Zu Ti asked to hand over the right to resign the army, and even told the old man, he was indeed sincere.

This young man has strange ambitions, and the people who seek it are also meritorious, and he wants to rely on his own talent and struggle to kill a person who shocks the world and leaves a name in history. Later, he crossed the river with Pei Gai, first set Henan, and then cut Hebei, Rong Ma and Liang, eight years in a hurry, and passed in an instant. In the past eight years, Pei Gai's mind is not the same, and the more he goes later, the more he seeks the overall situation and is pro-civil and political, and Zu Ti has been committed to the military, until today, he is somewhat tired.

Especially in the past six months, he first defended Shi Le in Xingyang, returned to the north to cross the war, feared that the fortified city would be difficult to overcome, and then feared that the grain would not continue, and he was even more worried that once he was frustrated and retreated, Pei should change the battle before the battle, which was really the most anxious experience in his life...... When I finally settled on Xiangguo, as soon as this breath came down, I suddenly realized that my life was a hundred years, and my days were numbered, and I had never enjoyed any pure blessings. Now that Shi Le is dead, even the war is boring - cutting Jiangnan? Is that kind of battle that is sure to be won interesting?

It is said that if people have authority in their hands, most of them have secret ambitions, and Zu Shizhi cannot be outside. But before that, Pei Gai had always pressed on his head—both for the deed of friendship and for the general government, plus the family was still higher than him, the army was stronger than him, and the foundation was thicker than him—it was inconvenient to be delusional; After that, since Pei should receive Zen, the overall situation has basically been decided, and even if he wants to toss, he has no expectation of winning.

- If Pei should hang up in advance, or if Zu is ten years younger, maybe there is also the possibility of competing in the Central Plains between contract friends.

Therefore, at the Xiangguo National Achievement Banquet before, Zu Ti would stop drinking and sighing, regretting that he might not have the opportunity to fight again - not only may the court not be at ease that he will be in charge of the army again, but also he has no battle worth fighting. It's just that the original consideration is that Hebei is established, and the south of the Yangtze River is still far away - how many vicious battles have been fought from Bingzhou to Jizhou in more than half a year, how can the country not rest and recuperate for a period of time - the imperial court will definitely take the opportunity to reorganize the ancestral army; If he is still in the court, he can exert influence to prevent the generals who follow him for the rest of his life from being marginalized, and if he retires directly, the future of his subordinates will be difficult to guarantee.

However, Pei Cai recited poetry as soon as they met, and said something "Today's triumph, I am the solution to the battle robe", Zu Ti mistakenly thought that the Son of Heaven was secretly suspicious, so he hurriedly said - I can't tell the old man?

Not only to say goodbye to old age, but also not to return to his hometown Fanyang County, but to go to Cheng Gao's tomb with his deceased mother - Cheng Gao is a stone's throw away from Luoyang, which is convenient for the imperial court to monitor, so you won't have to worry anymore.

Pei should have seen him make such a statement, and only then did he realize that he had said the wrong thing...... If you chant the wrong poem, hurry up and soothe with good words. Immediately welcomed Zu Ti and others into Luoyang City, that is, they held a banquet in the main hall. The next day, the edict was issued, and the ancestor was added to the Zhuguo (originally the general), and the number of "Loyal and Brave Heroes of the Founding Auxiliary Movement" was added, so that he succeeded Tao Kan as the privy envoy and went to the court to pay homage to the prime minister.

In fact, as for the question of how to reward Zu Li, before he came back, the important ministers of the court and the central government had already held many meetings to discuss it. The position and title of the main ancestor Shizhi have already reached the extreme of the ministers, and he is the marshal and general of Zhengyipin, and he is the prince of Fanyang County, how can he be promoted? It's not going to make him a king, right?

Fortunately, Pei should be quite familiar with the rules and regulations of the past dynasties - not only in the past, but also in the future - so he copied the systems of the Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties, and made a new trick of "meritorious heroes".

