Yin Lihua returned to the West Palace, and Zhang Kun followed closely like a fart, for fear of sweeping to the end of the typhoon.

Seeing Yin Lihua walk away, Pi Tong bowed to Liu Xiu and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen will return to the house and prepare prescriptions for Yin nobles." ”

Liu Xiu nodded and said, "It's hard work." ”

"Your Majesty's words are serious, this is the responsibility of Weichen!"

Pi Tong bowed to Liu Xiu and exited the hall.

Liu Xiu paced back and forth in the main hall, pondered for a while, waved his hand and called a little eunuch over, asking him to announce Deng Yu and Jia Fu into the palace.

After the little eunuch left, Liu Xiu looked at Long Yuan and Xu Ying again and asked, "What do you two think about this matter?" ”

Long Yuan and Xuying glanced at each other and shook their heads together.

Liu Xiu raised her eyebrows and asked, "No opinion?" ”

Xu Ying cleared his throat and said, "Your Majesty, the stakes are very high, and my subordinates don't dare to speculate!" ”

Liu Xiu looked at the two of them, retracted his gaze, and fell into deep thought again.

In fact, whether Yin Lihua is pregnant or not is only directly related to two people, one is the queen Guo Shengtong, and the other is the beauty Xu Xiling.

If it is inferred by who benefits and who is the real murderer, both of them are suspicious.

It's just that even Liu Xiu can't believe that Guo Shengtong can be so thoughtful and act so well; Xu Xiling has such an ability, but the key is that she only gave birth to one daughter, and whether Yin Lihua is pregnant or not does not have much impact on her.

Both of them are suspicious, but in Liu Xiu's opinion, the suspicion of both of them is unlikely, at least in Liu Xiu's heart, it is impossible to determine who is the real culprit behind the scenes, which is what makes Liu Xiu feel the most embarrassed and confused.

Deng Yu and Jia Fu were ordered to enter the palace, and Liu Xiu and the two of them began a long meeting in the Qingliang Palace.

This meeting lasted from the afternoon to the end of the night, and even dinner, the three of them ate in the Qingliang Palace.

The next morning, Liu Xiu announced his decision in the court.

First of all, the palace forbidden army was restructured.

The feather forest remains unchanged, and the tiger ben and the middle yellow gate are added.

The main duty of the tiger and the feather forest is to guard the door of the palace and the outside of the hall, and the main responsibility of the middle yellow gate is to guard the inside of the hall.

In other words, the guards who were close to protect the Son of Heaven all became the Middle Yellow Gate.

The highest official of the Zhonghuangmen is the redundant servant of the Zhonghuangmen, who is nominally subordinate to the Shaofu, but in fact is directly responsible to the Son of Heaven.

In modern terms, the position of the redundant servant of the Zhonghuangmen is equivalent to the chief of the guard next to the supreme leader, which is naturally very important.

But it is not a great official, and it is only 600 stones.

Liu Xiu's appointment of the Zhonghuang Gate servant shot Long Yuan.

The Tiger Ben Army is not Liu Xiu's initiative, as early as the Qin State, there was already a Tiger Ben Army, and the Western Han Dynasty extended the use of the Tiger Ben, and when it came to Liu Xiu, it was just continued to be used, but it was true that Liu Xiu made the Tiger Ben more systematic and further expanded.

The highest official of the tiger is the tiger ben Zhonglang general, Yu Lu is more than 2,000 stones, below there are the left servant of the tiger Ben, the right servant of the tiger Ben, the left majesty of the tiger Ben, the right majesty of the tiger Ben, the responsibilities are different, the rank is the same, the Lu is more than 600 stones, and then below, there are the tiger Ben servants, the tiger Ben Lang Zhong, the section from the tiger Ben, Yu Lu is more than 400 stones, than 300 stones, than 200 stones.

It can also be seen from the official name of the tiger ben that the tiger army should belong to the Lang official system, that is, it should be under the jurisdiction of Guangluxun.

However, Tiger Ben Zhonglang will be directly responsible to the Son of Heaven and has already skipped Guangluxun.

The same is true for the Yulin Army, the highest official is the Yulin Zhonglang General, with a ratio of 2,000 stones, and there are Yulin Left Supervisor, Yulin Right Supervisor, Yulin Zuocheng, Yulin Right Cheng, etc.

