Yang Congyi was about to say something more, when he was suddenly interrupted by Zhao Yuan.

I only heard Zhao Ying say: "Deputy Envoy Yang, in fact, I came to you today to discuss a few things with you. ”

"Please ask the king of the county to command."

Yang Congyi has forcibly said a lot today, if he continues, it is difficult to say whether it will cause the rebellion of the county king, so he responded with a respectful voice and waited for the county king's orders.

"You are in the front division of the palace, and this matter can't be hidden from you, Xiao Wang will tell you a few days in advance, don't be surprised, and don't talk about it to others yet. Before coming to Wuzhou, the imperial court discussed many times the forbidden army stationed abroad under the command of the palace department, and finally the imperial court decided to revoke the dismissal of most of the forbidden troops stationed outside Lin'an Mansion, Shaoxing Mansion and Mingzhou, and only two of the forbidden troops who came to the general camp to participate in the selection of generals were not revoked, which was the first thing. The second is that the imperial court is preparing to reorganize several new armies based on the troops participating in the selection of generals in the selection camp, but this matter has been debated by the imperial court for a long time and has not yet been concluded. ”

After Zhao Ying said these two things, he quietly looked at Yang Congyi sitting in front of him to see how he reacted.

As soon as he heard that nearly forty forbidden armies were going to be revoked, there was no doubt that Yang Congyi was naturally shocked, and his face unabashedly revealed a look of disbelief, full of surprise and questions.

"Why?"

Yang Congyi didn't dare to discuss the government, he just wanted to understand the reason.

"Since last year, the imperial court has inspected all the forbidden troops stationed abroad under the command of the front division of the palace, and found that they are negligent in training, and even some forbidden troops do not train once for several months, and there is a serious shortage in the army, and the number of officers and men in the battalion is less than two or three out of ten, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, while the commanders and commanders of the various armies receive food and salary in the name of full strength, and after the inspection, it is found that they eat empty salaries of three or four million yuan every year. The treasury was not abundant, but the annual military expenditure of three or four million guan was put into their own pockets, and the court was in an uproar, considering that these armies had no name, no soldiers, no generals, and no combat effectiveness, after the court's ministers discussed, they decided to revoke and dismiss most of the forbidden troops stationed abroad. Telling you in advance is to let you be mentally prepared first, if most of the soldiers in the general selection camp learn that they have been revoked and dismissed before the formation of a new army, there will definitely be trouble. ”

Zhao Ying explained the reasons for the disarmament to Yang Congyi in a general way, and did not go too deep.

Yang Congyi didn't know what to say, disarmament was such a big thing, how could it be planned and then moved, and now how to settle them has not been determined, and which troops to be cut have already been decided.

"King of the county, please forgive the general for being rude, there is something I have to say. The last general thought that even if these dozens of old armies that were not worthy of the name were to be dismantled, they should first form a new army before they were abolished, so as to leave a way for some of them to retreat, such as the more than 20,000 soldiers who came to participate in the selection of generals. The last general suggested that a new army be formed first, and then the old army should be dismantled! ”

The county king nodded and said, "What Deputy Envoy Yang said coincides with Xiao Wang. A few days ago, Xiao Wang had written to the imperial court, urging the imperial court to form a new army as soon as possible, if nothing else, there would be news in the next two days. ”

"The county king is wise!"

Yang Congyi's heart was light, it seems that the king of the county is not a fool.

"Deputy Envoy Yang, in your opinion, who will the imperial court let lead the new army?"

Telling Yang Congyi the secret of disarmament, Zhao Ying also felt light.

"The last general has not been in the army for a long time, and he knows very few generals, and I don't know who the imperial court will send to lead the new army. If the last general must say it, the last general thinks that there are two people in the camp of the selected generals, and it is more appropriate for them to lead the new army. ”

Yang Congyi was suddenly shocked in his heart, could it be that someone in the DPRK and China had already designed all this to form a new army in the camp of the selected generals?

After hearing this, Zhao Ying thought for a moment and asked, "What did Vice Envoy Yang say, but General Li and General Shao?" ”

"Exactly. Since the two generals came to the camp at the end of October last year, they have not left the camp for half a year, and they have been watching the battle with the army in the camp of the selected generals. ”

The more Yang Congyi spoke, the more he felt that the two generals, Li and Shao, had come to choose the generals' camp because it was premeditated, and that disarmament and the formation of a new army were all planned.

Zhao Ying nodded and said: "The two generals have been in a hundred battles and have fought for the Great Song Dynasty for more than 20 years, they are indeed qualified to lead the new army, and Xiao Wang also thinks that they are suitable to lead the new army." If this is the case, the matter of selecting the general camp will be solved. ”

Yang Congyi didn't talk, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, it seemed that someone was laying out all this in advance, and he was suddenly confused, and suddenly remembered what happened to him in Taihu Lake and Huaining, it seemed that everything was under the control of others, which was very bad.

The effort you put into your desperate efforts, what you think you've changed, turns out to be all in someone else's plan and has little to do with your efforts.

Yang Congyi was no longer in the mood to say anything more to the county king, and chatted for a while without saying a word, and the county king also found that he was a little out of state, thinking that he still had business to do, so he asked him to step down.

He wanted to be quiet.

The camp was noisy, so he went up the mountain alone and stood on the top of the hill and looked into the distance.

It wasn't until sunset that Yang Congyi returned to the camp.

