Unlike Zhang Jia, Li Cunzhong is in the prime of life, so he is naturally unwilling to enter the pension mode, and it is understandable that he wants to forge ahead and make contributions.

But because of his background, Li Ze was extremely uneasy about him, and now the entire Zuo Wuwei was placed in Yinzhou, and he missed the Central Plains Unification War, which was because of this reason.

Li Cunzhong himself also understands, so the only place where he can make contributions has become the road to Tubo. However, although Tibet is in civil strife, it is also a first-class power in the world after all, and Li Cunzhong wants to do this with the strength of an army, which is naturally far from possible.

Unless the entire Tang Dynasty turned its head to deal with Tubo, and this is obviously not a matter of the past few years.

But as long as it starts, Zuo Wuwei will inevitably be the unyielding vanguard.

"In the past few years, how have Zuo Wuwei's retired non-commissioned officers been placed?" Li Ze asked.

Speaking of retired soldiers, we have to mention the current Tang military system. Li Ze abolished the government military system and replaced it with the 12 Guards Standing Army, which adopted a conscription system. Under the conscription system, soldiers have a number of years of service. How many years of service for ordinary soldiers, how many years for grass-roots officers to serve, and how many years for middle-level officers to serve, only those high-ranking generals are the only ones who can really become professional soldiers.

Such a system is, on the one hand, to allow those who later enter the army to have room for progress and a channel for promotion, so as to promote the soldiers' intention of fighting hard, and second, to prevent generals from having a group of solid supporters in the process of commanding the army for a long time. Third, it is also to let more people enter the army for training, those retired soldiers, officers will naturally become a reserve force, if there is a real large-scale battle, when more troops need to be recruited, these people, can basically play the role of being called up, coming and using. It is equivalent to having more troops in disguise.

You must know that the salary of the Tang Dynasty army is quite high, there is a person who is a soldier, the whole family does not worry about the reputation, and there are really not a few people who want to become a Tang soldier, especially those who have recently recovered the land by the Tang Dynasty, because the people are poor, and there are many people who want to improve their family conditions by being a soldier.

"Of course, this is a proper placement." Dai Lin said with a smile: "If you want to return to your hometown, the army naturally has generous severance pay, and those who want to stay in the local area are given the fattest and creamy land. ”

Li Ze smiled slightly, Dai Lin had something to say, such a placement would naturally place these people extremely scattered.

Li Cunzhong is indeed a fierce general, and his military attainments are quite high.

And Li Ze has always put this person in a high position, of course, not only because of this, but also because of the meaning of appeasing Hedong. After Hedong was really under Li Ze's rule, the development in the past few years has actually been good, but in the past, Li Ze gave a fierce medicine to Hedong, and several families in Hedong were killed, deposed and distributed, and basically remediated, and now Hedong is still in a high position in the new dynasty, and there is only one Han Qi and one Li Cunzhong left. If you go to Li Cunzhong again, Hedong will inevitably complain.

You must know that now the people of Hedong are officials in the imperial court, but there are very few Liao Liao. In the early years of Gain, almost all of the elite children in the river were concentrated in a few families, and after those families collapsed, the rest was really not enough to take on important responsibilities. And those who followed, although many of them also entered Wuwei Academy, but if they want to become talents, it will take time.

In today's Hedong, in the entire Datang system, there is really no one who can speak for them.

Hearing Dai Lin say this, you can know that Dai Lin knows these things well, and has been doing some things quietly.

And this is also consistent with the information fed back from the internal guards, and now Li Cunzhong's contacts with Han Qi are becoming less and less, and it seems that he is deliberately alienating Han Qi. Of course, this does not rule out that they did it on purpose. However, the longer the time, Li Cunzhong's control over Zuo Wuwei will become weaker and weaker, and in a few years, I am afraid that the original batch of Hedong soldiers, except for some high-ranking generals, will be replaced soon.

And senior generals, in the Tang army, are often transferred.

In the next step, Li Ze was ready to tentatively transfer a few such generals. If Li Cunzhong doesn't react, then this person can give more trust.

"Do you know why you two are summoned to return to Wuyi at the same time this time to report on your work?" Li Ze asked.

Xu Ziyuan said: "Please also ask Li Xiang to make it clear." ”

"In the next few years, I'm afraid you're going to have a hard time." Li Ze spread his hands and said, "Do you know why?" ”

"Is it because the imperial court is ready to use troops against the Central Plains on a large scale? Complete the final blow to the pseudo-beam? Dai Lin asked.

"Exactly!" Li Zedao: "Originally, my plan was to wait for two to three years, but the plan couldn't catch up with the changes." No one thought that between Zhu's father and son, they would actually sing this play. At the moment, they are already extremely weak, taking advantage of his illness, asking for his life, beating the water dogs, such an opportunity, we naturally can't let go. ”

Dai Lin and Xu Ziyuan both laughed.

