Everyone else had no objections. Even the ministers who originally opposed the restoration of the crown prince's six rates had no objections to Zhao Xi's memorial.
However, disputes arose in the court regarding the subsequent matter of selecting soldiers, and the intensity of the dispute was even higher than the competition for civilian officials.
Also, the competition for positions is for individuals, while the selection of soldiers is for official matters. In private and in the court, the distinction is very clear.
This is not to say that Zhao Xi is not allowed to select troops. Zhao Xi did not mention how he selects troops. The real dispute is that Zhao Xi plans to select troops only in the Beijing camp.
Speaking of which, I have to say a few words. Most of the time, official matters are just an excuse, and everyone's different interests are the fundamental thing.
No one is close to anyone, but it is impossible for everyone’s close people to be piled up in Beijing, and there are not so many positions for everyone to compete for. Therefore, there are some in Jingxi Road, Jingdong Road, and even in all the military camps of the Western Army, Hebei, and the country.
Stay with people who are close to you, especially the low-level ones.
However, the prince chooses a bodyguard, which is very different. It is inevitable for the prince to inherit the throne, and to be an official in the palace... Everyone knows that the road to Qingyun in the future is paved.
So there was a lot of noise.
This could be regarded as the first time that Zhao Zhen watched his ministers quarreling with the mentality of a bystander. Yes, it was the first time that he felt that the quarrel between these people had nothing to do with him.
But it's quite irritating, even more annoying than making noises related to myself.
Most people like to watch quarrels, the kind where one person quarrels with another, and all kinds of beautiful things can come out during the quarrel.
Zhao Zhen also likes to watch, but this is the court... The key is that you don't have a group of people shouting so loudly that you can't even hear what you say. The whole court is buzzing. After finally watching the excitement, the result is...
Don't let me see clearly.
Looking at the husbands... they are all quite helpless.
When did the scholar-bureaucrats of the imperial dynasty value military titles so much? It was all caused by Qian Di. To put it bluntly, it was all caused by interests.
How should I put it? There is disharmony between civil and military affairs between the country and the dynasty, that is to say, this is the case on the surface, but what is the real situation?
The Qingli New Deal was aborted within a year and was almost completely rejected. Why did the entire civil service group reject military preparations as well?
Nowadays, the forbidden army has 800,000 people, they are on empty pay, and the soldiers are working as handymen, almost to the point of blatantness. Can the admonishers not see it? Or do they say they don’t know?
However, there has never been a serious attempt to impeach a military general.
In wartime, civilian officials serve as commanders, and military generals often bow to civilian officials of the same rank... This is indeed the case. This is the law of the ancestors of the country.
Being a commander in time of war... This point determines that if a civil servant reaches a certain level and wants to know and take charge of military affairs, he must have a general who he can trust and use.
In other words, behind every civilian official in the capital there must be a military general involved.
That’s why we faced the chaos of the Forbidden Forces, but Tai Jian turned a blind eye... Everyone is like this, and if they bring it up, it’s like flipping the table. Lao Fan’s implementation of the New Deal is a lesson from the past... They have already gone out, but Lao Fan has been incessant in recent years.
The road to transfer was bumpy, from Zhouzhou, Dengzhou to Hangzhou, and now to Qingzhou again.
At such an age, who knows his destiny, who can bear this? No one in the political hall felt pity for Lao Fan.
He is not Fu Bi, who has a father-in-law who was the former Xianggong. He is not Han Qi, who is related to the Lingshou Han family, and he is not Wang Su, whose ancestor was already Xianggong in the founding of the country.
But now that all the ministers in the court are similar to Fan Zhongyan, who dares to expose the sore?
Even if you know clearly that what you are clamoring for is self-interest, as long as you shout high-sounding slogans, you will be able to get by... The so-called Zai Zai, especially the current Zai Zai, doesn't mean that it is good if you can get by.
"Xi'er, there may be changes in the selection of soldiers."
It was a rare occasion when my father was happy and stayed at Ciming Palace, but the topic was about recruiting soldiers.
Zhao Xi is a little confused. It is said that the so-called court dispute is a process of compromise. Dad did not insist on restoring the six rates and reduced the number of East Palace guards. There should not be competition in the court...
Are they not even given a little bit of autonomy? That’s it!
"Dad, if the guard of the East Palace cannot be decided by the child, the child would rather not have any retinue."
Nonsense! The worst thing is that he doesn't want to be a guard. Zhao Xi also knows that with his father's temperament, he will definitely not be able to resist the court. In the end, Liu Shu's matter will be in vain. It is better to say it directly to save his father from losing face in front of him.
"No! The court has no objection to Xi'er's selection of soldiers. The dispute focuses on the source of soldiers participating in the selection."
"Xi'er, your policy has been stated clearly, and the selection of guards in the Beijing camp has caused disputes in the court. According to the history of the unbearable situation of the Beijing camp, the imperial guards stationed in various places in the country have been promoted by the officials of the capital, and even the Xiang army
The archers are all involved."
"This morning, after deliberation on your terms, this is the only one that cannot be decided. I'm afraid there will be many memorials in the next few days, and there will be many people stating the matter of selecting troops."
Now Zhao Xi understood. He still didn't attach much importance to the importance of Qiandi's subordinate officials... This was ignored by him, because he never thought about nepotism from the bottom of his heart.
"Dad, how does the court make decisions?"
"The decision has not yet been made. My ministers have not intervened, so we will have to wait for a few days."
With such efficiency, maybe everyone has their own plans. It doesn't matter, anyway, the campsite has not been determined yet, and the facilities have not been built. Even the renovation of the East Palace has just started.
It was rare for the court to be generous. In order to transform the ruins in the northwest of the inner garden into the East Palace, the court was not stingy this time and specially allocated money and food... I am afraid that the favor has been repaid.
Zhao Xi really doesn't worry about the scale of the East Palace and how to build it. Just don't get cold in winter and don't get hot in summer. Besides, with his current status... the room is cold, and there are people who specially change the heater in the middle of the night.
When it gets hot, the wind provided by the dedicated fan is no worse than the air conditioners of later generations.
Also...Tao Niang is more worried than him. This little girl is not polite, and I don’t know who told her. Now she looks like the heroine of the East Palace.
What Zhao Xi is worried about is the selection and construction of the camp, which will be a vital seed he plants in the country.
The conclusion was reached, and finally the selection of the East Palace Guards was turned into a military examination mode... Zhao Xi was really speechless.
In other words, the entire restriction on being selected as a guard of the East Palace has been relaxed, and it has been directly extended from the imperial army to the young people of the appropriate age for the imperial court... This has really become a conscription.
As for the standards... Zhao Xi did not completely abandon the original martial arts test examples. After all, he was not familiar with the wars of this era. He just added his own unique items.
It was a bit troublesome. Zhao Xi had to give detailed explanations of some later movements... No way, none of them knew what push-ups were, nor did they understand the meaning of return running, or even weight-bearing and bare-handed cross-country...
Convert to feet and miles.
He had to convert all the time it took to complete these actions into a timing standard that can be understood in this day and age.
We didn't set too high a standard, we just copied the physical fitness standards of future generations of soldiers.