Yang Wu remembered that in history, Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, claimed to be a Tang Dynasty clan, and often took the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and the restoration of the Tang Dynasty as his own responsibility. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Later, Chai Kehong served as the assassin of Fuzhou, when the Later Zhou went south to attack the fourteen states of Jiangbei, Wu Yue took advantage of the fire to rob and besiege Changzhou, Chai Kehong took the initiative to ask for orders to go out and lead the troops to relieve the siege of Changzhou.

At that time, the elites of the Southern Tang Dynasty were all fighting in Jiangbei and Hou Zhou, and Chai Kehong only had thousands of old and weak in his hands, and Li Zhenggu, the privy deputy envoy, was at odds with Chai Kehong, and the weapons and armor he gave him were all worn-out. Chai Kehong wrote a book to argue, but was scolded back by Li Zhenggu.

In desperation, Chai Kehong had no choice but to rush to Changzhou with these thousands of people. In this way, Li Zhenggu was still not at ease, and sent a messenger to summon Chai Kehong back. This time, Chai Kehong finally made a move, he beheaded Li Zhenggu's envoy directly as Wu Yue's spy, and said that even if Li Zhenggu came here in person, he would also behead him. Only then did he send troops to attack, defeated Wu Yue's army, beheaded more than 10,000 people, and captured dozens of Wu Yue generals.

Chai Kehong led the army to cross the river again, preparing to go north to rescue Shouzhou, which was surrounded by the Later Zhou army, but unfortunately he died of illness halfway through the march.

This fact has two lessons for Yang Wu, the first and most important point is that in the future, the department in charge of military orders like the Privy Council must not fall into the hands of civil servants who do not understand military affairs, otherwise they will die an ugly death in the future. Nowadays, the problem of the feudal towns is that the power of the military generals is too large, which leads to frequent changes of power, and naturally needs to be governed; But like the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, civilian officials completely overrode the military generals, even to the point that sometimes a seven-rank petty official dared to point fingers at the court generals, which is undoubtedly overkill.

The best situation is still the rule of the civilian people, the military generals lead the troops, and the two sides do not interfere with each other.

The second point is that although today's Huainan has produced many famous generals, but as these veterans who followed Yang Xingmi's business gradually get old, Huainan must also cultivate new successors, otherwise there will be a situation like the Southern Tang Dynasty in history, the soldiers are still strong in combat effectiveness, but the leading generals are too incompetent, and the result is less victory and more defeat in the battle.

Yang Wu came to attend this gathering today, on the one hand, to win over and appease the meritorious veterans, and on the other hand, to meet these second-generation generals in Huainan and see if there are any generals worth winning over among these people.

At this time, after listening to Chai Kehong's words, Yang Wu couldn't help but love talent and wanted to draw this person under his command.

"Yes, that's what it means, Chai Gongzi is so knowledgeable and lives up to the name of Lingzun!"

"The prince has won the prize! It's just that I thought of these things after listening to the advice of the prince, and I can't really do it. Chai Kehong replied with some embarrassment.

Even so, Yang Wu didn't think so, after all, he just mentioned it, and Chai Kehong followed up and completely said his thoughts, which showed that he had similar thoughts in his heart.

Yang Wu chatted with him for a few more words, and found that this Chai Kehong did know a lot about military affairs, and the idea of pulling him under his command became more firm. Of course, it's still a banquet, it's not a good time to win him over, it's better to wait until after the banquet.

"Since the prince said that there is no problem for General Wang to defeat Zhu Youning, why does the prince still say that Wang Shifan will definitely end in defeat in the end?" At this time, Liu Yanzhen, the son of the general Liu Xin, asked with some doubts.

Yang Wu shook his head secretly when he heard this, this Liu Yanzhen's knowledge is far worse than Chai Kehong's.

"It's not difficult to defeat Zhu Youning, but the difficult thing is that after Zhu Youning is defeated, Zhu Quanzhong will definitely lead the army to attack in person. Zhu Quanzhong's ability is not comparable to Zhu Youning, plus he has many elites under his command and many famous generals, and there is no hope of defeating him with only the Qingzhou soldiers and the thousands of Huainan soldiers brought by General Wang. Therefore, Wang Shifan will eventually lose. Li Chengding explained for him.

At this time, seeing that the guests were already seated, Zhou Ye also ordered to start serving, and after a while, the wine and food were sent up like a tide, the wine was the best wine, and the dishes were full of cattle, sheep and game, and the banquet was extremely rich.

Zhou Ye didn't talk much as the master, there were not so many rules in his family, and he himself was honest and not very good at words, so he just said a few words and handed over the topic to Yang Wu.

And Yang Wu had been discussing with Qin Pei and them about the reorganization of the army this afternoon, and tonight's banquet was relatively late, so he was also a little hungry at this time; In addition, all the young men present were there, and Yang Wu didn't want to be too formal, so he just announced the opening of the banquet after just a few words, and then took the lead in eating and drinking.

Seeing him like this, everyone was relieved, thinking that Yang Wu was just like the rumors said, he was an easy-going person, not the kind of person who was difficult to deal with.

Of course, Yang Wu, as the person with the highest status here and the central figure of today's banquet, is not idle, everyone present, including Xu Zhihe, who has a concern in his heart, all toasted him, and after a while, Yang Wu, who had a good amount of wine, had a red face and hot ears, and he was almost drunk.

After all, the people present are all young men, and after drinking a little wine, they are more open, and they talk freely about wine, after all, they are from Jiangmen, and Yang Wu is present, everyone has some ideas, so the topic of conversation is more about the war in various places today.

Although Yang Wu drank a lot of wine, his mind was still very clear, so he spoke less often at this time, but listened to everyone's words with great interest, wanting to see if there were any talents worth cultivating for the second generation.

After this observation, he really made some discoveries, although he didn't know what their specific abilities were, but this insight was much stronger than others.

Today's famous Huainan generals such as Tai Meng, Zhou Ben, Tao Ya, and Liu Wei were not born, but gradually grew up in the continuous war; If these good people found today are cultivated well in the future, they may not be able to become famous generals like Taimeng.

Thinking of this, Yang Wu summoned Zhou Ye over and whispered a few words to him, asking him to stay with the few people he had just noticed.

After a long time, Yang Wu saw that the banquet was almost over, and among the two purposes for which he came here, the goal of looking for generals had almost been achieved; And the other purpose, the purpose of looking at the attitude of these meritorious families towards him has basically been achieved.

He can see that these nobles are basically showing favor to him, even those low-key generals also have the intention of showing favor.

So before the end of the banquet, Yang Wu expressed his meaning loudly: those meritorious veterans who followed Yang Xingmi's entrepreneurship will be treated preferentially, both now and in the future.

And this meaning also made the sons of the families who came here more relieved, and the smiles on their faces were even stronger.