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Gao Huaiyuan's wedding shook the DPRK quite a lot, the most critical reason is that he and Wei Liaoweng, who has always enjoyed a reputation in the court and the opposition, climbed into the in-laws, this matter is really incredible, almost everyone does not know the origin of Wei Liaoweng's righteous daughter, but Wei Liaoweng and Gao Huaiyuan do not make any explanation for this matter, and they have no way to inquire, so they can only make some guesses in private out of thin air.

But no matter how they guessed, they also saw a very important sign, that is, Gao Huaiyuan has now become the most powerful person in the court, and the courtiers who have been in Lin'an for a while can calculate Gao Huaiyuan's current strength, he is currently the Privy Council, and the governor of the council, and also the commander of the front division of the palace, nominally Lin'an City and Fang Shuda control the soldiers and horses of the infantry division, but in essence, Shuda is now a die-hard supporter of Gao Huaiyuan, and all the military power in the land of Gyeonggi falls into the hands of Gao Huaiyuan, Moreover, the vast majority of the generals in the army are young Zhuang factions who have gradually risen up with him, and they are even more obedient to him.

In addition to military power, Ji Xiancheng is also a staunch supporter of Gao Huaiyuan, Ji Xiancheng controls the Imperial Court, it can be said that he has controlled the way of speech, Zheng Qingzhi attacked Gao Huaiyuan this time, and he was defeated by the officials controlled by Zheng Qingzhi, and several ministers were thrown off the horse repeatedly, which made Zheng Qingzhi's family panic and did not dare to continue to expand the situation.

Although Zhen Dexiu did not support Gao Huaiyuan, he also did not participate in this dispute, but watched from the sidelines, watching the people of Zheng Qing's family fall and be expelled from the Beijing Division, it can be said that he is a neutral person.

Now Gao Huaiyuan and Wei Liaoweng have climbed into relatives, Wei Liaoweng enjoys a good reputation among the literati of the government and the opposition, and also controls the Ministry of Rites, and it is good to say that the Ministry of Rites holds the power of the imperial examination, and all the scholars in the world must pass them to enter the official, and their influence on the government should not be underestimated.

In this way, Gao Huaiyuan can now be said to be as powerful as the sky, and no one can really stop him if he wants to do anything, and the people of Zheng Qing's family have also made their attitudes clear, and they have already died down, and there will be no more trouble, which is equivalent to completely bowing their heads and giving in, so that after Gao Huaiyuan got married, the situation in the DPRK and China also stabilized.

Gao Huaiyuan only rested for a while after marriage, and then began to get busy again.

First of all, he started with the army in the Gyeonggi area, vigorously rectified military discipline, and successively issued military orders to rectify military discipline, especially to deal with the matter of empty salaries in the army, and carried out a very severe crackdown on the matter of empty salaries in the army, dismissed a large number of incompetent generals, and promoted and appointed a number of young and promising officers, so that the military discipline around Gyeonggi was quickly improved, and the training of the army was also unprecedentedly strengthened. Its combat effectiveness has been greatly improved.

Everyone saw that the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and horses cultivated by Gao Huaiyuan was much stronger than before, otherwise the Northern Expedition would not have been able to wipe out Li Quan's army so smoothly, so no one in the DPRK objected to Gao Huaiyuan's proposal to rectify military discipline, so he was able to implement it smoothly.

It's just that this rectification of military discipline has affected many generals in the army, most of these people have climbed up by relationships, and they don't have much ability, but there are some in the background, if it is replaced by someone else to rectify, this time I am afraid that it may really be disgraced by these mediocre talents, but unfortunately this time it is Gao Huaiyuan who personally grasps this matter, no matter how hard they are in the background, who can suppress Gao Huaiyuan!

For this reason, Gao Huaiyuan introduced a major move, he wrote a note soon after marriage, this note Gao Huaiyuan did not publicly present to Zhao Yun in the court, but entered the palace privately, and after meeting the saint alone, he directly told Zhao Yun whether he could do it, and for this matter, Zhao Yun once again showed his trust in Gao Huaiyuan, and allowed Gao Huaiyuan to let go of this matter in the form of a secret decree.

Gao Huaiyuan asked Zhao Yun to set up a brand-new department in the Privy Council, named the Military Command Department, which is dedicated to secretly supervising the behavior and work style of officers in the army, and its personnel were also secretly recruited by the Privy Council, and some young officers with upright personalities and daring to do things were transferred to the Military Command Department to supervise the work style of the generals and officers in the army.