Qingchen complained that he couldn't find him anywhere, and he said that he went to the mountains to enjoy the spring scenery.

A few days later, the last challenge unit returned to the mountain, and as soon as they came out of the mountain, they began to sing the military song, singing it over and over again, until the formation was completed.

They won the actual combat challenge, sang back to the camp, and lined up in the school field, which is the glory and right of the winners.

So far, they are the third team to win the challenge, and they are the last to finish.

According to the usual practice, Shen Jin came forward to talk about the challenges that are not easy, and it is even more difficult to win, and then make persistent efforts,* to praise and encourage them, and then reward two fat pigs as encouragement, so as to boost the morale of the whole camp.

Although Yang Congyi was in the camp, he did not appear in the school field, because the general camp came again.

In addition to Zhao Ying and Yang Congyi, there were two senior officials sent by Lin'an in the council hall of the handsome camp, one was dressed in purple and the other was dressed in red, one was in his sixties and the other was in his forties and fifties.

"Is the king of the county still used to it in Wuzhou?"

The purple-clothed officer asked casually.

Zhao Ying said respectfully: "Lord Lao Zhang has bothered, the mountains and rivers of Wuzhou are beautiful, and Xiao Wang is very good here." ”

This purple-clothed official is not an outsider, it is the imperial historian Zhongcheng Zhangfu who came to select the general camp at the end of February.

"It's good for the king of the county."

After saying a word, Zhang Fu slowly took a piece of paper from the red-clothed official next to him, and then said: "The county king handed over the documents to the court, and we received them." I came to Wuzhou this time to issue an order on behalf of the Privy Council to revoke the forbidden army stationed abroad and form a new army. ”

Looking at the somewhat surprised gaze of the county king, Zhang Fu said: "Not long ago, Wu Ling, the governor of the government and the secretary of the Privy Council, was impeached by the officials for accepting bribes, buying and selling official positions, and chaotic management of the army, and was dismissed from his post and returned to his hometown to retire. During this critical period of dismantling the old army and forming a new army, I could not put it off, and I was ordered to take over the signing of the Privy Council. When I came to Wuzhou again, I came here to supervise the formation of a new army. ”

"Congratulations to Master Zhang!"

Zhao Ying and Yang Congyi successively congratulated Zhang Fu.

"Hehe, rejoicing together." Zhang Fu had a smile on his face.

Entering the Privy Council, basically entered the center of the power of the Great Song Dynasty, signing the Privy Council to participate in military and political affairs, almost equivalent to the vice-minister, if you clearly participate in the governor's political affairs, it is a veritable vice-minister.

Qin Hui holds the position of prime minister alone, and in recent years, there is often only one deputy minister, and there will be one more under special circumstances, but the existence of two vice ministers will not be too long, at most only three or five months, which is equivalent to saying that the power of the vice minister is only under the emperor and Qin Hui, and it is certainly worth congratulating on entering the Privy Council.

In recent years, there are many people who participate in political affairs as the governor of the imperial history, but almost all of them are like watching the flowers, as much as a year, or as little as three or five months before being dismissed.

Zhao Ying has quite a prejudice against Zhang Fu because he advocated inspecting the forbidden army from all walks of life last year and inspecting the general camp in Wuzhou, but he is now just a county king without the slightest power, and whether he can have the opportunity to take over the Great Song Dynasty depends on whether these old ministers in the court will give him a stumbling block, so if he can not offend them, Zhao Ying will try not to offend.

Zhao Ying has competitors, whether he can inherit the Great Song Dynasty is far from certain, although he does not have many supporters, but it does not mean that he has lost the opportunity, the future is long, he is not in a hurry, as long as he does not make mistakes, there will always be hope.

"The matter of the abolition and dismissal of the forbidden army stationed abroad has been supervised by the Privy Council, and the dismissal will be completed within three months. And the formation of the new army must also begin immediately, and when the election of generals is over, a new army will be formed! ”

After Zhang Fu finished speaking, he handed out the paperwork in his hand, Yang Congyi hurriedly stepped forward to take it, turned around and handed it to Zhao Yuan, the king of the county.

Although he is the nominal commander of the selection camp, but now that Zhao Ying is in the selection camp, he is the real commander, and the order issued by the imperial court to the selection camp is naturally to be seen by him first.

Zhao Ying took the documents of the imperial court and looked at them, only to see that as he and Yang Congyi expected, the new army was indeed led by Li Xianzhong and Shao Hongyuan, but the slight difference was that the imperial court wanted to form three forbidden armies.

The first army was commanded by Li Xianzhong and the first army was commanded by Shao Hongyuan, and the two armies were each commanded by 20 commanders, and the stations of each command were still in the original garrisons of each command, but they were re-divided according to their geographical location and belonged to the commanders of the two armies.

The Third Army was formed by the four commanders who formed the Elective General Battalion plus the other two commanders, and the garrison was still in the Wuzhou Elective General Battalion, which was temporarily under the jurisdiction of Yang Congyi, deputy commander of the Elective General Battalion.

In this way, the imperial court only abolished the establishment of nearly 100,000 forbidden troops, dismissed nearly 40 commanders, commanders, and a large number of middle and low-level generals and officers, and the garrison did not change, the garrison remained the same, and the training environment naturally did not change.

To be honest, Zhao Ying looked at the paperwork in his hand and felt very unhappy.