After Zhao Ziliang dealt with Hemar's affairs, he quickly rushed back to the palace to reply to Xuanzong, who received him in the imperial garden.

"Your Majesty, the matter of the Eastern Roman Mission Hemar has been resolved, and the purpose of their trip is not all to obtain the weapons and crossbow building technology of our dynasty, and now this matter is not feasible, so they want to stay in Beijing to exchange culture and beliefs with our country!"

"Oh? That's good, as long as it doesn't affect the relations between the two countries and doesn't affect the sale of goods from our DPRK to the West! Xuanzong said as he took a piece of fruit meat handed over by Concubine Mei and put it in his mouth to eat.

Xuanzong remembered something, got up and beckoned to Zhao Ziliang: "Come with me!" ”

Zhao Ziliang was stunned, and immediately got up to follow. It didn't take long for him to come to the Zichen Hall again, Xuanzong pointed to the pile of twists and turns on the imperial case like a hill and said: "Since you took office in the Zuojin Wuwei Right Guard General's Mansion, you have made great achievements, it is said that the public security situation in Chang'an County has been greatly improved, and the sons and daughters of the nobles and gentlemen have been greatly restrained. It's just that you have caused me a lot of trouble for so long, look at it, these are the courtiers' impeachment of you, and you have already aroused the public anger of the officials in the capital! ”

Of course, Zhao Ziliang knows how serious the things he has done, and he has long heard of the impeachment of many courtiers, but on the one hand, he did it out of a sense of responsibility, on the other hand, he also did it deliberately, he could neither take refuge in Li Linfu, nor in the prince's family, he could only hug the emperor's thigh, and through Zuo Jin Wuwei's vigorous rectification of the security in the capital, not only offended Li Linfu ruthlessly, but also offended the officials of the prince's family a lot, only in this way could he gain the emperor's trust and protection.

Zhao Ziliang knew that the emperor had brought him here alone to show him these twists and turns. knew that the emperor regarded him as his own, otherwise he would not have shown him these impeachment twists and turns, so he couldn't bear to see the twists and turns, and immediately bowed down and said: "Weichen didn't know that it would bring such a big trouble to Your Majesty, it is really a capital crime, please surrender Your Majesty."

Xuanzong waved his hand and said, "Forget it." How can I punish those who have merit? However, you have offended too many people this time, although I have the intention to protect you, but I can't do too much obviously, otherwise it will only cause discord between the monarch and the minister, which is not good for the court. The position of the general of the left Jin Wuwei and the right guard, you can't sit down, so let's do it, this year is the year of the martial arts, and I decree that you will first go to the military department to take up an idle position. When the martial arts examination is about to begin, I will decree that you will be the chief examiner of the martial arts examination, and you will find a few talented people for me to come out."

If it was in the later Ming and Qing dynasties, the chief examiner of the martial arts should at least be presided over by the military secretary and the squire, but Xuanzong asked Zhao Ziliang, an idle military general, to preside over the martial arts examination, which shows that the Tang Dynasty did not attach much importance to martial arts, at least the status of martial arts was much worse than that of Wenju.

Zhao Ziliang really didn't know much about martial arts, and saw that Xuanzong actually gave him the position of the chief examiner of martial arts. He was a little surprised, and immediately asked, "Your Majesty." I don't know what the main content of martial arts is tested? ”

"Horse shooting, foot shooting, flat shooting, horse pistols, weight-bearing wrestling, foot fighting, cavalry fighting, and more!"

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said to Xuanzong: "Your Majesty, if you just test these contents, I'm afraid that it will be difficult to find real generals, and at most you can only find brave generals and fierce generals!" If you want to find the talents of generals with 10,000 enemies, 100,000 enemies, or 1 million enemies, the first thing to test is not these contents. It is the art of war, military strategy, of course, these are just talk on paper, and then we have to test the actual ability to deploy troops and lead troops to fight, which can select the real general talent for Your Majesty; After these exams, the individual martial arts test will be examined. These can be used to select the best talents for the competition! ”

Xuanzong thought deeply when he heard this, and after being overjoyed, he immediately said to Zhao Ziliang: "Yes, yes, it should be like this, this matter will be left to you to do, you can't mess it up!" ”

"No!"

Two days later, Xuanzong really ordered the removal of Zhao Ziliang from the post of general of the left Jin Wuwei and the right guard, and transferred him to the military department to serve as the military selection division of the military department, not responsible for the selection of military attachés in the military department, and was specifically responsible for this year's martial arts examination.

The courtiers, the sons of the nobles, the sons of the nobles, and the royal relatives who got the news immediately clapped their hands and were very happy, and many people gloated. However, the system implemented by Zhao Ziliang in Zuojin Wuwei was retained, and it was unswervingly continued, and the public security situation in Chang'an County did not deteriorate because of Zhao Ziliang's departure.

Zhao Ziliang is idle again, the martial arts will not be carried out until the autumn, and now it is spring, and it will have to wait for more than half a year, but there are still some things that Zhao Ziliang needs to do, that is, to send a document to all prefectures and counties across the country, sending the test items of today's martial arts examination and the conditions required by the candidates, and asking all prefectures and counties across the country to assist in posting notices everywhere.

This thing is very easy, Zhao Ziliang did it easily, and then he practiced martial arts diligently and read military books well.

After seeing the notices posted by the Ministry of War all over the country, heroes and heroes from all over the country rushed to Chang'an City.

Zhao Ziliang didn't care about any of this, and after two months, Chen Qingying's belly became bigger and bigger, and Zhao Ziliang basically stayed at home with her.

