Wang Xiaojie's departure finally brought the atmosphere of the stage back to normal.

When Li Tong finished sending Wang Xiaojie and returned to the imperial city, Yao Yuan Chongkuo walked forward and said with emotion: "Wang Shangshu's return to the capital this time is probably a blessing and a curse." ”

When Li Tong heard this, he couldn't help but be a little silent. Although Wang Xiaojie's mouth is easy to offend people, his attitude towards him is really good. It is precisely because of this that Li Tong, including Yao Yuanchong in front of him, can feel that Wang Xiaojie is afraid that he has not yet recognized the true intention of the imperial court to summon him to return to the court.

Now in the Shendu court, the forces of the Yongwang family have been purged, although Ouyang Tong and some other lowly positions have been retained, but in terms of the imperial court's governance, the Yongwang faction has been unable to directly and effectively intervene.

Prime Minister Li Zhaode was also set aside, and although Di Renjie who stayed behind was also prestigious, he was not sharp-witted, and he was not as clear as Li Zhaode's strong minister.

All kinds of indications show that Emperor Li Dan intends to carry out a deep-seated reform of the court situation to increase his people's control over the court situation.

In order to obtain sufficient power, the adjustment of time position is only a symptom, and the most fundamental thing is that the military power is not in the hands. For example, although the Yongwang family has been suppressed very badly in the court, if Li Tong has a tougher attitude and must fight for the position of the political hall, the court will inevitably make certain concessions.

It's just that this doesn't make much sense to Li Tong. It was very cost-effective for Li Tong to give up some of the influence of the Shendu in exchange for greater autonomy in Shaanxi.

He is not worried that if he does not have the influence of his position in the Shendu court, he will be completely excluded from the Shendu court. In this regard, the presence of his grandmother alone, the effect of the top several prime ministers combined.

As long as his grandmother has expectations and dependence on him, no matter how hard his fourth uncle operates, he can't completely sweep away his interference and influence on the situation of the Shendu Dynasty. Unless his fourth uncle dares to get rid of his grandmother directly, but if he really does this, it will be tantamount to tearing his face, forcing Li Tong to send troops directly to the Shendu, and there is no room for ease between them.

Although Li Dan has now inherited the unification, if he wants to exercise the power of the real emperor, one of the keys is to control the forbidden army. Wang Xiaojie's return to the capital this time, the biggest mission should be to cooperate with the emperor to rectify and control the forbidden army.

Of course, this is not an easy task, the strength of the forbidden army in Shendu City, especially the Nanya Forbidden Army, the relationship between China and China can be described as intricate, it is difficult to sort out, and it can even be said that it has rotted to the bones.

Therefore, when Li Tong was doing things, he did not use the Nanya Forbidden Army as an important force to unify and quote. With such time and energy, he might as well start from scratch and focus on Beiya.

The forbidden army system of Nanya is based on the fundamental government soldier system of the Tang Dynasty, and the number of government soldiers who can be normal has decreased sharply year by year, and the military strength of Nanya is also passing year by year.

But the combat effectiveness of these young master soldiers can be imagined. Far from allowing the guards of the Nanya to maintain their basic combat effectiveness, they also brought all kinds of flashy world styles and complicated entanglements in court affairs into the Nanya, making the organization and action of the Nanya even weaker.

Li Tong was deeply touched by this. Although Zuo Qianniuwei, who was in his old office, did not lead the Yi Mansion, he was himself a gentleman among the gentlemen, and before he entered the matter, there was no way to guarantee even basic riding and archery drills, and the management was loose and chaotic.

Moreover, the generals of the Nanya Guards and the courtiers had a deep entanglement of interests, and they could not sit in this position without such a relationship, and after sitting in this position, they could not concentrate on the guards and ignore others because of such a relationship.

The general went out to unify the army during the war, and guarded in the court in his spare time, such a model arrangement seems to be more reasonable, and there will be no such self-respecting Fang Bo fierce general who supported the army during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. But at the same time, the military system is not pure enough, and it will be entangled and infiltrated by the interests of all sides.

Therefore, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Beiya pro-army, which has a closer relationship with the emperor, has been continuously expanding and building. During the time of Gaozu and Taizong, the military of the Tang Dynasty was mainly based on the soldiers of the Southern Yafu. However, in the Gaozong period, the pace of expanding the army of the Northern Ya was accelerated a lot, and the construction of the Yulin Army was a qualitative change.

After Wu Zetian came to the court, he was able to take the heroine as the country and Wu Zhou to represent the Tang Dynasty, purely from a military point of view, that is, the Northern Ya already had the strength to compete with the Southern Ya. Especially under the application of Wu Zetian's superb power skills, the division and trade-off of the Nanya military made the situation of the Nanya even worse.

Although Li Tong couldn't guess the specific ideas and phalanx of his fourth uncle, he could also get a glimpse of Wang Xiaojie's recall to the court.

First of all, Wang Xiaojie is a general in the border area, and he is the first person in the Tang Dynasty military because of his great contribution to the recovery of Anxi, and now he has returned to the dynasty as the prime minister, and he naturally has a great role model for many border soldiers. It can be seen that Li Dan has a lot of expectations for the border soldiers, hoping to attract some of them to the imperial guards.

This idea is also in order, the border army has been tempered by war for a long time, and its combat effectiveness is to steadily surpass the central forbidden army. Li Tong also thought the same, and previously ordered the Zhulu Overseers to recruit soldiers to defend Chang'an.

