Li Ze's camp was more than ten miles away from the battlefield, and was guarded by three thousand personal soldiers. After all, it is a battlefield of tens of thousands of people, and no one can guarantee that there will be any accidents, even if it is a safe thing, there is no chance of anything.

What's the matter, don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case. As the form becomes more and more clear, Li Ze's identity is becoming more and more noble, whether it is You Yong or Shi Zhuang, or Tian Ping, the wealth and glory of this body are firmly tied to Li Ze, who is willing to let him take even a little risk?

Therefore, Li Ze could only stay away from the battlefield, relying only on the constant messengers to learn about the information on the battlefield.

In the afternoon, the Liang army led by Xu Fu and the Tang army launched a decisive battle.

Li Ze was not worried about the outcome of the decisive battle at all, and the moment Xu Fu gave up the natural danger of the Tiger Prison Pass and chose to fight the Tang army, defeat was inevitable.

Regardless of the difference in combat power between the two armies, the Tang Army has an advantage in terms of numbers alone.

Tian Ping's department of more than 30,000 people, after more than a month of fighting, lost thousands of people, but there are still 20,000 people, Liang Han, Jose, Ren Xiaonian three generals each led 5,000 people to join the battle, so that the number of soldiers in the Tang army reached 40,000.

The Liang army is only in its early 20,000s, and here, the core of the real Xuanwu army is only more than 10,000 people. Moreover, after the bombardment of family letters and the pleading of family members, it is doubtful how much combat effectiveness these people can preserve.

Xu Fu's pre-war encouragement was very good, and he made the posture of a mourning soldier to the extreme, or he could burst out with strong combat effectiveness in the early stage of the battle, but as the war progressed, when the blood faded and the cruel reality was in front of him, this blood surge naturally came and went quickly.

Li Ze felt that when the sun set, he would probably be able to sit on the tower of the Tiger Prison Pass, drinking tea while enjoying the scenery of the center of the sky and the Sanqin Gate.

"Tiger prison, if my expectations are good, Cao Xuan will give up Luoyang and retreat to Tongguan to hold on." Li Ze looked at Pei Ju on the opposite side and said with a smile: "In no more than ten days, you can return to Luoyang." ”

Pei Ju, the former mayor of Luoyang, was very unhappy when he heard the words: "But it is already a thing and a person." ”

At that time, Luoyang City was broken, the Eastern Capital Defense Envoy, Fu King Li Xin and the princess ** looked at each other, and the other side concubines and concubines fell into the hands of Liang Jun, and they were humiliated, and Pei Ju's family was also all damaged in the service, and there was no news about it.

After the Ezhou Water Battle, Li Hao, in accordance with Li Ze's order, sent all the captured Liang Army generals to Weizhou and handed them over to Pei Ju. At that time, the city of Luoyang was broken, because of the rebellion of the sailors stationed in Luoyang, which led to Luoyang being broken by a blow, and the army under the jurisdiction of the 100,000 Eastern Capital Defense Envoy was taken by surprise.

Pei Ju hated these traitors deeply.

After these people were handed over to Pei Ju, there was no more news, and Li Ze did not inquire about it again.

"To live, you have to look forward!" Li Ze said slowly: "Your family is gone, your children are gone, you will take care of the millions of people in this Henan Province in the future!" Just as you did in Weizhou, let them have food, clothing, shelter, widowhood and loneliness. ”

"Li Xiang wants to set up Henan Province? Don't you separate Luoyang? Pei Ju was a little stunned.

"Why bother?" Li Ze smiled slightly.

Li Ze said it lightly, but Pei Ju's heart was turbulent, and the meaning contained in Li Ze's words was not trivial. Luoyang as Chang'an's companion capital, the status is transcendent, and it has a pivotal role in Chang'an on the economy, Luoyang has always been a separate defense area to become a barrier in Chang'an, but now Li Ze's intention is to incorporate Luoyang into Henan Province, which has weakened Luoyang's political status to a large extent.

Why did Li Ze make such a decision?

Pei Ju knew very well that the trend of Li Ze becoming self-reliant on behalf of Li Tang was irreversible, and as the world knew, once he recovered Chang'an, the old capital with strong political implications, Li Ze would definitely be self-reliant.

Now that Li Ze has made such a decision, the meaning contained in it is that Li Ze after the Tang Dynasty became self-reliant, will not take Chang'an as the capital?

