Chen Xiang clearly understood the importance of the Grand Canal to the Sui Dynasty court, so he strengthened the training of the 260,000-strong army to protect the passage safety of the Grand Canal at all times, so as to ensure that the Sui Dynasty court could smoothly return to Chang'an.

He used the new Mingjiao as the ideological foundation, taught these refugee soldiers to be loyal and patriotic, defend their homeland, and made many soldiers who could use the rune system in the Mingjiao holy scriptures to create holy light to heal the wounded to be promoted to officers, and reorganized this army into a completely Mingjiao army.

In the people, because Mingjiao has been transformed into a capitalist religion by Chen Xiang, paying attention to practicality, encouraging hard work and getting rich, paying attention to the rule of law and the spirit of contract, and attaching importance to craftsmen and merchants, the people in Luokoucang have also quickly entered their new role, based on industry and commerce, and also made full use of the advantages of Luokoucang as a transportation hub, and began to do business with the Song valve in the south. At the same time, it also spread rapidly, especially among the poor middle and lower class people, and it was very widely spread.

A month and a half later, Chen Xiang arranged for spies near Xingyang City to report back the news, saying that the situation in Xingyang City seemed to be unstable, so Chen Xiang took 20,000 trained troops, half of Qin Qiong's troops plus 15,000 newly trained soldiers, commanded by Qin Qiong, with enough supplies and grain and grass, and drove towards Xingyang.

On the way, he actually ran into Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, they fled back in embarrassment, and took a middle-aged man and a stout girl, as well as the maid Su Su before, Kou Zhong sat on the ground with a smile, coughing and panting loudly, and said: "What a fucking excitement!" Even if that guy Li Mi is like a ghost, he can only give us the share of the urinal of the Great Sui Shuanglong! ”

Xu Ziling said helplessly: "When is it, you are still here to blow nonsense!" As he spoke, he saluted Chen Xiang and said, "Big brother! Sorry, we didn't make it to the mission! However, we only persuaded the big dragon head Zhai Rang to accept the imperial court's recruitment, and Li Mi's old boy first pretended to surrender on face, but in fact completely broke with the big dragon head Zhai Rang. And a fight! We've suffered a big loss! But then Li Mi will not get any better! When we left, Xingyang City was burned to ashes, and Li Mi knew that he couldn't hold the city, so he retreated north with more than 5,000 remnants! ”

Chen Xiang raised her eyebrows and said, "Oh? Is that so? How many subordinates are left of the big dragon head now? ”

Kou Zhong laughed awkwardly and said, "Hehe, I don't know about this. ”

However, the middle-aged man didn't wait for Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling to introduce him, took the initiative to step forward, bowed deeply to Chen Xiang and said, "Caomin Zhai has seen the national teacher. He also introduced: "This is the little girl Zhai Jiao, who has also seen the national teacher together!" As he spoke, he pulled the sturdy girl next to him and saluted Chen Xiang together.

Zhai Jiao has never seen such a handsome and handsome guy as Chen Xiang, and he is also a national teacher full of power and charm. couldn't help but look straight in the eyes, Kou Zhong kicked Zhai Jiao very dissatisfied, and said, "Hey, hey, hey! Why do you take it so seriously? Do you want to eat our eldest brother in one bite? You don't take it so seriously when you look at us! ”

Zhai Jiao turned around in annoyance and shame, jumped up fiercely and hit Kou Zhong with a heavy elbow, which smashed on his chest, causing his old injuries to be touched, and this blow was indeed very heavy, choking up, and his face was flushed. Almost out of life, Xu Ziling and Su Su hurriedly stepped forward to rescue him.

Zhai Jiao then stood up again, blessed Chen Xiang, and whispered to Chen Xiang with a shyness on her face: "The slave family has seen the national teacher~" Such a huge contrast. Everyone was amazed.

Zhai Rang didn't expect such a thing, so he hurriedly coughed twice and said, "There are about 2,000 brothers with me now, and most of them are still injured. The first one is rushing here. ”

Chen Xiang thought for a while and said, "There's no need for them to rush here, let's catch up." Then occupy Xingyang City to keep the peace of the Grand Canal for the imperial court and ensure that the forbidden army can return to Daxing City smoothly. ”

It didn't take long for the army to meet the remnants of the Wagang Army who followed Zhai Rang on the way, looking very down. There were burns and knife wounds on his body, and the whole army looked very sluggish and very demoralized.

Chen Xiang smiled faintly, and the golden pagoda above his head suddenly burst out with infinite brilliance, shining on the bodies of these wounded soldiers, and the light from the holy fire shone on their bodies, quickly healing the injuries on their bodies, and imbuing them all with very warm power. After feeling such a magical power, the spirit of the remnants of the Wagang Army was also shocked, and they felt much better.

