"Da Lang, what does the official's edict say?"

"What more can I say? Of course it's a house thing......"

"He won't give it?"

"I didn't say whether I would give it or not, I just said that I would never use the house in Kaifeng Mansion to motivate the army in the future."

Mingtangchuan, the camp of the Song army, inside the handsome tent, Gao Taiwei and Wu Haogu changed into civilian clothes, and sat leisurely on the Persian carpet made by Jiehe, drinking fragrant tea while chatting and talking. In addition to the two of them, there was only one arhat and maid serving in the big tent.

Wu Haogu has received the edict of promotion, and now he is a dignified Yunzhou defense envoy - this is a great official. The military attachés who are larger than the defense envoys are only the four orders of the observation envoy, the jiedu envoy to stay behind, the jiedu envoy and the taiwei envoy.

In other words, Wu Haogu has now become a first-class senior military attache in the Great Song Dynasty!

With such a status as a regular official (the fifth rank of the Jiedu Liuhou, the Observation Envoy, the Defense Envoy, the Regiment Training Envoy, and the Assassin History is called the Principal Officer), Wu Haogu is qualified to be the Sanya Guan Army or the Jingluo Pacification Envoy along the way.

Although Wu Haogu's current official promotion has soared, no one dares to say that he is "lucky". His official robe was dyed red with the blood of the party members! Yin and Xia Erzhou were all recovered by him with his troops. Tongwan killed more than 10,000 western thieves in the bloody battle, and the severed heads became Jingguan, which was piled up outside Tongwan City.

And the credit for the cave ground blasting and storming the ten thousand cities is all his! The world-famous fortified city plus 10,000 Western Xia defenders, can't be exchanged for a full-time official?

In addition, Wu Haogu also led his troops to build the "Yinzhou One Night City" before, so the ability to attack and build the city is undoubtedly the first in the matter.

However, in the Song Dynasty, it is not necessarily a good thing that the military attaché's ability is too big!

No, Zhao Ji, an official who has always been very kind to Wu Haogu, is now also reprimanding him in the edict.

Not only reprimanded, but even the empty deed opened by Wu Haogu, he didn't recognize it for sure.

"Let's relax," Gao Yu smiled and comforted, "The official family won't let you pay out of your own pocket...... These 2,000 suites, he will definitely give. The official family doesn't give you permission because they are afraid that you will use the real estate to motivate the military. ”

"What else can you use without a house?" Wu Haogu smiled bitterly.

"O land!" Gao Yu said with a smile, "When I was in Tongwancheng, the effect of Tong Daguan using land to motivate the government soldiers was good." ”

"Alas, that's to deceive the ignorant farmer." Wu Haogu shook his head, "Shuofang's land, I don't know if one acre can be worth 100 Wen?" 250 acres is only a few dozen. ”

Gao Yu said: "Isn't there a promotion here?" ”

"The government soldier has been promoted to a fart officer," Wu Haogu shook his head, "It is the first level higher than the lower soldier, and only when you are promoted to the fifth level will there be a deputy envoy who guards the que, how many heads do you have to cut off when you are promoted to the fifth level?" ”

The promotion chart of the military attache in the Song Dynasty was, to some extent, used to pass the time for mercenaries with long service periods. From the lowest rank lieutenant in the rankless lieutenant Yong, the deputy envoy of Shouque Jinyong, count up to the Tai Lieutenant has 60 ranks! There are also horsemen, upper soldiers, middle soldiers, and lower soldiers below.

If you want to be promoted, you really think too much! Moreover, the service period of the government soldiers is only five years in total, and it is already very hard to be promoted to a soldier.

"Well, don't think too much." Gao Yu smiled, "This dynasty is the rule of emphasizing literature over military force...... The so-called weight, of course, has to be linked to money! ”

Emphasizing literature over military force is not empty talk, but involves a mechanism for the distribution of interests. Song Zhenzong's "Encouragement of Learning" doesn't mention land, houses and beauties in Chiguoguo?

And land, real estate, and beautiful women are always limited, and if the scribe takes the lion's head, there is naturally not much that can be given to the samurai.

Therefore, the Song Dynasty's emphasis on literature over martial arts, fundamentally speaking, was to favor the scribes and suppress the warriors in the distribution of social wealth.

And the problems caused by this kind of interest distribution orientation will not be alleviated by the change of the conscription system to the government military system. In fact, there is only one reason why the government military system has been favored by officialdom since the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, and that is that the government military system seems to be more expensive than the conscription system – which means that the state can spend less money on the warriors, and the scribes will naturally get a bigger pie......

"Don't talk about this," Gao Yu also had a little headache when he thought of the government military system, and waved his hand, "The edict given to me by the official family said that there must be no provocation, just block the Khitan people in the area of Mingtang River."

Da Lang, these days, Mingtang River is still stable, right? ”

"Stable," Wu Haogu smiled, "Steady as Mount Tai......"

As soon as he was halfway through his words, Olga's voice came from outside the big tent: "Tai Lieutenant, Zhao Ke Province, please see you." ”

Zhao Ke Province is Brother Zhao Zhong. Gao Yu also brought an edict to promote Zhao Zhongge, and he is now the deputy envoy from Qipinke Province. However, the official has not changed, and he is still the commander of Wu Haogu's military machine.

