Xue Chongxun went ashore in Chuzhou and took the guard convoy back to Luoyang by land. Bai Qimei did not walk with Xue Chongxun. When he parted, he couldn't help but feel reluctant to leave. After all, he had been together for a long time... He tried to guess Bai Qimei's thoughts, but in the end he couldn't guess. It was a dangerous world, and running around in the world was not a good day, let alone now she was full of dangers. Xue Chongxun could provide her with protection, but she refused.

Xue Chongxun said to her, take care of her and let her live well. She smiled and said purely: So are you, I believe you will defeat your opponent.

Yuqing returned to Luoyang with Xue Chongxun, and Shangqing Temple belonged to her. Xue Chongxun couldn't help but think of a question on the way: When he left Luoyang last time, Yuqing confessed in front of so many faces, and everyone thought that her affection was for me. If Princess Taiping unfortunately fell next year, I would also finish it. Officials who coveted Yuqing and Yudao's beauty in the officialdom of Dongdu will use this as an excuse to implicate her and take the opportunity to seize the opportunity?

It is already difficult to grasp one's own destiny in the world, let alone others?

...Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, only scholars do not consider production, but always fight for profit and power. After Xue Chongxun returned to Luoyang, he was inevitably fighting for power. According to his idea, the new canal transportation system was completely established by him. Why did Li Longji's people interfere? It is necessary to gather the Hedong Scholar Group and officials who depended on Princess Taiping to exclude those who have landed in Luoyang and other places.

In the canal transportation system, Xue Chongxun promoted and won over people with preconceptions and occupied various important positions. It is easy to compete for most of the power, but it is still impossible to avoid the fact that the officials in the yamen were placed in various spies and formed various controls... There is really no way, because the prince supervised the country, and all officials under the fifth rank were fully powered to appoint them directly without asking the emperor. If it was in Chang'an, officials under the fifth rank were not very important, but local officials were different. Middle, the governor of Xiazhou was only under the fourth rank, and officials under the fifth rank could also hold more important positions.

Especially the officials and generals of the 12,000 grain guardians who were recruiting and training were soon placed with a large number of princes. It was almost impossible for Xue Chongxun to control this army. His wishful thinking was lost.

He could not master the storm that was about to begin, but when he expected the storm that was about to begin, Xue Chongxun had to try every means to cultivate his own strength, and the more strength he had, the more chance of winning. So he collected information about various ship-hijacking thieves, and ordered Tang Tuanlian to select and form a recruiting army of 300 people on the grounds of organizing troops to wipe out the bandits.

If there are fewer people, the matter will be small, and it will not be easy to attract Chang'an's attention... It's just that three hundred pairs of modao and armor are a problem. They can only focus on the selection of people and try to select the most brave and warlike soldiers.

Tang Tuanlian thought of a trick and asked Xue Chongxun to go to the school grounds to watch the soldiers.

There is an open space in the south of Luoyang City, as big as three or four polo courts. Tang Tuanlian gathered more than a thousand soldiers from Hedong. He also asked people to erect a row of targets more than half a meter high a hundred steps away.

Xue Chongxun was invited to the school to observe. Seeing this situation unknown, he turned around and asked, "Don Tunxuan, what are you doing?"

Tang Chaoren, who was burly, said: "This method was used by my grandfather. Once he followed the Tang army to attack Tuyuhun. The emperor issued an order to send a cavalry into the hinterland of the enemy to harass the enemy. This battle is very dangerous. In order to select a warrior who is ready to die, my grandfather asked someone to stand under the target and let the sharpshooter shoot arrows at the target. If the person under the target did not dodge, he would be selected... This method was very effective. In the end, my grandfather led the cavalry to march straight in and was invincible. After the war, the emperor rewarded him and promoted him to the third level!"

Xue Chongxun was overjoyed when he heard this and nodded, "This method is very wonderful, at least the person who was selected has quite a courage."

But at this time, Tang Chaoren said with concern: "We do this, only to fear that the civil servants in the Eastern Capital wrote a letter to slander Xue Lang and privately planted dead soldiers, and had ulterior motives..." He looked around and whispered, "This group of people are all from our Hedong. Bao Cheng and Zhang Wulang and other three brigade commanders are either their own people or old friends in Hedong, and the military expenditure is all raised by Xue Lang... In this way, the forces of these three brigades are completely in Xue Lang's hand! The prince's people can't interfere without any trouble."

After hearing this, Xue Chongxun felt silent for a moment, frowned and said in a deep voice: "If you are always afraid of your hands and feet, what can you do? Just do as you say! Don't worry about the censors, I will have my own way to deal with it at that time."

Tang Chaoren clasped his fists and said, "If you have a husband, you will be so impressed, I have nothing to worry about."

After saying that, he rushed forward, ran through the front of the queue, and said loudly: "To clear the bandits, choose warriors, be mules or horses, and you will know! The team is following the order and test arrows according to the order. Those who are afraid can withdraw."

After shouting, Tang Chaoren ran to the target, jumped off the horse, stood under an arrow, waved and shouted: "Zhang Wulang, test the target!"

