The Tiger Wing Army has no intention of being fully staffed, and now there are only more than 2,000 sergeants. The commander of the Tiger Wing Army, Cai Lang, selected officers at all levels in accordance with the law of sergeant selection and submitted the list. However, how could the heirs of the nobles in the river join the army alone, most of them carry their henchmen who have passed the sergeant assessment to join the army, as few as a few people, and as many as dozens. The sergeant's promotion of officers has become a competition field for major families to compete in strength, and most of the last captains and centurions are the heirs of large families. Many of the new Hezhong warriors originally admired the good future of the Xia army's selection of talents, but they all complained when they saw that the officials were still the children of those old nobles. The various armies also heard some rumors, and they had some contempt for the officers of the Tiger Wing Army, treating them as outliers like the Jincheng battalion.

"Your Majesty. Wu Yingying picked up the tea cup, took a sip, put it on the table, and then looked at the list of officers of the Tiger Wing Army, and recalled in his mind that in the period of drastic change, whether there was success in making people of different backgrounds such as nobles and commoners temporarily work together in harmony can be used for reference, and later, he picked up the map of the river drawn by the Military Intelligence Department, the place of the four battles in the river, the army will be doubled, and the Iron Bone Army and the Liberation Army are stationed in the city of Decryption, that is, Dushanbe in the later generations, to guard against the Turks and the Great Food Dynasty in the south, this is a top priority。

The Flower Hat Army was stationed near Bukhara, and Zhang Zhongyao wanted to select and train two more cavalry armies, one stationed in Dawan City, that is, Tashkent in later generations, and the other stationed in Baishui City further north.

Compared with later generations, the current Principality of Kiev is still only a small barbarian state, and they will never have the opportunity to expand their territory to the north of the Mural Mountains to the east of the Ural Mountains, even if it is just a barren land, and the more vast the fief of the generals of the Xia Kingdom, the better. The land in the river is vast and sparsely populated, which is suitable for the cavalry army to control the place, but after the Han immigrants multiplied, the Anxi Military Division had to select and train a few strong enough infantry troops, and both infantry and cavalry were the way to win.

Cornise watched him silently, her eyes, every flutter of her facial muscles, every gesture—all of them, she missed too much. After a long time, Wu Yingying came back to his senses, and saw that Kang Lisi had been standing next to him staring at him, a little apologetic, a little at a loss, and smiled awkwardly: "I'm sorry, I'm a little distracted." "I love it. Kang Lisi replied in a low voice, she lowered her head, her temperament was very different from when she was in Jinling, and Wu Yingying hugged her into his arms and gently comforted her.

"If I do something wrong, will you forgive me?" Kang Lisi suddenly asked, Wu Yingying was stunned for a moment and said, "How could you suddenly ask that?" After being silent for a while, Kang Lisi said in a low voice: "I learned early on that the Khorasan people were going to ambush the mission, but in order to let Xia Guo send troops to Hezhong in time, I didn't inform them until the last moment. She plucked up her courage, Wu Yingying's palm felt her trembling slightly, and her face was covered with tears, "I'm scared." "It's all gone," Wu Yingying said softly, "the new life has just begun here, and there are many, many more." ”

In the afternoon of the next day, the officers of the Tiger Wing Army were summoned to meet His Majesty.

"Your Majesty is bathing. Captain Ma Jing said. The commander of the Tiger Wing Army made Cai Lang feel slightly strange, Wu Yingying has always had great respect for the sergeant, and he is also an extremely punctual person, and he has more than once urged the Ordnance Department to make something called a "pendulum clock", "Then I'll wait here." ”

Ma Jing had a strange look on his face and said, "Your Majesty said that punctuality is the key in the army, and the officers of the Tiger Wing Army will go to the bathroom to meet you." "Huh?" Cai Lang was very surprised, came to the door of the bathroom, and was about to step in, but was stopped by Ma Jing with his hand, and added: "In the bathroom, it is steaming, Your Majesty is naked, do you want to go in neatly dressed?"

