The exercise was carried out in an orderly manner according to the plan. Zhao Bing attended the Dot on time every day. After the dot, he followed the director team to the scheduled exercise area to watch the exercise. During the process, he played the role of an observer, without saying much or interfering, just watching. Although he participated in the comments after the exercise, he rarely spoke so that he could see the real situation, reduce the pressure on the generals, and could play freely.

Although he doesn't have to go to the battlefield to command the generals himself, the summary usually lasts for three days from the beginning to the end of the exercise until the review is completed. Therefore, Zhao Bing also has a hard time. He goes out early and returns late every day, and even stays at the exercise venue overnight, and the ministers who follow him will inevitably suffer with him.

After the hilly infantry and cavalry battle exercise, it was already dark, and there was a live summary tomorrow. Zhao Bing did not return to the tent but stayed in the wild overnight. Today it was gloomy and the wind was not strong, but it was biting cold. After returning to the temporary camp, he did not rush to enter the tent, but sat down in front of the bonfire lit outside the tent to wait for the meal.

"His Majesty!"

"Prime Minister Lu, please sit down!" Zhao Bing asked someone to take a Hu bed and put it beside him and said.

After the exercise began, Lu Xiufu returned from visiting relatives in Yanzhou and immediately joined the organization of the drill. Although he was a civil servant, he started as a military staff member and was familiar with military affairs. Then he took on heavy responsibilities during his dynasty. At that time, he was constantly fighting, and he also did a lot of related work in it.

After entering Qiongzhou, as the prime minister during the war, Lu Xiufu also had to participate in military operations and coordinate military affairs, and was also relied on by Zhao Bing. After entering Jiangnan, he also participated in the establishment of the Yangtze River defense line, selecting generals and expanding the army. Therefore, although Lu Xiufu was the leader of civil servants, he was not unfamiliar with military affairs.

After the political reform, after Lu Xiufu took over the Central Secretariat, he has always been in charge of military affairs and participated in the planning of the Northern Expedition. This Northern Expedition of Suihu also focused on military affairs, inspected the military preparations of the border states and prefectures, coordinated the relationship between local military and political affairs, supervised material reserves, and strengthened their understanding of the Northern Expedition.

After chatting about the drill for a while, Zhao Bing saw that Lu Xiufu seemed to have something to say, so he stepped back and asked the guard to retreat to the surrounding area. He took off the copper pot hanging on the bonfire and added some boiling water to him, and looked at him and said, "Secret Lu, is there any important matter to discuss?"

"Your Majesty, I am guilty, please punish me!" Lu Xiufu bowed to the emperor.

"Why did Prime Minister Lu say this?" Zhao Bing said in surprise.

"If it weren't for your Majesty's reminder, I wouldn't know that the tribe members colluded with local officials in Yanzhou and dominated the countryside and acted recklessly!" Lu Xiufu's face turned bitter and sighed.

"The Minister of the Lu family is busy with state affairs and is far away from his hometown. It is understandable that he is not aware of what his tribe members do. And I also accidentally received a report from the local government that the Minister of the Lu family members controls salt affairs and participates in smuggling and making money. It is difficult for the local government to cure it, so I learned about this." Zhao Bing sucked the hot tea and chuckled.

"I am ashamed. During the national crisis, my tribe members were implicated by me. I lived very hard in those years. I was able to get the information again after recovering Huainan. I felt guilty and tried my best to satisfy what they wanted, but I didn't expect that they were greedy and actually did something wrong!" Lu Xiufu sighed again.

Of course, he knew why the matter was spread to the emperor. He granted some local officials the right to report directly, and could be handed over to the inner court without the Secretary of the Central Committee. He also knew that there were secret spies directly controlled by His Majesty scattered in various places to collect intelligence and monitor local officials. Although there was no such organization in the court and the inner court, the central officials knew that the rumors were not false, and it was not difficult for Your Majesty to know the affairs of his clan.

At the same time, Lu Xiufu understood why the emperor did not directly order the local government to deal with illegal matters of his family, but instead took the opportunity of visiting his relatives to transfer it to him privately, which was to protect his face. Naturally, there was also a warning, asking him to take care of his housework and not to abuse the law for personal gain, otherwise...

Think about the emperor who could repeatedly suppress the clan for state affairs, forcing them to separate the family and break up the Wu family's forces into pieces. Then if he was not tactful and blindly protected the clan members, the emperor would not be ruthless and would sit idly by and watch his family's power expand infinitely, forming a new local force.

"The Prime Minister Lu has not returned home for more than ten years and does not know the inside story. In order to please you, the local government also protected the matter and hid it. As the saying goes, those who don't know do not blame him. The Prime Minister Lu doesn't have to blame himself too much!" Zhao Bing gave him a private letter to him. One is to be sympathetic to Lu Xiufu for many years and did not want to ruin his career and reputation because of a few unworthy tribe members; the other is to make him alert and not to relax his control over his children and tribe members, and even cause a disaster.

