Zhao Pu is a person, in fact, he doesn't have any great skills, he doesn't read much, he was born as a small official, and his knowledge is much worse than that of ordinary civil servants. After he became prime minister, Song Taizu persuaded him to read some books. Every time Zhao Pu went home, he closed the door, took the book from the bookcase, and read it carefully. The next day, when he went to the court to deal with political affairs, he could often quote famous sentences from the Analects. Later, the family discovered that he only had a copy of the Analects hidden in his bookcase.

Later, once Song Taizong and Zhao Pu were chatting, Song Taizong casually asked: "Some people say that you only read one "Analects", is this true? Zhao Pu replied honestly: "What the minister knows is indeed no more than the book "Analects". In the past, the minister used half of the "Analects" to assist Taizu to pacify the world, and now the minister uses half of the "Analects" to assist His Majesty, and the world is peaceful. Later, Zhao Pu died of old age and decay, and his family opened his bookcase, and there was really only one "Analects" in it.

It was rumored that Zhao Pu "ruled the world in half of the treatise." As a result, later generations thought that he was a good bull, and after reading half of the Analects, he could handle the government well, so that his good name was spread in later generations.

In fact, this old brother is really only familiar with the Analects, if it weren't for the Chen Qiao Mutiny in history, he drunk Zhao Kuangyin, and then added himself to the apricot yellow dragon robe, so that Zhao Kuangyin became the emperor, he would never be a prime minister in his life.

Although Zhao Pushu reads less, his conduct is average, and he is a little greedy for money, but his ability to recognize people and make good use of them is really powerful, and he knows all the people he has seen in history, whether he can form a party, whether he can win over, and what his weaknesses are.

At this moment, on the vertical arch hall, he saw Yang Ye very thoroughly.

Although Zhao Guangyi is a complete straw bag militarily, he has done a good job in terms of employing people, otherwise the Great Song Dynasty would not have returned to normal under such great pressure from public opinion.

If Zhao Guangyi in history did not have such great ambition to launch the third war against Liao, avoid his weaknesses in military affairs, and only carry forward his strengths of knowing people and making good use of them, with so many capable ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, then he is likely to become the same emperor as Li Shimin.

But Zhao Guangyi is worse than Li Shimin in terms of self-knowledge, Zhao Guangyi thinks he understands military affairs very well, but in fact, like Ma Yan, he can only talk on paper.

Originally, the third expedition to Liao in history, Pan Mei's deployment was not bad, and even achieved a phased victory in the early stage, the Liao Dynasty's Dongyi Prefecture Assassin History and Zhuozhou Judge successively surrendered to the city, the Song army can be said to be bloodless, Qigou Pass and other military important places have fallen into the hand, but Zhao Guangyi's big head saw that the early stage was so smooth, and he did not care about the fatigue and hardship of the soldiers who had marched hundreds of miles in a row, and he didn't care about the hot weather, so he forcibly divided the troops and advanced.

The final result led to the defeat of the Song army, and tens of thousands of Song troops were killed, or fell into the river and drowned, or were captured, and the losses were huge. He was also hit by an arrow in his thigh, and fled back to Bianjing in a donkey cart.

Later, he died because of repeated arrow wounds, which can be said to be a model of a dead emperor.

And now, Jiang Yin is sitting on the beams and pillars of the vertical arch hall, and he really appreciates the scheming of these politicians.

"Your Majesty, what about this Yang Ye..."Zhao Pu asked tentatively.

"Don't use suspicious people, don't doubt people, I decided to appoint Yang Ye as the general of this crackdown on bandits." Zhao Guangyi nodded.

"Your Majesty." The prime ministers are also actively agreeing, this Yang Ye does have two brushes in the military, otherwise he would not have the title of "invincible" in the army of the Northern Han Dynasty, with such a strong general to send troops to fight, these prime ministers are also more relieved.

Next, the ministers began to recommend generals again, and Mi Xin, Zhao Yanpu, and Zhang Shao were all entrusted with important tasks one by one.

Zhao Guangyi discussed with these courtiers for a morning, and finally got a little tired, so after letting everyone retreat, he went to the apse to have a meal, and then rested for a while.

Jiang Yin didn't leave, because Zhao Guangyi had to summon the generals who were recommended in the morning in the afternoon.

Sure enough, as soon as noon passed, just before the time arrived, a eunuch came to report that the general was already waiting outside the palace.

Zhao Guangyi, who had just woken up, announced that they had entered the hall.

Jiang Yin didn't expect Zhao Guangyi to summon the many generals this time, he counted them, and there were nearly twenty people in total.

These thirty people, in fact, are also divided into three small groups, one is a general under Cao Bin, he is the first person in the Great Song Dynasty to have military power now, so his subordinates are mostly famous generals, such as Fu Qian, Li Yanbin, Ma Zheng, Lu Hanyun, Yang Chongjin, Fan Tingzhao, Xue Jizhao, Shi Qi, Liu Zhixin, Fu Yanshou, He Lingtu, etc.

The second group is Mi Xin's subordinates, including Cai Yu, Han Yanqing, Dou Hui, Cao Mei and others.

As for the third group, it is Yang Ye, who has just been captured, and there are not many generals in his hands, only Gao Qiong and Zhang Chengyan.

"Ministers, see Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live."

"Zhong Aiqing is exempt from courtesy." Zhao Guangyi sat on a chair in the main hall and said with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The generals stood up with their heads bowed.

"Do you know why I called you to the Vertical Arch Hall today?" Zhao Guangyi seemed to have a good attitude towards these generals.

"I don't know." Cao Bin, a veteran general, is clumsy.

"Is it the Cangzhou rebellion?" Yang Ye, the new general, did not mean to hide his clumsiness at all.

Zhao Guangyi glanced at Yang Ye, nodded and said: "I summoned you here today, it is to discuss the matter of Cangzhou to suppress bandits, half a year ago, my Great Song Dynasty took Pan Mei as the main commander, and led 80,000 elite soldiers to Cangzhou to suppress bandits, never thought that there would be a mutiny, the commander took the lead in surrendering the enemy, and now this Pan Mei lives in the new Cangzhou city where the bandit leader is located. ”

Cao Bin and the others were all silent, Pan Mei had also fought side by side with them, they couldn't understand why this old handsome, who had always been known for his calmness, would do such a thing as surrendering to the enemy, if he had voted for a military power like Liao, he could barely say it, but he surrendered to bandits who only had 20,000 soldiers and horses at that time, which made people puzzled.

"The ministers are willing to drive for Your Majesty, saddle up the front and back of the horse, exterminate the rebels, capture Pan Mei alive, and never give up." Cao Bin, an old fritter, made Zhao Guangyi very happy as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Guohua's words are very satisfying." Zhao Guangyi smiled and said, Guohua is Cao Bin's word, and Zhao Guangyi called his word, which shows the weight of Cao Bin in his eyes.

"In this crackdown on bandits, I plan to dispatch 200,000 troops, with Cao Bin as the commander, Mi Xin as the deputy commander, and Yang Ye as the general of the partial army....."

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