Meng Shu and Du Gang waited for a while. Before Hou Dayong came back, Feng Sha ordered his personal guards to send a game of Go and tea, asking the two of them to wait with peace of mind.

By noon, Hou Dayong still did not come back.

The subordinates of the Secretariat, Fan Zhi, Hou Dayong, Wang Pu, Wei Renpu, Wang Zhu and others sat together.

Fan Zhi was extremely angry and cursed fiercely in his heart: "The little girl of the Fu family really thought she was Empress Lü of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Wu of the Tang Dynasty, and she rejected my memorial several times." Fan Zhi glanced at Hou Dayong who was sitting upright. He knew very well that without Hou Dayong's support, Empress Fu would never dare to easily reject the prime ministers' proposals.

Fan Zhi once again put forward his point of view, "Most of the main forces of the imperial guards went north to fight the enemy with Zhao Shumi. Daliang City only had 10,000 Iron Cavalry troops, which was actually an empty city. The power of the imperial capital must be strengthened. For some reason, Your Majesty repeatedly disagreed with the opinions of the Minister of the Responsible?"

"If we talk about the elite and brave soldiers, the imperial guards are naturally the first. Secondly, they must be considered as border troops in various places. It is indeed an urgent task to draw some border troops to Daliang and train them into new imperial guards." Wei Renpu has been the Privy Councilor for several years. Although he has not led troops on the front line and is not good at fighting the army, he has a very good understanding of the situation of the armies of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Wang Pu also agreed with this statement: "Old Fan Ge Lao's opinion is correct. The six imperial guards had a total of 120,000. During the Northern Expedition, the total casualties of the imperial guards were more than 30,000. Although the Qingzhou army and Dezhou army were supplemented, there were only 100,000. This included 20,000 people in the Bian River water division. Now Zhao Shumi led 65,000 people to fight the enemy north, and there were only more than 10,000 people in the capital, and his power was too weak. If something urgent happened in the south and the west, there would be no soldiers available in the court."

Hou Dayong remained silent, and Queen Fu rejected Fan Zhi's proposal twice, and he was the initiator.

Which team to transfer into Beijing is a very sensitive topic and has also become the focus of competition among the prime ministers. Fan Zhi proposed to mobilize people from two places to Daliang, one was that Li Chongjin's troops transferred 10,000 troops, and the other was that he transferred 10,000 troops from An Shenqi's troops.

Hou Dayong naturally could not agree to this plan.

After Chai Rong's death, Hou Dayong was planning to mobilize the Black Eagle Army into Daliang, but he had no proper excuse to mobilize the Black Eagle Army to move south. After Zhao Kuangyin and Fan Zhi joined forces, Hou Dayong became more determined to mobilize the Black Eagle Army to move south.

Your Majesty has the final decision on major matters. This was proposed by Hou Dayong and the system agreed by the auxiliary ministers. After Fan Zhi's proposal was rejected twice, he was full of nameless fire but could not vent, so he was forced to ask the auxiliary ministers to discuss matters together again.

Although Wang Zhi was the new prime minister, he was an old man from Chai Rong. Wang Pu was serious and Wang Zhi was unrestrained. The two of them were the most trusted by Chai Rong. When Chai Rong was seriously ill, he had summoned him specifically and asked Wang Zhi to assist Chai Zongxun to seek balance among all prime ministers and not to let one person dominate.

At this moment, Wang Ye looked calm, but his brain was turning quickly:

The system of government troops was restored in the early Tang Dynasty, which was more complete than that of the Sui Dynasty. Government troops were the basic standing army, divided into the twelve guards who belonged to the emperor and the six commanders of the Eastern Palace of the Crown Prince, collectively known as the forbidden troops; the military institutions stationed on the border were called towns and garrisons, and the main task was to cooperate with the army to defend the border.

Since the reign of Emperor Ruizong of Tang, the Jiedushi began to be established. In the middle of Tianbao, the Jiedushi increased to eight in Anxi, Beiting, Hexi, Fanyang, Pinglu, Longyou, Shuofang and Hedong. These Jiedushi were under one town and had extremely strong military strength. After the Anshi Rebellion, the warlords occupied the Jiedushi and formed a semi-independent regime. Even if they were obedient on the surface, they were always separatist warlords that could not be controlled by the power of the Tang Dynasty government.

Chai Rong learned from the lessons of the late Tang Dynasty, focused on strengthening the construction of the imperial guards, and continuously restricted the strength of the local governors. The towns in the mainland only had a small number of local troops to maintain social security. Moreover, the equipment and training of these troops were far from that of the imperial guards, and it was no longer a problem. Only the towns in the border guards had to defend against foreign enemies and maintained considerable military strength.

From a historical perspective, strengthening the imperial guards and weakening the towns is inevitable. It is also a matter of adapting the destiny of the Jingshi border troops into imperial guards.

From a realistic perspective, all prime ministers are willing to familiarize themselves with the troops entering Daliang. The two units assigned by Fan Zhi are obviously the troops he can control, which will naturally cause dissatisfaction among Hou Dayong and others.

Wang Zhu was not willing to be too strong in Fan Zhi's power, nor did he want Hou Dayong to stand out. When Wang Pu finished speaking, he smiled faintly: "The border army has the important task of guarding the border. At present, there are tens of thousands of Shu troops in the southwest of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Khitan, Dangxiang, Uighur Hu, and the Northern Han army wolves in the front, and the Southern Tang navy was looking at the back in the south. If tens of thousands of troops were drawn from one place alone, it would inevitably weaken the forces in various places. If it was taken advantage of by foreign enemies, it would be unfair."

"There is a proposal below. We will draw 5,000 troops from the southwest to General Li Chongjin, 5,000 troops from the northwest to General Shihu, 5,000 troops from the east to the east, and 5,000 troops from the south to the south. In this way, 20,000 border troops will be transferred into Daliang, and the pressure on each town can be reduced. Dear masters, can you please let me propose this?"
Chapter completed!