Recently, Princess Taiping got married, and the streets and alleys were discussing this unprecedented grand wedding, and at the same time, Xue Shao was definitely a key "news figure" in Chang'an. So today, the sudden appearance of the newlywed Yan'er's Xue Juma in the Martial Arts Academy caused a big sensation. People are amazed, even if an ordinary rich and noble child has just gotten married, he has to enjoy the newlywed for a month without asking him about it. Xue Yuma had just fallen into Princess Taiping's gentle township, why was he willing to escape so early?

There are even people who speculate with bad intentions, could it be that the princess and the concubine are too fierce, and Xue Yuma can't resist it?

Xue Shao didn't have time to pay attention to these groundless gossip trivia, and he devoted himself to his work as soon as he arrived at the Martial Arts Academy.

After half a year, the Lecture Martial Academy, a new yamen that had just started, is now a stagnant water, and has even become dispensable. The secret code of Lantian is simple, and the batch of books of the Ministry of War will start to promote it in the army on its own after the Society, and there is nothing to do in the Martial Arts Academy. So Xiao Zhizhong was idle all day long, and he was also aggrieved in his heart - he was completely eating idle food, and he didn't have a sense of achievement at all, let alone any sense of achievement!

Xue Shao's return made Xiao Zhizhong overjoyed, because Xue Shao had promised before that the Martial Arts Academy was going to do a big job.

The first thing Xue Shao did after his return was to suspend classes, so that the students who were idle all day long and idle all day long were ordered to go to their own families to do their own duties.

The original establishment of the Martial Arts Academy, teaching the Lantian secret code was originally just an excuse, and the real goal was to rectify the Northern Ya Imperial Forest Army. At that time, there was Li Shangdan's heavy resistance, and not a single qiē work could be carried out. Now Beiya has replaced two "heads", namely Cheng Wuting, the general of the left Yu Lin Wei and Li Jinxing, the general of the right Yu Lin Wei.

For Xue Shao, it was finally time to show his strength.

Xue Shao decided to hold a meeting and discuss with his subordinates the future work of the Martial Arts Academy. It turned out that he, a member of the military department, had only three soldiers under him, one Xiao Zhizhong and one Li Xianyuan. There is also a Shangguan Wan'er who is just a "friendly cameo", and more often than not, she is serving the queen of heaven and doing things in the courtyard.

It seems that the first problem to be solved is manpower.

Xue Shao remembered a blank check that Wu Zetian wrote to him yesterday, and he just put forward what manpower and material resources he needed, and the court tried his best to meet it. Therefore, Xue Shao is not going to be polite - let's pull up a vote for himself first!

Xue Shao believes that this group of people must be familiar with both civil and military skills. There is a need for scholars who can grasp the pen and pole, and there is also a need for martial arts masters who can teach bow horses in person. After thinking about it and discussing it with Xiao Zhizhong and Li Xianyuan, Xue Shao opened a list and planned to go around asking for people.

Civilian, Xue Shao preliminarily drafted the three marching managers brought by Xiao Zhizhong, Li Xianyuan and Pei Xingjian, Su Wei, Zhong Shaojing and Liu Youqiu. These people are all familiar to Xue Shao, and they all have their own strengths.

Martial arts, Xue Shao didn't want to let go of Xue Chuyu and Guo Yuanzhen. These two good brothers are really easy to use themselves, and they are both now serving in the Beiya Imperial Forest Army, so it will be extremely effective to have them as helpers. Of course, the Imperial Forest Army will definitely not release them, so Xue Shao plans to rent the two of them in the name of "borrowing" first. With Cheng Wuting and Li Jinxing, there is nothing polite at all. In addition, Xue Shao also planned to bring over Lu Siyi and other relatives who he had brought with him in Zuo Fengchenwei before. There was also Wu Ming, an experienced retainer with high martial arts, whom Xue Shao also planned to bring with him as a "personal assistant" and "military adviser". Even moon slaves can come in handy when necessary. Not to mention the martial arts of the moon slave, after a Northern Expedition, she is also a veteran who has really been on the battlefield and experienced the baptism of war, and she always understands the nature of war better than those peaceful generals who don't even know what to kill.

When the new yamen of the Martial Arts Academy is employing people, Xue Shao will not dislike the number of people under him at all. As for the first step of the work plan of the Martial Arts Academy, Xue Shao planned to start with the nearest object first--first organize the Beiya Imperial Forest Army to have a grand martial arts competition like "a thousand cows talk about martial arts", so as to activate those soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army who are pampered and pampered, flying eagles, lackeys, fighting cocks and gambling all day long, so that they can understand what competition and honor are.

How to run the martial arts event well, Xue Shao plans to use the name of the Ministry of War to make it a customized activity of the Northern Ya Army. Originally, Xue Shao, a member of the military department, was responsible for the main job of "selecting the Nancao of the Academy", which was to select, promote, and eliminate the generals in the army according to their skill level and combat exploits. It's just that this work is suspected of duplicating the function of the official evaluation of the ministry, so Nancao has always been like an "empty yamen", just in charge of a number of military documents and geographical maps. Now, Xue Shao plans to use the new yamen of the "Martial Arts Academy" to seize the power and work that should belong to him into his own hands.

It is obviously not easy to compete for jobs with the officials at the head of the six departments of Shangshu. But Xue Shao can't manage it so much, pies won't fall from the sky, who will give charity if he doesn't fight or grab?

After agreeing on the preliminary work plan, Xue Shao left Li Xianyuan to look after the house, and began to run around with his assistant Xiao Zhizhong.

Xue Shao first went to Beiya, asking to see Cheng Wuting and Li Jinxing, the two newly appointed bigwigs of the Beiya Imperial Forest Army.

