The Zhuan River is a river from east to west, belonging to the tributaries of the East China Sea, stretching for hundreds of miles, the river is wide and deep, just fifty miles outside the Zhuanshui Pass, the river is not turbulent, and flows slowly. ()

Before early in the morning, the team of the Heqin delegation had already rushed to the bank of the Zhuan River and saw the wide stone bridge over the river.

Xia Houde, the chief soldier of Zhuanshui Pass, personally led a team of men and horses to send the mission to the bank of the Zhuan River, stopped by the river, raised his horsewhip and pointed to the stone bridge on the river and said to Changde Hou and Han Mo: "Lord Hou, General Han Han, this is the Zhuanhe Bridge, which has been used for many years, mainly to facilitate the exchange of merchants. Nearly 100 miles of river section, there is only this bridge here, after this bridge, it is the boundary of Qingguo! ”

At both ends of the bridge, there are checkpoints, and there are also high wooden lookouts, and merchants who come and go have to receive their first checks on the river before entering each other's land.

Only today the mission crossed the river, and both sides of the stone bridge were temporarily blocked, and no one was allowed to pass.

Yun Canglan, who had only been around the princess's carriage along the way, finally galloped forward at this time, looking at the other side of the river, as if waiting for something.

"Your country prides itself on being a country of etiquette, but it's a pity that today is too rude." When Xia Houde saw Yun Canglan, he naturally knew that he was an official of Qingguo, and said mockingly: "My princess Dayan has already arrived at the edge of the Zhuan River, and if you officials from the border pass of Qingguo don't come to greet you, are you still sleeping there?" ”

Han Mo heard it on the side, and couldn't help but say, this Xiahoude is really difficult to change in nature, and he will say a few harsh words at every turn.

According to the normal rules, after the princess of Dayan Kingdom entered Qingguo, she wanted to become the crown princess of Qingguo, and the border of Qingguo must send people as soon as possible

Yun Canglan looked at the other side of the river in his eyes, and his face also showed a trace of displeasure, but he still smiled lightly: "Zhuanshui Pass is only twenty miles away from the Zhuan River, but my Qingguo Nanwuguan is more than forty miles away from the Shuhe River, so it is always slower!" ”

He said this, but there were other thoughts in his heart.

In Qingguo, almost all military power is concentrated in the hands of Shang Zhongli, just like Xiao Huaiyu of Yan State, who firmly controls the elite soldiers of the country.

The guards of Nanwu Pass are the generals of Shang Zhongli's line, but they are not the highest governor of Nanwu Pass.

Over the years, the queen of Qingguo, in the middle of power, formed a party with her as the core, seeing that the party is becoming more and more powerful, but Emperor Qing turned a blind eye, one is addicted to wine and can't extricate himself, and the other reason is that the emperor of Qingguo is afraid of his wife, to be more specific, that is, the emperor is very afraid of the queen.

Normally, the emperor agrees to what the empress proposes.

The biggest opponent of the Hou Party in the DPRK is undoubtedly Shang Zhongli's military force, and from a certain point of view, the composition of the Hou Party is mainly a civilian system, while Shang Zhongli's faction is naturally a military attache system.

Although the Wu faction has a strong army, Shang Zhongli has always been a strong impulse to curb the generals, and everyone knows that although the emperor is mediocre, the Shang clan's loyalty to the emperor is unshakable.

A hundred years ago, the Li family, a relative of Daqi, usurped the imperial power, and the most courageous general under his command was the Shang family.

For a hundred years, the Shang family has been favored by the Li royal family and has always been the most mainstream family in Qingguo, and Shang Zhongli has a deep-rooted idea of loyalty to the monarch in his mind, even if his emperor is incompetent, he will not waver his allegiance to the emperor.

The civilian system controls the various hubs in the DPRK and China, which means that the Hou Party has a strong power in the court, but in the face of the Shang Zhongli faction with heavy troops, the Hou Party does not dare to be too arrogant.

The existence of Shang Zhongli made the Hou Party unable to control all the affairs of the DPRK and China, let alone the power of the entire Qingguo, which naturally made the Hou Party regard Shang Zhongli as a thorn in the flesh.

Only from the fact that the Hou Party would rather the country suffer from two sides than sabotage the Yanqing peace talks, so as to kill Shang Zhongli, we can see the fiery confrontation between the two sides.

Shang Zhonglizhong's grasp of military power has always been a disease of the Hou Party's henchmen, and Qinghou finally came up with a way to finally make the emperor issue a new will through the pillow wind.

Qingguo has added a new yamen, the Ministry of Security Army!

The Ministry of Security is not a yamen composed of warriors, but a new yamen composed of civilian officials, but the things they participate in are out-and-out military affairs.

The main responsibility of the Ministry of the Security Army is to send civilian officials into the army from within, become part of the army, and then interfere in military affairs.

According to the newly promulgated military system, units with more than 3,000 troops will have an official from the Ministry of Military Affairs, who will serve as the deputy of the military generals, nominally to assist the military generals in handling military affairs, but in fact to thoroughly monitor the troops.

This type of officials who came out of the Ministry of Security also have a hierarchy.

Officials of the Ministry of Security are called Captains of the Security Army, those with less than 5,000 people are called Governors of the Security Army, and the first-class generals of the General Army who have jurisdiction over 10,000 people are called Commanders of the Security Army.

