Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

In addition, the important Jiedu envoys also had to add peace rules, such as Fu Yanqing, the Tianxiong army Jiedu envoy in the north, the father of Empress Fu and sister Jinling; and Li Yun, the Zhaoyi army Jiedu envoy in Shanxi, all added peace rules It is not only an honor, but also the meaning of allowing them to participate in the discussion of state affairs and participate in the decision-making of major national affairs. "

Shi Congyun nodded, and suddenly realized, "It means that the officials allow me to participate in political discussions with the prime minister."

Zhao Shijian nodded lightly: "Officials and prime ministers may think that you have strategy and talent, not just military."

"Isn't that admitting that XX is a genius, hahahaha!" Shi Congyun was proud, and Zhao Shijian snorted, but he didn't deny it, because he didn't want him to be too proud.

He also whispered to him: "It is impossible for the officials to give the real power to the generals who are actually exercising the power of the prime minister.

One is that it is impossible to hand over all the civil and military power to one person, that's okay, and he directly reversed it.

The second is that since the Sui and Tang Dynasties had the imperial examination, an unwritten rule has gradually formed that only literati with imperial examination backgrounds are awarded. huge stress. "

Shi Congyun suddenly realized, no wonder so many people objected to the steward making Wei Renpu the prime minister today, and then he said strangely, "Isn't a certain peace and order a prime minister?"

Zhao Shijian said patiently: "In name, but not the real power prime minister,

There are actually four places where the actual prime minister exercises the power of a prime minister.

One is the three provinces. The chief officials of Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, and Shangshu Province are actually not the top leaders of the three provinces, but their deputy.

The second is the judgment of the third division.

The third is the privy envoy of the Privy Council.

Among these three secrets, the three provinces are in charge of major national government affairs; the management of the country by the third department is a major financial matter; and the Privy Council is in charge of major national military affairs.

But only the chief officials of the three provinces will be called the actual prime ministers, and the three ministers and privy envoys are judged to be prime ministers, but not in the name of prime ministers.

From the Tang Dynasty to the present, the chief officials of the three provinces have too much power.

The emperor either didn't set it up, or it was false if it was set up.

For example, in order to appease a certain border town Jiedu, give him a Chinese book order, can he really go to the capital to get the Chinese book province? "

Zhao Shijian raised her cute and delicate chin and said playfully, seeing Shi Congyun swallowed, Xiaoyun, who had only fought for three hundred rounds, began to move again.

"So there are three types of chancellors.

Zhongshu Shilang, the deputy chief of Zhongshu Province, Menxia Shilang, the deputy chief of Menxia Province, Zuo Pushe and You Pushe, the deputy chiefs of Shangshu Province, these four official positions are the prime ministers who have the power of prime minister and the actual prime minister.

The two important positions of the three ministers and the privy envoy are prime ministers who have the real status of a prime minister but not the name of a prime minister.

The three high-ranking officials, Zhongshuling, Shizhong, and Shangshuling (generally not set up), are the same as Zhongshumen. Most of the time, they are honorary positions. They are only used to highlight the most expensive status and are used for rewards. The name, the real prime minister without the prime minister. "

Shi Congyun understood even more. Damn it, it turns out that today the officials let Wei Renpu serve as both the privy envoy and the secretary's assistant. Wouldn't that mean that one person holds the positions of both civil and military prime ministers with real power? No wonder so many people object, maybe It's just a matter of his background, it's just that he didn't understand at all at that time!

So he quickly told Zhao Shijian about it.

Zhao Shijian was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then a lovely smile appeared on his face: "You are a fool, and you are blessed with foolishness. According to what you said, Wei Renpu is indeed a minister of civil and military affairs. The officials must trust him very much. You today Give him a hand, he might thank you later."

Shi Congyun was happy, stupid, at that time he thought this was an opportunity, because he had a problem with Fan Zhi, so he might as well be more direct, he didn't expect to hug his thigh by mistake.

Then I thought about it again, and Li Gu, then Wei Renpu is the two prime ministers of military affairs and politics, so Li Gu's servant and three ministers are also the two prime ministers of economics and politics?

So he looked at Zhao Shijian again, "When Mr. Li comes back, I will take you to pay him a good visit. It has no other meaning, just to express my thoughts on behalf of your grandfather."

Zhao Shijian was so angry that he almost turned against him, but he solved it with his shameless beauty offensive, Zhao Shijian still couldn't stop his temptation of beauty, the spring night was short, and soon sank...

Chapter 174, Win over people's hearts and place cronies

Officials need to go to the Ministry of Officials to claim the printed documents, and then go to Taicang to get the ceremonial utensils, official uniforms, ceremonial armor and salary supplies.

