Zhang Li and Gao Yaokang walked together on the official road leading to Lingzhou City. Behind him were a large group of strong men who looked like Tianli Sect and Lingzhou military officers rode their horses to follow. Behind him were even more iron cavalry surrounded by a large group of cavalry, which was really majestic.

The official road was lined with golden rice fields, and the farmers in Lingzhou were wearing hats and cutting them in the fields. Watching their supreme lord Gao Yaokang pass by with the iron cavalry team. These dark farmers were all proud and dared not let out a mouthful. Wherever they passed, both men and women, they all bowed to the official road!

Such a scene is simply unimaginable in the countryside of the Great Zhou Republic and the country of the United States of Thirteen States!

Although the Great Zhou Republic had a large number of feudal remnants, there was still a regression compared to the Northern Song Dynasty. However, the owner of the Great Zhou manor was not a feudal lord.

What they own is the price they pay for using the manor. They have no feudal power for the tenants and hired farmers below.

Moreover, the tenants and hired farmers in the Great Zhou Republic have a smooth road to ascendance. Although they will not become "county public security directors" in one step, they will have many opportunities to become citizens, enter big cities and become rich civilians, or go out to sea to take risks and fight for wealth.

In addition, the Great Zhou Republic Army is now an army in the era of alternating hot and cold weapons. In this era, the status of knights began to decline, the role of infantry began to rise, and excellent professional officers became the real core of the army.

Therefore, the military power of the Great Zhou Republic is actually centered on professional officers from military academy (most of whom came from knight families) and infantry and artillery as the main force.

Under such circumstances, the knights of the Great Zhou Republic could no longer become feudal lords, but were just wealthy little aristocratic farmers.

As for the thirteen states, although there are kings and nobles, there will never be such a feudal order. They are bourgeois liberalized!

But in Lingzhou, after more than 20 years of evolution, a feudal knight (samurai) class has emerged!

It is not surprising that such a situation occurs. Lingzhou was originally the former place of Xixia and there is no concept of equality at all.

The foreign Gao family regime had to resist the imperial court and control the remnants of the Western Xia within. The only thing they could rely on was the warriors who followed Gao Qiu to settle down in Lingzhou, the Western Army, and the knights of the Hedong Army.

Therefore, in the Gao Qiu era, the status and privileges of Lingzhou knights far exceeded those of Jiehe Knights (later the Zhou Knight). After Gao Yaokang ascended the throne, in order to appease the panic Lingzhou Knight Group at that time, they had to give them more privileges and land!

At the same time, the imperial soldiers class in Lingzhou gradually disappeared because they were defeated by Gao Qiu's army and were seriously injured (compared with the knights, the civil soldiers' family's wealth and scale were relatively small, and their risk tolerance was poor).

Therefore, by the sixth year of Xuanhe, Lingzhou, like Liang Kingdom, established a feudal rule with knights as the backbone.

About 1,000 knight families surrendered to the Gao family regime, occupied two-thirds of the land in Lingzhou, and directly ruled the households in the manor, at the cost of taking over the military service of the Gao family regime. Through these 1,000 knight families, the Gao family regime could concentrate more than 3,000 iron-armored cavalry and the same number of auxiliary soldiers at any time.

The remaining one-third of the land is occupied by the Gao family, and the income is used to maintain the daily expenses of the Gao family regime.

Under such a system, the working people in Lingzhou needless to say, of course they have become similar to serfs...

Of course, the serfs can't look directly at their lord Gao Yaokang in a big way!

"Tianlizi," Gao Yaokang, who had long been accustomed to being arrogant, did not look at the serfs who saluted him, but just talked to Zhang Li. "Now that the official moved the capital to Chang'an, I should naturally go to court. By the way, I will explore the situation in Chang'an. If the retro party's set can be implemented in Guanzhong, then we should not be rash. If the powerful people in Guanlong do not accept the retro method, they will start to make trouble, haha..."

"Haha" means, of course it is not a good thing.

After completing the transformation to feudalization, the Gao family regime in Lingzhou also had strong expansionism, just like the Tianli Cult regime in Xiliang.

As for whether to follow the Western Song Dynasty to find opportunities for external expansion or to aim for the Western Song Dynasty, it depends on the retro situation of the Western Song Dynasty.

Zhang Li nodded, "I will ask Fengmingshan to go with you, and bring 3,000 Xiji horses with you, and leave in the name of tribute horses."

"Okay! Without further ado, I'll get up and set off immediately!" Gao Yaokang smiled, "Let's see how he looks retro?"

...

Just when Zhang Li and Gao Yaokang met secretly in Lingzhou, northwest, and agreed to the strategy of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Huan, an official of the Song Dynasty who had settled in Chang'an Prefecture, was walking behind his back on the walls that were built in the late Tang and Five Dynasties and are now very dilapidated.

A middle-aged official wearing a red official robe followed behind him, talking endlessly.

