Su Zhe used the excuse of being unwell today, so he returned to his mansion from the political hall early, and he didn't deal with any official documents, but just met guests in the inner study of his back house.

In the study, Su Zhe, the 68-year-old Prime Minister of the Great Song Dynasty, was wearing a soft hat, sitting opposite the two, discussing something in a low voice.

The two people sitting opposite each other were also dressed in civilian clothes, and they obviously came to visit secretly through the back door. One of them is Zhang Shuye, the director of the military aircraft of Tongzhidu. The other person is Tao Jiefu, who mentioned the reform of the Biyong Academy and the reform of the imperial examination a few days ago. This capable minister of Yunwen Yunwu was originally a cadre of the New Party, but now he seems to have become Su Zhe's henchman.

Su Zhe looks righteous and awe-inspiring - this is the biggest difference between him and Su Dongpo, Su Dongpo is a little witty and looks like an old naughty boy. And Su Zhe looks like a respected minister! He looked at Uncle Zhang, slowly stroked his beard and said, "...... It seems that Wu Chongdao is completely sure that he can train the Hebei Forbidden Army. If we follow his method, can we sort out the Hedong Army? In the Northern Expedition to Japan, the urgency of Hedong Road is not below Hebei Road. Shuo, Huan, Ying, Yun, Wei, Wu, Xin and other states in Yanyun Prefectures can all be entered from Hedong Road, right? ”

He glanced at Tao Jiefu with an advisory gaze again, "Zili, you are a soldier, let's talk about it." ”

Tao Jiefu raised his head, glanced at Su Zhe, who was a little proud, and thought: "Xianggong is talking about the prefectures and counties in the late Tang Dynasty and the fifth quarter, and now it belongs to Xijing Road of the Liao Kingdom, and the place names and jurisdictions are different. Roughly, the Xijing Road of the Liao Kingdom is based on Datong Mansion, and the government of Datong Mansion is in the original Yunzhou Prefecture to govern Yunzhong City. However, the jurisdiction is much larger than the original Yunzhou, and there are subordinate counties such as Dezhou, Hongzhou, Huairen, Shunsheng, Huai'an, Tiancheng, and Changqing. ”

The division of the prefecture and county of the Liao State is very chaotic, and unlike the "road-state army-county" on the side of the Great Song Dynasty, the state capital of the Liao State sometimes has the name of the state army under it. And the state capitals with many state armies under their jurisdiction are undoubtedly the ruling centers of the Liao State.

Tao Jiefu said again: "If Datong Mansion can be taken, then the part of the southern part of Xijing Road that originally belonged to the Hanjia Mountains and Rivers can basically be taken down." ”

"Can you take down Datong Mansion?" Su Zhe asked.

Tao Jiefu and Zhang Shuye glanced at each other, and Tao Jiefu said, "What if...... If Wu Chongdao can take down Xijin Mansion, then it is certain to gather the troops of Hedong, Shuofang, and Shaanxi and advance to Datong. ”

He is not as sure as Wu Haogu, and he can use twenty or thirty thousand elite soldiers to take down Xijin Mansion! Therefore, as soon as he opened his mouth, he had to concentrate the main forces of the three parts of Hedong, Shuofang, and Shaanxi, at least 20 generals, of which 11 were still generals of the Xinfu Army. Along the way, there is still hope for Datong Mansion to be defeated.

"If Shuofang and Shaanxi elite soldiers are used in Datong," Zhang Shuye said, "there will be some deficiencies in Xijin Mansion." ”

"Aren't there more than two dozen generals?" Su Zhe said, "In addition, there is a naval army of the Wudao Inspection Division, isn't it enough?" ”

"Enough is enough......"

Wu Haogu didn't say enough, and Uncle Zhang naturally didn't say much. And he also knew that Wu Haogu was able to "go to the army to fight and strategize", and it was possible for the soldiers to take the city of Xijin Mansion without blood. As soon as the city of Xijin Mansion is in hand, the surrounding Han heroes must be attached to the wind. At that time, the available soldiers of Wu Haogu will not be 20,000 or 30,000, but 78,000 or even 100,000 people.

