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After listening to Cai Xuan's words conveyed by Cai Juan, Cai still couldn't calm down for a long time, even if he had left Cai Juan's residence.

Is Cai still demanding?

High, of course.

Ouyang Xiu had a statistic on the five dynasties and ten countries: "In the fifty-three years, Yi Wu surnamed thirteen monarchs, and eight of the dead were killed, the elders were only ten years old, and even died at the age of three or four. ”

That is to say, in the fifty-three years of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, there have been thirteen emperors in five families, and eight emperors have been killed, the eldest of which is only ten years old, and the younger one even died at the age of three or four.

In other words, during the Five Dynasties and Fourteen Periods, not only were the common people displaced, but even the emperor was a high-risk occupation.

In a world where war decides everything, it is so desperate that the glory that has been won with all your hard work will come to naught again in the blink of an eye, and in such a world, it can be said that there is no winner.

Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was born in the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and he knew what the social atmosphere was at that time.

In the face of such frequent changes of emperors, Zhao Kuangyin was also afraid that he or his descendants would follow in their footsteps.

Therefore, not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhao Kuangyin "released the military power with a glass of wine", and then set up various restrictions and restrictions for the generals in the process of commanding the army.

Take the Central Forbidden Army, which he trusted most at that time, as an example:

He divided the supreme command of the Central Forbidden Army into three, and became the commander of the front of the palace, the commander of the guards and the horse army, and the commander of the guards and the infantry (respectively called the palace marshal, the horse marshal, and the foot marshal, collectively known as the "three marshals"), and the "three marshals" stood on three legs, and no one could independently control the forbidden army.

He also separated the power of military command from the power to mobilize the army, that is, these "three commanders" can train and command the forbidden army in peacetime, but they do not have the power to mobilize the forbidden army, and the right to transfer belongs to the Privy Council, the highest military organ of the central government.

The emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty behind Zhao Kuangyin were all deeply influenced by Zhao Kuangyin, and they deepened the restrictions on the command of military generals step by step.

Therefore, it is almost impossible to unify the army independently, especially if the army is built on its own.

Of course, there are policies and countermeasures.

The army must always be led by someone, so it is not difficult to be the commander of an army, for those who hold great power.

But just being the commander of an army is not what Cai still wants, what he wants is an army that completely listens to him, and can even rebel with him.

Such an army can only be built by itself, otherwise it will not be able to unify their minds at all.

In addition, it is the number of armies.

In the Song Dynasty, five people were one army (five people), five soldiers were one (twenty-five people), two were one team (fifty people), two teams were one capital (one hundred people), five were one battalion (five hundred people), and five battalions were one army (two thousand five hundred people).

What Cai Zhen promised was to let Cai still lead an army alone, that is, let Cai still directly lead 2,500 men and horses!

If this is placed in the future generations, it will be the head of a strengthened regiment!

Such a high-ranking officer is definitely a height that Cai still couldn't reach in his whole life as a soldier.

Even in this world, if Cai is still not a member of the Cai family, it is impossible to have such a high starting point.

Of course, it's not that others can't create such conditions for Cai Ying, after all, Cai is still the fourth in the current department, and the Northern Song Dynasty has always been a civilian, martial and military and has always had a tradition of literati commanding the army, so other powerful people can actually help Cai still create such conditions, such as Tong Guan, he can help Cai still create such conditions.

But if Tong Guan came to help Cai still create, then Tong Guan, who had a lot of officers in his hands, would be designated to install countless cronies in this army.

By that time, although this army was nominally Cai Zhen's, it was actually Tong Guan's.

Only the Cai family, who have inherited poetry and books, because they have no available officers at hand, because the army is not the foundation of their survival, can Cai still be in control of an army alone.

This is also one of the reasons why Cai still tries to get along with the Cai family.

Now, Cai Ying's efforts have paid off, and Cai is finally going to get what he wants, how can Cai still not be excited?

