The reason why Wang Xiao didn't go to see Zuo Mingjing in the past few days after Wang Xiao came back was not because he forgot ...... Maybe it was because of the deaths of Cai Nianzhen and Bur Hawk and Bu Mu Butai's hatred that made him a little vigilant, and he felt that it was better to provoke less people.

He and Zuo Mingjing are friends who have met a few times, they appreciate and admire her, she is famous, and he occasionally mourns her opportunities, so he can help a little. But if you get too close, it's not necessarily good for her.

Wang Xiao didn't expect that she would come over today to remind her again, such a friendship makes people feel a little 'the most difficult to be graced by a beauty'.

"Miss Zuo said she had something to say to me, is that all?"

"Well, since I met it on the road, I took the liberty to remind me that I was thin and talented, and I smiled."

After these two sentences, she said goodbye, still looking like a lady, a little detached.

Wang Xiao was inexplicably a little empty in his heart, and with this emotion, he walked all the way to the military plane.

The so-called Military Aircraft Department, the name borrowed very magnificently, is actually just a dilapidated room not far from the barracks. Except for the plaque written by Dong Jihe himself at the door, there is a sense of simplicity in other places, the earthen wall has been cracked, and there are several holes in the eaves.

Soldiers delivering news shuttled back and forth, and a group of craftsmen drew maps and made sand tables in the courtyard. Wang Xiao has extremely high requirements for the sand table, and it is very difficult to make it, the craftsmen are constantly arguing, and the courtyard is full of noise.

Seeing Wang Xiao come in, they just hugged their fists and called "Master Hou" and then continued to argue.

'Reducing red tape and improving work efficiency' is also what Wang Xiao demanded, although this is a trivial matter, but the style of the three armed forces is also much neater. Naturally, Wenchen's side also had opposing voices...... In the past few years, there have been objections to everything, but now Wang Xiao is right.

Entering the lobby, there were maps hanging everywhere, and a group of account offices crackling and tapping on the abacus to calculate the military supplies.

In the center of the hall is a freshly made sand table model of Texas City. Qin Shanhai, Dong Jihe, Xia Xiangwei, and Wang Zhenwei sat there as if playing mahjong.

In the past few days, King Wu Yan's offensive is not in a hurry, and Qin Shanhai does not need to go to the battlefield to command, but it also saves others from moving him around. Wang Zhen actually didn't know anything about the military, and his illness didn't heal, so he came to do some logistics that were not too tiring.

On a chair in the back, Qin Xiaozhu turned half of her body and lay on the back of the chair, as if she was looking at the map on the wall.

Wang Xiao was quite speechless about this, and did not wake her up, walked to the sand table and looked twice.

Dong Jihe and Xia Xiangwei were speculating on the location of the anti-army reinforcements, and Qin Shanhai closed his eyes, obviously judging faster than them.

Wang Xiao picked up two models of soldiers and horses and put them on the map, and said, "Here we are, Lijin County." ”

Qin Shanhai nodded, indicating that he thought the same way.

Dong Ji and Fusu groaned and said, "If this is the case, the soldiers and horses of the Tang Festival will arrive in two days." ”

"So King Wu Yama slowed down his offensive, in order to wait for reinforcements to arrive?" Xia Xiangwei asked.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Wang smiled: "According to the character of King Wu Yan, he can not win against us, but if Tang Jie robs him of his credit, he may not be happy...... I thought he would step up his offensive in the next two days. I didn't expect it to slow down. ”

As he spoke, the worry in his eyes rose again.

When he went to the city tower to watch the battle today, he noticed that something was wrong, but he couldn't think of it for a while, so he came over to discuss with someone.

"Master Hou is worried that King Wu Yan still has means?"

"Although this guy is not as good as Jiannu, but he is flooded in Kaifeng, I am afraid that it is not easy to fight."

Qin Shanhai and Wang Xiao looked at each other for a while, and suddenly frowned.

"Could it be like this......

After a while, Wang Zhen muttered, "Won't it? According to the current momentum of the anti-army, if this is the case again, the gains outweigh the losses. ”

"The other party is King Wu Yan."

