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Chapter 916 Scholars can also be warlords

In the spring of the first year of the Great First Year, the evil capitalist great scholar Wu Haogu still didn't know Su Che. Cheng Yi and the two great scholars had found a way to fight positivism. This is the Song Dynasty version of "middle school as the body, Western learning as the use"! It's really great. After all, in terms of Confucianism, Cheng Yi and Su Dongpo's level is much higher than Zhang Zhidong! Su Cheng knew from the beginning that "body" can only be the law of nature, not the ethics of Confucianism.

At this time, Wu Haogu was in Lingzhou. In the backyard of the Xuanfu Envoy of the Northwest Third Road converted from the Xixia Palace, he visited Gao Qiu, the terminally ill coach Gao Xuan.

In a very spacious room, Gao Qiu, with a waxy complexion, was lying on a large bed with a soft mattress, with a thick velvet quilt pressing on his body, humming as he exhaled more and had less air intake. The smell of Chinese medicine was everywhere in the room!

An old Chinese doctor with a white beard and wrinkled face was trembling and shaking his head seriously... Maybe Gao Qiu is so impatient, right?

It’s just the first year of Daguan, and Gao Qiu, who is doing well, is about to die? Wu Haogu doesn’t believe it!

He waved to the doctor and a group of Gao Qiu's little wives crying in the room, "Let's retreat, Rong's family and Xuan Shuai are talking alone."

Gao Qiu narrowed his eyes and glanced at Wu Haogu, who was proud of Chunfeng from the eye peak, and he didn't even get angry.

What's wrong with letting you be a Xuan Shuai? I can stay in Lingzhou for so many years, but you can't stay in Wu Haogu? Are you a good brother?

Moreover, Gao Qiu still knows how his own victory was fought! He is a military strategist, and he is really in command of the military affairs of the Knight Academy system of the Military Academy. The Knight Academy system of the Military Academy is now the territory of the empirical school...

So the one who is really likely to wear a yellow robe is Wu Haogu who is lurking beside the official family!

The room full of crying women and the old Chinese doctors who shook their heads and sighed had all retired, leaving only the good brothers Gao Qiu and Wu Haogu.

"Brother Gao, are you better?" Wu Haogula sat on the chair next to Gao Qiu's bedside.

"Hmph..." Gao Qiu hummed a few times, ignoring Wu Haogu, obviously seeing through Wu Haogu's character.

"Brother Gao, isn't this place in Lingzhou?" Wu Haogu smiled, "Lingzhou is rich and the vast Western Xia Kingdom lives in it. The Zhe family in the prefectures are not comparable to that in the Zhe family."

"It is the official's will to set up the general in the palace!" Gao Qiu said angrily to defend himself.

It turned out that when Gao Qiu first entered Lingzhou, he only used a banquet in the palace and did not move in. He also submitted a report to Zhao Ji, asking whether he would demolish the palace.

As a result, Zhao Ji issued an order to rebuild the palace as the location of the Supervisor.

This will is actually nothing, but Gao Qiu was in a dilemma and had been struggling for a long time. If he sued for a long time, he would reject Zhao Ji's kindness, which seemed a bit shameless, and he seemed to be disgraceful.

Isn’t it just a broken palace for the Western thief? Gao Qiu followed Zhao Ji to spend the night in the palace and even asked the palace maids to serve the bed...

If Gao Qiu was at ease and could move in, he would inevitably be impeached by the censor, saying that he had ulterior motives and had the ambition of helping the emperor.

After a long struggle, Zhao Ji issued a decree to him, asking him why he hadn't lived in the old palace in Xixia? Do you think it was not luxurious and comfortable enough? Should you let Huang Wulang (Huang Silang's clan brother) go to Lingzhou and build him a better coach?

Zhao Ji issued this order with good intentions, but it scared Gao Qiu and the palace was not good. Is it necessary to live in the palace? Moreover, Huang Wulang has participated in the architecture and design of the Qionglin Palace!

So Gao Qiu had no choice but to drag his sick body into the Xixia Palace, and accepted the ten beauties given to him by Zhao Ji with a guilty feeling... It was really sympathetic.

"Brother Gao!" Wu Haogu smiled, "Why don't you understand the official family's mind?"

"What is the official's thought?" Gao Qiu glared at Wu Haogu and said angrily, "Isn't it the same for you to come? The official's trust is you the most!"

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "You are the governor of Shuofang, and I am the governor of Youzhou. Only with a loyal Hedong governor can the government rest assured."

"Are you the official? Is Emperor Xuanzong of Tang?" Gao Qiu sat up suddenly and stared at Wu Haogu.

"The official family is much better than Emperor Xuanzong of Tang," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "The official family will use people without doubt."

"Hmph!" Gao Qiu snorted coldly, "I'm afraid someone will be An Lushan!"

"It's not you and me to be An Lushan." Wu Haogu continued Gao Qiu's words and said, "If the official family wants the Khan that day, someone will have to lead troops to be the general. But how many important warriors are there really? If you and I don't work hard, how can the official family use the great talents and strategies? If the official family mistakenly uses the treacherous minister, and if An Lushan and Shi Siming really come out, it will be a big mistake."

"But, but you and I are both warriors!" Gao Qiu shook his head and said, "This dynasty is most jealous of warriors to support troops..."

