Lizhou, belonging to Shannan West Road Jiedu Envoy, the geographical location is very important, north of Hanzhong, south of Jianzhou, located in the north of Jianmen Pass, holding the Golden Bull Road.

In addition to the dangerous geographical location, the only famous place here may be Wu Zetian's birthplace. As the only female emperor in history, although Wu Zetian was famous in the Tang Dynasty, he was regarded as a sinner by the Tang Dynasty royal family and was not recognized by the imperial family. There is no way, during the Wu Zetian period, there were countless members of the Tang Dynasty royal family who died at his hands.

Lizhou, under the jurisdiction of six counties, the state is in Miangu County. However, the population is not large, nearly 40,000 households, with a total population of about 170,000. However, in the entire Shannan West Road, the population of Lizhou is second only to Xingyuan Province (70,000 households, about 250,000 people), and the geographical location is important, so the status of Shannan West Road is not low.

Although Shannan West Province has jurisdiction over 1 prefecture and 14 prefectures, the population is actually not large, far less dense than that of Xichuan.

Originally, the person who served as the Lizhou Thorn Shi was also promoted by Niu Miao, but after the appointment letter of the imperial court and the arrival of the Tiance Army, the former Lizhou Thorn Shi accepted the appointment strangely, and then happily went to the post. Because it is very simple, the history of Lizhou and the history of Shuzhou have been reversed, although the land of Lizhou is dangerous, but the degree of wealth is naturally not as good as Shuzhou, how to choose, it is not difficult.

When Li Ye came to Lizhou, Sun Chen had already taken office and began to get acquainted with Lizhou.

However, the complexity of Lizhou and Shannan West Road is far more exaggerated than Li Ye thought, or the place at this time is like this. If you really want to compare, Shannan West Road is slightly better, after all, the control of the imperial court is still relatively large, unlike other feudal towns, and even a county is a small feudal town.

The situation in Lizhou is slightly better, but it is not so easy for Li Ye to control it in a short period of time.

"Your Royal Highness, Zhao Dianjun sent someone to deliver a message, saying that the princess and her party were pursued by the Xichuan army after leaving, but fortunately, His Royal Highness did not know the prophet, and the princess and others did not encounter danger." Before Li Ye entered the council chamber, Link came to his side and whispered.

Li Ye nodded, "As long as the princess and the others are fine." ”

After speaking, Li Ye entered the conference hall in front of him, which was already full of people at this time, and after seeing Li Ye, they got up and saluted.

"See Your Highness!"

Li Ye sat down in the first seat, looked at the people in front of him, waved his right hand, and said with a smile, "Everyone, please sit down!" ”

The civil officials were headed by Pei Rong, Sun Ye, Sun Chen, Zheng Ningji, Xu Shiren, and Li Yingxu, and the military generals were headed by Liu Qi, Li Hong, Liu Kui, Ouyang Jing, Peng He and others. Although Pei Rong and Xu Shiren served in the army, they were essentially civil ministers, of course, if they did, they were still on the side of the military generals; As for Li Yingxu himself, he is an official of the palace, although he is a record and a military officer, but he sits on the side of a civilian official.

If it is not accurate to divide it into civil and military affairs, then it is even more accurate to divide it into two systems: the palace and the Tiance army. As for Sun Chen, he didn't belong to either of the two systems, but he also sat under Sun Ye.

After everyone sat down, Li Ye gave an order to Zheng Ningji, who was sitting below, "Zheng Sima, you come to introduce to you the situation in Lizhou and the entire Shannan West Road, including the envoys of the Righteous Army." ”

"Yes, Your Highness." Zheng Ningji stood up and nodded, and then began to talk eloquently, "Your Highness, colleagues, what Zheng said next is what I heard during my arrival in Lizhou, and it is not known whether it is accurate or not, but it can also give us an idea of the general situation in the entire Shannan West Road."

At present, there are four main forces in Shannan West Road. One is our Shouwang Mansion and Tiance Army, but to some extent, we who have just arrived are the weakest party;

According to the news obtained before, it has more than 15,000 troops in Xing and Fengerzhou, but two days ago, the news that it was defeated by the rebels came, and the loss was not small;

The third is the loyal rebel army that occupies Xingyuanfu, Yangzhou, and Jinzhou. Formerly known as the Zhongwu Army, Zhongwu Badu, in the quelling of the Huangchao Rebellion, made great contributions, and during the escort to Chengdu Mansion, attacked Shannan West Road, occupied Xingyuan Mansion, and expelled the former Jiedu envoy Niu Xuan. This is the strongest side in Shannan West Road, and it is estimated that there are 40,000 soldiers and horses.

The last party is the ten states of Lizhou, Bizhou, and Tongzhou, which have not been affected by the rebellion. It is said that during the attack on Xingyuan Mansion by the Zhongwu Army, Niu Miao ordered these ten states to send reinforcements, but there was no response. These ten states, with as few as one or two thousand troops, and as many as three or four thousand, do not have much strength alone, but if they can be gathered, it is also a force that cannot be ignored.

。。。 ”

Speaking of this, Li Ye motioned for the other party to sit down, and then he said, "Everyone, you are all old people who have followed this king for some years.