To tell the truth, when they saw the specific situation of the Zhu father and son turning against their brothers from the report, they were dumbfounded, but also felt that this was a godsend.

"If there are two or three more years left, with the strong support of the imperial court, I believe that you will be able to truly develop, not only to be self-sufficient, but also to feed the imperial court, but now, the imperial court will not have the energy to give you more financial support. We're going to do everything we can to defeat the pseudo-beams. ”

Both governors nodded at the same time.

"Don't look at the pseudo-Liang after this civil strife, their strength has been greatly damaged, but they are still not without the strength to fight. They still hold most of the land in the Central Plains and Guanzhong, and their soldiers who can fight are still hundreds of thousands. Now Zhu Youzhen has Cao Xuan as the general and presides over the military power of the Central Plains. With Xu Fu guarding the Luoyang lands, even Zhu Youzhen himself is also an experienced general. And Zhu Youqi is now entrenched in Shu, which is the country of abundance. Although this person is also a ghost, if we march into the pseudo-Liang in a big way, this person will definitely not sit idly by, and will inevitably send troops to support or contain us. Li Ze analyzed.

Li Xiang has a point. After all, it is a war to destroy the country, and it can't be so easy. Dai Lin agreed.

"So we're going to do our best." Li Ze smiled: "But in this way, I can't take care of you." ”

"Li Xiang, rest assured, we can handle it." The two assured.

"The reason why the two of you are here at the same time is that I want the two of you to help each other and support each other in the next time." Li Ze said with a smile: "This is also the reason why when I divided the provinces of Gansu and Ningxia, I let the two provinces share the benefits of the Hetao, and the borders are also intertwined." ”

Dai Lin and Xu Ziyuan glanced at each other and laughed.

"Li Cunzhong and Zhang Jia, to put it bluntly, are still two soldiers, sometimes, they can only see their immediate interests and can't stand at a higher height, so this time I let the two of you come and treat you personally." Li Ze said with a smile. "After all, Gansu and Ningxia are the two local winds, and the real ones are the people's strong customs, and it can be said that there are endless things that draw swords against each other if they don't agree with each other, but no matter what it is, at your level, you must be aware of it, and when dealing with these affairs, you must take into account the overall situation."

"Understood." Xu Ziyuan said repeatedly: "Li Xiang, don't worry, we will never let the affairs of Gansu Province and Ningxia Province distract you." ”

"That's exactly what Xia Guan wants to say!" Dai Lin also hurriedly expressed his position.

Li Ze stood up, walked in front of the two, and patted them on the shoulder: "The matter of the northwest, please leave it to the two of you." ”

Xu Zifa and Dai Lin also quickly stood up and arched their hands: "I will never dare to live up to Li Xiang's trust." ”

"Okay, I won't leave you two to eat today." Li Zedao: "Dai Du is the first time to come to Wuyi, and there are many places to go and take a look, and there are also many yamen to recognize the door and meet the officials of various ministries. Ziyuan, he hasn't been back for several years, he must be like an arrow, and he wants to go to Wuwei Academy to have a look, right? I'm afraid that there are also a lot of classmates who have already lined up to invite you to drink and eat, don't be polite, squeeze them hard. When you leave, I'll set up a feast for you to practice, how about it? ”

"Li Xiang knows me too!" Xu Ziyuan laughed: "This time Ziyuan returned, although we didn't have any good things, but we still brought some local specialties back to Li Xiang, and I hope that Li Xiang will accept it with a smile." ”

"Ziyuan brought me something, and Dai Du won't be empty-handed, right?" Li Ze raised his eyebrows.

"Some worthless gadgets, I hope Li Xiang won't dislike them!" Dai Lin also smiled.

"Do you have one for the ministers and governors of the ministries?"

"Naturally, I don't dare to lack it."

"That's fine, you guys go about your business!" Li Ze waved his hand, and the two governors retreated.

"These two, in the next few days, I'm afraid they will be busier than when they were in office." Chen Wenliang walked up to Li Ze and said, "Those big businessmen with wealth in Wuyi are showing their powers, and they want to meet these two governors in one place!" As far as I know, several of Xu Du's good classmates are now carrying tasks, and those who want to see Dai Tu have already struck Mrs. Du. ”

"That's a good thing, and I hope more businessmen will come over and invest." Li Zedao. "In the center of our rule, the commercial territory has been roughly divided, but in the northwest, there are still a lot of opportunities waiting to be grasped. Our court is poor, but the businessmen have a lot of spare money in their hands, they don't hide the money at home, or invest it to make money, our merchants in the Tang Dynasty have a lot of appearance, I like it very much. ”