Of course, it would have been too impulsive and foolish to angrily rebuke Wang Maohong in public at a cabinet meeting, so Yu Yuangui just ignored it for the time being.
Back in the palace, Yu Zhongshu went to check the young emperor's homework for the day again.
Although he had become the de facto highest authority in the empire, Yu Yuangui had no intention of usurping power as Wang Mang. After all, the young emperor was his nephew. How could his uncle have the nerve to rob his nephew's things? Not to mention that the late emperor had a deep kindness to him.
But the brother-in-law is different. If the eldest princess of Nankang marries Cheng Jinyang, and the other party establishes a foothold in Jingkou and has steel giants, she may be another Su Zigao in the coming year.
Regarding the Iron Giant Soldier, during the two months that Cheng Jinyang was hospitalized after the war, the hospital controlled by Yu did not know how many times he was examined. From his hair to his blood, no problem was found at all. He was simply too healthy.
Healthier humans.
Obviously, the so-called Iron Giant Divine Soldier should be lodged in his supernatural bloodline, some kind of meme-like ability. This ability does not rely on physical matter to exist, so it is difficult to be used by existing
Detected by science and technology.
But it does work...
This situation is of course very tangled, and it is equivalent to a completely uncontrollable violent factor that exists outside the central power system.
If you recruit him (meaning to be a prince-in-law), he will definitely climb up the system according to the rules. Frequent wars have caused the central government to be highly dependent on his strength. Sooner or later, if this continues, he will usurp power and replace him.
.
If you don't recruit him, if he is recruited by a noble family or the rebels, he might turn around and violently bulldoze your system.
Or even if it's a bit darker, can we just find an unfounded charge to strike first and nip this unstable factor in the cradle?
Still not working. Let alone the five-surname family, he would not be able to pass the test of Princess Nankang.
Of course, Yu Yuangui is also a mature politician. Any mature politician must be good at turning a blind eye to problems that cannot be solved. Oh no, it should be called "waiting for the time window", so he decided to put this issue aside for the time being.
Arriving at the imperial study room, Yu Yuangui was shocked to find that the person tutoring the young emperor today was not the Queen Mother Yu, but the eldest princess of Nankang.
Compared with his mother who scolded him at every turn, the eldest sister was much gentler and more approachable, so the little emperor was in a very happy mood. It wasn't until he saw his uncle walking into the palace with a straight face that he quickly sat up straight and pretended to listen carefully.
However, Yu Yuangui was currently worried about his brother-in-law's affairs and had no time to care about his little thoughts. He just stared at the eldest princess of Nankang in a daze.
"What's the matter, uncle?" Nan Kang asked with a smile.
"Come out with me for a moment." Yu Yuangui sighed.
In the side room of the palace, hearing her uncle asking about Cheng Jinyang in a roundabout way, the eldest princess of Nankang smiled:
"Uncle, my father once asked me a question: How to imprison a rhinoceros in a cage?"
Yu Yuangui was silent for a moment and understood what she meant.
Rhinoceros are strong and can only be eaten and tamed, not imprisoned in cages. Since Cheng Jinyang possesses the power of a third-grade steel giant, if you still think about how to guard against and suppress him all day long, aren't you making yourself miserable? You
Don’t think about it, can you suppress me?
"Wang Maohong wants him to go to Jingkou to recruit troops." Yu Yuangui said in a low voice, "Jingkou is the private territory of the Xiaoqi Army. If it were another son of aristocratic families, Xi Daohui would directly give him a position in the army, and there would be no problem."
"But he is the leader of the Cheng clan, and he is also known as the Iron Giant Divine Soldier. It is inappropriate for him to be given a low position, and he cannot convince the public if he is given a high position. I am afraid Xi Daohui also has concerns. Furthermore, he is the only one who owns the Cheng Clan in the Divine Capital.
With fifth-grade potential, we may not be willing to let him serve in the Jingkou Army to avoid mistakes."
"It might not be possible for others, but the Cheng family in the capital city is an old military family and has a traditional tendency in this regard." The eldest princess of Nankang hinted.
Yu Yuangui was startled for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said, "I forgot about it."
The Cheng family in the capital city was first led by Cheng Zhijie, and they have always followed the line of military commanders and nobles. However, because gravity and the military are so consistent, the central government is not willing to let the Cheng family get too involved in the military. Generations of suppression and restrictions have been suppressed, and by the time of Cheng Shizhi
In the 1990s, family affairs had basically been completely transformed into the civilian scientific research field of aerospace.
Other families with bloodline superpowers and militarization, such as the other four surnames except the Li family in Longxi, basically consciously avoid the influence of the military. The children of the family do not join the army and are not disciplined. The Wang family in Taiyuan is the key target of prevention.
Later, Wang Maohong and Wang Chuzhong escorted the emperor to "cross south in full attire" and made an unparalleled contribution to break this shackles.
Back to the topic, since the Cheng Shiju, the talents of the Cheng family have gradually declined, slowly degenerating from the highest level four to the highest level five, and the scale of clan affairs has also declined day by day, so the clan leaders of the past generations have turned their attention back to military business.
Considering the ancestral marriage relationship between the two families, the Sima family later agreed to allow them to serve in a special department in Jinyiwei.
This department was later spun off and became the private business of Shendu Cheng, which was one of the predecessors of Tianluo Diwang.
The militarized rule that families with special abilities are not allowed to join the army has been largely destroyed in this chaotic world where half of the country is in ruins.
The Taiyuan Wang family and Wang Chuzhong, who had the ideological seal, directly brainwashed the Long Xiang army and then rebelled. After the rebellion was put down, these people were basically killed. Even so, the Taiyuan Wang family still had a large number of clan members in Sifangjie Town, and they would not be able to do so for a while.
Easy to clean.
In this case, why not let the Cheng family from the capital of God return to the military to check the excessively expanded strength of the Wang family in Taiyuan?
Any other family might not be willing to plunge into an unfamiliar field like this. But as the eldest princess of Nankang said, the Cheng family in Shendu is an old military family and has both the ability and the interest to return to the military.
The central government also happens to support the Cheng family in the capital city to check and balance the Wang family in Taiyuan, which "shares the world with the Sima family". Although the former is far inferior to the latter in terms of power level and resource reserves...
But they have steel giants!
Thinking of this, Yu Yuangui was already moved.
There are too many refugees in the Jingkou area and there are many mountains. Even if the Cheng family of the divine capital establishes a foothold there, it may not arouse the vigilance of the Taiyuan Wang family in a short time.
Thinking of this, he made up his mind. No matter what, it was always okay to give it a try. If it didn't work, he would make another plan.
In the Cheng family area, Chu Qingqing was playing Go with Wang Wanrou.
As it rained, I felt a strong sense of frustration that I was humiliating myself.
"I lost." Qingqing sighed and surrendered, "I am no match for you in the middle game."
"You are too obsessed with the frontal battlefield." Wang Wanrou said leisurely.
She took Chu Qingqing's chess basket, picked up a piece, and gently pressed it on the upper right corner:
"In a head-on fight, anxiety is not good, so why not avoid the entanglement and find another enclave?"