Song Yi

Chapter 443 The beginning of everything is difficult
Back at Wuweitang, I learned that Ke Yao and Xue Fei'er were both drunk and sent back to their rooms to sleep. The rest of the girls were also almost drunk and went back to their rooms.Du Wenhao breathed a sigh of relief.

Early the next morning, Cai Jing came to visit.Du Wenhao probably had something to do with the Xixia envoys, so he didn't delay this time and came out to meet Cai Jing soon.

Sure enough, Cai Jing said with a smile that the Xixia envoy still wanted to continue negotiations with Du Wenhao, hoping that Zaizhi could change the conditions for ceding the land around Shandan Racecourse.Du Wenhao told Cai Jing that there was nothing to talk about, just this condition.It's fine, if it's not, the Song army will send troops to take it.Anyway, the horse farm is determined to win.At that time, Xixia lost not only the racecourse, but the entire country!
Seeing that Du Wenhao didn't look like a bluff, Cai Jing also understood how much Du Wenhao valued the racecourse, so he repeatedly agreed to go back and tell the story.

After Cai Jing left, Du Wenhao entered the palace with the guards and reported the negotiation to the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao.In fact, Gao Taotao didn't know what kind of conditions to ask for, but after hearing what Du Wenhao said, he felt that the first three conditions were already very favorable. .But seeing that Du Wenhao attached so much importance to the racecourse, he didn't dare to speak out.He just smiled and said that Du Wenhao is in charge.

Gao Taotao told Du Wenhao that she had ordered the whole country to recruit skilled craftsmen with various skills, and then Du Wenhao would select them to enter the scientific research institute that Du Wenhao planned to build.Du Wenhao was naturally very happy.

Afterwards, Du Wenhao left the palace and came to the Ministry of Industry to discuss the site selection and construction of the National Security Bureau and special forces.

According to Gao Taotao's request, the Ministry of Industry has set aside two plots of land for the construction of the two institutions.The National Security Bureau was naturally located in the capital, behind the palace, not far from Du Wenhao's home, so it was convenient for him to receive reports in time.But the special forces had to train, so they were located in a relatively hidden mountain depression in the outskirts of the city.Du Wenhao took the officials of the Ministry of Industry to inspect the two construction sites. He felt that the site selection was very good and he was very satisfied.After all, this is what the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao called for, so the Ministry of Industry naturally chose the best place.

Du Wenhao convened a meeting of the designers of the Ministry of Industry and stated his requirements, and the officials in charge of design of the Ministry of Industry were responsible for the design of the drawings.

Busy until noon, Du Wenhao had a quick meal and called a meeting of the senior commanders of the Sanya.There are two topics for the meeting. One is how to strengthen military training and rectify the abandoned combat readiness.The second is the formation of special forces.

These officers are all Du Wenhao's confidantes, and they naturally talked about everything in front of Du Wenhao. First, they each talked about the waste of military training in the army, and they all felt that it was necessary to carry out large-scale military training activities immediately. I'm afraid I'm not used to it for a while.

The news that the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao ordered to cancel the army's return has already spread. Du Wenhao told everyone that based on this, the army's heart should be taken back and put on military training.Military training textbooks are based on the "Wu Jing Zong Yao" compiled by Song Renzong.It is necessary to implement a reward and punishment system, and initially plan to hold military exercises involving the imperial guards in the capital around the beginning of autumn.At that time, rewards and punishments will be carried out according to the results of the exercise, and those who fail to command and lead will be replaced!
These generals are all Du Wenhao's confidantes, so naturally they all bowed down to take orders, with suspicion in their hearts, but they all expressed their determination to train their respective troops well.Some military officers salivated and asked about the subjects of the military exercises. Du Wenhao only said one sentence, taking the "General Essentials of Martial Arts" as the training outline, the military exercises would naturally not exceed this scope.But it's up to you to decide what to practice.

"Wu Jing Zong Yao" is very rich in content. It is only more than a month away from the beginning of autumn. All the generals are a little nervous. They know that although Du Wenhao is kind-hearted, it is related to military reform. It is entirely possible to kill chickens and monkeys. Poor monkey.

Then, Du Wenhao told the generals about his plan to form a special force, and briefly explained the purpose of the special force.Order the officials in charge of secretarial affairs in the Sanya to immediately draft official documents and send them to the garrisons all over the country, especially the garrisons on the front line of the Sixth Route in Shaanxi, and send elite soldiers to the capital to gather and wait for selection.

