Chapter 2 Statues of Officials
On the 12th day after Lu Ning returned home, in the Guanglu Room of Beiyuan, the guests Lu Ning invited became important officials of Jing Haijun, Haizhou and Chuzhou.
The attendees were attended by the Minister of War, Feng Yanlu, the Chief of the Military Control Commission of Jinghai Army, Yang Zhao, the Deputy Envoy of Jinghai Army, the Governor of Chuzhou, Lin Renzhao, the Instructor of Jinghai Army, Zhang Yanqing, the Order of the Arrangement, Li Jingyao, and other civil and military officials. In addition, Zhao Pu, the Chief Secretary of the Military Office, and Chen Zhiyong.
Feng Yanlu was appointed as the Minister of War and the Chief of the Military Command of Jinghai.
The position of military and horse chief supervisor is not permanent, and its rank is determined by the rank of the officials they are in charge. Generally speaking, in military towns where military and horse chief supervisors are usually led by deputy envoys.
The Jing Haijun, deputy envoy, was the governor of Chuzhou, and the officials sent by the central government led the troops and horses. From a certain perspective, it was obviously a kind of supervision and checks and balances.
Not to mention that Feng Yanlu is the half-brother of the left prime minister Feng Yansi, and is the backbone of Feng Yansi's party. Together with his brother and several other powerful ministers, he was called the "Five Ghosts" by his political enemies. Of course, Feng Yanlu was not qualified to be on par with the other four ghosts in terms of official positions, but because he was a brother with Feng Yansi and was accustomed to using power, he was listed among the Five Ghosts.
Chuzhou, if we look at the city, it is much larger than Haizhou. Chuzhou is bounded by the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and is promising to the north and south, with developed commerce and trade. The entire Chuzhou area has a population of nearly 200,000.
Even when Yang Zhao was transferred from Haizhou Governor to Chuzhou Governor, it can be regarded as an promotion, let alone, he was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Jinghai Army.
If it were normal, the Jing Haijun should have been in Chuzhou, but the Donghai Duke was enfeoffed in Haizhou, and the army was in Zhenhaizhou. Lu Ning, the governor, was in charge of the governor of Haizhou according to the customs.
However, Lu Ning has been back for more than ten days and has not gone to Haizhou for a walk. All Haizhou government affairs will be handled by Li Jingyao, a former leader of Haizhou.
Haizhou officials took it for granted by the style of Donghai Gong, and Li Jingyao was even more secretly grateful. Fortunately, he had always respected Donghai Gong. Otherwise, he would have really lost his life. Then, how long has it been? Donghai Gong started to take charge of the military town? The title was even raised, and the speed of the promotion was really as fast as possible.
Usually when the governor is tough, the three officials in the state will become decorations. In the past dynasty, the chief officials and Sima, the three officials in the state will be idle and give them a name, but they have no power in particular.
Now Li Jingyao has truly experienced the taste of power, and he has made up his mind to help Donghai Gong manage Haizhou's government affairs well. If there is any mistake, let alone sorry for Donghai Gong's trust, he will never experience it anymore. Isn't it?
Lin Renzhao, the coach of Jinghai Army, was the one who was extremely outstanding in the military stroke recruited by Lu Ning in Quanzhang. He selected one from the head of the city to be promoted to the military town coach and was in charge of military town training affairs. Lu Ning chose him.
Sitting here at the moment, Lin Renzhao was filled with excitement.
He was originally a general of the Fujian Kingdom, known as Lin Huzi. The Fujian Kingdom was defeated and he returned home to live in vain. Later, Donghai was fair in the process of defending Quanzhang. He heard that Donghai Gong was an unparalleled national soldier. When he was waiting for Donghai Gong to recruit Yong Jian to join the army, he signed up for the army with the idea of trying it out, but he did not expect that Donghai Gong's personal training was extremely different, which opened his horizons. Moreover, the atmosphere and promotion mechanism in the army were unprecedented. In this army, gold would shine and would not be buried at all.
He was soon promoted to the capital, and every new capital would be summoned by Donghai Gong.
Perhaps because of his better response, he left an impression in Donghai Gong's heart. Donghai Gong selected a military town training envoy from the capital. He heard that he had called him his name in person.