I saw a young general with a knife-cut face riding his horse out of the queue. It was Zhang Jiawulang who had begun to follow Xue Chongxun last time at the pillar of the third gate of the Yellow River. The famous scholar Zhang Jiuling was also his relative. Zhang Wulang grabbed the horse's belly and rushed away. He pulled the bow and arrow on the horse, lowered his body, and pulled the bowstring like a full moon. He had almost no moment of hesitation. He heard a "bang" sound, and the arrow feather flew towards Tang Chaoren, hitting the bull's eye, and penetrated the target through the middle.

"Good arrow!" Seeing Zhang Wulang's figure and skillful movements, accurate and fast, the generals immediately praised each other.

Tang Chaoren let out a sigh and laughed: "I am the first to test the arrow and pass the test! From now on, I will also serve as the captain of the Third Brigade."

After laughing, he grabbed his mount, turned over the horse, and ordered others to select soldiers in the order of teams. At this time, dozens of carefully selected sharpshooters on the other side of the school ground were also lined up, each with quiver pots and tilted the strings. First, he faced the ground and prepared to shoot the target.

The sharpshooter was selected. If you shoot a target a few dozen steps away, it would be impossible to shoot it outrageously on a person's head... But when you see someone pointing at him with a bow and arrow, you can imagine the psychological pressure. Most people can't help but bow their heads when they are in battle, and some people are even more exaggerated and simply fall to the ground in fear.

However, since these soldiers come to eat the food of life, there are still many who are brave and not afraid of death. Among each fire (ten people), half will not hide, and at least two or three people. After choosing this, you will stop choosing three hundred people and then enter the list.

After only half an hour of busyness, even if this matter is done, the generals are indeed more straightforward and refreshing than civil servants, and there is not so much red tape. At this time, Tang Chaoren slapped his forehead and said, "I forgot one thing. Should Xue Lang choose a name for these three brigade warriors?"

With this reminder, Xue Chongxun thought that it was indeed more powerful to choose a name, but what should I do... Xue Family Army? Didn’t that intentionally ask the center to be wary of it? Hu Ben? It’s even more nonsense. It was a name that only the palace guards dared to use. If you take such a name, an official immediately wrote a letter saying that Xue Chongxun wanted to be the emperor and wanted to rebel!

At this moment, he suddenly remembered an interesting name and blurted out, "Call for Feihu...."

According to the usual system of the Tang army, two brigades on the left and right are one regiment, and three brigades are organized into one regiment. Although it is inappropriate, it is not impossible for him to do this.

Xue Chongxun has been a famous scholar who taught to read and read since he was a child. He named him a name. Tang Chaoren didn't think about it and shouted out: "The name given to Xue Lang, the Flying Tiger Group, brothers have remembered their own names!"

The soldiers laughed and started making a fuss for a while, thinking that the name was quite exciting. The flying tiger should be such a great thing!

...But they soon had trouble. As expected, officials immediately wrote a letter to impeach Xue Chongxun. If other Beijing officials went down to do business and temporarily hired hundreds of people to suppress bandits, it would not attract people's attention; however, Xue Chongxun's identity was special and many people were staring at him, so he could not take any abnormal actions.

Prince Li Longji was also very angry. He thought of him as the prince, and there were only three or four hundred cavalrymen in his personal guards. But Xue Chongxun was considered a stolen person, but he actually took up 300 private soldiers. This is a transgression! It is a rebellion!

Some upright people even called on the Xue family to cultivate dead soldiers, and had ulterior motives and should remove the title to warn others. Princess Taiping was happy that her son was making trouble, so she instructed the bureaucrats in the court to find many reasons for Xue Chongxun, which was a little different from it.

Li Dan also wondered what Xue Chongxun was doing, but could he still rebel for 300 people? He was calm and asked first, "I've asked Taiping... I've asked Sanlang for it", and then adopted a moderate approach: this group of people can only be used for local defense and bandit suppression, and they must not enter Beijing at any time; they must not be equipped with armor or weapons, otherwise they will be treated as a rebellious person according to the law.

After receiving the Ministry of War's consultation, Xue Chongxun naturally did not dare to hide armored soldiers, so he had to ask the craftsmen to weave armor with hard bamboo and old rattan, which was better than nothing, and then equipped with a horizontal knife.

Modao was a control weapon in the Tang Dynasty, but the horizontal sword was not very much in charge. The soldiers of the mansion brought their own short weapons, so they found blacksmiths to forge horizontal swords, and the country only sent long weapons such as Modao spears.

So the "Flying Tiger Group" formed by Xue Chongxun looked really funny. She was wearing bamboo, a hat on her head (the helmet was also a control armor soldier), and a scabbard on her waist... At first glance, it looked like the natives in Jiannan. Fortunately, each person was equipped with six mules and horses, which was a bit related to the elite.

The advantage is that each of them is as light as a swallow, not like an ordinary mansion soldier. He bears at least dozens of kilograms of weight when fighting.
Chapter completed!