Ten days after the end of the battle with the Tartar Tower, the wooden city gradually returned to normal, and people were interested in the landscape built with 10,000 heads outside the city, but the stench of the human head provoked mosquitoes and beasts, and Zhang Xiaowu ordered it to be covered with stones. The soldiers used to bury sand and stones at the same time, and this human head landscape was built three zhang high, and Zhang Xiaowu named it Rentou Mountain.

The soldiers and civilians of Mucheng all know what this Rentou Mountain means, but some businessmen who have just come to Mucheng don't recognize it, and they climb to Rentou Mountain to see the scenery with great interest, after all, this is the first height outside the city.

After a few days, the weather suddenly turned cold, so Zhang Xiaowu asked people to dig up smoky stones and move them into the city, and looked for blacksmiths to make water pipes, preparing to build plumbing equipment, if not to make warm water pipes, at least to make chimneys. But the blacksmiths of Mucheng can only make iron, and they don't know anything about making iron pipes.

The blacksmith doesn't understand, Zhang Xiaowu doesn't understand even more, he only knows machine tools, machine tools, and high-temperature furnaces for machining, and the others are only "slightly understood, slightly understood", in fact, they don't understand at all. There were eight blacksmiths in Mucheng, and Zhang Xiaowu gathered them together and named that street Qiaojiang Street. Of course, according to his urine nature, he was originally named the Mechanic Circle, but several blacksmiths agreed that the Mechanic Circle read like a food called chicken sauce, and approached Guan Xiang and asked to change the name. Guan Xiang also felt that the chicken sauce was not good, so he changed to a craftsman.

When the reconstruction of the wooden city was in full swing, the holy decree of the imperial court suddenly came, and the imperial envoy who issued the holy decree this time was not the unpopular Ji imperial envoy, but the imperial envoy Lu Baiting, who was known as the general of the imperial study, personally announced the decree. Lu Baiting and Ji Imperial Envoy are from the same imperial examination, but Ji Yu, the imperial envoy of Ji, is just Tanhualang, and Lu Baiting is the champion Lang, as the master of the imperial study, in charge of the secrets of the imperial study, and can be called the emperor's henchman and the future Xianglang.

After getting Ruan Qingwen's introduction, Zhang Xiaowu led Lord Lu into the house, Lu Baiting immediately announced the decree, because of the rescue of the Qinglong Army, successively broke the two armies of Uzi and Tartar, and the military department set up the Saibei General's Mansion, promoted Zhang Xiaowu to the Saibei General, and took charge of the defense of the empire's Saibei, and the whole army of 10,000 was established on the same day to establish the Saibei Border Army Ghost Guard, and built the Saibei General's Mansion, and a number of civil and military personnel were on par with the border army and the Guard.

Long live the generals, Zhang Xiaowu was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly asked Hu Sanwan to take the silver to thank Lu Baiting, although Lu Baiting is the master of the imperial study, but it is customary to receive congratulatory gifts, so he is naturally not sensitive. The establishment of the Saibei General's Mansion is an important matter for the country, and he never expected that the imperial court would make a decision so quickly and hand over the post of General Saibei to himself.

Later, during the banquet, Lu Baiting said: "General Zhang, Your Majesty has set up the Saibei General's Mansion under great opposition, and the treatment is equal to that of the General Mansion of the Two Wolf Pass. Zhang Xiaowu hurriedly said that he would serve the empire and His Majesty for the rest of his life, and he would do his best to die.

Lu Baiting smiled faintly, and said: "Your Majesty likes your story very much, especially when you disguised yourself as the Seventh Prince to deceive the Beiyi army to retreat, but Your Majesty said that the matter of the Seventh Prince's deception of the Beiyi army will be reported to the whole country later." Su Yu testified that the Seven Princes went north with the guilt and talked about Beiyi and Yan Ya with their tongues, and as for the agreement you reached with Jing Ya, the imperial court will follow them one by one. ”

Zhang Xiaowu frowned, he didn't expect the emperor to want to take away his credit, and the purpose of winning the merit was to save his younger brother Xuanyuan Zidong, the seventh prince. What kind of person is Xuanyuan Zidong, that is a gentlemanly royal family, how can such a person go to Saibei to negotiate in person, and he is not afraid of being laughed at when he says it.

