As the name suggests, the "royal outpost" is an outpost of the royal family's supervision place, which belongs to the armed forces of the royal family and directly serves the guard department of the clan government. August 1 Chinese ≤.

Shaodian Huang hesitated for a moment and asked, "Are the soldiers recruited locally?"

Most of the armed forces controlled by the clan government were recruited from the side of the Shaodian clan, and some of them absorbed the children of the nobles, but the Hump Mountain Pass was too remote, and there should not be many people willing to go there.

The king was stunned and did not think about it.

"Pick three excellent young people and send them to be captains, and recruit the rest locally. He thought about it and sent some of the Shaodian clan disciples over.

The establishment cannot exceed 3,000 people, and the position of captain is no more than three, and Shaodian Dan does not want outsiders to take up the position of captain.

Ding Kui is a colt, there is no problem to serve as the captain of the outpost, and it is not too much to get a thousand people to protect the princess, this is a small selfish intention of the king.

This kind of will needs to be copied to the commander's office, and the guards of the pass belong to the local armed forces, but in wartime, they are under the unified command of the commander's office, and after being transferred to the royal outpost, they only obey the orders of the commander of the war zone.

The next day, the news spread in the Senate, it was obvious that the king supported Ding Kui, and the proposal of the noble assembly against the centrists was immediately withdrawn, and it returned to the discussion of hot issues in the past, the command and supply of the local army.

The senior generals of the local legions are usually changed once every ten years, and the candidates are discussed in the noble assembly, which is one of the key points of the struggle between the various factions, and sometimes leads to the replacement of a legion.

For example, the children of the Yang family are the commanders of the First Army of Zhongwangzhou, and there are a large number of children of the Yang family in the First Army, and the commander of the First Army will be replaced by the children of the Jiang family next year, then a large number of officers and soldiers of the First Army may choose to retire, and Zhongwangzhou has to recruit new soldiers to rebuild the First Army.

Ding Kui was quite surprised by his new appointment, and there was no record of the royal outpost in his memory or family classics.

"Mr. Liu, what kind of officer is the Lieutenant of the Outpost, and what do I want to do at the Hump Mountain Outpost?" he had to ask his staff.

"In terms of rank, the lieutenant is half a level higher than the general, the royal outpost is different from the military outpost, it is only a functional category, and the maximum establishment can reach 10,000 people, so the lieutenant of the clan is equivalent to a division commander.

However, the quality of the soldiers of the clan army is higher than that of the ordinary regular army, and generally speaking, the combat effectiveness is a little stronger under the same strength, so the commander has the right to command the general, and you can be promoted again. Liu Yu explained.

"What mission do I have to accomplish in managing that outpost?"

"If no one can occupy the Hump Mountain Pass, it is equivalent to completing the mission, right? ”

After all, it was not a unit under the jurisdiction of the Commander's Mansion, and Liu Yu really didn't know.

"The Ministry of Health of the Clan Government will issue specific tasks, mainly to monitor the nearby cities for any rebellion plots, and ensure that the Hump Mountain Pass is under the control of the royal family. Ding Kun gave the answer.

"The nearby cities, that is, Juyang City, Port City and Chunlu City, Port City and Chunlu City belong to the management of Nanqiu County, and it is the county guard's business for them to rebel, and in the end it is equivalent to me supervising myself. "Ding Kui is now a beautiful difference," give me a chance to eat empty salary. ”

"But you still have to send troops to guard the pass. Liu Yu reminded.

"As long as 500 people hold the eastern pass, the reinforcements from Giant Sheep City can arrive in more than an hour, and I can arrange for another 2,500 people to rest in Giant Sheep City, in fact, they can act as my city defense army, and they can completely use the money of the clan to support my private army. ”

Ding Kui wanted to understand the real purpose of the specific mission of the royal outpost, the division headquarters of the 2O1 Division was in Nanqiu County, and the main force of the 21st Army could be killed in a few days, who would dare to rebel there? He had no such plan.

"This can be done but not said. Ding Kun laughed when he said it.

"The preparation of the empty report is not very good, and there is no problem at all in assisting in the defense of Juyang City. The main threat to the Hump Mountain Pass comes from foreign countries, specifically from the Tongyuan River, and the safety of the pass can be guaranteed by guarding the Giant Sheep City, and the royal fire dragon flag on the outpost will always flutter. "Liu Yu is not in favor of empty salary, but it is okay to do it in another way.

"The Sect Mansion Fortress gives me three captains who are equivalent to supervising the army, I can't hand over the elite troops to them, does Mr. Liu have a good plan?" Ding Kui didn't know which three they were, but he knew about their existence.

"Hehe, you don't have to worry too much, you have to listen to everything when you get to Giant Sheep City, otherwise you can keep them in the outpost forever and not go out, after all, the Captain is the supreme commander. Liu Yu hinted that Ding Kui could use his command authority to coerce and lure the three captains.

"That's right, they are under my control, if you want to report to the next level, you have to find the Minister of Health, as long as I order that they must not leave their posts without permission, where can they go? "Ding Kui is in the capital, and he doesn't know that the power of the magistrate is great.

Mainly because there is no task pressure on this newly added royal outpost, the Minister of Health and Inspection estimates that he will not ask once a year, unless he wants to travel, it is impossible to inspect Hump Mountain, it can be said that as long as there is no rebellion, no one cares.