At the beginning of June, Chen Qingying gave birth to a son, this son was just born, the cry was particularly loud, like thunder, Zhao Ziliang was overjoyed, so he named him Zhao Lei, Zhao Lei was born with thick bones, strong muscles and bones, although it is only a baby, but at a glance at the face and body, you know that this son must be a military general when he grows up.

Zhao Ziliang was about to give Zhao Lei a full moon wine, when he received news of the battle situation from Hexi.

Wang Can hurriedly walked to the martial arts training ground and reported to Zhao Ziliangyu, who was holding Zhao Lei: "General, from Hexi, there is an urgent flying pigeon from Hexi, Tubo raised 400,000 troops, entered the Changning Bridge in the west, broke the Heyuan army, and attacked the land of Anxi through the Heyuan army, fortunately, my Hunya Peak cavalry general Zang Xiyan found it in time, and led 5,000 elite cavalry to ambush the vanguard of the Tubo army of 30,000 horses, the Tubo army was defeated, Zang Xiyan took advantage of the situation to pursue, killed countless enemies, and the Tubo army retreated!" ”

Zhao Ziliang frowned when he heard this, and said, "Isn't the Heyuan Army an army under the command of the envoy of Longyou Jiedu?" How did Huangfu Weiming do it? ”

Wang Can shook his head and said: "I'm afraid of this matter, and it's no wonder that Huangfu Weiming, after learning that the Heyuan army was defeated, he immediately organized troops to prepare to meet the Tubo army, but no one thought that the Tubo army would abandon him, and chose to go west, turning the gun to deal with the Anxi army."

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said: "This time the loss of the Tubo army is not big, I am afraid that it will come back soon, what I am worried about now is not Huangfu Weiming, if he is so engaged in Tubo, he will definitely be vigilant, but Lord Gai Jiayun in Hexi has been negligent in military affairs this year, once the Tubo army moves against Hexi, I am afraid that he will be difficult to resist!" Now that he can't speak, he can't remind Master Gai, I just hope that he can be vigilant and don't give Tubo a chance! ”

"yes!" Wang Can also nodded with emotion.

The two talked for a while, Wang Can left, and Wang Ru came in to report: "Master, many matters of Lei Gongzi's full moon wine have been prepared, and the chef of the Drunken Immortal Building has been hired to come to the kitchen, and the materials for the wine and dishes have been ordered, if they are not enough, they can be added at any time, but the guests for the banquet have not yet been determined, and the relatives on the master's side will not be able to come from their hometown for a while, so they need to invite those guests, and please ask the general to show them!" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought about it and said to Wang Ru: "I'll give you a guest list later, and you can send invitations to everyone according to the list!" ”

"No!"

Zhao Ziliang quickly wrote a list of guests to Wang Ru, these guests were basically some of his colleagues during his tenure as Zuo Jian Janitor and Zuo Jin Wuwei, as well as a few friends with a slightly better relationship such as Princess Yuzhen and Yang Yuhuan, and his relationship with Li Bai was also not bad, so he also sent invitations to Li Bai and several other talented people in Chang'an.

On the day of the full moon wine, Zhao Lei, the little guy, was very popular with the guests, tiger-headed, like to move, not like to be quiet, and catch what he sees. Princess Yuzhen, Yang Yuhuan and others also gave him a small gift, and Li Bai also wrote a poem for him.

Zhao Ziliang hugged Zhao Lei and walked around among the guests, so that all the guests could see each other, and only after seeing the child did he hold the child and prepare to return to the inner courtyard, when Yang Yuhuan followed and said: "General Zhao, the slave family will go to see Mrs. Zun."

Zhao Ziliang asked as he walked, "Why didn't His Royal Highness the Emperor Mao come?" ”

Yang Yuhuan's expression was a little gloomy, "The slave family quarreled with him!" ”

Zhao Ziliang hesitated and asked, "Rumors from the outside world say ・・・・・・."

Zhao Ziliang didn't say what he said later, but Yang Yuhuan said with a miserable expression: "Is it rumored that the outside world has taken a fancy to his daughter-in-law, and then his son doesn't dare to offend the emperor and push his daughter-in-law to the emperor's side?" ”

This was said so directly, Zhao Ziliang was really embarrassed, but the matter was too complicated, he didn't know the inside story, and he didn't want to participate, so he could only be silent.

I saw Yang Yuhuan smile bitterly: "Li Mao doesn't believe me at all, thinking that I am interested in the emperor, then I am the father-in-law of the slave family, how is it possible?" Every time I came back from the palace, he would have a big fight with me."

Zhao Ziliang asked, "Aren't you going to go?" Why hasn't you started yet? ”

Yang Yuhuan shook his head and said: "I can't go, a few months ago, Li Mao noticed that the emperor seemed to be interested in me, so he was angry, and rushed into the palace to quarrel with His Majesty impulsively, and His Majesty announced in a fit of anger that Li Mao's fief was withdrawn, and he almost abolished the title of King Shou!" Now the slave family has been very disappointed in Li Mao, and will really become a Taoist priest in the near future."

Zhao Ziliang was quite surprised, "You don't have to do this, even so, you don't have to be a monk!" ”

Yang Yuhuan sighed: "If not, how can you avoid the emperor?" ”

"But even if you become a monk, the emperor really wants to find you, and he can still find it, can you still resist the decree?"

Yang Yuhuan obviously knew this, she just said: "Take one step at a time." (To be continued.) )