Chapter 20 Leaving Beijing and Embarking on a Journey

This competition, which lasted for five days before it ended, was recognized by later experts who studied the history of the Song Dynasty that the rise of Zhao Xiaoxi, the martial emperor, in the Song Dynasty began on this day and officially laid the foundation for the hegemony of the later Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty, which originally emphasized literature over military force, began to have the germ of the idea of parallel civil and military at this moment.

But at this moment, it was just a few families rejoicing and a few feuds, and countless martial arts disciples who finally won the victory finally had the opportunity to revive the family's martial arts and expand the land for the monarch. But I didn't know that this was just the first step in the long march. The real tough test is still to come, and it is still unknown whether it will be able to persevere until the end.

However, for Zhao Xiaoxi, the most important thing in the selection of military attaches this time is not the 100 military attaches selected. His real intention was to let the princes and nobles and officials of this dynasty clearly know how lax their armaments were in what they had always considered powerful. In the future, relying on the descendants of these martial artists, can they resist the increasingly powerful foreign races.

Only by letting them understand the cruelty of the truth, these guys who care all day long will understand the consequences of suppressing the warriors too much, and it will be to the point where the army will be useless in the future.

At the same time, there is also an intention, which is to pass this assessment to show his strength and commanding ability. For the last Emperor Zhezong, Zhao Xu, he appointed him as the envoy of Chengdu Daojie, laying a foundation for his connections. Let them know that whether these descendants of the family can develop in the future and become another hope for the revitalization of the family depends on whether Zhao Xiaoxi, the commander of the new army, gives him a chance.

This plan of killing a few birds with one stone allowed Zhao Xu to enjoy the treatment and worship of the emperor in a real sense in front of the generals and hundreds of officials, and also made him see the hope of recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun in the future. As for Zhao Xiaoxi, he also gained a lot of benefits, and the biggest gain was undoubtedly the position of the military and political affairs of Chengdu Fulu.

Receiving an official title and official position means that Zhao Xiaoxi does not spend much time in the capital. In the end, Zhao Xiaoxi chose to leave for the eldest brother, who has been busy preparing for marriage recently, to complete this lifelong event.

may know that even if this county king leaves the capital, he will definitely have a place in the court of the future Song Dynasty. Many civil and military officials, princes and nobles, also know that in addition to the hundred military attaches personally appointed by the Holy Lord. After the competition, Zhao Xiaoxi gave a lot of five assessments, and the top 100 martial arts children who were finally defeated handed the military attache hat from the ninth grade.

Although many people are born with this hat and get a higher military rank than this, they are faced with the hope of having the opportunity to become a military general of the Song Dynasty in the future. None of the eliminated warriors refused this invitation. And the officials, who are really unwilling to lose this opportunity, naturally want to go through the back door and let Zhao Xiaoxi also give their family children a chance.

In the face of these ministers who all have different thoughts, but they all want their son Jackie Chan to come to the door, they don't want to leave a bad impression on these officials. He also said that it was not a problem to accept the children of their family into the new army. It's just that he doesn't need people who give up halfway, and he doesn't like the son-in-law who can't endure hardships and will make noise to go home in the future.

If you want to follow him to the Chengdu Mansion military camp, Zhao Xiaoxi can give their children and grandchildren a chance, but if they choose to join, they must not go back. In the future, their children and grandchildren, unless something major happens in the family, will all go home before they become an army. This also means that if they are sent to Zhao Xiaoxi, they will never return to the DPRK if they are not successful.

I heard that Zhao Xiaoxi made it clear that this new army is a vanguard army prepared for the recovery of the sixteen states of Yanyun in the future, and the training will be extremely difficult. If they were not prepared to endure hardships, he still suggested that these officials who came to the door should leave this opportunity to decide their future fate to their children and grandchildren to choose for themselves. Once you make a choice, there is no chance of regret.

In this regard, some people who are reluctant to send their children and grandchildren to this kind of army, and it is very likely that they will lose their lives and even a few Zhao Xiaoxi's new army that cannot be seen, so naturally there will be no second visit. And some officials who know that this is the hope of family revitalization are very happy. As long as Zhao Xiaoxi accepts their children and grandchildren into the new army, then their life and death are entrusted to Zhao Xiaoxi.

With these officials, in front of their children and grandchildren, they clearly told them that after entering the new army, they must obey the command of Cho Hyo-seok. If they can't get Zhao Xiaoxi's approval to let them go home, then they don't want to set foot in the house. This means that some lazy people have been completely swept out of the family.

If you don't make it, you won't return!

That's the promise Cho Hyo-seok made to these sane officials, and these officials are equally clear. If you don't be ruthless, these children and grandchildren who have been pampered since childhood will also become nonsense in the future. Even when they are no longer in power or in the world, these descendants who only know how to make fun will completely destroy the foundation created by their generation.

