The boiling disappearance of the woman in the outer city of Lin'an City was settled with the dust of all the falls of Fengyuan Buzhuang, and Gao Huaiyuan's life returned to peace again, although this matter was very troublesome, but it did not alarm Shi Miyuan's party, after all, they still have a lot of things to care about, and they have no time to pay attention to such small things.

Although Shi Miyuan recorded in the history books is a power traitor who has done countless bad things in his life, but a person like him has been able to dominate the government for so many years, and it is not necessarily true to say that he has done all the bad things, at least this person still has a set of means in employing people and winning people's hearts.

After Shi Miyuan and Empress Yang conspired to kill Han Yanxuan, they immediately rehabilitated the school of science that had been suppressed by Han Yanxuan, and used a large number of people from the school of science to eliminate pseudo-science, so he won the support of the school of science and the opposition, and for some capable but opposed others, he did not blindly suppress them because of his own selfishness, but would give them some official positions, so as to gain some good reputation, between winning over and suppressing, he achieved a good balance, especially for the appointment of local officials, he still has some vision, Although he is a thorough Lord-peace faction, at least Zhao Fangneng presided over the anti-Jin incident on Jingxi Road, and Shi Miyuan can be regarded as meritorious, which played a certain role in the partial security of the Southern Song Dynasty.

At the same time, he raised a group of lackeys who served him, attacked and rejected those who might be a threat to him in the court, and controlled the speech of the court, all the words that were unfavorable to him were difficult to reach the ears of the saints today, but those who did not listen to his orders, he would be attacked and impeached as an official, and he would be removed from the game. So Gao Huaiyuan was not in a hurry, but took advantage of this leisure time to start making friends in the city.

In the list of friends Gao Huaiyuan made, Gao Huaiyuan listened to Ji Xiancheng's advice, and did not deliberately welcome or make friends with some important ministers in the court, but focused on the general low-grade officials, the reason for doing this is because his status is not high at the moment, and it is obviously not enough to climb the big people, the light ones can't attract the attention of others, and the heavy ones are likely to cause Shi Miyuan's taboo, so it is more prudent to start from the bottom first.

And Gao Huaiyuan also thought that this was the best policy, so he listened to Ji Xiancheng's advice and paid great attention to his words and deeds, but there was one exception, that is, Fang Shuda, the commander of the Infantry Military Division of the guards in the outer city.

By looking for Liu'er, Gao Huaiyuan did what he liked, and gave a knife to Fang Shuda, which made Fang Shuda very happy, and Gao Huaiyuan gave Fang Shuda a generous gift afterwards to thank him, Fang Shuda had a very good impression of Gao Huaiyuan, and later learned that Gao Huaiyuan was also a master of making a knife, and he had repeatedly made meritorious contributions in front of the army and the Jin Army, so from time to time he would invite Gao Huaiyuan to his house, and the two of them would learn from the knife when they were fine.

And Gao Huaiyuan also did what he liked, and he would show his hand, for Fang Shuda, a martial artist, it was his spleen and stomach, and after coming and going, the two became irreversible friends.

Coincidentally, the Guards Infantry Division cleaned up a group of old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers in the army a year ago, and it was just necessary to recruit a group of additional soldiers after the year, and they were filled into the Guards Infantry Division for utility or soldiers.

At the same time, the palace front division in charge of the inner city also spread the news that he was going to replenish the troops, which could be said to be a rare opportunity for him, since he arrived in Lin'an City, he has been thinking about how to stuff some of his manpower into the army system of Lin'an City, but he didn't expect this opportunity to come so quickly.

So after Gao Huaiyuan and Ji Xiancheng, Jia Qi and others discussed secretly, he immediately ordered Jia Qi to find a way to place a group of about 100 elite teenagers in Crouching Tiger Village into the internal and external armies through various relationships, his requirements are not high, as long as he can insert these people into it and make a utility, he doesn't want them to be an official position first, as long as they can enter these two military systems, as for the promotion issue, it will be much easier to handle, like the current situation in the two armies, as long as they are willing to spend money, In less than a year, these people will be able to become officers, and Gao Huaiyuan is completely sure of this kind of expectation.

Therefore, after Gao Huaiyuan mobilized various secret forces in Beijing to operate this matter, these young people from Crouching Tiger Village selected by him in advance were selected into the front division of the palace and the guard pro-army infantry division very smoothly, and they were all effective.

