This is not conjecture, but reality. Sichuan-Shaanxi No. 4 Road and Fuzhou Road are far away, and there has been no feedback from local officials, so the discussion has been postponed for the time being. The candidates for senior officials in Huangzhou Province and Liangzhou Province were discussed several times in the court, and no one dared to take over.

In the end, the emperor had no choice but to appoint Liu Song and Fu Ji as high-ranking officials in the two provinces, and allowed them to choose their own high-ranking officials, and then submit them to the imperial court for approval.

Women should be the head of a province! This made the Manchu civil and military not very happy again, but the emperor stopped them with a word:

Let you go, you won't go, I don't know your skills for the first time, I only know these two suitable candidates. If you are not happy, it is difficult to borrow from the Jurchens!

As soon as these words came out, the court suddenly fell silent. It's best not to mention what is the emperor's list to recruit talents all over the world, and you have to be scolded for saying it.

Ganliang Road is what kind of virtue everyone in the government and the opposition knows everyone, except for Wang Hou's deep friendship with King Liang, who can stand in that broken place, who will not be able to resign for less than half a year, and some people even lose their lives.

It's okay, the local people are too strong, and there are so many Fan and Hu people, if you don't deal with it in three sentences, you will draw a knife against each other, regardless of whether you are an official of the court or not. If you stab you to death, you will be stabbed to death, turn your head and drill into the deep mountains and deserts, as long as the locals do not cooperate, there is nowhere to find tens of thousands of troops.

The problem is that the locals are really uncooperative, and they also pull out knives and stab them when they ask too many questions. Where is there a wise man willing to go to such a place, he can't understand what he says, and the virtuous person has to be cool when he goes.

There is another matter, that is, the Liao State. Why did the emperor say that he would borrow someone from the Jurchens, because the Liao State is not right, now it is called the Dajin Kingdom.

The Khitan people didn't know what to do, so they lost their ancestral inheritance and were robbed by a group of Jurchens. At the beginning of the year, the Dajin Kingdom was established, and envoys were sent to the imperial court.

The emperor personally received the envoys, but the results were not good. Before the envoy finished reading the letter of state, the emperor asked when he was going to return all the sixteen states of Youyun that the Liao people had stolen to the Great Song Dynasty.

The envoy was quite a wise Han man, and he said that he had to go back to ask the emperor of Dajin for this matter, and it was not up to him to decide in such an identity.

There was nothing wrong with what they said, but Zhao Maid was not happy, and directly drove out the envoy of Dajin State, and threw down a sentence: When will the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun be returned to the Great Song Dynasty, and when will you come with the national letter again!

Yes, the Great Song Dynasty did not recognize the legitimacy of the Dajin Kingdom, and the Dajin Kingdom was naturally anxious, clamoring to use war horses and iron bones to let the Song people see the strength of the Jin Kingdom.

It's really not casual, less than two months after the envoy left, there was an enemy warning on Youzhou Road. It is said that there are small groups of Jin cavalry constantly approaching the border pass, and from time to time there are skirmishes with the horse team of the forbidden army, and the two sides win and lose each other.

For this reason, the Youzhou Road Forbidden Army has entered a state of war, and no longer dares to send patrols to the north side of the mountain, and all of them have assembled to the south of the walled fort defense line to prevent the enemy from attacking in a big way.

"Alas, I'm still young, what's the matter with other people's envoys, what's the matter if you admit it. Where is there faith between countries, today it is good to wear a pair of pants, tomorrow before dawn can kill corpses all over the field, why engage in such a battle of will. He was so happy, but it was his father's old bones that were uncomfortable! ”

When he heard the news that the emperor had scolded the envoys of the Dajin Kingdom and driven them out, Hong Tao was holding a small bamboo stick and beating people all over the school field. The training process of the forbidden army is very slow, and it is easy to say that the queue or something, but it is too troublesome in terms of combat technology and the use of weapons.

If you want to be a good musketeer, you must first not be afraid of muskets. However, among the officers and soldiers of the forbidden army, more than half of the soldiers were a month younger just because they were familiar with guns, and they did not dare to guarantee that they would be stable, not close their eyes, and not tremble.

Many soldiers of the forbidden army regarded the musket as a monster with the power of ghosts and gods, and mortals would be punished by heaven and lose their longevity if they came into contact with it too much, and they resisted it from the heart. Once they have this mentality, they can touch less and touch less, and if they can, they will not shoot without shooting, and the training progress will naturally be slow.

For several months, the first batch of qualified Forbidden Army musketeers was only more than 800 people, many of whom were barely qualified. If you cut them out, you have to cut them in half.

There is really no good way to face the stubborn disease of the mind, the soldiers are not deliberately making trouble, but out of the natural reaction to the perception of the world since childhood, it is difficult to change that thing quickly, and it is useless to be anxious.

In addition, the qualified forbidden army musketeers are also unqualified in Hong Tao's eyes, and they have to continue to return to the furnace for at least a year. Because most of them are illiterate or only literate and do not know arithmetic, they cannot understand the manuals and rules and regulations of firearms, and they are unable to flexibly calculate the shooting distance according to their needs.

As for the advanced courses such as disassembling firearms for self-maintenance, replacing parts and parts, and oiling and maintaining them during combat training, Hong Tao simply dismissed them, and it was in vain to talk about them.

He also saw that such training was not a way out, and it would not achieve the goal. The only way is to use the old to lead the new, to mix the forbidden army that has undergone initial training into the new army, to let them eat, live and train together with the soldiers of the new army, and to speed up the speed of ideological change through the influence of the ears and eyes and the group effect.

It is best to go to the battlefield to experience a few real musketeer battle baptisms, as soon as people reach the edge of life and death, many obsessions can be let go, and many boundaries will be broken, which is better than the usual training for half a year.

But he didn't expect his idea to be heard by the heavens, and then the fake hand emperor Zhao Maid came true. The problem is that he is not ready for the Northern Expedition, in addition to the shortage of troops, the domestic situation is in the most delicate period, and he cannot go out with all his strength.

At this time, sending troops to the Jin State could not achieve a fatal blow at all, and could only show the other party the strength of the Great Song Dynasty in exchange for a few years of peace. However, this has great side effects and may increase the difficulty of fighting in the future.

At present, the high-level leaders of the Jin State are not very clear about the combat methods of the musketeers, and if they wait for their own preparations, they will be able to use this advantage to sweep away the entire Liaodong and Mobei in one go, and not give the other party a chance to familiarize, study, learn, and imitate at all. When they figure it out, they are basically powerless to resist.

Now I have to take the musketeers to show the enemy how to fight, and then watch the other party study and familiarize myself with this new combat concept.

When people have figured it out and found a way to deal with it, it is basically impossible for them to sweep and crush it in one go, and the price of the war will be doubled.

All this was all because of the emperor's impulse, but Hong Tao could not blame it publicly. Zhao Fu recognises his own concept and is also an emperor, and has been instilled with a lot of ideas of imperial power since he was a child.

And he is not a child anymore, and he certainly does not like the minister's accusations, even if they are right. What is good as a stream, and humbly accepting advice is a good wish. Whoever sits in that seat becomes more and more conceited, more and more intolerant of rebellious words, unless he does not have absolute power in his hands.

Now I can only pray that Zhao Maid's changes will not be too fast, and try to give myself the opportunity to strip the imperial power step by step, so that I can achieve my goal without hurting the peace.