After leaving the palace, Liu Beiluoyang's trip can basically be said to be a successful end, and it can even be said that it has overfulfilled the established tasks, not only solving the danger of Wusun's envoy, but also obtaining the approval of Emperor Ling of Han to expand the army to 50,000, and becoming the future Yellow Emperor's imperial uncle to consolidate the identity of the imperial family, and also get more than a dozen famous ministers, so Liu Bei is also very happy.

A few days later, Liu Bei visited Lu Zhi and Cai Yong again, which was a farewell, but to Liu Bei's surprise, only half a month to visit Lord Yuezhang, Cai Yong accepted two disciples, namely Ruan Yu and Lu Cui, for these two, although Liu Bei is not very familiar, but also knows the Eastern Han Dynasty celebrities, so he sent a set of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, which is a meeting gift, but also a foreshadowing for the future.

After that, Liu Bei led another 500 tigers and leopards to ride, set off again, and went to the Western Regions, and the road was peaceful 20 days later, Liu Bei and his party arrived in the southern city of the Western Regions.

About three months did not see, although it was already the middle of October, but the construction of the entire Gumo City is still in full swing, and it is completely different from what Liu Bei saw three months ago, at this time the city wall of Gumo City has been established for most of it, and all the city walls are built by the nearby quarried mountain stones, the bottom of the city wall is six zhang wide, at this time it has been built two zhang high, and the southeast and northwest sides of each open two gates, and the previous Gumo king ruled the south city close to the north wall, and built two city gates on both sides of the south city.

Liu Bei was quite satisfied with this, and returned directly to Nancheng.

On the way back, when passing through Yumen Pass, Liu Bei instructed Hua Xiong and Wen Ping, and in the next few months, some scribes would cross Yumen Pass and go to Nancheng, so that Hua Xiong should pay attention, and it was best to send soldiers along the way to escort them to Yanqi County, and then Yanqi County would send soldiers to guard, and Hua Xiong Wen Ping would also do so one by one.

Moreover, Hua Xiong has also reported to the imperial court and recommended Wen Ping as a deputy lieutenant, his idea is to follow Liu Bei to the battlefield to make contributions, Liu Bei nodded, and told Hua Xiong that after someone notified him in the coming year, he would rush again.

At present, the entire Nancheng is still relatively crowded, as the future capital of the protectorate, the monarchs of the Western Regions and their royal families who are subject to Liu Bei are now supported by Nancheng, and all the people of Nancheng are moved out of Nancheng, although so, Nancheng is still a little crowded.

Returning to the previous Gumo King's Palace, Liu Bei just saw Cai Yan, and then reported that Yan Yan of Yizhou had already arrived, and Yan Yan was followed by two thousand women's troops led by Zhao Yu.

"Subordinate Yan Yan (Zhao Yu), meet the lord."

"Quick, quick, please get up."

"Lord, Yan Yan has been in the Western Regions for more than two months, but because the lord went to Luoyang, he has nothing to do for two months." Yan Yan said resentfully.

Looking at Yan Yan's expression, Liu Bei smiled slightly, "Heber, I have already ordered you to be the commander of the Shence Army, why don't you go to serve in the Shence Army?" ”

"It's not that the lord is not there, and I haven't got the warrant from the lord, so I can't go to the post."

After that, Liu Bei personally signed a warrant to Yan Yan, and then Yan Yan left in a hurry.

"Zhao Yu, why did you come to the Western Regions, didn't you let you lead the women's army? Why did you still follow the Western Regions? Liu Bei asked puzzled.

"Lord, the women's army is the army that guards the lord and the lord's mother, where the lord and the lord's mother are, the women's army is there." Zhao Yu said firmly.

Liu Bei was also quite helpless about this, but since he came, he could just guard the Duhufu, after all, the current Duhufu was all pro-guards, which was quite uncomfortable.

"Then why didn't you bring all the women's troops to the Western Regions?" Liu Bei asked again, the original system that allowed the women's army was 4,000, but now it is only 2,000, but he has to ask the reason.

"Lord, this is already all the women's army, at the beginning, there were 4,000 soldiers recruited by subordinates, but after nearly a year of training and selection, now only 2,000 qualified soldiers remain, and the rest are all eliminated." Zhao Yu said quite domineeringly.

Hearing this, Liu Bei was quite shocked, this Zhao Yuke is really avant-garde, and he actually knows how to eliminate soldiers. In the end, he said helplessly: "Since this is the case, I will order you to lead the women's army to replace the pro-guard army and garrison the southern city."

"Lord, there were 4,000 soldiers who printed Yu'er at the beginning, but now there are only 2,000, so Yu'er begs the lord to let Yu'er continue to select 2,000 female soldiers in the Western Regions."

In this regard, Liu Bei was thundered again, nodded helplessly again, and then Zhao Yu rushed out and didn't say hello to Liu Bei.

