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Yang Wu, the son of Yang Xingmi, led the army to quell the rebellion, won a complete victory, and on the third day of returning to Guangling, Yang Xingmi issued an edict to canonize him as the Huainan Jiedu Liu, and officially became the successor of Huainan.

At the canonization ceremony, Yang Xingmi also specially announced the rewards for all meritorious soldiers drawn up by Yang Wu, among which Chen Fan, Fan Sicong and others were officially promoted to commanders; Generals such as Zhu Siqing, Mi Zhicheng, and Li Decheng were not further promoted either because their merits were not enough, or because their qualifications were insufficient, but they were rewarded with some good land and beautiful houses, gold and silver; The only one who was promoted from a commander to a commander was Qin Pei.

However, the rewards of the two generals, Wang Maozhang and Tai Meng, who were deputy envoys for counterinsurgency, were not announced, which made people wonder.

Huainan Jiedu envoy in the study.

"Father, for the rewards of the two generals Wang Maozhang and Tai Meng, the child is a little undecided, and he asks his father to make a decision on his behalf." Yang Wu, who had just been canonized as a festival, asked respectfully.

For him, being canonized as the prince before made his status more noble, but in the final analysis, his importance is not as good as the current command of Huainan Jiedu.

After all, for Yang Xingmi, his title of King Wu was canonized because he was an envoy of the Huainan Festival, not the other way around; Similarly, for Yang Wu, as long as he is the queen of Jiedu and inherits the throne of Jiedu in the future, then whether he is the son of the world or not, the title of King Wu will not be able to run.

"What do you have that you can't decide? Let's hear it. Yang Xingmi looked at his eldest son, who had grown much taller, and asked with relief.

"General Wang's side is okay, after all, his qualifications are still shallow, although he has the merit of breaking through Runzhou, but it is reasonable to reward some more good fields and beautiful houses; However, General Taiwan is not easy to decide, his qualifications are too old, he was an assassin many years ago, and later he was demoted to the Lianshui system. This time to attack Xuanzhou, with his merits and qualifications, if the reward is too small, I am afraid that the generals will be a little dissatisfied! ”

"What's more important is that Xuanzhou has just been pacified, and it is located on the border, the surrounding situation is complicated, and it may conflict with Qian Biao at any time, so it is necessary to send a fierce general to defend it, and the best candidate is naturally General Taiwan."

"But what the child is worried about is, what position should General Taiwan take when he arrives in Xuanzhou? If he is to serve as a assassin, this is somewhat inconsistent with the policy of gradually using scribes to serve as local assassins; If he doesn't serve as an assassin, then what position should he be allowed to hold to convince the generals? Yang Wu humbly asked.

The policy of gradually switching to scribes as local assassins had been decided as early as last year's Wuyongdu Rebellion, when Dai Yougui had not yet retired, and he offered to persuade Li Shenfu and Li Chengsi to take the initiative to give up the position of assassin at the right time.

However, the process of replacing military generals with scribes is obviously impossible to achieve overnight, and there may not be problems with using military generals to serve as local assassins, such as Shezhou Thorn Shi Tao Ya, he is a military general, but he has done a very good job in governing the local area, and has been supported by the local people, and Tao Ya himself is a good general, plus he is humble and has no ambition, even if he is a local assassin, it is not a big deal.

In addition, in some border areas, wars may be fought at any time, and if civilian officials are used as assassins, I am afraid that they will not be able to effectively deal with the intricacies of war.

Yang Xingmi nodded, he had also considered these questions. The appointment of military generals to serve as assassins was common in this era, on the one hand, because of habit, and on the other hand, because of the frequent wars in troubled times, so that military generals could concentrate the forces of the whole state for military struggle.

"Since this is the case, then let Tai Meng serve as the assassin of Xuanzhou, Xuanzhou needs to maintain stability, and only by guarding it with a general can people be reassured."

Yang Wu nodded, not paying much attention to it. His current plan is to first let Runzhou, Changzhou, Shengzhou, Hezhou, Chuzhou, Luzhou and other places that have become internal states and counties, replace military generals with scribes as assassins, and as for the border states, continue to use military generals to serve as assassins for the time being, and wait until Huainan expands its territory and turns the border prefectures and counties into new internal states and counties, and then replace them with scribes.

In addition, there is a shortage of scribes in Huainan who are qualified to serve as assassins, and it is also difficult to change all the prefectures and counties to scribes at once.

"And what about the position of Runzhou Thorn History? Who are you going to put in the role? And how do you plan to replace the military commander as the local assassin with a scribe? Yang Xingmi asked again.

"The position of Runzhou Thorn History, the child plans to let Shi Wang Lingmou, the governor of Shengzhou, take over. This person has been sitting in the position of Governor Shi for several years, which is enough to be promoted to Assassin Shi. ”

Wang Lingmou was the mastermind of Xu Zhihe (that is, Xu Wen's adopted son, and later Li Yu, the founding emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty), but he was old and shameless, he was a lot older, and he was lying on the sickbed for several years and did not want to go home to recuperate, saying that he had to see Xu Zhihe successfully usurp the throne in office, but in the end he didn't wait, and died of illness shortly before Xu Zhihe usurped the throne.

"As for the matter of replacing military generals with scribes as local assassins, what the child means is that after a period of time, a major reorganization of my Huainan army will be done, and the generals who serve as assassins in various internal states will be transferred from the position of assassins, and in the future, they will focus on leading troops to fight and no longer care about local civil affairs. As for the border states, Wu can be temporarily allowed to continue to serve as the assassin. Yang Wu roughly explained his plan.

"And this matter of reorganizing the army, two generals, Li Shenfu and Li Chengsi, can take the lead to guide other internal states and counties to give up the power of civil affairs."

Yang Xingmi pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Reorganize the army?" How are you going to reorganize? ”

"The child thinks that the current establishment of my Huainan Army is too chaotic, and the ranks are too small, and the result is that many generals with large differences in qualifications and merits have the same rank. For example, all commanders are also commanders, some generals can only command two or three thousand people, while some have tens of thousands of troops under their hands; Therefore, the child's idea is to reorganize the whole army into several armies, and the army can set up a division as a unit, and then below it is the guard, and then the capital, battalion, etc. In this way, not only will the ranks be clearer, but there will also be more positions to be placed for those generals who are now serving as assassins. Of course, I haven't thought about how to do it yet, and I'll report to my father in a few days. ”

"Hmm." Yang Xingmi nodded, he also felt that the level of the Huainan army was too small, this was because of the rapid expansion of the Huainan army in recent years, during the Qingkou War, Yang Xingmi only found 30,000 elites and went to the north to fight with Zhu Quanzhong; But now Huainan can easily mobilize an army of 50,000 or 60,000, which is almost double the size of the original.