Du Rui knew very well in his heart that he was a target.

Before, I didn't know who to cover, and was set up as a target by Emperor Du Zhen.

Now, once again being used by Du Zhen, whether he is promoted to King Zhao or out of Handan, he is just a name, using himself as a target to attract the attention of interested people, and then, secretly Chen Cang.

In fact, Zheng Cheng Zheng Yuanxing, a third-grade official from the Privy Council, was the emperor's confidant, and the reason why he was sent to serve as Du Rui's deputy, and arranged for him to have many staff members and escort warriors, with a large team of hundreds of people, he is the real Handan Jiedu envoy, the real commander of the Jingbian Army, and the nominal person in power above Du Rui, after all, power needs people to control.

Du Rui is nobody.

The arrogant generals on the side of the Jingbian Army will not obey the orders of a yellow-haired son, even if this kid is a prince, those arrogant generals will only be subdued by strength, if you don't have the strength, even if you have the blessing of imperial power, so what?

After all, this was an era of declining imperial power.

The emperor had a good calculation.

If he let Zheng Cheng serve as the commander of the Jingbian Army, not only would the court oppose it, but even the arrogant generals of the Jingbian Army would not approve of it, and the slightest carelessness would lead to a mutiny, so there must be a person of noble status to sit in charge.

However, even if there are people with noble status, it is not necessarily peaceful.

Now, it is difficult to change the pattern of soldiers, not to mention those separatist forces in the land of Yanzhao that are actually out of an independent state, only the army that nominally belongs to the imperial court, once there is a logistics supply or military salaries, most of which are handed over to the army to raise themselves, such as the current Jingbian Army, Anbian Army, and only a small part of the central imperial court has prepared, so the militarization of the army has become inevitable.

Take the Jingbian Army as an example, because Feng Li is loyal, he has always been the spearhead of the imperial court, guarding against the Hebei warlords.

It's just that if the baggage and other materials are transferred from Guanzhong, even if there is a rune car and a rune ship, it is a very difficult thing, because, in this world compared with Du Rui's previous life, the distance between Guanzhong and Kanto has expanded by at least ten times, and although the geographical direction of mountains and rivers is roughly the same, in fact, there are also small differences.

The burden of the imperial court is too heavy, and the consumption on the road is quite a lot, just the Fu Yu required for the operation of the Fu boat and the Fu car is not a small amount, and the taxes of Handan are collected from the central court, and then transferred by the central government to the Jingbian Army.

Later, the imperial court no longer collected Handan's taxes, and after the taxes were collected, they were handed over to the Jingbian army.

It stands to reason that it is the local government that collects taxes, and the state capital in charge of civil affairs is directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, that is to say, this logistical burden is still in the hands of the imperial court, however, Handan is far away from Chang'an, the central imperial court whip is out of reach, and the Jingbian army is close at hand, even if Feng Li has no second heart, those generals under his hands are not like him, the knife is on the side, the imperial power is too far, and the knife is naturally preferred.

Gradually, it developed to the point that the soldiers collected the taxes themselves, and the tax cards at the gates were also guarded by the soldiers.

Slowly, Handan City also became a military and political integration, and inevitably entered the era of warlordization.

It's just that Feng Li's prestige in the army is very high, and the force is unfathomable, with his suppression of the formation, the Jingbian army will not be chaotic, even if it becomes a warlord group, it still obeys the orders of the imperial court, however, as soon as Feng Li dies, coupled with his childlessness and daughterlessness, the Jingbian army will inevitably enter a chaotic stage.

What I am most afraid of is that those military leaders will unite with the warlords of Yan Zhao and other places and completely fall to that side.

In fact, the best way is to promote one of the most powerful military leaders in the Jingbian Army, and in the Jingbian Army, there is such a figure, that is, Admiral Liang Fengzhi.

Liang Fengzhi was born in a poor family, was promoted by Feng Li from the end of the micro, and passed on what he had learned, it can be said that he is the successor of Feng Fengzhi's military family, at the beginning, for Liang Fengzhi, Feng Li even got rid of Guo Linggong, and obtained a mental method from Fengxiang Guo's family, which is called the heart method of burning the sky is extremely suitable for Liang Fengzhi's physique.

It can be said that Liang Fengzhi is equivalent to Feng Li's personal disciple, there are four major admirals in the Jingbian Army, he is the youngest, but his power is the largest, and many old military leaders support him in Feng Li's face.

Feng Li found that his life was not long after he sent three letters to the court, half a year apart, the three letters have only one content, that is, to promote Liang Fengzhi as the new Jingbian Army Festival envoy, he assured the court that Liang Fengzhi will inherit his legacy, be loyal to the Tang Empire, and fight bravely for the unity and peace of the empire.

However, in the eyes of those high-ranking officials of the imperial court, this was the worst option.

Everything is just the same as it is, it is still the Feng family army, except that the country still maintains a certain influence on this army, the rest of the family lords are completely unable to intervene, whether it is Guanzhong or Kandong.