So the first military spy organization in the Song Dynasty was secretly established, and it was prepared and established at a very fast speed, and the foundation of the Military Command Department came from Gao Huaiyuan's previous private intelligence system, that is, the secret power controlled by Jia Qi, with this foundation, things seemed to be going very smoothly, not to mention that after many years of operation, most of the orphans under Gao Huaiyuan's door have entered the armies around the country, and they have become the most basic personnel of the Military Command Division, which can be said to be a matter of course. It doesn't take much effort at all.

And the reason why Zhao Yun listened to Gao Huaiyuan's advice so generously in this matter is not without a reason, although because Gao Huaiyuan counterattacked Zheng Qing's family this time, Zhao Yun was a little disliked, but Zhao Yun still trusted Gao Huaiyuan fundamentally, and at this time, no matter how Xie Mulin and Zheng Qingzhi attacked Gao Huaiyuan, Zhao Yun still didn't believe that Gao Huaiyuan would be unfavorable to him, not to mention that he was also worried that someone in the army would plot against him, so as not to happen again similar to the rebellion of some troops during the Xiachuan Change, besides, the Military Command Department does not do local government affairs, only supervises military generals, and will not affect civil affairs, so after Zhao Yun considered it, he generously let Gao Huaiyuan form this organization.

As soon as the Military Command Department was established, it immediately found out many corrupt and incompetent generals in the army, although these people have some backgrounds, but compared with Gao Huaiyuan's forces, they are nothing, and no one can protect them, so in just over a month, more than 10 cases of corruption in local garrisons were pulled out one after another, and a group of greedy and incompetent people were strictly investigated and punished, and they were sent to the Criminal Department and Dali Temple for punishment.

As soon as the matter of the Military Command Department was decided, Gao Huaiyuan motioned to the imperial court to vigorously reduce the redundant personnel and redundant troops in the army, eliminate a large number of weak soldiers in the army who were old, weak, sick and disabled and unable to fight, and also dismantle some local garrisons that were completely useless, so as to reduce the burden of the imperial court on military funds.

This matter immediately caused a controversy in the court, you must know that the military system of the Song Dynasty is mainly based on recruitment, basically the garrison army replaced the status of the forbidden army in the Northern Song Dynasty, and became the regular army of the Song army, and the forbidden army, box soldiers, township soldiers, and native soldiers became miscellaneous soldiers, not much training on weekdays, only as some miscellaneous work and the like, it seems that the Southern Song Dynasty army has a lot of numbers, but only a few can really be used to fight, and it is not surprising that the combat effectiveness is not strong.

What's more, the Song Dynasty had the habit of conscripting a large number of soldiers whenever there was a disaster in the locality, and the disaster victims would be conscripted into the army to feed them, but in this way, the personnel structure in the army became complicated, and a large number of homeless, scoundrels, and ruffians entered the army.

After many years, the increasing number of new troops greatly increased the burden on the imperial court, and even the Southern Song Dynasty was the richest in the world, with a huge annual income, and it was a little unbearable to bear such a burden.

This time, Gao Huaiyuan pointed the spearhead at this malpractice, and proposed that a large number of useless soldiers in the localities be abolished, and that they should be returned to the civilian sector to fend for themselves, reduce the financial burden of the state, and change to the line of elite soldiers.

The starting point of this matter is absolutely good, but I didn't expect that as soon as it was raised, it caused a large-scale controversy in the DPRK, this time it was not who deliberately embarrassed Gao Huaiyuan, but this matter involved the stability of the country, Gao Huaiyuan only proposed to reduce the redundant troops, but did not propose how to deal with these redundant troops who were laid off, you must know that these redundant soldiers do not work on weekdays, and they have long been idle and accustomed to it, and there are many soldiers among them.

If a large number of redundant soldiers return to the locality, it is very likely that this group of redundant soldiers who have no way to survive will become a scourge of the locality, they will not survive and naturally will not wait idle and starve to death, and the result is that it is very likely that these people will run into the mountains and forests, gather a crowd to become thieves, and cause trouble to the locality.

This is also a question raised by many ministers of the DPRK and China, and if a solution to this problem is not considered in advance, the matter of reducing redundant troops may only become empty talk, and if it is forcibly implemented, it is very likely to cause great chaos in the localities.

After Zhao Yun listened to the questions raised by these ministers, he couldn't help but hesitate, and he also knew that the reduction of redundant troops could reduce the burden on the court, which was a good thing for him to govern the country, but if it was not handled properly, it might turn good things into bad things, and eventually cause local people to be in turmoil, and if he didn't do it well, there might be problems.

As a result, there was huge resistance to this matter, and Gao Huaiyuan realized that he was sometimes too simple when thinking about some issues.

So he had to temporarily slow down the implementation of this matter, and began to discuss the solution of this matter with some ministers in the court, for which he specially invited Wei Liaoweng, Zhen Dexiu, Hong Shikui and other famous ministers in the court to discuss this matter during the banquet.