new tax law will ease the burden on the people and fill the treasury, and those people think Your Majesty is bad for their own interests. And this time, His Majesty executed and dismissed more than a dozen military generals in order to conquer Xiangyang as soon as possible and prevent the enemy army from going down to Jiangnan again, and it was not wrong to do so. Ni Liang shook his head again and again.

"Then did you participate in the whole army this time, did you ever be a good official or a bad official?" Zhao Hao asked again.

"This ......" Ni Liang was stumped, and thought for a long time before saying, "I want to be a good official in the eyes of good people and a bad official in the eyes of bad people!" ”

"Haha......" Zhao Yu and Wang Yinglin were both amused by him.

"Although what Ni Dushuai said is vulgar, it is also reasonable, we just want to be a good official who makes bad people say bad." After laughing for a while, Wang Yinglin smiled and said with a straight face, "In the same way, there are also good officials who are fair and honest and dare to ask for the people's lives among those who are willing to be officials, so we must not hide it in a word, as long as he has justice in his heart and is loyal to the king and loves the people, what is wrong with us letting him be an official?" And those who are officials for their own interests and harm the public and private interests, they want to be officials, and we can't let them become officials. ”

"Well, what Wang Xiang said is right!" Ni Liang nodded heavily and was taught.

"In addition, the officials are also individuals first, they also want to eat better, so that their families can live more comfortably, and this money comes from the court's Yulu and His Majesty's reward, and there is nothing wrong with wanting to get rich." Wang Yinglin said, "For Your Majesty, it is not a bad thing for officials to want to be promoted and make a fortune, otherwise Your Majesty will use what to motivate your courtiers to do things, and the soldiers will fight bravely to kill the enemy." If you only do something that pays lip service and is not profitable, the courtiers will be dissatisfied, and they will not be able to do anything for the country if they live in poverty, so it is exactly the same way that Your Majesty promotes and rewards officials who are capable and have achieved remarkable results! ”

"Well, it does! But...... But his subordinates are not loyal to His Majesty for the sake of reward! Ni nodded yes, but he thought of something and hurriedly explained, but it made His Majesty laugh again......