Can Li Qing explain a thing or two to me, what are the things painted on this hemp paper? ”

The Son of Heaven summoned the border ministers, did not ask the heart of the army, did not ask about the situation, as soon as he came up, he took out a piece of paper and pointed to the figure on it to ask, the Yellow Gate of the Inner Servant Province and the people of the Tongshi House have served the emperor for nearly two years, and they have never seen such a strange situation.

However, the person who was questioned and the person being asked this time were not ordinary people, one was the son of heaven, and the other was the general of the right guard of the Yanzhou Domain, who had risen like a comet in the northwest border in the past two years.

Li Wenge was speechless.

On the hemp paper that Guo Wei showed him, four types of patterns were drawn. Broadly speaking, these four types of patterns are circles, triangles, diamonds, and pentagons. Each type of pattern is subdivided, there are four kinds of circles, a single circle, two circles side by side, a group of concentric circles (that is, a large circle with a small circle), and two groups of concentric circles side by side. There are also four types of triangles, and the same grouping and arrangement rules, as are diamonds and pentagons. Without explanation, it is really difficult to understand the mystery from the graphics on paper.

Li Wenge smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, this is the armband pattern implemented by the minister in the Yanzhou Army, from top to bottom, corresponding to a total of four grades and sixteen military ranks from the deputy lieutenant to the captain of Zhaowu, of which the nine-grade official armband is embroidered round, the eight-grade official embroidered corner, the seven-grade official embroidered square, and the six-grade official armband embroidered on this is called a pentagon, each product is divided into two types, the traditional one is positive, and the simple one is from; Each of them corresponds to two orders, one is the lower and the other is the top. ”

Guo Wei listened while holding a pen to sketch on the paper, and only after a while did he raise his head and say, "What is the use of these graphics in the army?" Could it be that even a nine-rank military attache like Deputy Lieutenant Rong in the Yanzhou Army has a general flag? ”

Li Wenge shook his head: "Your Majesty, only the battalion and above have a banner. In the Eighth Route Army, only the ministers have a general flag, and the military attachés below the sixth rank naturally do not have a general flag, and these graphics are embroidered on the armbands worn by the officers on their upper arms and on the badges worn on their chests! ”

Guo Wei asked, "What are these graphics used for?" ”

Li Wenge arched his hand: "Your Majesty, the army is governed by the rule of law, and the upper and lower ranks are strict, and these graphics are to mark the status and authority of the officer." In the event that the organization is disrupted in wartime, military attachés at all levels will be able to gather their ranks and reorganize the organization in the shortest possible time. In the army of ministers. Junior officers must salute when they see their superiors, and in the event of chaos in wartime, junior officers must obey the commands and orders of their superiors. In the town of the Eighth Route Army in Yanzhou, the minister engraved an order on the wall - obeying orders is the duty of martial artists! ”

Guo Wei looked at him in a daze for a long time, slowly put down the pen in his hand, and asked, "It's easy to say, can you do it?" ”

Li Wenge smiled: "On the battlefield, the officers are the backbone of the soldiers, and the generals are the backbone of the officers, as long as there are officers in command." The soldiers would not panic too much, and as long as the soldiers felt that they had someone to rely on, the army would quickly restore order. ”

Guo Wei asked lightly: "I heard that the military law in the Yanzhou army is extremely lenient, and it is rare to even kill people on weekdays. Beheadings are rare. With such military discipline, how can we ensure that the soldiers can obey orders and not collapse when they arrive on the battlefield? ”