As long as the descendants of officials who can agree to Zhao Xiaoxi's conditions are at least 16 years old and not more than 30 years old, Zhao Xiaoxi will not refuse. Anyway, he has to recruit soldiers to form a new army, these young people from official families. Although many of them are not in the climate, in terms of literacy and hyphenation, they are at least much better than the soldiers in the ordinary army now.

As for many people, they can't lift their shoulders or pick them, and when they get to the barracks, they will understand that everything is trained by the devil. After a few years in the military camp, no matter how incompetent the children of the family are, they should be able to become a qualified soldier. What's more, when they realize that training is to save their lives on the battlefield in the future, they will better understand how important it is to them to be strong.

In the midst of this welcome and send-off, the followers of Cho Hyo-seok who left Beijing also accepted the scale of five hundred. These children of the eunuchs who are about to follow Zhao Xiaoxi and leave this lively and prosperous capital have also begun to make all preparations for parting.

When the prince of Xu Wangfu got married, he rode a tall horse and led the sedan chair man to the door of Liu's mansion. Liu Qi, the granddaughter of the Liu family who was also anxious and wanted to marry a wife, was picked up in a sedan chair, and this festive event that the people of the capital also talked about was officially staged.

On the day of the wedding, the empress dowager, who rarely leaves the palace, personally gave the princess a pair of bracelets as a grandmother. This kind of grace is for Zhao Hao, the king of Xu who is now smiling every day. He knew very well in his heart that both the mother and the nephew had graced him because of him, the second son who had become a child today.

Compared with the past when hundreds of officials in the capital taught future generations, Zhao Xiaoxi, the little prince who was rotten in the minds of hundreds of officials, was used as a teaching material. This time, the king and the general will become all the officials to teach their children and grandchildren, and they must learn from Zhao Xiaoxi. Especially those descendants who have caused headaches for hundreds of officials and princes and nobles, Zhao Xiaoxi is the representative of the prodigal son who does not change his money when he becomes the descendant of their lesson.

Don't you see, now many people on the streets of the Imperial City are preaching, 'give birth to a son should be like the king of the clouds' saying!

With the optimism of the hundred officials about the future of the second son, coupled with the grace of the two palaces, Xu Hao suddenly felt. It doesn't seem to be a bad thing to be an idle prince, as long as his children and grandchildren are angry, he, the prince, can also become a real person with tens of thousands of people. If you don't become an emperor, you really don't have much regret.

On the third day after the wedding, Zhao Hyo-seok was dressed in silver armor, sat on a white horse also in armor, and held a silver spear specially made by the emperor Zhao Xu. With a heroic appearance, he knelt down to the two palaces who saw him off and his parents. Leaving with him were nearly 500 officials and eunuchs who would go with him to Chengdu Fulu, dressed as officers and soldiers.

Because Zhao Xiaoxi has a request, it is a long way to Chengdu Mansion, and all those scattered things should not be brought. Each man was given a horse and some dry rations, and left with them skillfully armed with them. Of course, if they feel uneasy and leave with some money, Zhao Xiaoxi will not say anything.

However, in Zhao Xiaoxi's opinion, when they arrive at the new military camp in Chengdu Mansion, they should know. When the money gets there, I'm afraid it really doesn't make much difference. But he understands that his mother is worried, whether it is whether he has won this opportunity to follow, or the children of the official eunuchs who are forced to follow by their elders. It's always sad to leave!

When Zhao Xiaoxi was a little bold and asked the current saint to hug and leave, this person understood that this was the closest and most trusting action between brothers. Ignoring everyone's surprise, he hugged this cousin who had gradually begun to find the feeling of being an emperor after he came back.

After doing all this, Zhao Xiaoxi looked at his tearful mother and little sister, and explained to the eldest brother who had just been married. After honoring his parents well, Zhao Xiaoxi also looked a little sad, and ordered the warriors who followed him on this trip to get on the horse with the children of the eunuchs.

With the escorts of several soldiers brought out by Zhao Xiaoxi from the palace to open the way with the dragon flag and the county king's flag, the team also began to gradually leave this prosperous Bianliang City. The next time they return, it will be when they really go on a quest. It's just that when they come back and look at this imperial city, maybe it will be a different feeling.

Compared with Zhao Xiaoxi's previous life, it took about two hours to take a plane from Bianliang to Chengdu, and about a day to take a train. But in today's era, walking on a pair of legs alone is probably not possible in three or five months. Even if the group of them were riding horses, the distance they could travel every day was only about 100 miles.

This means that to reach Chengdu, which is thousands of miles away, it will take nearly a month to walk on the road alone. For this reason, it is clear that these followers will be the backbone of the new army in the future. When Zhao Xiaoxi marched and camped every day, he would give them some military marching education, so that they could adapt to the lifestyle of being a soldier as soon as possible.

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