The group of heroes in Erlongshan Dazhai caught each other and poured their hearts and souls, and it was a lively scene for several days, and on the side of Taiyuan Mansion, Zhao Yuanwai and Jin Cuilian and other people also said goodbye to Xiao Tang and prepared to return to their hometown in Daizhou. Before leaving, Xiao Tang looked at Jin Cuilian's expression again, and saw that she was no longer frowning and worried as before, and when the quiet and weak Jin Cuilian met Xiao Tang's eyes again, she chuckled indifferently, and Ying Ying said a blessing gift, regardless of her eyebrows and gestures, she seemed to be more relaxed and calm.

After about seven or eight days, the post post and military department had already arrived in Bianliang, Tokyo, with the paperwork, and presented to the imperial court the news of Xiao Tang's report that Kou Shoutian Hu had subdued the law, that the party departments that had entered the country and that the troubles had been swept away, and that the bandits in Hedong had been wiped out.

In the early dynasties, the officials of the Privy Council reported to Zhao Ji that Xiao Tang swept away the rebellious thief army gathered on Hedong Road, and the Xia tribes that entered the invasion were almost annihilated, and the soldiers and civilians of the states and counties on Hedong Road were comforted in time, and more people were forced to do evil from the thief army.

After Zhao Ji got the report, he was naturally also happy and happy, and he immediately said: "Xiao Aiqing is really my minister, he does his best for the country, and he works hard to ask Kou for his hard work, how can I not know?" When Xiao Aiqing and the soldiers returned with a triumphant song, I also rehired loyal ministers and good generals, and increased their merits. ”

At the same time that Zhao Ji planned to call Xiao Tang's class teacher back to Beijing and give another reward, he also approved the imperial decree and sent an envoy to Hedong Road to tell Chen.

After another half a month, the imperial envoy sent by the court rushed to Taiyuan Mansion with the edict, Xiao Tang, Wang Huan, Han Cunbao and Taiyuan Yang Governor and others went to greet each other, and after the imperial envoy came to the palace hall, he took out the edict and read it aloud, so that Xiao Tang and others could listen to the will conveyed by Zhao Ji:

Xiao Tang originally shouldered the responsibility of selecting and training the new army on Hedong Road, and wrote to the imperial court to admonish the name of this army, and after Zhao Ji's approval, he also instructed the new army to give this new army the name of the Jingnan Army in accordance with Xiao Aiqing's advice.

As for the establishment of soldiers and horses and the selection of officers and officers of the Jingnan Army, the Song Army was reorganized according to one hundred people, one battalion in five capitals, one army in five battalions, and one army in the tenth army, and then according to the establishment of the Jingnan Army with the number of the number, it is reasonable to say that it can be reorganized into 50,000 soldiers and horses in two compartments, but this is also the maximum number of troops according to the military system of the Song Army, and most of the troops may not be fully equipped. Now Xiao Tang integrated in the Weisheng Army, Taiyuan Mansion and other places to integrate the number of displaced people, the number of about 12,000 people, can be roughly compiled into five military horses, but since Zhao Ji has agreed, the Bianjing Privy Council has also officially issued a reply document, with the resumption of the war in the border court in the future, the Jingnan Army can also recruit soldiers and horses according to the changes in the war situation, expand the establishment.

Subsequently, on the reward of meritorious deeds, the head of the sect Wang Jin was reused by Xiao Tang, and he was selected to practice the new army for meritorious service, and he also contributed a lot to the thieves and thieves. The rest of the generals who made military exploits and were recommended by Xiao Tang: Dang Shiying, Dang Shixiong, Li Yongqi, and Wang Wenbin, who requested to be transferred to the Hedong New Army and was also approved by the Privy Council, were appointed as the commanders of the infantry army commanding the five battalions of the first army, while Niu Gao, who went out as a general of the Xiao Tang family, served as the commander of the Ma Army, and such as the deputy commander of the army, the Marquis of Duyu and other ministries were considered separately by the Hedong Zhulu Military Department and then commissioned;

