Chapter 91 Big Victory Causes Big Disaster
As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, Shengzhou City is filled with a festive atmosphere. Du Zhongxiao specially ordered Changping to purchase a large amount of pork and fruit from the Beijing area to supply the festival market. First, to ensure market prices and then to highlight the festive atmosphere.
On this day, Du Zhongxiao was in the official hall to check with Li Fugui for the festival food supplies for each department during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The army of 160,000 on Hequ Road, plus nearly 200,000 soldiers in the Yingtianxiang Army, each mooncake was a big number, and it was impossible to be careless. From what each person gave to what the generals and soldiers ate, what wine they drank, how much fruit they allocated, they weighed them one by one.
At this moment, a soldier quickly stepped in and said, "Jie Shuai, the station is here to report. Anbei Army commander Zhang Ji and his party to Shengzhou Station. The imperial court documents were sent over, so please read them."
After saying that, he handed over the official documents to the guards on the side, and the guards placed them on Du Zhongxiao's desk.
Du Zhongxiao said to Li Fugui: "This is what you do. Don't be afraid of spending money. Let the soldiers eat and drink well and have a happy Mid-Autumn Festival. Most of them are traveling far away from their hometowns and have a lively Mid-Autumn Festival when they celebrated in other places."
Li Fugui agreed. He took the official document approved by Du Zhongxiao and went to the official hall on the side to use the seal.
Du Zhongxiao picked up the official document on the case, opened it and opened it. After a rough look, he couldn't help but frown, not knowing whether he should laugh or be sad. The joy was that Zhang Ku brought a thousand new recruits into the capital, and compared the soldiers trained by the imperial guards in the capital and the generals in the capital military academy, and he was able to win a great victory. As a result, Zhang Ku's score was at the average level in comparison with the generals of the capital military academy. This result was not easy. There were a lot of failed candidates in the capital military academy. They had a great advantage over Zhang Ku. Among the generals of the imperial guards, Zhang Ku's score was among the best, and he did not disappoint Yang Wenguang's careful teaching a month ago.
The result of the soldiers competing for military posture arrays was that the new recruits on Hequ Road were not inferior to those of the imperial guards in the capital, and the Privy Council decided that the result was to tie the team. This was beyond Du Zhongxiao's expectations. He originally thought that the imperial guards in the capital were all elite soldiers, and they should have the advantage in this.
The most important result of the two sides' combat drills was that Zhang Ku led his army to a great victory. From command to the quality of the troops, to completing various indicators, he comprehensively overwhelmed the imperial guards in the capital. When the two sides fought, the imperial guards in the capital were actually divided and surrounded by Zhang Ku, and even Du Zhongxiao was a little disbelief.
Finally, the Privy Council was the governor of Hequ Road. In view of the defeat of the imperial guards in the capital of the martial arts industry, he decided to communicate between the two places. The ministers in the court who accompanied Zhang Ji to Hequ Road were the Privy Councilor Di Qing, Deputy Envoy Sun Mian, and Ma Jun commander Wang Kai, the new commander of the four-box commander of the Pengri Tianwu, Li Zhang, Liu Jianji of the Third Class Academy and Wang Gongchen, the Hanlin Scholar. The other instructors in the capital, and more than 100 middle and lower-level officers studying in the military academy, came to Hequ Road together and exchanged with the instructors and students of the Hequ Road Military Academy, which was limited to half a year.
This road has achieved good results, of course, a happy event, but the next arrangement of the Privy Council is really unhappy. So many senior officials and ministers came all at once, and the military academy also had to exchange instructors and students. What kind of happy event can it be?
Du Zhongxiao is not domineering, but he regards the governor as the commander of the journey. He has the final say in everything and has become accustomed to being free and unrestrained. After so many people come, life is not so comfortable.
Now that there is a railway, it is only a day or two to go thousands of miles away. The officials in the capital have gradually developed the habit of running around. At the beginning, a few yamen, mainly the three departments, did this, and soon other yamen learned it. There are major cases in the local area, and the Criminal Court and Dali Temple began to send people to supervise the trial, no longer relying on official documents. When the Censorate got the news, he would sometimes take the initiative to send officials to investigate, no longer relying on memorials to scare people. The Privy Council was even more diligent and sent people to the side road, saying that it was to understand the border situation.
The officials of the court were diligent, and the power of the local chief officials was more or less deprived of them. They secretly complained, but they did not dare to say it. The Song Dynasty was highly centralized, and almost all the power was concentrated in the court, and local officials had no capital to compete. As a complete administrative level changed from a vassal state, the chief officials were just the governor of the military and prefecture affairs, and in name was the dispatched official of the court. They were the only ones who were sent to the court. However, when facing the court's yamen, they could only obey their own rules.
A small official in the Beijing Yamen can make a landlord and official in trouble. They often go to the local area, and inevitably interfere in local affairs, solicit bribes and accept bribes, and many chaos are everywhere. This year, the court fought fiercely and demanded that the Beijing Yamen be restricted from sending people to the local area. However, all parties fought each other and had not yet come out.
These people who came to Hequ Road were even more amazing. They received the imperial edict and were led by the Privy Councilor personally, and several of them had higher official positions than Du Zhongxiao. With such a group of people coming, how could Du Zhongxiao manage Hequ Road?
Du Zhongxiao thought for a while and shook his head gently after throwing the official document on the desk.
The most likely thing is that the ministers in the court were stimulated by the results of this martial arts performance. Du Zhongxiao didn't know what the military academy in the capital was done, and no one would come to report it to him. Now I think that I was afraid that many places were different from when I was in Suizhou.
Thinking about it, I was in the Suizhou training camp at Tianxiangjun. I had no money, no equipment, and had no staffing. Everything was rustic. Most of the officers were fake, and they didn't even have a staffing. The salary was paid by the field affairs, not according to the standards of the court. The so-called textbooks were all a group of military generals with no culture, or even soldiers, who were learned and practiced. The textbooks were vulgar, and they were concise and clear, and they were not nice. They were rural verbs. The compilation was a little bit by bit during the learning and drill, and finally they found it. There was no historical origin or top-level design.
How can these be regarded as teaching in the eyes of the great officials of the court? From Hanlin bachelors to the bachelors in the museum, who are not knowledgeable and knowledgeable about astronomy and geography, how can they be regarded as these things?
Those who study these things are not favored by literature, but the generals of the Sanya find it too difficult. This is not unusual. Most of the generals who enter the military academy here on Hequ Road think that the knowledge they learn is too difficult. Some are too lazy to spend this brain, and would rather go to the Yingtianxiang Army, or change their military posts to military posts, and go to the local area to conduct inspections and supervise, and do not want to enter the military academy. The text seems simple, but there is a lot of mathematical knowledge in the textbooks, as well as some physics and chemistry knowledge, which makes it acceptable for those generals who even take pride in illiteracy.
According to Du Zhongxiao's old military academy, the civil servants looked down on him and were not favored by military generals. I think it was not easy for Yang Ting to open it. In the end, it must be a hodgepodge of opinions from all parties. Who made Yang Ting's official position not high and a group of military governors around him?
The ministers of the court thought that after so many officials were perfected, the military academy in the capital would have been much stronger than Hequ Road. As a result, the first two sides were slapped by Zhang Ke in the face and lost to the point of not having an excuse. If they did not react fiercely, they were afraid that they would not be able to explain to the emperor.
Chapter completed!