Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1333
At the end of February, the sixth imperial examination in Daxia was held as scheduled.

This year's exam is different from previous years, because Shao Shude personally presided over the palace exam.

The palace examination, a new thing, originated in the Tang Dynasty——"In February of the first year of the first year of the Empress Wu, I asked the tributes in the Luocheng Palace. It took a few days. The people in front of the palace began from then on."

But the palace examination is not a fixed examination link.To be precise, the number of times it is held is very small, and it all depends on the emperor's personal interests. Sometimes there are no palace exams for decades in a row-"as the owner wants at the moment."

The reason is also very simple, the ministers objected - "The tributes have been tested in Nangong, and they have been selected, and they have been tested in the palace. Is it because Nangong is not enough to believe in evil?"

The officials think that the Ministry of Rites has already passed the exam, and the emperor will take the exam again, do they not believe us?
Shao Shude said that the admission list of the Ministry of Rites remained unchanged, he just wanted to reset the ranking.

So at the beginning of March, the imperial examination was added, and Shao Shude checked the papers himself.

The talented women in the harem laughed and commented on the papers, and finally selected a few, saying that they were all of the same level.

Shao Shude checked the candidate's information, and finally appointed 37-year-old Cui Zhuo (zhuō), from Anping, Shenzhou, as the number one scholar.

The rankings were released on the sixth day of March, causing a sensation.

A student from Chengde Town was admitted to the No. [-] Scholar, there must be a fucking shady scene!But this is the examiner of the emperor, who can send gifts to the palace?With this relationship, what test is there?

Cui Yan was also very helpless.

Our family moved to Chang'an three generations ago.His grandfather served as the governor of Anzhou and Puzhou, and then entered the court.His father was a doctor in the Ministry of punishment of the Tang Dynasty.He himself lives in Chang'an most of the time, and he can't even speak Hebei dialect. He has an authentic Kansai accent and Mao's Shenzhou native!

Therefore, the number one scholar selected by Shao Shude is very ingenious, and he is a figure that can be accepted by both Kansai and Hebei.

On the eighth day of March, Secretary Lang Cui was granted the imperial edict. From the top of the sixth rank, the top scholar in the eight classics—everyone knows that the current secretary department is almost the emperor's personal, and part of the power to draft edicts has been taken over by the secretary department If you want to make progress, it is a good way to work under the secretary supervisor Lu Siye.

After dealing with this matter, Shao Shude's main energy was put on perfecting the details of the strategy of crusade against Khitan.

During this period, he took time to attend the wedding of his fifth daughter, Princess Quyang Shao Si.

Shao Si was born in the second year of Tang Wende (889) in October, at the age of [-], and he was sent to Tokyo Wuku Cheng (an official of Weiwei Temple, under the eighth grade) as Zhan.

Ren Zhan is [-] years old this year. He is the son of Ren Yuji, the deputy envoy of the Beiya Privy Council, and the younger brother of Ren Zhen, the governor of Xiangzhou.

In the era of Longchi Palace in Anyi, Ren Zhan studied with the princes and princesses as the son of a noble son.

Shao Shude knew him quite well.His talent is not bad, but it's not much better, it's above average.The victory lies in being careful and strict, and it is appropriate to be an official in the arsenal. The chief officer of the Sanjing arsenal is the arsenal order.

Of course, apart from the camaraderie among classmates, his good looks are also an important reason for him to be favored by Princess Quyang.Otherwise, with so many classmates, why should I choose you?

The combination of the queen's daughter and Yuan Congxungui's son is a standard internal political marriage of the Kansai Group, which is not bad anyway.

Speaking of which, Shao Shude now has many grandchildren, mainly grandsons and granddaughters.Huile Princess Shao Guoer and Liang Hanyong had four children, and Heyang Princess Shao Mu had a son with Ye Likecheng, a general of the Imperial Army.

Concubine Zhao Yueniang is also pregnant and will give birth in May.

The children worked hard, and Shao Shude was not bad either.He recently made Empress He's stomach bigger, and he had the first result of the new year.

However, his time is running out. Qin Wang Shao Chengjie has just been appointed as the commander of the Andong Camp, and he will go overland to the Andong Mansion, commanding the Andong State Soldiers, Mansion Soldiers and the Qing Sai Army who are heading to Zhigu for a boat. People are all the way to defeat Khitan.

Shao Shude will leave Beijing on the first day of April, and go to Yingzhou and Dragon Palace. Calculating the time, it will only be half a month.

