Su Zhe, Zhang Shangying and Zheng Juzhong were famous, and when they stepped into the Chongzheng Palace, there were already two scholars and one martial arts standing in the hall. The two texts are Zhang Shuye, the military aircraft envoy of the capital, and Wu Haowen, the envoy of the sea route city ship system who went to Beijing to report on his work, and the Wu is Wang Yu, who is also in charge of the infantry academy in charge of the military aircraft of the capital.

After Wu Haogu left the position of the military envoy of the capital, Zhang Shuye and Wang Yu became the two heads of the military aircraft department of the capital. Among them, Uncle Zhang is in charge of dealing with all aspects, including Zhao Ji, the son of heaven. Wang Yu is in charge of the daily affairs of the Military Machinery Division. The two of them can also be regarded as from the Privy Council Military Science Department in the early years, Wang Yu also followed Murong Wangwu throughout the teaching of the Military Science Department, and later participated in the "Battle of Pingxia" (the Battle of Pingxia in Pingding) with Gao Yu and Wu Haogu.

The two of them still knew a lot about the new military science. It is only in recent years that the new military science has become more and more complex, adding a large amount of knowledge in arithmetic, metaphysics, surveying and mapping, Gewuxue and Confucianism (mainly Tianli, positivism, reason, etc.). In particular, the Knight Academy and the Naval Academy were deeply influenced by the Yuntai Academy, and actually became the junior college of the Yuntai Academy, and the basic courses taught were the same as the other colleges of the Yuntai Academy!

Such a change made Zhang Shuye and Wang Yu feel very uncomfortable. And they all think that it is completely unnecessary, and there are even great negative effects. Because the military attachés from the Knight Academy and the Naval Academy are too knowledgeable, they are a little arrogant, and even look down on the high-ranking civilian officials. They thought that the knowledge of civil officials was not as good as theirs, and some of them had a big temper and quarreled with the Privy Council or the prison envoys sent by the palace, and the impact was very bad.

By the way, after the Privy Council obtained the right to supervise the army, Zhao Ji did not give up the system of internal officials and supervising the army, but divided the territory for the imperial history of the supervising army and the internal officials of the supervising army. Among them, the Hebei Army, the Navy, and the Southeast Sixth Route Forbidden Army are supervised by the internal guards. The Northwest Army, the Shaanxi Army, the Hedong Army, and the Gyeonggi Army were sent by the Privy Council to supervise the army. So that the two sides can supervise each other.

In addition, the Privy Council and the Inner Court did not really send a forbidden army or a new army to the "ministry" level. Because no civil officials and chamberlains are willing to go to such a low-level grass-roots level, let alone the "ministry", no one is willing to go to the "general" level. Therefore, the military envoys were also sent to the two levels of pacification envoys and state troops, and not all pacification envoys and state armies had military envoys, only the pacification envoys and state armies located in the forefront, as well as the Gyeonggi army, set up military envoys.

However, the conflict between the officers from the Knight Academy and the military envoys of the civil resources supervision still gave Zhang Shuye and Wang Yu a lot of headaches, after all, this matter is challenging the existing political pattern of the Great Song Dynasty! Therefore, after the two of them took charge of the Military Aircraft Division, they began to purge the students of the Knight Academy, not only cleaning up the Knight Academy students in the Military Machinery Division, but also gradually cleaning up the Knight Academy students in the Model New Army, and replacing them with the students of the Kaifeng Infantry School. Contrary to the gradual "elitist" teaching concept of the Knight Academy and the Naval Academy, the Kaifeng Infantry Academy under the auspices of Wang Yu abandoned the curriculum of the Knight Academy, and then compiled a set of courses that were easier to grasp on the basis of the original curriculum of the Privy Council Military Science Department, and at the same time shortened the academic system of the infantry school from the first three years to two years.

The students of the Knight Academy who were purged were sent to serve in the Xuanfu Division of Hebei in the name of training cavalry. For this reason, Zhang Shuye and Wang Yu also dug out their minds to come up with a project of "training cavalry generals in the land where the boundary river produces horses", and asked the Hebei Xuanfu Division to train one or two cavalry generals as the backbone of the Northern Expedition to Yanyun in the coming days. Of course, this also has the meaning of appeasing Wu Haogu and the Boundary River Knight Academy.

This seems to be a muddy situation, but it is actually creating a factional arrangement in the army, which also makes Zhao Ji feel very satisfied - not only should the DPRK and China stir up different opinions, but there should also be "different opinions" in the army, so that people can rest assured.

Therefore, Zhang Shuye and Wang Yu were also regarded as confidants by Zhao Ji, Zhang Shuye was given the Jinshi background not long ago, and Wang Yu's official position was also promoted to the queen of Jiedu.

During this time, Wu Haowen was busy with the construction of the new town of Nanpi in Cangzhou. His sea route commander was set up by his own brother, but the matter of Cangzhou is real. Moreover, he was somewhat influenced by Wu Haogu, and knew that if Cangzhou wanted to develop, it was inseparable from industry and commerce. Therefore, after taking office, he formulated a plan to move the state to Nanpi County, where the Yellow River and the Yongji Canal (North Canal) converge in the north, and build a commercial town at the confluence of the Yellow River and the Yongji Canal as the Cangzhou Governor's Office.

At the same time, Wu Haowen also used the name of "preparing for war" to withhold part of the funds supplied to the Military Machinery Department of the capital for the construction of stone roads in Cangzhou. Since the opening of the Jiehe Commercial Market, coupled with the fact that the imperial court has placed a large number of knights' estates in Cangzhou, Cangzhou, which was originally sparsely populated and economically depressed, has entered a stage of rapid development. Not only did industry and commerce flourish because of the Jiehe trading market, but even agriculture and animal husbandry also developed greatly because of the emergence of a large number of knights' estates.