In contrast, it was Tao Jiefu who was in charge of Hedong who was not very sure. Most of them have to fight city by city! It is also necessary to gather elite soldiers!

"Since it's enough, then Hedong Road has to fight well!" Su Zhe stroked his beard, "Can't you let Wu Chongdao do too much...... He is a martial artist, and now that he has passed, it will be difficult to make great contributions. ”

In fact, it's very bad now, and there are too many pieces of impeachment of Wu Haogu to count, more than the pieces of impeachment of Gao Yu and Tong Guan together.

That is to say, Zhao Ji and Wu Haogu have an iron relationship, and they have been pressed and not allowed to check, otherwise Wu Haogu will not do anything, and listen to the ginseng at home every day.

"Xianggong," Tao Jiefu frowned at this time, "After the lower official goes to Hedong, what should he do?" ”

"Isn't it the same as Wu Chongdao?" Su Zhe asked. "The Hedong Army is much stronger than the Hebei Army, right? Fifteen or sixteen will always be no problem. Including the eleven generals in Shaanxi and Shuofang, there are twenty-six or seven generals, plus the knights, there are almost 150,000 or 60,000 soldiers, right? ”

150,000 or 60,000 soldiers, if you add auxiliaries, I'm afraid there will be 300,000 troops! It's too wasteful to have so many soldiers and horses to take Datong City, right?

It's just that there are a lot of soldiers, and the logistics supply is also troublesome! It is 1,000 miles away from Taiyuan to Datong, and the road is not very easy to walk, 300,000 troops plus follow-up supplies, all kinds of troubles are life-threatening. Once the city is fortified, it will be a burden to have more soldiers!

Tao Jiefu and Zhang Shuye are both Wenchen who know the soldiers, of course they know this truth, but they will not say such disappointing words in front of Su Zhe.

Anyway, it's not that the Northern Expedition to Yanyun is coming soon, and now it's just starting to prepare, and there is no ten or eight years, and the Northern Expedition is not well prepared at all.

To put it mildly, ten or eight years later, among the three people here, maybe someone has already flown away!

Tao Jiefu looked at Su Zhe, whose beard was white, "Then after the official went to Hedong, he followed Wu Chongdao, sorted out the old forbidden army a little, and then trained a few new troops?" ”

Su Zhe said: "This matter will be discussed by Zili and Ji Zhong, the old man doesn't understand military affairs." ”

The words have been said and said, Su Zhe already knew it, and at this time, a cough suddenly sounded outside the door of the study, Su Zhe got up and smiled faintly: "It's not too early, the old man is unwell, and he will go to raise." The two of them also turned around early, so they said goodbye today. ”

Tao Jiefu and Zhang Shuye knew that Su Zhe still had something to do, so they got up to say goodbye, and Su Zhe personally sent them out of the study.

After seeing the two leave, Su Zhe asked lightly: "Is it Hu'er?" ”

An elegant-looking young man walked out of the gloom and saluted Su Zhe, "My lord, I just received the news that Mi Xiangyang has passed away!" ”

"Mi Xiangyang is gone?" Su Zhe frowned, "It's only 56 years old, ......"

"My lord," Su Xun said, "as soon as Mi Xiangyang goes, Mi Yuanhui will be worried." ”

It doesn't matter if Mi Fu is dead, Wu Haogu's right-hand man Mi Youren has to go home as a filial son for three years. And Mi Youren is worried, and the coastal city will be vacant!

Among the more than 20 commanders of the Great Song Dynasty today, how can there be such a financial and military power in the coastal city?

That is, Wu Haogu and Mi Youren can cover it with such henchmen as the Heavenly Family, and now that Mi Youren is gone, Wu Haogu is high in Hebei Xuanshuai, who else can be the envoy of this coastal city?

Su Zhe nodded, and said to himself: "If you can take away the power of the coastal city's shipping and purchase department, the empirical faction will be greatly damaged!" ”

……

"Master, Mi Xiangyang is gone!"