If this is the case, then Luoyang naturally does not need to become a separate administrative region, and it is an inevitable trend to merge into Henan, and only in this way can we form a clamp on the place where Chang'an is located on top of the administrative division and avoid some possible disputes.

"Henan, Guanzhong, all these years have not stopped." Li Ze didn't guess that his words made Pei Ju think so much, but said to himself: "No matter what the battle, these two places have always become the center of the war, and the people have suffered more, and the center estimates that over the years, the people in these two places have decreased by at least more than half." Even those who stayed were poor, and there were very few families with overnight food. Even the relatively wealthy Luoyang, which has been withered in the past two years because of our lockdown, will do your best to restore the local people's livelihood as quickly as possible and keep everything on track. ”

"Yes!" Pei Ju put away those thoughts in his heart, as an official of the old dynasty, he was not Li Ze's confidant, the reason why he was used to supervise Henan was only because he also took a fancy to his past experience in Luoyang and popularity, and he could use him to win people's hearts as quickly as possible.

"In the Central Plains, the land is fertile, as long as there is no war, lightly pay for the meager endowment, rest with the people, and soon be able to recover its vitality. What's more, now that the policy of the imperial court is so good, as long as it can be implemented smoothly, everything will be taken for granted. Pei Ju said.

"The difficulty lies in the smooth implementation!" Li Ze knocked lightly on the table, "In these two places, the powerful family, but there are countless families who are still Jiang Zhiqing and noble families. In all these years, these people have been like grass on the wall, and the wind blows on both sides. Even if he flatters the pseudo-beam, he has not cut off contact with us, and he has always been left and right, flattering both sides. And in order to successfully recover these two places, we also acquiesced in these relationships. Look, when we take Luoyang and recover Chang'an, these people will appear in front of us impassionedly as loyal and righteous people. Haha, don't stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling face, when the time comes, it will be much more difficult to implement our administration than in other places. ”

Pei Ju nodded.

As hundreds of years of empire and companion capital, Chang'an, Luoyang and other places have always been a gathering place for rich and noble, these people have a lot of wealth, land, and these, but these are not tolerated by the new imperial court.

Pei Ju, who has been a stabbing history for many years in the bureaucratic system newly established by Li Ze, knows very well that Li Ze doesn't care how rich these people are, as long as your money comes above board, just like the Boxing Trading Company, which is a wealth group dominated by the Khitans, and for example, the Xingxin Tongda Trading Company, which is a group of bitter people in the past, haha, think about it again, just like the rich family in Hedong who had been enemies with Li Ze in the past, after being dug out of the roots of the entrenched place, although they still amassed huge wealth, Li Ze ignored them.

Because under the current rule of Li Ze, the simple wealth family with the clan as the main body no longer exists. Within every wealth group, there are different groups of interests.

Let's take Boxing Commercial Society, although it is said that the Khitan people are the main body, but like the imperial court, they also have shares, and there are some people in other places who also have a certain right to speak. Let's talk about the Liu family in Hedong, after the fall of the Fan family and the Sima family, they were finally blessed to the soul, and introduced some forces from Zhenzhou and Yizhou into their own business, and they immediately developed and grew. Of course, the price paid is that the matter is no longer up to the Liu family.

Li Ze is working hard to make every business group, like governance, a stage for various forces to compete, so that all forces can fight within and then seek a balance.

And the law became the final judgment.

Over the past few years, several new laws have been introduced every year to adapt to the changing new forms of the Northland. Although the problems are still constant, in general, everything is thriving.

In short, Li Ze wanted to defeat those clan forces based on the land, so that these people would no longer have much influence on the future imperial court. It can make the laws of the court penetrate into every corner.

These policies have already achieved good results in the north.

In today's north, the clan power has been scattered, and it has long been a thing of the past that the imperial power does not go to the countryside.

But in Henan, Guanzhong, everything old still occupies an absolute advantage. It was not very difficult to implement the laws of the Northland in its entirety. It can't be like the things that Ding Jian did in the river at the beginning, step by step to force those family clans to have no way out in the end, and they had to take risks, and then Ding Jian raised a butcher's knife and killed him like a river of blood!

Hezhong, after all, cannot be compared with Chang'an and Luoyang.

Thinking of this, Pei Ju's braincase couldn't help but swell faintly.

Speaking of which, the current governor, except for not holding military power, is really no different from the past festival envoys!

But with great power comes great obligations. In the past, the envoy of Jiedu was the emperor of a tu, but the current governor has an extremely efficient court above, and a wise and powerful Li Xiang cannot be deceived.

This official is difficult to do.