Zhang Li and Gao Yaokang walked side by side on the official road leading to Lingzhou City, and behind them a large group of strong men who looked like military attachés of the Tianli Sect and the Lingzhou Army rode horses to follow. Behind is the iron cavalry of the brigade, which is really majestic.

On both sides of the official road are golden rice fields, and farmers in Lingzhou wear hats to cut their hands in the fields. Watch their supreme lord Gao Yaokang pass by with the Iron Cavalry. These tanned peasants all dare not take a breath. Everywhere they passed, both men and women, they all bowed down to the official road!

Such a scene is simply unimaginable in the countryside of the Great Zhou Republic, as well as in the countryside of the United States of the Thirteen States!

Although the Great Zhou Republic had a large number of feudal remnants, there were still regressions in some aspects compared to the Northern Song Dynasty. But the lord of the manor in the Great Zhou was not a feudal lord.

All they had was the right to use the estates – in the form of military service, and there was no feudal power over the tenants and hired peasants below.

Moreover, the tenants and hired peasants of the Great Zhou Republic have a smooth path to ascent, although they will not become "county public security chiefs" in one step, but there are still many opportunities to rise to become citizens, or enter big cities to become wealthy commoners, or go to sea to venture to fight for a rich and noble people.

In addition, now the Great Zhou Republican Army is already an army in the era of alternating hot and cold weapons. In this era, the status of knights began to decline, the role of the infantry began to rise, and good career officers became the real core of the army.

Therefore, the military strength of the Great Zhou Republic is actually based on professional officers from military academies (most of whom were born in knightly families) as the core, with infantry and artillery as the main force.

In this case, it was no longer possible for the knights of the Great Zhou Republic to turn into feudal lords, but only wealthy small aristocratic farmers.

As for the country of the thirteen states, although there are kings and nobles, there will never be such a feudal order, and the people are bourgeois liberalized!

But here in Lingzhou, after more than twenty years of evolution, a feudal knight (samurai) class has emerged!

It is not surprising that such a situation occurs, Lingzhou is the hometown of Western Xia, and there is no concept of equality at all.

The foreign Gao regime had to resist the imperial court outside and control the remnants of Western Xia internally. The only thing that can be relied on is the warriors who followed Gao Yu to settle down in Lingzhou and the knights of the Western Army and the Hedong Army.

Therefore, in the Gao Yu era, the status and privileges of the Lingzhou knights far exceeded the Jiehe knights (later the knights of the Zhou Kingdom). After Gao Yaokang ascended the throne, in order to appease the Lingzhou Knight Group who were panicking at that time, he had to give them more privileges and land!

At the same time, the government soldier class in Lingzhou was greatly injured because of the defeat of the army with Gao Yu (compared with the knights, the wealth and scale of the government soldier family are relatively small, and the risk tolerance is poor), and gradually died out.

Therefore, in the sixth year of Xuanhe, Lingzhou, like Liangguo, established a feudal rule with knights as the backbone.

About 1,000 knight families submitted to the Gao regime, took possession of two-thirds of the land in Lingzhou, and directly ruled over the households in the manor at the cost of military service for the Gao regime. Through these 1,000 knight families, the Gao regime could concentrate more than 3,000 ironclad cavalry and the same number of auxiliaries at any time.

The remaining one-third of the land was owned by the Gao family, and the proceeds were used for the daily expenses of maintaining the Gao regime.

Under such a system, needless to say, the working people of Lingzhou were of course reduced to serf-like existence......

Of course, the serfs can't look directly at their lord Gao Yaokang!

"Tianlizi," Gao Yaokang, who had long been accustomed to being high, didn't look at the serfs who saluted him, but just talked to Zhang Li, "Now that the official family has moved the capital to Chang'an, I, as a subordinate, should naturally go to the court." By the way, let's explore the situation in Chang'an, if the retro party's set can be implemented in Guanzhong, then we can't make a mistake. If Guan Long's Haoqiang does not accept the retro method, there will be trouble, hehe......"

The meaning of "hehe" is certainly not a good thing.

After completing the transition to feudalism, the Gao regime in Lingzhou, like the Xiliang Tianlijiao regime, had a strong expansiveness.

As for whether to follow the Western Song Dynasty to find opportunities for foreign expansion, or to take the Western Song Dynasty as the goal, it depends on the retro situation of the Western Song Dynasty.

Zhang Li nodded, "I'll let Feng Mingshan go with you, and then bring 3,000 West Pole Horses and go in the name of Gong Ma." ”

"Good! Without further ado, I'll get up and set off right away! Gao Yaokang smiled, "Let's see how retro he is?" ”

……

Just when Zhang Li and Gao Yaokang had a secret meeting in Lingzhou in the northwest and agreed on a strategy for the Song Dynasty. Zhao Huan, a Great Song official who had settled in the city of Chang'an, was pacing on the city wall, which was built in the late Tang Dynasty and was now very dilapidated.

A middle-aged official in a red official robe followed him, talking about something.

