However, the official positions of Tang Ai and others and the worship of knighthoods were all repeatedly weighed and seriously considered.

Let's talk about the release of Tang Ai as the governor of Qinzhou's military and Qinzhou's assassination history.

This is because: Shuofang County is located in the north, the north is Rouran, the northeast is Tuoba Xianbei, the southwest and the south are desert areas, the external environment is not good, and there are few people in its territory, and the Xiongnu Zahu and other departments currently account for the absolute majority of the local residents, therefore, compared with Qinzhou, this place is not very suitable for the main position of Dingxi to attack Guanzhong and Hebei, and can only be used as a cooperative position.

This is not the case in Qinzhou.

First of all, Qinzhou is backed by eight counties in the southeast, and it is very convenient for supply and logistics, and once the fighter plane is seized, it is also convenient to send troops to Guanzhong.

Secondly, the number of people in Qinzhou is also large, and after the previous generation of Qin, Cheng two dynasties and the Tang Dynasty before the relocation of Ding, three generations of hundreds of years of operation, the composition of the people here in terms of ethnicity, the proportion between Tang and Hu is not as exaggerated as Shuofang, almost in five or five open, and the main composition of the Hu people here, Di, Qiang and other departments, compared to Shuofang to herd as a business, still maintain the nomadic habits of the Xiongnu Zahu, etc., the degree of Tang is also much deeper, which can be seen from the names of the Di people and Qiang people, most of the surnames and names of the Di people and Qiang people, Of course, because of the long-term mixed residence, there are also a lot of local Tang people who know some Rong language, all of which are helpful for the Tang officials who serve here to carry out more effective administrative governance, tax collection, and mobilization of people in times of war.

Therefore, for a long period of time in the future, Qinzhou will become the most important frontline position in Dingxi and Puqin, and Dingxi and Puqin in the Guanzhong.

Therefore, with the addition of sheep fashion's "thousands of miles of 'thousands of miles of talent', should it be appointed? to show their abilities"? Xin Er Nai asked the court to get Zuo's consent? Appoint Tang Ai after Kojiqiu? Held both positions.

Guo Daoqing's appointment as Nan'an Taishou was due to two reasons.

One is? This is Kojishuang's request.

One is, the Guo family is a right surname in the eight southeastern counties? There are a lot of clansmen in the eight counties of the official? is quite influential in the eight counties, and Guo Daoqing has been quite close to Tang Ai and others in recent years, so Xin Er has the intention to take Guo Daoqing under the account, so as to further weaken the death of Koji Shuo and Koji Qiu? And after Xin Er took sole control of the dynasty and shocked the country with his military exploits? The Koji family in the eight counties is already a declining and declining force.

- For the same reason as the previous one, the decree also mentioned that he had appointed Lu Zhang as the Taishou of Longxi, and he would arrive soon.

Dingxi rarely worshiped the title before, but this time it was so much? There are three reasons.

One is an objective reason, and the other two are considerations.

The objective reason is: the reason why there were few titles above the Marquis of Baiting before Dingxi? Is it because of the small number of people in Dingxi, so in order not to reduce the financial revenue of the imperial court too much? Can't you take out too much place to seal the courtiers as food,—— Xin Er leads by example for this? When he was made a marquis? He took the initiative to go to the book? Don't want a big county, as long as Jiankang, a small overseas Chinese county with a small population, but now that Dingxi has opened up its territory and expanded its territory, there are more Qinzhou three counties, Hanzhong Shu land, and Shuofang County, so the Dingxi court can become a little more generous, and on the premise of not losing the local income of Longzhou, a small number of townships and pavilions in these newly acquired lands will be taken out as fiefs for meritorious soldiers. Tang Ai and other people who were knighted this time, and the food and euphemism obtained above the Pavilion Marquis were all under the jurisdiction of the three counties of Qinzhou and the Shu land of Hanzhong.

Xin Er's two considerations are: one is to make great contributions to Tang Ai and others over the years, and the three counties of Qinzhou, Hanzhong, Shudi, and Shuofang rely on their planning and contributions, and it is impossible to say that he is not a marquis, and the other is that he cannot only be "prosperous and rich" himself, but also share the political benefits he has obtained with Tang Ai and other people in his "one party", so as to consolidate and strengthen their relationship with himself.

Of course, in addition to these three articles, there are other reasons, such as Guo Daoqing and Tian Juzhi being crowned marquis, also because of Lu Shuang's requirements, and Gao Yancao and Luo Dangzhi being crowned marquis, which is the same as the reason why Guo Daoqing was appointed as the Taishou of Nan'an, which is to win people's hearts.