"...Your Majesty, as far as I know, the current retro party members are divided into martial arts school and literary school. The martial arts school is all military officers from the Martial Arts Palace, and advocates quick retro movements and forcibly allocate the land of Guanzhong. The literary school is headed by the original retro six gentlemen, all of whom are civil officials. They advocate slow retro movements and not forcibly seize the land of the people. The two sects started to quarrel on the way out of Kaifeng Prefecture, and they quarreled all the way. Now they are even more tit-for-tat. I really don't know if they will fight?"

The one who reported to Zhao Huan about the new trend towards the retro struggle was the Daozhu Cai You. He and Geng Nanzhong, the head of the Zhishumi Court, became Zhao Huan's most trusted minister.

That's right, Zhao Huan believes in them now! At most, there is Du Chong who dug the Yellow River dam.

Du Chong is now appointed as the ambassador of the Xi Jinping and the Hedong two routes of the country, and remains in Tokyo, and is sentenced to Henan Prefecture. He is the commander-in-chief of the Western Song army, and is against Wu Haogu's eldest son Wu Yiyong.

Cai You and Geng Nanzhong respectively controlled the East and West Mansions.

As for the retro gentlemen and retro soldiers... it is so vicious! Zhao Huan is so brave, how could he not be afraid?

These two groups of people had a coup, killed the Dazai, inciting the people to attack Xuande Gate, and mobilized troops to disobey the Wansheng Gate... It was simply the rebirth of the vassal vassal of the Tang Dynasty. Zhao Huan believed that they were not brainless?

But Zhao Huan dared not touch them now!

It's so sad!

The Song Dynasty official family, who was supposed to be the emperor, has become a bare-stick emperor without guns and swords.

Of course, Zhao Huan is not the only one who has no guns, but the only one who has a knife handle. Even the retro gentlemen who incited Kaifeng’s retro revolution accidentally threw the guns and knife handle.

The new army officers who ran to Chang'an Prefecture now united the party, forming a "martial school" under the retro party, which was in opposition to the "literary school" with retro gentlemen as the core.

The reason for the confrontation between the two factions is on the surface the progress of retro reform.

The martial arts school was radical, and it was best to divide all the land in the Guanzhong Plain by several major edicts.

The literary school is conservative and advocates prudently promoting the equal-field system... As for how to promote it, it needs to be considered in the long run.

Of course, the differences in the progress of retro reform are only one of the reasons why the two parties are in opposition.

"Your Majesty," said the Daoist Cai You. "I have heard that the martial arts school in the retro party also advocates military officers to manage the army..."

"Military officers are in charge of the army?" Zhao Huan was stunned. "Isn't the military officers in charge of the army now?"

"Your Majesty, what they mean is to let the military officers take charge of the Ministry of War and the Privy Council..."

"What?" Zhao Huan took a breath and looked back at Cai You, "The news is reliable?"

"It should be reliable..." Cai You sighed again, "The people of the martial arts school believe that the main reason for the defeat in Hebei and Hedong is that in addition to the small number of troops, military officers cannot control the army in full. It is not possible to control military affairs with literature..."

Zhao Huan's tone was sank: "Will that be even worse for the general to rule from the middle?"

"Have Your Majesty heard it?" Cai You nodded with a wry smile, "There is indeed this statement... The people of the martial arts school believe that the palace should not use the order and the formation map to intervene in command. The military should be fully entrusted to the Privy Council and the Ministry of War. The palace and the prime minister only need to decide on war and strategy."

"Rebellion! Rebellion! How dare they..." Zhao Huan was also confused. Of course, he was against him. If he didn't, he was still the emperor now. How could he have his share?

"Your Majesty, calm down!" Cai You said repeatedly, "People from the literary school are opposed... So this matter has not been discussed in the court yet."

"Is it useful for their nerds to object?" Zhao Huan shook his head repeatedly and said tremblingly, "Now the military power is in the hands of others!"

He is really anxious now, not only is he anxious, but he regrets it a little. He should not support the retro party at all, nor should he drive his father off the throne.

What to do now?

The retro party and civil and military factions were divided, and the martial arts school clearly wanted to seize military power. If the military power was completely in the hands of the martial arts school, wouldn’t it be a group of educated martial arts men to decide the life and death of the Song Dynasty’s officials in the future?

"Your Majesty," Cai You was helpless and had to comfort Zhao Huan, "The literature school is still in the way, so it should be able to withstand for a while.

The key now depends on when Zhao Ding and Zong Ying can transport gold and silver. With money, the army can temporarily calm down. There is also a way to redeem land..."

The troops transporting gold and silver led by Zhao Ding and Zong Ying are now gone, and no one knows where they are!

The current division of the retro party is also related to this matter.

"But what if they have no news?" Zhao Huan asked.

"Then..."

Cai You shook his head, not knowing what to say. If he did not divide the land in Guanzhong, then the troops surrounding the Western Song court would be mercenaries.

Mercenaries need to pay military salaries!

How much money can you find with Guanlong’s broken territory? If you don’t divide the land quickly, the new army will have another mutiny at any time! Will Cai You, the slaughter, be slaughtered by someone?

Thinking of this, Cai You and Tadazai trembled.

This official is so difficult to be...

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