Xue Chongxun went ashore in Chuzhou and returned to Luoyang by land with the convoy of guards. Bai Qimei didn't go with Xue Chongxun, and when he parted, he couldn't help but feel a little reluctant, after all, he had been getting along for a few days...... He tried to guess Bai Qimei's thoughts, but in the end he couldn't guess it. It stands to reason that the rivers and lakes are sinister, and it is not a good day to run the rivers and lakes, not to mention that now she is in danger, Xue Chongxun can provide her with protection, but she refused.

Xue Chongxun told her to take care and let her live well. She smiled, and said with a pure smile: You too, I believe you will defeat your opponent.

Yuqing went back to Luoyang with Xue Chongxun, and Shangqingguan was the place that belonged to her. Xue Chongxun couldn't help but think of a question on the road: when he left Luoyang last time, Yuqing confessed in front of so many faces, and everyone thought that her affection was for me.

In the world, it is already difficult to grasp one's own destiny, let alone others?

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Shi Nong Industry and Commerce, Wei Shi does not regard production, but is always fighting, for interests, for power. After Xue Chongxun returned to Luoyang, it was indispensable to fight for power and profit. According to his ideas, the new Cao Yun system was completely planned and established by him, so why let Li Longji's people intervene? It is imperative to gather the Hedong Shiren group and the officials who are attached to Princess Taiping, and squeeze out the people who have parachuted into Luoyang and other places.

In the Caoyun system, Xue Chongxun's promotion and co-optation of people are preconceived, and they have occupied various important positions, and it is easy to compete for most of the power, but it is still inevitable that there are Si Yamen who are placed with various eyeliners and form various elbows...... There is really no way, because the crown prince is in charge of the country, and he has every right to appoint all officials below the fifth rank without consulting the emperor. If it is in Chang'an, the officials below the fifth rank are not very important, but the local officials are different, and the thorn history of the middle and lower prefectures is only under the fourth rank, and the officials below the fifth rank can also hold more important positions.

In particular, the officials and generals among the 12,000 grain guards who were being recruited and trained were soon placed with a large number of pro-crown princes, and it was almost impossible for Xue Chongxun to control this army. His wishful thinking came to naught.

He couldn't control the escort army, but he expected the storm that was about to start, and Xue Chongxun had to find ways to cultivate his own strength, and the more strength he had, the better the chance of winning. So he collected information on various ship robbers and thieves, and on the pretext of organizing troops to exterminate the bandits, he ordered Tang Tuan to train and select and form a recruiting army of 300 people.

If the number of people is small, the matter is small, and it is not easy to attract the attention of Chang'an...... It's just that three hundred pairs of Mo knives and armor are a problem. They can only work the selection of candidates, and try to select the most brave and good soldiers.

Tang Tuanlian thought of a trick and asked Xue Chongxun to watch the selection of soldiers on the school field together.

There is an open space in the south of Luoyang City, the size of three or four polo fields, and Tang Tuanlian has gathered more than 1,000 soldiers from Hedong. He also asked people to erect a row of targets more than half a foot high from a hundred paces.

Xue Chongxun was invited to ride a horse to the school field to observe, and when he saw that the situation was unclear, he turned around and asked, "Tang Tuanlian, what are you going to do here?" ”

The burly Tang Chaoren said: "This method was used by my grandfather, once he went out with the Tang army to attack Tuyuhun, and the emperor sent a cavalry to attack the enemy's hinterland. In order to select the warriors who looked at death as home, my grandfather asked people to stand under the target of the arrow, and then let the marksman shoot arrows at the target, and if the person under the target did not dodge, he was selected...... This method worked very well, and in the end, my grandfather led this cavalry to drive straight in, invincible, and the emperor was rewarded after the battle, and the official was promoted to three levels! ”

Xue Chongxun was overjoyed when he heard this, and nodded: "This method is very wonderful, at least the person who is selected is quite bold." ”

But at this time, Tang Chaoren said worriedly: "We are only afraid that the civil officials of the Eastern Capital will write a letter to slander Xue Lang and plant the dead soldiers, and have ill intentions......" He reviewed it for a while, and said in a low voice, "This group of people are all from our Hedong, Bao Cheng, Zhang Wulang and other three brigade commanders are either their own people or the old people of Hedong, and the military expenses are all raised by Xue Lang...... Since then, the strength of these three brigades has been completely in the hands of Xue Lang! The prince's people tried to meddle but didn't sew. ”

Xue Chongxun's heart moved when he heard this, he was silent for a moment, frowned and said in a deep voice: "If you are always timid, what can you do?" Do as you say! Don't worry about those imperial histories, I'll have my own way to deal with it when the time comes. ”

Tang Chaoren hugged his fists and said: "With Langjun's words, I have nothing to worry about." ”

He said that he stepped forward, ran past the front of the queue, and said loudly: "Choose warriors for the elimination of mountain bandits, whether it is a mule or a horse, you will know!" The team is listening to the order, testing the arrows according to the column, and the fearful can withdraw. ”

After shouting, Tang Chaoren ran to the target, jumped down from the horse, stood under an arrow target, waved his hand and shouted: "Zhang Wulang, try the target!" ”

I saw a young general with a face like a knife riding a horse out of the queue, it was Zhang Jiawulang, who began to follow Xue Chongxun in the three pillars of the Yellow River last time, and Zhang Jiuling, a famous man, was still his relative. Zhang Wulang clamped the horse's belly, and the horse under the seat galloped away, he stretched his bow and arrows on the horse, lowered his body, and pulled the bowstring like a full moon, almost without a moment of hesitation, only heard a "bang" A vigorous string sound, the arrow feather flew towards Tang Chaoren, hit the bull's-eye, penetrated the arrow target, and passed through the middle.

