Wu Haogu, Ji Yi, and Zhang Yuan soon arrived at the Jiehe Pavilion Station. The inn is open to the public, and there are many merchants. However, there are still several enclosed courtyards for the nobles who come and go here. When Wu Haogu and the others arrived, the banquet had already been set up, and a table of Kaifeng dishes was placed in an octagonal pavilion in the garden.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food. Zhang Yuan asked about the mercenaries of the Great Sect again—he had come to Jiehe Business City for this matter.

"Brother Zhiping, just relax!" Wu Haogu smiled, "4,000 strong men, all of them have arrived." The teachers and students of the Knight Academy are currently training, and they will be ready to go in two months. I will definitely be able to go to Lingzhou in May or June.

In addition, I also arranged for people to go to Lingzhou and Tongwan to hire cavalry and purchase equipment, so that I could catch up with the expedition of the Hexi Army this autumn. With thousands of soldiers and horses of the indoctrination regiment and tens of thousands of elites of the Hexi Army, it was not difficult to take the four towns of Anxi. ”

4,000 strong men, plus monks, Taoist soldiers, armed doctors, and cavalry hired in Lingzhou and Shuofang, as well as some auxiliary soldiers, there are seven or eight thousand people.

Such a force was not enough to deal with the Hexi Army (Western Thieves), but it was more than enough to clean up the Black Khan Uighurs entrenched in the four towns of Anxi. Even if there is no Hexi army, just these seven or eight thousand people will probably be able to complete the operation to recover the four towns.

"4,000 strong men said that if there is, there will be ......" Zhang Yuan shook his head, "Chongdao, it's no wonder that my father is as jealous of your Jiehe Business Market as Cai Jing!" ”

That doesn't sound right! Wu Haogu hurriedly explained: "What is there to be afraid of? Jiehe Commercial City is only a city with a population of 200,000, and Kaifeng Mansion has more than a million people! Moreover, there are famous cities and towns such as Daimyofu, Henan Fu, and Yingtianfu nearby. If you really want to use the methods of Shangjie River Business City and Jingdong Business City, the 100,000 army can be summoned at any time? ”

Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi looked at each other, and Zhang Yuan asked, "Brother Chongdao, do you really have a way?" ”

"How? What's the solution? Wu Haogu didn't seem to understand it yet.

Zhang Yuan laughed, "It's a way to train soldiers for the official family!" ”

"This," Wu Haogu smiled, "Cai Xianggong has trained his troops and fallen down, what else can a certain businessman do?" ”

Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi both laughed. Zhang Yuan said: "Brother Chongdao, don't hide it, when you bid farewell to your father, your father said that after you kicked down Cai Yuanchang, most of you have to go to Cai Yuanchang's lack yourself." ”

"Am I lacking Cai Yuanchang?" Wu Haogu smiled, "How is this possible? I'm a military attaché, how can I worship the prime minister? ”

"Of course the prime minister won't let you do it, but you can resist his lack of military training!" Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "You can be a fellow privy councilor...... It's also a top leader! ”

To be a member of the Privy Council? Wu Hao Guxin said: Isn't this going farther and farther on the road of no return of the bourgeois revolution?

Ji Yi also looked at Wu Haogu, and no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't hold back a smile on his dark and fat face, "Brother Chongdao, if I and Mr. Zhiping want to do great things, we must have you behind us." If you are the same as Cai Xianggong, then the two of us will have nothing. ”

Zhang Yuan also said: "Brother Chongdao, you can't hide from this matter." Although the official family is a little frivolous, they are also extremely smart. He must know that only you have the means to train an elite army for him, and you will not train the soldiers into a samurai army. So he will definitely recruit you into Beijing...... You've got to prepare! ”

Is there a way I can do it? Wu Hao Guxin said: Why don't I know? I want the horses to run fast, and I want the horses not to eat grass, how can the old Zhao family think about such a good thing?

……

After arranging for Zhang Yuan to go to the barracks in Jiehe North City to watch the 4,000 mercenaries in training, Wu Haogu returned to Nancheng with Ji Yi. Ji Yi had a mansion in Nancheng, so he went back to his home. Wu Haogu returned to his mansion full of worries, and as soon as he entered the inner house, he saw Pan Qiaolian greeted him with red eyes under the support of Ximen Qing.

"Eighteenth sister, what's going on? Is it the child in the family......" Wu Haogu saw Pan Qiaolian crying and crying, and he chuckled in his heart, thinking that something happened to the children in the family?

Last winter, the samurai family added a man and two women, named Mingjiu, Xianniang and Jin Niang respectively. These are still little dolls, and it is when they are prone to illness...... Especially Yijiu, the martial sister-in-law born to Pan Qiaolian, was born a little frail, and he can't compare with his elder brothers at all!

"Phew!" Pan Qiaolian glared at Wu Haogu angrily, "What are you talking about?" The kids are all right! It's you who is not good now! ”

"Me?" Wu Haogu was stunned, "What's wrong with me?" ”

Ximen Qing on the side said: "The eleventh brother of Kaifeng Mansion just asked someone to bring a letter to his sister, saying that he will go to Jiehe in a few days. ”

"Pan Shiyi is coming?" Wu Haogu sighed, "That's a good thing!" Eighteenth sister, how can you ......?"

"He's here to get you!" Pan Qiaolian stomped her feet.

Catch me? Wu Haogu is getting nervous - he has done too much at a loss!

