In late May, the imperial court finally issued an order, with the palace supervisor, acting Wang Wu Shenzhi as the general manager of the Songyang Road march, the envoy of Suyue and the general of the town army, the Beiya sent 2,000 troops and recruited 3,000 Heluo Jian'er, and combined 5,000 elite troops for the Suyue army, from the south of the Shendu, went straight to Zhongyue Songshan, and honored the god of Songshan as the king of Shenyue Tianzhong.

As soon as this decree came out, it immediately caused a great sensation among the government and the opposition.

The Holy Emperor intended to seal Zen Songshan, not a momentary strategy, as early as the Heavenly Grant year, when the local official Shangshu Wu Siwen and the court gathered more than 2,000 people to request the sealing of Zen Songshan. However, commentators believe that it is not suitable to seal Zen at this time on the grounds that the Great Zhou Dynasty was newly mandated by Heaven, the virtue industry has not been revealed, and the dynasty has not been suppressed.

In the final analysis, at that time, the whole world was still shocked by the heroine's performance, and some were reluctant to admit this fact, so they didn't want to see the Holy Emperor seal Zen with the mandate of heaven.

Soon after, Wu Siwen, who advocated the enshrinement of Zen, was revealed to have colluded with his son Xu Jingye when he was in Yangzhou to make trouble, so he was withdrawn from his surname, returned to his real name Xu Siwen, and exiled to Lingnan.

This first proposal to seal Zen was thus abandoned. Even going back further, as early as the Emperor's reign, the Holy Emperor had suggested that the Emperor be enshrined in Nakadake, but he was unable to do so because the Emperor was ill and difficult to do at that time.

This time, although the Holy Emperor did not directly discuss the sealing of Zen, anyone could see that the envoy army to Songshan with the acting king as the Suyue envoy was nothing more than a preliminary survey and exploration, and there was still a fiery heart behind the Holy Emperor's intention to seal the Zen.

Now the situation in the court is different, after several years of adjustment and purge, the momentum of the old ministers of the Tang family in the court has been extremely weak. Moreover, there is also a shocking case of the emperor's heir's rebellion, which has put great pressure on people, and also made some people who still have different views on this dare not join forces to block this discussion.

Acting King Wuji himself is a young and famous king who is connected by the bloodlines of the two families, and his momentum is becoming more and more prominent in the world, and he has a group of supporters behind him, and his impact on the current situation is far from being comparable to Wu Siwen in the old years.

Moreover, this march was not directly named Feng Chan, and at the same time, it also bypassed the South Ya and took the Northern Ya Forbidden Army as the main force. Even if the courtiers want to stop things, it is difficult to have a way to start.

Li Tong didn't feel much about the public opinion, and as soon as the order was issued, he entered the intense preparatory work.

In fact, Li Tong was also quite surprised by the specific content of the order, originally he thought that it was to use the Beiya Thousand Cavalry as the main force, plus recruit some Heluo athletes as auxiliaries, and make up a team of two to three thousand people to travel lightly, but he didn't expect that his grandmother was very handy, and directly gave a number of 5,000 soldiers, and the recruitment of athletes reached as many as 3,000 people.

Although he was a little surprised about this, after a little thought, Li Tong could also figure out the logic of why his grandmother did this.

Although Wu Zetian is militarily incompetent, he is sensitive to power. It is no secret that the number of soldiers in the Southern Yafan is decreasing year by year. In the long run, the imperial court's deterrent power against other places will inevitably become smaller and smaller.

Even if there was such a sense of crisis before, the poor financial situation of the imperial court did not allow Wu Zetian to toss around blindly, and now he finally has more money, so he inevitably has a plan to expand the number of soldiers in the forbidden army, which is the same as Li Tong's idea of wanting to shake after he has money and someone.

Moreover, this time the recruitment of athletes is dominated by the Northern Ya, and Wu Zetian also wants to let the Northern Ya obtain the right to recruit troops, so as to increase the check and balance and suppression of the Southern Ya.

Nanya does not have the right to recruit troops, except for Jin Wuwei, who can also recruit a little joint defense team, the other guards only have so many soldiers, and if they are gone, they are gone, so after the Kaiyuan, the Nanya Zhuwei gradually became useless. However, the new army of the Northern Ya continued to be established, which became an important card for the eunuchs to seize power.

However, this time Wu Zetian did not blatantly monopolize the right to recruit troops in Beiya, and it was her nephew, Anping Wang Wu Youxu, who was responsible for recruiting athletes this time. Wu Youxu is also the deputy commander of the Songyang Road march this time, and General Qianniuwei is responsible for recruiting Heluo Jian'er.

For this, Li Tong was quite unhappy. His grandmother's arrangement made him seem to be greedy for the five thousand Suyue army, guarding him like a thief, which really made people unapproachable.

Originally, Li Tong also planned to take advantage of this time to go to the army, participate and experience from beginning to end, even if he can't reach the quality of a famous general like his grandfather Li Shimin, at least he can understand all the processes.

However, the most important recruitment before the march was arranged by the Wu family, and he could only focus on the Northern Ya Forbidden Army.

This time to Songshan, Beiya sent 2,000 troops, of which 1,000 cavalry were two battalions of 1,000 cavalry elites, and the left and right Yulin armies each sent one battalion.

In order to ensure that this march could establish his prestige among the traveling thousand cavalry, Li Tong brought all the trustworthy people in the thousand cavalry, including Guo Da, of course, the secret chess.

