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In the past year, although Yang Wu began to take charge of the military and government of Huainan, he changed his more radical approach and became very calm.

Except for the establishment of the Martyrs' Shrine and the leadership of the officials from Huainan to hold a grand ceremony to worship together to boost the morale of the soldiers, he basically did not make any major moves during the year, and everything was mainly to maintain stability.

For him, although he has enough confidence to ensure the stability of Huainan, he has just taken the throne after all, and if he hurriedly changes many of Yang Xingmi's policies now, it will inevitably attract criticism.

Second, the time for the implementation of many of the previous reforms is still too short, and the two Zhejiang provinces have just been captured, so it is not appropriate to make major changes at this time.

Of course, Yang Wu didn't do nothing in this year.

In terms of external affairs, the biggest war related to Huainan in this year was the elimination of Lei Yangong in Langzhou by Ma Yin in Hunan.

With the end of the siege of Hangzhou, a large number of troops used to deal with Qian Biao were liberated, so Yang Wu increased his troops to Ezhou at the first time, so that in addition to 5,000 state soldiers, the garrison of Ezhou also maintained 20,000 elite foreign soldiers, which were still led by Liu Cun.

With the arrival of these troops, the defense of Ezhou also became impregnable, so Ma Yin wisely gave up his plan to attack Ezhou.

However, although Ma Yin stopped fighting Ezhou's idea for the time being, he turned his attention to Langzhou Lei Yangong.

This Lei Yangong, his father Lei Man, and his brother Lei Yanwei have occupied Langzhou for decades, and they are said to be the envoys appointed by the imperial court, but in fact they are similar to bandits who rob homes and houses. The three of them, father and son, often led their subordinates to rob everywhere, and he did not let go of the caravans coming and going from the south to the north, which has always been a disaster for Jinghu.

Two years ago, when Cheng Wei led his army eastward to compete with Li Shenfu, Lei Yangong once raised troops with Ma Yin to rob Jiangling, but because his habit of robbing houses was too heavy, the last fire burned Jiangling, and as a result, although he occupied Jiangling, he was ultimately unable to hold it.

In December last year, he made a big deal, he robbed all the envoys sent by Zhu Quanzhong, the king of Liang, to contact Ma Yin, and finally angered Zhu Quanzhong and Ma Yin, so the two families jointly sent troops to attack Lei Yangong at the beginning of this year.

Lei Yangong originally only had two states, and he was a bandit, and the army's combat effectiveness was not good.

So in just two months, he couldn't hold on and sent an envoy to Huainan for help.

Although Lei Yangong has no interest and his strength is weak, after all, he is a force dependent on Huainan, and he was attacked by Zhu Quanzhong and Ma Yin, so Huainan is naturally not good to sit idly by.

At that time, there were only 10,000 soldiers from other towns in Ezhou, so Yang Wu sent Liu Cun to lead these 10,000 people to meet Lei Yangong, and ordered him to fight off the enemy army and hold Langzhou.

Yang Wu didn't expect that this Liu Cun was really like Yan Keqiu said at the beginning, shameful and brave, and only led 10,000 troops to defeat the 30,000 troops led by He Gui, who was appointed by Zhu Quanzhong.

However, because Lei Yangong had already lost Langzhou before this, it was impossible for them to recover Langzhou alone, and it didn't make much sense, so Liu Cun withdrew his troops back to Ezhou after receiving Lei Yangong.

Later, because Yang Wu officially took charge of Huainan, and Li Shenfu was old and in poor health, Yang Wu resigned from the position of privy envoy and was held by Li Shenfu, and Li Shenfu's position as governor was held by Liu Cun.

At the same time, the strength of the defenders of Ezhou was further increased to 20,000 men per army.

In terms of internally, one of the biggest things Yang Wu did was to adjust the pro-army.

When Huainan carried out the reorganization of the army, the main adjustment was the foreign soldiers and the foreign army, but the pro-army stationed in Guangling Yacheng basically did not move, and those pro-army generals were Yang Xingmi's henchmen.

However, with Yang Wu taking over the throne, he naturally wanted to gradually change these pro-army generals to his own people.

Therefore, in this year, he used various methods to gradually transfer the pro-army generals to serve in the army in other towns, and at the same time replaced them with his own henchmen.

So far, there are 5,000 people in the entire pro-army, which are divided into five commanders, and five people, Diao Yanneng, Li Chan, Li Chengding, Di Yuan, and Zhong Li, who have "graduated" from the new army.

Among them, Li Chan and Li Chengding are the sons of Li Chengsi and Li Shenfu respectively, both of whom are calm temperaments and have no ambitions, and they have an in-law relationship with Yang Wu, so they were selected.

And Di Yuan and Zhong Li were two of the ten people selected from Yang Wu's own pro-army, although they didn't have any great skills, they were loyal. After all, as a pro-army commander, loyalty is the most important thing, and it is nothing to be a little weaker.

