After the experience of the Southern Expeditionary Army, these two young generals have made great progress, especially Guo Shukang, who was deceived by Yao Pingzhong's tricks, and his progress is particularly obvious.

In terms of military affairs, there is no need for Uncle Zhang to worry about the work of sorting out the armaments of several border states in an orderly manner, concealing defense facilities, repairing city defenses, and organizing and training militias.

Taking the opportunity of military training, Guo Shuyong ordered the border troops stationed to eliminate the bandits and bandits who had just been included in the supervision of the states, and in the process of using the troops, he trained many outstanding young generals. Based on this alone, he is much stronger than his brother Guo Shuyong.

Because, Guo Shu dared to deeply imprint in his mind the words that Cai Dao had told them. No matter how great a person's ability is, even if he can be as good as Zhuge Liang, it is not a failure in Qishan. Therefore, cultivating assistants and subordinates is a necessary trait for generals.

Xiang Yu bravely won the three armies, but he was still defeated in front of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, who had been defeated repeatedly in front of him. The fundamental reason is that Xiang Yu's personality is intolerant.

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Zhao Xu wanted to immediately send troops to recapture the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun from the already decaying Great Liao State.

It's just that Zhao Xu's method has been opposed by almost all ministers.

The reasons for these ministers are also very sufficient, and now in Bianliang City, most of the forbidden troops of the Great Song Dynasty are newly recruited young people, although all of them are young and strong young people, but eighty percent of them are new soldiers, and more than sixty percent of them have been trained for less than a year. Although, every year, many forbidden troops will be sent to the Song-Xia border to let them fight in turn.

However, most of the forbidden armies only participated in a few siege battles. Most of the main forces in the field were still the Western Army.

So, Zhao Xu had no choice but to secretly settle the impulse in his heart, and he could only continue the great cause of creating people in the harem in a depressed manner.

The results were still bleak.

I don't know if the emperors of the Zhao family have all encountered a curse.

All the Zhao family members who become emperors will all enter a strange circle of difficult heirs.

Song Zhenzong is like this, and Song Renzong is even more desperate.

Song Yingzong's father, Zhao Yunrang, the king of Pu, gave birth to twenty-two sons, but when it came to himself, he only gave birth to four sons, and one died young.

His son Song Shenzong was no better, he gave birth quite a lot, but he died even more.

There are six sons alive today. Empress Dowager Zhu and Concubine Lin Xian alone contributed four sons to him, and Zhao Mi was still blind.

In the third year, good news finally came from the palace, Liu Jieyu finally got her wish, her pregnancy was not publicized as before, after all, she had already given birth to two princesses, so she was really relieved to know that the child was born.

Because she was pregnant again, and because Zhao Xu wanted to please a good omen, after learning that Liu Jieyu was pregnant, Zhao Xu had changed her year name last year. Changed from Shao Sheng to Yuan Fu.

When the second son was born, Zhao Xu was naturally overjoyed, not only took out a lot of money from the inner treasury to reward hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops, but also set up a banquet in the palace and feasted the ministers.

At this time, Cai Dao was summoned to the palace by Empress Dowager Zhu.

"Dao'er, you said that the mourning family also took the little grandson into the mourning family's palace to raise, this matter is good!" As soon as Empress Dowager Zhu spoke, Cai Dao was taken aback.

This queen mother, who has never been in conflict with the world, why did she suddenly come up with such a bad idea, is there a traitor around her?

"Queen Mother, this matter must not be done!" After Cai Dao bowed and finished saluting, he hurriedly stepped forward and said bluntly.

"Why is that?" Empress Dowager Zhu asked puzzledly, although what she said just now, although it was a little tentative, it was also the truth in her heart. However, she didn't understand why Cai Dao's attitude was so resolute when Cai Dao refused this time?

"Queen Mother, you listen to the poor Tao and explain it to you." Cai Dao quickly came up with a reason to stop this in his mind.

First, since Liu Jieyu now has a prince left, Zhao Xu will definitely fulfill her original promise and let her officially become the queen of the harem.

Since the Liu family is about to become the queen, this newborn son should be raised by the queen, if the Empress Dowager Zhu, the mother, forcibly wants to do this, it will not only attract suspicion from the outside world, but also make her son embarrassed between the two.

Second, the king and the king do not see each other.

The two young princes, no matter which of them will inherit the throne in the future, but before that, they will definitely be canonized first.

They are all still young now, although Zhao has always been in good health. But for the sake of each other's safety, try not to let the underage prince see each other.

The second reason is the key to Cai Dao's real success in dissuading Empress Dowager Zhu from retracting this idea.

Sure enough, the next day, a decree came from the palace to crown Liu as the queen, and the new prince was named Zhao Mao.

When Empress Liu learned the news that Empress Dowager Zhu wanted to raise her son herself, she was really taken aback. However, when she heard that it was actually that Luo Guozi who took the initiative to persuade Empress Dowager Zhu to take back her life, she was even more surprised.

This Luo Guozi has never been at odds with himself, why did he suddenly change his mind this time? Could it be that he immediately changed his position because he became the master of the harem.

It seems that Luo Guozi is just a villain who tends to be inflammatory.

I don't know why, it's obviously a good thing, but because of a rumor, Cai Dao fell into a very passive sleep.

The rumor spread this time was exactly the sentence he had only said to Empress Dowager Zhu alone, 'The king and the king, don't see each other', and a few days later, it was spread out of the palace, and it was spread that the people in the entire Bianliang City knew these six words.

This made Empress Dowager Zhu furious, but she would not suspect that the news was spread by Cai Dao.

But someone has already decided that the person who leaked the forbidden words must be Cai Dao. Because, Cai Dao had a similar previous conviction before.

So, Zhao Xu, who was furious, recruited Cai Dao into the palace, and no one knew what they talked about between the two.

But the result, everyone knew that day.

Cai Dao, a world-famous fortune boy, was imprisoned in the Imperial City Division for the second time.

This time, because the matter was too big, even Empress Dowager Zhu was not able to intercede with Zhao Xu for him.

The tenth princess and King Jian had made trouble with the emperor, but the identities of the two of them as Zhao Xu's closest relatives were not easy to use this time. Both of them were grounded afterward.

However, for some reason, Zhao Xu has never made it clear how to deal with Cai Dao, just to put him in prison.

During this period, Zeng Zhao was the only one who advised Zhao Xu.