Seeing Gao Yue sitting in the tent, Liu Wu knelt down twenty steps away, first untied his saber, took off his armor, and then lowered his body, passed under the long halberd crossed by the collision man, and climbed more than ten steps, until Gao Yue said: "Why is Liu Shuai like this?" Only then did he dare to get up, and he took a few steps respectfully, and bowed down to Gao Yue.

Gao Yue said please sit down, Liu Wucai went to a bed covered with a silk blanket, sat down in the corner, his legs together and straight, not daring to slack off.

Then several fateful men entered with wooden letters, opened the box, and asked the Taishi and the general Hun Ying to inspect the heads of Li Shigu and Li Shidao, Gao Yue sighed slightly and said: "Ziqing Pinglu has gone through three generations since Li Zhengji, although there is rebellion, but there have also been meritorious services to the country, this corpse does not need to be exposed to the intersection of the military palace again, so as not to make the soldiers of the Pinglu army sad and dissatisfied." ”

"Good, good, let's bury the body of Brother Li Shigu." Liu Wu immediately agreed.

"I heard that Li Shigu has two cousins?" Gao Yue asked again.

Liu Wu hurriedly replied that Li Shixian and Li Shizhi were being detained in the military palace, and if the Taishi needed to be arraigned, they would be sent immediately.

"Hey, you and I just have to give Zai Tang an explanation, there is no need for arraignment, I don't have to worry about Liu Shuai's work. Most of these two were going to Ke Province, and then they were convicted and went to Lingnan or Helong. Then Gao Yue smiled and pointed to his chest, and said to Liu Wu, "You have to give the world a name, otherwise you will be unknown." ”

Liu Wu nodded hurriedly, and secretly gratefully looked at Ling Hu Zao and Cui Gongdu, fortunately they reminded them in time, otherwise Li Shixian and Li Shizhi would have been cut down by him a long time ago.

Then Gao Yue frowned, and pointed his finger at his forehead, as if he had forgotten something.

Li Yu on the side was in his ear and whispered a few words.

"Yes, yes, Li Shidao's wife and concubine and two sons......" Gao Yue remembered.

Liu Wu jumped off the bed with a bone, and bowed to Gao Yue for a long time, shouting "courage" and "capital crime".

Gao Yue hurriedly helped him up, and said that Liu Shuai was not like this!

"Anyway, after attacking Yuncheng, the dog answered from the military palace, rescued the families of the generals who were detained in advance, and got Li Shidao's wife, concubine, and heir, originally wanted to use this to persuade the Li Shigu brothers to give up their stubborn resistance, but after all, the Li Shigu brothers were backward descendants of the Goguryeo race, fierce and rude, refused to surrender, and fought to the death. After Li Shidao's wife and concubine were sent to the servant, the servant saw that the army was emotionally unstable, and in order to win the hearts of the soldiers, he privately married Li Shidao's wife Wei, and took concubines Yuan and Pu. ”

Before Gao Yue and Hun Ying could reply, Liu Wu begged that Wei was Li Shidao's wife after all, and since he had been re-enslaved, if he changed again, he was afraid that Wei would commit suicide in anger, causing the Pinglu Army to mutiny. However, both the Yuan family and the Pu family are quite attractive, such as the Taishi and the general do not give up, and they are willing to sacrifice these two women.

Hun Ying hurriedly refused, saying that it was not necessary.

Gao Yue also said: "Li Shigu and Li Shidao are now killed by the suppression of death, my Tang rules, do not accept the wives and concubines of the people who have died in the country into the forbidden, they will all be given to the meritorious ministers, and now the twelve states of Ziqing can return to the imperial court territory without blood, all rely on Liu Shuai alone, so Li Shidao's wives and concubines should all belong to Liu Shuai." ”

"Wu He dared to be greedy for women, but he tried his best to adopt Li Shidao's widow and widow to appease the hearts of the army, so he served here, boasting to the Taishi and the general, and Pinglu would never rebel after that." Liu Wu's expression was serious and loud.