Li Wenge thought for a while and replied, "Your Majesty." It is not accurate to say that there are no beheadings among the generals, and the three beheading laws in wartime are three beheadings specially set for combat, but they are rarely used on weekdays. However, among the last generals. Confinement and corporal punishment with sticks are not uncommon, and there are almost no recruits who have not been subjected to corporal punishment with sticks in the first six months of the camp. The seventeen punishments and fifty-four beheadings in the ancient art of war. Although in terms of form, it is much stricter than the military law of the last general. In fact, it's just verbal cruelty! Your Majesty knows. There is no army that really rules the army with 54 beheadings today. If we really want to strictly enforce the law, I am afraid that the whole army will kill no more than a few people left. If you behead too much, it will create an opportunity for the generals to kill soldiers indiscriminately and report personal vendettas, and it will cause people in the army to panic and everyone is in danger. Everyone understands this truth, so the military punishment beheading actually exists in name only, and everyone doesn't need it, and these 54 beheadings can't even be done. Although the military law in the army is simple, it is implemented every day and every day, in contrast, I am afraid that the military law in the army is not only not lenient at all, but much stricter! ”

Guo Wei tapped his fingers on the table again and again, and said with a smile: "Since I was a big-headed soldier, I have known that these fifty-four beheadings are a joke. There is such a fool, I am afraid that it will not be long before his own head is cut off by the mutinous soldiers. Since I ascended the throne, I have been thinking every day about how to reorganize the forbidden army, how to strictly enforce military discipline and military law, and how to prevent the army from mutiny again......"

Li Wenge was silent, he knew that Guo Wei was telling the truth, this matter was related to how to completely end the five generations of troubled times, Guo Wei, Chai Rong and Zhao Kuangyin have been working unremittingly on this matter. On the one hand, they're trying to figure it out

On the other hand, they are also diligently studying, such as the team abiding by discipline, understanding the rules, and no longer mutiny and rebellion at every turn.

In particular, all this is done without affecting the combat effectiveness of the army.

Guo Wei pondered for a long time, and said with a smile: "Your two methods, I have been pondering and conjecturing since I heard General Zuo Wei talk about it, to tell the truth, I am also an insider who has been working in the military camp for many years, but I have never been able to figure out why these useless loose official titles must be embroidered on clothes, and I can't figure out why in the army, which almost does not kill many people, military discipline is as strict and solemn as iron." I've been wondering for half a year, just waiting for General Huairen to come and solve my confusion today! ”

After that, he sat up straight, and his face sank: "Li Qing, I have heard a lot of rumors these days, all about you. Some people say that you are the son of the former Tang Emperor Congrong, and some people say that you are the heir of Zhuangzong, yesterday there were several ministers who saw me, and said that you are a descendant of the early Tang Dynasty Prince Yin, and moved to Hebei to avoid the disaster of Xuanwumen, and said that you were once adopted by the king of Hejian in the group. I have already dizzy to hear the origin of many places, so I want to ask you in front of you today, what is your origin? Which of these statements is true? ”

Li Wenge stood up. He bowed to Guo Wei and said, "Your Majesty Mingjian, all of the above are words. ”

"Oh——?" Guo Wei frowned quietly, "Gossip??" However, if you don't have a prominent family background, if you didn't grow up in the army since childhood, where did this effort come from to train the whole army and face the enemy position? Did it come from the womb? ”

A wry smile appeared at the corner of Li Wenge's mouth, and he knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, the ancestor of the minister is indeed a member of the Tang Dynasty, and the minister has lived in Zhaozhou since he was a child, and he is indeed related to the King of Hejian. It's just that the minister is not the descendant of the king of Hejian, the ancestor of the minister is the fourteenth son of Emperor Gaozu, the upper and lower tracks, the knight is the king of Huo, the princess is the daughter of Wei Wenzhen, born in a famous family, the ancestor is the son of the king of Huo, and the heir is the king of Jiangdu County. After four years of hanging arches, the queen of heaven was imprisoned and killed the Li Tang clan. King Huo was imprisoned in a car and sent to the state to be managed, and the king of Jiangdu was beheaded in the east city of Shendu on the charge of rebellion, and all the sons of the king of Jiangdu were sentenced to infancy, and there was only one maid who had no name. Just gave birth to a baby boy for the king of Jiangdu, because the case of Yue Wangzhen caused a lot of panic, and the house was very chaotic, so neither soup cakes nor time to be included in the Zongzheng Temple clan register. and Princess Huo's brother Jin Ziguanglu and Doctor Shuyugong secretly rescued her, and this maid and this baby were able to escape the catastrophe of Shendu. At that time, the queen of heaven was suspicious and reused cool officials. The princes and ministers in Beijing are all in danger. Although the Wei family has moved away from the core of the court. But he was still trembling, worried about being targeted by Zhou Xinglai Junchen and others. Shu Yu Gong in view of the fact that there are many people in the house. After a long time, it is not conducive to secrecy, but it is easy to be audited by the cool officials, so they quietly sent the mother and son out of the Shendu and sent them to the Hejian Wangfu in Zhaozhou, Hebei, where they were raised by the eldest grandson Lugong of Hejian who inherited the duke of Huangtai County, and only said that it was a concubine room raised by Huangtai Gong outside, because there was no contact between the Hejian Wang line and the descendants of Gaozu Taizong, far away from the court and the place, and had always been low-key, so it never attracted the attention of the imperial court, which left a residual vein for the Huo Wang family......"