A Northern Expedition not only changed the political pattern of the court, but also completely changed the weather of the Northern Imperial Forest Army. In the past, Li Shangdan alone had the final say in Beiya, and Zhang Qianqiao, who was at the same level as him, was more like an echo worm. Li Shangli has been alone here for many years, and now he has completely collapsed. New generals were set up on the left and right side of Yulinwei, and the personnel structure was also expanded. Cheng Wuting and Li Jinxing, the two old men whose status in the army is second only to Pei Xingjian, respectively served as the generals of Yulinwei.

Tong Guò established the post of general, making the left and right Yulinwei the two most important imperial forest armies in the Tang Dynasty to defend the imperial palace. At the same time, the generals of the left and right Yulin Wei were not dispatched by the military department and the prime minister, but only directly obeyed the orders of the emperor, and their status was much higher than that of the field army generals of the other guards.

With Pei Xingjian's retirement and Yu Linwei's rise, Cheng Wuting and Li Jinxing are in the limelight. Although in the eyes of outsiders, the sudden development of these two generals was somewhat accidental, but in fact, this qiē was in the hands of the Queen of Heaven and Pei Yan, and Xue Shao knew this.

Since he had a friend of life and death, and now he is standing in the camp of the queen of heaven in the same pair of pants, Xue Shao opened his mouth to find Cheng Wuting and Li Jinxing to borrow someone, but he did not encounter any resistance. The two generals very readily agreed to "loan" Xue Chuyu and Guo Yuanzhen to Xue Shao. At the same time, they promised that once the Martial Arts Academy would launch the Beiya Martial Arts Lecture, the left and right Yu Linwei would fully cooperate. For these two generals who came from fighting tough battles in the expeditionary field, the Royal Forest Army is indeed too lazy and loose, and they are worried that they do not have good ideas to train the generals to the point of violence. Xue Shao's mention of yì fell into their arms.

On the same day, Xue Chuyu and Guo Yuanzhen rolled up the cover and followed Xue Shao. Immediately, Xue Shao took these two newly recruited followers and Xiao Zhizhong back to his hometown-Zuo Fengchenwei.

Zhou Jitong, the newly appointed general of Zuo Fengchenwei, took his soldiers and young generals to warmly welcome Xue Shao's "return to his hometown", and set up a big banquet to serve without saying anything.

At the banquet, Xue Shao made an inauthentic request to Zhou Jitong to "dig up the corner", but Zhou Jitong agreed very happily. Because as early as the beginning of Xue Shao's return to Chang'an, Xue Shao's personal entourage Lu Siyi and others had already put forward the idea of wanting to be transferred with Xue Shao. On the surface, this seems to hurt the face of Zuo Fengchenwei's general Zhou Jitong, but in the army, this is a common thing. The relationship between soldiers and generals is far from being as simple as that between superiors and subordinates, not to mention being transferred together, or even dying together. Zhou Jitong was originally the one who led the troops and owed Xue Shao a lot of favors, of course, he was willing to fulfill Xue Shao and Lu Siyi and others, and let them "elope" away.

Xue Shao was grateful to Zhou Jitong, and Zhou Jitong was also very happy to return a favor, and the two worked together happily and drank it once, and they both drank half of it.

After a continuous rush, the hour was close to dusk. Xue Shao left Xiao Zhizhong behind to deal with the issue of Lu Siyi and others with Zuo Fengchenwei's Changshi and others, and left the palace with Xue Chuyu and Guo Yuanzhen.

"Waste to be done, busy!" Guo Yuanzhen looked up to the sky and sighed when he left the palace.

Xue Shao smiled, "If I wasn't busy, would I run to Yulinwei to catch you and Xue Chuyu's strong men?" Since you're here, don't shout that you're tired, and do things for me honestly! ”

Guo Yuanzhen smiled and hooked his fingers, "Go to my house and have a drink?" It's best to bring your concubine Chen Xian'er, Neiko misses her good sister very much! ”

"It's better for you to bring Mrs. Ling to my house for a drink." Xue Shao said with a smile, "I promised Her Royal Highness the princess that I would go home as soon as possible after resigning every day." ”

Guo Yuanzhen laughed, "Look, married men are different!" - In this case, let's not embarrass each other, let's go our separate ways! ”

"Okay."

Guo Yuanzhen patted the horse first. He is also a newlywed Yan'er, and he is thick like glue with his wife.

Xue Shao said to Xue Chuyu: "Brother, you go and invite your brother here, and our three brothers will have a drink in the evening." Ling Zun is about to return and make a comeback, and we should do something for him. ”

"Chu Yu obeyed." Xue Chuyu hugged his fist and asked again, "But Childe, what can we do for my father?" ”

"That's a lot." Xue Shao said with a smile, "Don't forget, I'm now a member of the Ministry of War, although I don't have much power in my hands, but a famous general like Xue Rengui wants to return, and I still have some articles to do." If the imperial court finally wants to send Ling Zun to the northern frontier, it can be regarded as a big deal for the Tang Dynasty and Hu Di in the north, and I plan to send someone over to pave the way for him to build momentum. In that case, Ling Zun will be more handy after taking office, and it will also be an early suppression for those Turkic people in the north with bad intentions! ”

"Childe is thoughtful, I have thanked Childe on behalf of my father!" Xue Chuyu clenched his fists and bowed again, "Say goodbye first, go and invite my brother to come together!" ”

"Okay."

Xue Chuyu slapped his horse and left.

Xue Shao exhaled softly, the idle days that he had been living since returning from the Northern Expedition were finally busy now.

It's okay to be busy!

Love and family are important, but men should find their own fulcrum in their careers and win their own sense of achievement!