The drizzle was drizzling, and thirteen miles northwest of Qingchi County, a walled city called Zhongyi Fort was shrouded in mist.

Murong Wangwu was wearing a piece of mountain chain mail with a full weight, standing under the eaves of the porch, looking at the more than four hundred unlucky armor soldiers who were training in the rain on the playground with a blank expression.

Those armor soldiers who were stared at by him were the little warriors selected from the Western Army and the Song Army, and they all cursed Old Man Murong in their hearts to take charge of Danzhou as soon as possible! For small military attachés of their level, the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty are all enviable and annoying existences. With the text of the martial arts! Even if they are selected from the ninth grade, they can't afford to be provoked by miscellaneous military ministers like them who have not yet obtained the official status, let alone Murong Forget to worry about this five-rank court official...... And this guy is so fierce that he will beat people with boards and whips at every turn, and sometimes he will let Brother Zhao Zhongge's powerful bastard bastard beat him!

And this is not the most unbearable for the big guys, the most uncomfortable thing for everyone is that Murong Wangwu is obviously a high-level civil official at the level of a court official, but this style is not literate at all. actually wore dozens of pounds of mountain armor, pressed the big guy in the wind, rain and snow, and practiced hard!

It's unreasonable, you're a civil official! Shouldn't it be a wide robe and a feather fan, a beautiful woman with wine, and a laughing about the wind and moon? How can there be such a civil official wearing a mountain armor and staring at a group of martial artists training every day? What sages do you still read? Even Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi, who "have millions of soldiers in their chests", will not be like this!

Oh, by the way, this old man Murong doesn't have a million soldiers in his chest, he has hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and there are no tens of thousands...... However, this old man is really knowledgeable, not the kind of civil official who doesn't know how to pretend to understand, and is very easy to fool.

Instead, I learned how to use a sword, a spear, a bow and a crossbow, and a shield to the point of mastery! And he is also skilled in arching horses, he can ride on a horse to play bead shooting, and he can also stand on horseback and look out - he is the teacher of Ma Zhi and Zhao Zhongge, can he not bow horses skillfully?

Whoever of you below is playing the wrong game, he can personally show you a demonstration, and he can also have a few tricks with a young and strong warrior!

As for how to use a team or a part of the army, how to line up the infantry, how to set up the cavalry, how to scatter the light cavalry at night, how to charge the armored cavalry, how to march, how to camp, and how to rob things - the Liao army will fight the grass valley! Old man Murong and Brother Zhao Zhongge have both worked as officers in the Han army's guards and pro-army, so of course they know how to rob things......

Where is this a five-grade civil official, it is clearly the command of all the classes in front of the palace! And it's not the current conductor, it's the old conductor during the Taizu years!

Being stared at by such a demon-level "old commander", and also by the "old commander" who is a five-grade civil official, these students under the Military Science Department of the Privy Council have lived a hard life in the dark for more than a year.

What's even more hateful is that everyone has suffered for so long, but there is nothing to gain! Of course, the martial arts have improved a lot, and they have also mastered a lot of tactics at the department and team levels. However, the official body of Congjipin, which everyone was most looking forward to, had already been soaked in soup with the fall of Zhang Dian...... If there is no official to do, what is the use of great ability? Obviously, everyone's suffering has been in vain!

Although the resentment in his heart was extreme, no one dared to disobey the old man Murong who was wearing dozens of catties of mountain armor with teeth and claws-don't look at him pretending to be a worthless general, but he is a noble five-grade civil official! If you offend this ruthless person, your skull will be cut in vain!

But hope is not impossible, good news has come from several "unlucky guys" selected from the Kaifeng Forbidden Army. It is said that the official family has issued a great edict to pull the more than 400 students in the Military Academy Division (there are no more than 500 people now, a few died due to beatings and training accidents, and a few escaped through the back door) to the front of the palace, and a special imperial horse was set up to settle everyone.

Although the official body is still unsettled, it is a way out to be able to go to the official house of the Imperial Horse Guard, right? The classes in front of the palace have always been paid by the first class of the Great Song Dynasty, and the students in the Military Academy Division are all at the level of miscellaneous military ministers, and they can always get a high salary when they get to the Imperial Horse Straight......

I don't know if it's because the military academy is about to be closed, the old man Murong is very angry these days, and he has intensified his oppression of everyone, and the training requirements are also very high, and he is not allowed to rest even if it is raining lightly today, so he has to let everyone demonstrate the Rausch gun formation in the mud!

What's the use......

A nephew of the Murong family, who was also wearing armor, trotted all the way to the old man Murong, making a crisp sound of the collision of armor leaves.

"Uncle, come from afar to report, ten miles outside the village, there are dozens of horsemen coming, and there is no military flag pole."

The so-called "remote barricades" are also filled by the students of the Military Science Department, all of them are light horsemen without armor, scattered around the stockade, as long as a large group of people and horses approach, they will immediately come to report, as if they are really on the front line.

Murong forgot to worry and said softly: "Count the days, it should be the deputy envoy of the Dongshang Gate." ”

There are also children of the Murong family in Jiehe Shang City, so as soon as Wu Haogu arrived, someone rode a horse to report the news.

"Uncle, do you want to go and greet you?"