"Good!" Gao Yue also stood up, "I promised Liu Shuai before, as long as Liu Shuai is willing to do it anyway, he will ask Zaitang, and the five prefectures of Xideng, Lai, Hai, Yi, and Mi will set up a separate military town for you, and grant the festival." ”

Liu Wu is an acquaintance, knowing that now Zhenyuan's new policy is implementing the "provincial system of books in the line", and he wants to be a festival envoy, and his name is not right, and sooner or later he will have to be suspicious of the court, so he took the initiative to request: "How dare the servant ask for the festival again, just ask the court to set up a province, and the servant can raise troops for the holy lord here, and return to the court immediately after five years, so as to wait for the sage to replace him." ”

Gao Yue was amazed, so he asked Li Yu and Fu Lan to take the map, and immediately divided the five states into five states, but Fu Lan reminded: "Deng, Lai, Hai, Yi, and Mijian mountains and rivers are blocked, which is not conducive to a separate province." ”

"What is Yuan Liang's opinion?"

Fu Xuan whispered to Gao Yue and proposed: "Yanzhou is rich and in the land of four wars, and it cannot be conceded to Zhang Jianfeng's Wuning army, otherwise the Wuning army will be arrogant and difficult to control, so it is better to merge Huai, Zheng, Hua, Pu, Yan, Cao, and Yun into Hanoi Xingzhongshu Province, and upgrade the original Hanoi governor to Zhongshu Sect Shilang, that is, the prime minister will go out of the town, and the government will be located in Zhengzhou." The three prefectures of Hai, Yi and Mi can be merged into the Wuning Army, and as for the five prefectures of Zi, Qing, Qi, Deng, and Lai, they can be set up as the province of Zhongshu in Jibei, and the highest official is the governor of the government. ”

In this way, the entire Ziqing area was happily divided into three parts, one was allocated to Hanoi Province, one was allocated to Xu Si Wuning Army, and one was built into a new "Jibei Xingzhongshu Province".

Hanoi Province has an important river defense in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and it is of great military significance to master the key node of the Heyin Yuan to Luoyang and Guanzhong, but it does not master the transportation hub of Bianzhou.

Because Bianzhou and Songzhou were returned to the new Huaixi Xingzhongshu Province.

As for Huaixi, it is true that all of its Bianzhou is the hub, but it does not grasp the starting point of Cao's materials, that is, Yangzhou, which in turn belongs to Huaihai Xingzhongshu Province.

For Huaihai, there is Xu Sihao in the north and Jiangdong Province in the south, and the three also form the effect of mutual supervision.

The richest Jiangdong provinces, eastern Zhejiang, western Zhejiang, and Xuanshu are all big taxpayers, but the town navy has now been cut off by six or seven, and the rest are all sailors (and will soon become a fleet directly under the state), and they can't confront Huaihai and Xu Si in terms of force, so they can only be dairy cows and tax provinces with peace of mind.

From the perspective of the national situation, the four provinces of Jingzhao, Dugi, Longdong and Shannan are "hinterland provinces", and the officials are all four-grade and five-grade courtiers (counseling doctors, giving things, Zhongshu Sheren, Langzhong), and they are appointed as governors to govern the local area, and the candidates are directly appointed by Zaitang. In addition, the five major towns of Longxi, Hedong, Hezhong, Hanoi, Huaixi, and Huaihai are ready to be upgraded to "Zaitang Zhili Province", and the prime minister will personally rotate out of the town to govern - the hinterland province and the Zhili province, the ratio of the two taxes is seven or three open, that is, seventy percent must be handed over to the treasury of the three divisions, and the remaining three become the financial needs of the provinces and states and counties. As for the rest of the inland provinces such as Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan, and Jingnan, they are actually "tax provinces", and they are appointed by the Shilang and Shangshu of Taiwan Province, or the governor of the province. The pacification of ethnic minorities or unstable factors in these provinces can be directly undertaken by the provinces with the garrison armies, while the province only needs to pay taxes to the three divisions.

In the frontier provinces, a considerable strength of the town garrison army will be retained, and the ratio of the two taxes is 46 kai, that is, 40% will be handed over to the treasury of the three divisions, and 60% will remain in the province to raise the army, but in order to prevent the recurrence of the phenomenon of the tail of power in the Tianbao period, Zaitang will divide some of the vital pass towns in these provinces, and send the central army under the jurisdiction of the Cardinal to defend, not only to guard against foreign enemies, but also to monitor the town and garrison unity team in the frontier provinces.

This is the essence of the provincial system.

After speaking, Gao Yue pointed to the map and proposed a new discount to Liu Wu.