This story is simple, but Li Wenge has deliberated countless times in private, and the people involved are either the early Tang Dynasty clan or the family of heroes, compared with the previous rumor versions, this set of rhetoric is undoubtedly more thrilling, but only in this way can it suppress other rumors, and can also deceive a shrewd lord like Guo Wei Chai Rong.

After Guo Wei listened, he spoke for a while: "The baby who escaped the catastrophe is your ancestor?" ”

Li Wenge nodded and said: "Exactly, so every sacrifice in the courtiers, the king of Huo and the king of Hejian are sacrificed together, the king of Hejian has been a horse all his life, and many of the experiences of training and using soldiers are recorded in the book, and some are even obtained by mutual participation with the Duke of Wei, which is the secret of the minister's family, in order to avoid arousing the suspicion of outsiders in the court, it is never allowed to show people." ”

Guo Wei's face gradually revealed a hint of enlightenment: "Guan Long's noble relatives are military heirlooms, no wonder Huairen's training and use of troops complement each other......"

He suddenly remembered something: "It turns out that Huairen loves to eat jealous celery, but it is Wei Wenzhengong's bloodline that makes trouble......"

Li Wenge sneered: "King Huo is thrifty in keeping his family, this is the family style, when the ancestor was young, he belonged to the remote branch in the Hejian clan, and the family background was not very good, so he followed the habit of Princess Huo to use vinegar celery as a meal on weekdays, and later although the days gradually got better, the ancestor left a will, generations of descendants, and the usual meals are not allowed to exceed two dishes, among which there must be a vinegar celery. This custom has been passed down for hundreds of years, passed to the minister, because of the decline of the family, it is more to accompany the meal with vinegar celery on weekdays, before the minister is twenty-three years old, he eats this thing almost every day, until the family suffers a military accident and leaves Hebei, which has not been eaten again......"

Guo Wei nodded lightly: "After being loyal, the family style is simple and admirable......"

Li Wenge selected King Huo

As an ancestor, it was a deliberate decision. He himself understands that if he says that he is from a purely grassroots background, it will never make sense. You must make up a logical prominent origin for yourself in order to get through this hurdle, but this origin cannot be too sensitive, and it cannot make people associate their own family with the throne society, so the time set by this origin is as high as possible, the former Tang is better than the later Tang, the middle Tang is better than the late Tang Dynasty, and the early Tang is better than the middle Tang Dynasty.

Although Li Yuanliang is the son of Gaozu Li Yuan and the brother of Tang Taizong, he is not a very arrogant character among the kings of the early Tang Dynasty. Moreover, his family was almost slaughtered in the rebellion of Li Zhen, the king of Yue in the Wu Zetian era. And there is only one direct reason for this catastrophe - because Yuan Liang is the son of Li Yuan, the oldest and most respected person in the Tang Dynasty clan who was still alive at that time, and his experience was still sympathized with by many historians more than a thousand years later, and he always sighed for him.