In addition, military generals have to register with the Privy Council. In short, it is a very complicated set of procedures. Although in the past few decades, it has been completely in accordance with the specifications and procedures of the Tang Dynasty.

However, since the end of Tang Dynasty, many things are not complete, so many places are just a formality, not so complicated.

More people came to visit and give gifts, and they went to Shi Congyun's house and Shi Yanchao's house.

Father Shi Yanchao naturally thanked the guests behind closed doors and ignored them at all. Firstly, he was too arrogant, and secondly, he looked down on those who came through the back door to make connections.

Shi Congyun was completely reversed, everything was collected, but it was impossible to keep people down to eat, at most, he drank some tea, which was extremely bitter clear tea, which was completely different from the tea of ​​this era, and many people drank it like Like medicine, with a bitter face.

In fact, the simple fact is that Shi Congyun can't drink, and when he goes to other people, he interprets it as him chasing customers, and they all comment in private that she is too stingy, and she doesn't even care about food when she goes to give gifts.

Shi Congyun felt very wronged. He didn't mean to chase away the guests, but it was true that he didn't want to take care of the meal.

After the handover was done, Shi Congyun was finally free. The first thing he did was to celebrate after the victory and invite everyone to dinner. This was a great opportunity to build relationships, and it was also a necessary skill to get along well in the Five Dynasties.

The characteristic of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is that there are no loyal ministers. This is like being an employee. You know from the moment you join the company that this company will go bankrupt in five or six years, and it will go bankrupt in about ten years. back road.

And making friends is vast, and hugging each other is an important means of staying behind.

When Zhao Kuangyin fled to the country, the whole country had a total of three "loyal ministers". Only Fan Zhi and Wang Zhu scolded Zhao Kuangyin.

The only one who resisted was Han Tong, who was killed.Wang Fuzhi of the Qing Dynasty thought that Han Tong was not loyal to Guo Rong, but just at odds with Zhao Kuangyin's group. Shi Congyun also agreed with this statement, especially after he came into contact with Han Tong.

The remaining two Jiedu envoys raised troops, Li Chongjin was forced to rebel, he wanted to surrender from the beginning, and asked to go to Beijing to meet Zhao Kuangyin, but Zhao Kuangyin refused.

Li Yun is not even a loyal minister. He has already slapped Guo Rong on his nose. The most likely reason is that if the Guo family falls, he should be the emperor if he wants to be emperor. Senior qualifications.

This is the state of Zhou, maintaining a country on the surface, but in fact, the military generals are relatively close in private, and they are also close to each other, and the officials have no time to stop it, and they can't stop it.

The state of Zhou now only has land in four provinces, which is a relatively large separatist regime, and it still needs generals to fight, so I dare not offend.

In fact, most people don’t have too much expectation for the long-term future of Great Zhou. Zhou Guo’s ability to cooperate now is not only due to the strong ability of the officials, but also thanks to the fact that several prime ministers are capable people, and the generals in the family also have the ability of Li Chongjin. people.

So in the long run, Shi Congyun is also afraid, the future is unknown, if you don't make many friends, you won't feel safe if you win over talented people...

Shi Congyun first invited many friends from the army to drink and eat at home. This time, there were a lot of people, including more than 100 generals of the Imperial Army, Zhao Kuangyin from the Zhao family, and his boss Zhang Yongde.

Shi Congyun was also very happy. He was surrounded by everyone and got drunk, and finally fell asleep lying on the stone lion at the gate of the courtyard. Fortunately, three women took care of him.

Afterwards, he invited a group of dozens of civil servants, including Luqiu Zhongqing and Lu Duoxun, and he knew the personalities of these people very well.

Military generals like to be unrestrained and yelling; civil servants like to be elegant and forceful, so it's better to invite them separately to prevent them from fighting.

And Wang Pu and Wei Renpu Shi Congyun also sent invitations, but they didn't have much hope. They are both prime ministers at the moment, and they are real prime ministers, which is different from him who pretends to be a prime minister.

These two people had the closest relationship with him. Wei Renpu was a privy envoy, and he often had official contacts, needless to say, and Wang Pu had met several times on the Huainan battlefield.

But Wang Pu and Wei Renpu, who Shi Congyun didn't expect, are here!

He hurriedly Zhao Shijian changed into formal clothes for him, and went out to greet him respectfully. Before leaving, he even asked Zhao Shijian about the etiquette, and greeted the two of them in a polite and thoughtful manner.

Most generals don't care about this, but the two prime ministers may not care, so he strives to be thoughtful, and do the etiquette first.

Many civil servants present were also very excited to see the two prime ministers coming. At the same time, they also lamented Shi Congyun's power that even the two prime ministers from the court could be invited here.

