The morning light shone into the hall from a row of window lattices in Jinxiang Hall. The hall was bright and clear. The sunlight made the magnificent and luxurious palace magnificent, as if it was in the fairy world. The civil and military officials below shouted: "My emperor has a long life."

"Everyone is flat." Guo Shao sat on the dragon chaise with his legs spread apart and looked down at the bottom.

Then the eunuchs on duty stepped forward and sang lyrics, and the officials successively submitted comments.

Guo Shao sat down, looking back at the Hanlin Academy officials sitting in rows on the left, one by one, was writing hard, with jade seals, edicts and other items placed on the table covered with yellow tablecloths, and the manpower and expenses issued in the hall were all available. He felt that this place seemed like a big ship, and he was the helmman, and every adjustment affected the direction of the entire country.

Some ministers praised the emperor's martial arts, and some praised the good weather and good crops in various places. Guo Shao used his words from time to time to ask officials to persuade farmers. Anyway, the court will never make any mistakes in paying attention to agriculture in the country.

The Minister of Works submitted a report to build the Yellow River, but Prime Minister Fan Zhi had different opinions, so the two argued in the hall on the spot.

Everything about governing a country is meticulous. Civilians are prone to different political views and numerous reasons to support their propositions. Moreover, everyone has the issue of taking sides and having a standpoint, so governing is a very complicated matter.

Guo Shao's approach is to issue an order to write a memorial and then make a decision after they write it into memorials... In fact, he is to throw the dispute to the government office and continue to argue, and wait until they make a fool of themselves. What Guo Shao has to do is to wait until the ministers reach an agreement and give money and food.

He could tell the difference. At this time, the most important thing about the Great Zhou Dynasty still did not get rid of the key (Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms), that was military!

Otherwise, no matter how fine the internal affairs are, once the war is facing a situation where the country is shaken, or if there are military generals who have their own troops, everything will be useless.

Regardless of the ministers' moral articles, Guo Shao knew very well: now we must first maintain the military and national system and take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun; then we can adjust the military power system from a fundamental institutional perspective.

...

After the dynasty, the cabinet minister Zuo You left the imperial city. Seeing that it was still early, he went to the Huben Military Academy in Beicheng, Tokyo. It was a different situation there.

A large group of men stood in a queue on the dusty mud, wearing four pieces of plate armor and leather armor. The brand new armor shone in the sun, and they were sweating all over. They held spears and watched the movements of a big man on the earthen platform, and danced the spears.

"Huo!" Everyone shouted loudly as the spear came out.

General Zhou Tong came to Zuo You by horses. The two followed Guo Shao to fight north and north many times, and were the people they knew. Zhou Channel: "The imperial guards suffered losses when they attacked the Eastern Han Dynasty (Northern Han Dynasty). The Privy Council recruited elite troops from various places to supplement the source of troops."

Zuo You is a civil servant, so of course he would not rashly point fingers at the soldiers. He immediately praised: "Everyone is a young and strong man with a back and a waist."

Zhou Tong shook his head and said, "Most of the elite soldiers in the Central Plains have concentrated on the imperial guards. It is difficult to choose people with martial arts experience and strong. Some of them are farmers who have just put down their hoes."

After hearing this, Zuo You said in shock: "Can such a person be used?"

Zhou Tong said calmly: "No one is born to fight. As long as he has a good foundation, he will be a miscellaneous soldier first and go to the battlefield for more experience. There will always be one elite soldier left in ten!"

Zuo You was silent.

Zhou Tong said again: "Apart from the divine arm and hand, other elites are all made of human lives except for training! The court's 100,000 imperial guards, more than one million men have been killed or injured on the battlefield in the past few decades?!"

At this moment, Zhou Tong frowned and walked to a young man, slapped him on the waist: "Your torso can't move, can your arms be strong?"

When the man saw the general staring at him, his face turned red and he stood there at a loss.

Zhou Tong took the spear of a soldier next to him, stabbed forward and demonstrated for a while, pointed at the man and said, "Follow my actions!"

The man gestured nervously, but Zhou Tong was furious and strode to the front of the man, patted his chest and roared: "Thorn! Thorn here!"

The man's face changed and he shook his head quickly, unable to even say a word.

Zhou Tong said angrily: "If you ask you to stab, you will stab. How dare you disobey the military order? No one taught you the rules in the army beforehand? Stop!"

Zuo You didn't say a word, stood outside the queue and looked at the general Zhou Tong silently.

Zhou Tong picked up the spear pole and seemed light, but the man screamed in pain. The man finally closed his eyes and shot him hard, but he was immediately held by Zhou Tong with one hand, and the spear was fixed halfway and could not move. Zhou Tong swept over again, causing the man to stagger and scream.

Zhou Tong said with a blue face: "Just this little strength, if I hold a knife in my hand on the battle formation, your head will have been chopped down! There is only one chance to meet, and everyone has no place to hide. They have to stab and pierce the opponent's armor. Either he dies or you die!"

He looked around and cursed angrily for a moment: "The court asked you to eat and wear well and give you military pay, not to let you procrastinate here! If anyone is not concerned about it and is scrambling to go to the camp to farm. Damn, you can't learn such a simple move!"

Zuo You looked at it for a while, without saying anything interference. After watching for a while, he said goodbye to Zhou. He heard the sound of muskets in the original place, and immediately got on his horse and took the people to check the place along with the sound.

The firearm was a man from the Shenhuodu. Zuo You met the military weapon supervisor Zou Jurun there, and the two of them talked for a while.

...There were some new soldiers in the Divine Fire, and some were killed and injured in the Northern Han Kingdom, and some were recruited. At this time, Zhao Hu was already considered an old soldier. He had fought in battles, but it was different in the eyes of the newly introduced soldiers.

Usually, the soldiers were so pleased with each other, and some even asked him in awe, saying, "I heard that he had killed someone with his own hands?"

Zhao Hu only said that killing people or being killed in the battle formation is not a big deal, and it is inevitable as long as it is in front of it. When asked how he killed people, he was unwilling to say more... He himself was unwilling to recall those experiences, and he felt that there was nothing to say.

However, after joining the formation, Zhao Hu was really different from the beginning. At least now he wouldn't be too confused. He was very calm in the queue, understood the use of practicing and what he should do.

"Prepare!" Everyone shouted at this time.
Chapter completed!