At this time, someone stepped forward to bandage the wounds of the remnants of the Wagang army, provided them with hot porridge and hot meals, so that they could come back from the threat of death, and hope was raised again, and as Chen Xiang's 20,000 troops turned around again and rushed to Xingyang City.

A day later, Chen Xiang's team had rushed to Xingyang City, and sure enough, the Xingyang City had been burned to a piece of charcoal, and there were homeless new refugees everywhere, numbly looking at their burned homes, crying without tears, not knowing what to say or do.

Chen Xiang immediately ordered Xingyang City to rest and rebuild the city with the whole army.

The biggest task now is not to pursue the great traitor Li Mi, but to stabilize the rule of the Sui court, so it is still very necessary to maintain the concentration and unity of forces.

Xingyang City is also a big city, it also occupies a very important position in the transportation of the Grand Canal, and most importantly, this important city originally belonged to the court of the Sui Dynasty, but later it was occupied by the Wagang army, and now after the Wagang army retreated, it became an ownerless city, which was easily occupied by Chen Xiang.

Because of the war in the past few years, so that the surrounding fertile land abandoned a lot, under the auspices of Chen Xiang, those refugees also quickly launched production to save themselves, reclaimed the wasteland, built houses, in Luokoucang a large amount of grain support, Xingyang City quickly began the reconstruction work, and in accordance with the model of the New Song Dynasty, the establishment of the six science halls of civil, military, industry, agriculture, commerce and medicine, but also the establishment of the Mingjiao church, focusing on the training of Mingjiao missionaries.

Chen Xiang also selected 3,000 outstanding people from the army created by 260,000 grass, and formed the Mingjiao Templar Knights, named Tiance Cavalry, among which 300 pious officers were all ignited into Holy Fire Paladins, forming a powerful armed force. It is directly controlled in Chen Xiang's own hands.

In addition, there are 50,000 relatively strong soldiers, led by the original 200 light messengers, which are considered elite ordinary troops, and the remaining 200,000 troops are half-workers and half-soldiers, mainly based on production, which is basically the military camp of Mingjiao.

A basic division was also made for missionaries: ordinary believers were called laymen, devout believers were called fire friends, and those in charge of a county mission were called fire blessings. Those who are in charge of the religious affairs of a county are called the Fire Sect, those who are in charge of the affairs of the Ming Religion of a state are called the Fire Master, and the important people in the center are called the Ming Envoys. Those who are responsible for traveling around to preach and inspect the Ming Sect in various places, and those who report lawlessness are called Guangming Sanren. The churches of the Ming religion are called the Church of Light, except for praying for blessings and disasters. In addition to traditional religious businesses such as transcending the souls of the dead and healing injuries, he also worked as a blacksmith and craftsman, and continued to research and promote advanced tools. Continue to moisturize things silently to improve the productivity of the countryside. It is said that the kitchen knives that have been blessed by Mingzun are several times more durable than ordinary kitchen knives! With such benefits, the opening of Mingtang is also very smooth. It also fully absorbed local blacksmiths and other craftsmen into the Ming religion, and tried not to conflict and competition as much as possible.

Because of such benefits, the spread of Mingjiao appears to be very rapid. With the flow of refugee caravans, it radiated in all directions with Xingyang Luokoucang as the center.

A month later, the 500,000 troops of the Sui Dynasty rushed from Jiangdu to Xingyang, and after converging with Chen Xiang's 260,000 troops, they reorganized here for another month, and with the full cooperation of Li Jing and Qin Qiong, they reorganized the team, left 100,000 troops in Xingyang City, and sent 100,000 troops back to Jiangdu, commanded by Du Fuwei, to ensure the stability of Jiangnan.

The remaining 560,000 troops, under the leadership of the Sui court, continued to march westward and came to the city of Luoyang. Along the way, Chen Xiang took his 160,000 troops to carry out military discipline education and Mingjiao propaganda for the entire Sui army, and also opened a Mingjiao martial arts lecture hall that moved with Tiance to ride and move, specializing in teaching martial arts and military strategy.

In just a few months, Chen Xiang was able to pull out such a large team, and Pei Ju felt that Chen Xiang's ability was amazing. However, his results are also good, although there are still a lot of things that are involved in the cabinet formed now, but it is finally exactly formed, and it can encircle those noble gate valves, so that they will not jump out and make trouble.

When he saw Pei Ju again, Chen Xiang seemed to see that the hair on his temples was a little gray, obviously he had worked a lot in the past six or seven months.

"The National Teacher is well!" Pei Ju smiled and saluted Chen Xiang, Chen Xiang also smiled faintly, returned a salute to Pei Ju, and at the same time looked at the three young people next to him. One of the young men was a little taller, and he was still wearing a night robe in broad daylight, his face was gloomy, and his face was covered with a black mask, which covered his face. Another young man was holding a large folding fan, dressed very gorgeously, and his appearance was also very handsome, and he was smiling affectionately between his eyebrows, like a proud noble son in love.