——Speaking of strengthening relations and winning people's hearts, in fact, when Xin Er invited Tang Ai and other feudal marquis, he also added Zhang Shao to the list of feudal lords. It's just that Zhang Shao's Defeng Pavilion Marquis has nothing to do with the battle of Nan'an, because it is not mentioned in this edict.

Wang Shuwang was appointed as the protector of Zhongtao and had to be sealed as the Marquis of Guan, needless to say, this is because Xin Er is setting a goal for the martial artists to pursue, and it is also hoped that it can inspire more children of the Dingxi Hanmen to actively join the army.

The Marquis of Guannai is the lowest first rank among the marquis, there is no fiefdom, the middle of the nine grades is in the sixth grade, and the grade is not high, but in the end, it is a title, it is high, and it is enough to make the family reborn and leap into the stream.

Cao Hui's appointment as the lieutenant of Nan'an has nothing to say, which Cao Fei asked Xin Er for him.

Cao Hui's old official was one of the five captains of the Taima Battalion, and he was already one of the "five", and the captain was only six ranks, and now he was promoted to the Nan'an Lieutenant who was in charge of the military affairs of a county and the five grades, which was not only promoted, but also regarded as being in charge of the army, and his real power was also great.

There are two decisions of the DPRK and China related to the new official powers of Qinzhou and Tang Ai, which are mentioned at the end of the decree.

These two decisions, one is that Nan'an County is under the jurisdiction of Qinzhou, that is, the jurisdiction of Qinzhou in Dingxi is no longer three counties, but four counties; One is that the military of Hanzhong Shu is temporarily under the governor of Tang Ai, and Zhang Jingwei, who is too guarded by Yinluo in Hanzhong and is officially appointed as the governor of the three counties of Zitong, has the right to manage their respective jurisdictions in peacetime, but in terms of military affairs, they must obey Tang Ai's orders.

After the order arrived, the whole army was happy and jubilant, especially the generals and colonels such as Beigong Yue and Gao Yancao, who were made marquises, all of them were smiling, and they all wore them on the day they received the marquis's clothes and ribbons, and showed them to others.

After a few more days in Nan'an County, the soldiers and horses of the various units participating in the battle were ordered to return to their own county, or to a new station, or to a new commander-in-chief. Wang Shuwang led his troops to Zhongtao County, and the soldiers of the other three counties under Beigong Yue's account belonged to their own counties, and Beigong Yue also led their headquarters to return to Yinping County; Cao Hui was stationed in Chiting from him, and Tian Ju gave 2,000 soldiers and horses to Guo Daoqing, and stationed in Nan'an County to govern the road, and then Tian Ju did not say goodbye to Tang Ai, and led the rest of the soldiers and horses back.

After a few days of commotion, most of the soldiers and horses had left, and the Dingxi barracks outside Qidao County were much deserted.

Lan Baozhang and Wei Xian went to Tang Ai's tent to ask for a meeting.

- Lan Baozhang and Wei Xian were also promoted after this war, Lan Baozhang was moved from the captain of the sixth grade to the protector of the fifth grade, responsible for the military of Xiangwu County, and Wei Xian was moved to the captain. Both of them were left in Qinzhou and placed under the direct jurisdiction of Tang Ai.

Tang Ai called him in.

When the two entered the tent, Lan Bao said respectfully: "Envoy, when will you move to Xiangwu?" ”

Xiangwu County is the county of Longxi County and the state of Qinzhou in Dingxi.

Tang Ai was the governor of Qinzhou's military and Qinzhou's assassin history, so he should go to Xiangwu County to take office.

After listening to Lan Baozhang's questioning, Tang Ai thought about the two military reports that were sent with the order that he was looking at again, and said with a smile: "I am in Nan'an County, which makes Zishan, who is a new official, very uncomfortable, and asks to see me every day, which makes me very annoying." Well, let's leave tomorrow! ”

Lan Baozhang and Wei Xianying said: "Yes." ”

Wei Xian saw the military newspaper in Tang Ai's hand and asked, "Dugong, do you want to read the military newspaper from Ye County, Nanyang and Xuzhou again?" ”

"Not bad."

Of the two military reports that came with the order, one was about Ye County, and the other was about Nanyang and Xuzhou.

On the side of Ye County, the decisive battle between the Qin army and the defenders of Wei has been carried out for many days, surrounded by three sides, the Qin army has won successive battles, and the military report said: Just two days before the military report was issued, the three stations outside Ye County have been captured by the Qin army. Xin Er predicted in the military report that as early as early October and as late as mid-October, Ye County was afraid that it would change hands and be defeated by the Qin army.