Wei Renpu was probably grateful for Shi Congyun's support for him when he was prime minister before, and Wang Pu came to ask for advice on poetry, and he thought Shi Congyun was a master in this field.

Shi Congyun almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, he knows shitty poetry!

Wang Pu was very happy. It turned out that he had written a new poem and came to ask for advice.

He said he was asking for advice, but Shi Congyun knew in his heart that it was not about asking for advice, but because there were so many people here to show off and seek praise, and it was meant to show off.

"Jujube flowers can become fruit even when they are small, but mulberry leaves are soft and silky. It is ridiculous that peonies are as big as buckets, and they are empty branches when nothing is done."

Shi Congyun actually half understood what he heard, but he didn't applaud blindly. He knew that cultural people would disdain such direct and tasteless applause.

He pretended to be thinking about it, and then praised with emotion: "Wang Xiang's poems are really far-reaching, ingenious, and the meaning conveyed is sincere and simple. After listening to it, a certain person's eyes light up, and he has a lot of feelings. He feels that he has learned a lot of principles of life." .”

"Thanks for the award, for the award, Deputy Commander Shi." Wang Pu said modestly, with a smile on his face.

I don't understand poetry, but as a teacher, I know how to do the questions. Shi Congyun used the method he used to teach students to appreciate ancient poems. There will be.

With him taking the lead, everyone started to come out to comment one after another, most of them were praises, Wang Pu is the prime minister, even if the writing is poor, they still have to give face.

Moreover, being able to speak to the prime minister is a rare opportunity for most officials, so a banquet was dissolved amidst the joy of all the guests and hosts.

.......

The next thing is the promotion and rewards of grassroots soldiers.

The guards are mainly in charge of their fathers Shi Yanchao, Wang Shenqi, and Gao Huaide. Shi Yanchao is the deputy commander of the Ma Infantry, Wang Shenqi is the commander of the Guards and Infantry, Gao Huaide is the commander of the Guards and Ma Jun, and the leader is Li Chongjin. At this time in Huainan.

The Dianqian Division is mainly composed of Zhang Yongde, Shi Congyun and Zhao Kuangyin.

Zhang Yongde is the top leader, Shi Congyun is the second leader, and Zhao Kuangyin is the fourth leader. Two positions are temporarily vacant, waiting for appointment.

At the end of the break, on the day of the official admission, Shi Congyun met Zhang Yongde and Zhao Kuangyin in the official office outside the north gate of Daliang Inner City, and they met and chatted for a while.

Both Zhang Yongde and Zhao Kuangyin expressed their admiration for him unabashedly, the battle in Huainan was so beautifully fought.

Afterwards, everyone was busy with their own affairs. Shi Congyun naturally had a group of his own people who wanted to be promoted. These people followed him to fight Gaoping, Shu, and Zhengyang in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Some of these people are now among his personal soldiers, some are in the team of messengers around him, and some are still in the Crane Control Army.The middle and low-level officers in the army are very important, because the generals cannot directly contact each soldier. These low-level officers lead them, take care of the recruits, teach them how to fight, and share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers every day. The support of middle and low-level officers is the key to being able to control a force.

In the past, with Li Gu's help, he asked his father Shi Yanchao to be in charge of rectifying the Forbidden Army. At that time, he placed many cronies in the front of the palace to control the Crane Army.

This is also one of the important reasons why he fought so smoothly later.

But now it is obviously not enough. He wants to arrange a large number of cronies and personal soldiers in the first, second, third, and fourth compartments of the control crane, the left and right compartments of the iron cavalry, and the left and right compartments of the Yulang Army to serve as mid- and low-level officers. Soldier.

In this way, no matter what happens, not to mention the entire army, most of the army will definitely support him.

What is the era of the Five Dynasties? There is a famous saying of the Five Dynasties generals who said very clearly, "The emperor would rather have a kind? He who has a strong army and a strong horse is the ear."

Of course he can't be the emperor, but the stronger the soldiers and horses in his hands, the more he can guarantee his own safety.

After expanding again, Dianqiansi is equivalent to increasing the strength of three chambers. In the future, the strength will definitely exceed 10 people and become the main force of the Forbidden Army.

The Guard Division is famous for its elite cavalry of Longjie and elite infantry of Tiger Jie, but the number will definitely be outnumbered.

Shi Congyun thought about it all afternoon in the government office, and made a list of more than 200 people. For more, he still needs to discuss with Wang Zhong, Shao Ji, Dong Zunhui, Luo Yanhuan, Shen Zhiyi, Si Chao, Li Chuyun, etc., and ask them clearly. .

It's just that how to add it gave him a little headache. After all, he didn't check everything, and it was Zhang Yongde who finally asked Zhang Yongde to nod in agreement.