The Song army has always had the bad habit of tattooing words on the face or hands of soldiers, the vast majority of soldiers will be recruited into the army, first tattoo words on the face or hands, in order to restrain the soldiers can not be deserters, this system originated in the late Tang Dynasty feudal town chaos stage, and was later inherited by the Song Dynasty, it is a very cruel system, and the Song Dynasty is a rare dynasty in Chinese history to implement the recruitment system, the army recruited a lot of soldiers, either homeless or hooligans, or some crimes are filled into the army criminals, This system seems to avoid deserters who are soldiers, but it makes the quality of soldiers uneven, and the army seriously lacks combat effectiveness. Moreover, the social status of the military has also become very low, or they will be called thieves and soldiers at every turn, which is actually a kind of contempt for the army by civilians.

Gao Huaiyuan refused to join the army as a soldier no matter what, a very important reason was that he was unwilling to tattoo words on his face or anywhere on his body, although he later ordered Huang Yan and others to join the army as generals, but at the beginning, Huang Yan and others originally enlisted in the army as a village warrior and served directly under Meng Heng, so they avoided the pain of tattooing.

The Southern Song Dynasty military system is different from the Northern Song Dynasty military system, and the recruitment system in some places has also been changed to garrison the army, and the army is more effective to use as a soldier, but the status is higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and there is no need to tattoo the obvious place on the body, so even if Gao Huaiyuan let his subordinates enter the army, he also requires that he cannot enter the army as an ordinary soldier, but must join the army as a utility or envoy, so as to avoid them from suffering from tattooing.

This matter went smoothly on the whole, and those who received money to join the army naturally would not accept money and do nothing, and the arrangements for these young people secretly planted by Gao Huaiyuan were quite good, and most of them were arranged to be envoys or utility in the defenders of the capital. (If you are interested, you can check the question about the military system of the Southern Song Dynasty!) There will be a more detailed introduction to the envoys and utility of the army and the soldiers, so I won't bother to talk here! ）

In this way, Gao Huaiyuan is actually equivalent to inserting one hundred and ten of his own eyeliner in the front division of the palace and the guard infantry division, and the intelligence of the army in Lin'an City is much more accurate and faster, and these people are ordered to obey the management of Jia Qi, and they are usually not allowed to have any contact with Gao Huaiyuan, even if they meet occasionally, they are only regarded as not knowing him.

These people are really easy to use, and rest assured, these orphans who were adopted by Gao Huaiyuan, after being taught by Zhou Hao, Zhou Jun and others, have been completely brainwashed, they don't know who the current emperor is, but they only know that they are loyal to Gao Huaiyuan, so they don't worry about what these people will betray him.

While doing these things, Gao Huaiyuan did not relax the arrangement and monitoring of other things, and through the intelligence network he had established, he could learn about the progress of various affairs under his influence every day.

For business things, he basically doesn't pay much attention to it, that kind of thing is operated by Huang Zhen, Zhou Yi and others, basically he doesn't have to worry about anything, and the business everywhere provides him with a steady stream of huge wealth support, so that he doesn't have to worry about spending money at all now.

So he can concentrate all his energy on the military strength he secretly reserves, and at the moment he is most concerned about the situation of Fu Daquan in Shandong, since he sent Fu Daquan to bring people into Shandong to do things, he has been paying attention to the development of Fu Daquan's side.

In the past few months from Yangzhou to Lin'an, Gao Huaiyuan has to ask about this matter almost every day, except for not paying attention to this matter for a few days when Liu'er had an accident.

After the New Year, Fu Daquan came back with the news, after Fu Daquan's vigorous development in Junan, now the number of soldiers and horses under his command has been as large as six or seven thousand, most of them are refugees recruited in Shandong, cut out those old, weak, sick and disabled, he divided the thousands of people under his command into two armies, one of which is a 2,000-person Flying Tiger Army was formed by him as an elite, all of them selected brave young men to join the army, and vigorously carried out training, and used all the training methods he had learned before for the training of this army. And with the crossbowmen as the backbone of this army, formed a brave army that can fight well, no one dared to meet it around Ju County, Jin sent troops to try to exterminate Fu Daquan many times, but they were defeated in the hands of his Flying Tiger Army.

The remaining relatively weak soldiers were turned into town defenders and generals by Fu Daquan, the town guards were mainly responsible for the garrison of the towns and villages within his jurisdiction, although the combat effectiveness was weaker than the Flying Tiger Army, but the garrison of the city was also useful, as for the general army was an auxiliary army composed of various craftsmen, roughly less than a thousand people, mainly responsible for repairing the walls of the towns and towns he occupied, and at the same time responsible for building the weapons needed for his army, For this reason, Zhang Tianjian simply sent Qin Hu, who was good at making bows, to Fu Daquan secretly, and asked him to act as the commander of Fu Daquan's army, and specially organized craftsmen to be responsible for the supervision of various weapons.