Prime Minister

Chapter 711 General Art of War

Half a month later, Cai Yanqing, who was the transfer envoy of Qinfeng Road, arrived in Xizhou.

Zhang Yue, Wang Shao, and Gao Zunyu were all ordered to worship, and Cai Yanqing also attached great importance to Xihe Road, so he chose Xizhou as the first stop to take over as the road transfer envoy.

At the same time, Guo Kui and Wang Anshi had frequent quarrels. Guo Kui was dismissed from the Qinfeng Road Economic Envoy, and Lu Gongbi was sentenced to Qinzhou.

And Han Zhongyan also served as the general judge of Qinzhou. He intended to come to Xihe Road, but Han Qi refused, so he had to settle for the next best thing.

There is no conclusion as to who is the big and who is the small official position between the strategic envoy and the transshipment envoy.

The deputy envoys of the third division, such as Yantie and the deputy envoys of the Ministry of Household Affairs, are selected from among the long-term transfer envoys, and they must be selected from the transfer envoys of Hebei, Hedong, and Shaanxi.

If arranged according to the order of the imperial court, the envoy of the third division is above the Zhizhigao, the imperial edict of Zhizhi is above the waiting system, the deputy envoy of the third division is above the deputy envoy of the third division, and the deputy envoy of the third division is above the transfer envoy.

Although the Deputy Envoy of the Third Division knows miscellaneous censors, composes, and writes daily notes, these official positions are in the same rank as Zhishe Renyuan, and Cai Yanqing also studied the daily life notes together, and went straight to the Sherenyuan, just promoted Tianzhang Pavilion is waiting to be established, but the official position is still under Zhang Yue.

But in terms of actual power, Zhang Yue is not as good as Cai Yanqing.The one more military envoy than the transshipment envoy is military power, but the military power in Zhang Yue's hands was just divided by Gao Zunyu, which made him a little unreal as an economic envoy. face.

However, after Cai Yanqing met Zhang Yue, he still met Zhang Yue as an official.

Both of them had their own thoughts and didn't speak much. At the reception banquet in the evening, they retreated and talked alone.

Cai Yanqing sat opposite Zhang Yue, Cai Yanqing poured wine for Zhang Yue, and Zhang Yue immediately reciprocated.

Cai Yanqing said with a smile: "This time I left Beijing to take up the post on Qinfeng Road. I paid a special visit to Prime Minister Wu Shu, and I benefited a lot from his advice."

Zhang Yue heard Cai Yanqing's words of kindness and said: "When I worked together in the Sherenyuan, I mentioned to Lao Taishan that Cao Shuai's writing is outstanding and his talent is extraordinary. I think Lao Taishan was deeply impressed by Cao Shuai."

But anyway, Cai Yanqing was also promoted by Wang Anshi, Zhang Yue was still trying to figure out what card the opponent was playing?

Cai Yanqing said: "That's right, I have a serious matter to discuss with Duzhi."

"Cao Shuai, please tell me."

"This trip to Beijing coincided with Cai Zizheng (Cai Ting) being the Prime Minister. He talked about his experience in teaching soldiers and horses on the Jingyuan Road in the Chongzheng Hall. The world, I don’t know Zhang Jinglue about this matter, can anyone hear about it?”

Of course Zhang Yue heard about it.

Who is Cai Ting?

He was single-handedly picked up by Fan Zhongyan. When Fan Zhongyan declared Fuhedong and Shaanxi, Cai Ting was the Jiyi character in the Xuanfu Department.

However, Cai Ting was dishonest and secretly reported to Lu Yijian all the affairs in the Xuanfu Department, because this matter greatly damaged his character.

But Cai Ting is very talented. When Li Liangzuo invaded the south, it was he who supervised the army and defeated the attack of Dangxiang, which led to the victory in the battle of Dashun City.

However, Cai Ting's official career was very bumpy.

In the third year of Xining, Li Shizhong, the economic envoy of Qinfeng Road, was dismissed. At that time, Cai Ting or Guo Kui were elected to replace Li Shizhong as the envoy, but Dou Shunqing was finally used.