The title of Meritorious Hero began in Tang Xuanzong, and some of his courtiers were given the title of "Kaiyuan Meritorious Hero"; When the emperor was born, he gave "Baoying Meritorious Hero"; Dezong fled to Fengxiang due to chaos, and he gave the officers and soldiers of the forbidden army the title of "Fengtian Dingyuan Cong Meritorious Hero...... Song and Ming were attacked. Pei Gai imitated the Ming system, with the title of "founding the country", and added four characters as the number, in order to give the ancestors.

So far, there is only one ancestor Shizhi who has the number of meritorious heroes, but the big guys estimate that at least Pei Wei and Tao Kan also have this qualification, it depends on when they will be on the number - if Tao Shixing also has the merit of expanding the land, he should have it when he triumphs; As for Pei Wenji, because he is a civilian, he may have to survive until retirement.

Whether it is given to the highest martial arts Shangzhu country, or to give the title of meritorious hero, this is all false after all, so how to give the real position? Pei should discuss with Tao Kan, saying that Zu Shizhi will be in charge of the province on behalf of Qing, and Qing will be the town outside the province and plan to attack Jiangnan, how about it? Tao Kan didn't have any opinions, but Pei Wei and others objected.

The main thing is that the battle of Hebei is over, and the next step must be to reorganize the ancestral army, if the ancestor sits in the cardinal province, he will inevitably take the opportunity to give his old generals greater benefits and authority - interests, authority, all those who want to fight, how can they give it to others?

Until the triumph of Zu Ti, the important ministers have not been able to argue with a result. However, Zu Ti invited himself, but it was inevitable that people would misunderstand that he had the intention of retreating as advance...... So Pei Gai proposed a compromise plan, and finally made the privy envoy fall into the hands of Zu Shizhi.

What is the compromise? That is to divide the Privy Council and weaken its authority.

The Privy Council is in charge of the army, and the Shangshu Province is in charge of the people, and the civil and military are separated, which is transformed from the Chang'an Xingtai system, in a sense, so that Pei Wei and Tao Kan can directly graft the Xingtai institutions to China and the DPRK as soon as possible.

In the Jin system, the eight dukes all have a long history to manage the government, and they are placed in the military attache or the governor of Jiadu to change Sima to coordinate the military, so when Pei should be in Chang'an, there is a long history and Sima. However, if it were applied to China and the DPRK, the authority of the privy council transformed from Sima would inevitably be too great, and the integration of military government and military orders would easily produce a warlord group—just like Japan after Tojo's high-ranking soldiers worshiped the prime minister.

Therefore, some ministers have already played and asked for a change of system. Pei Gai didn't think about it at first, he originally set up twelve departments in Chang'an, which were under the jurisdiction of Changshi and Sima, originally so that literati could not interfere in the military, and martial artists could not interfere in civil and political affairs.

However, it is impossible for the Great Sima and the Metropolitan Governor to be hereditary, and the Son of Heaven is the custom of the father to succeed the son, so once the weak Son of Heaven practices Zuo in the future, the Privy Council will use its all-round jurisdiction over the military, and it is very likely that it will be difficult to control it. Moreover, when they were on the stage, they did not want the governor to be strong, but in the middle of the dynasty, the situation was just the opposite, there was no military force, and the only way to look at the Son of Heaven was to hang the arch, and only had influence on the government and no direct jurisdiction - this was originally the traditional ideal of Confucianism.

There are two main reasons why Pei Gai has not planned to solve this problem: one is that it coincides with the Great War against the Qiang, and the sudden change of the system may cause unnecessary confusion - directly grafting the Xingtai system will also have this consideration - and it is more necessary to integrate the military and government and military orders, and everything should be military first; The second is the Privy Council Monopoly System, which is convenient for the Son of Heaven to intervene at any time. Of course, he would not leave this kind of system that is too skewed to his son, but he is still in the prime of life, so what is he afraid of?

