With the new officials sent from Xinnancheng one after another, they have been continuously supplemented to serve as chief officials or adjutants in various counties in Qiongzhou, coupled with Zhao Xiaoxi's investment in a large amount of material wealth, Qiongzhou has also slowly shown a new look of the island in the south of the Yangtze River.

It's just that for Cho Hyo-seok, his schedule is just as busy. After personally organizing the March assessment of the recruits, the 3,850 regular soldiers selected for the new army were officially organized into the Qiongzhou Army, under the command of Zhao Wu.

The rest of the officers and men who were eliminated thought in advance that they had lost the opportunity to join the army, and they were feeling a little disappointed. Zhao Xiaoxi said it at the right time, so that they had the opportunity to join the army again, but they were the city defense troops of each city.

However, Zhao Xiaoxi also said that the future city defense army of Qiongzhou will also be used as the main force of the reserve. The assessment is conducted once every six months, and those who are excellent in the assessment will enter the Qiongzhou army to serve. Those who fail to pass the assessment will be directly eliminated from the establishment of the city defense army.

Although the military salary of the city defense army is not as high as that of the Qiongzhou army, the military salary of three taels per month also makes these eliminated soldiers smile. With these more than 4,000 well-trained troops stationed in various cities, the situation in Qiongzhou was instantly calm.

Those bandits who refused to go down the mountain and surrender also became the target of the Qiongzhou army's actual combat. In the face of this kind of war, these selected soldiers also cherish this opportunity. After all, if you have military merits in wartime, you will be promoted, and your military salary will be doubled!

In Zhao Wu's words, the Qiongzhou army does not recognize relatives and relatives, but only recognizes war exploits. Whoever wants to become the captain and become the head of the capital, then show his real skills in the war and prove it to him. As long as merit is recognized, the post can be promoted, and the military salary can naturally be doubled.

In the face of such a well-trained and well-equipped army. These bandits who resisted to the end ended up in the end one by one. Although the Qiongzhou army also had some losses, there was nothing to regret compared to actual combat training.

After seeing the bloody Qiongzhou army, after clearing the unstable factors on Qiongzhou Island. Plunged into intense preparations again. In Zhao Wu's words, the eradication of bandits is just an appetizer, and the real feast is still to come.

And this time the battle of bandits in Qiongzhou also made the people of Qiongzhou and the government see a different new army. Although these troops are still wearing the military uniforms of the Great Song Dynasty. But the army looks disciplined, and at first glance, you know that it is an elite soldier.

Even if he took office in Danzhou, he had personally seen Su Shi of the Qiongzhou army suppressing bandits. From Zhao Wuzui, I learned that these elite infantrymen had only been trained for three months, and they had such results, and they were also shocked and didn't know what to say.

In the eyes of this Master Su, many times in the Great Song Dynasty, there is a lack of force. As a result, the situation in the northwest has always been unstable. But the Great Song Dynasty has been afraid of military generals seizing power since ancient times, and many times any civilian officials govern the army.

As a result, most of the troops that have been trained are just showmanships that are not useful. Once you encounter those tigers and wolves in the northwest, these fancy forbidden troops and box troops can only escape. But this Qiongzhou army is completely different!

Brave and resolute, but forbidden. When fighting, all kinds of troops cooperate tacitly, and there are almost no opportunities for the bandits to backhand. directly versus crushing the situation. Break through the bandit camp that the state government and army were powerless in the past.

Through this, Su Shi once again saw Zhao Xiaoxi's ability to train soldiers. Such a prince who is both civil and military. It's no wonder that the young son of heaven is quite jealous of him. But even so, isn't Zhao Xiaoxi also thriving in Qiongzhou?

Regarding the constant worries of this Master Su, Zhao Xiaoxi is no longer in the mood to pay attention. At this moment, he had already led the palace cavalry guards and quietly left Qiongzhou for inspection. The states of Quang Nam West Road, which are about to become the front line of the war.

As before, Zhao Xiaoxi just took dozens of palace guards and arrived in front of the Yamen of the Leizhou Prefect with light clothing. Looking at the famous thorn handed over by Zhao Da, the guards were also scared into a cold sweat.

Recently, they naturally felt the excitement of Qiongzhou. But they couldn't have imagined it. These knights on horses turned out to be the guards of the Qiongzhou Palace. Then the person who sat on the horse and did not get off the horse must be the king of Qiongzhou.

Some of them panicked and ran to the yamen in a panic. shouted directly: "My lord, my lord, something is wrong!" ”

Zhu Datong, the prefect who was resting in the palace, said with some frowns: "What kind of system is panicking?" What's going on, what's going on? Is it possible, someone dares to attack the government? ”

Faced with the prefect's displeasure, the yacha stammered: "My lord, there is a group of knights dressed as merchants outside the door. The previous person handed over a famous thorn and said that he wanted to visit the adult. But the little one opened the famous thorn and was frightened! ”

Regarding this nonsense, Zhu Datong was very displeased and said: "Who is the famous thorn that makes you so flustered!" ”

Only then did Yacha say: "King of Qiongzhou! Although the little one has never seen the king of Qiongzhou, among those people, there must be the king of Qiongzhou. It's just that they confessed and didn't let the little one make a noise, so the little one hurried in to inform the adult. ”

Looking at this prefect who was a little ignorant of the tea poured on his body. Yacha also smiled a little, not calm before. Isn't this also frightened when he hears the arrival of the prince?

