Honglu Siqing, one of the Nine Qings, was abolished, and the corresponding functions were transferred to the hands of the Ministry of Rites.

Weiwei Temple and Taifu were assigned to the Ministry of War, Taichang Temple and Guanglu Temple were assigned to the Ministry of Rites, Taifu Temple was assigned to the Yamen of the Three Divisions, Jiuqing was reduced to Sanqing, and the redundant officials in the court were empty.

The new Jiuqing has also become, the six Shangshu of officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, as well as the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Dali Temple, and the deputy privy envoy, collectively referred to as Jiuqing.

Among them, Dali Temple, nominally belongs to Jiuqing Yamen. In fact, Dali Temple is directly under the jurisdiction of Li Zhongyi, and its people, money, and materials have nothing to do with the cabinet yamen.

This is what Li Zhongyi has always wanted to implement, that the judicial power is independent of the executive power, so as to avoid political interference from the cabinet side.

At this point, Li Zhongyi streamlined the plan of the imperial court organs, completed the phased tasks, and came to an end for the time being.

Above the imperial court, Li Zhongyi was the general leader, the cabinet was in charge of government affairs, and the Privy Council, with the cooperation of the General Staff Department, the Logistics Department, the Military Justice Department, and the Suppression Department, jointly controlled the military power.

The three envoys, because they held the financial power of the imperial court, were listed separately and directly under the jurisdiction of Li Zhongyi.

In this way, the power of the cabinet has changed from a government hall that controls all major affairs to the highest executive body that handles affairs by edict.

According to the new rules, the major policies of the imperial court were decided by Li Zhongyi convened by the Imperial Council, and the members of the Imperial Council included the cabinet ministers, the three envoys, and the Jiuqing.

In the institutional reform of the imperial court, the most closely related to the scholars was that the Guozijian was changed to Taixue.

Today's Taixue is divided into four disciplines: Confucianism, literature, science and law, as the name suggests, that is, Confucianism, miscellaneous science, engineering and law.

In the midst of the chaos of Confucianism, Guozijian became the main gathering place for Confucian scholars, who attacked the government every day and slandered Li Zhongyi as a tyrant.

As a result, after Li Zhongyi launched a counterattack, Guozijian was dismissed as soon as possible and changed to Taixue.

The new Taixue Mountain Chief is served by Xia Mingde, the deputy Zhenfu of the Zhenfu Division, who is the mountain chief handpicked by Li Zhongyi.

This is mainly because Li Zhongyi learned a lesson, the so-called Guozijian students, they can't carry them on their shoulders, they can't carry them in their hands, and they are useless, but they are the most troublesome people.

The most hateful thing is that these guys actually besieged the officials' houses, killing and wounding more than a dozen officials.

Therefore, after Li Zhongyi freed his hand, he immediately made a move against Guozijian. Those students who were idle and had nothing to do were all sent to Lingzhou, so that they could drink the northwest wind and sober their minds.

The institutional reform of the central center of the imperial court inevitably affected the locality, and the Dali branch temples at all levels, which were originally in an embarrassing position, now completely grasped the local judicial power.

At the same time, in addition to the governors, all localities are also equipped with general judgments. Correspondingly, each county is also equipped with a county officer.

According to the imperial court's code system, the decree issued by the governor must be countersigned, otherwise it is not a legitimate decree.

After the unification of Jiangnan, Li Zhongyi and the cabinet were deeply trapped in Wenshan. After all, there are already more than 500 military states in the world, and no matter how big or small, they have to be reported to Beijing, and no one can afford to change them.

Therefore, the urgency of setting up a new layer of administrative organs above the state level has also been put on the agenda.

In the end, Li Zhongyi made the decision, and the first-level administrative regions above the state level were set up as 15 roads across the country, namely Jingdong, Jingxi, Hebei, Hedong, Shaanxi, Huainan, Jiangnan, Jinghunan, Jinghubei, Liangzhejiang, Fujian, Yizhou, Shaanxi, Guangnan East and Guangnan West.

Among them, the territory of Hedong Road is temporarily in the hands of the Liu Han court, and Yizhou Road is still the country of the Meng family.

At the level of the road, there are only three yamen, that is, the command of the envoy, the political envoy and the Dali Road Temple. These three yamen are in charge of the military, administrative, and judicial powers of their own roads.

Among them, Dali Temple, from top to bottom, is the Road Temple, the State Temple and the County Temple. Its yamen is fixed, but judicial personnel must be rotated every two years, and the lottery system is also adopted to handle cases, so as to guard against favoritism and irregularities.

After a series of reforms, a management system with Li Zhongyi as the core, centralization as the mainstay, and decentralization as the auxiliary, was formed.

Recently, Li Zhongyi is in a very good mood, and the things he wanted to do but couldn't do before have been promoted to varying degrees after clearing the influence of Confucianism.