The lieutenant of the royal outpost made Ding Kui the new favorite of the aristocratic assembly, but while consolidating the centrist camp, he was labeled as a royalist and was one of the representatives of the maintenance of royal power.

Another influential figure at the aristocratic conference was the Duke of Beizhen, Tang Jun's most conspicuous hand was to win over Sima Zong, the Marquis of Pingbo, and the Sima family, one of the five marquises, became a vassal of the Tang family.

The originally weak Guozhang faction rose strongly, and with the help of many lobbyists, it absorbed a large number of small and medium-sized noble vassals, becoming a force to be reckoned with in the aristocratic assembly.

Although this could not be the subject of the noble assembly, the Duke of Beizhen proposed to condemn the unidentified heirs to the nobility and demand that those who did not come from the right way be stripped of their titles.

This actually advocates that the queen's son is the first in line to the throne, implying that the king should appoint the queen's son as the crown prince as soon as possible, so as to calm everyone's suspicion of the throne.

As soon as Tang Jun's proposal came out, it was opposed by many people, and it was strange that several elders of the Yang family did not express their position, and seemed to acquiesce to this proposal.

According to the usual practice, the ten elders of the Senate will not express their position on the throne, especially not before the king, at most, the king has clearly appointed the crown prince, and the ten elders have agreed, so Tang Jun's proposal should be overturned as soon as it comes out.

However, Tang Jun's proposal actually entered the final voting link, and was rejected by a narrow margin after the vote of all the nobles.

Ding Kui led the centrists to vote against it, which can be said to be the key to Tang Jun's defeat.

This is not entirely his personal reason, and the Jiang family strongly opposes it. You must know that Jiang Tong plans to let him succeed, and he will change his surname to inherit An Guogong, which is not the right way, and he will be deprived of his title according to Tang Jun's proposal.

Tang Jun was not discouraged by the defeat, and set up an organization called the "Pure Noble Alliance" outside the meeting to win over the nobles whose sons were the sons of their wives to inherit the title, and to study proposals in favor of the alliance.

Ding Kui couldn't help but ask his wife when he went home, "Do you want Shaodian to become the crown prince and inherit the throne in the future?"

"Whether he can become a prince depends on his father's will, it is naturally good to be a king, but it is not bad to be a prince who lives a leisurely life, and this palace respects his father's will. Shaodian Luan put up the princess's shelf.

"Fortunately, it's inconvenient for me to come forward to support him on this issue, and you don't want me to help him in the future, this is the ancestral training of the family, and all great families have the same ancestral teaching. Ding Kui breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why?" Shao Dianluan didn't understand.

She didn't have such an ancestral teaching.

Ding Kui explained this question for a long time before she understood.

"Don't you want my brother to inherit the throne?" she asked rhetorically.

"Hopefully, but that can only be said in private. ”

"Hypocrisy, don't you say that others won't think so?"

"There's no way, the aristocracy is so hypocritical, it needs both decency and profit. In terms of hypocrisy, your royal family is the most, and the queen, your mother and Princess Nangong are the representatives, who are harmonious and friendly on the surface, but secretly they are all to death. ”

"Wow, you commented on them like that, I'll tell my mother to go back. ”

Ding Kui hugged Shaodianluan and said, "How can I say anything in private, do I want to tell others your favorite ......?"

"Dead ghost," Shaodian Luan immediately covered Ding Kui's mouth, "You can't talk nonsense about this, and you can't say anything to Long Yan." ”

At the end of the noble assembly, the ten elders reached a tacit understanding, and everything returned to the original track, and there were no more eye-catching proposals, and the ten-day conference ended in a superficially peaceful atmosphere.

The day after the end of the noble assembly, three guests came to the Protector's Mansion.

Ding Kui looked at the three young men in their twenties curiously and asked, "You are the three captains under me?"

One of the young men arched his hand and said, "Lord Duwei, you know the people of your subordinates, and your subordinates never joke. ”

"Well, I don't think I've ever seen you smile. ”

The acquaintance in front of Ding Kui is Shao Dianfei.

"Subordinate Shao Dian Cheng (Shao Dian Ye), see Lord Duwei. The other two youths saluted Ding Kui at the same time.

"No courtesy," Ding Kui held his hands on the ground, "They are all young talents, and I feel old when I see you." ”

Shao Diancheng and Shao Dianye look like they are ten ** years old, and they are indeed a few years younger than Ding Kui and Shao Dianfei.

Shao Dianfei pointed at Shao Diancheng and said, "He is the champion of the latest knight competition. Then he pointed to the Shaodian industry. Without waiting for him to speak, Shaodian Ye hurriedly said: "My father, Shaodian Yintuo's subordinates, greet you." ”

"Ah, the tiger father has no dogs, yes. Ding Kui stepped forward and patted Shao Dianye on the shoulder.

The troops of the royal family are very relationship-oriented, most of them are children of the country, and everyone is accustomed to having a relative who is distant and close to each other, and when they get together, they will talk about family affairs and relationships first.

Shaodian Ye is a little more handsome than the director of internal security, it should be that Shaodian Yin married a beautiful daughter-in-law and brought his son a good appearance gene.

"You were the last champion?" Ding Kui also patted Shao Diancheng's shoulder by the way.