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Yangwu County, at the city gate.

The four-pole flag fluttered in the wind.

One of them has the book "Join the Army to Serve the Country", the other has the book "Infinite Glory", the black background flag has the book "Jinwu Army", and the last black background flag has a red sun drawn, and there is a three-legged golden crow in the middle of the red sun.

Directly below the four-pole flag, sat a man - a young general wearing the standard style military uniform of the forbidden army.

This person is undoubtedly Cai Yi.

On that day, Cai You promised to let Cai still build a battalion of people, and after recommending Cai still to Gao Yu, Cai still went to Gao Yu's house to visit him that day.

In the Ming Dynasty novel "Water Margin", Gao Yu was portrayed as the first traitor, saying that he, born as a ruffian, was liked by Zhao Ji because he kicked a high ball, and then soared.

In fact, this is not entirely wronged Gao Yu, but it is a little underestimated Gao Yu.

Whether Gao Yu was born in a bad way, there is no record in history, but he is indeed Su Shi's "little history" (that is, the role of a little secretary), and later went to Zhao Ji's uncle Wang Shu (that is, Xiao Wang Du Taiwei) to work as a small servant, and then was liked by Zhao Ji because he played a good ball, and then Zhao Ji asked Wang Shu for Gao Yu, Gao Yu was also lucky to take the last train of the hidden residence "old minister", and suddenly jumped from an idle prince's playmate to the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty, and rose to the top in the officialdom.

But—

Gao Yu's experience is not limited to this.

Let's not mention, Gao Yu writes beautifully, has a certain foundation in poetry and songs, and can make a gun stick, has a certain martial arts foundation, and it is not an exaggeration to describe Gao Yu with "both civil and military".

Just say that the Northern Song Dynasty has a rule, "If you don't have side merit, you can't be the three ya", in other words, you can't be in charge of the central forbidden army without side merit, it can be seen that Gao Yu's experience is actually not so simple.

In the history of the Song Dynasty, "The Biography of the Ten Generals of Song Nandu", Volume 1, "The Biography of Liu Kuang", it is said: First, Gao Yu tasted the official subordinate of the Duan Wangdi, ascended the throne, and wanted to show it. The old law, unless there is a side work, shall not be a three-ya. Shi (Liu) Zhongwu is the side marshal, and he is subordinate to him, and he competes to be the palace marshal.

This means that at that time, Zhao Ji wanted to promote Gao Yu, but because Gao Yu had no side work, so Zhao Ji entrusted Gao Yu to Liu Qi's father Liu Zhongwu, and asked Gao Yu to serve as a supervisor for Liu Zhongwu, (the two of them commanded properly in the rebellion of Zhao Huaide and other rebels against the Song Dynasty in Tubo and won a big victory and Zhao Huaide and others surrendered, and then Tong Guan and Liu Zhongwu achieved a big victory in the west, they successfully recruited the Qiang prince Zang Zheng and the servant brother, recovered the Jishi army, and Gao Yu also participated in this battle), Gao Yu was promoted to the position of Tai Lieutenant with this two-sided merit, sat firmly in the three ya, and was in charge of a large number of central forbidden troops.

It is precisely because of this that Gao Yu has a deep friendship with Liu Zhongwu's family, and later after Liu Zhongwu died, Gao Yu promoted Liu Qi as the commander, making Liu Qi, one of the four generals of Zhongxing, step onto the stage of history.

In addition to maintaining a close relationship with Liu Zhongwu's family, Gao Yu also took good care of his original master, Su Shi's family, and some wild histories record that he "did not forget the Su family, and every time his children entered the capital, he was very diligent in providing for them." ”

Gao Yu did not forget his old kindness, which made Gao Yu gain a good reputation in the court.

Of course, what really makes Gao Ji rise to the top is that he is well-behaved and good, and flatters his boss, especially Emperor Zhao Ji in every possible way - not to mention all kinds of fun and all kinds of madness with Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji likes to build a lot of construction, Gao Ji turned all the hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops into craftsmen, and realized all his ideas for Zhao Ji.

Gao Yu stipulated: All forbidden soldiers must unconditionally contribute to the work and efforts of various buildings and gardens of the royal family.

If you don't want to work, you can, but you have to pay to hire a craftsman.

Slowly, the rich forbidden soldiers can be exempted from drills; The forbidden soldiers who have no money can only find a living to make money, and they can't practice anymore; More soldiers used their training time to learn craftsman skills and build construction for Zhao Ji.

As a result, the army's "lax discipline" and "lack of military and political repair" have become useless ornaments where "no one knows the soldiers, and no one can use them."

Later, when the country was in danger and faced the attack of the Jin Army, the army of tigers and wolves, the forbidden army of hundreds of thousands soon collapsed.

In addition to being a person and currying favor with his superiors, Gao Yu is also particularly good at face-saving projects, and the army bidding competition he presided over began as "a four-colored boat lined up, with hundreds of military plays, such as big flags, lions and leopards, swords, barbarian cards, gods and ghosts, miscellaneous dramas, and so on." There are two more boats, both clubs. Before the bidding, the first is to blow and blow, and then the bidding competition will also make various tricks such as "Xuanluo", "Sea Eye", "Crossover", etc., which is quite lively.

This made Zhao Ji very satisfied with Gao Yu.

Gao Yu also rose step by step, and gradually became the nominal boss of the forbidden army system (in fact, Gao Yu did not have the power to mobilize the forbidden army, and the power to mobilize the forbidden army was still in the Privy Council), and also became Cai's still nominal boss.

Cai Ying, who is familiar with history, understands a very simple truth, that is: history is complicated, and the intrigue of the political elite is even more complicated, if you want to gain a foothold in the court, just by virtue of righteousness, you can only become a tragic hero, and you will never succeed, if you want to restrain the traitor, you have to be more traitorous than the traitor.

To paraphrase now, that is: although Cai still has the Cai family behind him, for the sake of his own future, Cai still gritted his teeth and spent 10,000 yuan to buy a gift for Gao Yu, and personally visited the door with the gift.

Actually-

Gao Taiwei, who has hundreds of thousands of free laborers, is not inferior to Cai Ying's gift of 10,000 yuan at all.

But Gao Yu likes Cai Ying's attitude and understanding of current affairs.

Therefore, Gao Yu personally met with Cai Ying, and talked to Cai Ying about his friendship with Cai Bian at the beginning, and also encouraged Cai Ying.

Wait for the next morning Cai still went to the White Tiger Festival Hall to report, although Gao Yu did not meet Cai still in person, but the little officials below Gao Yu took out the book very happily and let Cai still choose his own number.

After Cai still chose the name "Jin Wuwei" from the canon, the little official took out a rudimentary version of the defense map and asked Cai still to choose the location by himself.

After Cai still chose the station next to Yangwu County after considering it thoroughly, the little official led Cai still to select the armor, and very enthusiastically helped Cai still select 500 sets of good armor.

In addition, the little official also took Cai Yi to Mutuogang to pick up a hundred good war horses.

After doing all this, the little official did not stop there, but was very enthusiastic to help Cai still find a capital head, and then asked that capital head to lead a hundred forbidden troops to help Cai still send Cai Ying's armor and war horses to Yangwu County.

It can be said that Gao Yu is worthy of Cai Ying's gift of 10,000 yuan.

Of course, Gao Yu did this, more to see the face of the Cai family behind Cai Ying, otherwise, let alone 10,000 yuan, it is 1 million yuan, and he didn't want him to do so many things.

Anyway, although the development of things was not half a star away from Cai Ying's initial expectations, Cai still finally took the first step after he came to this world......

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