So stick it on his body, it won't cause any trouble, this family is already dead, after Zhongliang, the descendants who inherited the bloodline of the royal family surnamed Li and a generation of famous ministers are left with only one seedling of Li Wenge, after Zhongliang, he has been incognito for hundreds of years. This is the easiest way to win Guo Wei's sympathy.

Who let this Great Zhou Tianzi just experience a painful experience of being wiped out?

Since it is rumored that he is a descendant of the royal family, instead of trying his best to explain in all directions, it is better to admit it generously, not only a descendant of the royal family, but also an ordinary descendant of the royal family, but a descendant of the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty. When Li Yuanliang was still alive, no one would associate such a royal family with the throne, and hundreds of years have passed, and now Li Yuanliang's descendants and the world society are forced to pull together, and they are planning to put such a loyal and virtuous queen to death. The secret in the heart of the person who plotted the rumors behind it can be seen.

"Li Qing, you are not cautious enough, and you have made enemies with others, do you know?"

Guo Wei asked quietly.

Li Wenge let out a sigh of air. He knew that he had passed the level of origin for the time being.

He replied: "Your Majesty's lesson is that the minister has indeed offended the prince and the prince!" ”

“…… Brother Xiufeng is a person who is not broad-minded. I still let him score three points on weekdays, why do you want to be unforgiving and confront him in the palace? You are still young, and you are already in the position of the feudal festival in your early thirties. It is not far from paying homage to the prime minister and becoming the king. Why bother with Brother Xiufeng, an old man who is almost sixty years old? Their own future. You have to care! ”

Li Wenge even claimed that it was, and waited for Guo Wei to finish speaking. Cai said: "Your Majesty, in fact, the reason why the minister offended the prince was not to be unforgiving. When the minister was in Yanzhou, he had never met Wang Xiangsu, and the minister had already regarded the minister as an enemy......"

"Oh——?" Guo Wei looked at him in a flash, but did not speak.

Li Wenge took out two letter bags from his sleeves and presented them to him: "Your Majesty, these are the two letters that the minister found in the study of the senior servant, please take a look at them." ”

Huang Men took the letter and held it to Guo Wei, the two letters were not long, and they had been read in a blink of an eye.

The date of the first letter was March last year, the handwriting was hard and vigorous, Guo Wei knew at a glance that it was written by his close comrades-in-arms, the letter meant that the imperial court already knew what happened in Yanzhou a few months ago, and the palace and the Chinese book would support the status of the father and son in Yanzhou, and the court would not forget the merits and hard work of the high servants, the stubborn man of Li, the gangster, the court would not support this kind of people, please rest assured, as long as the imperial court quelled the rebels of the Taining army, he would turn back to support the boy surnamed Li in the high servants. At the end of this letter, Wang Jun also said that the gift had been received, and the waiter was too polite, and so on.

The second letter was written by Gao Yunquan to Wang Jun, the time was in August last year, Gao Yunquan's words in the letter were extremely unkind, faintly questioning Wang Jun's unkeeping, he sneered in the letter, he exchanged a hundred cars of copper for a Yan'an County Duke, the boy surnamed Li Di was not only not questioned, but added an official to the knight more justifiably controlled the military and political power of Yanzhou, the Gao family father and son called the court to pay tribute to the court to guard the border, and in the end not only did not end up with any benefits, but ended up like this, It's chilling to think about.

Guo Wei looked at these two letters, frowned slightly, and already figured it out, this letter in March was a reply letter from Wang Jun after receiving Gao Yunquan's hundred cars of copper, but this letter in August was a letter from Gao Yunquan questioning Wang Jun after Li Wenge was appointed as the defense envoy of Yanzhou, a loyal general, but it was only obtained by Li Wenge before it could be sent out in the future.

A wry smile appeared on his lips: "General Huairen, do you know why I always let Brother Xiufeng?" ”

Li Wenge was silent, and Guo Wei said slowly: "In this world, I have no relatives anymore, and I don't want to leave me one by one......