However, since the war in Hebei has ended, theoretically speaking, although there is Bayi in the west, remnants of Jin in the south, and Tuoba in the north, they can basically only take a defensive position, and the country can temporarily rest and recuperate for a period of time in anticipation of future wars—this is a good time to change the system. Second, since Tao Shixing may be relieved of the position of cardinal minister and replaced by Zu Shizhi, it is not very appropriate to let Zu Li hold great authority.

- Pei Gai didn't believe Zu Ti, but compared with Tao and Zu, he had stronger control over the former after all, and although the latter was called a monarch, he was actually still basically staying in the relationship of allies, at most he took a step forward.

Therefore, the system was changed, and the military department, that is, the military and political system, was transferred to the jurisdiction of Shangshu; Moreover, in the future, the world will be decided, and the civilian cantonment will be gradually abolished, and the military cantonment will be compressed, and the cantonment will also be reduced to a division, and the Privy Council will eventually only have two subordinate departments, the Privy Department and the Police Department.

In this regard, Zu Ti had no extravagant hopes, and was psychologically prepared, but he did not have any radical reactions.

Immediately, under the auspices of Pei Gai, the main officials of the Shang and Shu Provinces and the Degree Department, the Military Department, the Pivotal Department, and the Police Department were summoned, and a series of reforms were carried out on the military system - the main purpose was to reorganize the old ancestral army. The generals of the Zu clan were successively recalled to the capital, first given a reward, and then sent to the military academy for further study—of course, the promise was just an inherent procedure, but in order to familiarize themselves with the new military system and military regulations, they still had the opportunity to fight. The various departments were also dispersed one after another, mixed with the old Guanzhong Army, and the guards of Xiangguo, Zhuoxian and other places were also changed to Pei Cai's old generals.

The previous military system, pure Pei should be self-determined, first quoted some terms from later generations, such as the inexplicable "platoon" - no way, he has the memories and knowledge of two lives in his mind at the same time, and occasionally there will inevitably be conflicts and mistakes, but fortunately, the temperament basically inherits the previous crossing - and then it is layered in response to the situation, which is somewhat nondescript.

In Chang'an before, one was originally temporary, and there were not too many literary people under his command who jumped out to find faults, and they just did; Even when Luoyang ascended the throne, the old bureaucrats were cast idle and scattered, and they had nothing to do, so they tried to make trouble, looking for opportunities to make progress, so they went up to sacrifice and went down to ploughing, citing the official system, the military system, the rules, and the laws, and there were people at both ends of the three days to play, asking the Son of Heaven to follow the ancient rites.

In fact, "time changes and things change, and it is appropriate to change the law", everyone understands this truth, if there are still people who think that "the law is ancient, and the etiquette is innocent", they can directly copy the original words of Shang Ying. But what if it's just a matter of detail, or if it's just about the name but not the truth? It is inconvenient for the court to refute them all, and it is not a drop of water.

After all, this era is still respected by Confucianism, and Confucianism follows Zhou Li, no matter how innovative it is in its bones, as long as it is retro in name, it can also demonstrate the legitimacy of the new dynasty to a certain extent.

Therefore, some people proposed that the military system of the Zhou Dynasty was based on "five people, five soldiers for two, four two for the pawn, five pawns for the brigade, and five brigades for the division", this proposal was first approved by Zu Ti, and then played Pei Gai, and the Hua Dynasty also changed the name of the military establishment accordingly. In any case, the ancients took 500 people as a brigade, but the Qi country took 2,000 people as a brigade, and now the brigade is increased to 10,000 people, which doesn't sound very majestic after all.

So it was decided to have five people as a team, five soldiers as pawns, five soldiers as teams, five teams as brigades, five brigades as divisions, and five divisions as armies -- an army of about 18,000 men.

Wu served as the commander, died as the commander, the team as the captain, the brigade as the brigade commander, the division as the division commander, and the army as the commander. Among them, there are subordinate officials above the team, and Sima is juxtaposed, and his first division and five brigades, one army and five divisions are all divided into front, back, center, and left.

