Zhang Xuan is the king of Qi and is sitting on behalf of the military, but he did not participate in last year's New Year's pre-meeting, but Fang Xuanling attended on behalf of the military. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Zhang Xuan smiled slightly: "Today is the first New Year's pre-meeting since the establishment of the Ziwei Pavilion, I have talked to several Xiangguo before, don't be bound by the word pre-conference, many major decisions do not have to be put forward in the pre-meeting."

For example, such a major decision as entering the Hetao was not put forward at last year's pre-meeting, but it still happened the same, and there are some things that may not be implemented although they have been pre-discussed, such as the establishment of Jiangnan Shangshu Xingtai and Lingnan Shangshu Xingtai have been passed, but they were eventually cancelled.

What I mean by this is that the pre-meeting is just a discussion of what might happen, but it is never a formal decision, and if you have any big ideas or decisions next year, you can bring them up even if you don't have a pre-meeting. ”

After speaking, Zhang Xuan glanced at everyone, and seeing that everyone had no opinion, Zhang Xuan said: "Regarding the military's plan for next year, I still propose that the head of the house should explain it." ”

Zhang Xuan raised his hand to Fang Xuanling, and Li Gang smiled: "Then please ask the head of the room to come forward and take a seat!" ”

The east and west sides each sat three Xiangguo, the south is the presiding seat, by today's presiding Xiangguo sitting, next to it is a temporary seat, to the head of the temple who came forward to speak, Fang Xuanling as the head of the Qi Palace, the official residence from the three products, the monk is at the same level, second only to the Ziwei Pavilion senior government of the three products.

Fang Xuanling sat down next to Li Gang and bowed to Zhang Xuan, and then said unhurriedly: "His Royal Highness the Regent, all the prime ministers, all the chief officials and colleagues, I have the honor to explain some major arrangements of the military next year on behalf of the military, and I also hope to get the full support of the imperial court, I will mainly talk about three points, the first is recruitment, at present, there are 470,000 regular troops in the Northern Sui, 50,000 local troops in each county, and 1.3 million militia regiments, and the military needs to expand to 600,000 next year, and the source of troops will come from the militia group, The specific recruitment plan was put out after consultation between the Qi Wangfu and the Ministry of War. ”

Since one of the main principles of the Northern Sui Dynasty was non-interference between the military and the government, some of the questions of the important officials of the imperial court could only be raised through Zhang Xuan, who was both the king of Qi and the regent.

Zhang Xuan smiled and asked, "Can you tell us more about the reason for the expansion?" ”

Fang Xuanling nodded and said: "The main reason for the expansion of the army is that we have obtained Dingxiang, Mayi, Yanmen and other three counties and three counties of Hetao, these are all counties in the front, and a large number of garrisons are needed, in addition, the connection between Guangzhou, Quanzhou and the interior of the Central Plains is mainly through shipping, and it is imminent to establish a third naval army outside the Yangtze River and the Yellow River on the coast, and then we have captured a large number of war horses in the war against the Turks, so that our cavalry has reached 100,000 people, and the number of infantry is insufficient. Therefore, the military's initial plan was to expand the naval army by 30,000 and the infantry cavalry by 100,000. ”

Everyone talked about it for a while, this problem is actually not big, everyone understands in their hearts that these years will be an important year of conquest, it is completely necessary to expand the army, and the imperial court can afford it, so everyone has no objections.

Li Gang said again: "Please talk about the second arrangement!" ”

"The second arrangement is about military households, in order to develop the Hetao and the future Hexi Corridor, Hehuang Valley and other places, the military hopes to rebuild the military household system, in the form of military households to expand the population to the above border areas, first, it is conducive to the soldiers to defend the border with peace of mind, and secondly, it is conducive to the control of the imperial court over the frontier, we initially consider setting up 50,000 military households in the Hetao, that is, to move 50,000 families to the Hetao, about 300,000 people, to attract people to voluntarily migrate with the preferential treatment of land, long-term low taxes and exemption from labor, because they are military households, In other words, these 50,000 households should be selected from the active soldiers and militia households, and the specific plan will also be negotiated by the Qi Wangfu and the Ministry of War. ”

After a pause, Fang Xuanling said again: "As for the third point I want to talk about today, that is, armor building, our opponents in the future will be stronger, which means that we need more powerful armor support, like honeycomb crossbows, turtle shields and other innovative armor we need a lot of ......."

At this time, Zhang Xuan raised his hand and said, "Let me interrupt first." ”

Fang Xuanling nodded, and did not continue, Zhang Xuan said: "Today's conversation involving a lot of military secrets, including the direction of our future military offensive, I hope that everyone here will strictly abide by the confidentiality, and do not leak today's speech of the head of the house, on this matter, please continue!" ”

Everyone nodded silently, and from Fang Xuanling's speech, it can be known that the direction of the Sui army's attack next year should be the Hexi Corridor and the Hehuang Valley.

