Chapter 106: A Clear Blue and Cloudless Sky
Li Xuan has already had a lot of successful experiences in wooing people, and the most brilliant result is that he dug Wang Danxu over.
Wang Danxu was Fang Dongquan's confidant before, and he was sent by Fang Dongquan to spy on Li Xuan at the beginning, but after Li Xuan threw out a commander of the Guards, he abandoned Fang Dongquan without hesitation.
Of course, this can't be said that he turned to Li Xuan, Wang Danxu chose independence.
Becoming the commander of the Guards and Fang Dongquan on an equal footing is much better than being Fang Dongquan's henchmen, and it is impossible to say that he completely throws himself into Li Xuan, but as long as it does not endanger his own vital interests, then he is still on Li Xuan's side most of the time.
In other words, as long as Li Xuan did not oust him from the position of commander of the Guards, then he would remain effectively loyal to Li Xuan.
Li Xuan put forward the second set of plans, and also determined the candidate for deputy coach with a final word, which directly led the topic to the discussion of the candidates for each team, and forcibly stifled the opposition in the hearts of Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren.
However, they thought that this deputy commander was also very good, at least they didn't have to worry about being united by several other people, as long as the teams below were still their henchmen, then the power would not be lost.
Now they don't know that when Li Xuan proposed this plan, he was already secretly calculating how to win over those team leaders and team vice-presidents, or that sentence, there is no one who can't be won over with an official hat, if there is, then give a bigger official hat!
After considering the gains and losses, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren finally gave up their opposition, but focused on another thing, that is, the team selection of each team.
After the reform of the military system of the Tang Dynasty, there were only two armies, one was the integrated standing army and the other was the Guards, of which the Guards were the pro-army of the Son of Heaven and were not included in the reform.
The standing army consists of nine teams, which are divided into three teams of spearmen, two teams of archers, two teams of light-armored sword and shield soldiers, one team of heavy-armored sword and shield soldiers, and one team of baggage soldiers.
These nine teams, even the right candidates for the baggage team, are crucial.
So, in the next full hour, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren had a fierce competition around the candidates of these nine teams, and everyone wanted their henchmen to be the team leaders.
In this way, they will be able to control the army below through their henchmen.
Watching them quarrel fiercely, Li Xuan, who was sitting on the dragon chair, finally smiled, this is a good courtier!
If these courtiers get along well and hook their shoulders, then Li Xuan has to worry about whether he will hear a voice "Qingjun side!" when he sleeps at night! "That's it.
The courtiers at this bottom are vying for power and profit, and even attacking and annihilating, so he, the puppet emperor, is so good to fish in troubled waters.
The more they fight, the better Li Xuan will be able to divide and attack, so as to slowly control the real power.
In the council hall, Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren, and Chen Butcher quarreled for an hour, and finally decided to be the leader of the ninth team.
In these nine teams, Fang Dong went all out to suppress the crowd and won three team positions for his henchmen.
Huang Xueren followed closely and also got two team positives.
Chen Butcher, Bai Yunqi, and Cai Erhu each took a team, and the remaining team was the team of the baggage team, they quarreled with each other, and in the end, they were cheaper outsiders, and they were taken away by Qian Mengjiu, the person who was pushed out by the military department.
The nine team deputy positions are almost divided by them, but the authority of the team deputy is far less than that of the team leader, so it is basically negligible.
The distribution of the positions of the team leader and the deputy team is actually about the same as their previous strength, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren were the strongest before, so they got the biggest benefits, and the strength of others is average, so they can only eat some leftovers.
Li Xuan had expected this result and accepted it gladly.
He didn't expect to be able to put many of his own people in it, Bai Yunqi could fight for him and the Empress Dowager Bai, it was not easy for the two team deputy positions, no matter how much, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren would have to turn their faces.
In this way, Fang Dongquan took three of the nine teams of the standing army, namely two teams of spearmen and one team of archers; Huang Xueren is a team of spearmen and a team of light armor sword and shield soldiers; Butcher Chen is a team of heavy-armored sword and shield soldiers, and Bai Yunqi is a team of light-armored sword and shield soldiers; Cai Erhu is a team of archers; Qian Mengjiu is the first team of the baggage team.
Everyone has a share, and no one is left behind.
This also means that Li Xuan's long-planned military reform has been unanimously agreed by the top and bottom, and is about to enter the implementation stage.
However, although the reform of the military system has been passed, and everyone has distributed power and interests, it is more difficult to successfully integrate and complete the reorganization and improve combat effectiveness.
It is not ordinarily difficult to integrate these more than 300 bandits who are accustomed to freedom and looseness into one army.
For these free and loose young bandits, Li Xuan can't force them to abide by military discipline, because they are not those relatively simple half-sized people, these bandits are all uncles.
You let them train hard, line up every day, they can spray you in the face, uncle, I'm so awesome, you even let me train every day like a fool? Do you have a problem with your brain or do I have a problem with my brain?
Moreover, they are not soldiers, but bandits, Li Xuan didn't give them half a dime of military salary, whether they were training or fighting, they brought their own dry food, and even weapons were brought by themselves.
They call you boss only when they give you face, wave the flag and shout one or two when they fight, and when they encounter a tailwind battle, they come forward and wave two knives, but if the situation is not good, even if they give you face, it will definitely turn around and run.
You may wonder what it would be like when they gave you face, so what would it be like when they didn't give you face?
If these bandits don't give you face, they will dare to run when the enemy doesn't even see them, so that the enemy can't even find a figure, and in the end they can only cry out in vain!
If you want to train these free and casual bandits to become qualified soldiers, not to mention impossible, but the difficulty is definitely greater than ascending to the sky, it is estimated that training them, Li Xuan has already been captured by the Ming army, and Ling Chi has enjoyed it many times.
Li Xuan didn't have much hope for these bandits, and he didn't even expect them to be like the half-grown children in the Guard, he only hoped that they would be able to do the most basic formation and obey orders when the situation was good.
After all, there are more than 300 people here, and even if they only have a little bit of an army, they will play a much stronger role than the original chaotic appearance.
After all, no matter how garbage an army is, it is also an army, at least it can be pulled out and scary!
For the training of the troops, Li Xuan still focused on the Guards as before, and as for the standing army, let Fang Dongquan do it himself.
Just when Li Xuan was fighting in Huangzhu Mountain, in a valley deep in the mountains, several men wearing black clothes and swords were climbing the mountain stream path with difficulty.
These men in black were the men in black in Fengjiazhuang at the beginning, but now they are completely different from when they were in Fengjiazhuang, full of energy and confidence, although they are still wearing black clothes, but their clothes are dirty, and they are a lot of tattered, and the knives in their hands have become crutches.
A middle-aged man walking in front suddenly sat down at this time, panting and said, "We have to find when to go!" ”
After that, he raised his head and looked at the blue sky with a dull expression, without the slightest white clouds!