Li Zhi authorized Xu Qing not to go to the court, just take Princess Xuancheng and Princess Yiyang into the palace to visit him once a month, and by the way, report the work of the Right Armed Guard, and talk about military affairs, so as not to cause a dispute between Xu Qing and Wu Zetian, who listened to the government, in the court and made him embarrassed.

Xu Qingle is like this, he doesn't want to kneel down to Wu Zetian, the vicious woman who killed the mothers of Princess Xuancheng, Princess Yiyang, and Helan Minyue, three women who have an intimate relationship with him.

Xu Qing was too busy with work, and he only worked for one hour a day in the Right Armed Guard, and spent most of his time on the renovation and expansion of the Two Princesses' Mansions, recruiting troops and horses, and the business of dart bureaus, money houses, and shops. After the resignation of the five generals of the Right Guard, the newly appointed generals of the imperial court did not arrive because Li Zhi and Wu Zetian could not reach an agreement, Xu Qing arranged for his henchmen to temporarily take over the work of the original five generals, without the title of general, but to do the work of the general, the Right Guards were completely under Xu Qing's control, and there was nothing to worry about.

Xu Qing has many women and more subordinates, it is inevitable that some people are afraid of Wu Zetian and are full of worries about the future, in order to eliminate the worries of some of his women and some of his subordinates and boost morale, Xu Qing held a meeting on the night after Xue Jiao's fortune telling, Princess Xuancheng, Princess Yiyang, Yang Zhuangruo, Helan Minyue, Chu Zizi, Lin Fengying, Xiaomei, Qing'er, the ten palace maids who married him, Zhao Mengchen, Zhao Tuozhi, Nie Hu, Jia Quan, Wang Meihui, Liu Sisi and the new army platoon commander or above officers and senior managers of the dart bureau and Qianzhuang all attended, The meeting discussed the strategy of dealing with Wu Zetian: "do not provoke trouble, do not cause trouble, and are not afraid of things" and "actively defend".

Xu Qing referred to the defensive measures of "building high walls, accumulating grain, and digging deep trenches" in the art of war, and gave the following specific and feasible methods:

First, rapidly expand the armies of Princess Xuancheng Mansion and Princess Yiyang Mansion, reach the upper limit allowed by the emperor, 10,000 people per mansion, and recruit talented people as guests, giving priority to loyal ministers and good generals who are loyal to the emperor, squeezed out by Wu Zetian, and idle at home;

secondly, to find the best quality weapons suppliers from all over the country, to store weapons in large quantities, especially bows and arrows, with the intention of purchasing weapons from Mingjian Villa;

third, to store half a year's worth of grain, buy two thousand war horses and two months' war horse fodder, and form a cavalry unit;

Fourth, strengthen the vigilance of the Princess's Mansion, the Longmen Dart Bureau and the Xianghe Qianzhuang, rebuild the wall, widen and heighten, increase the number of towers, add the wall for the new army to shoot and the archers to shoot arrows, build a moat outside the wall, and build fortifications;

Fifth, expand the princess's mansion, purchase more than 20,000 acres of land around the princess's mansion on a large scale, expand the area of the Xuancheng princess's mansion and the Yiyang princess's mansion by more than 500 times, and dig a tunnel to the outside of the city, and the width of the tunnel should accommodate four horses running side by side, so as to quickly escape at a critical moment;

Sixth, internal training and promotion of outstanding generals, external recruitment and co-optation of outstanding generals, two-pronged;

Seventh, improve the treatment of officers and soldiers, in addition to the military salaries allocated by the imperial court, give officers and soldiers an extra 10 percent of the military salaries every month, and at the end of the year, depending on the performance of the officers and soldiers, 10 to 30 percent of the annual military salaries will be paid as a year-end bonus, and this benefit will be applied to the government soldiers and the right military guards of the two princesses' mansions, so as to increase the loyalty of the army, and it may be necessary to promote the bonus and evaluation system among all Xu Qing's employees in the future;

Eighth, strengthen military discipline and establish a gendarmerie and a wartime supervision team to enforce military discipline;

Ninth, strengthen military training and exercises;

Tenth, establish fair and effective procedures for the evaluation and promotion of soldiers and officers;

Eleventh, establish a system of rewards and punishments, so that military discipline is strict and rewards and punishments are clear;