Wu Haogu was lying on the bed, enjoying Guo Xiaoxiao's massage service, when Bai Feifei suddenly broke into the room quickly, bringing him this bad news.

"What?" Wu Haogu, who was already a little dazed, woke up suddenly, turned over and sat up, "Feifei, what did you say?" ”

"Mi Xiangyang is gone!" Bai Feifei said, "What the person from Mifu said just now...... said that Mi Xiangyang had a sudden illness last month, and he died of severe illness, so he went in three days! ”

"What a bad time!" Wu Haogu let out a sigh and frowned.

As soon as Mi Fu died, Mi Youren had to go to Ding worry, so what should I do with the coastal city of the ship? Who will be in control? Can I go back to this position again? Hebei Xuanshuai and coastal commander? Can those civil servants agree? If they stop it, then who should the coastal city ship control division give to? Su Shiguan is too young, and after all, he is Su Zhe's son. Su Mai and Su Yu are being filial sons for Su Dongpo again, and they haven't been up for three years, so they can't come out to be officials! Murong is qualified to forget worries, but after all, he is a native of the Liao Kingdom, and he is afraid that he will be criticized when he becomes the commander.

"Da Lang ......" Guo Xiaoxiao also knew some things about Wuhao Gu's government affairs, but she wouldn't interfere much, but said knowingly, "Slave go and invite Mr. Zhao, Master He Xiangshi to come over." ”

"Good!" Wu Haogu nodded, "Xiaoxiao, you call someone to invite them to the inner study." ”

Then he said to Bai Feifei: "Feifei, please prepare some condolence gifts and send them to Mifu early tomorrow morning." ”

The two women were ordered to leave, and Wu Haogu put on his clothes and went to the inner study to wait first. After a while, I saw Zhao Jiaren and He Tianran coming in a hurry.

"Dong Weng, what's wrong?"

Zhao Jiaren did not know the news of Mi Fu's death.

"Mi Xiangyang is gone." Wuhao Ancient Road.

"That'...... Isn't Mi Shuaisi going to worry? He Tianran knew all the systems of the Great Song Dynasty, and immediately said, "Dong Weng, it is impossible for Mi Shuaisi to win love." ”

Wu Haogu nodded and looked at Zhao Jiaren again.

Zhao Jiaren stroked her beard, and a pair of old eyes rolled straight away, "Dong Weng, the coastal marshal can't fall into the hands of others, otherwise your Hebei Xuanshuai will be difficult to be." ”

Among the five roads in Hebei, if Wu Haogu can't even control one road, and he doesn't concurrently serve as the state capital, his Xuan Shuai will be the commander of the light pole.

"How about I do it myself?" Wu Haogu asked.

"That's the best," Zhao Jiaren said, "but can the two governments let it go?" If the two governments work together to stop it, how will Dong Weng respond? ”

"Dong Weng can ask for the county Cangzhou." He Tianran suggested, "If Dong Weng goes out of Cangzhou, there will be no one to take over the coastal marshal." ”

Asking the county is a gesture of retreating from the minister, Wu Haogu is now the military envoy of the capital, which can be regarded as an important minister, and the official rank is the queen of the festival, and he is definitely qualified to ask the county.

And Cangzhou also has jurisdiction over the territory of Jiehe Commercial City, so it should be that the coastal marshal should also know Cangzhou, but it was not implemented for various reasons. If Wu Haogu invites Cangzhou now, then others will not dare to go to Jiehe to be the commander, because Wu Haogu has made it clear that he wants to embarrass people, and with his power in Jiehe, it is easier to get rid of a marshal who has no foundation.

It's just that once Wu Haogu becomes the coastal commander and the governor of Cangzhou, then the matter of Hebei's army reorganization will have to be taken over by others......

"Is there any other way?" Wu Haogu was unwilling.

"Yes!" Zhao Jia said, "You can let Erlangjun take over the coastal marshal!" ”