Chapter 236: Unbelievable
“Concubine, please retire!”
The women bowed and left.
Jiang Liangdi left the Spring Harmony Palace and left with her personal maid, without any intention of communicating with anyone.
Li Liangdi and two good ladies, Li and Chen, got together.
Rulan glanced at Li Liangdi and made a face at her.
"Ru Lan, let's leave quickly!"
Yu Yanran pulled her away in a hurry and whispered: "Have you forgotten what the Crown Princess just said? Why are you provoking Li Liangdi? "
"What are you afraid of?" Ru Lan said nonchalantly: "I just did it on purpose. If she can't help it, it's best to quarrel with me. Anyway, the princess said that if there is a quarrel, we should do it together. I have long disliked her, so why don’t I drag her with me to vent my anger?”
Yu Yanran: “…”
She was a little confused by Ru Lan's weird brain circuit.
Isn’t it true that if you kill a thousand enemies and lose a thousand, you will also lose a thousand?
Li Liangdi wanted to meet Li and Chen to discuss, but they ended up unhappy.
In addition, Rulan made a face at her just now, which made her very angry.
Not long after returning to Moxiang Pavilion, someone reported that the Crown Princess had sent someone to deliver Buddhist scriptures.
Li Liangdi didn't care about being angry and asked someone to invite them in.
However, when she saw the Buddhist scriptures delivered, Li Liangdi was stunned.
It took him a while to come back to his senses, and he asked uncertainly: "Are these all?"
There were three eunuchs who came to deliver the Buddhist scriptures, and the leader was empty-handed.
The other two people each held a thick pile of Buddhist scriptures. How long should she copy so many Buddhist scriptures?
"Back to Li Liangdi, these are all." The leading eunuch said with a smile: "The Crown Princess said that these are the things the Queen usually likes. Can I trouble Li Liangdi to copy them all in regular script?"
"Okay!" Li Liangdi gritted his teeth and said.
So many Buddhist scriptures had to be copied in small regular script. She had to do nothing else for a month and had to stay up late at night to copy them, so that she could complete them.
At this time, she also realized that the so-called asking her to copy Buddhist scriptures as a birthday gift for the queen was completely nonsense.
Zhang Guifen is teasing her.
However, knowing what to do, Zhang Guifen used the excuse of giving a birthday gift to the Queen, and she agreed.
She had to do it no matter what.
…………
What Zhang Guifen said quickly reached Zhao Xing’s ears.
Zhao Xing was stunned for a long time after hearing this, and was a little confused about whether to laugh or cry.
However, Zhang Guifen's approach seems a bit reckless, but if you think about it carefully, it is very useful.
Of course, this can only reduce the number of fights on the surface, but secret fights are still inevitable.
"Your Highness, Commander Gu has brought a big insect and said he would offer it to Your Highness!" A eunuch walked in to report.
"Big insect?" Zhao Xing was stunned when he heard this and asked: "Dead or alive?"
"Dead." The eunuch replied.
After asking, Zhao Xing realized that he had been a little stupid just now.
The so-called big insect is a tiger.
Gu Tingye was so courageous that he did not dare to catch a live tiger and give it to him.
"Let's go and take a look." Zhao Xing stood up and walked out.
Tiger is a protected animal in later generations, but in ancient times it was not a rare thing, and it was even a bit common.
There have been many records in ancient history of tiger overruns and the government organizing a large number of manpower to clean up tigers.
There are quite a few of these around Bianjing, and you can often hear stories of tigers hurting people.
Zhao Xing left the main hall and saw a stretcher on the ground in the square outside the main hall, with an orange tiger with many black stripes lying on it.
"I pay my respects to Your Highness." Gu Tingye saluted.
Zhao Xing waved his hand and stepped forward to take a look.
This one looks like a South China tiger, but at this time there were tigers everywhere and there was no such distinction.
This tiger looks to be only over one meter long, with a thin body and a cut arrow stuck in its head.
"Zhong Huai, what are you doing?" Zhao Xing asked with some confusion.
"I had nothing to do and went out to the city to hunt. I was lucky and hit the big insect's head with an arrow. The entire skin was well preserved. I came here to present it to His Highness!" Gu Tingye bowed. "Haha, Zhong Huai is so brave, he can even kill big insects easily." Zhao Xing praised a few words and said with a smile: "In that case, I will accept it."
Zhao Xing ordered people to carry the tiger down for processing, and took Gu Tingye into the study.
After sitting down, Zhao Xing smiled and scolded: "You have just gotten married and are not at home with your wife. You still have time to go hunting, and you don't know how to find a solitary person to go with."
"Your Highness. "How dare I do that? When His Highness said he was going to participate in the winter hunting, the officials canceled the winter hunting. If I went hunting with His Highness, the officials would skin me," Gu Tingye said.
