Prime Minister take care

Chapter 445
After Meng Qing met Xia Gongnie at noon, he got the appointment documents within a few hours.

The Prime Minister's Office has overall control over the government of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but the imperial palace and related professions are not included.The Forbidden Army is stationed in the palace and is under the direct control of General Huben. All finances are directly allocated from the internal treasury of the palace. The person in charge of the appointment of generals and generals in the Forbidden Army is the Zhong Changshi, to be precise, it is in the hands of Jian Changshi.

Xia Gongnie asked someone else to serve as Xia Jieshu's deputy, so Jian Changshi might have some objections.But Meng Qing is Chang Yu's nephew, and the one Xia has always wanted to win over.

In Jian Changshi's view, Chang Yu's willingness to allow Meng Qing to interact with the Xia family was a sign of slowing down.Xia Gongnie asked Meng Qing to join the Forbidden Army, which was the starting point for her to understand the way of the emperor.

Therefore, when Changshi Jian heard the news, instead of being dissatisfied, he was very happy. Within a few hours, the appointment documents were in Meng Qing's hands.

Of course, if Meng Qing knew what Jian Changshi was thinking, he might lose his balance and fall from the high platform in front of him.

After receiving the document, Meng Qing immediately came to the Forbidden Army.Xia Jieshu's attitude towards Meng Qing was neither distant nor enthusiastic. It was very ordinary, as if he were a stranger.

Under the high platform, a thousand recruits were lined up.Under Xia Jieshu's training these days, these people have begun to take shape and put on airs.

In addition to the necessary guard duties, the most important thing for the imperial army in the palace is to guard the emperor's honor when he travels.As for fighting, now that all military operations in the Great Zhou Dynasty are under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's Office, the Forbidden Army has no contact with the enemy's edge.

Therefore, the training of the Forbidden Army is generally carried out from the two directions of guarding and etiquette.However, ever since Xia Gong Nie ran away that year and Xia and Yang Xian almost broke up, the Xia family has felt a sense of crisis.

Therefore, since then, the training of this forbidden army has focused on actual combat, and these new recruits are even more so.

"Zong Shi used to be the governor of Zhongdi County. He was in charge of hundreds of thousands of troops and has a deep understanding of military affairs. What do you think of these new recruits?"

Although Meng Qing was a civilian, he always controlled the military.Xia Jie Shu is a general. Although he has been at the rear, he has also seen the battle report of the Battle of Cangqiu.

It only took three days for the Zhou army to break through the defense line outside Cangqiu. This naturally seemed to outsiders that Meng Qing, the county guard, was incompetent.However, Xia Jieshu had seen Liang Jun's defense plan outside Cangqiu City and knew how powerful this man was.

The reason for the one-sided defeat was that the Liang army in Cangqiu City had uneven levels of combat strength.There is another reason that Xia Jieshu is unwilling to admit, and that is that the soldiers under Yang Xian are very powerful, and they are even vaguely on the same level as Liang Jun in his heyday.

"The general has a method for training his troops, which is rare among the generals of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

Meng Qing's words were not all flattery. It could be seen from just one glance that Xia Jieshu was not a good person and was very good at leading troops.Otherwise, he would not have been pushed out by the Xia family to take charge of the Forbidden Army at this time.

"I just don't understand. The space in this palace is limited and it is inconvenient. Why would the general want to train troops here?"

Of course, the reason why Meng Qing raised this issue was not because he hoped that the training work of the Forbidden Army could start smoothly, but because he hoped that Xia Jieshu could find another place to save Xia Gongnir from looking for him every now and then.

"Hmph!" Xia Jieshu snorted coldly, with a cold look on his angular face, "The schools inside and outside Haojing City are all under the control of the Prime Minister's Office. Now Changce, Zhechong and other armies are expanding their troops and training, and they are very busy. It’s fatal. In the heart of this prime minister, the training of the imperial guards who are just looking at the door is not that important.”

Meng Qing saw Xia Jieshu's dissatisfaction with Yang Xian. Now that the military resources of Haojing City and even Yongzhou were monopolized by the Prime Minister's Mansion, Yang Xian was integrating Yongzhou's military power as quickly as possible.

In comparison, although the Forbidden Army guards the palace and is the emperor's personal army, its ranking among the Zhou army is very low, and all the corresponding resource supplies are ranked last.

In short, she is a stepmother.

"If we talk about larger campuses, I know that there is one where the former rebel general Huan Biao trained his troops. It is enough to accommodate an army of [-]. After Huan Biao's death, this campus was abandoned and used by a businessman. Buy it. If the general is willing and I am willing to lead the general there, he will be willing to sell it at a low price to serve the Forbidden Army. However, this school is relatively remote, I wonder if the general is willing?"

Xia Jieshu's eyes lit up and he looked at Meng Qing.There are larger squares in the palace, such as outside Longxing Hall.However, it is impossible for Xia Jieshu to use this kind of place to train new troops.Meng Qing's proposal can be said to have solved the current urgent task of the Forbidden Army.Yang Xian wanted to consolidate the military strength as soon as possible, but Xia Jieshu also wanted to get the Forbidden Army into combat strength as soon as possible.

Meng Qing was sure, because the businessman who bought the school was under Chang's command.Xia Jieshu turned around, expressing quite eagerness.

"If Zong Shi is confident, it will really solve an urgent need."

"So, I will make arrangements."

"It's work!"

Meng Qing withdrew immediately. Xia Gongnie's temper was unpredictable. If this matter dragged on for a long time, she might even get annoyed with him.

It was not what Meng Qing wanted to see for today's emperor to be malicious towards him.

Looking at Meng Qing's retreating figure, Xia Jieshu's eyes were filled with a layer of coldness, completely losing the enthusiasm just now.

"General!"

Under the high platform, a chamberlain walked up. He was the third chamberlain in the palace besides Jian Changshi and Huang Changshi, Lu Chao.

Lu Chao was slightly older than Xia Jieshu, and he was the person promoted by the Xia family to assist Jian Changshi in managing the palace.

"You're here. What do you think of this guy Meng Qing?"

"Same as Chang Yu, unfathomable. It's just that our Majesty has always been close to Yang Xian, so to suddenly send him here is a bit confusing."

"What about this, Your Majesty!"

At this point, Xia Jieshu was helpless.They all saw Xia Gongnie's closeness to Yang Xian, and it definitely didn't look like he was acting.

Although the Xia family was dissatisfied with Yang Xian, there were still a few people who related their dissatisfaction to Xia Gong Nie.It was because of Xia Gongnie's compromise and weakness that Yang Xian grew to the point where he is now out of control.

And Xia Jieshu is one of them.

Although these people did not dare to say anything to Xia Gongni, the Supreme Lord of Great Zhou, openly, the dissatisfaction in their hearts was growing day by day.

"General, the banquet hosted by the Prime Minister's Palace to reward the troops will be held in the palace, and will be hosted by His Majesty himself. There will be a lot of people coming in and out of the palace recently. Chang Shi Jian asked me to inform the general. I hope the general will pay attention."

"Humph!"

The so-called banquet was just a banquet where Yang Xian gathered the main generals to celebrate the success of the military operation, and it was more to declare his credit. Xia Jieshu naturally didn't want to work hard because of this kind of thing, but there was nothing he could do about it.

(End of this chapter)