Li Mao is already a minister, and he is not very interested in adding an official to the knighthood, but he is surprised that the Son of Heaven can readily agree to the candidate he recommends, and I have to say that the Son of Heaven in Changqing has a great benefit, that is, he knows the current affairs, and knows that the affairs of Hebei cannot be done, so he simply does not care about him, so as not to entangle himself; Instead of spending energy dealing with something that you can't actually change, it's better to watch a song and dance, play a game of ball, and get a good night's sleep;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

But according to Qin Mo's secret report, several favored ministers around the Son of Heaven were dissatisfied with Youzhou, the reason was that he had laid down Chengde and gained so many benefits, it is always not so similar for you to swallow alone, you eat meat, you have to let people gnaw bones and drink soup.

Li Mao comprehended, and the carloads and boats of pearls and jade were immediately transported to Chang'an and handed over to Qin Mo for social use, and he must silence the discordant voices of the imperial court.

It is undoubtedly the best policy to use money to silence the opponent, and the best policy is to use money to prop up one's own forces in the DPRK and China, so that the opponent will be afraid and take the initiative to shut up, but it is by no means an overnight achievement to achieve this, and the expedient measure is to support the forces of the DPRK and China to stand up and speak for themselves as a trade-off.

Li Jiang was originally a candidate, but this person is not a party or a group, he is quite a pure minister, he does not form gangs in the court, and he fights alone, and it is difficult to achieve great achievements. What's more, people are pure ministers who are not party or group, how can they be willing to talk nonsense for you

In addition, there is a trouble, others are in Xichuan, not in Chang'an, how to count on it

Now Li Fengji relies on Wang Shoucheng's support, calling for wind and rain in the court, and the noise is impressive, and he has the meaning of a hundred responses, this time he blocked his mouth with money, and next time, if he tastes the sweetness, what will he do

There must be a person who enters the court as a containment, this candidate, Li Jiang can't afford it, Pei Du may be feasible.

The operation of Pei Du into Beijing to restore the phase, whether it is successful or not, is a huge constraint on Li Fengji, Pei Du is currently the envoy of Huainan Jiedu, with the title, and Huainan and Xichuan were originally the prime minister's return places, and it is logical to recall Pei Du from Huainan to worship the prime minister again.

How to operate this matter, Li Mao wanted to listen to Tian Qi's opinion, so he secretly went to Jizhou on the occasion of paying tribute to the Wang family. Tian Qian arrived a day earlier to wait, all the efforts last time failed to make Tian Qian pregnant, Li Mao also died, whether there are children or is destined, there should be a time, and there is no time to force it.

In order to hide people's eyes, the two met in an ordinary house in the south of the city, Tian Qian was wearing a blue cloth shirt often worn by Hebei women, except for fair skin, at first glance it looked like an ordinary woman, Li Mao was startled, and exclaimed: "Go to Ziqing and don't adapt to the water and soil, how can you make it like this?"

Tian Qian said: "It's nothing, in order to hide people's eyes, I put on makeup." It's almost there.,It's a lot more stable than the average station, and the update is faster.,There's no advertising in the whole text.。 ”

Li Mao took a closer look and was taken aback again, but he only changed his hairstyle, clothes, and accessories slightly, and he looked completely like another person.

Xiao Biesheng is newly married, and it is inevitable to toss up and down, and the passion is burned out, Li Mao explained his idea of wanting to operate Pei Du to return to Beijing to restore his appearance.

Tian Qian said: "Pei Du is old, his prestige is high, and it is expected to return to Beijing to pay homage to the prime minister, it is not difficult to push the boat down the river, but the difficult thing is that you have any confidence to dominate him, will he be at your mercy?"

Li Mao shook his head: "This world is still Datang, and he has no reason to listen to me." ”

Tian Qian said: "Not only will he not listen to you, but he will also persuade the Son of Heaven to crusade against you, suppress you, and prevent you from sitting big in Youzhou." ”

Li Mao said: "I've also thought about this, he is a loyal minister, loyal ministers all over the world will think that I Li Mao is a traitor, but I am timid and dare not talk nonsense, and the bold ones are bought by me with money, only a pure minister like him, I have no way to control it." ”

Tian Qian said: "In that case, why do you want to operate him to return to the court." ”

Li Mao said: "In order to contain Li Fengji, if a person has no opponent, he will become lawless. ”

Tian Qian nodded and said: "This is true, but Pei Du can only be a transition, you have to find someone else, and I dare to guarantee that he will not stay in the court for long before he will be squeezed out by Wang Shoude and Li Fengji, believe it or not." ”

Li Mao sighed: "I believe it, I believe everything you say, I am surrounded by generals like clouds now, but there is a lack of strategists like you, you are my female Zhuge , I can't wait to be with you every day." ”

Tian Qian said: "Every day together, there are always times when we are tired, it is better to be separated, and we can still miss each other." ”

The operation of Pei Du's return to Beijing to restore the phase was handed over to Qin Mo to do, Tian Qian fully cooperated in Ziqing, and the voice of the DPRK calling on Pei Du to return to Beijing has not stopped, and it is getting bigger and bigger after Li Fengji's visit to the prime minister, Qin Mo only needs to take advantage of the situation, and the operation space is still very large, as for whether it can be successful, it depends on the means of the operator, and it also depends on the right time, place and people.

