Chapter 820 Joining the Zhenbei Army

"Cha Fuli is the leader. He is rude to generals like Chen Yingyang, but he is very polite to me. Although there is a gap, he is obviously not as arbitrary as his subordinates. I am afraid he is more or less afraid of me..."

"What's interesting is that some of his subordinates and other military commanders are either silent, or treat me as an ordinary commander, or secretly test me..."

"Marshal Chen Yingyang and his subordinates have been silent. Although they didn't say it clearly, they were polite to me in their attitude, not as presumptuous as Cha Fuli's men...Some of Chen Yingyang's men occasionally expressed their dissatisfaction with Cha Fuli..."

"The Modao Army has a full force of 10,000, divided into left, right, front, The rear and middle five armies each command 2,000 men, and the four generals are all fourth-rank, except for the middle army general Feng Anling, who is third-rank and also the deputy commander of the Modao army. Feng Anling was polite when he saw me, with a calm personality, careful thinking, and familiarity with the art of war. According to the intelligence of the night guard, he was born in the Five Army Commandery. Like all the generals of the Modao army, he is backed by military upstarts, and was promoted after Emperor Taining ascended the throne..."

"The front army general He Bao is a tough guy with barbarian blood, good at using a pair of big hammers, and he relied on his strength to kill his way to this position. He was a little unconvinced when he saw me, or rather, most of the generals here were unconvinced when they saw me, a Taoist life-cultivator, commanding troops. But no matter how unconvinced they are, no one dares to challenge me, a fortune teller, who still has brains..."

"Left Army General Lü Wenhua, fair-looking, good at using a spear, gentle and elegant, took the initiative to say that he liked my poems..."

"Right Army General Ding Tiannian is actually a puppet cultivator, which is very rare. He talked to me about Liu Muwa. Yesterday, Liu Muwa sent a message to him and the two chatted for a few words..."

"Rear Army General Ren Shihao is a taciturn black-faced man who is not good at speaking and does things meticulously..."

"Overall, the upper echelons of the court are very smart. Such an important army as the Modao Army cannot be handed over to a mess. These five people are very capable, whether in terms of strength, military exploits, experience or The level of leadership is above that of ordinary generals. Moreover, these five people are all new noble forces, and they are naturally opposed to the forces of General Wang..."

"Preliminary inference is that I will have small frictions with them, and there will be no conflict until the critical moment. As for them taking the initiative to provoke me, it is impossible to happen. They cannot afford the cost of messing up the Modao Army, of course, unless the forces behind them take action..."

"Find time, I will deduce them. Now, I will first lay out the big situation in the army, stabilize myself, and resolve various small problems..."

Li Qingxian did what he said, and successively laid out the three major situations of Eighty-Eight Floors Mountains and Rivers, Golden Python Stealing Dragons, and Ten Thousand Mountains to Guard the World.

After everything was done, just after dawn, I heard the guards outside report that the military supervisor was visiting.

Li Qingxian did not expect Cha Fuli to come so early, and he took the initiative to come here as a boss, so he hurried out of the door and saw a tall eunuch in a purple-red python robe.

Cha Fuli has a fair complexion and a smile on his face. Because of his skills, his figure is unusually taller than that of ordinary eunuchs.

"I, your humble servant Li Qingxian, greet Lord Cha Fuli." Li Qingxian said.

Cha Fuli walked forward with a smile and said, "The night guards of the inner factory are all one family, Lord Li, please don't be so formal. How is it, are you used to it?"

"Everything is fine. Besides, I have never led an army. I came here to learn from the military supervisor and other colleagues." Li Qingxian said.

"You scholars are good at everything, but you never tell the truth and have many tricks. We warriors are much more straightforward..." Cha Fuli said with a smile.

Li Qingxian didn't expect to meet such a person, but when he thought that this was the army, he was relieved.

The two entered the house and chatted while eating breakfast.

Cha Fuli actually did as he said, without beating around the bush, asking Li Qingxian about his past experiences and inquiring about Li Qingxian's background, and Li Qingxian mostly answered truthfully.

Slowly, Li Qingxian understood that Cha Fuli was not a straightforward person, but a very clever person. He saw at a glance that he liked to communicate directly, so he chatted in the way he liked.

After talking to Li Qingxian, Cha Fuli began to talk about the Zhenbei Army, and he complained bitterly.

"... There are thousands of threads in the capital, but only one needle in the local area. There are holes everywhere. Which hole should I sew?"

"The cabinet asked us to go east, the Ministry of War asked us to go west, and the Five Military Commandery asked us to go east, west, south, and north. The emperor often doesn't speak. Tell me, who should we listen to?"

"You are a wise man. I am a military supervisor. On the surface, I am glorious, but in fact I am scolded everywhere. Chen Yingyang scolded me. Is he wrong? Yes, I took away his control of the Ten Armies, so of course he scolded me. But do I really want to offend him? I don't want to, but he doesn't listen to the orders from above, what can I do? And the great general Wang, I admire him in my heart, but he If you don't listen to orders or announcements, what do you think of the court? Why do I have conflicts with the River Guards? If I were in the same boat with the River Guards, Shendu would have sent someone to take off my head the next day..."

"But do I dare to slam the table in front of the great general Wang? Not to mention that he is a legitimate prince, I dare not say anything just for his outstanding martial arts that repelled the super-class. No, I dare not even see him now, for fear that he will slap me to death..."

"You have been in the Night Guard for many years, and you understand us. Unlike some masters in Shendu, they always think that the demons are easy to fight and things are easy to do..."

Listening to Cha Fuli's words, Li Qingxian vaguely understood.

Cha Fuli was not speaking to himself, but to Zhao Yishan, the cabinet and the Wenxiu forces behind him.

Wenxiu's power in the army is not large, but it is indeed the strongest force in the court.

At Cha Fuli's level, even if it was the revenge for killing his father, he could still greet him with a smile before the final action, not to mention that the two of them needed to cooperate at present, and there was no irreconcilable conflict.

Although the inner court forces represented by Cha Fuli had slight friction with Wen Xiu, and although Wen Xiu scolded the eunuchs as castrated officials every day, and the eunuchs scolded Wen Xiu for empty talk and harming the country every day, the conflict between the two sides was not as serious as imagined.

The fact that he could take over the Modao Army instead of the worst army of the Zhenbei Army showed that the inner court forces still hoped to cooperate with Wen Xiu.

In Qi, Wen Xiu and eunuchs were the two forces that were least likely to betray the royal family.

As for other forces, even the nobles who needed royal rewards were also big rebels in troubled times.

After figuring out the general situation, Li Qingxian was basically relieved that at least in the short term, he would not have any major problems.

During the chat, both sides talked about some of their secrets in the form of casual conversation.

Cha Fuli promised that he would never interfere excessively with the Modao Army, and clearly expressed his willingness to cooperate with Li Qingxian, especially hoping to use the power of Li Qingxian's fortune-telling master, and even hoped that Li Qingxian could recruit more fortune-tellers, Taoists and literary masters to join the Zhenbei Army.

Li Qingxian also said that he valued fortune-telling and Taoism, and was actually unwilling to join the army. Once a war broke out, he would use fortune-telling. The management of the Modao Army was usually under the jurisdiction of Feng Anling, the deputy commander and general of the central army.

Both sides felt the basic sincerity of the other party and happily exchanged communication talismans.

After Cha Fuli left, Li Qingxian also did what he said and asked Zhou Xuanshan about the specific time for the Tianshi Sect to select the chief of the outer sect.