As night fell, a gorgeous carriage drove into the Qin Mansion. This was the mistress Wang's return from the palace.
Mrs. Wang was helped out of the carriage by two personal maids. A maid came forward and saluted: "Madam, the master is waiting in the study!"
"I understand. Is my nephew here today?"
"Replying to Madam, Wang Yanei did not come."
Mrs. Wang took off her outer cloak and then walked towards her husband's inner study.
Qin Hui was already waiting for his wife at the door of the study. Since Wang became the Queen Mother's confidant, Wang's status in front of her husband has obviously improved. Qin Hui greeted her with care and concern, and basically met all her requests.
"Thank you for your hard work, madam. It's cold outside. Come in and sit down and have a sip of hot tea!"
Mrs. Wang entered the room and sat down, complaining a little: "I specially asked Bo'er to come here today, but this kid is so ignorant that he didn't come."
In the past, it was Qin Hui who scolded Wang Bo for being a dandy and useless, but now it was the other way around, and it was Qin Hui's turn to excuse him.
"After all, he is an adult and has more things to do. There must be something delayed. Speaking of Bo'er, I have taken care of his affairs for him. He only needs to go to Taixue to study for another year. I can recommend him.
The position of bookkeeper."
Mrs. Wang took a sip of tea and said calmly: "No need to trouble my husband. The Queen Mother agreed to let him be the Yuezhou envoy of the Salt and Iron Supervision Bureau and hold the title of Wailang, a member of the Sixth Department."
Qin Hui was shocked. Wailang, a member of the Sixth Department, was in charge of the sixth grade. Wang Bo was nothing but a sixth grade supervisor. Moreover, he was a good vacancy in the Yuezhou Salt and Iron Supervisor. He would definitely be noticed.
Qin Hui has now replaced Lu Yihao as the Right Prime Minister of the country. He has great power, but he is still more cautious. After all, his foundation in the court is too shallow. He cannot do something like Wang Bo's appointment of a sixth-rank official all at once. It would be bad.
Violating court rules will lead to public outrage.
He couldn't help but secretly complain about his wife's short-sightedness, but he couldn't say it directly. After all, this was the Queen Mother's intention. He had to talk to Wang Bo's father about this matter and let them decline on their own.
Qin Hui stopped mentioning this matter. Wang glanced at her husband and said: "The Queen Mother is very unhappy today. She is very disappointed with the official family. The person she hates the most is about to be promoted to the Duke of the country. The Queen Mother did not dissuade her husband."
The officials are also deeply dissatisfied!"
Qin Hui smiled bitterly and said: "How can I want to see this result? I am not from the royal family. I was named the Duke of the country when I was only over 20 years old. It is estimated that the whole court will be in an uproar tomorrow, but I have no choice. This is a public commitment from the officials. He
You must fulfill your promise, otherwise what is Jun Wu Xiyan?"
"The Queen Mother asked you to think of a way. For example, Chen Qing is not the head coach. How about transferring this to the head coach?"
Qin Hui's face sank, "Stop saying such stupid things. If Li Gang is promoted to the third level, the Jurchens will have to skin me. Do you think I didn't think of it? I would rather give it to Chen Qing than to Chen Qing."
Li Gang, if Li Gang gains power again, I will become the abandoned son of the Jin Kingdom. Without the support of the Jin Kingdom, how can I achieve the position of right minister? What do you think Wan Yanchang is doing as envoy to Lin'an?"
"Isn't Wan Yanchang's mission to Lin'an just for negotiation?"
"negotiation?"
Qin Huai sneered, "Can't we send an envoy to negotiate? Do we need a Jurchen high-level official like Wan Yanchang to personally take the risk to come to An'an? You don't understand this kind of high-level power struggle. Wan Yanchang's coming to An'an is a gesture in itself. In fact, it is
After reminding the officials that the Jin Kingdom was preparing to reconcile with the Song Dynasty in the southeast direction, the anti-Jin faction in Zhizhengtang was now too strong and was not conducive to such reconciliation. The officials understood the message he conveyed, so Lu Yihao was
Stop looking."
"Then what does this have to do with my husband?"
"Wan Yanchang came here just to support me, do you understand? Wan Yanchang had reached a secret agreement with the officials back then, and I was appointed as the counselor of political affairs to lay a wedge for peace between the Song and Jin Dynasties. Otherwise, I would have no foundation.
I am a junior official with no qualifications and just came back from the Kingdom of Jin. With the official’s paranoia, will he use me?”
"I'm confused. Are the officials the anti-gold faction or the peace negotiation faction?"
Qin Hui said coldly: "On face, he is fighting against the Jin, but in his heart, he is negotiating for peace. His face is for the world to see, but his heart is real. There is also the Queen Mother. She also came back with a mission. She was sent by the Kingdom of Jin."
Lu Yihao's resignation as the supervisor of the official family has a lot to do with her. I'm afraid that she is too selfish and can't tell which is more serious. She wants to kill Chen Qing, but she doesn't know that Li Gang is the big problem."
