Wu Haogu, Ji Yi, and Zhang Yuan soon arrived at Jiehe Guanshi. The Guanshi is open to the public and has many merchants. However, there are still several closed yards for noble people coming and going. When Wu Haogu and others arrived, the banquet had already been held, and a table of Kaifeng dishes was placed in an octagonal pavilion in the garden.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Zhang Yuan asked about the situation of the mercenaries of the Great Education and Culture Group, he came to Jiehe Market for this matter.

"Brother Ping, please relax!" Wu Haogu smiled, "The 4,000 strong men are all here. Now the teachers and students of the Knights Academy are training, and they will be able to go out in two months. You will definitely be able to go to Lingzhou in May and June.

In addition, I also arranged for people to go to Lingzhou and Tongwan to hire cavalry and purchase equipment to ensure that they could catch up with the Hexi army's expedition this fall. There is no difficulty in capturing the four towns of Anxi from thousands of educational regiments and tens of thousands of elite troops from the Hexi army."

There were 4,000 strong men, including monk soldiers, Taoist soldiers, armed doctors, cavalry hired in Lingzhou and Shuofang, as well as some auxiliary soldiers, seven or eight thousand people.

It is not enough to use such a force to deal with the Hexi Army (Western thieves), but it is more than enough to use it to deal with the Black Khan Uighurs entrenched in the four towns of Anxi. Even without the Hexi army, only seven or eight thousand people could probably complete the battle to recover the four towns.

"There is only one if there is 4,000 strong men say that they have it..." Zhang Yuan shook his head, "Chongdao, no wonder my father is as afraid of your Jiehe Market as Cai Jing!"

This sounds wrong! Wu Haogu quickly explained: "What are you afraid of? Jiehe Commercial City is just a city with a population of 200,000, and Kaifeng Prefecture has more than one million people! And there are also famous towns such as Daming Prefecture, Henan Prefecture, Yingtian Prefecture and other famous cities. If you really want to use the methods of Shangjiehe Commercial City and Jingdong Commercial City, can the 100,000 troops be summoned at any time?"

Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi looked at each other, and Zhang Yuan asked, "Brother Chongdao, do you really have a way?"

"How? What's the solution?" Wu Haogu seemed to not understand very much.

Zhang Yuan laughed, "It's a way to train troops for the officials!"

"This," Wu Haogu smiled, "King Xianggong Cai has been trained and trained. What else can a certain merchant do?"

Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi both laughed. Zhang Yuan said, "Brother Chongdao, I'm not hiding it. When I bid farewell to my father, my father said that after you kicked Cai Yuanchang down, you will probably have to defeat Cai Yuanchang by yourself."

"I'm going to be Cai Yuanchang's lack?" Wu Haogu said with a smile, "How is this possible? I am a military officer, how can I worship Xiang Xuanma?"

"Of course the Prime Minister won't let you do it, but you can resist his lack of military training!" Zhang Yuan said with a smile, "You can be a member of the Privy Council... and you can also be considered the magistrate!"

Go to be a member of the Tongzhi Privy Council? Wu Haoguxin said: Isn’t this going further and further on the road to the bourgeois revolution?

Ji Yi also looked at Wu Haogu, and laughed no matter how she looked at her fat black face, "Brother Chongdao, if Mr. Zhiping and I go to accomplish great things, you must support me behind my back. If you are the same as Mr. Cai, then we will achieve nothing."

Zhang Yuan also said: "Brother Chongdao, you can't escape this matter. Although the official family is a bit frivolous, he is also extremely smart. He must know that only you can train an elite soldier for him, and he will not train his soldiers into a military army. So he will definitely recruit you into the capital... You have to prepare early!"

Is there any way? Wu Haoguxin said: Why don’t I know? I want the horse to run fast and want the horse to not eat grass. How can the Zhao family think of such good things?

...

After arranging Zhang Yuan to the barracks in Jiehebei City to watch the 4,000 mercenaries under training, Wu Haogu and Ji Yi returned to the south city together. Ji Yi had a mansion in the south city, so he went back to his home. Wu Haogu returned to his mansion with all his thoughts. As soon as he entered the inner house, he saw Pan Qiaolian greeting him with red eyes under the support of Ximen Qing.

"Sister 18, what's going on? Are they the children at home..." Wu Haogu felt a little sad when he saw Pan Qiaolian crying. He thought it was the children at home?

Last winter, the Wu family added a man and two women, and they were named Jiujiu, Xianniang and Jinniang. These are still little babies, and they were prone to illness... Especially the Wu family's legitimate son Yijiu, who was born to Pan Qiaolian, was a little weak at birth and could not be compared with his brothers at all!

"Bao, bah!" Pan Qiaolian glared at Wu Haogu in anger, "What are you saying? The children are all good! You are not good now!"

"Me?" Wu Haogu was stunned, "What's wrong with me?"

Ximen Qing, who was standing beside him, said: "The 11th brother of Kaifeng Prefecture just asked someone to send a letter to his sister, saying that he would arrive at Jiehe in a few days."

"Pan Shiyi is coming?" Wu Haogu breathed, "That's a good thing! Sister Shiba, why are you..."

"He is here to catch you!" Pan Qiaolian stamped her feet.

Capture me? Wu Haogu became nervous and he did too much trouble!