After a few people discussed for a while, Wang smiled and said: "Just arrange it according to what Qin Shuai said, and there is no big mistake in being careful." ”

……

Over there, Qin Xiaozhu heard Wang Xiao's voice, woke up in a daze, rubbed his eyes, and saw that Wang Xiao was really here, but he was also a little happy, and he didn't care if there was a big mark on his face.

She is now in charge of Chunning and Queen Xu's guards, and she is usually quite busy, and she is free every day, and at this time, Wang Xiao is on the side of the military aircraft, so she ran over and waited.

After Wang Xiao finished talking about things, she beckoned him to go back to Chunning for dinner.

During the escape, everyone lost many rules, and what they got was the little pleasure of being able to eat together.

On the way back to the prefect's yamen from the military plane, they generally do not ride horses, but only take carriages, so that it is convenient to talk on the road, and Qin Xiaozhu's favorite is this road.

Just as he was about to get into the carriage, he saw Xia Xiangwei chasing after him and said, "By the way, teacher, there is a shortage of manpower here in the Military Aircraft Department......

The officials brought out lost more than half of them on the way, and the manpower was naturally very insufficient. Xia Xiangwei had mentioned this matter twice, but Wang Xiao actually forgot about it.

Now that he was asked again, he pretended to be solemn and said, "That's ...... Let's take an exam. ”

"Exams?"

"There are not many people in the city who can do anything now. Even if the Military Aircraft Department wants manpower, there is nowhere to allocate it, so let's take the exam. You and Mr. Dong publish a volume, you don't have to choose some people with practical talents according to the Four Books and Five Classics. The range may as well be selected from the people of the city, naturally it is necessary to be able to read and write, understand how to calculate, and choose a few more rounds......"

Wang Xiao said that he was a little interested here, and talked eloquently, what kind of auditions, re-examinations and the like, I don't know, I thought that he had thought a lot about this matter, but he had considered all aspects.

Xia Xiangwei was obviously a little stunned.

It's a bit of a mess...... In fact, it is simply nonsense, and the dignity of the newly established yamen of the Military Aircraft Department has been pulled down, and the sense of glory of the mainstay in the troubled times has been wiped out a lot.

Someone else would definitely oppose this proposal. But Xia Xiangwei thought about it and suddenly became excited again.

Select talents from the people, not sticking to one pattern. Isn't this how the so-called democracy and civil rights began to be made little by little?

- The teacher really hasn't forgotten his ambition!

The master and apprentice chatted more and more vigorously on this topic. A casual nonsense, I think this is quite interesting; A person who has faith in his heart and wants to set a precedent.

"For example, the audition only needs to select literate and practical talents, and then take a written test, come up with some questions related to the war, don't get those pedantic people in, and finally interview...... You can also let them go to the army for a rehearsal......"

Qin Xiaozhu sat in the carriage and listened, thinking that if he took the exam like this, then he would definitely be able to go to high school.

She asked, "Can a woman take the test too?" ”

I still know that I am a woman.

Wang Xiao wanted to say no, but after thinking about it, it is rare that those corrupt high-ranking officials have been lost, and the Military Aircraft Department is his own one-third of an acre, so he said: "Don't stick to one pattern, as long as you work hard." ”

Of course, there are many drawbacks to this, such as people will think that this small court in exile is not in order, or it will damage the prestige of the military aircraft department.

But he just borrowed a name, and he didn't want to really develop the Military Aircraft Department into a ruling organ, so it didn't matter. If there is any trouble, he believes that he can handle it.

Qin Xiaozhu was quite happy to get this answer.

Although she has also come out to do something now, she does not have any serious official position, so she is gearing up and preparing to do a big job.

Although this matter is novel, it is only a trivial matter for Wang Xiao. After talking to Xia Xiangwei and asking him to come up with a specific plan, Wang Xiao and Qin Xiaozhu got into the carriage.

"Is this really possible? You're not kidding me, are you? ”

Qin Xiaozhu's excitement passed, and he became a little suspicious.