Zhu Datong, who finally reacted, slapped him and scolded: "You are a killer, just say that the prince is there?" That's all this nonsense! What are you still doing in a daze, and you don't take the official to welcome the prince! ”

The yacha who was slapped in the face did not feel aggrieved. In his opinion, a slap in the face means that the previous sins are gone. This is the treatment of cronies, and other yacha don't have a chance to take this slap yet!

Accompanied by Zhu Datong, he came to the door of the prefect's office in a little panic. Looking at Cho Hyo-seok, who was sitting on a horse, he was about to see him. But I heard Zhao Xiaoxi turn over and dismount and say, "Lord Zhu, take the liberty of disturbing, my mother asked my little nephew to say hello to her!" ”

Looking at the hint in Zhao Xiaoxi's eyes, Zhu Datong was not stupid, and immediately smiled: "Oh, the virtuous nephew is here." Hurry up and sit in the palace! I said today, how can there be a magpie chirping in the branches, it turns out that the virtuous nephew is here! ”

Although I don't understand why Zhao Xiaoxi didn't reveal his identity, Zhu Datong still borrowed the slope to get off the donkey. pretended to be the prince's uncle and led him into the palace. After swaying away those yacha who served tea, he saluted Zhao Xiaoxi and confessed his guilt.

In the face of Zhu Datong's plea, Zhao Xiaoxi said very politely: "Lord Zhu, Xiao Wang has always planned to come to Leizhou to have a look. It's just that because I'm busy with official business, I really don't have the skills to do it, so I didn't bother until today.

Before coming to Leizhou, his father also asked Xiao Wang to take it for him, so that Master Zhu had time to go to Qiongzhou. And Xiao Wang's visit this time is a matter of confidentiality, and his whereabouts are inconvenient for outsiders to know for the time being, and I hope that Lord Zhu will tell his subordinates to keep a closer look. ”

Hearing that Zhao Xiaoxi played a deck of closeness cards first, and actually said that there was a confidential matter, Zhu Datong naturally said very sincerely: "The prince is serious, during this time, thanks to the prince's kindness, the lives of the people of Leizhou have improved a lot."

Originally, he should have gone to Qiongzhou to visit the old prince. It's just that the duty is renewed, and there are many people, so I am afraid of causing trouble for the prince. This is the fault of the lower officials, and I ask the prince to forgive me.

Please forgive the official for asking too much, I don't know what is the important matter of the prince coming to Leizhou this time? If the following officials can help, please ask the prince to give orders, and the lower officials will fully cooperate! ”

As a former protégé of Wang Anshi, Zhu Datong was sent to Leizhou as a prefect, and he was indeed implicated a lot. But he didn't do much in Leizhou, but he was finally conscientious and did some practical things to improve people's livelihood.

In fact, Zhao Xiaoxi also knows that the first headache for being an official in these state capitals on Guangnan West Road is the problem of governing taxes. Not to mention the rule, the population itself is not large, and the transportation is inconvenient, so this tax is often not collected.

Every year, relying on the money allocated by the imperial court, what extra money is there to improve the lives of the people under his rule? If you can't send out the money, even the officials of the prefect and the yamen will probably be wiped out.

understood that all this was because of money, and Zhao Xiaoxi didn't say much. At least from a few times, he gave free relief materials to Leizhou, but this Zhu Governor still did a relatively good job and did not deduct anything.

Being an official can be honest is already very good. What's more, this Zhu Datong himself belongs to the suppressed officials. It is really rare to be able to be calm and be a good prefect!

gestured to Zhao Da and saw the yellow scroll-like thing that Zhao Da pulled out of his sleeve. Zhu Datong immediately realized that this was a holy decree that had not been seen for a long time. Very direct, ready to kneel down to receive the order.

But at this time, Zhao Xiaoxi said: "Lord Zhu, just stand and receive the order!" ”

Zhu Datong was slightly stunned for this, but he still stood very honestly. After listening to Zhao Da read out, this secret decree sent by the imperial court to Zhao Xiaoxi. In the end, Zhao Da also handed the holy decree to Zhu Datong to glance at it to show the authenticity of the holy decree.

learned that this prince was appointed as the jiedu envoy of Guangnan West Road, and coordinated all important military and political affairs in the prefectures and counties of Guangnan West Road. In addition, he also has the right to cut the Qin Messenger first and then play, which made Zhu Datong also realize that this is a sign that a major event is about to be born.

Perhaps seeing the confusion in Zhu Datong's eyes, Zhao Xiaoxi did not hide it and said: "Lord Zhu, you are not an outsider, Xiao Wang can tell you the inner meaning of the matter, and I hope you will be mentally prepared."

Within this year, this king will make a crusade against Li Chaoxing's army. I believe that you don't need Xiao Wang to say anything, you should know that over the years, the Li Dynasty has created many killings on the land and sea borders of the two countries, and looted the property of the people of this dynasty.

Since this king is sitting in the southeast, and as the prince of Qiongzhou Mansion, he doesn't teach the Li Dynasty a lesson, and they really think that the Great Song Dynasty is weak and can be bullied. It's just in order not to startle the snake that this king adopts the practice of secretly announcing the holy decree, can Lord Zhu understand? ”

Xing troops to crusade against the Li Dynasty, Zhu Datong, who heard this, shouted directly and excitedly: "Okay! With the prince's action, these thieves will understand the truth that the Great Song Dynasty cannot be committed. ”

From his reaction, it is not difficult to see the attitude towards the Xingbing Li Dynasty. And in this case, Zhao Xiaoxi believes that as long as the officials of the Great Song Dynasty have their hearts in mind, they should support him to send troops this time! (To be continued......)