For example, Shi Xiu, Xiao Jiasui, Xiao Tang's mansion, and the generals in front of the tent, if they are still willing to follow Xiao Tang, they will not be awarded Duan Kai imperial wine and gold medal silk silk by those who are not famous and noble, and they will be given gold and silver ranging from 500 taels to 1,000 taels according to their military exploits. The original military post was sent to Hua Rong, who was under the jurisdiction of the commander of the Jingnan Road Marshal Division, and was awarded the Commander Wuxun, and was promoted to the defense envoy of the Guards and the Pro-Army Horse Military Division, and he was rewarded with a brocade robe and a pair of silver armor;

In addition to subsidizing Zhouji's money and grain, Zhao Ji personally gave the card amount, and gave praise and praise to the German court, and the squire of Deyi; Wu Li, a big household in Tongqi County, not only assisted Xiao Tang, the commander of Hedong, to pacify the displaced people, but also made great contributions to the elimination of Hedong Kou Shoutian Tiger and the resistance to the thieves.

As for Qiong Ying, who personally got rid of the head of the Hedong bandits, it seems that it also attracted Zhao Ji's attention, and the imperial decree said that the Son of Heaven Dajia Qiongying was filial piety, and he was only a father at a young age, and he eliminated the evil party culprits, and gave Qiongying's mother Song Zhenniang as the king of Pingyao County, and Qiongying, who was only twelve or thirteen years old, was also named Zhenxiao Yiren, and their widows and widows were also canonized with the title of noble women.

The rest of the generals of the Western Army such as Liu Fa, Kang Jiong, and Yao Pingzhong, Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo and other forbidden generals who served in other state capitals, and even Wang Huan, Han Cunbao and other envoys who lived in Bianjing were also awarded promotions or rewards. However, Xiao Tang also noticed that although Zhao Ji, the merry genius, praised him for protecting the country and living up to the country's heavy responsibilities, and said that after Aiqing returned to Beijing, there would be a lot of rewards, but the commander of the newly established Jingnan Army in Hedong was still vacant.

After all, at such a time as the present, it is not the period when the princes of all walks of life in the late Eastern Han Dynasty could support their troops in the name of suppressing the Yellow Turban Army, nor is it like the period in the middle and late Tang Dynasty when they greatly expanded their troops to prevent the invasion of foreign races in the border areas and formed a feudal town that dominated one side......

Xiao Tang sighed in his heart, although he had succeeded in conquering the thieves in Hedong and had already trained an army, but according to the military system of the Song Dynasty, it was not how much merit he made that could give him much military power. Xiao Tang's current official rank of the Xin'an Army Festival Envoy is only an administrative title in the various roads, states, governments, and armies under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty. It is completely different from the forbidden army with the number of the Japanese, Tianwu, Jingnan and so on. Of course, if there was another war in Song and Xia, the command of this army would also temporarily fall into the hands of Xiao Tang, but it could also fall into the hands of other forbidden generals.

Do your best and obey the destiny of heaven, Xiao Tangxin said that he had done what he should have done, but there were some things that he could not control. Since the Song Dynasty, the suspicion and restriction of military generals have been the ancestral rules, and several generations of Western military families and other generals have also been fighting endlessly because of the Song and Xia soldiers, so they have not yet reached the point where they have been hidden by the imperial court and cooked by rabbits and dead dogs. Unless Xiao Tang is like Tong Guan and his predecessors Li Xian, who has mixed reviews, who has been fighting in the border court for a long time but is also fierce and brave, and Qin Han, who is a military wizard, and other powerful eunuchs, he gradually got involved in the military and political power of the border court in the name of the eunuch who was favored by the emperor as the supervising army......

If you want to take military power, you must first go from the palace.

Xiao Tang is ruthless and reluctant to let others cut such a knife on his descendants, but the generals who served in the Jingnan Army, such as Wang Jin, Niu Gao and others, are his confidants, so Xiao Tang still has a certain influence on this army. At present, I can only hope that Zhao Ji will temporarily hand over the command of the Jingnan Army to himself in time for the time being, so as not to teach any straw bag officials who are not familiar with military affairs to ruin their hard work.

These things can only be improvised, and they must have a good relationship with some other ministers in the court who can be used for themselves, Xiao Tangxin said that it is useless to think about it now, and now he should return to Beijing as soon as possible.

There's only one thing left to do.