The baths in the Samanid palace were large enough to accommodate hundreds of people, and in the past they were used as a place for the monarch and his concubines to indulge in sexual pleasure. In the middle is a fountain, and the walls of the bathroom are all made of stone, painted with religious motifs, and there are many hot water pipes and small sinks on the inside of the walls. There is a protruding marble platform on the ground in the middle, about half a meter high, and there are puffs of steam coming out from under the marble platform, and the room is filled with heat. There is also a small stone bench with no backrest along the corner, and the whole bathroom is carved with beautiful relief patterns everywhere, which is full of rich luxury and noble atmosphere.

His Majesty was now naked, facing hundreds of strange-looking Sergeants of the Tiger Wing Army, most of whom were Persian, Sogdian, and other Hu peoples, although there was a tradition of public baths in Central Asia, but the children of noble families rarely went in and out, let alone so exposed with the king.

"In the army of the Xia Kingdom, there is a love for the robe, there is no distinction between the noble and the low, the family background is like a person's clothes, if you really want to become the pillar of the Great Xia, you need to be like today, take off your clothes, rely on your ability, and work hard to make progress, so as not to be despised by others. In the steam, Wu Yingying smiled and said in a deep voice: "If you are a real strong man, if you don't have those clothes, won't others respect you?"

"Many of you are children of the family, since you were a child, there are famous teachers to teach bow and horse swordsmanship, Wen Tao Wuluo has a good point, has already occupied many advantages, if you have to rely on the strength of the family in the promotion of officers, you have to rely on the support of the generals, not only to break the rules in the army, but also to despise yourself. "Don't you want to have a chance to show your abilities? I have made up my mind, from now on, the followers will be promoted out of the Tiger Wing Army, recruited another warrior to expand it, and then re-elected officers. If you have any grievances, you can tell them now, and since the kings and ministers have presented them to each other, there is no need to hide them. If you don't want to join the army, go to the court to be a civil servant. ”

These people joined the army with their generals, although they promoted officers, they couldn't raise their heads in the Xia Army, and gradually from the experience of the Jincheng Battalion, they knew that the Xia Army advocated bravery, and the officer class had its own system.

Many children of the family often have me is stronger than others, but because I was born in a big family, others think that I rely on the resentment of the family to succeed, at this moment in the Tiger Wing Army, many colleagues have excellent family backgrounds, and the competition in the army has been transformed into the competition of family history. It is even more unbearable to be a civil servant because he can't rely on his family power to develop in the army.

Kangju, the crown prince of Kangju, first echoed: "Your Majesty is wise, and we have no objections. "I'm going to dismiss the generals and make progress in the Tiger Wing Army with my ability. After looking at each other, the officers of the Tiger Wing Army expressed their determination, Wu Yingying nodded, and said with a satisfied smile: "Know the general situation, know the advance and retreat, it is really Junyan, the benefits of joining the Tiger Wing Army, you will know well in the future." The benefits of this Samanid bath can be enjoyed right now. "There is already a custom of public bathing here, and since the business has been done, the soldiers will also bathe in twos and threes, only hindering the majesty of Wu Yingying, not daring to talk and laugh wantonly, and even the Samanid court maids who serve everyone around do not dare to laugh.

Wu Yingying soaked in the pool, feeling that many sergeants were looking at him with admiration, but he was afraid that in the future, the country would spread the Holy Communion of His Majesty, and remembered that it was possible to become gossip in that regard, even if he was as thick-skinned as Wu Yingying, he didn't feel a little embarrassed, and said to the left and right: "Don't talk about your own strengths." Cai Lang didn't feel it, and said with a smile: "Don't be short." Listening to the jokes of the master and apprentice, Kang Khotan, who was pure in Chinese, looked embarrassed, and couldn't help but laugh.