"Naturally, there is resistance and criticism, but I must do this, who can stop me." Wang smiled: "It is also necessary to do this, now that I have just come forward to do things, there are many people who want to seek a promotion by virtue of their relationship, and they have set the rules of meritocracy at the beginning, so that they will not be chaotic in the future." ”

As he spoke, seeing that the marks on Qin Xiaozhu's face had not disappeared, he reached out and pinched it, Qin Xiaozhu slapped his hand away, and said, "Hugh took advantage of me." ”

She herself took Wang Xiao's arm and rubbed her head on his shoulder twice.

"Ha, I'm going to be an official too."

"Wherever it is, it's an official ......"

He had only gone far before he had come out of nowhere, and suddenly another soldier galloped over.

"Master Hou, the rebels have stepped up their offensive......"

Wang Xiao frowned, asked Qin Xiaozhu to go back and continue to protect Chunning, and pushed the matter of going to see the ghost loach to Wang Zhen, and turned back to the city.

Over there, Dong Jihe heard that Xia Weixiang wanted to select talents to join the military aircraft department, and he sighed in his heart that he couldn't let these young people mess around, and he really wanted to make a show and ignore the law and human feelings.

Then they also heard about the offensive outside the city, and their faces changed and they hurried to the city.

Everyone arrived one after another, and looked out of the city, only to see a black pressure in the distance, and the anti-army front was pouring up in this direction.

"King Wu Yan, this is going to take Texas at any cost?"

"I'm afraid that Vice Marshal Qin will be right......"

Outside the city, a tidal crowd finally poured closer.

"These people...... These people are all ordinary people......" a soldier muttered, and the atmosphere became a little difficult.

Wang Xiao frowned, he was most annoyed by this hand.

~~

There are many things in the world that have sequelae. King Wu Yan broke the Yellow River and flooded Kaifeng, not only drowning hundreds of thousands of people, but also displacing tens of millions of people in the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

After he captured Kaifeng, he left, but he didn't know that the Yellow River had a huge sediment content, and after the embankment burst, a large amount of sediment rolled down, once again silting up the downstream channel into the sea, and the flood flooded in all directions. For more than 200 years, the Chu Dynasty vigorously controlled the Yellow River, and all the drivers built were destroyed. A few years after the dam burst, the Yellow River suffered frequent disasters and flooded for thousands of miles, and the number of people affected by each disaster was millions of people, which was a serious disaster for hundreds of years.

But even if King Wu Yan knew this, he would not change his choice at that time. The life and death fate of tens of millions of people is compared with the gains and losses of one person, and of course he has to choose his own rich future.

Those innocent people in the lower reaches of the Yellow River either died with their families or lost their loved ones, and the cries shook the sky. Maybe King Wu Yan was slashed ten thousand times by a thousand knives and could not atone for his sins, so what? He is still the commander of the Zhennan Army and the great hero of the founding of the Rui Dynasty. The world rebuked him, hated him, cursed him, but they were afraid of him, feared him, and respected him.

This is his life, and his sins are deeper than the sea, but even if he wants to pay for his life, he will only die once.

For him personally, there seems to be no after-effects.

If there is, it is that he is used to solving things in such a simple and tyrannical way.

It's a pity that although Texas City is a famous canal city, the amount of water is not large. The flood could not be completed, and King Wu had to attack the city in another way.

When he realized that the Chu army was not easy to fight, he began to loot the nearby people, Jingxian, Wuqiao, the ancient city, and the Lingcheng...... All the county towns and the villages below were looted everywhere the Zhennan army went, and in just a few days, 100,000 people were taken captive.

King Wu Yan was reluctant to lose the strength of his old battalion, and he also knew that with the command ability of the Chu generals and the morale of the Chu army, he was not an opponent, and he did not want to give the credit to Tang Jie...... Then use your old ways.

Since the uprising, he has been coercing the people to attack the city, and it is in this way that the rebels can grow bigger and bigger, until they have the prestige they have now.

Tang Zhongyuan saved enough belongings by being a bitch, but now he wants to set up an archway. King Wu Yama only feels hypocritical, he Wu Yama is down-to-earth, don't want this archway!