The struggle between the two parties in the DPRK and China around the Department of Military Studies has finally come to an end, and the old party will have a reversal, which will also change the opinion of the Holy Monarch Zhao Ji towards Han Zhongyan and others - for strong soldiers, these people are not completely helpless!

A few days later, Zhao Ji summoned the Longtu Pavilion in the Chongzheng Palace to know the Kaifeng Mansion Fan Chunli (Fan Zhongyan's third son) alone, and immediately issued the edict.

The market of the old party is bullish again.

I don't know if it's because the New Party has suffered a temporary setback, or because the New Year is approaching, and it is inconvenient to start political disputes again.

After today's court meeting, the Zaifu returned to the political hall to discuss several important political matters to be dealt with today.

"The embassy accompanied the Goryeo envoy, and the Goryeo envoy Wu Yanzhong begged for the "Taiping Yulan", and reported the matter of the annexation of the Lazy Dian's female direct department." Han Zhongyan sat in the middle hall, and took the chapter sent by the Goryeo envoy in his hand first, "When Yin Guan came to the court last year, he begged for books such as "Taiping Yulan", and the first emperor allowed it, and he could give it after the school was completed. I wonder what you think? ”

Zeng Bu took a sip of tea soup and said casually: "Since the first emperor has an edict, then give it to them." ”

"Taiping Yulan" is an encyclopedia compiled during the Taiping Xingguo period of the reign of Taizong of the Song Dynasty, the whole book is 1000 volumes, divided into 55 parts, and each department is divided into dry categories, and there are sub-categories under the class, the size of the category is about 5474 categories in total, it can be regarded as all-encompassing, there is everything. If it is broken down and reorganized, it can support a medieval university. However, Zhao Guangyi did not use this big book to run a school and engage in education.

This book was originally called "Taiping General Class", Taizong Zhao Guangyi in order to show that he reads books quickly, once said: "This book is a thousand volumes, I want to read it all in a year." Therefore, he ordered people to enter three volumes a day and prepare "Yi Ye Lan", and then the edict was changed to "Taiping Yulan" - it is estimated that Zhao Guangyi's fat man used three volumes of "Taiping Yulan" as hypnotic drugs every night......

In order to show their erudition, the successive kings of the Goryeo Kingdom also wanted to get the "Taiping Yulan", so they repeatedly begged for the "Taiping Yulan". However, this book was listed as a forbidden book for foreign transmission, so it was not allowed until the second year of Yuan Fu, when Song Zhezong was in power, that he relented.

Han Zhongyan also knew that Zeng Bu also had a part in the decision to allow the "exit" of the "Taiping Yulan" at that time, and now Zeng Bu's answer was also expected, so after glancing at him, his eyes turned to Fan Chunli's body, "Yi Suo, the envoy of Goryeo will ask for the "Taiping Yulan" to be played together with the female Zhigui annex, do you say you want to connect the two?" ”

"Xiang Gong is very worried. However, the Lazy Diannu has always been a vassal of the Liao State, and the Goryeo people will inevitably offend the Liao State if they want to annex them, so we have to guard against being dragged into the water by the Goryeo people. ”

Fan Chunli, like his two brothers, is a gentleman of the old party who is particularly reluctant to provoke the barbarians. If the Koreans hadn't associated the Lazy Dian Nuzhi with the Taiping Yulan, he would have nothing to worry about.

But now, things seem to have changed to the Goryeo Kingdom to inform the Great Song Dynasty that they had subdued the Lazy Diannuzhi, and the Great Song Dynasty gave the Taiping Yulan 1,000 volumes as a sign of encouragement......

Zeng Bu glanced at Fan Chunli with a little contempt, Fan Zhongyan's three sons are all virtuous, and they are afraid of barbarians like tigers!

Encouragement, what's wrong with Goryeo? If the Goryeo Kingdom can annex some more territory of raw and mature women, it may fight with the Great Liao Kingdom. Doesn't the Great Song Dynasty just profit from it?

But Zeng Bu's contemptuous eyes were ignored by Fan Chunli, and he said slowly: "It is better to ask the Liao envoy about the situation of the lazy female straight first, and then explain the position of our dynasty to the Liao people, and then give the "Taiping Yulan" to the Goryeo people." ”

As soon as Fan Chunli's words were finished, a small official from the province of Menxia suddenly walked outside the door, and after saluting Han Zhongyan, he reported: "Prime minister, the envoy of the Liao State has an urgent matter to see. ”

This Wang Thorn Shi is Wang Xu, the commander of the horses, he has returned from Haizhou, and now he is also the old confidant of the Holy Monarch Zhao Ji.

However, because Wang Xu was a concubine and had not been named outside the Donghua Gate, it was difficult for Zhao Ji to give him an important position for a while, so he sent him as an embassy companion to receive the envoys of the Liao State.

"But what is it?" Shangshu right Cheng Fan Chunli asked.

"It seems to be a haunted ...... Totei"

"Huh? Haunted? ”

"How did the haunted matter report to the government office?"

"This Wang Jinqing is too nonsense."

The three deacons present all agreed at once. How can you find the prime minister for such a thing as a haunting? The prime minister doesn't care about catching ghosts, this matter has to go to the Great Xiangguo Temple, there are high monks there who can be exceeded, if you can't go to Jingling Palace (Royal Taoist Temple) to find a Taoist priest to catch. In short, the demons and monsters are not under the control of the prime minister.

"Invite him in."

