Ji Qingling can see the question at a glance, no matter how stupid Zhao Rui is, he is also the son of heaven in the end, how can he not know?

But he really couldn't do anything about it.

The peak number of the forbidden army of the Great Jin Jing Division was during the reign of Emperor Renzong, which was about 600,000, and the forbidden army at that time was also different from the tiger and wolf division in the early days of the founding of the country, and gradually became tired and old.

After several generations, by the time Zhao Rui arrived, the new people had already replaced the old ones, although the number of troops had decreased, but there was no "less and more refinement", not only failed to inherit the benefits of the past, but became more and more lax in military discipline.

During the reign of the first emperor, he was determined to help his son sweep the road cleaner, and he did the most important work, so he gritted his teeth and presided over the rectification of the forbidden army by the privy envoy at that time.

The privy envoy was also very powerful, and in more than 10 years, a total of more than 300,000 people were reduced, who would have expected that the retrenched soldiers would directly burst into camp, rush into the streets and alleys, besiege the yamen, and clamoring for an explanation.

Once the fire broke out together, it was no longer under the control of the uprisers, not to mention the countless casualties among the people in Beijing, the imperial court spent on quelling the rebellion, cleaning up the troops, energy and money, and the losses caused by this uproar added up, far more than the more than 300,000 people who were raised.

In the end, the privy envoy who presided over the rectification of the forbidden army invited himself to go out and was removed from the position of governor, and his person was depressed in his heart, and he died of illness on the way to his post, and the first emperor was caught and scolded for several years.

At that time, Zhao Rui was not young, he watched the development of things throughout the whole process, and he was really impressed, because he waited until he became the emperor of his own family, and he saw the forbidden army exercises every year, and he was quite impatient.

The treasury was empty, and it was already stretched to the point of being stretched, but Zhao Rui would rather go to the Guangxin Army and the Security Army than dare to move the forbidden army, because the Beijing division is important and must not be chaotic.

However, he pretended to be blind in the past, as long as things were not stabbed in front of his nose and eyes, he could be regarded as invisible, and this time he was provoked by the rebels and the forbidden army respectively, and he wanted to be blind again, but he stuffed the beads back into his eyes for Zhang and Gu, and he had to stretch his eyelids open, shouting that he was willing to let go only when he could see clearly.

Zhao Rui has a lot of problems, and the most powerful one is to have a good face.

The forbidden army is the division of the Son of Heaven, representing the prestige of the Son of Heaven, they are no longer useful on weekdays, as long as they do not lose the royal face during the exercise, Zhao Rui has more lice and does not itch, the piles and piles on his hand are all national, more important than the rest, this place has Zhenrong, security, Guangxin three armies externally, and there are various Xiang armies internally, although the forbidden army with Erlang's legs in the capital is eating idle every day, but there has not been any trouble for the time being, he can drag it out of sight and out of mind.

However, once it is time to lose face and throw it on the table, no matter how good Zhao Rui is, he has to move, lest the next person follow the same example and become more and more fierce, and really feed all the hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops.

He returned to the palace from Yujin Garden, on the one hand, he was happy that the rebels were brave and good at fighting, and he had rich experience in combat, and on the other hand, he thought about the forbidden army, and compared the two phases, and his heart was really heavy.

However, after Zhu Baoshi had passed two days and had returned to him for a while with all the news that the Imperial City Division had heard from the capital, he could no longer hold back.

"Only one face to see?" Zhao Rui raised his voice and repeated with a straight face.

Zhu Baoshi secretly complained in his heart, but he had to answer honestly: "On that day, the people gathered outside Yujin Garden, all thought it was a grand event, there were many teahouses and wine shops outside Nanxun Gate, the buildings were high and crowded, and some people also brought fire Qi, so they could see the scene clearly, and when the war elephants were wiped clean, the elephant corpses had not been dragged out of the school field, Sangjiawazi, Baokangmen Wazi, Zhouxi Wazi, as for Zhujiaqiao Wazi, there were all kinds of wine shops and tea shops, and some storytellers began to use this to make excerpts and comment......

What can a storyteller say?

Naturally, whatever a gimmick is, you have to comment on something.

Who wants to pay to listen to ordinary things? Who knows how many times you go to the hut a day and eat a few bites of food!

It's also a coincidence, there is really no excitement in the capital for a while, the last time the big thing that caused people to talk about was the withdrawal of the army, the turmoil in Sichuan and Shu, these two have been several months away from this time, and the rest of the people are not talking about the Zhang family marrying their daughters, and marrying 120,000 yuan, that is, the Sun family officials have only been concubines for four months, but they suddenly got a big fat boy, or the Li family has committed adultery with a certain person, which famous corner in the tile said what gold basin washes hands, In fact, it was a rich lady who fell in love with a certain family.

It is this kind of poor and boring, everyone is waiting for it, suddenly this war elephant match, it is simply a business for the teahouse restaurant, not to say that the three-point scene is twelve points intense, how can it attract people's attention? How exaggerated and how to say.

In the mouths of everyone, the counterinsurgency army led by Zhang Dingya has become like a god, and as for the forbidden army in Beijing, they have all become useless wine bags and rice bags.

The storyteller in the restaurant scolded a sentence of gold and jade, and the storyteller in the tea shop and roadside stall was a mouthful of donkey dung and eggs, and the surface was light, as if it was passed on ten or ten hundreds, and in two days, everyone in the capital knew that the Beijing Forbidden Army was a bunch of waste.

Zhu Baoshi said on the one hand, and at the same time scolded those people in his heart that the messengers were birds and non-humans, and the tongue seemed to have wings, and the wild birds outside did not fly so fast!

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After listening to Zhu Baoshi's reply, Zhao Rui frowned and sat back in his chair.

This chamberlain who was in charge of the Imperial City Division hurriedly presented the piece of music that had just been hurriedly arranged.

A small yellow door had already stepped forward to take it and presented it to the Son of Heaven who was sitting on it.

Zhu Baoshi handed over the concerto, and the moment he lowered his head, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a fold on the dragon chair that was spread out on the table.

Zhao Rui only hesitated for a moment, and then put the fold in his hand directly into the wooden lattice on the left.

Zhu Baoshi was born in the Yellow Gate, and he could recognize at a glance that it was a wooden lattice that "stayed in the middle and did not send it".

Zhao Rui had already received the piece forwarded by the little yellow door, but he didn't open it, but he suddenly raised his head and asked, "How is the situation in the political hall recently?" ”

When Zhu Baoshi heard this, his heart suddenly chuckled.

The situation in the political hall, how can he be a small imperial city secretary to raise at will.

But since His Majesty asked, he couldn't help but not answer.

What does the Son of Heaven want to know and what does he want to hear?