The last young man especially attracted Chen Xiang's attention, because this young man was actually a girl, and her appearance was extremely bewitching, which made people feel that this person was their beloved, even if it was not a pity to pay the price of their lives for this girl. And most importantly, the girl was dressed in flowing white, with no shoes under her feet, and a pair of barefoot feet standing on the dirty ground, but it gave people the feeling that no amount of dirty mud could pollute her purity.

"I couldn't be busy during this time, so I asked my two apprentices and a nephew to do something for me, this is Yang Xuyan, who is a disciple of my Heavenly Pavilion inheritance, and also a member of the royal family, helping me with some intelligence and military discipline matters. This is Hou Xibai, a disciple of my Huajian sect, he is good at dancing with long sleeves, and he is careful to observe and do some internal affairs work for me. And this," Pei Ju stretched out his hand to introduce the woman, and continued with some complexity: "This is an elite figure of the Yin Sect's generation, Wan Wan, who was also sent by her master to assist me in doing some communication and joint work. The willingness of the gates to come to the cabinet and compromise with each other and assist each other was accomplished with the assistance of the nephews and nephews, otherwise, we would not have been able to do so well at all. ”

Chen Xiang nodded with a smile and said, "You can see it." These three juniors of Lord Pei are all amazing heroes, and it is also a blessing for Lord Pei to be able to use them! ”

Pei Ju smiled and didn't answer, first let a few of his disciple assistants leave the room, and then discuss it with Chen Xiang alone, at this time he frowned, and said: "Most of the power in the imperial court today is in the hands of the gate valves, especially the four major valves. The weakness of the imperial court is also caused by the struggle for power of these four major lords. Taiyuan Li Valve is a group of military generals and aristocrats, most of the middle and lower military generals are attached to Li Valve, and Li Yuan himself also has a reputation in the rivers and lakes, and his appeal is quite strong, although the power of the DPRK and China is insufficient, but the actual operation ability is the strongest. Yuwen valve is the remnant of the Northern Zhou Dynasty nobles, when Emperor Wen got the Zen throne of the Northern Zhou Emperor, these people also contributed. Thus their aristocratic status was still preserved, and their relationships were the most intertwined, and it was difficult to straighten them out. Dugu is because they used to be the most powerful relatives. It has the closest relationship with the harem of the DPRK and China, but its influence on the outside world is not so sufficient. The Song valve is a representative of the Han people who prefer the south, although they have a lot of wealth, they also have a little courage. But if anyone really makes up their minds to deal with them, they can still break it at once, without any surprises. ”

Chen Xiang looked at Pei Ju and introduced the situation of the four valves in such detail. Knowing that he must have some ideas, he simply responded a few times and waited for Pei Ju's next words.

These four major lords compete for power and profit with each other, often putting the interests of the family above the interests of the court, and even do not hesitate to damage the interests of the court for the sake of their own interests, which makes the government degenerate day by day and is irretrievable. If you want to save the court again, these four major lords must be eliminated, but they must not be eliminated all at once, otherwise when the heroes in the world are not enough to make up for the talent gap, the disaster will be even more serious. It is necessary to replace the position of these four major lords with other groups or figures with sufficient strength, otherwise, the disaster will last forever, and the dynasty will inevitably die again. ”

Chen Xiang nodded and said, "What Master Pei said is very right, and he has all said the point, I don't know what Master Pei can teach me?" ”

Pei Ju's eyes narrowed, as if he was still doing the final ideological struggle, and finally let out a long breath and said: "Although the four major valves are really hateful, I have to say that in the world today, the one who can cultivate talents is this big family." Their children do not have to engage in labor, they can concentrate on studying, and they have sufficient resources in all aspects, whether it is civil or military, even if they use resources to pile up talents. If they are ordinary people, not only do they have no resources to study, but their limitations are even more profound, so that they can be petty officials and officials, but they cannot go to the center of the court to participate in some major affairs. ”

Then Pei Ju's eyes flashed again, stared at Chen Xiang, and said: "And there is another mechanism for cultivating talents in this world, which is the Jianghu sect!" ”

Chen Xiang smiled and nodded, sure enough, this Pei Ju had already seen this.

When Pei Ju saw Chen Xiang's expression, he knew that Chen Xiang had already considered this, so he continued: "Although most of the major gangs are attached to the gate valve, and are actually the minions and lackeys of the gate valve, they have indeed absorbed and cultivated a lot of talents from the common people. ”

Speaking of which, Pei Ju's two eyes were like two LED bulbs stuffed, which were very distinct, and they looked like they were in the most itchy part of his heart.