Originally, Yulin was also under the jurisdiction of Guangluxun, but now it is also directly responsible to the Son of Heaven.

Between Tiger Ben and Feather Forest, there is also a distinction between troops.

Tiger Ben main infantry and archers, Feather Forest main cavalry.

What Tiger Ben and Yulin have in common is that they can inherit their father's business.

In other words, if the father is a member of the tiger or feather forest, if he dies of illness, sudden death, or death, his son can inherit the father's business and continue to serve as the tiger or feather forest.

Even if you want to recruit tiger ben and feather forest from anywhere, there are strict regulations.

For example, the Yulin Army can only be recruited in the six counties of Longxi, Beidi, Ding'an, Shangjun, Hanyang, and Xihe, so that there can be no gangsters mixed in to the greatest extent.

In general, the army inside the palace can be collectively called the Southern Army.

On the opposite side of the Southern Army was the Northern Army.

The Northern Army was not the first of Liu Xiu's initiative, it has existed for a long time, but Liu Xiu merged the Eighth Captain of the Northern Army into the Fifth Captain of the Northern Army, referred to as the Fifth Captain of the Northern Army.

The five schools of the Northern Army are the Tun Cavalry Captain, the Yue Cavalry Captain, the Infantry Captain, the Changshui Captain, and the Shooting Sound Captain.

There is no subordinate relationship between the five captains, but a coexistence relationship, and they are all more than 2,000 stones, and they are on the same level as General Tiger Ben and General Yulin Zhonglang.

Among them, except for the Changshui captain, there are two Simas, and the rest of the captains are all under one Sima, and the price is 1,000 stones.

In the event of a war in the capital, the captain of the Fifth Military Academy can be stationed in the five directions outside the palace at the first time, and work with the southern army in the palace to defend against the enemy.

However, after Liu Xiu's restructuring, the captains of the five military academies were all under the orders of the lieutenant marquis of the Northern Army, and the lieutenant marquis of the Northern Army was directly appointed by the Son of Heaven and was directly responsible to the Son of Heaven.

Originally, Zhi Jinwu's duties were equivalent to the commander-in-chief of the Capital Military Region plus the chief of the capital police department, but after Liu Xiu's restructuring, Zhi Jinwu was only the chief of the capital police department, and the authority of the commander-in-chief of the capital military region was gone, and they were all withdrawn into Liu Xiu's hands.

Interestingly, the captains of the five military academies were all worth more than 2,000 stones, while their superiors, the lieutenant marquis of the Northern Army, were only 600 stones.

Using low-level officials to manage high-level officials is actually further strengthening the centralization of power, and the power of the Northern Army is firmly in the hands of the Son of Heaven alone.

After this change, it seems to be chaotic, with many arms coexisting, but in fact, it is orderly, and the ruling Jinwu, Guangluxun, Weiwei, etc., have all been greatly reduced, and the power is highly concentrated in the hands of the Son of Heaven alone.

Even the Shaofu, which had a close relationship with the Imperial Palace, was not spared, and the Shaofu was deprived of the right to manage the palace's finances, and this right was transferred to Sikong.

This is a major adjustment since Liu Xiu became emperor, which greatly strengthened the centralization of power, that is, after this adjustment, the largest reduction in power of the ruling Jinwu announced his withdrawal from the list of Jiuqing.

Jia Fu, who originally served as the ruling Jinwu, was promoted to general Zuo by Liu Xiu.

Deng Yu and Jia Fu are both Liu Xiu's confidants and favorite generals, and now one is a right general and the other is a left general, and they have really become Liu Xiu's veritable right-hand man.

Today's early dynasty has also been open for an extraordinarily long time, and there has also been a large-scale exchange of ministers in the DPRK and China.

Not only Jia Fu was transferred, but Guangluxun Fudian was also transferred.

Ever since his face was injured, Fu Di was no longer willing to go to court.

But Guangluxun is not too disagreeable if he does not go to the court, he has asked Liu Xiu for resignation many times, but Liu Xiu has not agreed, this time, Liu Xiu finally agreed, and appointed Fu Di as the general of Huben Zhonglang, and Zhang Zhan took over the post of Guangluxun.

