Three hundred and fortieth chapters supervising army
After everyone explained a few more words, Lin Yunfei asked Luo Tianbao to go back to rest and officially take over the military affairs tomorrow. At that moment, Luo Tianbao accepted the order and resigned.
Luo Tianbao returned to his residence and had a good night's rest. The next morning, he went to his father to receive the order arrows and began to formally prepare to attack Linzhou. Since the rebel army started, they won more than they lost, so the soldiers were very motivated.
In addition, there had been no use of troops for a while, and many people were eager to try. Luo Tianbao, Ji Baida, Pan Hong and others discussed that the use of troops this time was not based on elites, so they selected only the elites in the army, and initially gathered together this
More than two thousand people were trained.
That day, Luo Tianbao was training his troops outside the city. Suddenly Shu Ting ran over in a hurry, saying that Yang Fuchang, the supervisor sent by the imperial court, was looking for him. Luo Tianbao was stunned when he heard this. He and this Yang supervisor were in Chengtian.
They had known each other since they were young, but had never had any close friendship. Why did the other party suddenly come to him this time? Luo Tianbao vaguely realized that there must be something in this. After all, the other party was also a supervisor sent by the imperial court. Luo Tianbao did not dare to neglect, even if
Go and greet.
Yang Fuchang was a chamberlain. He was in his forties this year. He was originally quite tall, but he had a slim waist. In addition, the chamberlain didn't have a beard, so he always felt a bit awkward. When he saw Luo Tianbao, he was very polite and hurriedly clasped his fists.
Salute: "Young Marshal, I haven't seen you for a long time."
In terms of rank, Luo Tianbao is now the governor of Hezhou and the young eunuch of the school inspection hall. His official position is one level higher than that of Yang Fuchang. However, because the latter is a close official of the emperor and a confidant of the emperor, Luo Tianbao really does not dare to show off to him.
He immediately returned the courtesy and said, "Yang Jianjun, I haven't seen you for a long time. I wonder if you can get used to everything in Weining now?"
"Habit, habit. You and the general treat our family with great hospitality. Sometimes our family feels that we deserve it."
"The supervisor is joking, you are the emperor's envoy, how can we, father and son, dare to neglect you? I just regret that Weining is a small place, and many things cannot be compared with Chengtian. If there are any shortcomings in the reception, feel free to mention it, and we, father and son, will try our best to satisfy you.
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Yang Fuchang laughed loudly when he heard this: "Young Marshal, you are serious. Our family is here on official business this time, not to enjoy the blessings. The virtuous father and son do not need to deliberately show off, just follow the court etiquette."
"The supervisor is really noble and upright, which is admirable." Although Luo Tianbao flattered him, he couldn't help but secretly scolded the other party for showing off. In fact, since Yang Fuchang arrived in Weining, they and his son had spent a lot of money, and they only sent red envelopes.
The value is not less than a hundred gold, which does not include the various expenses on the surface, and Yang Fuchang's attitude towards this is to accept everything as ordered, without even pretending to be polite. For this, the senior officials of the rebel army scolded him behind the scenes.
But this Yang Fuchang happened to be Empress Zhang's, so it was inconvenient for everyone to publicly offend him.
Before talking about this matter, Luo Tianbao heard Li Guozhong, Shi Yan and others mention it when he left Chengtian. In order to select the supervisory army, the imperial court also experienced an open and secret struggle, because according to the rules of the court, although the supervisory army has a low position, it has great power.
It was very large, and could directly intervene in military affairs, and could bypass the generals and even the court, and write directly to the emperor. If it wanted to deliberately frame the frontline generals, it would basically make them miserable. It could be said that he was the actual top decision-maker on the frontline.
When Luo Tianbao was in Chengtian, all the major factions in the court tried to win over him. Only Empress Zhang's faction did not make any move. However, this did not mean that Empress Zhang did not care about the Lin family and his son, so she insisted on the selection of supervisors.
He wanted to use his confidant Yang Fuchang, for which a fierce conflict broke out between him and Li Guozhong.
Li Guozhong felt that the imperial court generally used internal servants to appoint supervisors, and this was his sphere of influence. Empress Zhang was undoubtedly taking away her power. For this reason, the two sides even had a dispute in front of the emperor. In the end, the emperor forced
In desperation, he proposed a compromise plan, with Yang Fuchang serving as the chief supervisor, and Li Guozhong's adopted son Li Cunzhong as deputy supervisor. On the surface, the emperor was trying to make peace, but in fact, according to rumors, the emperor did this deliberately, because
Huo Daoliang, the prince and others all felt that Li Guozhong had too much power now, so they wanted to use this incident to suppress him, and also to sow discord between the two camps between him and Queen Zhang.
As for the intrigues of these high-level officials in the imperial court, the rebels and others were originally not interested in getting involved. However, Empress Zhang is now very powerful in the imperial court, not only covering the sky with one hand, but no one dares to offend him easily. Therefore, everyone only cares about Yang Fuchang.
Be able to do your best to accommodate.
At this time, Luo Tianbao and Yang Fuchang exchanged a few polite words and gradually got to the point: "Jiang Jun, why did you come to the suburbs on such a hot day? What orders do you have to send someone below to inform you?"
"Young Marshal is joking. I have something important to do here this time, so I don't feel safe sending someone else here."
"What's so important?"
"Young Marshal, are these troops you are training to attack Linzhou?"
"Yes." Luo Tianbao replied readily, because Yang Fuchang is now the supervisor of the army, so the Lin family and his son did not hide the overall deployment of Linzhou from him from the beginning.
"That's it. This time Xian and his son are working for the emperor and showing prestige to the court. We people can't just sit back and watch, so I brought a few instructors here and asked them to help train the soldiers together. I think they will be able to help the young commander in the future.
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Luo Tianbao had been hanging around in the officialdom for more than a day or two. When he heard it, he understood that Yang Fuchang was planning to install him in the army. He thought that this person was really thoughtful, but he couldn't help it because he was from the imperial court.
It was also fair and aboveboard, and more importantly, Luo Tianbao discovered at a glance that Zhixin was also among the instructors. This was his own person. With her, every move of these instructors was under his control. Thinking of this, Luo Tianbao couldn't help laughing.
: "It's rare that the supervisor has thought so thoughtfully for our father and son. I'm really grateful. It would be great if all the coaches are willing to help."
Yang Fuchang was very happy when he heard that Luo Tianbao agreed, and immediately introduced him to the coaches. In fact, both of them came from Chengtian together before, and they basically knew each other. Zhixin and Luo Tianbao were even friends, but
Everyone must have superficial courtesy. After the greetings, Luo Tianbao took Yang Fuchang and others to visit the army's drills, and stayed with them for lunch before sending Yang Fuchang away.
Afterwards, Luo Tianbao found an opportunity to pull Zhixin to a secluded corner and asked Yang Fuchang alone about his motives and arrangements. Zhixin was specially sent by Shi Yan to help Luo Tianbao, so he naturally knew everything at that moment.
"This Yang Jianjun wanted to place his own people on the side of the rebel army, but he had no chance. This time he heard that you, Marshal, were going to attack Linzhou. He felt that the opportunity had come, so he sent us people to help with the training.
We will go deep into various ministries to monitor your every move, and if necessary, let us win over soldiers and cultivate party members for them."
"I knew this guy was quite ambitious. So why did you come with me, Zhixin? Yang Fuchang should know that you are quite familiar with me."
"Hey, it's just because I know him that he asked me to come. He's afraid that you may not be willing to agree to use all his own people, Marshal. You'll feel more at ease with me here, won't you?"
Chapter completed!