Lu Baiting smiled calmly and continued: "Although Your Majesty has many younger brothers, this younger brother is the most important to him. If you give him the credit, Your Majesty will surely remember your goodness. ”

It turned out that the emperor sent Lu Baiting to convey this secret purpose, Zhang Xiaowu didn't care about any credit, his name went down in history, after all, this seventh prince was too incompetent, and he liked to cause trouble, the emperor spoiled him so much, he was afraid that he would cause more trouble to the emperor. However, since the emperor had invited, Zhang Xiaowu naturally couldn't help but give the emperor face, so he nodded and said: "Since it is the emperor's intention, why not let it go as a courtier?" I won't spread the word about it, and I won't tell anyone else. ”

Lu Baiting said: "General Zhang is so smart, he will definitely soar in the future." ”

After sending Lu Baiting away, Zhang Xiaowu began to prepare for the formation of the Saibei General's Mansion Wenwu, he is now the general of the border army Weifu, much more powerful than the garrison, the Weifu can have a deputy general from the third grade, three fourth-grade military candidates, three from the fourth-rank left near the school captain and twelve five-rank captains, as well as a four-rank army, two from the fourth-rank Sima, four five-rank records, and eight six-rank secretaries. The civilian rank in the army is not actually recognized by the officialdom, but the treatment is linked to the official rank, a five-grade record of the monthly salary can reach twelve taels of silver, from the perspective of treatment, the imperial court is very generous to the scholars engaged in civilian work in the army.

Zhang Xiaowu had very few civilian staff, Wu Song served as the chief of staff of the Sipin Army and the General's Office, Ruan Qingwen served as the Sima Congsi and the chief of Mucheng, Guan Xiang served as the Sima Congsi and the commander of Mucheng County, and Wang Yijin served as the secretary of the Wupin.

Among the generals, Xiao Kai, who led the Mucheng defenders to expel the Tartar Tower, was undoubtedly the most dazzling, and was promoted to deputy general by Zhang Xiaowu, Zu Gongmao, Hu Li, and Shen Lindong were promoted to the fourth-rank military candidates, Hu Sanwan, Guan Cheng, and Wen Ruyu were promoted to the rank of lieutenant from the fourth grade, and Cao Li, Li Chuncheng, Jin Sheng, Zhang Tongming, Chen Guanxi, Li Yuan, Zhao Suo, Ni Erchun, Feng Kui, Chu Jie, Xia Ming, and Wang Huaili were promoted to five-rank captains, and the other generals were promoted. During this period, Chen Qing was special, because he was not one of the defenders of Mucheng, but the leader of the Qinglong Army, and for the Qinglong Army, there was no mention in the holy decree, but he was afraid that after they returned to spend time together, they would be punished and discarded, and Chen Qing was also worried about his future.

The next thing was the ceremony for everyone in Mucheng to prepare for the ghost guard army, Zhang Xiaowu handed over the matter to Wen Ruyu to handle, and Wen Ruyu asked Wei Qi about it first. The so-called guard flag is the handsome flag of the ghost guard, the handsome flag of the wolf guard is a black two-headed wolf on a red background, and under the double-headed wolf is the text "Shenghan wolf guard" four strong characters, but what does the ghost guard use as a mark?

Zhang Xiaowu smiled and said: "Since we are ghost guards, we will mark them with grimaces and write the holy Han ghost guards." ”

"Black on a red background?"

Zhang Xiaowu said: "No, black background, white grimace, white handwriting." ”

Wen Ruyu said: "How many flags are rushed?" ”

"Five hundred faces."

"What about the word camp?"

The forbidden army is divided into war camps and auxiliary battalions, with 2,000 to 3,000 people in the battle camp and 300 people in the auxiliary battalion, and the word camp is a war camp. But the ghost guard only has 10,000 military positions, Zhang Xiaowu considered that each performs its own duties, and said: "The ghost guard does not have a word battalion, and it is planned to build nine battalions of the ghost guard." ”

As a result, the famous Ghost Guard Nine Battalion in the future was born.

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