It is a foregone conclusion that Ye An will be awarded the title of champion general, and everyone in the government and the public will be in an uproar. It is unprecedented that such a conferment of literary qualifications will be given, but now Ye An has set a precedent for the court.
However, Lu Yijian and other ministers of the two palaces did not go to court to remonstrate. In their view, Ye An's military achievements were enough to be awarded the title of General Zhenguo, but due to sentiment and reason, Ye An should not be granted the title of Military Officer.
The prime ministers of the two mansions did not say much, but the officials in the court could not sit still. The imperial censors all came together to remonstrate with Zhao Zhen, objecting to Ye An being granted the title of Grand Champion, or even opening the palace.
To open a government office is to set up an official office and recruit staff. If General Yitong is added, it will be called "Kuzhijie". Although this was in name only in the Song Dynasty, it is also a serious name. As a civil servant, Ye An
How can you have such a status?!
In their view, this is not alien, but over the top...
And the excuses used by these Qing gossip officials are all "the laws of our ancestors have no precedents, so they cannot be used without permission, so that there is no distinction between civil and military affairs..."
However, some people think that giving Ye An this title is not bad, or even very appropriate, such as Ouyang Xiu, Fan Zhongyan and others. In their opinion, Ye An is both a civil servant and a military general, with the talent to plan the country and the ability to lead the army.
He is a rare capable minister.
The final result was finalized by Zhao Zhen. He had already thought clearly that since Ye An accepted his canonization without hesitation, he was already prepared.
Zhao Zhen was very satisfied with the obedience he showed. Only by obeying Tianjia would he feel more at ease. If he refused, Zhao Zhen would be worried.
Cao Wan also used such words to persuade him that night. Zhao Zhen even felt that he was making a fuss out of a molehill. For a person like Ye An, as long as he is given a corresponding reward, how can he not be allowed to do it properly?
Of course, to grant him such a seal, he must "get back" something...
Soon, the Tokyo Morning News and other newspapers published the story of Ye An's conferment, "In the first year of Kangding, Ding Mao, worshiped the Marquis of Yunzhong and the direct scholar of Tianzhang Pavilion as the champion general, and opened the palace with the same great title.
General, above the third rank, is the fourth rank of military attache."
For a time, the people of Tokyo City celebrated after hearing this. In their view, Ye An was a reward given by the court and officials after he guarded the north and prevented the Liao Dynasty from invading the south.
But in fact, it was a disguised seizure of power. Look at the officials and titles above him, none of them had actual duties. Even the Yunzhong Commandery and Marquises had only obtained these two auspicious gifts of potatoes and sweet potatoes to the court.
Bachelor Zhangge did not have a full-time position, he could only go to the palace at any time to ask for memorials and advise the officials. As for the champion general... he was branded as an outlier among civil servants.
From now on, Ye An has no real power. Apart from recruiting a few more soldiers, it is impossible to open a mansion...
However, Ye An was quite happy. He enjoyed family happiness at home all day long, taught his children about their studies, and took a dip in the pond when summer came. He had a great time.
Chen Lin even stayed in the Hou Mansion as a pensioner, but she stayed far away in the summer. After all, Qin Mumu also liked to play in the water. Although he was a eunuch, he had never seen such a woman, but
He couldn't stand up to Ye An's murderous eyes, so he could only run dejectedly to look for Tieniu to play with.
At first, Chen Lin wanted to trick Ye Lin into becoming his godson, but she gave up completely after being slingshotted by him a few times. Although this little guy was not old, he was very naughty and wanted to be his "godbrother"
.
Chen Lin had never heard of "godbrother!" but the little guy said that this way, he would be higher than his father and would never have to be spanked again...
Ye An didn't think there was anything wrong with the current Hou Mansion. As for Chen Lin's warning, he pretended not to have heard it. Why did he ask Zhao Zhen for a job? Wouldn't it be better not to have a job?
