Cheering up a little, Qin Tieliu raised his voice slightly: "However, the empire has a dragon among young and promising people like adults, I think there is still something to be done." ”

Wu Feng shook his head noncommittally, not knowing whether he agreed with Qin Tieliu's opinion or did not appreciate his compliments, and pulled the topic aside: "Let's not talk about such a far-reaching topic today, let's talk about our own affairs." I hope that when the guests from the west arrive here, the two of you will be able to arrange their work reasonably, and it is best to make the most of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, so that they can use their abilities and contribute more to our school. ”

"In addition, we are now these students in general the overall quality is low, I hope you will strengthen the basic education during the training, of course, with the passage of time, the quality of our students will gradually improve in the future, the later training pressure will be less, but the early stage will have to work hard. Wu Feng had regained his condescending momentum, making arrangements slowly.

Three days later, Su Qin and the anxious Watt set off for Barona City, the central city of the Luope people, and as the plenipotentiary representative of Wufeng, he would negotiate with the Luope people on the annexation of the Jurlies to Li Wufeng.

Immediately, Wu Feng instructed Xiao Tang to delay the alliance negotiations with the Western Regions countries, which puzzled Xiao Tang. At the beginning, Wu Feng also instructed to speed up negotiations with the countries of the Western Regions and the Motts, and strive to complete the alliance as soon as possible, so that the northwest region will be in a relatively safe and stable peaceful environment, so that his side can develop the economy or take other actions with peace of mind. After all, the threat of Yinchuan Mansion, Taixuan Mansion and even the Sislo people still exists, and making too many enemies will greatly restrain the energy of their own side.

But now he has to change his course, Xiao Tang is thinking in his heart why Wufeng has become a half-hearted person, since the goal has been determined, he should do it to the end, and interrupting halfway will also cause unnecessary hostility from the other party.

Seeing Xiao Tang's incomprehensible appearance, Wu Feng didn't say much, just told him to execute, but he also had to be measured, delay was not an interruption, and he had to try not to show it.

A few days later, Kapok sent someone from Luzon to send news that he had met with the elders of the Gaoyue clan in Luzon and conveyed Wufeng's meaning, and the other party readily accepted the invitation and would come to Qingyang secretly after arranging the affairs of the clan in the near future. On the other hand, the intelligence department is also working at a high speed, and has already contacted several influential figures among the Tang people in Luzon, who will also come to Qingyang to meet with Wu Feng in the near future.

But the news from the kingdom of Pasha is not encouraging. The military exercises in the southern part of the Pasha Kingdom were kept so tightly guarded that intelligence officers could not approach them, let alone know about them. As for the activities of several important military and political officials, nothing unusual has been found so far. The situation in the Grand Duchy of Luzon is also a bit confusing, and it stands to reason that Prime Minister Brundtland could not have been unaware of what is happening under his nose, but by the time the intelligence officers sent back the information, there was still no sign of any action by Brundtland.

The combined information caused Wu Feng to fall into a deep confusion, although he could not find anything suspicious from the existing information, but a gut instinct allowed him to smell that there was more likely to hide infinite killing intentions in these seemingly unsuspicious superficial situations. But this feeling is just a hazy belief of Wufeng's own, and there is a lack of evidence to verify it.

The hot weather made people even more irritable, and Wu Feng stayed in the study and studied the map hard, hoping to find a clue from it based on the information he had.

"My lord, Lord Ling asks to see you. ”

"Ask him to come in. Wu Feng's tired mood was slightly relieved, some time ago, in order to supervise the training of the garrison forces of the various prefectures, Wu Feng asked Ling Tianfang and Lu Man to check the training status of the garrison forces of the four prefectures and the construction of the reserve forces non-stop, it seems that the two of them have completed the task and returned. In the past ten days, Wu Feng has felt quite tired in the face of complicated work, but now that Ling Tianfang and Lu Man have finally returned, he can be more relaxed.

"I've seen adults. Ling Tianfang's already somewhat dark skin has become even darker, and he seems to have lost some weight, but he is full of energy.

"No need to be polite, just sit down. Wu Feng observed Ling Tianfang's appearance and greeted him warmly, "Tianfang, this time I have worked hard for you, come back and rest first." ”

"This is the responsibility of the subordinates, or is it said after the report. Ling Tianfang shook his head and said.

"That's okay, how is it, how is the situation of this inspection?" Wu Feng was no longer polite, he knew that Ling Tianfang's surname had always been strict with himself.

"Quite good, this inspection should be said to be very fruitful, and the work in several places has been carried out well. Ling Tianfang had a satisfied look on his face.

Wu Feng knew that he had always been strict with his work, and being able to make him praise it meant that it must be quite satisfying for him. "Oh, you seem to be very optimistic about their work, huh?"

"It exceeded my prediction, both the training and mental state of the troops are quite good, the reserve work is also going well, and many talents have been discovered. Ling Tianfang made no secret of his attitude.

"Let's talk about it in detail. Wu Feng was also intrigued.

