Chapter 200: Zhao Ji is not stupid
Gao Yu's words were righteous and strict. If you don't know his details, you will really be moved by him. However, Wu Song is a time-traveler and knows that he is one of the most famous traitors in the Great Song Dynasty.
Wu Song listened to his nonsense, and his face was calm. Of course, he would not be moved by Gao Yu's empty words, and he didn't bother to pretend to be moved on purpose. The only thing he was interested in was to hear Gao Yu say, as a big traitor, why did he fall in love with Wu Song?
Although what Gao Yu said may not be true, he also gave Wu Song a reason.
Gao Yu originally thought that his impassioned speech would move Wu Song's blood boiling. However, seeing Wu Song's calm appearance, he was even more satisfied, and felt that Wu Song was indeed worthy of a great responsibility, not the kind of person who flattered him.
Because Gao Yu himself is good at flattery, he actually hopes that there are some real talents who will not flatter horses to do things for him, especially now that he is eager to make achievements in the formation of a new forbidden army.
Therefore, he did not care about Wu Song's indifference, but became more earnest, and further explained to Wu Song the reason why he would take a fancy to Wu Song.
It turned out that when Gao Yu saw Wu Song in the restaurant that day, he felt that Wu Song had a dignified appearance, a different appearance, and a talent.
Relying on face to face to see people recognize talents, this seems unreliable. However, Wu Song learned from his reading before crossing over that Zeng Guofan, an important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, liked to reward generals with his face. The ancients said that you can't judge people by their appearance, but in fact, it just shows that judging people by their appearance exists in large numbers in reality. For the ancients, it was not a strange thing to believe in fortune-telling and judge people by faces.
Therefore, Gao Yu makes sense.
Because he felt that Wu Song was a talent from the point of view of his face, and the most urgent thing in the formation of the new forbidden army was talent, and Gao Yu was in a good mood that day, so he took the initiative to recruit Wu Song and wanted to recruit him to the specially selected forbidden army to come and see.
After Wu Song arrived in the forbidden army, although Gao Yu was not in the army, every move in the army was actually reported to him. Therefore, he also knows Wu Song's situation well. Wu Song really did not disappoint him, he did not follow the routine in practice, dared to innovate, and achieved very good results. And this is exactly what is needed to form a new forbidden army.
Today, Wu Song's personal fighting strength in the final surprised Gao Yu.
Finally, Gao Yu stood up and walked in front of Wu Song. Although he is not as strong as Wu Song, he is about the same height. He patted Wu Song on the shoulder and said earnestly: "Wu Song, I am very optimistic about you, do a good job, I will definitely not treat you badly, I hope you don't let me down!" ”
Being patted on the shoulder so affectionately by such a traitor, Wu Song had goosebumps all over his body. He even said in his heart: "If I didn't know that you were a traitor, and you appreciated me so much, I, Wu Song, would really be a person who knew how to repay my kindness, and I would definitely do my best for you." It's a pity, you are a traitor, Wu Song is only afraid that sooner or later he will disappoint you! ”
The words of the heart were not spoken. Wu Song is an upright and upright man, but as a traverser, he is not an iron pimple after all. In this situation, you have to make a show no matter what. Therefore, he had no choice but to say aloud: "Wu Song must go all out, be loyal to the country, and be a truly excellent soldier of the Great Song Dynasty!" ”
This is said with great skill. What Wu Song said in his heart: he is only loyal to the country, and he just wants to be a soldier who is truly worthy of the word excellent, not a slave of Gao Yu.
However, listening to it in the ears of the golf, it is still more useful, thinking that this is Wu Song's loyalty to him.
Gao Yu laughed and ended the conversation with Wu Song very happily. He thought to himself: I have finally found a real talent again.
Lu Qian is also a talent, and he is also a talent that Gao Yu likes, because Lu Qian will obey Gao Yu's wishes everywhere, but because of this, Gao Yu both trusts him and guards against him, and is unwilling to immediately entrust him with important tasks.