The biggest difference between Zhang Zhan and Fu Di is that the latter is a martial artist, while Zhang Zhan is a literati scholar.

Zhang Zhan was recommended to Liu Xiu by Deng Yu.

As early as the period of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhan had already become a high-ranking official of 2,000 stones, and during the period of Wang Mang, he also served as a taishou and a lieutenant in the local area.

Deng Yu went west, after occupying Chang'an, he reactivated Zhang Zhan and appointed him as one of the three assistants Zuo Fengyi, this time Liu Xiu asked Deng Yu to recommend a candidate to succeed Guangluxun, and Deng Yu recommended Zhang Zhan.

Liu Xiu didn't know much about Zhang Zhan, so he asked Deng Yu to tell him about his deeds.

Deng Yu said something that happened during Zhang Zhan's tenure as Zuo Fengyi.

Zuo Feng Yi, the official, is actually Feng Yijun's Taishou.

Once Zhang Zhan returned to his hometown in Pingling, when he passed by the county government, the distance was so far away, Zhang Zhan got off the horse and led the horse on foot.

At that time, the master bookkeeper advised him that the adults did not need to dismount and walk, which was a light move.

After all, Zhang Zhan is the Taishou of a county, passing by the county government, he wants to get off the horse and walk, isn't this too light?

Zhang Zhan didn't think so, but taught the main book: "The Book of Rites has clouds, the doctor is in the public gate, and the style is a horse." ”

After hearing this, the main book was red-faced and red-eared.

This is just a trivial thing that happened to Zhang Zhan, many people say that Zhang Zhan is too capable of pretending and being too pretentious, and every time Zhang Zhan hears such words, he scoffs.

He used to say to people, "I am very pretentious, but some people do it for the sake of doing evil, and I do it for the sake of doing good, is it okay for me to do evil, but I can't do it for the sake of doing good?" ”

After Liu Xiu listened to Deng Yu's story, he laughed out loud, and his favorability towards Zhang Zhan also increased greatly, and then accepted Deng Yu's recommendation and let Zhang Zhan take over Fu Di and serve as Guangluxun.

He also has another consideration, now that the war is getting more and more stable, and the chaos in the world is gradually subsiding, Guangluxun is more suitable to be held by a civilian official, especially an elder like Zhang Zhan who attaches great importance to etiquette and religion.

After Liu Xiu's reform, it didn't take long for news to come from the battlefield on the southern front, Cen Peng led the Southern Expeditionary Army, defeated Tian Rong, Tian Rong's army of more than 100,000 was scattered, and most of the remnants of the defeated generals fled into Liqiu, Tian Rong only took more than 10,000 remnants and fled back to his old nest Yiling.

Tian Rong's defeat deprived Qin Feng of his only foreign aid, but it also allowed Qin Feng to take the opportunity to recruit tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under Tian Rong's command.

In this way, Qin Feng, who was trapped in Liqiu, had a certain ability to protect himself and continued to fight with the Han army.

The battle report returned to Luoyang, and Liu Xiu decided to go south again.

Now the southern expedition has reached the most critical moment, the Han army's southern expedition, the main crusade is Qin Feng and Tian Rong, now Qin Feng is trapped, Tian Rong is greatly injured, it is a good opportunity for the Han army to capture Yiling in one fell swoop.

It's just that Qin Feng is guarding Liqiu to the death, and the Han army is also firmly dragged here in Liqiu, if Tian Rong recovers and regroups, it will take a lot of time and energy for his side to capture Yiling.

Liu Xiu decided to go south because he wanted to persuade Qin Feng to surrender and end the battle in Liqiu as soon as possible, so that his southern expeditionary army could march to Yiling as soon as possible and not give Tian Rong a chance to breathe.

In addition, the current situation in Nanyang is relatively chaotic, which is also what worries Liu Xiu.

In the past, the people of Nanyang fled in large numbers in order to avoid the scourge of war, but now the war in Nanyang is over, and the imperial court has implemented a series of preferential policies in Nanyang, which not only allows the people who fled to return one after another, but also many foreign people have also migrated in.

With the influx of a large number of people, the houses and fields have suddenly become scarce resources, competing with each other and lawsuits.

Some families fled and now returned, only to find that their homes had been occupied, and all kinds of wanton situations emerged.