What Luo Cheng means is that the situation is different now, the previous wars were all short-term wars, conscription of soldiers and horses, the army drove over, fought a few battles, and then went back to their respective homes.

But now it's different, it takes a long time to control the frontier and digest those lands, not in a day or two, and even in ten or twenty years.

After all, the large military towns are only one or two thousand, and the small ones are only five or eight hundred, so how can they effectively defend and fight, and to mobilize the troops stationed in the military towns in the frontiers, and even the reserve forces in the frontiers, those town generals are not of sufficient rank.

Therefore, Luo Chengcai suggested that under the new situation, in the frontier areas, set up jiedu envoys, set up more towns, forts, and garrisons in the frontier, and send more troops, and at the same time send troops to reclaim tuntian and immigrate to the real border. Jiedu enables the territory of the frontier to be more active and flexible and effective in guarding the frontier.

"Your Majesty, the current frontier situation, after the annihilation of Tuyuhun and Goguryeo, the big wars between countries are gone, and they are replaced by small-scale and continuous rebellions. The original kind of deployment of a town with a few hundred or even one or two thousand people was completely unsuitable. ”

"We need to establish a large army town with a centralized command in the frontier. And such a large military town must be a standing type, and if it is still composed of temporary recruitment of government soldiers who were originally subordinate to the various defense governments, the response will be too slow. ”

"When an army is pulled up, it is necessary to recruit government soldiers from all over the country, to select generals from the generals of the Beijing Division, to mobilize, train, send troops, and to recruit and transport logistics of grain and grass, etc., all of which will take too much time, and when these are done, those rebellious enemies will have already run away, and those enemies who have come to plunder have also changed places."

Yu Shiji objected.

"The foundation of my Great Sui is the government soldier system, the government soldiers cultivate in their spare time, and they are soldiers in wartime, if they are stationed in the frontier all the year round, how can the government soldiers be willing?"

This is a problem.

"Your Majesty, I thought that if you recruit soldiers to fight on the border, you can fight while ploughing, and you can fight on the border. Since the government soldiers can enter Beijing to rotate, they can also go to the frontier to rotate. As long as it is not too frequent, such as a two-year rotation, and then a re-rotation every few years, during the border rotation, the imperial court can also give their family members money and food subsidies, and the government soldiers can also be sent out of the tuntian in addition to the army, and the rest of the soldiers can be rewarded, or given other rewards. ”

"Hmph, you're talking about light, but if you want to give money and food, do you know how much it will cost?"

Luo Cheng ignored Pei Yun and spoke directly to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, in the land of Liaodong, I went on three expeditions before and after the Great Sui, and it took millions of soldiers, millions of people, and countless money and grain to take it, so should I waste it casually? If there is no permanent border army, then the minister dares to say that not only may the five counties of the Korean Province never be recovered, but also the four counties of Liaodong may be re-invaded. We can't wait for the loss to come back and then lament it. ”

This sentence moved the emperor.

"Luo Cheng, do you have a corresponding plan?"

"Back to Your Majesty, I think that in the border areas, there must be a regiment that can be commanded in a unified manner, and this army may not be to command the entire road, but only need to command the border areas. For example, Liaodong and Korea are two provinces, which are newly recovered places, so when a heavy army is stationed, the 51,000 soldiers of Liaodong can be divided together, but it is just changing the current Yamen to the Yamen. ”

"And such as the land of central and southern, the land of Lingnan, the land of Hetao, and the land of Qinghai, these border areas can set up military envoys and station a heavy army. For example, the land of Central and South China has not yet been recovered, so the entire four counties of Central and South China can be set up under the jurisdiction of the Jiedu Envoy, and 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers and horses can be stationed. ”

"And Lingnan can set up a jiedu envoy in the three southern counties of Jiaozhi Jiuzhenri, and station 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses here."

"The four counties of Qinghai can directly set up a festival envoy to unify 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses."

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"Then according to what you say, the three southernmost counties of Lingnan Province have set up festival envoys, who is the greater envoy of this festival and the pacification of Lingnan?"

Luo Yidao, who has been silent, said, "That's simple, you can divide Lingnan into two." ”

Xiao Yu said, "For Liaodong, Zhongnan, Qinghai and other places where troops are used, they can be simply distinguished from other provinces, and these provinces can be set up to make a festival envoy, and the festival degree can be used to pacify it, or simply only set up a pacification envoy, as for the observation envoy, he exercises the duty of supervision, and there is no conflict." ”

Yang Guang was thinking about whether this step would affect his rule if this step was released.