"The garrison of Guide was originally quite good, this time I first checked there, well-trained, full of morale, eight words can be summed up, it seems that we still underestimate the dragon and Hillman, the dragon is well managed, Hillman is the first, the two cooperate tacitly, in just a few months, the combat effectiveness has made great progress, I look at this kind of training, or it won't be long, it will be completely competent for the requirements of the regular army. "Ling Tianfang seems to have a pretty good impression of Long Zi and Hillman.

"Oh, really so much progress, it seems that the two of them have worked hard, and their original main force is a volunteer soldier. "Wu Feng is no stranger to Long Zi and Hillman, after all, if he wants to become the commander of a division under his command, although he is a garrison force, he still has to consider carefully as the military and political chief of his side. At the beginning of the establishment of the three garrison divisions, Wu Feng had a long talk with these generals who were about to be appointed, on the one hand, to understand the situation, on the other hand, to examine the other party's loyalty to him, and at the same time to strengthen his own position in their minds, these are of course not enough to be humane to outsiders.

Ling Tianfang disagreed with Wu Feng's opinion, "My lord, you can't underestimate those volunteers, in my opinion, although those volunteers were not as good as our army at that time, they also had a certain strength, coupled with this period of training, I think this army is already quite combative." ”

"Oh my God, don't praise them too much. In order for a team to truly become a qualified army, it is impossible to rely on training and some petty fights alone, and it must go through several brutal baptisms of war, and only in this way can they really grow up. Wu Feng clearly stuck to his opinion.

"Your Excellency has misunderstood what I meant. I am not saying that they already have the strength to become a qualified force, but that they originally had a good foundation, but now they are making rapid progress, and as long as they have the right opportunity and are tempered by war, they can become the main force. Ling Tianfang's originally stiff face also relaxed.

"That's true, the ability of the dragon himself and Hillman is obvious to all, and it is not easy to train a volunteer organization to such an extent, and the ability of the two of them can be seen from this. After we added a lot of officers to him, after such a long period of training, it is reasonable that he has made great progress. Wu Feng also nodded in agreement with Ling Tianfang's opinion.

"But, Tianfang, I listen to you, it seems that I want to incorporate the garrison division of Guide into the Northwest Army. Wu Feng looked at Ling Tianfang with a smile on his face.

Ling Tianfang's black face flashed with a hint of imperceptible redness, and he snorted, "Why did your lord say this? I just praised their combat effectiveness, and I didn't mean anything else, my lord, don't talk nonsense, it will make waves in the ears of Xiao Tang and Su Minshun again." ”

The officials of the political axe system have had several arguments with the military over the increase in the army, and no one can convince anyone, Wufeng has his own plans, and he doesn't want to expose his intentions too early, so he has no choice but to force the opinions of both sides down, but fortunately, Wufeng's prestige is already unattainable, although both sides have opinions, but they also obey unconditionally.

Immediately afterwards, Ling Tianfang gave a brief report on the training of the troops in Bonan and Jinzhou, spoke highly of the reserve work in Jinzhou, praised the solid work of the local political axe in Jinzhou, and praised the attitude of the Gaoyue people towards joining the reserve forces, which provided an extremely substantial guarantee for the reserve forces of the troops.

Finally, Ling Tianfang also talked about one of the major gains of this inspection is that many talents have been discovered, especially many officers in the former rebel army, and through careful understanding, Ling Tianfang believes that it can be used by his own side and give full play to their talents.

Speaking of this issue, Wu Feng became even more interested, "It seems that Tianfang has gained a lot from you this time, the two people you mentioned, Jiang Han I have seen, Zeppelin and Gao Gao persuaded him to surrender, but we have too much contact, listening to you say this, I want to meet this person seriously, what is he doing now?"

"Because of the high prestige of this man among the original rebels, he has not yet been assigned a position until he is fully assured. ”

"Oh, you can let him come to Qingyang, I'll see him, if it's really a talent, I don't want to waste it. It should be a good thing that he has a high prestige among the rebels, which means that his behavior can be supported by the following, and if he is sincerely joined us, it will be more beneficial to us. Wu Feng made a decision with a deep groan.

"By the way, there is also the one named Yan Tong, let him come with me, but I don't seem to have any impression of this person. Wu Feng was confident in his memory, and he was a little surprised why he didn't have the slightest impression of this person.

"Oh, this man was badly wounded in the battle with us, and he only recovered his full health not long ago. This person is cautious, level-headed, and a rare talent. Ling Tianfang also had a high opinion of Yan Tong.

"Then I want to take a closer look, to be able to get such a high evaluation from Tianfang, I guess it will not be an ordinary man, I hope to add new blood to our army. Wu Feng's mood became happy, sweeping away his previous depression and irritability. He kept in mind a sentence that his master said: "If you want to become a person on the top, you can never achieve it by your own strength, only by giving full play to the role of your subordinates, knowing people well, and promoting their strengths and avoiding weaknesses, this is the way to be handsome." ”

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