Moreover, the military system stipulates that as long as there is a military operation of more than 500 people, there must be a joint military order between the military general and the officials of the security army around him, otherwise it is an unauthorized transfer of the army, which is a crime of rebellion.

After such an order was issued, the military was in an uproar.

Countless Qing ** generals have felt that this is a great shame, and it is really a great blasphemy to let a group of literati who do not know how to command the army come to the army to hinder military affairs.

For this reason, countless generals in the military jointly wrote to the emperor to retract this will.

It's just that their emperor was bewitched by the queen of Qing, and knocked back the folds of those military generals one by one, and passed down the word mercilessly, the Son of Heaven is Chrysostom, since he has made a will, he must act according to the will, otherwise it is a rebellion.

There is no doubt that the authority of Emperor Qingguo is much stronger than that of Emperor Yan.

The anger that the generals could not calm was finally suppressed by a military order from Shang Zhongli, and Shang Zhongli, who took loyalty as his philosophy, accepted this will and allowed the existence of the Ministry of Security.

Although the Anjun Ministry has only existed for three years, in the past three years, the officials sent from the Anjun Ministry have spread to all corners of the Qing side, although they are the most disgusting characters of the Qing side, but there is no doubt that these people have become sand mixed into the rice grains, so that the military is constrained everywhere.

The struggle in Qingguo is now not only a civil and military struggle in the court, but also a fierce civil and military battle is staged even in the army.

On the surface, Qingguo is still the strongest country in the Central Plains, still a vast land, and still prosperous, but it has rotted in its bones and is full of countless drawbacks.

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At Nanwu Pass on the other side of the Zhuan River, the general soldier was a general under Shang Zhongli, but beside him, there was also an An military envoy, who came out of the An Military Department established by the Later Party to specifically infiltrate the military.

Now that the princess is by the Zhuo River, no one from Qingguo has come to the other side to greet her, and she has done a very poor job in terms of etiquette.

Although Yun Canglan was very angry in his heart, in front of the Yan people, he couldn't help but hold on.

He knew very well in his heart that the Houdang faction was not like Yan Qinghe, and he didn't want to see the princess of Yan Guo marry into Qingguo, so the An military envoy of Nanwuguan must be a hindrance, and the team to greet him has not yet arrived.

Cao Yin is the envoy of Yan State, and he seems to be very calm all the way, but at this moment, his delicate face also showed a slight displeasure, glanced at Yun Canglan beside him, and said lightly: "Ben Hou is not a difficult person to speak, but so far in your country's greeting team, Lord Yun has used a sentence that the distance is a little far as an excuse, but Ben Hou is a little mindful!" ”

Yun Canglan secretly complained in his heart, and arched his hand: "Master Hou, turn back on this matter, Canglan will definitely give you an explanation!" ”

Cao Yin sighed lightly and said, "My princess Dayan has golden branches and jade leaves, if no one comes to greet her, Princess Dayan will not cross the river." After a pause, he said: "Lord Yun, this Hou advises you to send someone back to Qingguo first, and pass it on all the way, if the greeting affairs along the way are not done well, it will not be my Dayan's face that will be lost, but the face of your Qingguo people!" ”

Yun Canglan smiled bitterly, just hugged his fists and didn't speak.

Connected with the men and horses brought by Xiahoude, a team of thousands of people was waiting quietly by the Zhuan River at this time, and did not cross the river.

Fortunately, the waiting time was not too long, and after a while, I saw a group of people coming from a distance on the empty land of a flat river on the opposite bank, and there was no flag, and the formation of the people was not large.

Han Mo's eyesight is excellent, looking at that team, there are only more than twenty people at most.

The sound of horses' hooves, the team soon reached the other side of the stone bridge, but the first one was wearing a civilian uniform, slightly fat, followed by more than twenty soldiers in armor, these soldiers were wearing large swords, under the sun, the armor was bright and dazzling.

The river is more than a hundred meters wide, and the two sides are looking at each other from a distance, Han Mo looked at the other party's arrival, glanced at Yun Canglan, and sneered: "Lord Yun, Ben Jiang is really curious now, are your people coming to fight with my Dayan, or are you coming to greet the princess?" It's okay if there's no guard of honor, it's okay to come with such a few people, I just can't figure it out, since I'm here to welcome the princess, why do I need to be so armed? ”

Many members of the mission team had begun to whisper, and some had angry expressions on their faces.

People came, but there were so many people, and there was no attitude of waiting for the team, which made the people of Yan Guo feel very unhappy, and they only felt that the people of Qingguo were too rude.

Song Shiqing, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, also came to the bridge, saw the other party's formation, and said repeatedly: "It's too rude, it's too rude, what the hell are the people of Qingguo doing!" ”

Yun Canglan finally cooled down this time, and was about to urge him to step forward, only to hear the civil official on the opposite side say in a loud voice: "This official is Qin Si, the military envoy of Nanwu Guan'an, and he is here to greet the princess of Yan Kingdom!" ”

Yun Canglan had already urged the bridge to the bridge, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Qin, why didn't the general soldier come over?" ”

An Jun made Qin Si immediately say, "Is it Lord Yun?" Even the adults were infected with the wind and cold, and they were bedridden, so they couldn't come, so the official came to greet him in person. Then he smiled and said: "Everyone, don't think that our battle is small, there is a grand welcome ceremony on the side of the pass, and we will never snub the princess!" ”