After all, the formation of a new forbidden army does not require a person like Lu Qian, who only wants to be promoted and make a fortune, and can surrender to anyone who controls his own destiny, but needs a truly upright and fleshy soldier like Wu Song.
Now, the successful formation of the new forbidden army is very important to Gao Yu.
The emperor appreciated Gao Yu more and more and wanted to promote him. However, Gao Yu was not born in the imperial examination, and in this Great Song Dynasty, which has the ancestral training of emphasizing literature and light martial arts, the emperor cannot be promoted casually no matter how much he appreciates Gao Yu. The only way for Gao Yu to be promoted and leave others speechless is to follow the path of a military general and establish military merits.
Therefore, the emperor specially instructed Gao Yu to form a new forbidden army. If the new forbidden army is well formed, Gao Yu will really be sent to the border battlefield to make an appearance, and he will be promoted when he comes back.
It seems that this is all for the emperor's sake.
Gao Yu believed that the emperor really cared about him, and he was indeed grateful. However, he knew better in his heart that the emperor had another intention in doing this.
With the emperor every day, Gao Yu can be said to be one of the people who know the emperor Zhao Ji best in the world today. Don't look at Zhao Ji's usual likes to play in the mountains and rivers, dance and ink, play football and sing and dance, it seems that he is unlearned and unskilled, and his playthings are demoralized. But Zhao Ji is definitely not a scheming and stupid person.
Just kidding, would someone who can write such beautiful words and draw such beautiful pictures be a fool?
Zhao Ji wanted Gao Yu to form a new forbidden army, on the one hand, there was indeed a reason why he was worried about the current Great Song army's military discipline and weak combat effectiveness. On the other hand, there is another reason, that is, because of Cai Jing and Tong Guan!
Everyone in the world knows that the people that Emperor Zhao Ji currently appreciates the most, in addition to Gao Yu, there are also Cai Jing and Tong Guan.
As the prime minister, Cai Jing is the highest official among the civil ministers, and he is also the person who Zhao Ji relies on the most trust in governing the country.
Tong Guan, as a eunuch, has now held a military position, and among the military attaches and the inner court, Zhao Ji relies on the most trusted person.
These two people now hold great power, one is a civil and one military, one is a civil official leader of the outer court, and the other is a military general and important minister of the inner court, and they are like Zhao Ji's right-hand man, not only cooperating with each other, but actually restraining each other.
And Zhao Ji felt that it was not enough for these two people to contain each other. Because, Zhao Ji already knew that when Cai Jing was demoted to Hangzhou, he was able to regain his trust and reuse because Tong Guan made a lot of efforts in it and recommended Cai Jing to himself. Although, Zhao Ji is willing to believe that Tong Guan was indeed recommending talents for himself at that time, and I heard that Tong Guan and Cai Jing are now also starting to fight openly and secretly.
However, as the emperor, Zhao Ji is still worried that Tong Guan and Cai Jing, two people who should have restrained each other, will collude with each other in turn and set him up as an emperor.
After all, Zhao Ji's ancestor was Zhao Kuangyin, who started by mutiny, and from a certain point of view, he was seeking to usurp the throne. With such an experience, the emperor of the Zhao family was extremely worried that he would also have his own important ministers to rebel.
Therefore, from the beginning of the founding of the country, the Song Dynasty adopted a strategy of doubling the precautions against important courtiers. The ancestors have already passed down many experiences of being an emperor, that is, they must strictly guard against powerful ministers.
Therefore, in order to prevent Tong Guan and Cai Jing from having too much power and colluding with each other to empty themselves as emperors, Zhao Ji would think of letting Gao Yu, whom Zhao Ji likes and trusts, to form a new forbidden army. In this way, as the emperor, he has another force to rely on.
In the future, a three-legged situation will be formed in which Cai Jing, Tong Guan, and Gao Yu will be formed, which will be more convenient for Zhao Ji to control.