On the bad side, Zheng Sima also told you just now that the place currently controlled by this king is Lizhou under his feet, but it cannot be said to be 100% mastered.

Today, the feudal towns are divided, the imperial court is weak, and rebellions are frequent. As the prince of the dynasty, I can't bear to see this situation continue, so I hope that you will support this king to change all this. ”

"The lower officials must take the orders of His Royal Highness!"

Li Hong stood up, walked out of his seat, and saluted Li Ye. Although everyone was a little unaccustomed to Li Hong being so good at sycophancy, they all learned and behaved, especially Pei Rong, who didn't expect that his first place would be robbed.

Everyone's reaction made Li Ye very satisfied, nodded and said, "You are loyal to this king, this king knows it, everyone can sit down." ”

Looking at the people seated, Li Ye continued, "This king knows that there are too many things that need to be done, and if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, so the most important thing at the moment is to put down the rebellion. As the envoy of Shannan Xidao and Xingyuan Mu, it is impossible for this king to work in the land of Lizhou, which is quite unjustifiable.

Therefore, quelling the rebellion of the loyal army is the first priority. ”

Pei Rong, who was on the side, thought for a while and got up and said, "Your Highness, there are 40,000 rebels, and the Tiance army is less than 10,000, even if you add the 5,000 troops sent by the Ganyi Army and the Dongchuan Jiedu Envoy, there are only more than 20,000 people. Moreover, the rebels evolved from the Loyal Army, which has always been brave, and it will not be easy to quell the rebellion. ”

Li Ye nodded, "This king also knows this, and it needs to be hard to strike iron, so this king decided to expand the Tiance army." ”

"Expand the Tiance Army?"

Although they all had some guesses, when they really heard this result, the generals present couldn't help but talk about it. With the expansion of the Tiance Army, their old subordinates who have followed Li Ye for a long time will undoubtedly be promoted, which is a rare good news for them.

"I wonder how His Highness will expand the Tiance Army?" Zheng Ningji asked tentatively.

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Li Ye knew what Zheng Ningji was worried about, it was nothing more than the issue of food and salary after the expansion. Before, the Tiance Army belonged to the forbidden army, so the food and salary were provided by the imperial court, but since Li Ye was appointed as the envoy of Shannan West Daojiedu, the Tiance army was ordered to accompany him, although it was called the forbidden army, but the imperial court had cut off the food and salary supply to the Tiance army.

This was naturally done by Tian Lingzi, and Tian Lingzi naturally would not be stupid enough to take money to support the enemy. The imperial court did not allocate food and salary, so it could only be supplied by Shannan Xidao Jiedu, but at this time, Li Yezhi controlled the land of Lizhou, and relying only on the money and grain of Lizhou, it was impossible to maintain a Tiance army of nearly 10,000 people.

Although Zheng Ningji knew that King Shou had money, it was not a long-term solution to rely on King Shou's Mansion to support the army for a long time. Therefore, Zheng Ningji was a little worried that Li Ye was too anxious and expanded the army.

"Taking advantage of this expansion, this king also intends to make simple adjustments to the establishment of the Tiance Army." The generals in front of the meeting all pricked up their ears and listened carefully, Li Ye showed a smile on his face, and said to himself, "All of them have additional compartments, and the five capitals are one compartment, and there is one cavalry under their jurisdiction." There is one commander and two deputy commanders, the commander is equal to the fifth grade, and the deputy commander is equal to the sixth grade.

At present, there are left and right hatchbacks, as well as the rear compartment. Among them, the left and right compartments are responsible for operations, and the rear compartment is mainly logistics, with four capitals: baggage, engineering, military doctors, and auxiliaries.

Li Hong is temporarily the commander of the left compartment, Liu Qi is the commander of the right compartment, and Li Mi is the commander of the rear compartment. ”

Hearing Li Ye's order, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then looked at this Cang Cao, who was not well-known in the Tiance Army, with envy. Cang Cao's military rank is not high, in the Tiance army is the level of the seventh grade, and now the other party has risen from the seventh rank to the rear of the command from the fifth grade, which can be said to have directly crossed the sixth grade and the sixth grade.

Of course, although the commander of the rear compartment is also an official position from the fifth grade, his strength is the weakest, so although everyone is envious, he is only envious.

Although this is a military position, the military generals definitely don't want to take it, and it is estimated that they may not be able to go to the battlefield for a few years. Therefore, the only people who are envious are the civil officials who are present, and of course those who are not of high rank.

The reason why Li Hong and Liu Qi are concurrently serving on the left and right, rather than sending other people to serve is because Li Ye doesn't want the two to be set aside. The left and right commanders commanded the combat units of the Tiance Army for a short period of time, and the power was greater, and letting others serve would undoubtedly reduce Li Hong and Liu Qi's control over the army. As the two of them are his right-hand men, he naturally will not allow this to happen.

In addition to the commander was determined, the four deputy commanders were soon announced, namely Sun Meng, Ouyang Jing, Liu Kui and Shi Ling, of which Ouyang Jing and Peng He did not concurrently serve as the head of the capital (also called the general), Shi Ling was born as a lieutenant in the prince's mansion.

This also means that Li Ye is already focusing on cultivating Ouyang Jing and Peng He, who are like the actual deputies of Li Hong and Liu Qi.

(End of chapter)