“…… Your Majesty, as far as the minister knows, the current retro party is divided into the martial school and the literary school. The martial arts faction, all of whom were military attaches from the Wuxue Palace, advocated a quick retro and forcibly allocated land in Guanzhong. The literary school is headed by the original retro six gentlemen, all of whom are civil servants. They advocated a slow retro and not forcibly seized the land. The characters of the two factions began to quarrel on the way out of Kaifeng Mansion to the west, and quarreled all the way here. Now it's even more-for-tat, I really don't know if there will be a fight? ”

The one who reported to Zhao Huan the new trend towards the retro struggle was none other than Dazai Cai You. Together with Geng Nanzhong, a member of the Privy Council, he became Zhao Huan's most trusted courtier.

That's right, Zhao Huan believes the two of them now! At most, there is a Du Chong who dug the dam of the Yellow River.

Du Chong is now the official to worship the ambassadors of Xuanfu in Jingxi and Hedong, and stay in Tokyo to sentence Henan government affairs. He was the former enemy commander-in-chief of the Western Song Dynasty army, and fought against Wu Haogu's eldest son, Wu Yiyong.

Cai You and Geng Nanzhong controlled the eastern and western prefectures respectively.

As for retro gentlemen and retro military men...... It's so vicious! Zhao Huan is so timid, how can he not be afraid?

These two groups had previously carried out a coup d'état, killed Dazai, incited the people to storm Xuandemen, and mobilized troops without authorization...... is simply the reincarnation of the Tang Dynasty's feudal town tooth soldiers, Zhao Huan believes that they are not brain-dead?

But Zhao Huan didn't dare to touch them now!

What a tragedy!

The Great Song Dynasty official family, which was supposed to be the middle emperor, has now become the emperor with no gun or knife handle.

Of course, Zhao Huan is not the only one who does not have a gun or a knife handle. Even the retro gentlemen who single-handedly instigated the Kaifeng retro revolution accidentally lost their guns and knives.

The officers of the new army who ran to Chang'an Mansion now embraced the unity party and formed the "martial arts school" under the retro party, which was opposed to the "literary school" with the retro gentleman as the core.

And the reason for the confrontation between the two parties is, on the surface, the progress of the retro change.

The martial arts school is radical, and it is best to divide the land of the Guanzhong Plain with a few edicts.

The literary school was conservative and advocated the prudent promotion of the Juntian system...... As for how to move forward, we need to think in the long term.

Of course, the disagreement on the progress of the retro change is only one of the reasons for the opposition between the two parties.

"Your Majesty," Dazai Cai Yu sighed, "I also heard that the martial arts school in the retro party also advocates the military attache to manage the army......"

"Military attache in charge of the army?" Zhao Huan was stunned for a moment, "Isn't the military attache in charge of the army now?" ”

"Your Majesty, they mean to put the military attache in charge of the military department and the Privy Council......"

"What?" Zhao Huan took a breath and looked back at Cai You, "The news is reliable?" ”

"It should be ......reliable," Cai You sighed again, "The people of the martial arts school believe that the main reason for the defeat of Hebei and Hedong is that the military attache cannot fully control the army, except that the troops are too small. It is not possible to use literature and martial arts......"

Zhao Huan's tone was calm: "Isn't it even worse to go from Zhongyu?" ”

"Your Majesty has heard about it too?" Cai You smiled bitterly and nodded, "There is indeed such a statement...... The people of the martial arts school believe that the palace should not interfere with the command with the central purpose and formation plan. The military should be entrusted with carte blanche to the Privy Council and the Ministry of War, and the palace and the prime minister only need to decide on the war and strategy. ”

"It's the other way around! It's the other way around! How dare they ......" Zhao Huan was also dizzy. Of course, people are against it, but it's still Zhao Ji who is not against being the emperor now, how can he have his share?

"Your Majesty is angry, angry!" Cai You said repeatedly, "People in the literary school are all against it...... So now this matter has not been discussed in the court. ”

"They're a bunch of nerds against being useful?" Zhao Huan shook his head again and again, trembling and said, "Now the military power is in the hands of others!" ”

He is really anxious now, not only anxious, but also a little regretful. There shouldn't be any retro party to support at all, and Daddy shouldn't be ousted from the throne.

Now what?

The two factions of the retro party, civil and military, were divided, and the martial school made it clear that they wanted to seize military power. If the military power is completely in the hands of the martial arts school, the life and death of the Great Song Dynasty official family will be abolished in the future, and it will not be a group of educated martial artists who have the final say?

"Your Majesty," Cai You was also helpless, so he had to comfort Zhao Huan and said, "The literary school is still on top, and it should be able to withstand it for a while."

The key now depends on when Zhao Ding and Zong Ying can transport the gold and silver. With money, the army can be pacified for the time being. There is also a way to redeem the land......"

The troops led by Zhao Ding and Zong Ying transporting gold and silver are now gone, and no one knows where they are!

Now the split of the retro party also has something to do with it.

"But what if they haven't heard from me all the time?" Zhao Huan asked.

"Then ......"

Cai You shook his head, not knowing what to say. If it were not for the division of land in Guanzhong, then the armies that now surrounded the Western Song Dynasty would be mercenaries.

Mercenaries are to be paid!

Relying on Guan Long's broken territory, how much money can be scavenged? If you don't divide the land quickly, the new army will mutiny again at any time! When the time comes, will Cai You, the Dazai, also be slaughtered?

Thinking of this, Cai Yu Cai Dazai was trembling.

This official is really difficult to be......

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