Mi Youren, who was sent to "surveillance" his teacher, took his entourage and tens of thousands of pieces of silk from Zhao Ji and embarked on the way north. However, he did not go directly to Tianjin Prefecture, but stopped at Daming Prefecture where the Hebei Xuanfu Department is located, and went to visit Tao Jiefu, the commander of the Xuanfu Department of Hebei and the King of the Xuanfu Department.

Mi Youren and Tao Jiefu were not very familiar with each other, but they had a good relationship with Wang Bing. They were all people in the same circle after the generals of Kaifeng Prefecture. In addition, Zhang Kegong and Mi Youren, the model New Army's supervisor, were also quite familiar with each other. So they led them to visit Tao Jiefu, who had taken a mess and was still planning some big plan.

"Thank you all the way to Yuanhui!" Tao Jiefu, who was old and had a little sick look on his face, stood at the door of the inner hall to greet him.

"What's the hard work for the officials?" Mi Youren bowed respectfully, and was pulled by Tao Jiefu and joined hands into the inner hall.

Wang Bing and Zhang Kegong followed in and sat in Tao Jiefu's inner hall. When the female envoy brought the tea, Mi Youren took a sip and moistened his throat, and then said: "Sir Xuan, when he was leaving the capital, the official family ordered his subordinates to come to Daming Mansion first... The Youzhou army still had to cooperate with the Hebei army. If Xuan commander Xuan was sent, the subordinates should do their best."

Mi Youren's speech was neither slow nor anxious, and his steady tone was full of leisure and elegance as a scholar, and he was vaguely proud.

After all, Wu Haogu is his teacher!

Moreover, under Wu Haogu's command, the military generals did not say that among the civil officials, in terms of qualifications and closeness with Wu Haogu, who could compare with him Mi Youren? No! Zhao Jiaren, He Tianran, Lu Renjia, Zhang Xizai, Su Dalang and others were just the standards of civil officials. Lu Haowen, Lu Benzhi, his father and son were a little stronger, but he could not compare with him Mi Youren. Before his father Mi Fu passed away, he was the commander of the Hailu Maritime Warriors, and he was definitely the second-rate figure in Wu Haogu's group.

Before, because he was a filial son, Ding You in Kaifeng Prefecture could not participate in Wu Haogu's career. Now that he has been released by the official family, he has a chance to show his skills!

Of course, this idea must be hidden first... It cannot be seen by Tao Jiefu and others!

Tao Jiefu looked at Mi Youren who was a little excited: "What? Yuanhui, can you really convince the King of Peking to obey?"

Mi Youren smiled and said, "It is only a last resort for his family to be the governor. He is still loyal to the court and the government."

His words are well-founded!

Although he has been a filial son at home for a while, he has always had letters between his wife and his junior sister Du Wenyu.

Of course he knew Wu Haogu's thought of "the world is for the public"... In the letters of Ximen Qing and Du Wenyu, Mi Youren could feel the anxiety between the lines.

Wu Haogu doesn’t seem to want to be an emperor! How can this work?

You good disciple, come and persuade him quickly! Once he becomes the emperor, you are the unscrupulous prime minister! Although you didn’t say it clearly, that’s about it.

The two women were anxious, but Mi Youren was not anxious at all. Being an emperor was something that he was reluctant to do, and was forced to be a throne by a group of brothers who were greedy for wealth. His ancestors had done this, and this is how the heroes and generals came about!

Of course, the matter of wearing a yellow robe cannot be rushed. If it is too early, it will be a traitor who can be punished by everyone in the world! The Song Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time, and the Emperor of the Zhao family has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. His mentor only cut off half of the county's territory and was criticized by scholars as a traitor. If he put on the dragon robe too early, it will most likely become the target of public criticism.

So you can't hurry up and wait for the opportunity!

Speaking of which, Yelu Yanxi had just entered Kaifeng Prefecture last year! If he had won Kaifeng Prefecture, his mentor would have the opportunity to clean up the old country from scratch!

What a pity...

"Yuanhui," Tao Jiefu looked at Mi Youren, smiling slightly, "In fact, the Yan land owned by the King of Beiping is not the only vassal state today. The Zhe family of Fulin, Zhang Zhiping from Hexi, and Lingzhou under the Gao family, all look like the Tang Ji vassal state. However, the soldiers of the imperial court can enter the territory."

This is also a fact. Although Fulin Road was ruled by the Zhe family for more than a hundred years, the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty were stationed on the territory of Fuzhou. Until now, two generals, Hedong New Army stationed in Fuzhou, Lin and Fengzhou.

As for Hexi Road, the situation was a bit special. Because the court did not directly send troops to participate in the Battle of Anxi, but instead allowed the semi-commercial and semi-religious group of the Dacai Regiment to participate in the Battle of Anxi. It was a bit similar to the "Ranker Expedition" organized by Emperor Wu of Han and Li Guangli. However, it was well organized, had sufficient logistics, and the opponent was unexpected. Therefore, the results achieved were far beyond the expectations of the court.

Of course, the unexpected result was not only the three nominal protections of Anxi, Beiting and Tianzhu, but also the Hexi Road, which was divided by academies, Taoist temples and temples.

Because the doctoral corps that participated in the investment in the Great Educational and Reform Group had to receive rewards, and the soldiers of the Educational and Reform Group also had to receive rewards, Zhang Yuan could only grant most of the land household registration on Hexi Road to the academies, Taoist corpses, temples, and reforming group knights and soldiers.

