at night.

Zhao Wang Mansion Study Room.

The night is as cool as water, and the freshly brewed green tea is rising with white steam.

Zhang Chao was sitting behind the desk and reading Shadow's information very seriously. Zhang Chao was able to stay in Hanjing, a tiger's den, and dared to hand over all the troops. Shadow was his great reliance.

When the emperor heard the news of the war today, he was so scared that he fell to the ground and sat down for a long time.

When Li Ji heard the rumors of a mutiny, he immediately summoned the servants in the mansion.

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The emperor, military generals, important officials of the court, even soldiers of the army in the capital, the people in the city, and the merchants and civilians, today they heard the rumors of mutiny, one by one, and the Shadow's work was very efficient and collected a lot.

Among these news, the attitudes of the North and South armies are worth pondering.

After receiving the news, Qu Tutong, deputy envoy of Privy Council, rushed to the Beiyuan Imperial Army Camp as soon as possible, and even immediately took over the power of the military camp.

This is illegal.

Even if he is the deputy envoy of Privy Council, he must first have the emperor's edict, the cabinet seal, the transfer order of the Privy Council, and the military talisman of the Ministry of War.

But Qu Tutong entered the camp with his own horse because of his prestige in the army, but the Northern Army obeyed him.

Very illegal and very dangerous.

And the Southern Army is also dangerous.

As the commander of the Southern Yai, Guo Xiaoke also mobilized the Southern Army troops without obtaining the emperor's edict and the cabinet's permission.

He was transferred, and he was really mobilized. The battalions of the Southern Army were very happy and accepted the order, and then followed him to Beiyuan to fight the Northern Army.

From the fact that military commanders can generally do this kind of mobilizing troops, but they must have a high prestige. Secondly, the consequences are very serious. This is a serious crime of being abusing troops and rebellion.

So generally speaking, no one dares to do this.

Often the army rebelled, but in fact, it was only a few main generals who carried the soldiers to rebel, because the soldiers below did not know whether the main generals had orders or no orders. As long as the generals above supported them, in the army that took obedience as their duty, the soldiers were of course transferred by the generals.

This time, the emperor did not deal with the wrongdoing of Qu Tutong and Guo Xiaoke. Qu Tutong even received a reward, and Guo Xiaoke was fined, but later, the emperor personally praised Guo Xiaoke's armor.

Zhang Chao shook his head.

Through today's farce, he saw many substances.

For example, the two armies of the north and the south are now guarding against each other.

Even in the Southern Army, there are many people like Guo Xiaoke and Su Dingfang, who are even looking forward to Zhang Chao going beyond that step.

If Zhang Chao was willing, he believed that there were really many soldiers in the Southern Army following him desperately.

It’s just that this step is easy to take, but many soldiers can’t see clearly whether it is a smooth road or a cliff ahead.

They are blindly obedient.

However, the attitudes of the officials, merchants and people in the capital made him think deeply.

Many people watched this farce today as a lively event, and even the two armies confronted each other, many people gathered within a hundred steps. There were even hawkers who were not afraid of death and came to shout and sell.

The people seem to have a feeling that things are not related to them.

What loyalty and glory seem to be far away from them.

What about the country’s sense of collective honor and loyalty?

Perhaps it is because the people have seen too many such things over the years, and whoever has the biggest fist is right. Especially after experiencing three changes in the capital city in fifteen years, the people seem to be used to it. Anyway, the palace is in chaos, and they cannot be confused.

A problem was also exposed today.

There are indeed some people under his command who want to go past him and have some private scenes of wearing royal robes. These people are no longer under his control.

They depend on Zhang Chao and want to push Zhang Chao forward.

This is similar to the vassal states of the late Tang and Five Dynasties. What those yamen like to do the most is rebellion and mutiny. They like to use their own yamen to rebel and seize the position of the governor, and even rebel and become kings and emperors.

Anyway, when the mutiny is successful, they are meritorious officials. Everyone has made meritorious contributions and gets promoted and made money. If it fails, then in order to stabilize the situation, the superiors still have to win over them, and they still have to give money and food rewards, or even get promoted and make money.

Therefore, during the Five Dynasties, mutinies were common, especially the most elite yamen in various vassal states. They mutinied and rebelled at every turn, and even later on, rebelled were often initiated by the yamen without their knowledge.

Many teeth will be forced to become the support of rebel soldiers.

Many teeth will not even want to be the head.

After all, this is a matter of interest.