If he adds a dozen or dozens of people, given his prestige and achievements, and Zhang Yongde admires him so much, he will definitely nod in agreement.

But if hundreds of mid-level and lower-level officers are promoted at once, no one will agree.

Shi Congyun was in a dilemma, and when he was racking his brains to find a solution, the time unknowingly arrived in the afternoon, and it was time to get off work.

Shi Congyun had no airs, and after bidding farewell to the other officers in the government office, he prepared to leave on horseback. He is now a famous man with a high prestige in the army, and everyone respects him very much and treats him very politely.

This is easy to understand. A decisive battle with a scale of more than 10 people is not as simple and easy as many people have seen in the romance.

The current population is not like the skyrocketing population after the Ming and Qing dynasties, resulting in sufficient soldiers, hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, and millions of troops.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the God of Chariots fought the Liao Kingdom with the power of the whole country, and the troops were only 10,000+; in the Battle of Guandu, one of the three major battles of the Three Kingdoms, in the decisive battle that determined the fate of the North, Yuan Shao had a force of over 70 troops, and Cao Cao had only a few thousand in the early days. At the peak, it was only about 20 to [-], not Yuan Shao's [-] and Cao Cao's [-].

The battle of Yiling decided the fate of Shu and Wu. The main force of the whole country of Shu was more than [-] but less than [-]. After the defeat in the first battle, they were no longer qualified to compete for the world.

Therefore, this kind of general battle with a main force of more than 10 people can determine the fate of a country most of the time.

Southern Tang lost the battle of Huainan and lost half of the country at once. Countries that were originally as powerful as Zhou State had no possibility of competing with Zhou State. They either survived or were slowly wiped out.

In short, those who can win such a strategic decisive battle will all go down in history, and they are handsome talents of an era, because they change or determine the destiny of a country.

Just like in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, except for the monarchs of the Three Kingdoms, only Zhuge Liang and Lu Xun were biographical alone. Zhuge Liang was the actual ruler of the Shu Kingdom, while Lu Xun was the prime minister and won the crucial strategic decisive battle between Wu and Shu.

So with Shi Congyun's current achievements, even if he can't be passed on to him alone in the future, he will definitely be famous in history, and it is not surprising that he is famous.

Just as he was about to leave, Zhang Yongde also came out and asked him with a smile, "General Shi, how about going to have a drink together."

Shi Congyun was stunned for a moment, and didn't think much about it. He was Zhang Yongde's deputy. Of course, the two of them had to keep in touch with each other so that they could work together in the future, so he nodded in agreement.

Zhang Yongde asked his two soldiers to go back first, and went to Daliang's restaurant with Shi Congyun.

When the food and drink were served, the two of them talked while drinking, and they talked about the past events on the Huainan battlefield.

At the end, Zhang Yongde also drank a few glasses, his face was a little red, and when he was a little drunk, he said a little depressed: "General Shi, in fact, I know that in terms of military exploits and skills, even a horse can't catch up with you.

You were clever in Huainan, you beat up the army of the Tang Dynasty and ran away, scared the head of the Southern Tang Dynasty to kneel down to the officials and begged for mercy, I felt happy listening to it!You are supposed to sit in this spot check, and the soldiers in the army think so, and I also heard the comments from the people below, but the officials let someone take this position because of the entrustment of the fairy king, I feel really guilty in my heart.

Someone as capable as you doesn't get important things, I feel bad. "

Shi Congyun didn't expect Zhang Yongde to say that, but he knew how much he valued Zhao Kuangyin.

To put it bluntly, Zhang Yongde may indeed be inferior to people like Li Chongjin, Zhao Kuangyin, and Shi Yanchao in ability, but he is straightforward, has no idea in his mind, and subconsciously shows kindness to people.

He recommended Zhao Kuangyin repeatedly because he felt capable; Li Chongjin didn't agree with him, so he directly sued Li Chongjin for treason;

Zhang Yongde is an emotional person. He didn't understand what Guo Rong asked him to do. His father is already the actual head of the guard department. Forbidden Army, that's okay!

That's why Zhang Yongde was asked to check it out, but Zhang Yongde looked at this issue with a completely emotional attitude, irrational and politically ignorant, so he felt guilty.

Shi Congyun thought of a story, a little story he saw while watching a documentary.

During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, a general with more than a dozen volunteer soldiers was besieged by a hundred times the enemy and stood on top of a mountain for several days.

The soldiers under him begged bitterly, saying that they would go to rescue, but he just gritted his teeth and refused to let anyone go to the rescue. He watched as a dozen soldiers either died in battle or were forced to jump off the cliff.Because he knew that the enemy just wanted to surround the spot for reinforcements.

When the general was old, he couldn't stop crying when talking about this incident, and his heart ached.As a battlefield commander, he is very competent.