The conditions for the special combat team members in this audition are: age to 30 years old, proficient in swords and horses, able to draw hard bows with more than eight buckets, and good endurance for long-distance marches.In addition, priority will be given to those who have participated in front-line combat, especially those with military exploits.

In the Song Dynasty, the Forbidden Army was selected many times, and the Forbidden Army was divided into upper, middle and lower classes. Those who could not even be selected for the third class were included in the Xiang Army.The most important selection criterion at that time was height, and the "Tianwu First Army" of the Forbidden Army required a height of more than 1.8 meters now.In addition, the power to open the bow and release the arrow is also required, and those who can open nine buckets or more are the best.Once included in the top forbidden army, not only can they honor their ancestors at the feet of the emperor, but they can also be arrogant on weekdays, especially the military salary and various treatment are much higher than other forbidden army.Therefore, the Forbidden Army participated in the selection from all over the country very enthusiastically.

Du Wenhao's conditions were not the same as the previous selection of high-level imperial guards.He has no special requirements on height, but requires only moderate strength to open the bow and release arrows, but requires the endurance of long-distance raids. In addition, he set a priority condition, that is, he has participated in front-line combat, especially those who have made military exploits.

Special operations have high requirements for actual combat military skills and psychological quality, and these two items are difficult to obtain from the training ground, and participating in actual combat plays an irreplaceable role in honing these two skills.Therefore, Du Wenhao emphasized these two conditions, and asked to choose from the frontline soldiers who fought against Xixia as much as possible.Only soldiers who have been honed by the flames of war are the best.

Of course, the military command of the special forces must be in his own hands, but he needs a confidant to be in charge of the daily training. Of course, this person is to follow his loyal Li Pu.Du Wenhao named this force "Cobra Squad". He chose this name because he hoped that this force could approach the enemy quietly like a cobra and deal a fatal blow to the enemy.He himself served as the commander, Li Pu served as the deputy commander, and Li Pu was in charge of selecting the team members.

After deploying the related work, Du Wenhao went to the Zishan Hall of the Imperial Palace to check the emperor's academic situation. The test results in the Four Books and Five Classics last time were not bad. It seems that the emperor has not relaxed in his previous studies.

After these things were done, it was already dark.

Du Wenhao was about to go home when Cai Jing came to visit and told Du Wenhao a mixed news, that is, after repeated explanations by Cai Jing, Wei Ma, the secret envoy of Xixia, believed that this was the minimum condition that Song Dynasty could offer. The problem, especially the cession of such an important military strategic resource as the Shandan Racecourse, Wei Ma could not make the decision, so he decided to return to Xixia immediately, report to the emperor, and continue the negotiation after Emperor Xia Huizong made a decision.

Du Wenhao didn't know whether Emperor Xia Huizong would agree to his condition and replace it with himself. Such a condition is indeed very harsh.However, what can make Du Wenhao confident is that Emperor Huizong's internal and external cooperation action that was exposed last time was to cede the southern part of the Hexi Corridor to the Song Dynasty in order to ask the Song Dynasty to help regain the imperial power, but the Shandan Racecourse was not included, and the area was also small. Much smaller than what I opened this time.This time the conditions are harsher than before, but with the previous foundation, it may not be impossible to agree.

This was a gamble, and what worried Du Wenhao was that if the conditions were set too high, it would be self-defeating to force Emperor Huizong to seek an alliance with Daliao instead and ask Daliao to help.

This is a gamble, and the odds of winning should be [-]%.However, even so, Du Wenhao was still hanging in his heart.

Now there is no way but to wait patiently.

In the next few days, Du Wenhao was busy with the construction of the three bases of the National Security Bureau, the special forces camp and the Academy of Sciences.Gao Taotao allocated a huge amount of money to him for the construction of these three projects.

The hardware is easy to handle. He made a request, and the Ministry of Industry will complete the design and construction. This is a project instructed by the supreme leader. Naturally, the green light is given all the way. Moreover, the construction of ancient government projects was implemented by the Ministry of Industry. There is no need to find the competent department by yourself Stamping, tendering and bidding to select construction and supervision units, as well as project quality supervision and other issues.Work is also quick.Du Wenhao's work in this area is relatively simple. For him, the most important thing is the human problem.

The scientific research institute is easy to run, Gao Taotao has ordered to recruit talents, and the other two departments will have a lot of headaches.