The Southern Army, which was pulled up by the guardian last time, came from all aspects and classes, and was mixed with fish and dragons.

There are also many generals and officials under Zhang Chao's command. Being Zhang Chao's ministers seems to be more beneficial than being Li Tang's ministers.

Many people want to support the merits of the dragon.

Not many people have such bold ideas, but a small number of them are.

Zhang Chao was not entirely happy with them.

He saw it thoroughly, and these people were actually the same as those soldiers from the Five Dynasties.

They are crazy and think too easily.

What kind of dynasty changes in my mind? The contribution of supporting the dragon is not as deep as Zhang Chao thought.

Everyone has their own interests, which was a good thing, but now it makes Zhang Chao vaguely worried.

We must speed up the completion of the reform of the army, and stability overwhelms everything.

If the army was still so chaotic, it might soon become a mountain in the army, forming warlords of all sizes and large vassal states. By then, Zhang Chao would probably not be able to control it, and he might even be backfired.

Lifting the pen, Zhang Chao wrote down the names of Su Dingfang and Qin Qiong on the paper, and then wrote down the words "Shuang" next to it.

Su Dingfang was more dangerous. Zhang Chao was worried that he would be the commander of the Northern Yamen. One day he would get angry and do something mutiny under his name. Then, it would be troublesome to give him a yellow robe.

He still remembers the bright color in his eyes when he told Su Dingfang today when he was wearing a yellow robe.

Qin Qiong is relatively stable. I believe Cheng Qian is more at ease when he asked him to be the commander of the Northern Yai. After all, he is still the eldest princess and the son-in-law of the Duwei.

General Yuchi Baolin of the left Shence Army, and General Zhang Liang of the right Shence Army.

The general of the left Yulin Army, Cheng Chumo, and the general of the right Yulin Army, Zhang Gongjin.

General Li Gan of the left Shenji, and General Duan Zhixuan of the right Shenji.

This is the list of generals of the Emperor's Six Guards, including six generals and three generals of the Southern and Northern Army.

The most difficult thing to determine is the list of the chief generals of the fourth army of the emperor's personal guards.

The Qianniu Guard General Yin Kaishan on the left, and the Qianniu Guard General Wu Heita on the right.

The left Jinwu Guard General Li Junxian, and the right Jinwu Guard General Cui Yan.

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Marshal Qin Qiong of the Northern Yai, Marshal Su Dingfang of the Southern Yai, and Marshal Zhang Zhongjian of the Navy.

Privy Councilor Li Jing, Privy Councilor Qu Tutong, Liu Hongji, Yuchi Gong, and Li Ji, Minister of War.

The Grand Governor of the Central Army, the Grand Governor of the Front Army, the Grand Governor of the Front Army, the Grand Governor of the Later Army, the Grand Governor of the Left Army, the Grand Governor of the Right Army, Niu Jinda.

Although the soldiers and generals are separated, senior generals cannot lead the troops normally.

But after today's incident, Zhang Chao still became more careful.

If you cannot lead troops according to the system, it does not mean that you can't really lead troops. In an emergency, these senior generals of each guard can actually temporarily mobilize troops based on their positions and prestige.

Although, if the responsibility that ordinary people cannot bear is taken after the adjustment without reason, it is equivalent to treason.

But if it is a mutiny or a rebellion, then there is no need to worry about the aftermath.

Especially the newly built Northern Yai Imperial Army, the Guards and the Guards’ personal army, both have more concentrated forces than the Southern Yai Guards. They are mainly responsible for the Five Capitals and the Imperial Palace.

Zhang Chao must be cautious and cautious in the selection of General of the Northern Yaya.

He couldn't arrange all his people, Cheng Qian would not agree, and Fang Xuanling and the others would not agree.

After all, Hanjing took the initiative to launch a mutiny and imprisoned Li Shimin to welcome them. They did not surrender after being attacked by the Southern Army into Hanjing.

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Dongjun Prince's Mansion.

It was midnight, and Li Ji was still wiping the sword. Today, this sword almost came in handy.

I underestimated Zhang Chao, who would have thought that in just half a year, the Tang Dynasty would undergo such earth-shaking changes.

The real change of the world.

After returning to Hanjing, Li Ji felt loneliness.

He was rejected by the old brothers back then.

Although Zhang Chao appointed him as the Minister of War, he was unable to truly enter the center of the court. There was also an auxiliary minister in charge of the Ministry of War.

Zhang Chao is his immediate boss.

I did make the wrong choice at the beginning.
To be continued...