Tongzong, also known as Tongzong Prefecture Affairs, is also called Jianzhou because it has the power to supervise officials in a prefecture, and can also be regarded as the deputy position of the prefecture. It has great power, but its rank is not very high. It is usually held by Beijing officials. It is very different from the court officials in the Quanzhijun and Prefecture Affairs, and it also means that the size of the big and small is the control.

Zhao Ji now proposed to let Wu Haowen be the magistrate of Xiangzhou, which means that he would be promoted to the level of a Beijing official. Moreover, Xiangzhou is also a state with special significance to Wu Haowen. Han Zhi, the official in Xiangzhou, was the brother-in-law of Wu Haowen. Wu Haowen's wife Han was not only from Xiangzhou, but also grew up in Xiangzhou.

If Wu Haowen goes to Xiangzhou to be a judge, he can take his wife and children with him, which is almost equivalent to becoming an official in his hometown. Moreover, Han Zhi will definitely not make things difficult for his brother-in-law. This judge will definitely be comfortable and will not lack political achievements. If he returns to the capital, he will be promoted to court officials.

Moreover, in terms of official resume, this arrangement is also the most beautiful. Although Wu Haowen has not been in office for a long time, he has been a proofreader, a magistrate, a storyteller, and a supervisor. Now he has a new magistrate. He has served in the central government, a parent official in a county, a front line, and a supervisor. It is rich and colorful, and has good political achievements everywhere. With such a beautiful resume, I am afraid that I will not be recommended to join the second government in the future?

After understanding Zhao Ji's intention, Wu Haowen didn't think about being a censor for the time being, but bowed and bowed, "I thanked Your Majesty for your kindness."

"Erlang," Zhao Ji seemed particularly kind and asked with a smile, "I have seen your memorial to impeach Zhong Fu. Do you think Zhong Fu is not qualified to serve as the deputy commander of the West Road?"

"If Zhong Fuheng hadn't had some troubles, Zhuo Luocheng and Qin Wangchuan would have belonged to me in the Song Dynasty."

Zhao Ji looked at Tong Guan again: "Tong Guan, what do you think?"

"Zhong Fu is indeed wrong," Tong Guan's speech became more tactful. After all, he was a discriminated against eunuchs and could not offend civil servants too much. "But from the perspective of the servants, there is no more suitable candidate to replace Zhong Fu."

Some people later said that "the Northern Song Dynasty has no generals and the Southern Song Dynasty has no generals", but it is not accurate, but if we use "the Northern Song Dynasty has no generals and the Southern Song Dynasty has no generals", it is probably more accurate. The Northern Song Dynasty did not command few "generals" of thousands of people, but there are not many "generals" who can command tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers to launch offensive operations.

Wang Hou, who was the leader of the army to recover Huang, Shan and Kuo, might be a bit handsome. However, as an outside military officer, Wang Hou did not have much strength (without the support of the generals), so it would be difficult to drive a group of Western Army generals to fight tough battles. Without Zhong Fu's intervention, Zhuoluo City and Qin Wangchuan would have fought, but now the opportunity is missed, and it would be a tough battle with blood. Tong Guan, who was still happy with Wang Hou on the northwest battlefield, would naturally not push Wang Hou into the pit.

Although Zhong Fu had the problem of taking power and robbing merits, he was still a civil servant who could command the Western Army to fight. Since civil servants did not steal the achievements of the Western Army's generals, they were better at commanding than Wang Hou. However, there were too few civil servants who truly knew the military. Now that Zhang Feng died, Lu Huiqing was old, the ones that could still be used were Tao Jiefu and Zhong Fu.

Oh, there is also Murong Wangyou who defected from the Liao Kingdom, which is actually not bad, but his identity is too embarrassing and it cannot be of great use.

On the same day that Wu Haowen and Tong Guan returned to Kaifeng Prefecture, Old Man Murong had already met Zhou Yunqing who was heading north with starry night.

"What do you say? The chief of law should go to the northwest to lead troops to fight against the Western thieves?"

Old Man Murong heard the news in the Doctoral Order Building in the Jiehe Yuntai Academy, but his reaction was a little surprised.

"That's right!" Zhou Yunqing looked very anxious, with dust and sweat on his face and head, and he could rub mud out. It seemed that he was very anxious throughout the journey, "Mr. Xiangshan, please follow someone south!"

"Going south?" Murong Wangyou laughed, "I have so many students to teach, how can I go? And I am a civil servant, how can I lead troops to fight?"

"Mr. Xiangshan, don't joke with someone." Zhou Yunqing said nervously, "Xuan Zan is almost in a hurry. He is a businessman and has never brought any troops. If he meets the Western thief on the battlefield, would he still be defeated and lost?"

"How could he lose? Isn't he two-way elite?" Murong Wangyou took out a piece of letter paper and began to write on it with a brush.

Zhou Yunqing shook his head and said, "The two-Zhi elite were originally only 5,000, but now after a great battle, the number of people is probably less than 4,000. Such a few people are okay to face the superiors, but they can meet the Western thieves too few!"

