The holy decree issued by Lin Zhe was ostensibly to reward Cai Erhu, but in fact it had a deeper purpose, that is, to avoid the previous situation of Jiguan Mountain: the captured young and strong bandits were all divided between Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren.

Based on this, Li Xuan directly imitated the situation when Huang Xueren surrendered to Cheng: the big official!

Named Cai Erhu the general of Zhenxi, and gave him the name of the Zhenxi Army.

As for Li Xuan, who didn't even see Cai Erhu, this person is unreliable and so on, in short, he thinks that if there are two generals with heavy troops in the Tang Dynasty, it is better to appear three or even four, five or even more generals with heavy troops.

For a long time in the future, it is Li Xuan's established plan to curb the growth rate of the strength of Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, and to support more generals to divide the military power of these two people, and its importance is second only to resisting the Ming army.

After all, there are many factions below, and he, who is the emperor, should be at ease, otherwise, he is always worried that Fang Dongquan will bring someone into the 'palace' one day.

It has been more than half a year since he came to this era, Li Xuan often dreams of the scene of his death, either being captured by the Ming army and beheaded, Ling Chi executed or something, or dreaming that the Ming army defeated the Tang bandits, and finally he threw himself into a well or hanging beam at the last moment when the enemy army killed, and sometimes he would dream that Fang Dongquan would enter the palace with countless armor soldiers and cut himself down, and then Fang Dongquan laughed and sat on the dragon chair.

As the saying goes, there are dreams day and night, and these dreams also represent the two situations that Li Xuan is most worried about and fears: being defeated by the Ming army; Subordinate rebellion!

No matter which of these two situations it is, it will be a catastrophe for Li Xuan!

The only thing that made him feel a little relieved was that Bai Yunqi had gradually persuaded most of the Ming army prisoners, and the more than 60 Ming army prisoners before, except for seven or eight stubborn people who still refused to surrender, the remaining 50 people had already chosen to surrender under threats and temptations, and joined Bai Yunqi's standing army.

In addition, what made Li Xuan feel at ease, and even had a little confidence in the future, was that the guards he personally organized and trained were gradually taking shape, and the number of them was also slowly increasing with the growth of the population of the Tang Dynasty.

From more than 20 people at the beginning to more than 50 now.

In the follow-up, Li Xuan also planned to continue to select age-appropriate soldiers from the people in Jiguan Mountain, Black Tiger Village, and Huanggui Mountain, and he estimated that he should be able to choose another thirty or forty people.

In this way, the number of guards under his direct control can reach more than eighty!

The Guards plus the rear army of the standing army under Bai Yunqi, then the power under the control of the 'imperial family' can reach more than 100 people, and then he will have enough confidence to wrestle his wrist with Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, and get rid of the current embarrassing identity of the puppet emperor and grasp the real power.

Once he can grasp the real power, then Li Xuan will not hesitate to implement the series of reform plans he envisioned.

The most important of these reform plans is undoubtedly military reform!

The armed forces of the Tang Dynasty must not be a group of bandits, it must be an army, and it must also be an elite army with strict military discipline and clear military branches.

Because only in this way can the Tang army, with a small population and fewer soldiers, be able to resist the attack of the Ming army!

If Datang does not die, he Li Xuan can live!

The Guards that are being trained now, to a certain extent, are a preliminary test by Li Xuan, and he can only test it out through the Guards: if you want to get an elite army in this era, how to train, what tactics to use, and what equipment to use.

But those are all things in the future, and now for Li Xuan and the Tang Dynasty, it is a big deal to accept and arrange the follow-up captives of Black Tiger Village and Huangguishan.

Because of the cold weather and snow, the team escorting the old and weak captives of Black Tiger Village walked slowly, arriving at Huangzhu Mountain two days later than previously expected.

These more than 300 people had just arrived in Huangzhu Mountain, and Liu Bagou took everyone to arrange them one by one and gave them a temporary wooden house.

As for other daily necessities, such as clothing and even food, in fact, Liu Bagou didn't have to worry too much, because although these people from Black Tiger Village were escorted over after surrendering, basically most of them brought their belongings.

For these people, moving from Black Tiger Village to Huangzhushan has not changed much, just a change of wooden house.

However, there are still a small number of people who lack food and clothing for various reasons, and these people are the objects that Liu Bagou needs to take care of, and the distribution of rice and even clothes is necessary.

After a busy day, Liu Bagou, who looked tired, found Li Xuan: "Your Majesty, the people of Black Tiger Village have preliminarily settled down!" ”

Li Xuan said: "That's good, the prime minister has worked hard!" ”

Liu Bagou said: "To serve Your Majesty, how can the minister work hard, it's too late to rejoice!" ”

Li Xuan said: "Today, the people sent by the palace to buy outside the mountain are back, and they also brought back a few jars of fine wine, and the prime minister will bring one back!" ”

When Liu Bagou heard this, he just wanted to make a habitual excuse, but after hesitating for a while, he finally didn't say it, but said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your gift!" ”

Li Xuan saw his expression and immediately smiled, he knew that Liu Bagou liked to drink, but now there was no wine in this Huangzhu Mountain, only a few wine secretly bought from outside.

Now the Ming army outside has blocked the main passage into the mountain, and it is impossible for large-scale personnel to enter and exit, only a few people can enter and exit by small roads.

During this time, the Tang Dynasty would also send a small number of buyers to secretly go out of the mountains to buy some necessary living materials.

One of the most important materials is a very ordinary and ordinary material that later generations will seem, but it is very important in this era: table salt!

There is no salt production in the mountains, and people can't eat salt, so if you want to ensure the supply of salt, you can only buy it from outside the mountains

But it costs money to buy materials, unfortunately, there is not much silver in the Tang Dynasty, and almost all of it is in the hands of the Queen Mother Bai.

Huangzhushan itself had no silver, at first there was only a small amount of soft cash silver carried by Madame Bai when she fled, and these silver were later used to buy grain and salt.

After attacking Shuilongzhai and defeating the Ming army, a part of the cash silver was seized, which was not much, and there were more than 100 taels of silver and some gold and silver jewelry, but the money was taken away by the Empress Dowager Bai, and her reason was very simple: her silver was taken out to buy food and salt, and now the seized silver has to be returned to her.

At first, Liu Bagou refused, saying that the money was war spoils and would be returned to the treasury, but Mrs. Bai pointed directly at his nose and scolded: "National fart, that's the old lady's private money!" ”

As soon as she spoke, she sent a few of her old mothers to snatch the silver directly!