"I see, then I will tell the Queen Mother that Li Gang cannot be considered!"
"There's no need to say it. The official decree has been issued. I just need to tell the Queen Mother in time to catch Chen Qing in the future."
"Then I also want to tell the Queen Mother that my husband will do his best to help her and she cannot let her resent her husband."
Qin Hui nodded. It was indeed a terrible thing to be resentfully targeted by an old woman in a deep palace.
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The recruitment of new soldiers in Jiangling Prefecture is in full swing, with recruitment and training at the same time.
As the governor of the capital, Chen Qing can command an army of about 10,000 people. This is the military salary and food provided by the court, but a little more can be used. For example, he needs some logistics soldiers, cooks, grooms, military doctors, and craftsmen.
Civil service, etc.
Generally, this kind of logistics soldiers cannot exceed 20% of the total force, so under normal circumstances, the maximum number of people that can be commanded by one commander cannot exceed 12,000.
Of course, if you want to recruit more soldiers due to combat needs, it is not impossible, but the court will not bear the military salary and food, and you have to solve it yourself.
This leads to the biggest problem in the Southern Song Dynasty, private armies.
Because of the need to fight against the Jin Dynasty, the imperial court was relatively relaxed about the over-recruitment of troops by independent capitals. It can be said that it turned a blind eye. For example, there are now Zhang Jun's Zhang Jiajun, Han Shizhong's Han Jiajun, Liu Guangshi's Liu Jiajun, and Yue Fei.
Yue Jiajun, Wu Jiajun of Wu Jie, Liu Jiajun of Liu Qi, etc. The actual armies commanded by each of them have greatly exceeded their own strength limits, and the imperial court also acquiesced.
The spoils gained from winning the battle also belong to themselves, and the court will not hold them accountable. After all, they need to raise an army.
But not every governor can get the opportunity to independently control the army. This requires the emperor's approval. Qu Duan, Liu Ziyu, Wang Yan, Wu Gao, Fu Xuan and other generals of the Western Army did not get this opportunity.
Kong Yanzhou already had his own private army, but he never got the emperor's approval, so he surrendered to the puppet Qi army in order to protect his private army.
In fact, Chen Qing's army already had some prototypes of the Chen Jiajun, and its biggest characteristic was already in place. His army followed him, he transferred to Huguang, and the army also followed him to Huguang.
Wang Yan's Eight-Character Army failed to form the Wang Family Army. He was transferred and his army was handed over to Fu Xuan and Chen Qing.
This is also the fundamental reason why Zhao Gou rewarded Chen Qing but not his coach Li Gang during the Battle of Dongting Lake. Chen Qing's army was actually independent and not under Li Gang's jurisdiction.
This was the biggest compensation Chen Qing received from being transferred to Huguang from the Western Army. The imperial court recognized his independent capital, and Chen Qingcai agreed to come to Huguang.
This right of independence is too important to him. Without the right of independence, he can only fight hard with Zhu Shengfei, otherwise Zhu Shengfei will have the right to seize Chen Qing's army and send him to Bashu to train troops. This is Zhang Jun's response to Chen Qing because of his own
A kind of compensation for being suppressed by Zhu Shengfei because of
At the beginning of the founding of the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to prevent the Jurchens from destroying the country, they adopted a compromising attitude towards the warlords. However, once the Song army negotiated peace, the emperor Zhao Gou and the court began to quickly withdraw military power. One of the most serious incidents
, that is, Feng Bo Ting Yue Fei was killed.
Yue Fei was killed for many reasons, one of which was that he refused to obey the decree at the last moment. Emperor Zhao Gou felt that Yue Fei's army was out of control and worried that Yue Fei would support his troops in the Central Plains and stand on his own.
The topic has gone too far, let’s turn back.
At present, Chen Qing's army has a total of 15,000 people, 10,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry. There are also 5,000 navy troops lent to him by Li Gang and are not owned by him. The actual strength is 15,000 people.
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At present, the strength of the Song army is far less than that of the puppet Qi army, and the situation is very unfavorable. The imperial court approved Li Gang to recruit an additional 50,000 troops. When the quota was broken down, Chen Qing got a quota of 10,000 troops.
Chen Qing now still has 5,000 prisoners of war from Yang Yao's elite army, which he did not hand over to Li Gang. Instead, he used them to ride on chariots and boats. Chen Qing handed over these 5,000 prisoners of war to Zheng Ping, who was responsible for Zheng's training. Zheng Ping had already led two soldiers
Ten warships rushed to Xiangyang and cooperated with Niugao to blockade the Han River.
In the past few days, Chen Qing has been recruiting 5,000 new soldiers in Jiangling. There has been a flood of applicants. Not only the children of Jiangling Prefecture, but also people from various states and counties around Dongting Lake thanked Chen Qing for not disturbing the people and sent their children to join the army one after another.
In just three days, Chen Qing's newly recruited army reached 5,300 people.
Today is the last day for recruiting new recruits. At the recruitment point at the Yangtze River Wharf in Jiangling County, an applicant arrived that Chen Qing had never expected.