Whether Empress Dowager Cao will reuse Meng's "remnants" depends on the attitude of these people.

Zhang Zhikui led Wan Lin and Huang Ying to surrender to Cheng, and nearly 90,000 troops were all absorbed, leaving a few "remnants" of the Meng clan, which helped stabilize the morale of the army, and showed that the empress dowager was benevolent, broad-minded, and tolerant, so as not to let everyone in danger to surrender to the generals. And these people are flattering enough in front of the Queen Mother, and they have also won the trust of the Queen Mother.

"It turns out that there are so many Meng officers in the Flying Tiger Army. No wonder Zhang Zhikui, Wan Lin, and Huang Ying all wrote to me......" Tang Yuan looked at the list, and then looked at the letters sent by Zhang Zhikui, and compared them one by one, to see which officers needed to be taken care of, and which officers were indeed capable.

"Report to the general, Meng Zhaoyang, the Duke of Jingguo, has been brought." Zhang Ga just sent the imperial family supervisors to Chen Bao, and brought Meng Zhaoyang to the headquarters according to Tang Yuan's request.

The boss of Jing Guo was unwilling, but he had to come.

"Congratulations to General Tang on his promotion." Meng Zhaoyang said as if he was going to die.

Master Meng can have a good life today, and he has to thank Tang Yuan for his cooperation when he was in Xiangcheng, otherwise he would have almost been unable to wear clothes. Tang Yuan is regarded as his benevolent nobleman, and now that Tang Yuan has been promoted, let him come to the commandery, why is he so unwilling?

It's not that Meng Gongzi doesn't understand human feelings, on the contrary, it is because he understands human feelings, so he is reluctant to come.

Now is a sensitive period, Tang Yuan is taking over the Flying Tiger Army, as the "remnant" of the Meng clan, he can't wait to escape from Xiangcheng for a while, and he definitely doesn't dare to contact the military, in case he makes His Majesty the Emperor more attentive and raids his house again, it will be completely ruined.

Tang Yuan understood Meng Zhaoyang's thoughts, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I let you come, it will only be good for you, and there will be no harm." His Majesty the Emperor will not worry that I will cooperate with you in rebellion. ”

"Of course." Meng Zhaoyang sat down angrily: "Now my Meng family can be regarded as a merchant at best, and the recent slump in business, the hundred people in my family are going hungry again." I've fallen like this, can His Majesty the Emperor still worry about me? ”

"Don't cry to me poorly." Tang Yuan said, "Do you still want to fish out your father now?" ”

"No, absolutely not." Meng Zhaoyang seemed to have stepped on a landmine, and jumped as high as he could: "General Tang, can we stop playing this game?" Are you lying to me? ”

"Nope."

"No?" Meng Zhaoyang narrowed his eyes: "It's not that I, Meng Zhaoyang, am unfilial, it's just that now I go to get my father, it's never the right time." His Majesty the Emperor had just gained military power, and it was time to establish his authority. I don't want to bring myself on myself. In this way, not only will he not be able to fish out his father, but it will also remind the emperor of something else, so he waved his pen and pulled it out and cut it. ”

"Very good, as long as you understand this truth, I will be relieved. I'm afraid that you're going to make a fuss about it all of a sudden. You must know that we have a good relationship, and this matter has spread to the capital. I'm sure the emperor must have known. If you write a letter to the Emperor after I become a general to discuss the release of Meng Zong, it will make the Emperor suspect that I secretly support you. This is very bad for me. I now have half of the Emperor's military power, and although I will not rebel, the Emperor will still feel threatened. In this case, I must not ask the emperor for anything to increase the pressure on him. It's like Han Xin begging the King of Han to be crowned the King of Qi, which is the biggest failure of Han Xin's life. Because he made the emperor feel threatened, and Han Xin was not ready to rebel at all. ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhaoyang nodded, "So that's the case, then don't worry, I'm not stupid." Now Aunt Qian is still in charge of your house? ”

"She is now half the mistress in my family, and most of the internal affairs are decided by her and Tang Hu's mother, and your sister Meng Tao is the big housekeeper in my house, in charge of half of the key."

"Hey, Meng Tao is also ...... this year" When the elder brother actually forgot his sister's age, this is not to blame him, his sister is too much, pinching his fingers and calculating: "I remember that she was eight years old when she was three years old, and now she is nine years old in Zhide, oops, fourteen years old, big girl." ”

Master Meng smiled ill-intentionedly, Tang Yuan blasted him out, and said that he might not go to the mansion one day to beg for a bowl of wine.

After meeting Meng Zhaoyang, he met with Meng's supervisors.

They watched Meng Zhaoyang leave the command, and for this reason, some of the prison guards actually felt a burst of sadness and silently left tears.

For these people with feelings, Tang Yuan basically retained, and the rest of them talked one by one and decided to stay.

In the end, he had to face the Xuanjia Meritorious Department, and in the face of these people, Tang Yuan still needed to subdivide it again.

When the first emperor was there, the twelve fierce generals of the Xuanjia Army led the twelve guards of the capital, and these twelve people were all fierce generals, but the first emperor died in Longyou, and there were eight left when the army was withdrawn, and the Empress Dowager Cao was in power, and there were three people who did not support it, two of them resigned, and the other was moved down by the Empress Dowager Cao.

At this time, there were only six generals left in the hands of the Empress Dowager Cao, namely Zhang Yunlong, Cao Sheng, Gongsun Xiong, Xu Bainian, Weng Chongzhong, Fu Changsheng, Xu, Weng, and Fu were old, and gradually withdrew from the military circles, and there were only three generals left behind by the first emperor. These three people helped Empress Dowager Cao to support her face, and when she fought in Hebei, she made great achievements.

Later, the Sima family rebelled, and the veteran Gongsun Xiong died defending the revolving gate, and the twelve fierce generals of Xuanjia were left with Zhang Yunlong and Cao Sheng.

Originally, Cao Sheng was the confidant of the Empress Dowager Cao, who was used to suppress Zhang Yunlong, but she never expected that in the end, these two people would cooperate to overthrow her. However, before the fall of the Queen Mother, there were still a large number of meritorious family members of the Xuanjia Army in the Flying Tiger Army, among which the Cao family had been taken away by Cao Dingbang, and the rest were mostly people from the Xu, Weng, and Fu families.

After the rebellion in the ninth year of Zhide, these people quickly expressed their loyalty to the emperor, and basically got a reply from the emperor, and now they are only waiting for Tang Yuan to settle them.

"There must be a lot of people in your group who are not convinced. Compared with those distant royal families, you are more arrogant and unruly. But now, your good days are over. From now on, I will not care about your origins, nor will I submit your list to the emperor, those who are willing to stay in the army will be judged by their military exploits from now on. ”。

Afterwards, Tang Yuan called the names of several people and asked them to stay and talk. These people are all mentioned by Zhang Zhikui, Wan Lin, and Huang Ying in the letter, and they asked Tang Yuan, these people can be reused, if you don't want to use them, leave them to me.

After talking, Tang Yuan didn't leave anyone behind, and sent their list to the Ministry of War, so that the Ministry of War could handle it, and replied to Zhang, Wan, and Huang to go to the Ministry of War to ask for someone.