"Oh," Wu Haogu smiled, "You don't have many soldiers, can Lingzhou get a number of soldiers? The Zhe family in their prefectures have more soldiers than you, so they are still stable for more than a hundred years? Besides, now you can only suppress the King of Xiping in the middle of the country. Don't look at the censors who are so angry, no one dares to transfer you from Lingzhou when the two prefectures discuss."

This is true!

The chaos in Xixia first started during the reign of Emperor Taizong, and it has been going on for more than a hundred years. It has finally been settled. Don’t wait until Gao Qiu was arrested in the Imperial Palace to drink chicken soup later, Zhao Qianshun rebelled again.

So now the censors who criticize Gao Qiu are all censors, and the two officials who are in power dare not act recklessly.

In addition, Gao Qiu himself was very cautious. After Zhao Qianshun expressed his surrender, he handed over most of the troops in his hands to Tong Guan, but he retained a general of the palace soldiers (4500 infantry, 500 cavalry plus two or three thousand auxiliary soldiers) in Lingzhou, and successively arranged and trained 800 knights. Including auxiliary soldiers and auxiliary cavalry, there were only 10,400 people in total.

Only these few soldiers want to be An Lushan, Shi Siming is not enough.

"But now we are going to attack Anxi again!" Gao Qiu sighed, "The King of Xiping was afraid when he heard that the Great Turkic Kingdom of Lao Shizi wanted to support the Black Khanate. He thought to ask me to stand up, but if I stand up..."

Gao Qiu is now afraid of making meritorious contributions and failing to make meritorious contributions, and perhaps he can still live in Lingzhou safely. If he makes great contributions in the Battle of Anxi... he himself thinks he is committing a crime.

"Isn't Zhang Zhiping there?" Wu Haogu smiled and blinked his eyelids at Gao Qiu, "With him being the presidency of the Great Educational Corps, I'm afraid he can't beat the Black Khanate and the Turkic Kingdom?"

"He?" Gao Qiu was stunned, "But he is a civil servant."

"Good civil servants," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "It's great that scholars are in charge of soldiers... I might as well become the governor of Hexi! In the future, those censors should not keep staring at us. If you have nothing to do, you will bite Zhang Zhiping."

"He can fight?" Gao Qiu asked.

Wu Haogu shook his head, "It won't be okay." He looked at Gao Qiu, "Brother Gao, don't you know how to fight?"

"By the way, I won't!" Gao Qiu looked at Wu Haogu, "It's you! Those military opportunities are all from your empirical school!"

"Well?" Wu Haogu smiled and said, "Since Brother Gao, you can become a general with the help of military opportunities, why can't Zhang Zhiping? As long as Zhang Zhiping, a Confucian general, gets up, you can be safe."

"Really?" Gao Qiu was skeptical.

"Really, really! Isn't it just that the more civil officials and military officials are respectful to the army, the safer you and me are." Wu Haogu nodded repeatedly, "Brother Gao, come back and ask the General Military Office of the General Office of the General Office to order Zhang Zhiping, Ma Zhongfu, Zhao Zhongshun and Xiao Heda to Lingzhou to discuss the matter of the Western Expedition together.

It’s already Jichun now, and if you drag it down, it’s summer. How can you pass through the desert?”

When Gao Qiu heard Wu Haogu talk about "summer", he felt a little hot. He lifted the quilt, got up from the bed, and walked back and forth in his bedroom barefoot. After walking for a few rounds, he sighed: "That's all!

Dalang, you really made me suffer my brother!"

How could it be bitter? Wu Haogu thought: If you are like this now, the future "History of the Song Dynasty" that will definitely be famous in "History of the Song Dynasty" will definitely be compiled by historians of the empirical school, so they will definitely say good things about Gao Qiu and himself! So Gao Qiu will definitely not become the villain in "Water Margin"...

...

Gao Qiu is now the Xuanfu envoy of the three routes of Shuofang, Hexi and Anxi, and has the right to act cheaply. That is, the supreme commander of the three routes of the army, the nominal commander of the battle of Anxi. Therefore, the Xuanmao Mansion located in Lingzhou has the right to order Zhang Yuan, Ma Zheng, Zhao Zhongshun and Xiao Heda to invite all four people to Lingzhou for a meeting.

In the later "History of the Song Dynasty", the Lingzhou Conference was also considered the key to the victory of the Battle of Anxi. Because before the Lingzhou Conference, the troops gathered in Guasha Prefectures belonged to the Hexi Army and the Dajiao Regiment. There was no unified command between the two armies, and it was a bit like fighting on their own.

Therefore, there must be a military conference to coordinate the relationship between the two armies and establish unified command.

In addition, the Hexi Jiedushi Department and the Dajiao Group also quarreled over the post-war governance of the four towns in Anxi. They were all holding their energy to get more territory! Another Gaochang Uighur also participated and wanted to divide the land of the Kara Khanate.

If we don’t agree well, we’re afraid that after taking down the four towns of Anxi, they will have to bite their own dogs until the Seljuk Turks come.

To settle the dispute between the Hexi Army, the Great Education Regiment and the Gaochang Uighurs, it is probably only Wu Haogu and Gao Qiu who came forward together.

In March of the first year of Daguan in the Song Dynasty, under the order of Gao Qiu and Gao Xuan, Zhang Yuan, Ma Zheng, Zhao Zhongshun and Xiao Heda all arrived at Lingzhou City with their aides.
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