At this time, Fang Xuanling had already finished speaking, so he got up and went back to his seat, Li Gang said with a smile: "The following is the pre-discussion of the ministry, please explain it to Wei Xiangguo!" ”

Wei Yunqi saluted Zhang Xuan, then cleared his throat, and said slowly: "The major arrangement of the Ministry of Officials next year is first of all the imperial examination, due to the war with the Turks this year, the imperial examination originally scheduled for May had to be suspended, and the Tang Dynasty also suspended this year's imperial examination, so next year's imperial examination will be a little nervous, in order to appease the scholars from all over the country, Ziwei Pavilion will have preliminary consultations, and it will be held in late March next year." ”

Zhang Xuan frowned, "It's not been three months, and the time is very tight!" ”

"It's more nervous, but the scope of the imperial examination is the same as last year, which means that scholars from all over the country have been preparing for more than a year, and the time to prepare for the examination is enough, mainly because it takes time on the road, and after the New Year, we will determine the time of the imperial examination and promulgate it to the counties.

Zhang Xuan thought for a moment and asked Su Weidao, "Is Ziwei Pavilion sure about this?" ”

Su Wei hurriedly said: "The imperial examination time has been roughly set for late March, but some details still need to be discussed. ”

"Then determine the specific time today, and start sending the 800-mile express to the counties tomorrow, so that the counties will immediately start arranging, and if there is a situation of procrastination and slackness, the responsibility of the Taishou will be directly investigated."

"Lao Chen understands, we will agree on it overnight tonight."

Zhang Xuan nodded, and then smiled at Wei Yun: "Wei Xiangguo, please continue!" ”

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The New Year's pre-meeting is in full swing in Ziwei Pavilion, but for ordinary middle and lower-level officials, there is still one day before the New Year, and the spring break will begin tomorrow afternoon, and everyone's mind is no longer on government affairs.

The Ministry of War is no exception, in the Ministry of War's staff department in the room, more than a dozen officials are sitting in their respective seats chatting, Liu Jin said to everyone with a smile: "The third day of the first lunar month is the first birthday of the dog, I set up ten tables of banquets in the East Lake Restaurant, everyone must appreciate the light, I will inform you here, I will not send invitations!" ”

An official was surprised: "Ling Lang is already one year old, time flies so fast, I feel as if Ling Lang was born a few days ago." ”

"Not strange!"

Another official laughed: "My son is fifteen years old, and in my memory he was a three-year-old naughty boy, and when he returned to his hometown last year, he brought a bunch of food with him, and it turned out that he was taller than me." ”

"Don't divert the topic, everyone make a statement, do you want to go to the third year of junior high school?" Liu Jin asked loudly.

"Lao Liu's son wants to arrest Zhou! How can you not give face, you must go! ”

"Of course!"

Everyone expressed their intention to go, and at this time, Liu Jin asked an official sitting in the corner, "Lao Hou, are you going?" ”

This official surnamed Hou is called Hou Chunsheng, in his twenties, from Xingyang County, an official outsider, he has always been silent in the official office, and he himself is very thin, everyone jokingly calls him a 'dumb monkey'.

Hou Chunsheng was silent for a long time before he said, "I may have something to do in the third year of junior high school?" ”

"What's the matter with you!"

Liu Jin was a little unhappy and said: "You don't go back to the old family sacrifice, and you don't have any entertainment, you will come for half an hour on the third day of junior high school, take a sip of wine and leave, you can always give me this face!" ”

Hou Chunsheng squeaked and whined, but never agreed, which really made the entire court room disappointed, at this time, the bell for the lunch break rang, and everyone got up and walked outside the palace.

Liu Jin stepped forward and patted Hou Chunsheng on the shoulder, "I see that you have been a little restless these days, what happened at home?" ”

"I'm fine!"

Liu Jin glanced at him suspiciously, and said with a smile: "Let's go have a drink together!" I'm in for a treat. ”

"No, I still have some business, so I'll go first."

Hou Chunsheng broke free of Liu Jin's hand and left the room quickly, Liu Jin looked at his distant back, and felt a little strange in his heart, Hou Chunsheng is a little abnormal these days, he is not the only one who can see it, many colleagues have found out, what happened to this guy?

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Officials in the Northern Sui can rest for an hour at noon, and those who live close to home can go home for dinner and take a nap, but most officials will take this opportunity to go out for a drink, including Xiang Guo.

In this way, a vibrant lunch break wine shop was born, and five wine shops have been opened in the area near Ziwei Palace, and the business is booming.

There is a small street called Cangjie about two miles away from Ziwei Palace, the small street is very long, there are large and small shops distributed in it, it seems a bit mixed, the expensive land price makes most of the small streets and alleys disappear, this is the only small street left in the capital.

There is a small liquor shop in the middle of Cangjie, the mottled plaque reads 'Sanjiang Liquor Shop' four vague words, the blue wine banner has been blown by the wind and rain, it has long turned gray-white, and the word 'wine' on it can still be vaguely recognized.

The shopkeeper of the wine shop has no heart to operate, the wine store also seems deserted, the business is not very good, a bartender is lazy to sit at the door to bask in the sun, and he is too lazy to greet customers.

At this time, Hou Chunsheng, who had changed into ordinary clothes, came in a hurry on a donkey, he tied the donkey to a stake, and hesitated when he walked to the wine shop, but still walked in.

"An old guest!" Behind him came the bartender's lazily shout.

Hou Chunsheng walked into the wine store, walked directly through the lobby and into the room, he opened the curtain and walked into a room.

In the room sat a man in his thirties, who was drinking in a hurry, and the table was full of wine and food.

When the man saw Hou Chunsheng walking in, he raised his eyebrows, "You're late!" ”

Hou Chunsheng sat down opposite him without saying a word.

"Where's the money?" Hou Chunsheng said coldly uncharacteristically. (To be continued.) )