Nanyang and Xuzhou here.

First of all, on the Nanyang side, Huan Mengqin led more than 10,000 Jingzhou soldiers, crossed the Huaishui, and was engaged in battle with the Wei defenders in Nanyang. The situation of the Wei army in Nanyang is worse than the situation of the defenders of the Qin army before Nan'an was defeated, it is completely without reinforcements, and the Wei capital Yecheng is also in danger, the Wei army in Nanyang can be said to have no fighting spirit, Huan Mengbu has triumphed all the way, has laid down the county of Nanyang County Zhiwan County, along the water north, to the outside of Pheasant County, if Pheasant County, more than 100 miles to the north, that is, the state of Jingzhou of Wei Luyang County, and Luyang again, the Jingzhou jurisdiction of Wei will be in the hands of Huanmeng.

However, the offensive of Huanmeng's troops greatly attracted Pu Mao's attention, and Pu Mao had ordered the Qin army left in Luoyang to move south, and it seemed that he had rushed to attack Luyang, so as to block Huanmeng's troops south of Luyang and prevent him from affecting the battle of Yecheng in Qin and Wei.

Secondly, in Xuzhou, the Yangzhou soldiers of the Yin Dang Department, after passing the Huai, the commanders of the Huaibei people's army, who had been in constant contact with the Jiangzuo Tang Dynasty, led their troops to vote, and some Tang people in Huaibei were strong and strong, and the Tang people were also enthusiastic to help, and the momentum of the Yin Dang Department was greatly boosted, and now it is known as 100,000 soldiers and horses, with many soldiers and horses, and won public opinion, and because the Qin army's Pu Badger Sun Department pointed directly at Pengcheng County, and contained the elite troops of He Hun evil and He Hun leopard, so Yin Lang and He Hun evil troops of Xiapi County fought two battles, and both won. It is said that Yin Dang therefore released a bold statement: "Within ten days, take Pengcheng". ——Xiapi and Pengcheng are bordered by Yangzhou, Xiapi is in the east, and Pengcheng is in the west.

These two military reports, Lan Baozhang and Wei Xian heard Tang Ai say and knew their contents.

Wei Xian speculated about Tang Ai's thoughts, and felt that he was worried that Pu Qin would counterattack Nan'an on a large scale, so he had repeatedly read these two military reports, so he said: "Although Qin Yu has the upper hand in Ye County, but Huan and Yin Ergong's Wang Shi are all moving forward, and the situation is very good. ”

Tang Ai shook the feather fan lightly, did not answer Wei Xian quickly, resubmitted to the military newspaper, looked at it for a while, and then said, "Really?" ”

Wei Xian heard Tang Ai's skeptical tone and asked, "Is the last general wrong?" ”

Tang Ai didn't answer this time, he put down the two military reports, smiled, and said to Wei Xian and Lan Baozhang: "You two go and clean up, tell the soldiers, tomorrow morning, let's cross Weishui south and go to the state to govern Xiangwu!" ”

Wei Xian and Lan Bao promised to do so.

Early the next morning, Guo Daoqing, Cao Hui, Wang Shuwang and others heard the news and sent Tang Ai, Wei Xian, Lan Baozhang and others to the north bank of Weishui.

When he arrived at the state administration of Xiangwu County, Tang Ai did not have time to summon the state officials, so he went to the hall first and wrote a short message in his own handwriting, instructing Wei Xian: "Send someone to Ji County." ”

"Send it to Ji County?"

Tang Ai sat on the couch, shook his feather fan, and said leisurely: "From today on, Qin Guangzong and I will be neighbors. Qin Guangzong is a famous person in Guanzhong, with a good reputation, among the neighbors, I am a newcomer, how can I not say hello to him, a 'senior'? ”

Wei Xian suddenly said, "It turns out that this letter from the Duke of the Governor is addressed to Qin Guangzong. Xin Dao, "The governor is the border governor of Dingxi for me, and he has a heavy responsibility to defend the territory, and there is no royal order, so I am afraid that it is not suitable to communicate with the border governor of the enemy country, right?" I wanted to give a lecture or two, but when I saw Tang Ai's chic posture, I didn't think about it, "The governor is unruly by nature, and the law of indecency can be limited, even if I speak, the governor will not listen." That's it, Duke Xin is loved, I think he is in correspondence with Qin Guangzong, Duke Xin and the court will not suspect him, I still won't say it. ”

He agreed, received the letter, and sent someone to Ji County.

Five days later, the letter reached Qin Guangzong's case.