Li Mao didn't put too much pressure on Qin Mo, just do his best.

Chengde claims to have 100,000 soldiers, but in fact, there are only 50,000 really elite Ya troops, and the rest are not into the stream of township troops and village soldiers, who defend their homes and supplement the Ya army.

As for the 50,000 tooth army, after division, combination, and repeated civil strife and scuffle, there are only more than 30,000 left, and the combat effectiveness of these 30,000 people is extremely strong, and Li Mao naturally refuses to let go.

Hebei Yajun is a highly professional army, soldiers to the barracks as their home, for the soldier as a profession, there are many military families, three generations of grandparents are in the army of the situation abounds, being a soldier is not only a profession to make a living but also a state of life, leaving the barracks they are nothing, simply at a loss.

The "policy of selling troops" implemented in the first year of Changqing only reduced some soldiers on the fringes of the system, but as a result, it caused a plague of wolves and bandits everywhere in Hebei.

However, the Tooth Army is not monolithic, and the Tooth Army in Chengde takes the battalion as the basic unit, and no matter how the structure above the battalion changes, the establishment of the battalion has always remained unchanged.

Because of the professionalism of the army, how to settle the families of the military has become the top priority, and it has a bearing on the stability of the army's morale and the combat effectiveness of the army, and it must be cautious. The Chengde military system stipulates that the battalion is the unit, and the families of the soldiers are compiled into a complete military household, commonly known as the attached battalion, and the chief or adjutant of the main battalion concurrently serves as the head of the attached battalion, and officials similar to local county orders and lizheng are set up to manage the specific affairs within the attached battalion.

Because the soldiers and civilians in the attached camp live together all the year round and marry each other, the relationship is intricate, forming a closed and exclusive stable complex, which is forcibly separated by external forces, which is extremely difficult and extremely risky.

Therefore, in the internal reorganization of the Chengde Army, the battalion was the basic unit, and no matter how it was divided and combined, the units below the battalion always remained stable.

This characteristic happened to be taken advantage of by Li Mao, the 30,000 German army must be broken up, otherwise no one can really control it, since they only care about the integrity of the organization below the battalion, then they will be dismantled by the battalion.

The 30,000 Tooth Army was divided into 60 battalions and scattered into other armies. The original establishment at the battalion level and below remains unchanged, the personnel remain stable, the attached battalions are relocated with the main battalion, and the construction costs are paid by each army.

Increasing 30,000 elite soldiers and reducing 30,000 opponents, Li Mao was happy, but Chengde's broken economy was not enough to support this huge army, and Wang Yu and Wang Tingcuo were in power in order to buy the unbridled rewards of the army, and the Hengzhou treasury was empty.

Youzhou's financial reform has achieved initial results, and it can barely be done to fill this hole, but the hole is easy to fill, but the bottomless pit is not satisfied, and if the chaos of Chengde continues, Chengde's financial bottomless pit will eventually drag Li Mao down.

Li Mao checked the household registration of Chengdu and learned that the population of the six prefectures was only 150,000, which was inferior to a large state in the south of the Yangtze River, but it had to support 20 times more troops and bureaucrats than the south of the Yangtze River, which showed the heavy burden.

Of course, the actual number of people in the six states of Chengde is more than these, about half of the population and acres of land are hidden by large households, these large households are inextricably linked with the Wang family, they are the privileged class formed after the division of Chengde, they do not have to pay taxes, their children can be officials in the government, they have to be evenly touched with all the benefits of Chengde, and all the burdens have nothing to do with them.

Now that the Wang family has fallen, the bureaucracy and the tooth army on which they relied no longer exists, and they are like fish in a ditch that has been drained of water, lying on the mud and surviving.

Whether to fish these fish out of the ditch and kill them to satisfy their hunger, or to leave them alive and force them to make concessions and finally achieve the ecological balance of the place.

Obviously, the former is simpler to operate and more effective, but it is undoubtedly the most side effect.

This set of practices has been implemented in Yingzhou before, Zhu Wei abandoned the city and left, Li Mao confiscated all his property, including a large amount of land and population, and then formed a publicly-owned grange, and then slowly private according to the situation, so that the benefit of the people, the road map planning is clear, but the actual walk is extremely difficult, so a large amount of corruption in the birth of the evil has almost buried the entire Yingzhou officialdom.

Since then, Li Mao has become cautious, after entering Youzhou, he recognized the local wealthy family's possession of land and population, and announced the protection of legal property, and then took various means to constantly reduce the swelling of local large households, bridge the gap between the extremely poor and the extremely rich, and maintain the local ecological balance.

Now it seems that although there is a lot of trouble, the overall effect is better than that of Yingzhou.

The environment in Chengde is more complicated than that in Youzhou, and Li Mao is not too optimistic about the consequences of implementing this policy.

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