"Zhang Sanzheng, let's go, let's go to the camp in the western suburbs." Li Zhongyi has always been concerned about the situation of winter rotation training, but he was dragged down by the reform of the imperial court system.

Now that it's okay, Li Zhongyi finally freed his hand and just took the time to go to the camp in the western suburbs.

The large camp in the western suburbs is stationed with officers and men who have come to Beijing from all over the country for rotational training, and a total of 40,000 people are currently stationed here for training.

Li Zhongyi drove lightly, and only led nearly 100 relatives, and rushed to the camp in the western suburbs.

"All of them, Lizheng!"

"Listen to me and turn right!"

"Walking in unison......"

On the training ground, which is as far as the eye can see, the officers and men of the Xiang Dynasty who have come to Beijing from all over the country are receiving regular training.

Li Zhongyi is still an old habit, and he went to the room first, he wanted to check the food situation of the army. Because, Li Zhongyi knows in his heart that in the army, the easiest place to get tired is the logistics baggage troops.

When Li Zhongyi walked to the side of the room, the men were preparing lunch intensively, and they smelled the aroma of meat from afar.

Li Zhongyi didn't care about 3721, he stepped directly into the room, took out a chopstick casually, and inserted it into the steamed rice.

Well, hum, the chopsticks didn't fall, but this was not enough, Li Zhongyi ordered Zhang Sanzheng to serve a bowl of rice again.

Zhang Sanzheng ate a few bites and reported: "The rice is very fragrant, not stale rice, and the sand has not been tasted." ”

Li Zhongyi nodded with satisfaction, his spot check was to ring the alarm bell for the officers in charge of army logistics.

The army is Li Zhongyi's lifeblood. Whoever dares to let the officers and soldiers eat moldy rice, or to deduct the amount of food, then he dares to let someone's head move.

Not only that, but the families of the rats will also be thrown into the eighteenth layer of hell together, and they will never be able to turn over.

After reading the rice, Li Zhongyi came to the cauldron where the meat was boiled again, picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks, and put it directly in his mouth.

Well, the meat was stewed badly, and it was fat and thin, Li Zhongyi nodded with satisfaction again.

Zhang Sanzheng on the side, seeing everyone in the room, his face turned white with fright, and he couldn't help but smile slightly.

Hehe, the emperor personally inspected the food of the army, if something went wrong, I am afraid that someone will lose his head!

Li Zhongyi walked around the room for a whole time, didn't find anything wrong, and simply walked outside, clasped his hands on his chest, and watched the army's queue training.

At this time, Liao Shanhe, who was in charge of reviewing the Xiang Army, had already learned the news, and he hurried to Li Zhongyi's side.

"Your Majesty ......" Liao Shanhe saluted and wanted to say hello, but was stopped by Li Zhongyi waving his hand.

Liao Shanhe immediately closed his mouth in amusement, as Li Zhongyi's old subordinate, he knew very well that the emperor liked to check the garrison camps at all levels.

Therefore, in the military camps near the capital, the generals are all very well-behaved, and the self-examination and self-correction actions for logistics have never stopped. Especially in terms of food, no one dares to secretly make money and water, let alone deduct the amount of food.

As the saying goes, the king of Chu has a thin waist, and he starves to death in the palace!

Li Zhongyi likes to conduct cold spot checks, which exerts unusually huge psychological pressure on the generals of the military, especially the officers of the logistics department.

In the military, if there is a problem in other departments, under normal circumstances, only the person will be guilty, and not the family will be involved.

However, if there is a corruption problem in the logistics department, the family will be held accountable.

In this way, even if the officers of the Logistics Department want to reach out and reap the benefits, they must carefully weigh and weigh it, can they afford to pay such a high price?

Li Zhongyi hugged his chest and watched the queue training on the playground for a while, and suddenly smiled: "The training of the Xiang Army still has a foundation. ”

Liao Shanhe seized the opportunity to speak, and immediately said with a smiling face: "Your Majesty, twice a year rotation training, those who can go up, those who can't go down, who dares to be careless?" ”

Li Zhongyi nodded and said: "The national war with the Khitans can be launched at any time, and the training of the army is absolutely not allowed to relax in the slightest." ”

Liao Shanhe hurriedly beat his chest and saluted, and said loudly: "Please rest assured that the emperor will never dare to relax the assessment standards." ”

Li Zhongyi smiled, raised his hand and gently beat Liao Shanhe's chest, and said: "There are two days off every ten days, one of which is to pull the army out, help the people repair their houses, carry water, chop wood, without the support of the people, there will be no today's iron army." ”

Liao Shanhe said with a smile: "Your Majesty, in fact, the soldiers and horses in the camp will spare three days every month to help the people work. ”

Li Zhongyi smiled, smiled very happily, the people love the army, the army protects the people, and complement each other.

In today's army, the officers are all from the martial arts hall, and the soldiers are selected from the Xiang army, and the Xiang army selects people from the township army. At the end of the day, this is an army of the common people themselves.