Later, after Lu Gongbi dismissed the privy envoy, he supplemented the privy envoy and everyone discussed Feng Jing and Cai Ting to choose someone to replace him, and finally chose Feng Jing.

After Han Jiang dismissed as prime minister, he recommended several people. One of them was Cai Ting, the economic envoy of Jingyuan Road. Great power will make him only focus on the Jingyuan road, and the matter will be left alone.

All in all, with Cai Ting's talent, he should have been promoted a long time ago, but he has not been promoted because there is no one in the court.

Cai Ting himself was also very depressed and wrote a poem in which there is a sentence "Suihua Xiangwan is worried, who thinks that Yuguan is old?" '.

After finishing writing, Cai Ting asked his own singer to sing. Anyway, everyone who visits Cai Ting's house will hear his singer sing this poem.

This poem was passed around and everyone knew it, and finally it was passed on to the official family.After hearing this, the officials couldn't help feeling sorry for Cai Ting, so they called him back to Beijing and served as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council.

But this is not the real inside story. The reason why Cai Ting was able to serve as the privy envoy was because he was married to Zeng Gongliang, so he went through the back door.

As soon as Cai Ting was promoted to be a privy envoy, he recommended the services he had promoted on Jingyuan Road.When Wang Anshi thought it could be used, he strongly supported it, making this method a part of Xining's reform.

Zhang Yue said to Cai Yanqing: "What Commander Cao said was the general's art of war that Cai Shu had practiced on Jingyuan Road at the beginning? I heard that the officials issued an order to try out this general's art of war on all the roads in Hebei."

Cai Yanqing nodded and asked, "What do you think of this method?"

Zhang Yuedao: "The correction of the general's art of war is the problem of 'the general does not know the soldier, and the soldier does not know the general' in this dynasty. I heard that when Fan Wenzheng was leading the army on Yanyan Road, he divided the 8000 forbidden soldiers into six generals. Every general sent someone to direct the training. At that time, Cai Shuxiang was under his curtain."

Cai Yanqing said: "That's exactly the case. I was listening to Cai Shuxiang's performance in the palace. The key to this general's art of war lies in disarming troops and setting up generals. At the beginning, he suggested that this general's art of war should be implemented in various roads in Shaanxi. Seven, and for 320 seven, a total of one hundred battalions were cut.

"After the abolition, the first battalion of the horse army has 300 people, and the first battalion of the infantry army has 400 people. The soldiers are divided into soldiers who join the army and those who do not join the army. Transport the luggage and guard the pass. After the general is placed, the military affairs of the various departments, and the prefectures and counties are not allowed to interfere."

Zhang Yue thought about what Cai Yanqing meant and asked, "Cao Shuai means to try out the general's art of war on our Xihe Road?"

Cai Yanqing smiled and said: "It's not decided yet. I'm a newcomer and I don't know the local customs, so I first consulted with the manager to see if it works or not? After all, the imperial court is only trying it on Jingyuan Road and Hebei Road. "

"If this method is inconvenient, let's pretend that I didn't say what I said tonight. But if we don't wait for the imperial edict and take the initiative to do it, we dare to be the first in the world. At that time, Wang Xianggong will also look at Jinglue with admiration!"

After being beaten by Wu Chong, Cai Yanqing was thinking about how to deal with his relationship with Zhang Yue all the way from Bianjing to Qinfeng.

Cai Yanqing pondered over and over again, so he threw out the art of war to Zhang Yue.

What Zhang Yue thought was that Cai Ting proposed the art of war and Wang Anshi strongly supported it. As long as he can take the lead in implementing the art of war on Xihe Road, his relationship with Wang Anshi will ease.

But the problem is that the art of war has strengthened the power among several generals, which in turn has weakened the power of the economic envoy and the commander of soldiers and horses.

Zhang Yue said to Cai Yanqing: "Let me think about this matter."

Cai Yanqing said: "Alright, I hope Jinglue will reply as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)