- What, purely with Zhou etiquette, divided into troops, two, pawns, brigades, divisions, and has the titles of army commander, two Sima, and pawn commander? Then Pei Cai's first thought was not Xianzhou, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom...... He resolutely refused to follow suit.

The peacetime military system envisioned by Pei should be based on professional non-commissioned officers and some conscripts, supplemented by conscripts. Therefore, in addition to the local garrisons, there were 14 armies in the whole country, with 200,000 troops in theory, but in practice there were more than 50,000 standing troops, and they were not expanded until wartime. Taking advantage of the opportunity, some of the veterans of Kansai, Yan and Yu were registered in the military register, and they were released and returned to their hometowns in order to resume local production.

The 14th Army has its own name, which is Longxiang (based on the old Lifeng Battalion), Huben (based on the old Fire Robbery Battalion), Tiance, Shence, Tianwu (based on the old Pengshan Battalion), Shenwu, Yulin (based on the old Wulin Battalion), Changlin, Weisheng, Gongsheng, as well as Xiaoqi, Feiqi, Jinghai and Pingjiang. Among them, except for the Jing Navy stationed in the East China Sea - the name is empty, and the shelves have not yet been erected - the Pingjiang Army is stationed in the Yangtze River (temporarily stationed in Chaohu), the cavalry and flying cavalry are mainly cavalry, divided into two capitals, the remaining ten armies, the four armies are in Beijing, and the six armies are divided into all sides, and the period is to rotate every three years.

In addition, there is also a division of the Praetorian Guard, which is mostly filled by cronies and nobles, and lives in the palace city.

Taking advantage of this reform of the old system, the ancestral army was first reorganized - Li Ju, Xu Liu, and Wei Ce were promoted to military commanders - and then extended their hands to Liangzhou and the Youyou and Ping regions. The Son of Heaven issued an edict and ordered Zhang Mao and Liu Kun to come to the Hajj.

It happened that Wen Qiao was ordered by Liu Kun to return to Luo to report the victory, Pei should personally meet him, so he asked him: "Now that the thieves are destroyed, the road is a little quiet, and there is no war in the northeast, why does the young master refuse to enter the Hajj and send Qing here?" ”

When Wen Taizhen heard this, he couldn't help but "chuckle" in his heart, and quickly explained: "Although the thieves are destroyed, the two prefectures of Youyou and Ping are not stable, and Juli covets them, so the young master can't make the trip......"

Pei Gai smiled slightly, and said: "Calm down the two states, when the imperial court appoints officials to go, why not Young Master?" As for Juli, Waiyi Xiaokou also, can't Liu Shiren be able to resist it? "The implication is that I will let Liu Yan stay in Pingzhou for the time being, so Liu Kun, what are you worried about? After living in a remote place for a long time, do you still have the heart of separation and refuse to bow to me?

Wen Qiao hurriedly said: "It is true that Your Majesty said, but the affairs of the two states are complicated, please delay a little time, and the young master Rong will arrange it properly, and then he will return to Luo......" After a pause, he hurriedly added: "Therefore, the envoy will return first, and the young master will return it in a few days." ”

The Central Plains is established, of course, it is impossible for the imperial court to divide a piece of territory to Liu Kun, no matter how reluctant he is, sooner or later he will have to return it to Luo Ji - that is, to make Liu Kun's army and system completely integrated into the country's ownership - Wen Taizhen has long been mentally prepared for this. He just didn't expect the Son of Heaven to speak so straightforwardly and crisply, this majesty was very different from when he first met in Guanzhong in the past.

But it's right to think about it again, the emperor is the emperor after all, and he also annexed the ancestral army, and now that Zu Shizhi is obediently staying in Luoyang, how can Liu Yueshi be alone outside? So he hurriedly expressed his position, saying that Young Master Liu didn't want to come back, but he had to arrange the affairs of Youzhou and Ping first, and ordered me to return first - don't worry, he will follow soon.