However, Lin Renzhao knew in his heart that in the Donghai Gong, Dutou, who only commanded ten soldiers in his personal army, could serve as the main general in the Jinghai Army. It can be seen that Donghai Gong's preference for the personal army. Of course, if you have truly experienced it in the Donghai Gong's personal army, you will know that Donghai Gong's preference is completely in common sense.
What Lin Renzhao didn't know was that Lu Ning chose him as the military town training envoy because he had a vague impression of his name, as if he was the last famous general of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Unfortunately, the latter ruler Li Yu was defeated by Zhao Kuangyin's counter-espionage plan and killed him. His name seemed to be the same. When he summoned him, he listened to his words and was definitely the first person among the heads of the personal army.
Moreover, not to mention the dozens of people, just talking about the Taibao, many Taibaos are brave, but they are only suitable for being chargers and may not be able to stand alone. If they are the current position of Lin Renzhao as a senior general in the military town, they may not be able to pass.
Of course, Lin Renzhao didn't know this, but he secretly swore in his heart that he would train the Haichu army and behave well. It would be impossible to compete with the lord's personal army, but at least, he had to have this goal.
The Jinghai Army's platoon Zhang Yanqing was originally the defense envoy of Chuzhou. Last year, Zhou soldiers attacked Tang, Zhang Yanqing purged the army and horses and made dozens of very inhumane orders. It would have been fine if Chuzhou was really attacked by the Zhou army, but the Zhou army was defeated in Shouzhou. Therefore, Zhang Yanqing's harsh criticism became a statement of being attacked by political enemies, and he was then deposed as a defense envoy of Chuzhou. If it were not for Lu Ning's recommendation, he would still be at home to think about his mistakes.
Lu Ning knew that Zhang Yanqing had defended Chuzhou in history and ordered the Zhou lord Guo Rong to attack for more than 40 days. He and more than a thousand soldiers were killed in battle, and none of them surrendered. Guo Rong lost many troops and horses. In anger, he ordered the city to be massacred. Almost all the houses in Chuzhou were burned and more than 10,000 people were killed. This is a case in history, one of Guo Rong's black spots.
There was no siege in Chuzhou, which led to Zhang Yanqing being dismissed from office. Lu Ning was also helpless. If such a brave and loyal general could be used by him, of course he would give it a try.
Of course, Zhang Yanqing didn't know this. He had no good feelings for this Donghai Duke, who had a polarized reputation. As for Donghai Duke's invincible courage, I think it was a boast. Look at his jade-faced man, who can go to battle and kill the enemy?
Of course, as a subordinate, Donghai Gong has the grace of re-activated it, and he is just working diligently to do the job.
The secretary Zhao Pu was also the prime minister of the East China Sea and the chief official Chen Zhiyong. He was also the chief lord of the East China Sea. He was above the ministers and below the prime minister.
Both of them are officials of the Donghai State and staff of the military office.
Lu Ning only recommended one Chen Zhiyong to take it back to his territory because Guan Yuan and others were in Quanzhang. They were all people with strong clan concepts. It was unrealistic to come to Haizhou thousands of miles away. For them, it was equivalent to being exiled. Chen Zhiyong could wander around. He had been an official in Jinling, but he was depressed and returned home. His ambition was that he did not want to live in a remote place like Quanzhang.
Of course, Chen Zhiyong was a little more unique. When asked if he wanted to go to Haizhou with him, he immediately bowed his head and said.
The rest of the people would refuse.
What's more, although Lu Ning felt that his country was in great need of talents, he went to Quanzhang and plundered a bunch of famous scholars from Quanzhang to the East China Sea, which would inevitably lead to a substantial population.
At this rich banquet, looking at the officials, Lu Ning also felt a lot of emotion in his heart.
Suddenly, Feng Yanlu said, "Xiao Xiaodu is worthy of having a drink with me?"
But it was Lin Renzhao, who was a little drunk and raised his glass to toast Shangguan one by one. The first one was toasting Feng Yanlu.
Because this table of banquets originally meant to welcome Feng Yanlu, who had just taken office, Lin Renzhao listened to the lord's words and wanted to be more respectful to Feng Yanlu. Therefore, he toasted Feng Yanlu with the first glass of wine.
Chapter completed!