"Your Majesty is kind and I am grateful!" Lu Xiufu said again, "After returning home, I immediately asked about the illegal affairs of the clansmen. After verification, I sent several illegal people to the local Youzi for punishment, and confiscated all the illegal gains to the Youzi. As for those who participated in it, who were guilty of minor crimes, they also imposed family laws and sent them to the countryside to confine themselves to the mistakes."

"Oh, why should Prime Minister Lu be so arrogant? He just needs to be strictly controlled and correct his mistakes. Now he will cause trouble for the villain!" Zhao Bing sighed. He admired him for his courage to sanction his family traditions regardless of his reputation, but the political risks he took are not small. Those in the court who are dissatisfied with him may use this to impeach him.

"Your Majesty is sympathetic to me, but I dare not abuse the law for personal gain!" Lu Xiufu took out a memorial from his sleeve and presented it to him.

"Why do Prime Minister Lu do this?" Zhao Bing took the note and read it through the fire. Among them, Lu Xiufu said that it was not good for the tribe's control, which led to the tribe's reckless behavior. In addition to requesting the court to punish the court according to the rules, he also asked for the imperial edict to be demoted, resigned from the position of left prime minister of the Secretariat, and proposed to deal with several officials who sheltered the tribe.

"As the prime minister of the country, he should abide by the laws and regulations and be an example for all officials, but he cannot control his clan members, which will harm one side. He is really ashamed of the king and the people. Please ask Your Majesty for your kindness!" Lu Xiufu politely said again.

"Master Lu is high and righteous. If all the officials in our dynasty are like Prime Minister Lu, why worry about not being punished!" Zhao Bing nodded and pondered for a moment, "This is the time when national affairs are heavy. All matters need to be relied on Prime Lu. I cannot leave Prime Lu. I will not agree to the resignation. As for other requests, I will make a decision after returning to the capital and discussing with the ministers!"

"I obey the order, but I ask Your Majesty for what I ask for. If I am forgiven and not punished because I am a little bit of merit, how can Your Majesty rule the world and how can the people surrender!" Lu Xiufu said.

"Lu Xiang's words are reasonable, but he cannot be implicated because of his family's faults. I will consider the matter of resignation carefully." Zhao Bing sighed lightly.

"I am incompetent and unable to manage my family, so how can I help the king rule the world?" Lu Xiufu said with shame. "I have been with my father to Zhenjiang since I was young. I have been away from my hometown for more than 30 years. I originally wanted to set up a new branch and move to Zhenjiang. But I thought that I could not change my family because of my tribe's faults, so I should teach you and rebuild my family tradition. Instead of placing too much, I would be separated."

"As the world says, "There will be declining in three lifetimes! We all should be alert to educate our children to improve themselves, rather than immerse themselves in the glory of our ancestors, otherwise we will not be able to escape from it." Zhao Bing said with some emotion.

After Lu Xiufu finished talking about the matter, Zhao Bing kept him for dinner. He also surrendered on the grounds that the official documents accumulated over the past few days had not been reviewed and needed to be processed as soon as possible. Seeing his departure, he was already slightly hunched back, he couldn't help feeling sad. Thinking about Lu Xiufu standing up in times of crisis and working hard to assist him for more than ten years, he can be said to be the right king and the lower ones deserve the people, but he is so embarrassed because of the affairs of the clan.

From the other side of himself, Zhao Bing thought that he was now a group of children. In the past, due to the "help" of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, he almost captured all the royal family in the Song Dynasty. He was lucky enough to escape the fate of being captured, and almost all the royal relatives who were captured to the north were removed from the household registration, so he was spared from being upset about his own tribe.

After they had children, they might still be young and did not think of this festival. They just felt that they had successors and did not have to worry about the Song Dynasty's succession without any heirs. But the moment is different. Think about these children will soon grow up, and some of them will inherit the throne, but the rest will become a royal family who will be scattered and wait for death.

If there were no accidents, it would reproduce into a large family within a few generations, and it would become a borer that had to be raised by the country, and began to bite the foundation of the Song Dynasty little by little. But if this was the case, it would be good. What we are afraid of is that people who harmed the country and the people would lose their power, causing the Zhao family to lose their country, the people to suffer, and even the world would be in chaos and the lives would be devastated.

As Zhao Bing knew in his two lives, this is a high-probability event, which is almost inevitable. There are many cases of a playboy destroying a family with his own strength. Even if he can control one generation, two generations, or even three generations, he can't control his descendants in the end. But after watching the bonfire for a long time, he felt that this problem was unsolvable, so he could only do his own thing and let them be blessed.

"His Majesty……"

"What are you doing?" Zhao Bing was called back by the call, turned his face and looked at the generals standing in front of him, and asked with a frown.

"Your Majesty has worked very hard to watch the battle for days, and my subordinates are very uneasy, thinking of giving some food to express their feelings!" Chen Fenglin, the leader, said with a smile.

"Yes, thank you for your hard work. This camping in the wilderness is not a good thing to use!" Ran Anguo also approached and said.

"What are you bringing?" Zhao Bing looked at everyone with some confusion, feeling that something was abnormal.

"Your Majesty, you're just some food, nothing else!" Liu Zhixue waved back and asked his followers to carry the things over and said.
Chapter completed!