As for the Imperial City Division starting to slack off, although I feel unhappy, so what? Liu Yong is still serving in the Imperial City Division. He can restrain their behavior no matter how much, but how long it can be restrained depends on it.
How long can he stay?
It was a pity to finally train the Imperial City Division and let it be abandoned again, but the Speed Division has always been a relatively independent existence. Although they do not have to train every day like soldiers, they have never collected and sorted out intelligence.
Never slacked off.
This is the only value of their existence, and it is also the reason why Zhao Zhen had to retain the Speed Division.
However, there are sometimes blind spots and shortcomings in intelligence collection work. Sometimes, the intelligence they collect may be the intelligence that others want them to see, which makes them somewhat passive...
The city of Tokyo has been relatively peaceful recently, and the court intentionally or unintentionally blamed Huang Dehe for the defeat of Mikawaguchi, and many people in the court thought so.
Defeat is not terrible, but failure to sum up experience and lessons after defeat is the most terrifying thing in Ye An's opinion!
Cutting Huang Dehe in half would be enough? Hanging his head on Fushi City in Yanzhou would be considered an explanation?
Liu Ping was rehabilitated, but what about the soldiers of the Song Dynasty who died in the battle at Sanchuankou? Lu Zheng escaped on his own, Wang Xin climbed out of the corpses of the soldiers who died in the battle, and Shi Yuansun was let go by Li Yuanhao for some unknown reason.
, and then... there is no more.
All the blame was placed on Huang Dehe, which looked like a joke to Ye An. The entire Song Dynasty, together with Fan Yong who was in Yanzhou, staged a farce of "Peace and Prosperity".
But everyone in the world seemed to believe this farce. Everyone simply thought that the Song Dynasty could really withstand the attack of the Xixia people.
By getting rid of the Xixia pursuers in time, Yanzhou City would probably be captured at the beginning of the war.
To this day, no one mentions Fan Yong's original escapeism, and no one even cares about the nearly 10,000 soldiers of Zhangwu Army and Zhenxi Army who died in the battle, as if their deaths were insignificant, and the court just carried out the work hastily and in accordance with the lowest standards.
Awards, no one wants to mention them again.
Ye An didn't know where they had the courage to do this. How many border guards would be chilled and how many military relatives would be wailed if the news spread to the northwest?
What the country lost was the frontier soldiers, but what they lost were brothers, fathers, children, and even grandfathers!
Although the Battle of Sanchuankou is over, the trauma of the war has just begun. The effective forces of the Song Dynasty were wiped out by the Xixia Chengzhi. If it is not comforted and rebuilt in time, Li Yuanhao will soon make a comeback.
It is not always possible to expect the frontier troops of the Song Dynasty to penetrate deep into Xixia, nor is it always possible to defend the city.
At this time when the world was at peace and the Tokyo court and the people were enjoying their prosperity, Ye An finally couldn't bear it any longer. Regardless of Qin Mumu's dissuasion, he wrote three memorials, requesting the two governments to increase their pensions to the Zhangwu Army and the Zhenxi Army.
Strength, allocate money and food at the same time, mobilize troops and generals to rebuild the two armies!
But his memorials were like nothing. In desperation, Ye An could only stay after the Chang Dynasty and invited Zhao Zhen to report, but the result was still the same.
Lu Yijian believed that the terrain in the northwest was complicated and that they only needed to build more forts. With Cao Yi in charge, the Xixia people would not dare to invade again, while Li Di believed that Li Yuanhao had just retreated and it was impossible for him to go south with the strength of the whole country.
As for Xue Kui, he did not agree with Ye An's plan, but came up with another plan to counterattack Xixia!
Ye An almost laughed out loud when he heard the news. He had never seen someone so arrogant before. Who gave Song Dynasty such courage? The soldiers of the frontier army who had just lost so many in the battle did not want to rebuild.
Instead, he wanted to counterattack.
In Xue Kui's words, this was a surprise victory... At this time, Ye An knew that since the defeat of Sanchuankou, the Second Central Government and Zhao Zhen had begun to plan to counterattack Xixia...