"He wants to arrest you as the Minister of the Tongzhi Privy Council..." Pan Qiaolian's second half of the sentence came late. However, Wu Haogu's heart did not calm down because of this sentence.

It really made the point of Zhang Dun's old crow! When Cai Jing got off the stage, it was his turn to take the blame.

Pan Qiaolian sighed: "As long as the military officers of this dynasty become Privy Councilors, they will not have a good life! They have to be an official with their tails on each other every day. What's more, Dalang, you have some foundation in Jiehe Shangshi, so why don't you let the censor impeach all day?"

Ximen Qing advised him, "Master, you might as well push the dispatch... It would be impossible not to have you in Jiehe Commercial City."

Had a errand been pushed? Wu Haogu sat down on a chair with a frown.

Can it be recommended? Wu Haogu thought: Although Jiehe Market is already a little powerful, it is not impossible to confront the imperial court. But he also has the Yuntai Academy and the empirical school! The students of Yuntai Academy must be able to enter the officialdom through the right-list Jinshi class, so that Yuntai Academy can continue to attract the "wealthy sons" in the world to enroll.

If he openly separatist in Jiehe Market, even if the court does not send troops to conquer, he will cancel the right-list Jinshi exam...

Wu Haogu sighed and said to Pan Qiaolian: "Eighteen, don't worry, there is always a way to deal with it for your husband."

Then he said to Ximen Qing: "Sister, send someone to invite Mr. Murong, Mi Yuanhui, Zhong Ge'er, Ximen, Murong Wu Ge, Ma Zhongfu, Huang Silang, Zhang Xizai, Wei Sihai, Qu Huajie, Old Teacher Lin, Zhao Jiaren, He Yanshe, Lu Renjia and others to have dinner."

These people are the core team of Wu Haogu in Jiehe Commercial City. Now that Wu Haogu has encountered a big event, they naturally have to let them come up with advice.

...

The Bian River is full of villages on both sides and connected by fields.

The Bian River here has flowed out of Kaifeng Prefecture and entered the territory of Yingtian Prefecture to the south. The Bian River is actually part of the Central Plains canal system. Now it is the busiest time of the Gangyun. The upper surface of the river is connected, and there are all Gangboats filled with various cargoes. Among them, some official boats and pleasure boats slowly passed by the river. You can vaguely hear the sound of the piano and the songs coming from these official boats and pleasure boats.

Cai Jing and Cai You are now sitting in a particularly large pleasure boat, while having a banquet, watching the beautiful family performing hard.

The father and son are so content with leisure, how could they look like they are leaving Beijing in a panic?

"Dad, do you think Wu Haogu dares to jump into the fire pit of the Privy Council?"

Cai You couldn't help but point the topic to his own political enemy, Wu Haogu.

Cai Jing laughed, "Does he dare not jump? Could it be that he really raises troops to rebel in Jiehe Shang City?"

"That's good!"

Cai You said, picking up the wine glass and drinking it all in one go.

Cai Jing frowned, pondered for a while, shook his head, "Maybe he really has some way to satisfy the official family..."

"Sir, this is bad!"

Cai Jing laughed, "What's wrong? Wu Haogu may have a way to train a few soldiers for the officials, but so what? Will the scholars in the world let him go? Can the censors in the court let him go? Haha, it's a sin to be a military officer to be a co-prime minister. Wu Haogu is still the leader of the empirical faction, and he also proposed "Theory of Empirical" and "Theory of Rationality". I'm afraid that scholars around the world have long regarded him as an enemy.

If he becomes a clerk in the Privy Council, he will be impeached and ruined!"

...

"Head of the People's Republic of China, you can't take this as a member of the Privy Council!"

At the same time, a family banquet had been put on hold in Wu Haogu's mansion. Wu Haogu's confidant backbones, as long as they are in the Jiehe River, they are all above.

The objection was Zhao Jiaren, who was in charge of official affairs of the coastal market management department. He was also an opportunity, but it was just a civil service, and it was not the same as Zhao Zhongge's military opportunity. He was in charge of all kinds of bullshit things in the officialdom, but in fact he was just a master.

"Why can't you take it?" Wu Haogu looked at Zhao Jiaren and asked.

Zhao Jiaren, who had sparse hair and beards turned white at the age of the older age, just shook her head: "The chief should be the master of the Privy Council, why do you become a co-minister?"

"Do you know the affairs of the Privy Council?" Wu Haogudao, "Isn't this even more hated?"

Zhao Jiaren touched her beard and said, "Isn't the head of state a bad enough hatred? Is it because the head of state became a Tongzhi, the people in the Censorate were willing to let the head of state be let go? Since they were going to be impeached, it is better to have great power than to have little power.

Moreover, the head of state should also propose to the official that there is no Tongzhi, and you will be in charge of the affairs of the Privy Council alone."

"One hand?" Wu Haogu frowned, "What's the benefit of this?"

"Yes," said Zhao Jiaren, "If someone reveals his seal to impeach you, then there will be no Privy Council envoy!"

"The official will not agree, right?"

Zhao Jiaren shook her head and said, "First of the People's Republic of China, as long as you bring me into Beijing alone, the government will definitely agree to you in everything."

"Just both of us?"
Chapter completed!