Li Wen sent Xue Renyue away, and he no longer procrastinated, and directly summoned the civil officials of Wuwei County, asking them to be ready to evacuate the people in the east and north in time in possible future battles, and withdraw to the interior of Wuwei County to avoid the war.

At Li Wen's request, after these civilian officials returned to their respective places, they all renovated and expanded the interior of the barracks of the local garrison, and at the same time began to purchase grain and store them in the warehouse, so that they could resettle the victims who had come to take refuge in the future. Different from the corruption in other local officialdom, the officialdom in the Western Regions at this time is still clear. Whether it was during their studies at the political school or during their tenure as local officials, these civil officials realized that the source of their power was the people under their rule. However, the imperceptible wind of corruption in the officialdom for thousands of years did not collapse so easily, so in order to stabilize the internal situation as soon as possible and take the step of outward expansion, Li Wenyuan chose the strongest and most effective means.

Instead of reforming the bureaucracy, he chose to overthrow the old one, and then set about re-establishing a new system himself. Under the constraints of this new system, the risk of corruption and bribery is extremely high, and with the cooperation of the night owls, several typical examples have been ruthlessly arrested, and those who still vainly try to embezzle and accept bribes in the new officialdom have been suppressed. At this time, the signs of corruption in the officialdom were finally stopped in a short period of time, although this is not a long-term solution, but when the people spontaneously form supervision of officials after the people's wisdom is opened, this bottom-up procuratorial system will be more efficient than the night owl.

It stands to reason that every war is an opportunity for a group of officials to make a fortune in the country, but in Li Wenyuan's case, there are very few cases in which officials take advantage of the war to embezzle public property. It was only because in the previous war against Li Liang, all the officials who tried to reach out in vain to embezzle military rations and salaries were labeled as treason by Li Wenyuan and traitors who infiltrated his own country, or punished or killed a group of officials.

After arranging the work of his subordinate officials, Li Wen came to the Yingyang Mansion in Wuwei County to meet with the generals who stayed in Wuwei County. The military generals in the Yingyang Mansion were all military supervisors who had graduated from military academies and belonged to the ranks of reserve officers, and it was only because Li Wenyuan's professionalization of the army had made the traditional semi-militia army no longer exist, and at this time, both soldiers and officers in the Western Regions Army had to go through corresponding training and training before they could officially become a soldier and participate in military operations.

Therefore, the original Yingyang Mansion in the counties of the Western Regions has lost its own meaning. You must know that the Yingyang Mansion was originally a department serving the army, and after losing its original meaning, Li Wenyuan also unceremoniously gave the Yingyang Mansion a new function. Every reserve officer who graduated from a military academy is now randomly assigned to a different county government. In addition to responding to the call when waiting for the expansion of the army, they directly entered the army as military commanders, and in their spare time, they also had to assist the local military department in training the local militia in their spare time.

Now the situation around Wuwei County is in a very delicate situation, you must know that except for the side with the back of the Western Regions and the side facing Xue Ju in the southeast, all the forces bordering the rest of the places are eyeing the fat meat of Wuwei County. Therefore, Li Wen, a retainer who had followed Li Wenyuan for a long time, also sent fast horses to report the situation of Wuwei County to Li Wenyuan in Dunhuang County on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was directly transferred to the military commanders in Yingyang Mansion, and organized all the militia groups in the territory on the spot, and put them together to form an army to resist the Liang Division, which had begun to assemble troops in the east.

Therefore, this time Li Wen came to Yingyang Mansion to find these reserve officers who stayed behind, hoping that these reserve officers would integrate some militia groups in Wuwei County and form a temporary army without a number. Of course, in order to distinguish this temporary militia army from the Seventh Army Corps left behind, Li Wen temporarily called this temporary militia force the Wuwei Security Army.

These reserve officers, who had been trapped in the Yingyang Mansion for a long time, were very excited when they heard that there might be a battle to be fought, and they expressed their willingness to assist Li Wen in forming this Wuwei security army. It is only because of the nature of the militia that they tend to do such work as clearing out bandits or suppressing some local bandits in the places where the militia is in their homeland, and they do not undertake any very important combat missions. Therefore, the officers of the militia organization are generally only arranged to the battalion commander at most, and the fire commanders below the battalion commander are elected by the soldiers at the lowest level.

But now it is different from the past, Wuwei County is facing an attack from external forces. Therefore, in order to delay as much time as possible to know that the regular Western Regions Army had arrived on the battlefield, Li Wen needed to raise the combat effectiveness of this security army as high as possible, so in this reorganization, the officers who had undergone systematic training were directly arranged to the first floor of the fire commander in accordance with the establishment of the regular army.

At this time, Li Wenyuan, who was far away in Dunhuang County, also received an urgent letter from Li Wen, and learned that the recent army of the Liang Division in the east had some abnormal situations, and then when he cross-checked the intelligence with Qiu Niang's night owl, it was finally confirmed that the Liang Division was indeed instructed by the Eastern Turks, and at this time he was gathering his troops to prepare to cooperate with the Eastern Turks to carry out an attack on Li Wenyuan's Wuwei County. According to their plan, if this raid succeeded, then Wuwei County would be under the rule of Liang Shidu, and all the prefectures and counties from Zhangye County to the west would be handed over to the Turks to conquer and rule.

After confirming the authenticity of this piece of information, Li Wenyuan's cold sweat also broke out. His expedition to the west was a rather risky military campaign that took advantage of the internal instability of the Eastern Turks and the inability of the Eastern Turks to look south under the eye of the Goguryeo people and the Murwei tribe.

But to his surprise, the Eastern Turks quickly calmed down the internal turmoil, and at the same time defeated the Murwei tribe with thunderous means and deterred the Goguryeo tribe, so at this time, the Eastern Turks carried the opportunity to win the foreign wars one after another after the fiasco of Yanmen County, and were ready to unite the pro-Turkic forces in the Central Plains to attack themselves and seek revenge.

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