Chapter 125: Military Parade (2)
Xu Chen took the order of the Ministry of War, and went to the same mountain with Guo Xi, the director of the Ministry of War, and Wang Tangzheng, the director of the Ministry of War.
Tongshan is not far from the capital, a few people rode horses, if it weren't for Xu Chen's bad riding, it is estimated that it would not take long to arrive, but Xu Chen's riding skills are really miserable, Guo Xi is Guo Ziyi's son, and he has fought, so he is naturally skilled in riding and shooting, and when he saw Xu Shilang's riding skills, they all shook their heads and sighed......
How did this person deserve to be a martial champion? There must be a lesson in riding and archery in the martial arts exam, Xu Shilang's riding skills Guo Xi really didn't dare to compliment, so he became suspicious, turned his head and glanced at Wang Tangzheng who was following behind, made a look, and expressed his curiosity, but Wang Tangzheng only cared about riding a horse and ignored Guo Xi at all.
After a month and a half of getting along, the three of them are naturally familiar with each other, and their personalities are roughly the same, but this Wang Tangzheng basically does not smile on weekdays, and often puts on a dead face, as if his face is paralyzed, and the three of them are not much different in age.
Wang Tangzheng has long had no illusions about the official career, but now there is a colt appearing, and he is even more blue-eyed to himself, at first he didn't think much, but after these days of getting along, he found that this colt has a lot of a little, treats people kindly, does not put on a show, is jealous and hateful, and rectifies in the military department, sympathizes with the corporal, discerns people, and so on......
How did he know that Xu Chen's reorganization of the military department was for autocracy, and the sympathy for the corporal was to install henchmen, he was only a young gentleman and a servant, but he was also grateful, and the concubine often invited him to drink with Guo Xi on weekdays, Wang Tangzheng was even more deeply impressed, an official like a servant would not have any special purpose when he was close to him, after all, the palm was too small. I am grateful to Xu Chen for his promotion, and it is even more of a desperate job.
The current Ministry of War, that Liu Shilang often asks for leave, Tian Shangshu is a big old man who doesn't like to take care of things, Xu Chen has become the leader of the Ministry of War through a series of measures, and he naturally has a lot of henchmen, Guo Xi as the head of the Ministry of War is naturally more powerful than other departments, and everything has to be reported to Xu Chen, unconsciously. The affairs of the military department are all controlled by Xu Chennian alone.
This is not something to show off, after the rise of the Jiedu envoys, the rights of the military department have been directly hit hard, such as the promotion and dispatch of general generals in border towns, often without the support of the Jiedu envoys, even if the transfer order is issued, if those generals are not in harmony with the will of the Jiedu envoys, most of them are excluded, and it is difficult to mix, and all the officials who apply for additional official rewards are made by the Jiedu envoys. The confused old emperor often approves, which makes the military department very embarrassed, and at this time, the Jiedu envoy is not only looking at the military and political finances. Even the appointment and dismissal of military generals have great rights, as if they have become a prince.
Take An Lushan's fat man as an example, Xu Chen recently saw some documents signed by Tian Cheng, and several of them were An Lushan who replaced several of his generals with his cronies. Needless to say, it must be Li San's approval, now at this time. It's not just that the government is corrupt, it's as simple as the border towns are too powerful.
And the spearhead of everything is naturally the mediocre old emperor Li Longji, the old emperor still likes to work on the side in this state, and still favors the overly powerful jiedu envoys, no matter what An Lushan asks, he will basically agree.
Old fool, old haha.
And Prime Minister Yang must also have a great responsibility, this person is simply incomparable with Li Linfu, Li Linfu is a "honey belly sword" on the mouth and a set on the back, like An Lushan can be scared to pee when he sees Li Lao, perhaps it is because Li Linfu is powerful and ruthless and moody, giving An Lushan too much pressure, as soon as Li Linfu died, An Lushan directly sang and danced, and said in his heart: Brother, you are finally fucking dead, Lao Tzu has finally come out!
Coupled with Yang Guozhong's clown behavior of jumping off the beam, An Lushan is becoming more and more rampant, and the three towns have 18 or 60,000 troops, which is difficult to think of......
At this time, the three of them rushed to the same mountain, but Xu Chen was slow and leisurely, the military parade was indeed too hasty, this has not been a military parade for decades, and the old emperor didn't know which one he was crazy about, so he wanted to let himself check what military appearance, this is not like the style of the old emperor.
Although the old boy has great expectations for Xu Chen, and has the intention to cultivate the power of balancing the East Palace and Yang Guozhong, and the reasons have been explained before, but after all, this old man goes to the pear orchard to watch a play all day long, that is, he sleeps a lot, and now he is preparing to go to Lishan for the winter, almost ignoring the things outside the window, he just wants to have fun, and he has had enough fun before he dies.
As far as he wants to use Xu Chen to balance the power of the East Palace and Yang Guozhong, the old emperor is not confused, but he is lazy now, and that kind of person is extremely tired when he gets old. ”
Even though Gao Lishi is an old slippery head, when he heard the third brother say this, he was startled, and he was busy blocking it, and the third brother immediately got angry, threw his sleeves and left.
Therefore, Li Longji can only be described as a stupid person now, if Li Linfu's dictatorship is engaged in some kind of obstruction of speech, more directly it is that there is no need to be closed at all, and the old emperor has only cared about pleasure since then.