Han Zhongyan waved his hand, but still sent the little official to invite Wang Xu. No matter what Wang Shu says, he is a confidant of the official family, or a first-class noble minister, and he always has to give face.

After a while, Wang Shu walked into the political hall with a wry smile, Han Zhongyan was very familiar with him, and he didn't wait for him to salute, so he asked, "Jin Qing, what's going on?" ”

"How do I know?" Wang Shu shook his head again and again, "That Liao envoy was fine the day before yesterday, but yesterday he suddenly said that the Duting Yi was dilapidated and could not be inhabited, and there were female ghosts in white, and they were clamoring to move out." ”

"Then go to the Great Xiangguo Temple to find a monk to recite the scriptures." Zeng Bu said.

"I found it," Wang Xue said, "I found Master Zhishen and Master Huiming of the Roast Pig Academy to recite the scriptures, but it was still haunted last night...... also shocked the Liao envoy Xiao Baoxian. ”

After listening to Wang Xu's report, the slaughterers present shook their heads and smiled bitterly, this Wang Concubine, too, you have to find a Taoist monk, how can you find the monk of the Roast Pig Academy and Lu Zhishen, the wine and meat monk?

It's just the two of them, it's really hell to be able to overtake the ghosts!

"Why don't you arrange for someone else to do so?" Han Zhongyan said with a frown.

"Xiaguan has a garden in the west of the city, how about letting the Liao envoy live there for a few days, and then let them move back after cleaning up the Duting Station?"

Wang Xu then made a suggestion.

Zeng Bu nodded and said to Han Zhongyan, "Just play as Wang Duwei said." ”

The haunting of Dutingyi is not even a trivial matter in the eyes of the deacons, it is purely an anecdote. So the decision was made without serious discussion, or even without sending someone to investigate. However, none of them thought that the haunted incident of Dutingyi was simply a demolition conspiracy of a lucky villain......

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Of course, Wang Shu is also one of the participants in the "demolition conspiracy"!

Coming out of the imperial city, Wang Shu did not return to the "haunted" Dutingyi, and went directly to the Pear Blossom Courtyard outside the city.

At this time, Wu Haogu, Gao Yu, and Pan Xiao'an, who rushed back from Yanzhou for the New Year, were all in the Lihua Courtyard, waiting for news from Wang Xu, while discussing the follow-up of the "warrior in front of the palace".

A few days ago, the Chongzheng Palace asked the right question, but it has not yet been implemented!

500-1000 samurai in front of the palace are quite an elite armed force! Behind it is also involved up to 1.5 million acres of land and millions of resettlement costs.

This mission must be taken!

"I have twenty-four classes in front of the palace, which were originally the elite of the army, but now they have become a guard of honor, and they can't fight, otherwise there will be no need for knights in front of the palace."

Pan Xiao'an first mentioned the situation of the classes in front of the palace, in the Taizu and Taizong dynasties, the combat effectiveness of the classes in front of the palace was still very strong. But now it has become a kind of goods, and it can only serve as a guard of honor, not fight.

Wu Haogu said with a smile: "At the beginning of the country, the world was still martial, so naturally you could recruit warriors from all classes. But now the literary style is too prosperous, most of the wealthy families are heavy on literature and light on martial arts, and the samurai have no source, and the classes naturally have no warriors to recruit. Therefore, I can only take the route of raising soldiers and see if I can raise some strong men for the country.

In fact, the way of the Privy Council's Military Science Department is also good, living in the city, it is impossible for the children of the nobles who have been rich for more than a hundred years to cultivate soldiers by themselves, only the military training that has been sent to the Military Science Department since childhood, there are ten or eight years, and they can definitely be taught. ”

In ancient China, "entering the city" and losing combat effectiveness could be almost equated. No matter what kind of elite, once they live in the prosperous and wealthy capital of the world, they will be able to grow waste for a few more decades.

The Great Song Dynasty opened the country, of course, it is also like this! Even if there is no Zhao Kuangyin's wealth and military power, the result will not be any different. In fact, the Jiangmen capitalists and Jiangmen artists of the Northern Song Dynasty are still good, at least they can leave a lot of priceless artistic treasures to future generations.

And if you want to reverse this trend, you can only open a military school. As a matter of fact, the way to maintain the combat effectiveness of the armed forces in ancient and modern times around the world is to follow the two lines of the "feudal fiefdom" system and the military school system...... Of course, you can't run a military school like the Northern Song Dynasty martial arts. The problem of martial arts is that it "separates" soldiers and generals, and only wants to train generals, but does not want to train officers at the grassroots level.

Of course, the "generals" who have no combat effectiveness themselves will not pose a threat to the Northern Song court. And the angry young officers who are full of combat effectiveness are sometimes difficult to control...... Anyway, no feudal dynasty in history could firmly control that group of angry youths.

Therefore, for the Northern Song Dynasty, the most advantageous military combination was the strong men hired with money and the "generals" who had no force themselves.

It's a pity that the "generals" cultivated in martial arts can't take charge of the army at all. And without the martial spirit, it is difficult to hire strong men for money.

Gao Yu shook his head with a smile and said, "Da Lang, you really think too much, now most of the military attaches are shadows, and you don't need to know martial arts to do it at all." If you want to enter the military academy for ten or eight years to do it, the generals of the Kaifeng Mansion must not jump up? ”

"That's right." Wu Haogu smiled bitterly, "Then let's discuss how to arrange the 1,000 warriors in front of the palace first." Brother Eleven, I don't think you should go back to Yanzhou again, how much can you learn there? It's better to take over the samurai in front of the palace and arrange it properly. ”