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After more than half a year, Cai still suddenly realized that Mingluan Hall had become much colder, which was quite a bit like the tea that was cold.

The servants in Mingluan Hall no longer had the arrogance of the previous one. After seeing Cai Jian, they all whispered to Cai Jian to call "Sixth Young Master".

Cai still looked at Cai Tao who was greeting him with some confusion and asked, "They..."

Cai Tao said: "Our Cai family is no longer as before."

Cai still said in surprise: "It's not true? Although my uncle has retired, there are no older brothers, but three more..."

Unexpectedly, before Cai Jian could say "there are three brothers", Cai Tao interrupted Cai Jian and said, "Don't mention that villain!"

Cai was still puzzled and said, "Little man? Big brother?"

Cai Tao took a deep breath and said, "Who else is besides him? Sixth brother, you are fighting on the front line, and you don't know what happened at home."

While speaking, Cai Tao dispersed all the servants around him, and then said: "Since the official family was preparing to let Wang Fu, that demon, replace my father as prime minister, that villain has changed. Not only does he no longer have the respect for my father in the past, but he is also enemies with my father everywhere."

Cai still couldn't believe it, "This...is unlikely? Haven't the eldest brother always been very respectful to his uncle?"

Cai Shen's words were not aimless.

Although Cai Jing has many children and grandchildren and Cai You are ignorant, Cai Jing’s favorite is actually his eldest son Cai You. This cannot be seen from the names given to him by Cai Jing—“阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿”, “阿” and “阿” are all the words “阿”.

Before, Cai You respected Cai Jing, his father very much, and even maintained it everywhere.

This is not aimless either.

Not long ago, Zhao Ji wanted to abolish Cai Jing's position as prime minister - he first stopped Cai Jing's party gangster Liu Bing, Liu Huan and others, and ordered the Censor Wang Anzhong to impeach Cai Jing.

When Cai You heard about this, he immediately ran to Zhao Ji and begged him in every way. Zhao Ji changed his original intention, otherwise Cai Jing would have stopped his appearance.

Cai Tao said angrily: "I can lie to you what else? Forget it, you are not an outsider, I will tell you something."

Then, as Cai Tao told him, Cai still knew something that made Cai still amazed.

Not long ago, Zhao Ji had clearly expressed his intention to dismiss Cai Jing.

In order not to let Cai You, the favorite minister, get involved with his father Cai Jing, and make him stubborn, Zhao Ji specially gave Cai You an independent house, which is not much smaller than that of Mingluan Hall.

Cai You fully understood what Zhao Ji meant and decisively moved out of Mingluan Hall.

If you want to say, this is nothing. Cai You is now forty-three, and has already opened the three departments of the Mansion and Yitong, so there is no problem in establishing a self-employed family.

But to this extent, Cai You is not Zhao Ji's favorite Cai You - in addition to drawing a clear line with his father, Cai You also has to show his loyalty to Emperor Zhao Ji.

therefore--

One day, Cai You suddenly arrived at Cai Jing's mansion.

At that time, Cai Jing was just in the process of talking to the guest.

As soon as Cai You came in, he rushed forward and grabbed Cai Jing's hand to take the pulse and said, "The connections are soothing, are there any discomforts?"

Cai Jing said: "There is no place to feel uncomfortable."

So Cai You said again: "There is something important in the palace, I'll go back first."

After saying that, he turned around and left.

He came and went in a hurry, and made the guest a monk - confused, so the guest asked Cai Jing: "Why don't you stop for a moment?"

Cai Jing said helplessly: "You must not understand the reason. In fact, this rebellious son just wanted to be sick because he was sick!"

A few days later, Zhao Ji issued an edict to order Cai Jing to retire on the grounds that he was old and poor.

In other words, Cai Jing was dismissed from prime minister and Cai You was also one of the accomplices, at least Cai Tao thought so.

After hearing what Cai Tao said, Cai still couldn't help but sigh that the temptation of power was so great that it could make the father and son fight!

Under Cai Tao's leadership, Cai still met Cai Jing again.

Cai was immediately shocked!

It took only half a year to see him. Cai Jing was so swaying, his face was covered in slutty, like an old man who was about to die. He could not find any similarities with the prime minister of the Song Dynasty who had been energetic, extraordinary and calm before.

Cai still couldn't help but say, "Uncle, you are..."

Cai Jing said indifferently: "Birth, old age, sickness, death, life is normal. I am nearly two years older than your father. He has passed away for three years. I am a little old and it is normal."

Cai Jing said again: "I heard that you played well on the front line and even went to Wuma Mountain alone to capture the bandit leader Song Jiang and forced Song Jiang to accept the recruitment?"

Cai still said respectfully: "What my uncle heard was an exaggeration after saying that in fact, my nephew did not go to Wuma Mountain alone, but brought five subordinates. Without their help, my nephew would not have captured Song Jiang."

Cai Jing nodded and said, "You are honest. You are rare without taking the work of your subordinates."

Cai still said: "Uncle praised it."

Cai Jing did not continue this anymore, and he said again: "I heard that you rejected the invitation from the prince and Prince Yun, so come to me directly?"

Cai still said: "The little nephew and parents have passed away. My uncle is the only elder of my nephew. I will naturally come to see my uncle first when I return to Beijing."

Cai Jing said: "It is rare that you have such filial piety."

Cai Jing changed his tone and said, "The official family is in full swing in the spring and autumn. It is indeed not suitable for the leader of the crown prince at this time. Moreover, your situation is a bit special. The Jinwu Army you control is one of the few troops on the left and right sides of the capital. If you stand rashly, the official family may adjust you to defend."

Cai Jian's expression was fixed and he said, "I think so too, my nephew."

