The drizzle was drizzling, and thirteen miles northwest of Qingchi County, a village called Zhongyi Castle was shrouded in haze.

Murong Wangyou stood under the eaves of a heavy mountain chain mail, looking expressionlessly at the more than 400 unlucky soldiers training in the rain on the playground.

Those soldiers he was staring at were the little martial officials selected from the Western Army and the various units of the Song Army. They all cursed Old Murong in their hearts to form an administrative management of Danzhou as soon as possible! For their small military officers of the Song Dynasty, civil servants in the Song Dynasty were enviable and annoying. Use literature to control martial officials! Even if they were selected from the ninth rank, they could not afford to provoke miscellaneous martial officials who had not yet obtained their official positions, let alone Murong Wangyou, a fifth-rank official... Moreover, this guy was so fierce that he would beat people at every turn and whip. Sometimes he would beat Brother Zhao Zhong, the indecent bastard!

And this is not what everyone can't stand the most. What makes everyone feel most uncomfortable is that Murong Wangyou is obviously a senior civil servant at the level of a court official, but his whole body is not at all literary. He is actually wearing a mountain literary armor weighing dozens of pounds, storm, rain, snow, and hard work!

It's simply unreasonable. You are a civil servant! Shouldn't you be a wide robe, a beautiful woman with a beautiful wine, and a joke about the wind and moon? How can you wear mountain literary armor like this and stare at a group of martial artists every day? What else do you read sage books like this? Even Fan Zhongyan, who "has millions of soldiers in his heart", will not be like this!

Oh, by the way, this old man Murong doesn't have millions of soldiers in his heart. He talks about hundreds or thousands of soldiers, but there are no tens of thousands... However, this old man really understands his skills, not the kind of civil servant who pretends to understand and is very foolish.

Instead, I understand how to use swords, how to use spears, how to use crossbows, and how to use shields, all of them are so proficient! And I am also skilled in archery and horses, and I can ride on horses and play continuous shooting on horseback, and I can stand on the back and look at him as the teacher of Ma Zhi and Zhao Zhong. How can I not be skilled in archery and horses?

Whoever is doing something wrong below you can show you personally and play a few moves with the young and strong warriors!

As for a team, how to use a unit of troops, how to arrange infantry, how to arrange cavalry, how to spread out the light cavalry if they are not collected at night, how to rush the armored cavalry, how to marching, how to camp, and how to rob things, he knew that the Liao army would attack grass valley! Old man Murong and Brother Zhao Zhong both worked as officers in the Han army's guards' personal army, so of course he knew how to rob things...

This is not a fifth-rank civil servant, it is clearly the direct commander of the troops in front of the palace! And it is not the current commander, but the old commander of the Taizu period!

Being stared at such a demon-level "old commander" and a fifth-rank civil servant, these students under the Military and Education Department of the Privy Council have been here for more than a year in a difficult life.

What’s even more hateful is that everyone has been suffering for so long but has not gained much! Of course, he has improved a lot in martial arts, and has mastered many tactics of the two-level troops. However, the person we are most looking forward to from the ninth-rank official has already been ruined with Zhang Dun’s fall... Without an official, what’s the use of being a great skill? It’s obvious that everyone’s hardship is in vain!

Although he was extremely resentful in his heart, no one dared to disobey the old man Murong who was wearing dozens of kilograms of Shanwenjia, who was wearing a fangs and claws. Although he pretended to be like a worthless military general, he was a noble fifth-rank civil servant! If he offended this ruthless man, he would be in vain if he cut his head!

But hope is not without it. Good news has spread from the "unlucky guys" selected by the Kaifeng Imperial Army. It is said that the official family has issued a major edict to pull more than 400 students in the Military and Education Department (there are no more than 500 people now, and several of them died due to beatings and injuries and training accidents, and a few of them escaped open the back door) to the front office of the Palace Department, and a special imperial horse was set up to settle everyone.

Although the official body is still not settled, it is a way out to be able to go to Yumazhi to protect the official family? The squads in front of the palace have always received the top-ranked pay for the Song Dynasty. The students in the Military Academy are all at the level of miscellaneous military officials. When they come to Yumazhi, they can always get a high salary...

I don’t know if it’s because the military science science is about to be shut down. Old Man Murong has been very angry these days and has become more and more oppressed everyone. The training requirements are also very high. It’s light raining today and it’s not allowed to rest. We have to let everyone demonstrate the gun formation in the mud!

What's the use...

A Murong family's nephew who was also wearing armor ran to Old Man Murong and made a crisp sound of armor-leaf collision.

"Uncle, I came to report from a distance. Ten miles outside the village, dozens of cavalry came winding, but no long poles of the military flag were seen."

The so-called "far-stall" is also the role of the students of the Military and Education Department. They are all light cavalry without armor, scattered around the village. As long as there are large groups of people approaching, they will report immediately, as if they are really on the front line.

Murong Wangyou whispered: "Calculate the day, it's time for the deputy envoy of Dongshangguanmen."

There are also children of the Murong family in Jiehe Market, so when Wu Haogu arrived, someone rode a horse to report the news.

