Seeing that it was almost evening, Zhao Zhen said: "Let's stop today's discussions. In the future, the war in the northwest will be discussed here. Everyone cannot know all the major military events to avoid leaking military events. There should be restrictions on the officials entering here. After returning, the Secretariat and the Shufu discussed which officials could enter here and report them to the palace and think it would be customized."

Li Di and Lu Yijian held the scepter together and sent Zhao Zhen back to the palace with honor.

When he walked to the door, Zhao Zhen suddenly turned around and said, "After dinner, the Grand Marshal of the Privy Councilor and Zhao Wen came to Chongzheng Hall, there is nothing to discuss."

Li Di and Lu Yijian bowed to receive the order and watched Zhao Zhen return to the palace. When Zhao Zhen left, they took the priests and officials to surround the sand table and map, called Li Zhang over, and inquired in detail about the arrangement of troops in the northwest.

Zhao Zhen participated in the discussion and just listened to the big idea. The real strategic deployment was decided by the Prime Minister and finally implemented by the Privy Council. Some details were not convenient for Zhao Zhen to ask about when he was there, especially the attitude of the front-line generals.

After asking about the arrangements of Li Zhang from the northwest, Li Di said to Lu Yijian: "It is better to learn from Qin Fenglu, report the details of troops, villages, forts, etc. to the Privy Council, and draw them on the map, so that we can have evidence to investigate the matters. If it is still like before, just submitting memorials according to the rules, how can we know the military situation well!"

Lu Yi simply said that, and thought for a while, and said, "It is best to set up a few more ministries in the Hexifang, each of whom is responsible for the whole journey, so as not to be messy. These are all temporary ministries, so there is no need to set up any more missions, just use other officials to take charge."

Li Di agreed and asked the ministers about the details, and finally discussed the commander of Jingyuan and the two routes of Qing. After discussing, Lu Yijian said: "Now Xia Shouyun has the Emperor's Sword to deploy for Shaanxi Road. Unless he is recalled to the court, he will only be the commander. If he doesn't send someone, he will be afraid."

The strategic direction shifts, and the main force of the imperial guards must be dispatched westward, especially the Fuyan Road, where the imperial guards gathered in the capital, is no longer the main attack direction under the new strategy, and there is no need to arrange so many elite soldiers. In this way, the generals in charge of Jingyuan and Huanqing must be long-standing generals, otherwise they will not be able to shake the commanders of the officials and high-ranking officials. Not to mention Han Qi, even Xu Ping, who has made contributions recently, has not been able to do so. There are actually not many candidates, either Xia Shouyun or Wang Deyeng.

After dinner at Danei, Zhao Zhen called Li Zhang over and said to him: "Today's discussion, I see that you are very satisfied with your report. I just talked about Qin Feng Road in detail, and the other roads are too simple."

Li Zhang said: "This is nothing to do. It's not that my ministers are not careful. There are only so many reports that I can't get detailed if I want to report it in detail."

"That's true, there's nothing I can do about it." Zhao Zhen nodded, "I see what the priests mean. I want the rest of the people to learn from Qin Fenglu to do things. If you can't be busy alone, it's not appropriate to add an official."

Which yamen in the Song Dynasty do things really? Just look at the ratio of officials and officials. The fewer officials there are, the more busy the yamen, the more idle the yamen. Those idle yamen often have many officials, but not many officials. Li Zhang only manages officials and generals. If he wants to divide the work according to various channels, he will inevitably add public officials. In the end, Li Zhang, an official from Qinfeng Road. This kind of key point connecting the front line and the court will inevitably be dissatisfied with the rest of the ranks and will always feel that he is at a disadvantage in the court.

After thinking about it, Zhao Zhen said again: "Today, I think this place will be very important in the future. Not only do you discuss matters with you on a daily basis, you will always have a good relationship, but you can also learn a lot of military affairs in the report. If you can do this job well, you will probably not be able to manage the military in the future, right?"