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Under the clear sky, military flags are flying and warriors are gathering.

Shao Shude put on his red shirt again, and rode his horse to review the [-] soldiers of the Tianxiong Army and Yin Anzhi.

The rewards have been distributed, and the morale of the army is bursting.Wherever Shao Sheng went, the voice of Long Live could be heard endlessly.

"Being outside for a long time, do the sons and daughters of the Tianxiong Army have any complaints?" Shao Shude asked.

Military envoy Zang Dubao and deputy envoy Li Renjun smiled at each other and said, "Your Majesty, if the Tianxiong Army still complains, then it is not the Tianxiong Army."

Shao Shude also laughed and said: "I have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but if you say which branch is the most powerful, there are only a few troops in Tianxiong, Tielin, Wuwei, and Yinan."

The Wuwei army has been fighting abroad for a long time, and they returned to Ruzhou to rest and recuperate years ago. They were replaced by General Tu, who had finished his recuperation, and was stationed in Zhenzhou.

Leaving with him was the Crane Control Army, which was exhausted from the long battle.

The two armies suffered some battle losses, and Shao Shude ordered to select [-] elite soldiers from the Kelan Army and the Qingsai Army to make up for it.

Jin soldiers now have lower requirements, and it is not bad to be an imperial army. The 2000 people happily packed up and reported to the Wuwei and Konghe Second Armies.

The two armies of Kelan and Qingsai besieged Luzhou for a long time before, and there were many casualties. This time, 2000 people were taken away, and now there are only [-] or [-] soldiers left each, and their strength has shrunk greatly.

Filling the gap in the Tianxiong Army was Guan Kairun's Economic Strategy Army, which was only a few days away from Beiping Mansion.

There are Zhili Dao and Guanbei Daozhou soldiers and soil regiments stationed in Hedong. The Youguo Army has just been sent there recently to replace the Tutuan peasants who have returned home for a long time.

Around Luoyang, there are Wuwei, Konghe, Tielin, Tiande, Yinqiang and other armies returning to rest.

In Hebei, the four armies of Tujiang, Jinglue, Tiancheng, and Kelan suppressed them.

Ge Cong Zhou, the Longxiang Army, has gone to the middle of Shu to replace the Yi Congjun who has been guarding Longjian for more than a year.

It is enough for so many soldiers and horses to stay behind the town.

For the conquest of Khitan, in the spirit of the lion fighting the rabbit, Shao Shude mobilized most of the highly mobile troops to gather in Beiping Prefecture—nearly 3 troops from the Heizuo and Feixiong armies were about to arrive.

They will be personally led by Shao Shude, and together with Tianxiong Army and Yin Anzhi, they will enter Yingzhou in the east and wait for the opportunity to go north.

If you count the 1000 troops of the Hengye, Datong, and Wansheng Huangtou armies, there will be 11 cavalry along the way, which is a well-deserved main force.

The scale of this expedition is almost the same as that of Li Shimin's conquest of Goguryeo: "Send out soldiers from all over the world, recruit 10,000 soldiers, and go to Pyongyang to attack Goryeo." - plus the Turks, Khitan, Xi, Mohe and even from the Western Regions who followed the conquest The number of soldiers and horses transferred, such as Kubin, was almost [-]+.

This scale is just right, preferably not more than 20.After all, it is not that easy to transport supplies from Youzhou to Liaodong, and the loss is quite large.

"Zang Qing, I intend to attack Khitan in four directions. The first route is Liang Hanyu as the commander of the capital, commanding 5 soldiers from the Feilong, Jindao, and cavalry armies, driving cattle and sheep from the grasslands to attack the flat pine forest; the second route is commanded by King Chengjie of Qin. , dispatched 6000 troops from the Anton government, [-] soldiers from the prefecture, and [-] soldiers from the Qing Dynasty, totaling [-] people; the third route was the army of the Bohai State; Wan, such a heavy responsibility should not be taken lightly." Shao Shude said earnestly.

"The minister leads the decree!" Zang Dubao's heart filled with arrogance, he knelt on one knee, and responded loudly.

There are only a handful of people in the world who can command an army of one hundred thousand.He is very clear that this is a crucial step for the carp to jump over the dragon's gate. If he crosses it, he will be someone like Li Tangbin, Lu Huaizhong, and Ge Congzhou. , to be able to go to the local government to manage the state soldiers is already a blessing from the saints.