If the superior has extremely high requirements for the combat effectiveness of the Su Guard army, it means that the situation is not calm enough, and his personal safety has been threatened to a certain extent.

Li Tong felt threatened because he was worried that those Guan Longxun nobles would take risks with him. As for Li Dan, it is estimated that it was the Zuo Yulin soldiers who guarded Shangyang Palace led by Li Shouli, the king of Lu, who made him feel restless.

The territory of the Tang Dynasty has expanded, but the government and military system has become a virtual reality. Although some of the existence of the Heyuan Army, which is different from the original government military system, has also been formed in the border areas according to local conditions, the border army as a whole has not yet formed a stable system and scale. At least at present, this state of affairs is not enough for the imperial court to base itself on this and formulate a system that can operate stably in the wheel of the ship.

Therefore, after the establishment of Shaanxi Dao Daxingtai, the imperial court basically ignored the hundreds of thousands of troops belonging to Shaanxi Dao, and let Shaanxi Dao Daxingtai toss itself.

It is not that the imperial court did not foresee the increase in the power of these hundreds of thousands of troops on the Shaanxi Dao Daxingtai, and it is even very likely that these hundreds of thousands of troops will be the basic force of the future Daxingtai to force the center of the imperial court.

But even if they foresaw it, there was no way to solve it. Is it to disband the armor directly on the spot, or to be conscripted into the court in large numbers?

If the Shaanxi Provincial Army is disbanded on the spot, this is tantamount to surrendering the entire Shaanxi Provincial Region to border enemies such as the Tibetans and Turks. Whoever dares to give such an order is a sinner through the ages, even Emperor Li Dan is no exception.

If a large number of people are summoned into the DPRK, how should the army be drawn and consumed along the way? How can the loyalty of these soldiers be guaranteed?

It must be known that Li Dan has been in a state of seclusion in the deep palace all the year round, and he has only been facing the subjects of the government and the opposition directly, and it has only been more than half a year. Even Li Zhaode, the old ministers of the Tang family who risked their lives to protect him in the Wuzhou Dynasty, were very disobedient to him in terms of court forces. How big is Li Dan's heart to think that a decree to recall these border soldiers in the court will support the emperor?

Once these armor soldiers are recruited into the court in large numbers, it may be that King Yong's cronies will hide in it, and they will immediately launch a force to force the palace when they enter the god's capital, which is the real stupid plan to open the door and thieves.

Therefore, despite its reluctance, the imperial court could only temporarily ignore the existence of the hundreds of thousands of troops in Shaanxi Province. And summoning Wang Xiaojie into the court and setting an example is to gradually absorb some of the soldiers from the center of the border army system to the imperial court.

In addition to being a general of the border army, Wang Xiaojie also has an identity, that is, as he calls himself, Jing Zhaohan is a strong man. Of course, this is just a humble title, although Wang Xiaojie is not from a famous family, but it is also a family of eunuchs, and it is not a humble family.

Wang Xiaojie does not have a strong Guanlong honorable color, and he is also an outstanding figure in the military in Guannei, and his people worship the prime minister, which is naturally a great example for those Sanqin children who are eager to make a name for themselves between Guanlong.

As a child of the Tang family, for Guanzhong, especially Chang'an, there is undoubtedly an indescribable deep complex in his heart. Although Li Dan is unable to return to Chang'an due to the current situation, he must not be willing to give his ancestors' legacy to King Yong. His appointment of Wang Xiaojie as the prime minister is naturally also to prepare and pave the way for the appointment of a large number of Guan Long's children.

It can be said that no matter how suitable Wang Xiaojie's identity is, if you want to effectively rectify the forbidden army system, it still depends on the specific implementation process.

However, Wang Xiaojie's various speeches and performances in Chang'an, especially his admiration for King Yong, all show that he has not yet had the consciousness of being a big person.

Of course, it is not ruled out that Wang Xiaojie is taking advantage of this rude attitude to paralyze King Yong and Shaanxi Daoyi, but Li Tong always feels that Wang Xiaojie does not seem to have such a profound scheming, or that there is no such need.

Even if Wang Xiaojie acted well in Chang'an, everyone thought he was a straw bag. However, Chang'an and Luoyang, the two capitals are still in a state of accumulating their own strength, and it will take a long time to see each other in battle.

During this long period of time, Chang'an will definitely pay close attention to the dynamics of Luoyang, the divine capital. After Wang Xiaojie returned to the dynasty, he did to rectify the strategy of the forbidden army, and he would inevitably not be able to hide it from the people of the world. If the executive order he pushed for was really effective, how could Daxingtai ignore the threat posed by his people.

But now it seems that Wang Xiaojie is indeed not a suitable candidate, and there is a greater chance that he will return to the dynasty this time as a-stirring stick.

Of course, Li Tong did not underestimate the Shendu Imperial Court because of this, after all, the imperial court is the orthodoxy of the world, and the personnel and materials it can call are far from being comparable to Daxingtai. The Daxing Terrace is already small and weak, and it is really not allowed to relax in the face of the two biggest border troubles of this era.

"The strategy of Shuzhong should be put on the agenda and paid attention to it."

After discussing the topic of Wang Xiaojie's return to the capital, Li Tong said solemnly.

Yao Yuanchong also nodded after hearing this, and added: "In the near future, it is necessary to arrange for King Han to go to Chang'an. ”