In front of the vertical arch hall where the pilgrimage ceremony is held, the courtiers line up and stand opposite each other at the east and west gates. According to the set schedule, the ministers who are going to meet the Son of Heaven, His Majesty and Thanksgiving today are also lined up in front of the main office.

The ministers gathered, and then the whip sounded, and the ministers stood and waited, but after waiting for a long time, they did not see the Son of Heaven go to the palace.

There was silence in the hall, and everyone looked strange. If the first emperor of Zhezong and Shenzong did not go to court, the big guy might be worried about the physical condition of the Son of Heaven. But now he is a well-known good body, and he can't get sick all year round, if he hadn't been the emperor, most of the doctors in the Tai Hospital wouldn't know him.

However, this son of heaven, who has never been sick, has obviously shown signs of slacking off in the past two years, and he will go back to his normal life by mistake in three days. Nominally, it is naturally the dragon's body that is not safe, and occasionally feels the wind and cold. But the actual reason is clear to everyone, most of them sneaked out of the palace last night to look for flowers and ask willows. It's also possible that I'm playing late at night with a new beauty in the palace, and I'm still sleeping lazy.

After waiting for a while, Prime Minister Zhang Shangying, straightened his waist, and went into the apse to inquire about the situation. Fortunately, a voice suddenly came from the side door leading to the apse, and when Zhao Ji finally appeared in a hurry today.

Although Zhao Ji often takes leave and does not attend the regular living court meeting, he is rarely late. Asking for leave is a lack of peace in the dragon's body, and the officials and ministers in the court don't have much to say, so you can't let the Son of Heaven participate in work with illness, right? What if the condition worsens and the dragon is in the sky? But everyone has something to say if they are late for no reason, so Zhao Ji would rather ask for leave than be late, saving a bunch of officials from shouting in his ears.

And seeing that Zhao Ji's steps today are fast and urgent, although his face is gloomy, his complexion is very good, and he doesn't look like he is sick at all.

It's a bit weird, can't something happen?

After a quarter of an hour's delay, the ritual of living resumed, and the ministers bowed to the Son of Heaven on the throne. Zhang Shangying squinted his eyes and secretly looked at Zhao Ji, his face was pale, his brows were furrowed, and he knew what was going on at a glance.

Most of them are related to the Khitans in the north......

However, the permanent residence of the Vertical Arch Hall generally does not discuss such military affairs, so as not to frighten the timid courtiers and create unnecessary panic, and this matter must be left to the Chongzheng Hall later to ask the right time. Zhang Shangying sighed softly, and said in her heart: Why hasn't Cai Jing's house come yet? Does he really have to wait for himself to deal with all the troubles, and then he will come to pick up ready-made?

When Zhang Shangying was complaining about Cai Jing in his heart, Zhao Ji on the throne suddenly spoke: "Zhang Shangying." ”

Zhang Shangying was stunned for a moment, and came out of class: "...... The minister is here. ”

"The envoy of Hailu City, Wu Haowen, said that the overseas Roman Kingdom, the Roman Law King, the Great Food Kingdom, the Baltic Kingdom, the Zhulin Kingdom, the Bagan Kingdom, the Three Buddhas Kingdom, the Zhenla Kingdom, the Champa Kingdom, the King of Jiaozhi County, the Liuqiu Kingdom, and the envoys of the Japanese State have gathered in Haizhou, and they intend to respect me as the great emperor with the four seas!"

Zhao Ji's words caused a wave in the hall.

Eleven countries plus a king of Jiaozhi County jointly supported Zhao Ji as the emperor with the four seas, including the Roman Kingdom, the Great Food Kingdom, the Bagan Kingdom, the Zhulin Kingdom, the Baltic Kingdom, the Three Buddhas Kingdom, the Zhenla Kingdom and the Japan Kingdom.

It's a grand event like never before!

"The ministers congratulate His Majesty, and the ministers congratulate the Great Song Dynasty......"

The ministers hurriedly congratulated Zhao Ji in unison.

However, Zhao Ji's interest is obviously not too high, and he obviously still has things in his heart. The pilgrimage didn't last long, and it ended in a hurry. Next, the important ministers who were qualified to go to the Chongzheng Palace to discuss politics, and after sending Zhao Ji away, under the guidance of Xuanzan of the Gate, walked to the Chongzheng Hall in the Qionglin Palace.

The Son of Heaven is not in the main hall of the Chongzheng Palace, but in the right side hall of the Chongzheng Palace, which houses a huge sand table platform.

This sand table platform was personally supervised by the military envoy of Wuhao Gudangdu, and it was shown to Zhao Ji that was Hebei and Hedong of the Great Song Dynasty, as well as the Nanjing Road, Xijing Road, and the Monan part of Zhongjing Road of the Liao State. Mountains, rivers, cities, deserts, grasslands, and coasts are all clear at a glance.

Zhang Shangying and Zheng Juzhong entered the right hall of the Chongzheng Palace, and saw Zhang Shuye and Wang Yu also inside, and the two of them were busy pushing small wooden blocks with pieces of cardboard to the position of the mandarin duck on the sand table platform with a special long push rod. The important ministers glanced at the mandarin ducks on the sand table, but there were many small flags, among which there was a particularly large flag, on which the words Yelu Yanxi were written.

The Great Liao Emperor has arrived at Mandarin Ducks!?

Zhang Shangying and Zheng Juzhong's two old hearts suddenly rose to their throats.

