After the death of the West Marquis, Zheng Yuming in addition to the Qin Prince of Heaven, but also on behalf of the royal family of Wu first to the surrounding vassals to send an obituary, five days later, the West Marquis of rice sorghum with a small coffin. Qin funeral etiquette, the vassal five days small coffin, the son of heaven seven days small coffin.
West marquis small coffin time, Prince Sheng strokes the corpse chest and feet crying, several times crying fainted, Zheng Yuming worried about Prince Sheng excessive grief too hurt the body, had to let Jiang Gui configured a little sleep-aiding drugs, Prince Sheng tricked into serving to ensure that the body to get some rest.
Eight days after the death of the Western Marquis, a carrier pigeon flew into the Prime Minister's Office in Kang, the capital of the King of Wu, at nightfall.
"Haha! Prince Zhao has sent a messenger to offer condolences." In Chu Chao Hui's hand was the news Wei Qing had sent by carrier pigeon from the city at the mouth of the throat.
Zhao's spies sent a letter to Zhao Xuan, turning the small road to bypass the throat. Sent messengers to Wu condolences but will not sneak over the small road, take the road, have to pass through the throat controlled by Wei Qing in the open. Wei Qing let the messenger into the country, quickly pigeon letter to Chu Chao Hui know.
After the small coffin of the Western Marquis, it would take twenty-one days before he was buried, during which time the Crown Prince Sheng succeeded to the throne and became the new lord of the Kingdom of Wu. The surrounding vassal states that received the news of the obituary would send messengers to the royal capital to condole with the death of Marquis Xi, and at the same time congratulate Prince Sheng of Wu on his succession to the throne. The vassal states that had goodwill towards Wu expressed their goodwill towards Wu through this ceremony, which was also a political expression of recognizing the new king of Wu. Now Zhao Xuan sent an emissary to Wu to offer condolences, sending out a message of peace, through which Zhao Xuan told the court of the King of Wu that Zhao had no intention of becoming an enemy of Wu, and as for how to reach peace, the emissary who came to offer condolences would negotiate with Zheng Yuming himself.
Chu Chao Hui put the secret letter note in front of Zheng Yuming, turned around and collapsed on the soft collapse next to him, he can do everything to perform the illusion of waging a full-scale war against Zhao during this period of time, and it has finally paid off. Wei Qing sent a secret letter, so that Chu Chao Hui has been hanging heart fell to the ground.
"You don't have to continue the draft, do you?" Jung Yuming read it and scribbled on the white paper with a charcoal pencil.
Originally, Chu Chao Hui's plan to recruit new soldiers was to do it in several batches, and the original plan was to recruit up to 10,000 new soldiers into the army next year. But now in order to give Zhao Xuan the wrong impression, Chu Chao Hui could only recruit soldiers with great fanfare. Because the treatment and benefits of being a soldier attracted many civilians, the two recruiting and enrollment offices in the royal capital were full every day, and even though the conditions for recruiting soldiers were repeatedly harsh, the conscription office still recruited more than 6,000 people.
"Recruit for two more days, we must always wait for Zhao's attendants to arrive at the king's capital before stopping." While carrier pigeons only needed a day and a night to return the information from the mouth of the throat, the messenger sent by Zhao Xuan had to travel on the road for five or six days, and that was even on horseback, and before the Zhao messenger arrived at the royal capital, Chu Chaohui's act of confusion had to continue to be practiced.
"Huang Zhong said that there's no more masonry to be transported in Kangcheng." Zheng Yuming finished scribbling on the paper and folded it into a paper airplane and shot it onto the soft collapse, where Chu Chao Hui was leaning crookedly.
Chu Chao Hui's fingers quickly clamped the paper airplane. "It doesn't matter, without masonry, digging some dirt and filling it into a sack has the same effect."
"It's such a waste!" Zheng Yuming shook his head, heartbroken at the shipping costs he had to pay.
"It's always better to save money than to really have a deadly fight with Zhao." Chu Chaohui opened the paper airplane while relieving Zheng Yuming, after reading the paper content, the smile on his face is even thicker: "Or Yuming mind is awesome."
The number of more than six thousand recruits recruited was too many, and Chu Chao Hui did not have enough generals to help him train. Wu's original Huben army had no systematic military training at all, and the army had no sense of coordinated combat. At that time, as long as the army of a vassal state could form up neatly and quickly, it was considered to be an elite force.
The only well-trained soldiers in Chu Chao Hui's eyes were those trained in the valley and Nambu. From Ulsan, a total of 3,500 soldiers trained by Chu Chao Hui personally set out on the crusade. After several major battles, counting those who returned with minor injuries, only 3,000 of these 3,500 men remained. Of the remaining 3,000, 800 were taken to the northwest border by Wei Qing and Zeng You, 1,000 followed Zhou Cheng to station at the Tang border, and only 1,200 stayed in the royal capital, of which 300 were led by Ma Ren to protect Zheng Yuming, leaving Chu Zhaohui with only 900 elite soldiers at hand.