With this irrepressible excitement, Cai still returned to his courtyard.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, someone rushed to Cai Yi and said, "Congratulations to the sixth son!" ”

Someone started, and immediately surrounded a group of people to congratulate Cai Ying: "Congratulations to the sixth son, Jinshi and the first!" ”

As soon as he saw this, Cai still knew that the news of his high school had been sent home.

After a while, Su Niang came out of the backyard accompanied by two maids.

Far away, Cai still saw Su Niang's happy face!

This is also normal, the tide rises, Cai is still in high school, as a concubine of Cai is still a concubine, can she not be happy?

Cai still said to Su Niang: "Su Niang, you came just in time, give everyone some reward, huh...... Let's just make one per person, and let the kitchen make something good, and everyone will be happy together. ”

Su Niang responded: "No." Then she took out a large ingot of silver from her money bag and asked her two maids to cut it up for the subordinates.

By the way, the people in Cai Yi's courtyard are not all Cai Yi's people, most of them are people from Cai's mansion, and they were lent to Cai by the Cai family, and Cai still always rewarded them, for their own reputation, and then to get the recognition of the Cai family.

From the current point of view, the effect of using money to win people's hearts is not bad.

When the two maids were sharing the money among the people, Cai still walked to the backyard with Su Niang and asked, "How are Brother Shun and Li He doing?" ”

Su Niang replied: "I have already made a batch, I tried it with the magpie, and it is as magical as the official said, the official smelled it, it has been an hour, and I still have a fragrance on my body." ”

While saying this, Su Niang stretched out her slender jade hand to Cai Ying.

Cai still took Su Niang's hand and put it on the tip of his nose and smelled it, it did have a faint fragrance.

Cai still said in his heart: "It seems that this soap should be made." ”

That's right.

Cai still asked Su Niang to make the soap that was one of the three major artifacts.

As a qualified online writer, Cai is still familiar with the manufacturing methods of soap, perfume, glass, high-grade liquor, cement, toothbrush and toothpaste, telescopes, steel, ball bearings, sextants and other artifacts often used by traversers.

Now, Cai is still ready to throw out a few things to earn some money for himself so that he can support the army in the future.

And one of them, which was also the first to be thrown, was soap.

But—

Most of the manufacturing methods of the various traversal artifacts that Cai still has mastered are only theoretical, and have not really been practiced.

Therefore, Cai still found two reliable people to realize his theory.

Brother Shun, his full name is Yan Shun, he is Su Niang's younger brother, not long ago, Cai still entrusted Cai Qian to rescue all the relatives of Su Niang and Magpie, this Yan Shun is one of them, and it is also one of the most honest ones, Yan Shun can be said to be obedient to his sister Su Niang, so Cai still took Yan Shun to his side as an errand boy for himself, and after personally observing for a period of time, Cai still let him participate in the research and development of soap.

And Li He, originally the shopkeeper of a small restaurant in Bianliang City, not long ago, he and the owner went to buy goods on the way, was robbed by a strongman, the owner was hacked to death by the strongman on the spot, he was also seriously injured by the strongman because of protecting the owner, and then he was lucky to be saved by the original Cai still passing by, he thanked the original Cai still for saving his life, and after the death of the owner, the restaurant of the east family could not continue to operate, so he invested in the original Cai still under the door for the original Cai still to write and calculate.

Cai Quan once inquired, Li He's reputation is very good, he not only has good management ability, but also loyal to the original owner, after his owner's restaurant can no longer operate, many people have come to recruit him.

Cai still personally inspected Li He for a period of time and found that Li He was indeed similar to what Cai Quan inquired about, so he asked him and Yan Shun to develop soap together.

Cai still asked again: "Didn't let others see how they made soap?" ”

Su Niang replied: "No, when they did, the magpie and I showed them the door, and did not let anyone get close to the wing, and when they moved things into the wing, I also deliberately asked them to separate all the things and then move them inside, so no one would know that they were going to make soap, let alone how to make soap." ”

Cai still nodded, and then walked with Su Niang to the innermost wing of the backyard......

Before coming to the wing, Cai still saw that the magpie was kicking pebbles there bored.

When he looked up and saw Cai still coming, the magpie was overjoyed, and immediately pounced on Cai still like a little swallow......

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