Almost all the generals are trained by the army, after all, the army has a special martial arts technique, and can also obtain certain resources, and when the Jingbian army occupies Handan, the resources obtained will be even more. If the low-ranking officers have talent, dare to fight and kill, and have meritorious achievements in the army, they will also be arranged to study in the academy in the army.

The acquisition of cultivation resources is closely related to the merits of war, the more merits the more cultivation resources are obtained, and the less merits there are, the fewer natural resources, everything is very fair and just, at least, it seems like that.

When Feng Li was there, he had great military achievements, deep qualifications, and he was a grandmaster, and he managed the entire Jingbian Army so much that he couldn't move and couldn't splash water, so even if those family gate lords tried their best, they couldn't get in with a single foot.

Now, Feng Li is about to pass away, and they naturally don't allow it to continue.

The emperor can rest assured that Feng Qi, but he may not be able to rest assured that Liang Fengzhi, after all, he has never seen this Liang Fengzhi, and the Jingbian army is becoming more and more warlordized, and the imperial court's control over it is becoming more and more loose.

The emperor naturally wanted to keep the army under his control.

Those family lords want a piece of the pie, and the Guo family wants to maintain their control over the Jingbian Army, and they support another admiral to take over, this admiral's surname is Guo, and his single name is Hui.

Guo Hui is from the side line of the Guo family, not the kind that broke out, he is still in the genealogy of the Guo family, as a congenital warrior, he is one of the four admirals of the Jingbian Army, leading an army, because of the Guo family, he has a strong autonomy in the Jingbian Army, and the soldiers of the battalion under his command are not only obedient to Feng Yanyan, but also loyal to Guo Hui.

The relationship of autonomy is too strong, and his battalion is rejected by everyone.

Just competing for power, he is not as strong as Liang Fengzhi in the Jingbian army, and his reputation is not so high, but compared with the relationship with the court and those family lords, he is enough to throw Liang Feng to two or three streets.

Of course, the Guo family's recommendation was opposed by everyone, and in the case that the Anbian Army only obeyed the command of the Guo family, Fengxiang still had the ancestral land and guards of the Guo family, and Xinyang was Guo Linggong's fiefdom, everyone would not allow the Guo family to get involved in the military power again. At the beginning, it took a lot of effort and paid a lot of costs to divide Guo Jiajun into three, and now, he must not back down.

At that time, if Guo Linggong hadn't taken the initiative to retreat, it would have been impossible to split Guo Jiajun.

Du Zhen knew in his heart that although Guo Pu was also surnamed Guo, he was not his son, this guy had ambitions in his heart, at the beginning, Guo Linggong chose to back down, chose to hand over the military power, and chose to divide the Guo family army into three, Guo Pu was very disapproving. It's just that Guo Linggong's prestige is extremely high, even if Guo Pu is unwilling, he does not dare to disobey his father's orders, but he still commands the Anbian army, and the Guo family has never completely handed over the military power.

In fact, he didn't understand his Lao Tzu's good intentions.

Guo Linggong practiced martial arts in the army, the way of the soldier, the Guo family was originally born in the border army, and did not have a long and noble history like Jing Zhaogu, so at that time, Guo Linggong was often scolded behind his back to be an old revolutionary.

The reason why he retreated bravely was actually forced to be helpless.

He knows very well that his body, even if he is promoted to the great grandmaster, Shouyuan is far inferior to those great masters who practice Buddhism and Taoism and Confucianism, the way of the soldiers, victory and defeat first, not afraid of life and death, therefore, the damage to the body's vitality is very great, and in old age, even the great grandmaster has the pain of falling into the realm, so Guo Linggong knows that he can't do anything.

The Tang Empire has the Huashan Xuanzhen Concept and Gu Zhenren in charge.

Gu Zhenren is younger than Guo Linggong, but he is one step ahead of the great master, and his cultivation is the Taoist spirit of quiet and inaction, and his longevity is long.

If he uses his military power to make a move, even if he kicks the Du family off the throne, once he dies, if the Du royal family makes a comeback under the protection of Gu Zhenren, the Guo family should be wiped out.

Generally speaking, Guo's background is still too poor, relying only on him alone, only by virtue of holding military power, it is impossible to last.

It was under this background that Du Rui went out of Handan, served as the commander of the Jingbian Army, the post of envoy of Handan, and had the position of prince, Handan was his fiefdom, which was completely justified.

Of course, whether Liang Fengzhi and Guo Hui and other generals buy this account or not, it is unknown.

Therefore, this time out of Beijing, Du Rui did not move the entire courtyard to Handan with great fanfare, he only brought some of the guards on the road, Wei Yue and Mo Chou did not go to Handan with him, he needed Wei Yue and Mo Chou to guard the Taoshan Academy in Chang'an, and hoped that all the education plans would follow the route he had formulated before, and not deviate too much.

As for the bloody wind and rain in Handan City, the sword and sword, let him bear it.