Cai Jing changed his tone and said, "But you don't have to worry too much. There are many things in the official family, and some small things may not be noticed. Therefore, you don't have to be too timid in doing things, as this will not happen."

Cai is just one point, and Cai is still transparent.

Cai still understood instantly that what Cai Jing said was that Zhao Ji might not know that the Jinwu Army might be the most capable army in the capital.

Some people say, how is this possible? Isn’t everyone aware of the difference in combat effectiveness of the Central Imperial Army? How could the emperor Zhao Ji not know?

People who think so are really wrong.

At the beginning, in order to enrich the country and strengthen the army, Cai Shan’s grandfather Wang Anshi implemented many new policies, and the art of war was one of them.

The general military strategy is a reform of the military system, which means changing the four-level organization of the imperial guards, the army, the battalion, and the three-level organization of the general, the troops. This can effectively alleviate the disadvantages of generals not knowing the soldiers and not knowing the generals.

As a measure to strengthen the army, Wang Anshi, on the one hand, streamlined the army, eliminated the elderly and weak, merged the military camps, and on the other hand, implemented the strategy of generals and military forces.

The implementation of general military tactics makes soldiers aware of their generals and train their soldiers, which improves the combat quality of the army and improves the combat effectiveness of the army.

Wang Anshi first adjusted the military deployment of the whole country - he set up 37 generals in the capital, 42 generals in the fifth route of Fuyan, thirteen generals in the sixth route of the southeast, and 92 generals in the country. He also sent "the ambassador of the battle formation to be dedicated to training", "the two disciples in the morning and evening", and "the martial arts day and night".

(A general in the Song Dynasty was probably equivalent to an army in later generations, but the number of generals varies, often ranging from 3,000 to 10,000.)

From the perspective of military deployment, the strongest one is the Five Routes of Fuyan, who faces the Western Xia directly, obviously has the intention of actively starting a war against the Western Xia. The second is the capital (i.e. the capital). Thirty-seven generals "guard the capital", mainly used to prevent the invasion of the Northern Liao and southern regions.

Since the seventh year of Xining, Wang Anshi has successively set up more than 100 generals in various fields in the north, each general has been appointed as chief and deputy general. He has selected officers with martial arts and combat experience to serve as the military training of the unit. Wherever the generals and military strategy is implemented, prefectures and counties shall not interfere in military affairs.

Later, even with the changes of history, all regions and generals were mobilized, but there were actually more than 100,000 troops near the capital - among which there were about 40,000 soldiers and horses in Kaifeng Prefecture, about 50,000 in Jingdong, and about 20,000 in western Jingdong.

From Zhao Ji's perspective, the Jinwu army is only one of these hundreds of thousands or even five thousand of the millions of troops, and Cai is still only one of the hundreds of generals. Moreover, although the Jinwu army's garrison is not far from the capital, it is far from the dozen other dozen troops regarded as personal troops by Zhao Ji as close to the capital. What's more, there are already infantry troops such as Yulongzhi, Tianwu, inner palace, and horse troops such as Pengri, as well as a large number of troops such as Sui Guards, palace guards, and general guards.

Therefore, Zhao Ji could not value Jinwu Army like others, and Cai Jian.

In fact, it is not difficult to speculate from Zhao Ji's perspective - if Zhao Ji did not have such a perspective, how big his experience would be to launch a war against Liao under such circumstances, he would not quickly devote all his energy to consolidating the defense of the capital. You must know that this is the last line of defense to defend his life.

Cai still bowed respectfully to Cai Jing and said, "Uncle Xie is giving me some advice."

Cai Jing nodded.

Cai still hesitated for a moment and said, "I have something to ask for, I hope my uncle can help a bunch of nephews."

Cai Jing said: "Can I help you as an elderly person who is unemployed at home?"

It is not difficult to hear a hint of loneliness from Cai Jing's words, which shows how reluctant he is to leave that aspect and that power.

Cai still said: "Although my uncle is no longer the prime minister, his uncle's disciples and former officials are everywhere in the world. He is not in the temple and is still one of the most powerful people in our Song Dynasty. Who dares to underestimate my uncle?"

Cai Jing smiled playfully and said without comment: "Then tell me, what do you want me to help you?"

Cai still said: "My nephew wants to ask my uncle for someone."

Cai Jing glanced at Cai Shen and said, "Is it your Jinwu Army's Renzhi Jinwu Army to be a puppet for you?"

Cai still did not deny it, he said: "My nephew just wants to do something, but he doesn't want to be pointed at by others."

Although no one can interfere with Cai Shen's training of the Jinwu Army, if Cai Shen really rises up with Cai Shen, then Cai will be constrained by Zhiji Army everywhere in the Jinwu Army.

This is of course something that Cai, who was unwilling tolerated by his intentions and regarded the Jinwu Army as his forbidden body.

Therefore, one of the purposes of Cai Shen’s return to Beijing this time is to solve this worries.

Cai Jing was the most powerful in power and hated others' constraints the most. Therefore, Cai Jing could understand Cai Shen's idea.

But Cai Jing did not agree to this, but said, "Even if I have the right person, I can't arrange him into the Jinwu army now."

Cai still heard this and said confidently: "As long as my uncle is willing to lend someone to my nephew, I will find a way for the others."

Seeing that Cai was still full of confidence, Cai Jing couldn't help but sigh in secret: "He is no longer the new official who just came to Beijing a year ago and needed the protection of my Cai family. Now, his connections have been established. Even without the protection of my Cai family, he should not be underestimated... He has grown to this point in just over a year. It's really the younger generation of the Yangtze River pushing the older generation forward!"

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Chapter completed!