Martial arts became popular during the Tang Dynasty, and the court held winter hunting every winter.
Although the Song Dynasty valued culture over military affairs, winter hunting was also continued, but it was not as grand as the Tang Dynasty.
A few years ago, Zhao Xing wanted to participate in the winter hunting, but the officials immediately canceled the winter hunting.
Zhao Xing has also learned horseback riding and archery over the years. The officials are afraid that Zhao Xing will go hunting in person.
"Okay, stop talking."
Zhao Xing felt a little depressed when he mentioned this, and said: "Since you have nothing to do, get ready and go to the Northwest Army."
"This is why I came here this time. I have been idle for a while. I will get rusty if I continue to idle." Gu Tingye said with a smile.
"This time you are going to the northwest to serve as the commander of Wu Xiong's military capital. Yuan Wenshao will go with you and serve as the commander under you. You will not be able to come back for a short time. You will bring your wives with you." Zhao Xing said.
According to the normal establishment, one hundred people per capital, five capitals and one battalion, five battalions and one army, and ten armies and one wing. Each box has 25,000 people.
However, the Song Army's organization was very chaotic, and there were few full personnel.
The Takeo Army is just a name, not an army in terms of organization, but a compartment in terms of units.
It only has five armies under its jurisdiction, which is 12,500 people.
Three armies were stationed in the northwest to defend the Xixia border, totaling 50,000 people. Takeo's army was one of them.
Of course, this does not mean that there are only 50,000 soldiers and horses in the northwest border. There are also Xiang troops and rural soldiers drawn from various places, adding up to hundreds of thousands of people.
The commander of Takeo's military capital is the fifth grade.
"Yes!" Gu Tingye was a little excited when he heard this.
Although Zhao Xing had told him about this a long time ago, he was still very excited now that he was about to go to the border to serve.
"When you go to the northwest, in addition to cooperating with Wang Shao, you also have an important task, which is to train troops! There has been no war for so many years, and military equipment is lax. I hope you can train Wu Xiong's army into a strong army." Zhao Xing said.
"Don't worry, Your Highness, I will live up to His Highness's expectations!" Gu Tingye said.
"Yes." Zhao Xing nodded and said: "The Guhui will transfer Wang Shao to be the supervisor of the Wuxiong Army. His Guhui will explain to him that he will not be a constraint for you."
< br>In the Song Dynasty, three yamen were established to take charge of military power, which were held by civilian officials.
In addition, there are civilian officials supervising the troops in each border area.
Although the commander of Xiangdu is nominally in charge of the army, once there is a war, the supervisor of the army has higher authority.
It doesn’t make much sense to put Gu Tingye in charge of the Wu Xiong Army without changing the supervisory army.
In the future, Gu Tingye's team will be the main force in the attack on Hehuang.
After admonishing Gu Tingye, Zhao Xing asked him to go back.
The appointment of the commander of Yixiangdu is not something he can just say, it must be agreed by his father.
However, Zhao Xing had already told his father, and his father agreed. All he had to do was go to the palace and talk to his father.
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Sheng Wei took the order and came to the north, and began to repair the city in full swing.
The Liao Kingdom quickly noticed such a big movement.
At first, the Liao Kingdom did not care. The two countries had been at peace for so many years, and this was not the first time that the Song Dynasty had repaired the city.
However, the Liao Kingdom is still on guard. Most of the people who are repairing the city are young and strong. What if the soldiers are disguised and plan to build a plank road for them in secret?
The Liao Kingdom has occupied the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun for many years, and there are also a large number of Han people under its rule. They have studied Han culture very well, and they still know these historical allusions.
As time passed, the Liao Kingdom quickly noticed something unusual.
The Song Dynasty not only repaired the city, but also heightened it and reinforced it. The most important thing is that I don’t know what the Song Dynasty used. The newly built city wall seemed to be made of stone and was still a whole.
After the Emperor of Liao learned the news, he scolded the officials in charge of collecting intelligence.
An entire city wall is made of a single stone. Let’s not talk about whether there is such a big stone. Even if there is, can the Han people move it?
But then the news became more and more mysterious, and the Emperor of Liao could not help but not believe it.
The Emperor of the Liao Kingdom sent many spies to investigate, and finally obtained information that the Song Dynasty did not know what to use to link the stones together into a whole, and it was very strong.
The spy obtained some cement and sent it back to the Liao Kingdom. He personally demonstrated it to the Liao Emperor. After it was done, he couldn't even break it with a sledgehammer.
At this time, the Emperor of Liao had no choice but to believe it.
I still owe more updates, and I have paid off the reward for extra updates. I have finally paid off the debt after so long. Now I am debt-free and relieved.
(End of this chapter)