As for Diao Yanneng, he was cultivated by Yang Wu, and he was naturally loyal and reliable to him.

In addition to gradually replacing the generals of the pro-army with their own people, the soldiers of the pro-army were gradually changed into the orphans of those who died in battle, and the lower-level officers were gradually changed to the officers and soldiers of Yang Wu's original 500-strong old pro-army.

After these three years of training, these old soldiers of the pro-army who are still alive can generally at least serve as captains and even battalion commanders; They were all trained by Yang Wu, and he remembered everyone's name, so these people were also the most loyal to Yang Wu.

After such adjustments, today's pro-army can be said to be Yang Wu's own pro-army, so that they can be completely controlled and do not have to worry about chaos.

Of course, the adjustment of the pro-army was carried out slowly and silently, and it was not completely completed until some time ago. Not only did it basically not cause turmoil in the army, but even many generals did not feel the changes that had taken place in the pro-army until now.

In addition to adjusting the pro-army, Yang Wu also opened an "Enke" under the advice of Yan Keqiu and others, mainly targeting the scholars of the two Zhejiang, in order to win over the hearts of the people of the two Zhejiang.

Last year, although the two provinces had been basically occupied by Huainan, after all, the overall situation was undecided at that time, and many scholars were still waiting, so not many people came to participate in the Huainan imperial examination.

However, this year, the number of people who participated in the imperial examination again was much higher, and because of last year's experience, the candidates were much more prepared, and their results in the examination were generally stronger than last year's, but there were no outstanding abilities, and the final number of admitted students was still only 50.

Of the 50 newly admitted jinshi, except for the first three who stayed in the Jiedu Embassy to observe the government, the rest of the people, like last year's imperial examination, were also sent to serve as county magistrates and other positions.

However, at the same time, Yang Wu also announced that the imperial examination will be held every two years in the future, and the number of admitted scholars will also increase significantly, but in addition to the top ten Jinshi who directly hold official positions at the county order level, other Jinshi or "Tongjinshi from the same Jinshi" must start from the Jiupin Official.

In order to prevent some scholars who have passed the examination from feeling that their rankings are not high, they are unwilling to go to the local area to serve as a minor official of the nine grades, and want to participate in the imperial examination repeatedly to get a good ranking, Yang Wu further stipulated that those who have been admitted are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination repeatedly. Moreover, there is also a limit on the age of candidates, and anyone over the age of 35 is prohibited from participating in the imperial examination.

As soon as these regulations came out, they caused an uproar in Huainan. However, there are still a few people who have taken the road of the imperial examination to enter the ranks now, and they have no right to speak in Huainan, and those generals are even more indifferent to this, and even secretly support Yang Wu's approach.

For those military generals, they can only get high positions by working the battlefield, why do those people who take the imperial examination only need to read some books at home, and then once they pass the examination, they can reach the sky in one step?

With the support of these people, coupled with Yang Wu's strong statement and Yang Xingmi's support, these regulations were finally passed.

In addition to adjusting the pro-army and Kaienke, Yang Wu basically did not make any adjustments in other aspects, that is, Mingzhou, Taizhou and other states that have become assassins in the interior are still military generals.

There is no way, first, those who took the imperial examination last year have only served as county magistrates for a year, and it is not good to be promoted too quickly; Second, when Wang Maozhang captured those places, he was in a hurry, so he used many brutal methods, and as a result, there are many bandits in those states now, and there is no need for military generals to guard them, so it is difficult to ensure that there will be no problems.

In short, everything is based on stability, and the most important thing is to get Huainan used to his rule as soon as possible.

On this day, in Guangling City, the weather is very hot, and the Jiedu Mansion has become very lively, because there will be a big feast here tonight.

The main purpose of this feast was to celebrate the birth of Yang Wu's eldest son.

In October last year, his wife Zhou Mengjie finally became pregnant, and Yang Wu was so happy all day long. At that time, Li Xun was still in Guangling, and after he personally checked the pulse, he said that he should be pregnant with a boy, but Yang Wu didn't care much about it now, but Yang Xingmi's joy was even stronger.

Sure enough, after conceiving in October, Zhou Mengjie gave birth to a son safely half a month ago.

This son is not only Yang Wu's eldest son, but also his sister-in-law, and has become the core focus of thousands of favorites since birth.

And before that, Yang Wu's mother, Mrs. Shi, also gave birth to a son, and Yang Xingmi's concubine Wang gave birth to a daughter, so far, the Yang family has Yang Wu, Yang Longyan, Yang Meng, Yang Pu, Yang Xun, and the six sons who have just been born and have not yet taken the name, in addition to the three who have been married, there are three, but they are still young.

Coupled with the son just born to Yang Wu, the Yang family is finally complete for three generations, and the population is no longer as scarce as in the past.

In addition to celebrating the birth of the Yang family's grandchildren, the purpose of today's banquet is to name the three little ones who have not yet been named recently.