"He's going to arrest you and be a member ......of the Privy Council," Pan Qiaolian's second half of the sentence was belated. However, Wu Haogu's heart did not calm down because of this sentence.

It's really right for the old crow mouth of Zhangdun! As soon as Cai Jing got off the stage, it was his turn to top the bar.

Pan Qiaolian sighed: "As long as the military attache of this dynasty becomes a privy councillor, he will not have a good life!" I have to be an official with my tail between my legs every day. What's more, Da Lang, you have a bit of a foundation here in Jiehe Commercial City, and you don't want Yushi to impeach all day long? ”

Ximen Qing persuaded on the side, "Master, you might as well push the dispatch...... I can't do it without you here. ”

Pushed the errand? Wu Haogu frowned and sat down on a chair.

Can you push it? Wu Haogu thought to himself: Although Jiehe Shang City already has some strength, it is not impossible to confront the imperial court. But I still have the Yuntai School Palace, and the Positivist School! It is necessary to let the students of the Yuntai Academy be able to enter the Shike through the right list, so that the Yuntai Academy can continue to attract the world's "wealthy" to study.

If he openly secedes in Jiehe Shang City, even if the imperial court does not send troops to levy, it will cancel the ...... of the right list of Jinshike

Wu Haogu sighed and said to Pan Qiaolian: "Eighteen, don't worry, there is always a way for your husband to deal with it." ”

Then he said to Ximen Qing: "Eldest sister, send someone to invite Mr. Murong, Mi Yuanhui, Brother Zhong, Brother Ximen, Fifth Brother Murong, Ma Zhongfu, Huang Shilang, Zhang Xizai, Wei Sihai, Qu Huajie, Lin Laojiaotou, Zhao Jiaren, He Xiangshi, and Lu Renjia to have dinner." ”

These people are Wu Haogu's core team in Jiehe Business City, and now that Wu Haogu has encountered a big event, he naturally wants them to come together to make suggestions.

……

The Bianhe River, the villages on both sides of the river are all over the place, and they are connected to each other.

The Bianhe River here has flowed out of Kaifeng Mansion and entered the territory of Yingtianfu to the south. The Bianhe River is actually part of the canal system of the Central Plains, and now is the busiest time for the transportation of the Gang, and the axes on the river are connected to each other, and they are all loaded with all kinds of goods. Among them, there are also some official boats and boats, slowly passing on the river, and you can faintly hear the faint sound of the piano singing, coming from these official boats.

Cai Jing and Cai You, two fathers and sons, are now sitting in a particularly large painting boat, drinking and feasting, while watching the high-quality house tricks perform hard.

The father and son, so leisurely, how can they leave Beijing in a hurry?

"Daddy, did you say that Wu Haogu dared to jump into the fire pit in the Privy Council?"

Cai You couldn't help but lead the topic to his political rival Wu Haogu.

Cai Jing smiled, "Does he dare not jump?" Could it be that he really raised troops to rebel in Jiehe Shang City? ”

"That's good!"

Cai You said, picked up the wine glass, and drank it all.

Cai Jing frowned, and shook his head after pondering for a long time, "Maybe he really has some way to satisfy the official family......

"My lord, this is bad!"

Cai Jing laughed, "What's the? Wu Haogu may have a way to train a few soldiers for the official family, but so what? Will the scholars of the whole world let him go? Can the royal history of the court and the middle of the court let him go? Hehe, it is a sin for a military attache to be aware of the affairs of the Privy Council. Wu Haogu is still the leader of the positivist school, and he also put forward Raushzi's "Positivism" and "Theory of Rationality", but I am afraid that the world's scholars have long regarded him as an enemy.

If he becomes a member of the Privy Council, he will wait to be impeached and discredited! ”

……

"Führer, you can't do this with the Privy Council!"

At the same time, in Wu Haogu's mansion, a family banquet has been set up, and Wu Haogu's henchmen and backbones, as long as they are in the boundary river, are all on it.

The one who raised the objection was Zhao Jiaren, who was in charge of the shipping system in the coastal city. He is also a good time, but he is a civilian opportunity, and it is not the same thing as Zhao Zhongge, a military machine who is in charge. He is in charge of all kinds of bullshit in the officialdom, and he is actually a master.

"Why not?" Wu Haogu looked at Zhao Jiaren and asked.

Zhao Jiaren, who was old and had his sparse beard and hair turned white, just shook his head: "The head of the Yuan should know the affairs of the Privy Council, why should he be the same knowledge?" ”

"Shall I know the Privy Council?" Wu Hao Gu said, "Isn't this more hated?" ”

Zhao Jiaren touched his beard and said, "Isn't the Führer bad enough to be hated?" Could it be that because the Führer made the same knowledge, those people in the Yushitai were willing to let the Führer go? Since the horizontal and vertical are to be impeached, it is better to have more power than less power.

Moreover, the Führer should also propose to the officials that there should be no consensual knowledge, and that you should be in charge of the affairs of the Privy Council. ”

"Alone?" Wu Haogu frowned, "What's the benefit?" ”

"Yes," Zhao Jia said, "if someone impeaches you, then there will be no privy envoy in the Privy Council!" ”

"The official family won't agree, right?"

Zhao Jiaren shook his head and said: "Führer, as long as you bring the old man into Beijing alone, the official family will definitely promise you everything." ”

"Just the two of us?"

"Of course, bodyguards and concubines can bring a few, but don't bring military planes to Kaifeng Mansion."