"Good arrows!" When the generals saw that Zhang Wulang was chic, skillful, accurate and fast, they immediately praised him.

Tang Chaoren breathed a sigh of relief and laughed: "I was the first to try the arrow, and I passed!" After that, I also served as a lieutenant of the 3rd Brigade. ”

He laughed and grabbed his mount, turned on his horse, and ordered the others to select their troops in the order of their ranks. At this time, dozens of carefully selected marksmen on the other side of the school field also lined up in a row, each with an arrow pot, and wound up the arrow, first facing the ground, ready to shoot the arrow target.

Marksmen are all selected, and if they shoot a target dozens of paces away, it is basically impossible to shoot it on a person's head so far as to be ridiculously deflected...... But when you see someone else facing you with a bow and arrow, and seeing the arrow feather flying towards you, the psychological pressure can be imagined, and most people can't help but bow their heads to dodge when they are in battle, and some people are even more exaggerated, and they simply fall to the ground in fright.

However, since these recruits came to eat the meal of selling their lives, there were still many people who were brave and not afraid of death, and more than half of the ten people in each fire would not hide, and as few as two or three people. In this way, the selection of 300 people will be stopped, and the name will be made again.

After only half an hour of being busy, this matter is done, and the military generals are really more straightforward and refreshing than civil officials, and there is not so much red tape. At this time, Tang Chaoren slapped his head and said, "I forgot one thing, do you want Xue Lang to choose a name for the warriors of the three brigades?" ”

With such a reminder, Xue Chongxun's heart is indeed more powerful to choose a name, but what is the best choice...... Xue Jiajun? Isn't that a desire to keep the center on guard; Tiger Ben? What's even more nonsense, that is a name that only the palace guards dare to use, and it is estimated that there will be officials who immediately write to Xue Chongxun saying that Xue Chongxun wants to be the emperor and wants to rebel!

At this moment, he suddenly remembered an interesting name and blurted out: "It's called Feihu...... Group bar. ”

According to the customary structure of the Tang Army, the left and right brigades are a regiment, and although it is nondescript for the three brigades to be organized into a regiment, there is nothing wrong with him doing this.

Xue Chongxun has been taught reading and literacy by famous people since he was a child, he took a name, Tang Chaoren didn't think about it, and immediately shouted: "The name given by Xue Lang, the Flying Tiger Regiment, the brothers have remembered their own names!" ”

The soldiers laughed and made a fuss for a while, thinking that the name was quite exciting, the flying tiger should be a lot of things!

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But soon they were in trouble, and as expected, officials immediately wrote to impeach Xue Chongxun. If other Beijing officials go down to do business, and temporarily hire a few hundred people to suppress the bandits, it will not attract people's attention; However, Xue Chongxun's identity is special, and many people are staring at him, so he can't get past any abnormal behavior.

The crown prince Li Longji is also very angry, thinking that he is a dignified prince, and the personal guard army is only three or four hundred cavalry, so which onion is Xue Chongxun, he actually pulled up three hundred private soldiers without permission, this is overstepping! It's rebellion!

There are even more upright people who call out that the Xue family cultivates dead soldiers and has ill intentions, and should cut off the title to set an example; Princess Taiping was happy that her son was making trouble, so she instructed the bureaucrats in the court to find a lot of reasons for Xue Chongxun, anyway, it was muddy.

Li Dan also wondered what Xue Chongxun was doing, but could three hundred people still rebel? He was calm, and still asked first, "Have you asked Taiping...... asked San Lang if he was no", and then adopted a middle-of-the-road approach: this group of people can only be used for local defense and suppression of bandits, and they are not allowed to enter Beijing at any time; It is not allowed to equip armor and long weapons, otherwise it will be punished as rebellion according to the law.

After Xue Chongxun received the message from the Ministry of War, he naturally didn't dare to hide the armor privately, so he had to ask the craftsman to weave armor with hard bamboo and old rattan, which was better than nothing, and then equipped with a horizontal knife.

The Mo knife was a controlled weapon in the Tang Dynasty, but the horizontal knife was not very careful. The short weapons of the soldiers of the government soldiers are all provided by themselves, and they find blacksmiths to forge horizontal knives, and the state only issues long weapons such as knives and spears.

So the "Flying Tiger Regiment" formed by Xue Chongxun looked really funny, wearing bamboo, a hat on his head (the helmet is also a control armor soldier), and a scabbard around his waist...... At first glance, it looks like the natives on the Jiannan side, but fortunately, each person is equipped with six mules and horses, which has something to do with the elite.

The advantage is that he is as light as a swallow, not like an ordinary government soldier, and he carries at least dozens of pounds of weight during the battle.

This is Xue Chongxun's first strength, he attaches great importance to it, so he raises it with good fish and meat, and urges Tang Chaoren to train every day. He didn't mention push-ups and other means, because Tang Chaoren was born in a family of military generals and had his own set of training methods, and Xue Chongxun couldn't blindly command to do nonsense. G