In the future, Wu would abolish the private army, and the private soldiers in the hands of the feudal lords would be gradually demobilized. Together with the Huben who had served for five years and enjoyed favorable treatment and were discharged, the total number of soldiers in the army of Wu was only 40,000 nowadays.
Six thousand were placed in Ulsan and Su Plain, six thousand were stationed in Quocheng and at the mouth of the throat, five thousand were brought by Zhou Cheng on the Tang border, and six thousand were dispersed in some of the larger cities, thus dividing them all around, leaving only seventeen thousand soldiers in the king's capital, Kangseong.
Wangdu seventeen thousand minus Wei Ren and Chu Chao Hui trained soldiers, a total of thirteen thousand people, these thirteen thousand are half of the old Huben, half of the newly recruited civilians, they have not received systematic military training. Chu Chao Hui's original plan was to use the 900 elite soldiers on hand as the framework of the army, and train all the 10,000 soldiers in the royal capital into elite soldiers with discipline and coordinated combat ability. Due to the fact that he had to confuse Zhao Xuan and recruited 6,000 more soldiers at once, Chu Chao Hui did not have enough elite soldiers on hand to serve as sergeants to lead the new recruits, and the number of sergeants in the training program he had planned was already the limit, and there was no more capacity to digest the new blood.
Just now Zheng Yuming scribbled on the paper is the arrangement of the newly recruited six thousand soldiers, in Zheng Yuming's newly released plan, these soldiers first do not enter the army, only do reserve army. Reserve army no pay, but will arrange for them to do engineering, work to days pay, usually food and clothing by the troops to ensure that half a year after the reserve soldiers can be converted to formal soldiers.
The arrangement for the six thousand new recruits is a good solution to the pressure of Chu Chao Hui's lack of training sergeants, and when half a year later, the original soldiers have been trained more or less, they can methodically absorb the new recruits to join.
In fact, Zheng Yuming was begging for the 6,000 recruits to become engineers for the time being, many of the municipal constructions in the royal capital needed manpower to do the work, and a large amount of labor was needed for the salt wells and salt fields on the coast of the Eastern Sea. So after Zheng Yuming heard the news that Zhao Xuan had sent an emissary to offer condolences, and that there would be no major war between Zhao and Wu in the future, he immediately put his mind on these 6,000 recruits.
"Draw out Ma Ren and the guards." Zheng Yuming wanted to give Ma Ren a future. Ma Ren was originally very good as well, only because he was particularly loyal and did things steadily, he was selected by Chu Chao Hui to be sent to Zheng Yuming's side as a guard.
Ma Ren, Zhou Cheng and Zeng You, three people are equally good, the same start, now Zhou Cheng and Zeng You have led the heavy troops stationed on one side, while Ma Ren because of following in Zheng Yuming side, can not go to the battlefield to lead the battle, can not build a career. Zhou Cheng and Zeng You is already a knight, in the army official position is already a brigade commander, Ma Ren can not get any knighthood, the army official position is still the original battalion commander level.
Every time Zheng Yuming saw Ma Ren, who was on duty at the Prime Minister's Office, he always felt that he had shortchanged him.
"Still don't, I don't feel at ease without your own people guarding you." Chu Chao Hui immediately shook his head no.
Although the royal palace is in charge of Wei Ren's 3,000 soldiers, and the Wei family has been tightly bound together with Zheng Yuming, Chu Chao Hui still does not dare to hand over Zheng Yuming's safety 100% to the ancient aristocrats who are bound by interests. Chu Chao Hui only trusts the soldiers trained by his own hands, because when he trains these soldiers, he pays quite a lot of attention to ideological education, after three years of ideological inculcation of the soldiers, there is no need to question the loyalty of him and Zheng Yuming.
"But these three hundred people are all talented, it's too wasteful to put them by my side." Zheng Yuming lamented, these three hundred soldiers had all learned three years of knowledge, each possessing the ability to read and write, and each having the ability to do math calculations in the third or fourth grade of elementary school. In the whole of Great Qin can be called cultural people.
Chu Chao Hui sat up straight from the soft collapse. "They also don't necessarily have to achieve military service to have a career, they can write and read, you then slightly cultivate, later can be put into the county to govern the government." Three hundred people to be put out as magistrates can be put in batches, put away a batch, you can select another batch from the army to supplement into the guards.
Wu starting from next year, all over the country to build counties one after another, county and county officials are sent directly by the royal court, which requires a large number of officials to be sent down. Zheng Yuming did not want to use all the local officials to use the nobles, but the reality forced him to appoint the nobles, because the civilian literacy is small, as a party's parents, literacy is the minimum, the Wu Kingdom, except for Nambu and the valley, the literacy rate of the civilian population in the rest of the country is only 1,000%, 2%.
When a country's officials are all aristocrats, the country's interests must all be tilted toward the aristocratic class, which is something Zheng Yuming does not want to see. Chu Chao Hui's proposal opened up a new way of thinking for Zheng Yuming.
"Chaohui, you always find another way to solve problems." Zheng Yuming unabashedly praised Chu Chaohui.