After coming down from the training ground, Li Zhongyi went to the armory again, and the armory was heavily guarded, and idlers and miscellaneous people were completely forbidden to approach.

After Li Zhongyi walked into the armory, he was greeted by more than a dozen 6-pounder guns, lined up, looking extraordinarily vigorous.

"Xiaoda, artillery is very important, how many artillery soldiers were selected from the battalion?" Li Zhongyi turned his head and asked Liao Shanhe.

Liao Shanhe arched his hand and said: "Li Yongtang is not at ease, he has to personally pick people, and now, about 1,000 artillery people have been picked away." ”

Li Zhongyi nodded, today's artillery output can reach more than 200 guns per year. These artillery, in addition to being equipped with the imperial forbidden army, also needed a larger number of 12-pounder guns on the side of the naval division.

To be honest, more than two hundred artillery pieces are produced every year, which seems like a lot. In fact, if the hundreds of military states in the world are fully equipped, such a small number is far from enough.

However, today's artillery battalion has been upgraded to an independent branch of the army and has become an artillery army, and its commander is still Li Yongtang.

With regard to the artillery corps, the most troublesome thing is not that the production of artillery is insufficient, but that the output of fire and ammunition is far from keeping up with the needs of the operation.

Since the advent of artillery, the logistics system of the entire army has been greatly reduced.

This is mainly because the breach of the city gate mainly relied on artillery, rather than relying on the so-called ladders, boarding vehicles and other equipment that piled up people's heads.

However, the fly in the ointment is that the official roads leading from the Central Plains to all directions are still dirt roads.

This kind of dirt road, as long as it rains, must be potholes, which creates great difficulty for the maneuver of artillery.

After the field investigation, Li Zhongyi left the armory with relative satisfaction, and went to the soldiers' camp accompanied by Liao Shanhe.

According to the requirements of the regulations, the camping sites in the western suburbs must meet the technical requirements, that is, no rain leakage, no wind leakage, and hot kang in winter.

Li Zhongyi casually walked into a barracks and saw that the linen quilts on the kang were neatly folded. Because of the hot kang, the room is warm and dry, and it is not cold at all.

In the barracks, Li Zhongyi pulled out a quilt at random, touched it carefully, and found that the filling inside was all feathers, and the weight was heavy enough, so he couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.

When you go to war, you fight with money, food, and baggage!

If the soldiers can't eat enough, don't dress warmly, and don't sleep well, how can they fight?

Liao Shanhe knew very well in his heart that as long as Li Zhongyi came to the camp for spot checks, his favorite place to see, in addition to the barracks, was the barracks of the soldiers.

The devil is always in the details.

After inspecting the barracks, Li Zhongyi, accompanied by Liao Shanhe, came to the headquarters headquarters.

In the headquarters, there were many middle and senior officers, Li Zhongyi smiled and waved his hand and said, "Sit down, everyone chats while knocking melon seeds." ”

"Whoa." The officers folded their legs, stood up and saluted, and then sat around Li Zhongyi.

"How is the following training plan arranged?" Li Zhongyi grabbed a handful of melon seeds casually and asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty, the trained soldiers and horses need to be armed for twenty miles every day. Because the road is not easy to walk, the carriage and horse are difficult to travel, in the final analysis, it still depends on everyone's footwork. Liao Shanhe licked the corners of his lips and continued to explain, "After the basic queue training is over, His Majesty thinks that he should start the battle formation training. After the training, the standard of assessment is the third battalion of the first army. ”

Li Zhongyi nodded, the first battalion of the First Army, even in the whole army, is the highest standard team. Its training standards are so strict that they are rare in the world.

At this time, a senator suddenly stood up and said loudly: "We can't work behind closed doors, we must train in the ability to kill the enemy in the midst of confrontation." In the end, the general thought that it was more appropriate to use the first battalion of the First Army as the standard. After all, only by knowing the gap can you be motivated. ”

Li Zhongyi looked at it calmly, and dared to love Zhang Dake's kid, this guy has a very bright brain, and he often knows how to come up with a genius.

It's just that Zhang Dake's temperament is more jumpy and not very calm. In order to hone him, Yang Wushuang, who knew the secretary of the General Staff, deliberately sent him to the camp in the western suburbs to exercise.

As the saying goes, the edge of the sword is sharpened, and good steel is used on the blade.

"It's a good thing to have a good heart. However, we must not be ambitious, we must be down-to-earth, one step at a time. Li Zhongyi waved his hand to signal Zhang Dake to sit down, and said earnestly, "High standards and strict requirements must be realistic." After all, the trained officers and soldiers are just preparing for the forbidden army. ”

Now, because the money and food obtained from the raid have piled up, the planned war of reunification will definitely start in the spring of the following year.

The expansion of the imperial court's forbidden army to 300,000 is only the first step. After all, the newly added 100,000 recruits, unlike the 200,000 veterans, need to be further tempered in the war.