Twelfth, when the time is ripe, a special force will be set up to bring together a group of people with the strongest individual combat ability and train them differently from ordinary soldiers;

Thirteenth, strengthen the alliance with the princess of Chengnan and find new allies, such as the famous general Xue Rengui;

These thirteen articles into many of the advanced military ideas of the future world, for the ancients can be described as a pearl of words, very instructive, no less than the military saint Sun Wu's art of war masterpiece "Sun Tzu's Art of War", all the people who participated in the meeting were surprised and admired Xu Qing, some of them were originally confronted with Wu Zetian, felt very confused and frightened, like a small wooden boat lost its way in the rough sea, Xu Qing was like a lighthouse, pointing out the direction to them, but also let them settle down.

Xuancheng praised: "Donkey, you are too powerful!" Whether you are a human or a god, you know everything! There is no one in the world who is difficult to fall for you! ”

Xu Qing was secretly happy in his heart, and said quietly on the surface: "I am the same as you, I am a human being, not a god, but I have read a lot of books and know a lot." ”

Xuancheng Qi said: "What book?" Can you show me? ”

Xu Qing screamed in his heart, and got carried away and said the wrong thing, most of the art of war he saw was the military theory of the future world, the ancient art of war was just a "Sun Tzu's Art of War", the future art of war could not teach Xuancheng, he was a future person more than a thousand years later who traveled to ancient times, it was too shocking things, and now was not the time to tell her, for fear that she would discover the secret of her future people and scare her.

Xuancheng joked: "So stingy, I'm afraid I'll learn your skills?" ”

Xu Qing remembered that the male protagonist in the martial arts drama of the future world fell off the cliff and learned peerless magic skills on the stone wall inscription, and lied: "My art of war was learned in a valley, with books carved on a few stones, and I destroyed those books after I finished learning, and there is no book title at all, and there is no book, so I can't introduce it to you." ”

Xuancheng said coquettishly: "Then you can tell me about it." ”

Xu Qing said: "I'll teach you when I'm not busy, I don't have time to teach you now." ”

Xuancheng said with satisfaction: "Okay." ”

If Yang Zhuang is the daughter of the general, Zhao Mengchen is a famous general of the Three Kingdoms After Zhao Yun, the family has a tradition of learning the art of war and martial arts, and they all ask to learn the art of war from Xu Qing. Xu Qing agreed, and smiled bitterly in his heart, he couldn't teach them a lot of future military knowledge, and he didn't know much about ancient military knowledge, how to teach them, don't make jokes when the time comes. Although they are their own women and will not laugh at themselves, Xu Qing is a strong man and likes to see his women show adoring eyes to him.

After talking about the strategy and specific methods for dealing with Wu Zetian, Xu Qing made arrangements for the duties and sub-work of the personnel:

Zhao Tuozhi is in charge of the dart bureau and the store business, no longer serving as Xu Qing's bodyguard, Wang Meihui is in charge of the money business, Liu Sisi, Xiaomei and Qing'er are still pretending to be Wang Meihui's personal maids to protect Wang Meihui, and the rest of Wang Meihui's bodyguard strength remains unchanged;

Princess Xuancheng is actually responsible for the management of Princess Xuancheng's mansion, nominally commanding the soldiers of Princess Xuancheng's mansion, Princess Yiyang is actually responsible for the management of Princess Yiyang's mansion, nominally commanding the soldiers of Princess Yiyang's mansion, in fact, the two princesses entrusted the management of the palace soldiers to their concubine Xu Qing;

Helan Minyue and Lin Fengying assisted Princess Xuancheng in her work, and Yang Zhuangruo and Chu Zizi assisted Princess Yiyang in her work. Ten dowry ladies assisted the two princesses in specific management work, such as food procurement, canteen, clothing, daily necessities, and weapons procurement;

Zhao Mengchen, Nie Hu, and Jia Quan served as Xu Qing's personal bodyguards, and Yang Zhuangruo, the daughter of the general, and Lin Fengying, who was born as a spy in the imperial court, were responsible for the security of the two princesses' mansions, and led the new army and dart division forces left behind in the princesses' mansions.

The separation wall between the two princesses' mansions was demolished, and the two princesses' mansions were merged into one, and the troops were combined into one, and the management was managed separately.