Wu Haogu and Gao Yu glanced at each other, and said, "Please let him in." ”

As soon as Olga lifted the curtain, Brother Zhao Zhong, who was dressed in military uniform, walked in quickly, still holding a letter in his hand.

"Tai Lieutenant, Xiao Delis, the Khitan Heqing Army's envoy, sent a messenger and offered to meet with you and Gao Taiwei."

Gao Yu frowned, "Meet?" ”

Wu Haogu stretched out his hand, took the letter from Brother Zhao Zhong's hand, and read it carefully.

"You want to divide the defense zone with us." Wu Haogu smiled, "Brother Gao, it seems that the Khitans are afraid of you." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, they're Khitans!"

Wu Haogu smiled: "Brother Gao, it's better to let them retreat to the east of Dahengshui, so that the two sides can stay away." ”

Dahengshui is also a tributary of the Yellow River, between the Mingtang River and the Quye River.

Wu Haogu said again: "They retreated to the east of Dahengshui, and we still stayed west of Mingtang River. In this way, there is an empty space between the Great Yokosui and the Mingtang River, which serves as a buffer for both sides. ”

Of course, Wu Haogu has a conspiracy! After he led his troops to Mingtang River, he immediately ordered Zhao Zhongge and his most confidant military machine to formulate a battle plan to attack the Khitans. And deceiving the Khitans from Mingtang River, and then attacking again, is the best plan.

"Will they?" Gao Yu asked.

"Why not?" Wu Haogu smiled, "Our strength is stronger than theirs, and there is also Big Brother Gao you here." In case of friction, it is the Khitan people who will suffer. Brother Zhong, do you say this is the reason? ”

"That's right," Brother Zhao Zhong also said, "We didn't ask them to return to the territory, but we used Dahengshui as a temporary demarcation." ”

Gao Yu thought for a while, "It's okay, then mention it!" ”

……

The place where the two minds met was on the beach of the Meido River. Gao Yu and Wu Haogu stood on the west bank and shoal of the Mingtang River, and in front of them was a river channel seven or eight zhang wide, and the water depth was more than one zhang, so it was impossible to wade. Xiao Dries and Xiao Gan rode together and stood on the river near the east bank of the Mingtang River. None of the four men on either side were armed and were wearing armor. Before the meeting, both sides sent people across the river to check to make sure that the other side was not hiding their blades.

"I don't know which one is Captain Wu?" Xiao Delis, who was not good-looking, first bowed his hand, and opened his mouth in fluent Kaifeng dialect, "This official Heqing Army Festival makes Xiao Deris." ”

"It's down there." Wu Haogu also replied, he was a little strange, why didn't he ask Captain Gao, but asked himself about Captain Wu first?

"Long up, long back!" Xiao Delis smiled, "I read Your Excellency's "Positivism" early in the morning, and I am quite inspired! ”

In fact, the "Positivistic Theory" has not yet been completed, and what has been completed now is only the "general outline", that is, the big theory. As for how the Positivism should be applied to the fields of the natural sciences and the social sciences, it is a very important study. It's not something that can be sorted out in a short period of time.

"Really?" Wu Haogu smiled, "I didn't expect that Taishi Xiao was still a bosom friend." ”

"No," Shawris shook his head, "I'm not a confidant of the Captain, and although the Positivism has merits, most of them are fallacies!" Because there are nine consciousnesses for sentient beings, the Positivists only know the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body, which is too shallow and ignorant. ”

Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth, and it is highly controversial in later generations, let alone in the era of Song Liao? The words of the saints and the scriptures of the Buddha are more accurate than what you have personally observed, right? Not to mention the reasoning deduced from practice.

The "Nine Senses" mentioned by Shawris is a Buddhist viewpoint, which can be used to criticize the Positivism, because the Positivism only focuses on the understanding of the senses, such as the five senses of "eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body". Buddhism, on the other hand, has "consciousness", "mana consciousness", "alayya", and "anmara" on top of the "five consciousnesses", in short, it is very ......

Wu Haogu just smiled, he was not interested in debating positivism with a Khitan Buddhist - you all go and burn incense and worship the Buddha, scientific practice or something, the Han people will come!

"Under the high school!" Gao Taiwei interjected a little impatiently, "Taishi Xiao didn't come here to argue with us, right?" ”

Hearing Gao Yu report to his home, Xiao Gan, who was following Xiao Delis, immediately looked abrupt, and his sharp eyes stared at the first general of the Great Song Dynasty!

"It turned out to be Captain Gao!" Xiao Delisi arched his hand at Gao Yu, and then pointed at Xiao Gan beside him, "This is Xiao Hui Libao, the capital supervisor of the Southwest Recruitment Division of my Great Liaoning." ”

Wu Haogu and Gao Yu didn't know who Xiao Hui Libao was, and the official position of the capital eunuch didn't sound big, so they didn't care, but just saluted politely.

Then Wu Haogu asked: "Taishi Xiao, don't you think that the soldiers and horses of your country have already penetrated into the territory of my Great Song Dynasty?" ”

"In the Great Song Dynasty?" Xiao Gan snorted, "This place is clearly the land of my Great Liao's vassal Bang Niding Kingdom!" It's clear that you invaded the land of the Great Liao Domain, and now it's time to fight a rake! ”

Wu Haogu said with a smile: "Don't say these tongue-twisting words, we are all martial artists, just ask one word today, do you want to fight?" ”