The first is the National Security Agency. To play a role, it must build an internal and external spy intelligence network, and such a network is difficult to establish in a short period of time. Fortunately, it has a lot of money and is easy to handle.As the saying goes, money can turn ghosts around.It is not too difficult to buy spy information, but it is relatively more difficult to obtain top-secret information with military and political value if you want to buy useful senior personnel.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, Du Wenhao plans to set up only two internal departments in the Song Dynasty National Security Bureau.They are the Special Service Department of External Intelligence and the Special Service Department of Internal Intelligence.The former is responsible for collecting military and political intelligence on Xixia and Daliao, and organizing actions such as instigating rebellion, assassination, and sabotage; trial.

Du Wenhao himself has limited energy and cannot cover everything, so he needs to find two people who are competent for these two tasks as his assistants to be responsible for these two tasks respectively.

He already has a very good candidate for the Department of Internal Affairs, and that is Master Shen Shengping, who is familiar with all the yamen of the court and the ministers in the court!
Du Wenhao called Shen Shengping over for a discussion. After hearing what Du Wenhao said about the responsibilities of the new organization, Shen Shengping was amused. This kind of work of collecting and spying information had been done a lot when he assisted the two prime ministers. , readily agreed.

As the person in charge of the Foreign Affairs Department, Du Wenhao thought of Cai Jing's relative. Since he can get through the Song Xia border, and his ancestors have done business on the Song Xia border, he is familiar with all aspects of people. This is definitely an important resource.

Du Wenhao called Cai Jing over for a discussion, but Cai Jing naturally had no choice but to agree.

Cai Jing’s relative named Cai Tou can let him be in charge of border intelligence collection. It’s best to hide in the dark and listen to the news, so it’s not suitable for him to return to Beijing to be the head of the entire foreign intelligence department. The person in charge has to find someone else , this kind of thing is naturally done by someone who has a close relationship with Cai Tou, so this person is Fei Caijing.Therefore, no matter how much Du Wenhao disliked Cai Jing, for the sake of the overall situation, he decided to let Cai Jing also serve as the director of the Foreign Intelligence Department.

Du Wenhao originally wanted to find an opportunity to kill Cai Jing after the Song Xia matter was settled, but now he needed Cai Jing to collect relevant information, and he had to wait for this work to be carried out smoothly before looking for an opportunity to kill him.

Although Cai Jing was the governor of Kaifeng, the officials in the Song Dynasty changed like a lantern, and they were not like modern society. In the Song Dynasty, officials could reach the sky at any time, and they could fall to the bottom.Therefore, if you want to secure your position, you must find a backer, and now, the biggest backer in the court is Du Wenhao.Therefore, Cai Jing has already made up his mind that he must do all the things Du Wenhao explained well, strive for Du Wenhao's favor, and finally become Du Wenhao's confidant, relying on Du Wenhao to climb up.

If he knew that Du Wenhao had already thought of killing him, he would definitely regret his wishful thinking.

After Du Wenhao determined the heads of the Internal Information Department and the External Information Department, he handed over the specific work related to the two.And he himself was busy with other things.

There are too many things that need him to handle, the most important thing is that the wedding is coming!
When the chancellor and the three government offices were inspected, the big red man in front of the empress dowager got married, and he married the daughter of Wang Gui, the first assistant prime minister who was under one person and over ten thousand people. Who dares not to come to the civil and military courts?
Therefore, before the wedding day, many officials and celebrities in the capital came to congratulate her, presenting piles of presents.

On the first day of their marriage, Gao Taotao called Du Wenhao to the palace.

After the two made out, Gao Taotao snuggled up to him and asked with a pretty face: "Wang Gui's daughter, Wang Runxue, is known as the most beautiful woman in the capital. Do you still think of me when you marry such a beauty?"

Du Wenhao hugged her and kissed her vigorously, and said solemnly: "Don't worry, my talk is irreplaceable in my heart!"

"Really? Then... If I wasn't the Empress Dowager, who didn't have any power in my hands, would you still like me?"

Du Wenhao had thought about this problem a long time ago. To be honest, the main reason for his friendship with Gao Taotao was the long-term love, the love aroused by Gao Taotao's love, and the love for Gao Taotao.He is not keen on power, and he has never thought of exchanging his identity for power. Later, all the changes and so on were created after they recovered and Gao Taotao was promoted to his official position.

Therefore, Du Wenhao said sternly: "Tao Tao, you underestimate me. I love your people, not your power! I don't want to use you to gain power! Even if you hand over power to the emperor in the future, become An ordinary woman, I still love you, and I will still be with you, listening to the rain on the island in the middle of the lake, walking in the green grass, singing with swords, flying together..."

Gao Taotao was elated, stretched his arms around his neck, looked at him with sparkling eyes: "Do you dare to swear?"

(End of this chapter)