Such a feudalization actually undermined the system of the appeasement envoy ignoring civil affairs and finance. Zhang Yuan's Hexi Road Strategy Appeasement envoy became the de facto Jiedushi, which was captured by the army, finance and the people.

Moreover, after the Hexi Dynasty's Great Seal, the officials of the Song Dynasty's imperial court naturally lost the ability to rule prefectures and counties. Faced with a group of armed manors, academies, temples, and Taoist temples, they were powerless. Therefore, the officials of Hexi Prefectures and counties could only be sent by the Hexi Road Strategy and Pacification Envoy to send the military feudal lord to serve.

In addition, he served as the Strategic Pacification Envoy of Hexi Road and was also the head of the Great Education and the Hexi Tianli Academy (all Tianli Academy in Hexi are under the jurisdiction of the Great Academy). In fact, he became the largest feudal lord in Hexi.

However, Zhang Yuan did not refuse the Song Dynasty's new army to enter Liangzhou. Next to his pacification and strategic envoy, was the camp of the second general of the Shuofang New Army who was stationed in Hexi!

In the end, Lingzhou, which was originally ruled by Gao Qiu, did not become a direct prefecture and county of the court after Gao Qiu died in his country. Zhao Ji sent Gao Yanei, Gao Qiu's eldest son Gao Yaokang, as the governor of Lingzhou and the general manager of the army.

The reason for such an arrangement was that Tong Guan, who replaced Gao Qiu as the Northwest Xuanfu, invited him to serve as the Northwest Xuanfu.

Tong Guan told Zhao Ji in the memorial that Gao Qiu's Lingzhou army had not been truly destroyed, because there would not be only one male among the Knight House and the Mansion House who received the field of duty. Only the Knight Manor and the Mansion Farm can maintain it, and it is possible to conduct secondary recruitment and rebuild the Lingzhou army.

If the rule of the official in Lingzhou was prematurely implemented, those knight households and military households would be worried that their interests would lose their protection and would not respond to the second recruitment.

So Zhao Ji sent Gao Yaokang to Lingzhou, and at the same time mobilized a new Shaanxi army to settle in Lingzhou City.

Mi Youren understood Tao Jiefu's thoughts. He wanted to solve the Youzhou problem, but he did not want to fight with Wu Haogu, because he would definitely not be able to defeat...

"Shishou," Mi Youren thought for a while, "It's better to do this. Just mobilize a new general and follow the officials to the north. If it's best to enter Tianjin Prefecture, if it doesn't work, then enter Qingchi County, Cangzhou."

Although Qingchi County, Cangzhou is still the territory of the Song Dynasty court, there are basically no defenses. The transfer of a general into Qingchi County, which borders Tianjin Prefecture, is a somewhat sensitive military operation.

"Two generals!" Tao Jiefu stretched out his two fingers, "One general entered Qingchi, and the other general entered Qingzhou."

Tao Jiefu had never thought that he could transfer his troops to Tianjin Prefecture all at once. His real goal was to first drive the two new generals into Qingchi County and Qingzhou, which bordered Tianjin Prefecture.

"Okay!" Mi Youren nodded with a smile, "But is the troops under Xuan Shuai enough? Is there a little less troops used to transfer two generals into Qingchi and Qingzhou?"

Tao Jiefu stroked his beard, "It's enough... There are four newly formed generals on Zhendingfu Road (adapted from Xiangzhou Tuanjian) and a general of the Hebei Army. Dingzhou Road has one general of the Zhejia Army and one general of the Shaanxi Army, as well as the Daming Prefecture Army, two generals from Shaanxi and two generals of the Hebei Army. In addition, in Baozhou, Ansu Army and Guangxin Army, there are three generals of the Hebei Army. Therefore, the Kaifeng Army, the three generals directly under the Xuanfu Department are just reserves, and it's enough not to go to the front line."

"Oh, then you'll be relieved." Mi Youren responded, but said in his heart: There are fifteen generals and one famous regiment to train troops, which is really a lot! So you can take out two generals to restrain at least one general of the Youzhou Army... In this way, the three elite new generals of the Song Dynasty can restrain each other and move extremely!

The teacher had only four infantry generals in total, one of which was still in Liaodong. After deducting another general to defend Tianjin, there were only two generals available. One general was against the Liao soldiers in Yizhou, and the other general was placed in Pingying Luanzhou. There were two cavalry generals left to be mobile, but the cavalry generals could not attack the city... The Song Dynasty's thoughts were all used to restrain each other. Is there really no problem with this battle in Dingzhou?

Tao Jiefu nodded and said to Mi Youren: "Yuanhui, your family still has many industries and children in Tianjin, right?"

Mijia is also one of the "initiators" of Tianjin City. It holds shares in industries such as Republic Bank, Tianjin Bank, JD Bank, Christie's Singing and Selling Store. Moreover, there are also its own specialized tea shops, fan shops and newspapers in Tianjin. The transactions are not big, but they are not too small.

"Yes," said Mi Youren, "Xiaguan's family is quite powerful in Tianjin. I wonder what Xuan Shuai wants Xiaguan to do in Tianjin?"

"It's nothing," Tao Jiefu smiled, "I just want to rent one or two hundred grain ships. The price is easy to say, but the ship operator must be reliable."

"Okay, I'll cover it with Xia Guan."

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