"Your Majesty, for a place like Hedong in Hebei, you can set up an envoy to rule over one or several counties, but he needs to be pacified and controlled."

The Emperor thought about it for a long time.

"I think this is feasible, Liaodong Province and North Korea Province can be combined into Andong Province, set up a section of the envoy and the observation envoy, pacify the envoy, pacify the envoy to manage the administrative money, the observation envoy to supervise the judiciary, and the Jiedu envoy is located on the appeasement and observation, in charge of the general army."

"Lingnan Road, can be separated from an Annan Road, with Yulin, Ningyue, Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, Rinan five counties included in the jurisdiction. Set up Annan Jiedu envoys, observation envoys, and pacification envoys. ”

"The land of the four counties of Zhongnan Province, as well as Ke County and Mingyang County, are organized as Yunnan Province, and Yunnan Jiedu envoys, pacification envoys, and observation envoys are set up."

"With the four counties of Qinghai, as well as Yiwu County, set up Qinghai Road, and set up Qinghai Festival Envoys, Pacification Envoys, and Observation Envoys."

"With the four counties of Lingwu, Wuyuan, Yulin, and Dingxiang, set up Monan Road, and set up Monan Jiedu envoys, pacification envoys, and observation envoys."

In the land of the four sides, five roads were set up, each of which set up a festival and a degree.

The emperor also gave a special military title to the garrison of Sidao.

The garrison of Andong Province was given the name Zhongwu, and it is estimated that the name is because the commander Luo Cheng was once given the title of Zhongwu by him.

"Andong Dao, give the army the number of loyalty, and make Luo Cheng of the festival! Garrison fifty-one"

"Annan Dao, give the army the number of Jinghai, and make Luo Yi in the festival! Garrison 20,000"

"Qinghai Dao, give the army the number Zhaowu, and make Pei Renji of the festival! Garrison 20,000"

"Mo Nan Dao, give the army to Zhenwu, and make Yun Dingxing in the festival! Garrison 20,000"

"Yunnan Road, give the army to the south of the town, and make Yuwen Shu in the festival! Garrison 20,000"

Five towns on the frontier, with a total garrison of 147,000 soldiers and horses.

Luo Cheng's Andong Provincial Loyal Army has the strongest troops, with 51,000 soldiers and horses.

In addition to these five towns, the emperor also decided to set up a governor of Yanmen in the east of the river, and commanded the border soldiers of the three counties of Mayi, Yanmen and Loufu, with 12,000 troops.

In Hebei, the governor of Beiping was set up, and the border soldiers of Beiping, Yuyang, and Anle counties were commanded, and 12,000 troops were stationed.

In addition, several governors were also set up in Lingnan, Jiannan, Longyou and other border areas.

So there are 217 counties in the world, which are divided into two capitals, three prefectures and thirteen provinces.

The total number of two guards and three Yin and five sections of the eight governors and thirteen pacification and observation envoys were granted, and two hundred and seventeen were guarded.

Xiao Yu's wife is the niece of the Empress Dowager Hugu, and Li Yuan is the sister of the Empress Dowager Lonely, so he and Li Yuan are also relatives, and he recommended Li Yuan to the emperor to take over the Jianghuai vacancy after Pei Renji's departure. The emperor thought about it, and finally looked at Luo Cheng, "Luo Qing? ”

"The minister thought that Wang Shichong had made meritorious contributions to quelling the rebellion in Jiangnan, and he could grant Jiangnan pacification envoys."

Yang Guang didn't expect Luo Cheng not to talk about Li Yuan, but said Wang Shichong, and smiled, "Li Yuan is your uncle, you don't have to avoid suspicion so much, in fact, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty are not all connected and married." ”

Having said that, the emperor was still very satisfied with Luo Cheng's avoidance of suspicion, and then announced that Li Yuan Jianghuai was awarded the pacification envoy and Wang Shichong Jiangnan pacification envoy.

"The minister recommended Feng Lun as Anton's pacification envoy, and recommended Li Baiyao as Anton's observer envoy!" Yu Shiji recommended two people to Anton, and Luo Cheng knew that these two people were Yu Shiji's people, and both had served as Neishi Sheren under him, so this was to mix sand for him.

"Luo Cheng, what do you think?" The emperor asked.

"The minister did not dare to comment, but the matter was decided by the emperor."

The emperor smiled slightly, "Feng Deyi and Li Baiyao are both very talented, they are both officials, and I have promised them!" ”