As soon as he felt that he could rest for a while, Zhang Zhao came again, and Liu Bei informed Zhang Zhao of what happened in Luoyang one by one, and basically most of the situation was also in Zhang Zhao's estimate.

It's just that when Liu Bei told Zhang Zhao that he bought ten celebrities from Emperor Ling of Han and Zhang Rang, Zhang Zhao's face was full of incredulity, and when he calmed down, he was extremely angry with Liu Bei, saying why not buy more, which made Liu Bei feel that Zhang Zhao was like a trafficker.

After the two discussed this trip to Luoyang, Zhang Zhao also informed Liu Bei of the development of the Western Regions in the past three months, the main reason for which was the lack of officials, but fortunately, Liu Bei bought many officials from Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, and it must have changed in two months.

"Zibu, I have something that Zibu needs to help me refer to." Seeing that everything was almost communicated, Liu Bei raised his own questions.

"My lord." To be honest, Zhang Zhao is still very sure of Liu Bei, because Liu Bei is a corporal who is polite and virtuous, ambitious enough, and capable, and does things imaginatively.

"Now, I have been in the Western Regions for two years, and the generals have been in command of the armies for two years, and when the armies were first established, I said that each lieutenant would serve for one year, but I could not find a suitable excuse to transfer the generals. I don't know what Zibu suggests? ”

In fact, as a person of the Heavenly Empire, Liu Bei understood that an army could not always be in the hands of a general, otherwise it would take a long time, and the soldiers would only know the commander, not the monarch, so at the beginning it was decided that the term of office of the commander of each army would be one year, but he had been busy with the war before, and the size of the army was not large, so it was not implemented.

But now it's different, basically there are more than 10,000 people in each army, and it will grow stronger in the future, if the rotation policy is not implemented, Liu Bei is afraid that the tail will not be too big.

What kind of person is Zhang Zhao? As soon as Liu Bei explained what he meant, he understood Liu Bei's thoughts, which was nothing more than that he was afraid that the generals would sit big and might cause a big disaster in the future, but he didn't say anything.

"Lord, this matter is easy, every year, the lord can have a big competition with the whole army, the contest is divided into two parts, one is the competition of soldiers, each army selects five hundred soldiers, fights in battle formations, and then sends A, B, C and D and other rankings;

The second is the commander's competition, which is divided into two parts, first, martial arts; Second, the art of war, and then combine the two to divide into A, B, C, D, and other rankings. After that, the first-class commander, the first-class soldiers, and so on, every year, the lord's worries are eliminated. ”

As soon as Liu Bei heard this, he smiled in his heart, this plan is very good, not only can there be competition between the soldiers of the various armies, but also the commanders of the various armies will also compete, and there is the possibility of competition and progress. And the commander can understand Liu Beijun's strength every year, and if he has different intentions, he needs to weigh it.

When Liu Bei heard this, he acted according to the plan and ordered all armies to select 500 soldiers from each army for the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, and then decided to be the commander of each army in the coming year.

On the basis of Zhang Zhao, Liu Bei also added a clause that all soldiers in the army can challenge their superiors, and the competition is also divided into two parts: one is martial arts; The second is the art of war, and if you win both games, you will replace the position of the boss, but all generals are not allowed to restrain the soldiers, and they are not allowed to kill in the competition.

Zhang Zhao heard the words and took the order and left.

After a period of time, Liu Bei was ready to inspect various counties in the Western Regions. When the armies left Nancheng, they all invited Liu Bei to watch the competition of the armies, however, Liu Bei was wrong because he went to Luoyang unexpectedly, and then looked at the results of the contest between the armies.

It's just that before leaving, Zhao Yu, the women's army, found Liu Bei.

"Lord, Yu'er heard that you are going to inspect the counties?"

"You're well-informed, why are you running out of female soldiers?" Liu Bei is still quite gentle with Zhao Yu, but mainly because Zhao Yu is only a girl of 128 years old, and she is also the sister of his junior brother Zhao Yun, so Liu Bei also treats her as his sister.

"Since the lord wants to inspect the Western Regions, he must definitely need personal guards, and Zhao Yu is willing to lead five hundred women's troops to protect the lord." Zhao Yu said.

The establishment of the women's army, Liu Bei is not a whim, but as a soul after two thousand, Liu Bei is really not interested in the creature of eunuchs, but without the creature of eunuchs, it will be quite chaotic for men and women to coexist in the palace in the future, so Liu Bei thought that this appointment of female soldiers, and some female officers will also be used in the later stage, so that the women's army came into being.

It's just that he doesn't really want the women's army to go to the battlefield at the moment, however, Zhao Yu feels that the soldiers should go to the battlefield. Looking at Zhao Yu's innocent and firm gaze, Liu Bei nodded helplessly in agreement, and at the same time appointed Zhao Yun to command five hundred tigers and leopards to follow.

A few days later, Liu Bei commanded 500 tigers and leopards and 500 women's troops to set off again, and all the affairs of Nancheng were handled by Zhang Zhao, and major affairs were reported to Cai Yan for details.