Zhao Ji saw that the ministers had finished saluting him, so he said in a gloomy voice: "Hebei Xuanfu Si reported that Yelu Yanxi was stationed in Mandarin Duck Luo a year ago, and there are constantly palace tent armies to gather in Mandarin Duck Luo, and the total number may have reached 100,000 people!" ”

Lakh!?

The faces of the important ministers also turned pale little by little, and the Khitan is not as good as the party! The Khitan can easily concentrate all 100,000 elite cavalry - this is not counting the data of auxiliaries, if you count the auxiliaries who defend the camp and fight the grass valley, the 300,000 army can also be pulled.

I don't know how many times stronger this national military strength is than the party!

Moreover, there is a bigger difference between the Khitan and the party, that is, the ability to maneuver is one heaven and one earth. Don't look at the hundreds of thousands of them at every turn, in fact, most of them are rabble on foot. The combat effectiveness is not strong, and it will also drag down the maneuver of the cavalry.

And the Khitans have horses, and an army of 100,000 (total) can be matched with 300,000 or 400,000 war horses, and they can act at a gallop! Even if the new army of the Great Song Dynasty could not be defeated, with this stunt of rapid movement, it could enter the army everywhere along the long border, so that the Song army that ran on two legs was exhausted.

In addition, the people and garrisons of Hebei and Hedong did not have to go northwest, and they were not at all adapted to the wartime environment. And I'm afraid of it for a long time!

When I heard that the Khitan was going to join the Khitan, most of them were so frightened that they wanted to flee! Do you still want to resist such a military spirit and the people's heart?

If you don't do it, you have to let the Khitans kill all the way to the Yellow River.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty," Zhang Shangying finally reacted, and asked Zhao Ji in a low voice, "Does the Hebei Xuanfu Division have any countermeasures?" ”

"Hebei Xuanfu Division, please prepare for war." Zhao Ji waved his hand at a small yellow door waiting in the hall, and this little yellow door held the recital of the Hebei Xuanfu Division in his hand. Seeing Zhao Ji's gesture, he hurriedly walked up to Zhang Shangying and presented the music with both hands.

Zhang Shangying immediately picked up the recital and looked at it, it turned out that Wu Haogu put forward a plan to prepare for war and reorganize the army on this recital.

"Your Majesty, the Hebei Xuanfu Division wants to recruit knights to join the first and second generals of the cavalry of the Hebei New Army?" Zhang Shangying looked at it for a while and had already found a problem.

Most of the knights in Cangzhou are royal knights! Although the palace has not recruited knights to serve in the palace for several years, the military status of those knights is still in the palace division! Once Ke Kewu Haogu's request is granted, these imperial knights will become cavalry of the Hebei New Army......

Zhao Ji said: "Wu Haogu said that the Cangzhou knights have not been summoned for many years, and they are no longer as brave as they used to be, and they must be conscripted into the army as soon as possible and trained strictly, otherwise it will be difficult to be useful in wartime." Uncle Zhang, Wang Yu, what do you think? ”

Of course, Wu Haogu is fooling people.

The knight was not an individual unit, but a family unit, which was both a production unit and a military unit. It is a real integration of military and civilian! In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the more than 3,000 knights' homes placed in Cangzhou and its vicinity, Wu Haogu adopted the method of starting with dolls and opened the Jiehe Knight Primary School.

Anyone born in a knight's family, whether it is a knight in front of the emperor or a knight of the Boundary, their children can be admitted after passing a relatively easy exam. The Knight Primary School is in charge of their upbringing and training!

Therefore, the objects that Wu Haogu can recruit now are not limited to the knights themselves, but also their children. The number and quality of those who could be mobilized were far better than the high-ranking officials in the imperial court imagined.

In addition, Wu Haogu's dummy army also continues to develop. Not only did the first nearly 1,000 people be trained into elite cavalry, but some even got official status.

At the same time, the second-generation fake knights also began to "recruit" (in fact, they were purchased) after Wu Haogu took control of Tamna Island, and then began to train on Tamna Island, with a number of 1,500 (1,000 people are planned to be trained).

In other words, Wu Haogu is not very short of cavalry now, but it lacks the appropriate name to officially turn the knight group in Beicang into the cavalry of the Xuanfu Division of Hebei.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the knight will be negligent in his combat skills for a long time."

"Your Majesty, the Cangzhou knights originated in the first emperor Yuanfu period, and have gone through ten years of spring and autumn, and many of them are old, I am afraid that they will no longer be as brave as they were today. If you don't train hard, you really can't use it. ”

Zhang Shuye and Wang Yu actually didn't know much about the situation, but none of them dared to disagree with Wu Haogu now. After all, Yelu Yanxi has put on a posture of the southern expedition, what if it is true? Now that Wu Haogu is not allowed to train some soldiers, when he turns around, Yelu Yanxi really killed and took the Great Song Dynasty, aren't they all sinners for thousands of years?

Zhang Shangying and Zheng Juzhong, civil officials can also distinguish priorities. Although Wu Haogu is not a good person, but now the official family is afraid of Yelu Yanxi, not Wu Haogu. Therefore, they are also in favor of letting Wu Haogu mobilize the knights and speed up the formation of two cavalry generals.

"Your Majesty, the minister suggests that a sum of money be allocated to the Hebei Xuanfu Division to recruit troops, and allow it to recruit thousands or even 10,000 utility soldiers." Zhang Shangying still feels unsafe, and now Cai Jing is still slowly rushing to Kaifeng Mansion, and he doesn't know when he will be able to arrive.

Before Cai Jing arrived, he, the acting prime minister, must not become the last prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty......

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