"Of course, what problem would be difficult when it comes to us?" Chu Chao Hui did not forget to praise his lover when he accepted Zheng Yuming's compliments wholeheartedly.
One sitting on the soft collapse, one sitting in the chair, the two separated from the table each other for a moment of affection. This kind of eye to eye only existed for thirty or forty seconds, Chu Chao Hui can not hold back, a healthy step across to the table, Zheng Yuming into the bedroom into the shoulders of direct physical and mental exchanges.
This night is a bright moonlight night, snowy moonlight on the ground, as if really under the layer of frost. The king's palace outside the sound of the night watchman to a slow two fast gong, this is already the middle of the night three o'clock. Originally quiet inner palace suddenly sounded footsteps, a messenger with a lantern holding a waist plate out of the inner palace, straight to the prime minister's office, soon, the prime minister's office door was banging on the door.
Before the Western Marquis coffin, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui busy with national affairs and funeral, the two not only have little time alone during the day, to the night, but also have to take turns in front of the Western Marquis coffin night watch. Has been to the Western Marquis small coffin, the royal court ministers do not need to be in the Western Marquis casket in front of the night watch, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui only have a separate moment to get together, after a small goodbye get together is always very passionate, when the Prime Minister of the Ministry of the door was knocked on the door, Chu Chaohui Hui is embracing Zheng Yuming in the rest of the aftermath of the orgasm.
"My lord, the Great King has sent a messenger to seek an audience." Ma Ren's voice rang outside the bedroom, the Great King that Ma Ren was talking about was Crown Prince Sheng who had just inherited the throne.
"Uh, got it." Zheng Yuming didn't care about his physical exhaustion and scrambled to get up and dress.
"This fool will have what is important, it is estimated that he wants his old dad again." Chu Chao Hui hugged Zheng Yuming, not letting Zheng Yuming move, one time lovemaking can not satisfy at all, Chu Chao Hui under the desire to be dissatisfied with Wu Wangsheng.
"I know he won't have anything important to do, but even if it's a trivial matter to find me, I still have to take it as a big deal, for the prestige of the royal family, we can't be his fool." Zheng Yuming also didn't want to climb up again in the middle of the night, such a cold night to go to the inner palace to accompany a fool to say some boring words.
With Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui's control of the situation, he could have treated Wu Wangsheng like Emperor Xian of Han. If Zheng Yuming treats the new king this way, the messengers serving the new king immediately know about it, and over time, the palace people will start slacking off because Wu Wangsheng has no real power, and slowly the nobles in the royal court will do the same, and Wu Wangsheng will truly fall into the position of Emperor Xian of Han.
The status quo of the Great Qin society necessitates the presence of the royal family, which has an irreplaceable spiritual role. Allowing the spiritual leader of a nation to be left out in the cold is not conducive to Zheng Yuming's development and reform of Wu, and what Zheng Yuming wants to do with the new king is to let the new king sit on the altar and not ask questions about the world.
"Then I'll go too." Chu Chao Hui helplessly let go of his hand.
"Eh, well, go together." Zheng Yuming originally wanted to tell Chu Chao Hui to stay and rest, but seeing Chu Chao Hui's resentful face, he retracted his objection.
Prince Sheng, now the new king, King Wu Sheng, sent a messenger to summon Zheng Yuming in the middle of the night is really no big deal.
"Ming, father is not talking to me." Wu Wangsheng was sitting on the bed with his hair in his cape, and when he saw Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui come in, he hurriedly pulled Zheng Yuming to complain about his grievances.
"Great King, from now on, you must refer to yourself as 'Lone'." Jung Yuming corrected the new king's self-reference first.
"Okay, Lone knows! Ming, Father doesn't talk to Lone." Wu Wangsheng changed neatly.
"Did the late king watch over the great king?" The Western Marquis had died, and Zheng Yuming knew in his heart that King Wu sheng was dreaming of the Western Marquis.
"Look at Sheng, but how Sheng yells towards Father King, he ignores me." King Wu Sheng was aggrieved.
"Alas, Great King, you have forgotten to call yourself again. The late king ignored the great king, so maybe the late king is angry." Jung Yuming persisted in teaching the new king the etiquette of being the head of the country.
"Ming, what does Sheng have to do to keep Father from getting angry?" King Wu Sheng tugged at Zheng Yu Ming to vainly seek advice.
"If the Great King does a good job as the Lord of the Kingdom of Wu, the late King will be happy to see the Great King in his dreams in the future." Zheng Yuming took out the patience of coaxing his niece to deal with King Wu Sheng.
"Oh, so as long as Sheng is a good king, father will pay attention to Sheng!" King Wu Sheng came to a realization, and after the doubts in his heart were cleared, he let go of Zheng Yuming's sleeve and fell back to sleep, hoping to fall asleep and see his father again.
When Zheng Yuming and Wu Wangsheng were talking, Chu Chaohui had been standing beside them in silence, and he deeply felt the need to re-find a spiritual distraction for Wu Wangsheng, so that his rare evening meeting with his lover would not be disturbed. After the New Year, the great king of Wu should follow the late king's last decree to do his life's work earlier!