Soon, Lu Xu was taken to a meeting hall. Unlike that noisy room, this meeting hall seemed much quieter.
But this does not mean that the atmosphere in this meeting hall is harmonious. When Lu Xu and Duan Chengwang walked in, Lu Xu saw that the civil servants and generals in the meeting hall were separated into two rows according to their respective identities.
, Jingwei are distinct but do not belong to each other.
Duan Chengwang first took Lu Xu to visit an old man with white hair and a childish face who was a civil servant.
I heard Duan Chengwang lead Lu Xu to salute the old man and say, "Your Majesty, Duan Chengwang, pays homage to Lord Ding."
Master Ding helped Lu Xu and Duan Chengwang up with a warm smile on his face, and then he did not forget to say to Lu Xu: "This is Lu Xu, the team coach."
Lu Xu responded quickly: "It's the official."
Master Ding smiled and said: "I am Qin Feng Road Transport Envoy Ding Nian. At this time of crisis, Lu Tuanlian can come forward to fight with us in the national crisis. I really admire you."
Lu Xuliandao did not dare. According to the official system of Daliang, the highest official of a Lu was actually the Jiedushi. However, because the Jiedushi had too heavy powers, the Daliang Dynasty established four official positions under the Jiedushi to limit the Jiedushi.
The power of envoy.
These four official positions are the Four Divisions, that is, the Economic and Strategic Envoy, the Transportation Envoy, the Punishment Envoy and the Changping Envoy. These four divisions are respectively in charge of military affairs, water transportation and wealth, justice, and salt and iron. Because these four divisions
They have great power, so these four divisions are the de facto highest officers along the way.
Logically speaking, these four divisions should not be subordinate to each other. But in fact, generally speaking, they are the strategic envoys who are in charge of military affairs or the transfer envoys who are in charge of the wealth of a place.
Someone like Duan Chengwang is obviously one of the Four Divisions, but because of his rank and authority, he can only become a vassal of others.
Specific to Qin Feng Road, because Wen Yuanzhong was not only Qin Feng Road's strategic envoy but also served as a cabinet bachelor, so even Ding Nian, the transfer envoy, could only be under him.
After hearing Ding Nian's words, the most skilled person in the military generals' team sneered and said: "It is the general's duty to kill the enemy and defend the country. It is indeed commendable for Lord Lu to rush to the battlefield with a guilty conscience, but he cannot be worthy of Lord Ding.
Such flattery, right?"
These words moved Lu Xu's heart, and Duan Chengwang quickly introduced him to Lu Xu: "This is the commander of the Yanwu Army, Qin Yong, General Yan Qin. In the future, Brother Lu will inevitably have to fight with General Qin on the battlefield."
Hearing Duan Chengwang's introduction, Lu Xu became even more confused. Although he couldn't tell in a few words what the positions of Ding Nian and Qin Yongyan were.
But Lu Xu could tell that Qin Yongyan and Ding Nian were not dealing with each other. But this was wrong!
Daliang relies on civil servants to control military officers. As long as a civil servant's rank is high enough, he can theoretically deny face to all military commanders.
With the high official position of the transfer envoy, there should be no general in Daliang who would be willing to be rude to Ding Nian. At first, Lu Xu heard that Qin Yongyan was so rude to Ding Nian, and he thought Qin Yongyan was from the capital. But after hearing that Duan Chengwang
After such an introduction, he realized that Qin Yongyan was just a commander of the Xiang army.
The military system of Daliang is extremely complicated, but it can be roughly divided into four major systems. These four major systems are the imperial army, the Xiang army, the rural soldiers and the vassal soldiers.
In order to prevent military generals and local military and political officials from rebelling, Daliang implemented a policy of strengthening the branches and strengthening the branches. The so-called "strengthening the branches" meant that the central government should be stronger than the sum of the local authorities in terms of authority and military strength, so that the local governments would not dare to act rashly.
Therefore, theoretically speaking, the imperial army guarding the capital should be the strongest among the four major systems.
In addition to the Forbidden Army, the local troops stationed in various places are the Xiang Army. Qin Yongyan's Yanwu Army is the Xiang Army under the jurisdiction of Qin Feng Road.
The Forbidden Army and the Xiang Army are both considered the official regular armies of Daliang. In addition to their two armies, there are also rural soldiers like Lu Xu.
The so-called rural soldiers naturally refer to the paramilitary civilian armed forces organized voluntarily by the villagers. Most of the time, the rural soldiers are responsible for the task of suppressing bandits. Generally, the regular army does not use rural soldiers to fight.
But there are exceptions to everything. In a situation like Qin Feng Road, where the enemies have invaded their home base, the country soldiers have to cooperate with the regular army in fighting.
Especially for a particularly strong local soldier like Lu Xu, there is even a possibility of being dragged directly onto the battlefield.
In addition to these three types, there is another type called vassal soldiers. Fan soldiers originate from a special system - Jizhou.
The so-called Jisi Prefecture refers to an ethnic minority regime that is nominally under the rule of Daliang, but is actually led by chieftains to self-govern themselves, and only fulfills its obligations to pay taxes and send troops to defend the country.
The armies under the jurisdiction of these regimes are the vassal soldiers! Although strictly speaking, the vassal soldiers are not part of the regular army of Daliang, but many powerful vassal soldiers are even much stronger than the regular army of Daliang.
What is strange to Lu Xu is that Qin Yongyan is a mere commander of the Xiang army. How can he have the confidence to confront Ding Nian?
However, what makes Lu Xu even more surprised is that Qin Yongyan is so disrespectful to Ding Nian, and Ding Nian actually smiles and strokes his beard, seemingly not caring about Qin Yongyan's rudeness at all.
It can be seen that Qin Yongyan does have someone behind him, at least a civil servant with a much higher rank than Ding Nian, who is able to make Ding Nian so fearful.
Moreover, Lu Xu also figured out one thing, that is, Wen Yuanzhong called him over today, and also specially asked him to stay in that small room for a while. The purpose should be to let Lu Xu understand what Wen Yuanzhong was facing now.
Dilemma.
Based on Lu Xu's understanding of Wen Yuanzhong, Wen Yuanzhong does not intend to fight the Beiting people on Qinfeng Road. But after he has his own back, his ambitions should have become bigger. He may have begun to think about how to defeat the Beiting people.
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However, judging from what Lu Xu observed, someone among the upper echelons of Qin Feng Road clearly regarded this war as a business.
Lu Xu was not sure whether this person was Ding Nian? Or Qin Yongyan?
But what I have to admit is that Wen Yuanzhong succeeded!
He successfully planted this matter in Lu Xu's heart. Of course, Lu Xu was definitely not trying to stand up for Wen Yuanzhong, or to invest in Wen Yuanzhong to help him gain fame after he became famous.
The reason why Lu Xu pays attention to this matter is purely to stand up for the people of Qin Feng Road!
The longer Lu Xu stayed in Daliang, the more he pitied the people of Qin Feng Road. They were first abandoned by the royal family, and now they were abandoned by the officials who should protect them most.
He began to understand why the people of Qinfeng Road took the initiative to become refugees before the war started.
Because these officials in Qin Feng Road are indeed unreliable! What Lu Xu hates the most is people who have difficulty in making money for the country! Anyway, he has no respect for the Daliang court. If Lu Xu really discovers people who have trouble making money for the country, Lu Xu will not mind