"Okay!" Shao Shude helped him up with his own hands, and said: "I don't need to be suspicious of people, and I don't need to be suspicious of people, so you can do whatever you want."

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Yelu Quanzhong stared blankly at the spear in his hand.

He has been conscripted as a Tutuan villager, escorting grain and grass to Yingzhou.Considering his identity as a Khitan, he couldn't help but smile wryly.

"Let's go! Let's go!" Xixi Ye, a small state army junior from Puzhou, waved his scabbard and roared loudly.

He wasn't in a good mood either.

Before the end of the first month, he followed Shangguan and took more than 3000 masters from Puzhou across the Hebei River, escorting tens of thousands of bundles of arrows to Peiping.

He likes to fight, because he can win wealth, but the problem is that he probably won't have the chance to show it this time - escorting food and grass, there is a chance to fart!

Therefore, at this moment, he was really holding his breath. Seeing his master standing there dumbfounded, he just beat him up, no matter if it was a local Puzhou native in his hometown or a native of another place, he would beat him accordingly.

"Crack!" Yelu Quanzhong's back was hit, and the pain was burning.

He didn't dare to cry out in pain, so he could only keep up with Xixi Ye and stride forward.

Not only the state soldiers were escorting the food and grass, but also the best of the Tutuan villagers.Yelu Quanzhong was eighteen or nineteen years old, tall and strong, and he performed very well in the Tutuan training. Therefore, the county issued a leather armor and a spear, which freed him from hard labor and became a member of the escort.

Xixi Ye has [-] soldiers under his command, including [-] Puzhou soldiers and [-] Youzhou Tutuan, who are responsible for patrolling along the way and supporting the grain transportation team that may be attacked.

Yelu Quanzhong really didn't want to do this job, but fate played tricks on people like this, so what could he do?
"Flying Bear Army!" A huge team came from the north, causing those who knew the goods to exclaim.

Yelu Quanzhong looked over in a blink of an eye and was stunned.

The samurai rode on the horse and wandered around.

Behind each warrior, there are two attendants leading several horses on foot.

Some horses galloped empty.

There are horses with lances, armor, short blades and other equipment on their backs.

Some horses were loaded with luggage, bulging on both sides of the saddle.

What a luxurious team this is!
The key team is still very long, and it is impossible to see the end at a glance.

"Don't count, [-] soldiers, [-] auxiliary soldiers, and [-] horses." Xixi Ye's expression was no longer irritable. He looked at the troops walking past proudly, and said sourly: "Actually Putting on airs. I can’t fight a battle all year round, and the saint’s armor and armor are at a great loss.”

Xixi Ye is not alone. In fact, many officers and soldiers of the Forbidden Army commented on the Feixiong Army in this way.

This army is stationed in Ruzhou, and the family lives there.There is Guangchengze Ranch in Ruzhou, which has a vast area and rich water and grass. Only this kind of place is suitable for the Flying Bear Army's garrison - it can usually graze horses and save money.

The Feixiong Army's three thousand soldiers, dressed in horses and horses, charged with incomparable majesty.

But the soldiers of the imperial army looked down on this team very much, because he couldn't move any imperial army or state soldiers to that station, so only the local peasants who lacked courage might be overwhelmed by them.

The mobility is very poor, and the long-distance march is slower than the infantry-in fact, they have been wronged. In fact, the long-distance mobility of all cavalry is inferior to that of infantry.

The use scene is still very single, the enemy cavalry turns around and runs away when they see it, and you can't catch up.If there is no fan soldiers Qingqi guarding the flanks, the opponent's cavalry would even dare to provoke you with a bow.It is only when there is head-to-head hedging that everything is invincible, but there are not many such opportunities.

Raising such a "trash" is better than giving rewards to everyone.

But Yelu Quanzhong didn't understand this.He only saw that this army was well-armored and their morale was high. Which Khitan cavalry could hold up the thick and long horses?

This time, Khitan Babu is really dangerous.

Daxia's war machine was mobilized, light infantry, heavy infantry, mounted infantry, light cavalry, military armored cavalry, armored cavalry, and even a steady stream of sidecars made continuously. Liaodong may also have naval forces participating. An overwhelming force crushed it, enough to destroy the entire Khitan.

Forget it, I'm already a Xia, so what the hell are I going to do?Yelu Quanzhong laughed at himself, carrying a spear, and followed the convoy with heavy steps.

(End of this chapter)