"Not necessarily." Murong Forget shook his head, "If he wants the old man to greet him, he will be reported by someone."

Since I didn't tell you, I naturally wanted to see the mighty style of the students of the Military Academy! Then let him have a good look! Although we have less than 500 men, we can serve thousands. If tens of thousands of elites can be trained in this way, why worry about the unappeasement of the northern country? ”

……

Lu Yihao was dressed in a robe, with a hat on his head, riding a big green horse on the muddy official road, looking up at the gray and oppressive sky, and his brows furrowed.

"Brother Yizhi, are you in such a hurry? Do you have to brave the rain to travel? ”

Ji Yi also rode a big yellow horse, dressed like Lu Yihao, and was also hurrying in the rain. Behind him and Lu Yihao, there was also a team of carriages and horses, and there was a lot of grandeur.

"Why not be in a hurry?" Ji Yi smiled bitterly, "Wu Haogu is a man who can do things, and he has official credit, if he goes late, I am afraid that he will acquire hundreds of thousands of acres." ”

"Brother Yizhi, haven't you already sent someone to rent land to shepherd sheep?"

As Wu Haogu expected, it was Ji Yi in the New Party camp who caused him trouble. Of course, he doesn't have to be an enemy of Wu Haogu, but the camp of the party struggle is different.

Wu Haogu has now entered Sumen, and let his younger brother marry Han Zhongyan's daughter, and he is undoubtedly an official of the old party. And Ji Yi married Zhang Dan's granddaughter and was undoubtedly a member of the New Party. For the sake of party interests, of course, he wants to spoil the good old things.

If Zhang Dian hadn't fallen now, he could have stayed out of the matter and become a free official. But now, he no longer has the capital to be free, and he must fight for the new party and climb up by relying on the "military exploits" of the party.

However, he also knew that the trick of renting land and herding sheep could not stop Wu Haogu.

Lu Yihao frowned, "How can you not stop it?" ”

"It's nothing more than spending more money," Ji Yi said, "even if 1 million yuan only buys 500,000 mu of land, the official family will not feel distressed...... Today's official family is very atmospheric. ”

Ji Yi has also played with Zhao Ji, so he naturally knows how big Zhao Ji's hands are. Wu Haogu went to Cangzhou on an errand and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars? It's a big deal to sell a piece of land in Kaifeng Mansion, and a few hundreds of thousands will be available!

"So what to do?"

Ji Yi thought for a while, "I still have to find evidence of Wu Haogu's crimes, and let Yushi impeach him." ”

"Incriminating evidence?" Lu Yihao smiled, "That's still hard to find?" How many years has that guy been an official? There are more than one million family assets, and he must be a corrupt member. ”

"It's useless," Ji Yi shook his head, "It's not a matter for the official family to protect their shortcomings, and it's not a matter to be greedy for one or two million." Besides, Wu Haogu didn't take money from the pockets of officials, he was actually a real good financial manager...... It is able to do it without the people being endowed and the country is sparing itself! ”

Lu Yihao was taken aback, "Can he do it without giving the people and the country forgiving himself?" ”

"The people do not add endowments and the state spares themselves" is what Wang Anshi said when he and Sima Guang "quarreled" in front of the emperor, which means that there is no need to increase taxes on the people, and the country's finances can also be generous. It's a pity that Wang Anshi can only speak, but he doesn't know the way to "prosper the country with real estate". As a result, it took a long time to toss, but it turned the endowment into a franchise and apportionment - it might as well be endowment!

However, Wu Haogu neither monopolized nor apportioned, and sold a piece of land to get one million for Song Huizong...... And then he tossed out a "competition prize house" trick, I heard that there are many people in the Kaifeng Forbidden Army practicing martial arts!

"Isn't this man all the way with us?" Lu Yihao thought for a while, "If Jing Gong had his help back then, maybe the country would have been rich and strong now." ”

"No," Ji Yi just shook his head, "He and Wang Jinggong are not all the way...... He is the king of the old party - this is Su Zhe's evaluation! ”

Wu Haogu and Wang Anshi's routes are opposite! Wang Anshi's surname is She, and Wu Haogu is surnamed Zi. Wang Anshi's ultimate dream is to "make the rich people's treasure to save the poor", while Wu Haogu is to make money from the rich people and develop capitalism.

"If that's the case," Lu Yihao frowned, "You can't let Wu Haogu continue to grow bigger, otherwise the court will be taken down by the Yuan You traitorous party sooner or later......"

Ji Yi nodded, "Does Brother Yuan know the new Cangzhou Governor Shi Guozhong?" ”

"I know," Mr. Lu said, "he was in high school six years earlier than me, but he was too slippery to be an official." ”

"Slippery?" Ji Yi asked, "He's not from the Yuanyou Party, right?" ”

"No," Lu Yihao said, "he's not on either side." ”

"Oh." Ji Yi nodded, "No party and no faction...... actually arrived in Zhizhou, probably thanks to the blessing of the Yasukuni in the country? He paused, "Let's go and explore his hole cards first, if he is really willing to be a mud bodhisattva, we can stop Wu Haogu." ”

"Yes!" Lu Yihao said with a smile, "He is the governor of the state, I am the general judge, he is a mud bodhisattva, and I can grasp the power of a state!" ”