The emperor smiled happily, but Zhuge Liang's expression was a little serious.
The eunuchs standing in the four corners of the warm-up pavilion even noticed that Zhuge Liang's eyes showed a very rare shaking posture.
The eunuchs were all clever people and immediately squeezed their bodies into the corner so that no one could find them.
When Liu Bei was in Jingzhou, the military system of subordinates was very chaotic. Although he nominally respected the Han system, it was inevitable that he would look like a large army headed by General Zuo, surrounded by many small and medium-sized military heads. Lei Yuan led tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians from Jianghuai to surrender, so he naturally became a powerful faction second only to the lord.
When Liu Bei was called King of Hanzhong, he established the five armies in front, back, left and right. Generally speaking, Zhao Yun's army was the guard, Huang Zhong's army was the reserve team, Guan Yu's army was in Jingzhou, Lei Yuan's army was in Jiaozhou, and Zhang Fei's army was in Hanzhong to face Yongliang. At this time, the subordinates had undergone a thorough rectification and had clear authority, and could be called the national economic and technological division.
After the Hanzhong King became emperor, the military system was gradually adjusted. In addition to the original Five-army system, many systems that seemed like Han were enriched, and many subtle and different new systems were also enriched.
Generally speaking, the subordinates of the Five Armies have shrunk to independent military camps distributed in various states. The land reclamation account of military camps is not the same as the people. The Shijia in the military camps has tax-free land, officials give oxen, and children enroll in school and officialdom, and receive military training on a daily basis. The children of the Shijia take turns to serve, but in the war, they are recruited according to the combat requirements to form elite troops that can fight in fields and expeditions.
Outside the five armies, each county has a county magistrate who is on par or slightly lower than the prefect. He usually controls the county and county soldiers, and cooperates with the prefect in war to command the county and county soldiers as needed. The requisition and training of county and county soldiers is looser and stricter according to the local environment; in border counties, there are also horse stairs and archers who pay to recruit.
The ones at the top of the entire military system are the general Guan Yu who is in charge of military orders, and the Zhongdu Protector and the general Zhao Yun who is in charge of military affairs. In addition, according to the imperial edicts of the court, the ones representing the emperor to rule a strategic direction were General Lei Yuan and General Chess and Cavalry Zhang Fei.
Since the beginning of this year, the latter general Li Yan has performed extraordinary in central military affairs, so he has added the title of Guangluxun, which has been able to assist Zhao Yun, with authority spanning the middle, and the latter two armies.
No matter how the military system changes, one thing is clear, that is, Zhuge Liang rarely participates directly.
Whether Zhuge Liang's position was a military advisor General or a military advisor general, he always focused on his ministers and took it as his responsibility to have enough food and soldiers. In addition, he was usually only responsible for the presumption of strategic direction and did not involve specific military affairs. In the past ten years, he had only had a very short period of control over military affairs... that was the months when he was defeated in Guanzhong and Pang Tong died.
When the emperor ascended the throne and ascended the throne, the prime minister and general were established together at the center, and Zhuge Liang still maintained this state.
First, the Prime Minister who holds the rituals has a great power to record the Secretary's affairs. If he rashly enters other things, the balance in the court will be difficult to maintain. Second, the prestige of the general Guan Yu is extremely high. He controls the General's Mansion with one hand and is above all military men, without the need for others to help. Third, the emperor himself is a hero who has experienced many battles. In terms of specific military affairs, perhaps only Guan Yu is qualified to discuss with him today.
Zhuge Liang had no objection to this. Now that the Han family is revived and its vigorous attitude is visible, Zhuge Liang devotes all his energy to building a system that can be worthy of the people of the world and the previous emperors of the Han Dynasty.
Although he is very energetic, he cannot take into account all the best.
This time the emperor was coming to Guanzhong, and his original purpose was only diplomacy, so many officials from the imperial center came. Since the emperor specifically ordered Zhuge Liang to accompany him, Zhuge Liang only regarded himself as the emperor's accompanying him to meet with the little king of the Western Regions. But most of his energy was actually still on the government affairs of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Until a month ago, the emperor summoned Zhuge Liang and told him about the tacit understanding between Sun and Cao and the special movements of Cao's family.
Because Guan Yu, Zhao Yun and others were still stationed in Chengdu, the arrangement of the army had no additional changes. Since the emperor planned to respond secretly, he would not cause any trouble and make mobilizations that led to the enemy's suspicion. So Zhuge Liang took the time to accompany the emperor, spent a lot of effort, slowly designed a response plan, assisting the emperor step by step to mobilize troops, and laying a sufficiently effective trap.
The emperor himself should have been responsible for implementing the entire plan.
In Zhuge Liang's opinion, although the emperor was over 60 years old and his mighty spirit was still there, he was bound to be itchy when he had not taken the battle for several years. Taking advantage of the opportunity of representatives of the Western Regions, it is natural to show the heroic power of the Han emperor under Chang'an City.
But he really didn't expect that the emperor would suddenly get sick. And as soon as he was sick, he was so difficult that he could not get into battle.
He even never expected that the emperor would have a sudden idea and hand over the power to command this battle to the prime minister who had never had any experience in fighting on the battlefield.
Zhuge Liang pondered for a moment, quickly wrote the draft, and then bowed slightly: "Your Majesty, this is probably inappropriate."
"What's wrong?"
"Your Majesty, you want..." Zhuge Liang was about to say something, and the emperor raised his hand to signal.
"Live."
Zhuge Liang stopped talking, and the emperor waved his hand to the eunuchs: "You all go out."
The eunuchs came out one after another and closed the door of the warm pavilion.
"Kong Ming." The emperor said in a deep voice.
"I'm here."
After a long pause, the emperor leaned on the soft couch to relax his body. He sighed comfortably, and then said, "I didn't think that this time I was sick, and my body was not as good as before. Yun Chang, Yide and Zilong were all sixty years old, so it would be a matter of time before. A Dou... Alas, I'm not very sensible. In the future, there will be someone with a high prestige to take charge of everything... I need a prime minister who can make decisions within and make contributions outside!"
Zhuge Liang felt that his breathing had stopped for a while.
Of course he knew what the emperor was considering, and he knew that those considerations based on political trade-offs were very necessary. But he just wanted to stop the emperor's words, so he suddenly waved his feather fan: "Your Majesty! Why do you say this!"
He didn't know what to say after these two sentences.
The emperor was very relaxed. Seeing Zhuge Liang's rare confusion, the emperor's eyes even had a bit of cunning and complacent: "I thought about it carefully last night. Now we are well prepared and the enemy is heavy enough. This opportunity is very suitable and can be the prime minister's first contribution on the battlefield. Kong Ming, if you understand my intentions, seize this opportunity and don't quit your hard work! How about it?"
Zhuge Liang was silent for a while, and stood up and bowed: "I am afraid that I am not talented and shall not be able to overcome all my duties."
The emperor laughed again: "Kongming, I have fought a war for my whole life and have seen thousands of people. Whoever can fight and who cannot fight, I can see through it at a glance. What's more, you have participated in the daily training of the Yulin and Hu Ben departments. You are not an outsider! I will not misjudgment, please do it with confidence!"
Chapter completed!