Li Zhang crossed his hands and said, "Before I returned to the capital, the General Secretary once said something, and I thought I had made this ministry very clear."

"You once brought Xu Ping to report secretly when you came back, and you wanted to say something similar. But he skipped these ministries and said it in detail. Come and tell me in detail. You and Xu Ping are brothers who have been playing tricks since childhood. You must talk about everything. You don't have to worry about the rituals of the king and the ministers. I know the truth to me, and I have a clear idea of ​​it."

Li Zhang couldn't help feeling embarrassed. He talked to Xu Ping in private, and some of them could not tell others, and his own cousin was not good either, let alone his cousin was the emperor.

After thinking about it, seeing Zhao Zhen keep looking at him, Li Zhang had to bite the bullet and say, "Your Majesty must listen, I have to say it straight."

Zhao Zhen nodded and signaled that Li Zhang would say nothing directly, according to Xu Ping's character, he did not believe that he would say anything inappropriate.

Li Zhang said: "Before I returned to the capital, Jingliu told me specifically that after more than a year of training on Qinfeng Road, there is already a large army of 100,000. Jingliu is a commander of the whole line, with military and political management in charge, and has great power. Although Your Majesty knows that he is loyal and cautious, the court must have gossip. Those who are ministers are most afraid of power. If they are too heavy, the world will be uneasy. Although the powerful ministers have no different ambitions, the world is worried about their different ambitions."

Zhao Zhen nodded and said nothing, which was also a problem that Xu Ping made a secret comment. In the past, such as Qin Fenglu, made small fuss, and it was nothing to restrain the other main force, the three yamen imperial guards, and now Qin Fenglu is a new army trained by Xu Ping. If he wins battles in a row, he will inevitably arouse suspicion. Zhao Zhen is a loyal and honest person, and he will not doubt the front-line generals who can employ people, but those who dislike Xu Ping will still use this kind of power to talk about things. It is hard to say what step it will develop in the end.

Li Zhang also said: "In the face of great affairs, the emperor gave his ministers the importance of power. In order to avoid doubts, Wang Jian asked for titles, Xiao He was defamed, seeking wealth and honor to calm the emperor's heart. He started from poetry and calligraphy, and passed the imperial examination. Now he held great power outside. He did not want to cause doubts in the court, nor did he want to defame himself to be defamed. He could only hand over the power to the court and do things outside. Although the military and political affairs of this dynasty were all in the Shufu, there was actually a division. The Jingfu said that now the military and political affairs are in the three yamen and the local commander. The military orders are out of the Shufu, and the power to use people is in Your Majesty."

Zhao Zhen nodded silently again. This is indeed the fact of the current military system. The General of Military and Political Affairs in the Shufu just pointed out that in fact, the fact that the military power was really separated. The reality that gradually evolved from Taizong was that military and political affairs were in the three yamen, military orders were in the Privy Council, while personnel power was in the emperor, and money, food and military supplies were in the Zhongshu, which were restrained by each other. The anomaly among them was the General Secretary. As the war became more and more long and more intense, the military power of the frontier commander became more and more heavy. The old system passed down from the Five Dynasties in the early Song Dynasty was mainly the central imperial guards. When there was a war, the chief commander was appointed temporarily. In one or two years, the military power was resolved. But facing Dangxiang and Khitan, the war lasted for decades, and this system had to be slowly evolved.

Change. The lineage of the frontier general manager is a temporary general manager, and to the long-term deployment department, he gradually became a long-term military chief of the frontier. The General Manager itself is not a general manager, and now it has actually been a military general fighting for the general. The civil officials began to invade the power of the general deployed by the municipal officials, and finally deployed the government. Such a strategic commander who combines several positions has become a military and political management, and its power and responsibility is almost equal to the important position of the late Tang vassal states. This transformation was completed when Zhao Zhen was in power, and he also abolished the old system of eunuchs and generals from the generals. He was not a suspicious person. However, the power of the current strategy is too heavy. If it makes a few more great contributions, there will definitely be rumors.
Chapter completed!