Pei Ju or Shi Zhixuan, since he was a child, was just a talented poor child, fortunately he was favored by the Demon Gate, received from the Gate, and focused on cultivating it, which began to soar into the sky. Later, because of the good use of personal talents, he eventually became an important minister of the imperial court.

But it is because he is not from a gate valve background that he has never been able to really dominate politics, so that he can display his talents on this bigger stage and show what he has learned! In addition, his cultivation of the two completely different exercises of the Flower Sect and the Mending Heaven Pavilion led to insanity, and it was even more contrary to common sense to do things, so he hated it! So he's angry! So he set up a poisonous plan to make the court empty, so that these gate lords and this rotten court will be destroyed together!

Who would have thought that when he had not seen the destruction of this imperial court, there was such a strange person as Chen Xiang, who had been lurking in Yangzhou City for more than 20 years without saying a word, but as soon as the faint monarch arrived in Jiangdu City, he had a seizure, took away the secret of immortality, killed Yu Wenhua, and even single-handedly persuaded Du Fuwei to subdue the Jianghuai army, and even killed the faint monarch directly and controlled the inner court by unbelievable means. He even entrusted himself with the power he had never had, and the opportunity to change the world that he had been looking forward to for many years suddenly appeared in front of his eyes!

And under this Chen Xiang's ability, not only did he get rid of all the old diseases, but he even obtained two clones! With abilities that ordinary people can't even imagine! On weekdays, in fact, Pei Ju was divided into three people, and he improved his work efficiency at once! Shi Zhixuan, who has a dark personality, took Yang Xuyan to deal with some assassination and purge matters, and Shi Zhixuan of the Huajian faction took Hou Xibai to strengthen internal management, recognize and employ people, calm grievances, and build a team that can realize his life dreams, while Shi Zhixuan, who is self-contained, is good at dancing with Wan Wan's long sleeves, maneuvering between the various gates, balancing the interests of all parties, so that this carriage will not suddenly overturn when he is making a difference!

Therefore, although the ability of the three clones will make each clone only have one-third of their strength left, it will increase the work efficiency by three times, and it will have an unexpected effect, which makes Shi Zhixuan have an advantage in the early stage of the pavilion!

After this Chen Xiang was established as a national teacher, he didn't make trouble for himself, and he took his subordinates north to control Luokoucang, and then based on these grains, he pulled up a large army almost instantly, and used this to oppress the Wagang army, which made the Wagang army divided internally, and the climate could no longer be formed.

Such a method is indeed eye-catching, so Shi Zhixuan also knows that this Chen Xiang and Mingjiao can only be friends, not enemies. Moreover, even if Shi Zhixuan himself was born in the Demon Sect, he was also not treated by the orthodox society, and even if the other party created a new religion, it would have nothing to do with him.

What's more, after Shi Zhixuan studied the holy scriptures of the Ming Sect, he even felt that this Ming Sect was quite to his own taste. It also has a natural alliance with the political idea of cultivating civilians and relying on civilians.

This time, Shi Zhixuan really made a lot of efforts, not only recruited all the people under his command and enriched them into the imperial court, and shared his worries, but even recruited a lot of people from other sects of the Demon Sect such as the Yin Sect and the True Sect, and after having these people, Shi Zhixuan also had enough support in the imperial court, and the orders he issued could be effectively implemented.

This has also formed Shi Zhixuan's new ideas, at present, in addition to the sect, there is no other talent strength that can compete with the door valve, so the policy of the imperial court is inclined to the sect, first maintain a balance, and then gradually replace the gate valve talent with the sect talent, and gradually marginalize the gate valve! In the end, it was completely solved!

Shi Zhixuan was so disgusted and hated the gate valve that when he said these words, the hatred in his eyes was almost undisguised!

Chen Xiang had clearly felt what he was thinking in his heart, and said: "Master Pei's idea is very good, you can chat with Yue Buqun more, and in combination with the Six Science Hall system I established in Xingyang City, it will inevitably be able to select the children with outstanding talents among the common people and fill them in the palace, so that not only can the space of the gate valve be squeezed, but also all the talents in the world can enter the sight of the imperial court, so as to show their strengths, so as not to leave the virtuous in the wilderness, and ambitious and ambitious people will set off a rebellion again." ”

Pei Ju's eyes lit up and said, "Oh?!" Imperial examination system? And the Six Science Hall system? Not bad...... If talents are selected through the imperial examination, it is indeed easy to say that in the past, it can also give more formal channels to the children of ordinary people! Not bad, not bad! I will prepare for this, and once I return to Chang'an City, I will immediately start preparing for the imperial examination system! This year's newly vacant officials below the sixth grade are all selected by the imperial examination system! At the same time, he also sent invitations to all the major sects in the world, asking them to send outstanding disciples to participate in the imperial examination! (To be continued......)