The combat effectiveness of the Western thieves cannot be equated with that of Tubo. The biggest loss suffered by the elite elites of the two Zhi in the third Battle of Hehuang was that they were defeated by Renduo Baozhong's Xixia army in the Battle of Haoyahu. Moreover, Renduo's soldiers were not the elite elites of the Western Xia. If they faced the garrison army and Iron Harrison, they would probably not be able to get the two Zhi's elites!

"Why is it 4,000?" Murong Wangyou smiled, "There are so many soldiers in the court, won't he want more? Why do they all get 20,000 or 30,000."

"Of course there are 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers, but they can't be attacked!" Zhou Yunqing shook his head and said, "Among the 500,000 imperial guards, the real ones that can be attacked are 50,000 and 60,000. With the effectiveness of the Western Army's general, there are 70,000 or 80,000."

Murong Wangyou just smiled, "A great Song Dynasty is only 70,000 to 80,000, and he dares to think about pacifying Xia and destroying Liao... In the Jiehe Market where the head of state, there are probably two or three thousand elite soldiers who can fight. With such ability to manage the army, how can he not know the military?"

"gentlemen……"

Murong Wangyou had already written the letter at this time, and then pushed the letter to Zhou Yunqing. Zhou Yunqing glanced and found out that it was written to Brother Zhao Zhong.

He was overjoyed and said, "Sir, are you going to call Brother Zhong back to help?"

"Of course it's him." Old Man Murong smiled, "I'm old, and the battle formation is probably the ones of young people... This Brother Zhong has learned a lot of skills when giving birth to the Jurchens, so it's time to come back and make some contributions."

"That's good." Zhou Yunqing said, "Xuanzan also asks you to collect some warriors for him in Jiehe Market to make use of it."

Murong Wangyou shook his head and smiled: "The Head of State must be in a hurry... How could he need to mobilize the effectiveness from the Jiehe River? There are tens of thousands of troops ready-made in the Liangzhi army!"

"Ten thousand army?" Zhou Yunqing looked at Old Man Murong and thought to himself: This old man looks old and he is still confused.

"Don't you know the Military and Education Department of the Privy Council?" Murong Wangyou looked at Zhou Yunqing and asked.

"The Military Science Department of the Privy Council... I know!" Zhou Yunqing knew more than that, he almost became a student of the Military Science Department. It was just because his family's background was not well-known at that time, so he didn't have a turn.

Murong Wangyou smiled and took out another piece of letter paper to start writing, saying, "The 500 students in the Military Academy are all knights with the imperial horses in front of the hall... They can support 100 officers!

I spent almost four years on them, and most of these people had led soldiers before, and they were small martial officials of the Western Army. With them, I would have another 20,000 soldiers and trained for a few months. Isn’t it just a large soldier? Although it is impossible for everyone to be as powerful as the warriors in front of the imperial court, they can’t stand many people! The amount of money can be replenished. The Western thief consumed more energy than the Song Dynasty? This idea was thought out by the head of state, and he still didn’t know the soldiers?"

The military system of a few elite officers and countless cannon fodders is of course applicable to the Song Dynasty, a populous country. The number of cannon fodder in the Song Dynasty is almost unlimited! The question is how to conduct reasonable mobilization and how to train elite officers.

A mobilization like Wang Anshi's "Baojia Law" is an impossible task. Not to mention that the Song Dynasty in the Middle Ages could not do it, even the militarist countries in later generations could not carry out a "two-double-double-one" military mobilization without a full-scale war.

However, the "voluntary military system" built on the unfair right-list Jinshi exam, Wu Haogu, which was flapped with his wings, was supported by many northern tribes and was successfully implemented.

Now the Sixth Road in Shaanxi, Hedong Road, Hebei Road and One Prefecture in Henan have begun to pilot or fully implement the system of government troops. The total number of government troops recruited one after another has exceeded 100,000, and they are all young and strong farmers.

However, the Privy Council and the Ministry of War of the Song Dynasty did not know how to use this army, so they planned to let them regain the Wuding River Basin and go to farm there. Therefore, Wu Haogu had to ask for it, even if it costs 20,000 yuan, Zhao Ji would not refuse.

Anyway, these "cannon fodders" are now having an idle meal, so it is nothing wrong to let them follow Wu Haogu to sturdy their momentum.

The elite officers who were in line with the "Visional Military System" were earlier proposed by Wu Haogu using Murong Wangyou's advice. They also received the support of Emperor Zhezong and Zhang Dun to establish the Military Academy of the Privy Council.

Although the Military and Education Department of the Privy Council was finally closed, the 500 students who enrolled in the first period not only completed three years of infantry officer courses, but also changed their careers and became a knight course for an additional year, and received four years of officer education. Moreover, the closed Military and Education Department Academy was reborn because of the training of knights and became a Knight Academy under the Jihe Yuntai Academy.

According to Wu Haogu's plan, future knights must receive a long training and military training in the Knights Academy, and must master a complete set of cavalry and infantry tactics, and be sufficient to serve as low-level cavalry and infantry officers.

The 500 knight officers who had been trained now, except for a small number of killed or otherwise appointed, all of them were directly listened to by the imperial horses in front of the hall.
Chapter completed!