Li Xuan and Liu Bagou talked about things all afternoon, and waited until the evening to end the meeting.

On this day, they talked about a lot of things, some of them had already decided on the plan, and some of them were because everyone had different opinions, and Li Xuan couldn't make up his mind for a while and put it off temporarily.

For example, there is a consensus on how to maintain influence and exercise effective control over the surrounding villages.

Both the generals like Fang Dongquan and the civil servants like Liu Bagou believed that if there was to be effective rule over these villages, it was essential to have troops stationed in the local area and grassroots management institutions.

According to Li Xuan's idea, it is enough to establish a village-level administrative body following the example of later generations.

The specific organization includes a village chief, a thief arrester, and a tax collector, each responsible for civil affairs, public security affairs, and tax collection affairs, and there will be two to ten arresters under the arrest officer.

However, considering the small size of many villages, it is not cost-effective to set up a separate village-level administrative body, and there is a suspicion of wasting human resources.

This was the initial decision to establish a separate administrative point for densely populated and populous villages, and for small and medium-sized villages, several villages to be combined into a single administrative point.

For example, in a large village like Liushazhuang, not only will there be an administrative point, but the size of the camp will be as large as 10 people.

With Xikou Village as the center, a total of 12 administrative points will be set up in the surrounding villages under the actual military control of the Tang New Army, and it is initially estimated that these 20 administrative points will cover about 20,000 people, with an average population of about 1,000 people per administrative point.

For example, the robber arresters representing the military presence were all dispatched from the Datang New Army, and 20 non-commissioned officers who were willing to retire were selected, while some of the ordinary arresters were recruited locally, and the other part was also selected to select some wounded retired soldiers.

The tax officers are directly dispatched by the tax department of the cabinet of the Tang Dynasty, and these tax officers are not under the jurisdiction of other departments and are directly under the tax department, but the tax officer will also have an assistant, and this assistant is directly recruited from the local area.

In addition, there is the civil affairs officer, who will also be sent down from the cabinet, and his attaché will also be recruited directly from the local area.

However, in order to alleviate the opposition and hostility of the local people, especially the big and wealthy households, to the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan did not revoke the positions of village chief and lieutenant chief that he had promised before, and even strengthened the nominal power of the village head.

Nominally, the village chief is in charge of the affairs of the whole village, and the civil affairs officer, the thief arrester, and the tax collector are all under the village chief.

However, this is only in name, in fact, whether it is a civil affairs officer, a thief arrester, or a tax officer, they are directly responsible to the cabinet, and they do not listen to the orders of the village chief.

The main purpose of the establishment of village-level administrative points is to completely bring these villages into the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and to levy troops and taxes from them, so as to maintain the Tang Dynasty's foreign conquests.

After dealing with a lot of messy things, Li Xuan returned to the so-called temporary palace, that is, the land temple.

In the evening, Li Xuan had a rare dinner with his family, this royal family rarely ate together in the past, basically they all ate their own food, and today is a special case.

During the banquet, everyone didn't talk much, even the two women, Dong Yunyun and Ye, wanted to talk to Li Xuan, but with Empress Dowager Bai here, they couldn't show their longing too obviously.

This dinner, everyone ate a little absent-mindedly, especially Li Xuan, Dong Yunyun didn't feel it when they first arrived during the day, but the more they looked at them at night, the more unbearable it became.

He has been leading the army for several months, and he has been a monk for several months, which is unbearable for a normal man, and a man with a wife and concubine.

Now that I see Dong Yunyun and Ye under the lamp, I naturally can't help it.

Li Xuan, Dong Yunyun, and Ye are absent-minded because of their children's private feelings, but the Empress Dowager Bai didn't eat well, but it was because of business.

Empress Dowager Bai was not idle today, she walked around, and even went to the barracks to see it, and then asked about the Datang New Army at dinner, especially the battalion officers of several battalions and the appointment of officers of each team.

Although Empress Dowager Bai just asked, Li Xuan could feel that Empress Dowager Bai seemed to have some other thoughts about the many appointments in the Tang New Army, especially when Empress Dowager Bai heard that Bai Yunqi only served as a battalion officer of a baggage battalion, and did not serve as a battalion officer of one of the three infantry battalions, her face obviously changed slightly.

However, Empress Dowager Bai didn't continue to talk more, and Li Xuan naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to say it himself.

Even if this woman is his mother, Li Xuan knows very well that military power still has to be controlled personally, and others should not get involved too much, even if this person is his mother.

He knew that his mother, Empress Dowager Bai, had always wanted to support Bai Yunqi, but this was just Empress Dowager Bai's own thoughts, not that Li Xuan herself thought the same way.

According to Li Xuan's own plan, after a few months, those protégés of the Son of Heaven who served as captains of each team, that is, those who were born in the Guards and had been personally taught by him, actually controlled each team, and after they had initial prestige, he would continue to find a way to let these people really serve as the officers of the first battalion.

Because only these students, the most loyal to him, served as the main officers of the army, and at that time he was considered to be in real control of the army.

At that time, whether Fang Dongquan or Wang Danxu wanted to oppose it, or even the Empress Dowager Bai had ideas, Li Xuan planned to maintain a tough attitude.

Military power cannot be left behind, this is Li Xuan's goal, and it is also his bottom line.

With the army, he has a sense of security, otherwise he is always worried that Fang Dongquan and Liu Bagou will have a rebellion, abolish himself and set up a new monarch to continue to play the game of rebellion.

Tonight's dinner, the only one who eats more happily is Princess Huichen, I haven't seen her for a few months, the eldest princess of the Tang Dynasty, and the only princess, still maintains her old demeanor, she can bite off half of the chicken leg in one bite, and half of the roast chicken is under her mouth, and she can't last five minutes!

With such a fierce combat effectiveness, even the most elite musketeers in the Datang New Army have to bow down!

After the whole family finished dinner, the Empress Dowager Bai took Princess Huichen, who was still hungry, back to the room first, and after the Empress Dowager Bai left, Dong Yunyun and the Ye family both set their eyes on Li Xuan.

The eyes of these two women are just like Princess Huichen seeing roast chicken!