Compared with the traditional small-scale peasant economy, the knight manor has more land, more abundant capital, and better production tools through the Jiehe merchant market. Moreover, because it is an attribute of "vocational field", there is no need to pay any taxes (vocational fields are part of the salaries paid by the imperial court to officials, and there is no tax on vocational fields), and knightly families do not need to bear forced labor. Therefore, in terms of competitiveness, it is obvious that they can overwhelm the small peasants who have small profits and need to bear heavy taxes and forced labor.

In addition, relying on the Hippodrome Farm, the horse breeding industry of the Knight Manor has gradually become a climate. Although the good horses produced cannot be compared with the Persian horses and the Tianzhu Folded Horses, they are all first-class war horses here in East Asia.

So much so that the herdsmen who run a horse farm on Shuofang Road now spend hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to buy stallions from Cangzhou to play in the Hetao grassland, which is "the most suitable for raising horses".

As for the horses used by the powerful and wealthy businessmen and high-ranking officials in Kaifeng Prefecture, it is now necessary to have Cangzhou horses.

Driven by the rapid development of agriculture, industry and commerce at the same time, Cangzhou's transportation facilities are a little unable to keep up. Although there are rivers such as the Boundary River, the Yellow River, the Yongji Canal, the Fuyang River, and the Wudi River, Cangzhou is located in the north with less precipitation after all, and there are no large number of streams and tributaries flowing into these relatively large rivers. Moreover, there is a period of ice in winter, which seriously affects Cangzhou's transportation.

Long before Wu Haowen took office, the construction college of Yuntai Academy proposed a plan to build a stone road network in Cangzhou, connecting all the county seats, commercial towns, and knight townships with stone roads. However, because the previous Zhicang Prefecture was not interested in this, it was not implemented. After Wu Haowen took office, he immediately got on the horse.

In addition, Wu Haowen also vigorously developed the fishing and salt industries in Cangzhou, opened up many salt farms and fishing ports in the coastal areas, and bought them to merchants to operate.

In short, he changed his decadence during the Xiuzhou period, and really took out a little bit of an attitude of being an official for one term and benefiting one party, probably because he was older and more mature in his thinking, right?

Knowing Wu Haowen's actions in Cangzhou, Zhao Ji naturally favored him even more. As soon as he arrived at Kaifeng Mansion this time, he was introduced to Qionglin Palace by Zhao Ji, and after a while, Lubu Feijie sent by the Great Sect of Anxi came to the palace.

This is really a dragon's heart!

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After the three slaughterers got up after performing the bow salute, Zhao Ji, who couldn't hold back his joy, laughed loudly: "Su Qing, Zhang Qing, Zheng Qing, do you know the news of Anxi Lubu Feijie?" The Qarakhanid dynasty had fallen, and both the Western Tajik and Gur kingdoms submitted to the Great Song Dynasty. Now most of the army led by Zhao Zhongshun has invaded Tianzhu, and the territory of my Great Song Dynasty may have surpassed that of the Tang Dynasty! Hahaha......"

Zhao Ji laughed so hard that he couldn't close his mouth. Su Zhe, Zhang Shangying and Zheng Juzhong also knew that they congratulated the Son of Heaven in unison.

"Such a great victory, shouldn't we tell all the nations of the world to celebrate together?"

All nations celebrate together, of course, all nations are coming!

Before Anxi Lubu Feijie arrived in Kaifeng Mansion, Wu Haogu's proposal of "all countries coming to court" has been resisted by the two governments. Among them, Su Zhe was even more resolutely opposed, believing that this move would cost the people and money, and would greatly stimulate the Khitan - although the Great Song Dynasty has become a little stronger in recent years, it is still necessary to cultivate obscurity, accumulate strength, and complete the restructuring of the forbidden army, so that it can succeed in defeating Liao in one fell swoop in the future.

If the banner is raised now to be the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire, there is a good chance that it will arouse the vigilance of the Khitan people. At that time, the Liao State will also reorganize its armaments for war, and will even preemptively attack in Hebei and Hedong to interrupt the pace of the rise of the Great Song Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Su Zhe suddenly spoke: "Your Majesty, since the force of our dynasty has surpassed that of the Tang Dynasty, do you want to give the Liao people 500,000 silver silk coins next year?" ”

Oh, yes! You're so awesome, what protection money do you pay?

When Zhao Ji heard this, his originally smiling face suddenly became gloomy.

For the current Da Song, 500,000 is really not money. But what about face? You're a sweater, why do you still pay protection money?

"Your Majesty, what Su Xianggong said is reasonable," Wu Haowen interjected, "The minister thinks that there is no need to give any more New Year's coins." ”

What the!?

Zhao Ji glanced at Wu Haowen, and didn't know what to say. That's the Khitans! Do you think that the waste of the Qarakhanid Dynasty is a virtue?

"Your Majesty, if we stop paying the New Year's coins, we will go to war with the Khitans!" Zheng Juzhong, a member of the Privy Council, said, "The Khitan has hundreds of thousands of iron horses, of which there are no less than tens of thousands of armored horses, and I am ten times as many as knights!" If you want to start a war now, I am afraid that Hebei and Hedong will be scorched earth......"

Zhang Shangying also said: "Even if you want to stop paying New Year's coins, you should be fully prepared and never act rashly." ”

Zhao Ji nodded, or the old ministers were more serious.

"Is there still a matter of celebrating all nations?" Zhao Ji frowned and asked.

Su Zhe asked rhetorically: "If the envoys of all states ask about the New Year's coin, how should the ministers respond?" ”