In addition to Guo Da, Zhao Changxing and others, Li Tong transferred several former members from Qianniuwei. When the Xuanwu Gate conflicted, he easily got rid of a thousand horses Guo Yi, and this time he honestly and unceremoniously accepted this position and arranged it to Li Zhan, who was already full of ranks.

As for Yang Fang and other former members of the Qianniu Guard, they temporarily led the direct commander and brigade commander to accompany him as a personal soldier. Wait until the march, and then gradually insert these henchmen into the battalion to lead the battalion.

As for the clerks who went out with the army, Su Wei was the chief of the march, Tang Xuanzong Wu Huifei's father, Heng'an Wang Wuyu was Sima, and there were more than a dozen people with him, each with the name of the army.

Just looking at the military team arranged this time, it is revealed that it is a little undignified, and there are many literary scholars. Needless to say, Su Wei was a big name in the literary world on the same level as Li Qiao, and the rest were Cui Rong, Yan Chaoyin and other well-known literati at that time.

Coupled with Li Tong, who is hanging, such an arrangement does not look like a majestic and murderous march, but more like a literati and ink outing. The intention of this arrangement is also obvious, it is nothing more than to let these people rewrite the poems all the way, so as to stimulate Shiliu's expectations and associations for Feng Chan Zhongyue.

Although Li Tong could understand his grandmother's intentions, he didn't plan to do any copying. A famous masterpiece has been used for you, what will Lao Tzu use to seal Zen in the future?

The second finally found an opportunity to lead the army out of the capital, but his grandmother inserted two martial arts families. Regardless of whether these two people can effectively restrain themselves, the key is that this attitude makes Li Tong quite unhappy. This old lady is not particular and does not understand the truth of employing people.

In addition to the attachés directly assigned by his grandmother, Li Tong also recruited some by himself.

On the surface, the various families of the current are cautious and rarely comment on this, but they are very enthusiastic about contacting the king in private and fighting for a place in the army for their own children, which fully reflects the integrity of the mouth.

Although this time it is called a march, everyone understands the actual meaning, except for the march or a little fatigue, there is absolutely no danger.

After all, it is only a short distance from Shendu to Songshan, the distance is only more than two hundred miles, and it is located in the heart of Heluo.

This trip with the army, there is nothing to look forward to in terms of military merits, but it is also a rare opportunity to accumulate qualifications. Especially once the ceremony is successfully completed, the rewards of the relevant personnel must be indispensable.

If you are lucky enough, the gains of a trip with the army may exceed the accumulation of prestige in officialdom for several years or even more than ten years. As long as you join in this matter, you can also greatly avoid the current brutal power struggle and persecution between the DPRK and China.

The marching commander recruits himself as a recruiter, and he does not belong to the regular members of the army, and the criteria are broader.

In this regard, Li Tong was not very polite, several families such as the Zheng family, the Tang family and the Dugu family, each selected one or two children to follow, such as his brother-in-law Zheng Fuqiu, etc., there is nothing serious to do in Shendu, it is better to follow the gangster qualifications, and he can also seek a job in the next year.

In addition to the relatives portal, Li Tong also selected a few young juniors he was optimistic about, similar to Zhang Shuo's little slippery head was also selected.

Zhang said that although he is not very old, he became famous in one fell swoop, he is sleek and sophisticated, and he has a bit of courtesan style, and he can talk to several factions in the DPRK, and it is rare that some bigwigs have a good evaluation of him, and he is a representative of the local faction in Luoyang, perhaps limited to age and prestige and has not reached a high position, but the future is unanimously optimistic.

Li Tong is also quite optimistic about Zhang Shuo's endowment in human sophistication. It must be known that even the most xenophobic Guanlong family, Li Tong gets along with them so-so, but Zhang Shuo can travel between the courts, and he has to be said to be a genius.

Such a character may not be used for the humerus at critical moments, but can also be used as a liaison in daily affairs.

In addition to Zhang Shuo, Li Tong also recruited Di Renjie's son Di Guangyuan and several other courtiers.

This is not to say that it violates the taboo of forming a party for personal gain, this march is to build momentum for Feng Chan, and Wu Zetian is also happy to see the children of the courtiers participating in it, so that when the official decision is made to seal the Chan, the resistance will be smaller.

Of course, Li Tong's choice of these courtiers' children to join the army was not simple. At least during the time he left the capital, he had a group of hostages in his hands, you stay in Shendu, these old guys are honest with me, otherwise you will have no children to die!

Li Tong's recruitment of attachés here is relatively simple, but it took a long time for Wu Youxu to recruit athletes, from late May to mid-June, before the recruitment and reorganization of 3,000 athletes was completed.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the main targets of military recruitment were bankrupt government soldiers and local small and medium-sized landlords, and the quality of soldiers was guaranteed.

Through this recruitment, nearly 200 people from Xijing who came to Shendu were selected to join the army, after all, the brave soldiers were mainly selected from the bankrupt government soldiers rather than rural rogues, and each of them still had a certain military status to trace.

Although the recruitment standards are very strict, it has not been able to prevent the infiltration of the dare soldiers, and even some of them have been directly appointed as lower-level commanders, which shows that the individual quality of the dare soldiers is indeed extraordinary.

After the reorganization of the new soldiers, they converged with the Northern Ya Forbidden Army at the foot of Bishan Mountain, and then the army marched south around the city and went to Songshan.

With the departure of the army of the acting king, the city of Shendu has also entered a new situation.