"Uncle, do you want to welcome me?"

"No need." Murong Wangyou shook his head, "If he wants me to welcome me, he will come to repay me."

Since he came without telling him, he naturally wanted to see the mighty style of the military and academic department students! Then let him have a good experience! Although we are less than 500, we can be used as thousands of people. If we can use this method to cultivate tens of thousands of elite soldiers, why worry about the unrest of the north?"

...

Lu Yihao was wearing a straw raincoat and a hat on his head, riding a big green horse on the muddy official road. He looked up at the dark and depressing sky and frowned.

"Brother Yizhi, are you that anxious? You have to rush in the rain?"

Ji Yi also rode a big yellow horse, and was also rushing in the rain in the rain. Behind him and Lu Yihao, there were also a group of carriages and horses, which were a bit magnificent.

"Why are you not in a hurry?" Ji Yi smiled bitterly, "Wu Haogu is a guy who can do things and has the credit of the official family. If he goes too late, he will probably have bought hundreds of thousands of acres."

"Brother Yizhi, have you sent someone to rent a land and shepherd the sheep?"

As Wu Haogu expected, Ji Yi in the new party camp was the one who caused him trouble. Of course, he did not have to be an enemy of Wu Haogu, but the fact that the party struggled was different.

Wu Haogu has now entered the Sumen and asked his younger brother to marry Han Zhongyan's daughter, and is undoubtedly an official of the old party. Ji Yi married Zhang Dun's granddaughter, and is undoubtedly a member of the new party. For the sake of party interests, he of course wanted to ruin Wu Haogu's affairs.

If Zhang Dun had not fallen, he could have stayed out of the matter and become a free official. But now, he no longer has the capital to freely do. He must fight for the new party and rely on the "war achievements" of the party's struggle to move up.

However, he also knew that the trick of renting land to herd sheep could not stop Wu Haogu.

Lu Yihao frowned, "How could he not stop it?"

"It's just spending more money," Ji Yi said. "Even if you buy only 500,000 acres of land for 1 million yuan, the government will not feel distressed... Nowadays, the government is very arrogant."

Ji Yi has also played with Zhao Ji, so he naturally knows how big Zhao Ji's hand is. It's a big deal to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to do in Wu Haogu to Cangzhou. At worst, I can sell a piece of land in Kaifeng Prefecture, and there are hundreds of thousands of dollars!

"What should I do?"

Ji Yi thought about it, "I have to find evidence of Wu Haogu's crime and let the censor impeach him."

"Executive?" Lu Yihao smiled, "It's not easy to find? That guy has been an official for a few years. He has more than one million yuan in his family. He must be a corrupt person."

"It's useless," Ji Yi shook his head, "It's not a big deal for the government to protect his shortcomings, and it's not a big deal to be greedy for one or two million. Besides, Wu Haogu didn't take money from the government's pocket. He is actually a real financial manager... He can do what the people do without adding taxes and the country can do without merging themselves!"

Lu Yihao was surprised, "Can he be able to save the people without adding taxes and the country's benefits?"

"The people do not increase taxes, but the country will be free" is what Wang Anshi said when he was "quarreling" with Sima Guang in front of the imperial court. It means that the country's finances can be abundant without increasing taxes to the people. Unfortunately, Wang Anshi can only say it, but he does not know how to "real estate develops a country". As a result, after a long time of struggle, it is better to increase taxes than to turn taxes into franchise and levies!

However, Wu Haogu was neither specialized nor entrusted. He sold a piece of land and earned one million for Song Huizong... and then he tried to make a "martial arts competition house". I heard that there are actually many people in Kaifeng's imperial guards practicing martial arts!

"So wouldn't this person be with us?" Lu Yihao thought for a while, "If King Jing had his help back then, perhaps the country would have been prosperous and strong now."

"No," Ji Yi just shook her head, "He and Wang Jinggong are not on the same journey... He is Wang Jinggong of the old party, which is Su Che's evaluation!"

The routes of Wu Haogu and Wang Anshi are the opposite! Wang Anshi's surname is the society, and Wu Haogu is the surname capital. Wang Anshi's ultimate dream is to "create the people to save the poor", while Wu Haogu is to make money to enrich the people to develop capitalism.

"If this is true," Lu Yihao frowned, "You can't let Wu Haogu continue to grow bigger, otherwise the court will be taken down by Yuanyou's traitor..."

Ji Yi nodded, "Does Brother Yuanzhi know about Shi Guozhong, the new governor of Cangzhou?"

"I know," said Lu Yihao, "he was six years ahead of me in high school, but he was too slippery in his official career."

"Slide?" Ji Yi asked, "He is not a member of the Yuanyou Party, right?"

"No," said Lu Yihao, "he is not from any side."

"Oh." Ji Yi nodded, "No party and no faction... He actually arrived at the prefecture, probably because he had the blessing of Jianzhong and Yasukuni?" He paused, "Let's go and explore his trump card first. If he is really willing to be a clay bodhisattva, we can stop Wu Haogu."
Chapter completed!