What's even more ridiculous is that Xu Chen had dinner in the palace a few days ago, but the old emperor asked with a smile: "I heard that the virtuous son-in-law is a good hand at doing business......
Xu Chen was startled when he heard this, and thought that the old emperor was going to borrow money from the bank, Xu Chen heard that the palace was being built on the side of Lishan again, and the finances must be tight again, but Emperor Li San took a risk: "I want to find a Du Zhilang for you, help me manage the world's taxes, you see you put the Shuang'er Mansion to buy the daily income, I have the world's taxes, you can also ......"
To tell the truth, when Xu Chen heard this, he directly lost to the third brother, feeling that you old man is crazy about money!
However, these things have to be decided after returning from the expedition, and it is not easy for Xu Chen and Guo Xi Wangtang to arrive at the same mountain at this time.
Tongshan is a military base near Chang'an, the mountain is not high, but the slope is very large, and the three of them stopped at the pass. A few scattered soldiers on the tube card slept with spears in their arms, the sun was just right at this time, there was no wind yet, and it was definitely refreshing to sleep.
Xu Chen and Guo Xi couldn't help but be surprised, this Nima could faintly feel that this Tongshan was far from having the demeanor of the Central Forbidden Army from these lifeless guards, Xu Chen also specially checked the information of the staff division before coming, and had not seen any garrisons in Tongshan in the past few years, and originally thought that this parade would be the dispatch of the Longwu Army and the Yulin Army, but it looked like these guards were getting the flu. How can there be the majesty of the forbidden army.
The three of them were all wearing official uniforms, and a few of the soldiers who were sleeping in the checkpoint at the foot of the same mountain woke up, but they looked at the three of them with a look of surprise, and rubbed their eyes, yes, yes, they were not mistaken, but they were officials in the court, and there was also a big official, but why was this person so young in a four-grade official uniform!
"Who's coming? Is there an appointment? "Strange is strange, this ruffian soldier yawned and said slowly.
"The military department was ordered to come to military training and give a lecture on martial arts, and quickly called out the generals in charge." Wang Tangzheng is not so strange. That's when he stepped forward and said.
"Military training and martial arts?" The soldier was obviously a little stunned, and his mouth was chattering, "Made, who the hell came to such a place where birds don't shit to talk about martial arts, didn't these three officials go to the wrong place?" ”
I chattered for a while. But he didn't dare to slack off, and kicked the snoring soldier and asked him to call the commander.
"Ladies and gentlemen, wait a moment!" The ruffians clasped their fists and saluted. But the sun basked against the slope again.
Guo Xi was even more confused, why was he so casual in being a soldier, he said that he wanted military training and martial arts, what kind of system was this lazy and lazy, when he was so lazy and lazy, Xu Chen hurriedly grabbed him, turned his head and said to Wang Tang: "You kid must know, tell me what kind of army is stationed in this same mountain!" ”
"Riding a horse." Wang Tang is right.
Xu Chen didn't hear much at first glance, but then the egg was shattered, this fucking was actually a horseman!
"Why didn't you tell me beforehand!" Xu Chen originally thought of the Central Forbidden Army, but he didn't expect that he would come to read such a soldier, if it was the old emperor's will, wouldn't he be embarrassed by me!
The magistrate couldn't help but ask, what kind of army is this cavalry, which surprised Xu Da Ma, the squire of the military department, and listened to me slowly.
(The following is suspected of making up the number of words, but I have to explain it.) )
As mentioned 10,000 times earlier, the Tang Dynasty due to the destruction of the government military system, the guards (government soldiers) on the government of the army are often insufficient, and when the third brother just ascended the throne, the twelve guards of the Southern Ya have been paralyzed, because they can't recruit soldiers, so the third brother Li adopted the opinion of Prime Minister Zhang Shuo in the eleventh year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty and began to recruit strong people in the government soldiers and Bai Ding in the two capitals and their surrounding areas, exempting them from the town service, as the Nanya forbidden army, called the Changcong Su Guard.
In the thirteenth year of Kaiyuan, it was renamed the Wei Cavalry, but at that time the Wei Cavalry had a total of 120,000 people, divided into 12 guards, used to replace the Fanshang Fu soldiers, and served as the Beijing Division Garrison Task, occasionally used to go out on the expedition, to the 16th year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, a part of the cavalry was incorporated into the left and right Yulin Army, and became a part of the Beiya Forbidden Army.
At the end of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, Tubo entered the south of Jiannan, and the third brother once sent Guanzhong to ride an expedition. In the Tianbao room, due to the expansion of the Beiya Forbidden Army, the Bi Cavalry was no longer taken seriously. At this time, the forbidden army became more and more corrupt, and the cavalry was even more unbearable to fight.
After the Anshi Rebellion, the Weicai continued to exist until the end of the Tang Dynasty, but the number was very small, and it was only used for the emperor's honor guard and the security of some of the government offices of the Beijing Division.
Therefore, this cavalry is just a transitional form of the Central Forbidden Army, and by this time it has long been useless, and few people even know about its existence, and the sergeants of our Xu Da Horse to parade are these soldiers who are ready to retire.
The show is about to begin...... (To be continued......)