At this time, Chao Gai was at the Jeju Military Headquarters, and after consulting with several military advisors, it was decided to carry out a large-scale spring military training. The Jeju Army was strictly managed, but last winter it lost some of its veterans in the battle against the Liao soldiers, and was replenished with new reserves, including new recruits such as Lu Junyi, Zhao Long, Wen Da and Yan Qing. These soldiers were not originally trained by the Jeju Army, although their combat effectiveness is very strong and very good, but they have not experienced common training and are prone to estrangement between them, such as the soldiers of Zhao Long's department, the military department arranges them to patrol, they will think that they do not pay attention to them, let them do some chores, and arrange them to be the main force, and they will think that this is deliberately consuming them. As for Lu Junyi, Yan Qing and others, they brought Lu Jiazhuang's family, with more than 200 people, belonging to Lu Jun's private soldiers, who could be retained as the main general's guards, but they must be trained in a unified manner.

Therefore, it is necessary to disrupt the original establishment and carry out reorganization training. The reorganization training lasted for a month, and the morale of the three armed forces of the Jeju Army was greatly improved, and the new generals were properly resettled after the reorganization training. Lu Junyi newly established a battalion of 1,500 lancers, with Lu Junyi as the battalion commander, and Yan Qing no longer served as Lu Junyi's deputy, and together with Ma Ling, he set up the Third Intelligence Department, which was mainly responsible for intelligence investigation in the Hebei area, and occasionally carried out some small tasks.

Zhao Long was incorporated into Sun Anbu, and together with Ma Lin, he served as Sun An's deputy general, and Sun Anbu's strength was greatly strengthened, with a strong impact force, and as a light cavalry, he fully undertook general combat tasks. Wen Da was incorporated into the Qin Ming Department as Qin Ming's deputy general, which is also after comprehensive consideration, Wen Da is brave, and knows some of the art of war, and Qin Ming's deputy general can supplement some of Qin Ming's shortcomings, and although he is a deputy general in Qin Ming's department, but Qin Ming's 1,500 people are heavy cavalry, riding high-headed horses, and when charging, people and horses are armored, with strong bows and spears, which is exactly what the northern Liao people call Tiefutu. Tiefutu not only has a strong individual combat ability, but also has a strong collective combat ability, with iron chains to put five Tiefutu, group combat has become the world-famous ironclad chain horse.

In this way, the cavalry strength of the Jeju Army has become stronger, and some people say that the Jeju Army attaches importance to cavalry and does not pay attention to infantry, but in fact, it is because they do not understand the Jeju Army. The strongest of the Jeju army is the navy, followed by infantry, cavalry, and individual artillery, although the number is small, but the combat effectiveness is also very strong.

At the same time as the army was reorganized, agriculture, animal husbandry, and handicraft industries in the eight prefectures under the jurisdiction of the Jeju Army have made great progress.

In particular, in agriculture, Tianwang rice, peanuts, and cotton have been vigorously promoted, and the planting area has expanded. In forestry, it focuses on the development of economic forests, pepper, jujube, persimmon, chestnut, pear, etc. are planted a lot, handicraft industry and handicraft industry are coordinated with each other, the development of such as straw weaving, rattan weaving, wood products, traditional ceramic products, etc., especially in Shandong around the straw weaving, rattan weaving mats, baskets, rattan chairs are very popular in the hot Nanyang small country, some Nanyang nobles, royal families are proud to use these items.

Even the Qingju Prefecture under Hu Yanzhuo's jurisdiction began to recover, and Hu Yanzhuo approached the Jeju Army, and then announced its merger into the Jeju Army. The Jeju Army gave Hu Yanzhuo the establishment of a battalion, with Hu Yanzhuo as the battalion commander and Han Tao and Peng Xi as the deputy battalion commanders. Suo Chao returned to the Jeju Army Headquarters and appointed Suo Chao as Deputy General Pang Wanchun.

Don't look at Hu Yanzhuo's military general's background, but he is quite experienced in managing the place, first announced that all land taxes would be exempted for one year, and Qingzhou made the original Murong prefect not only poor people, but even the middle class was poor. The one-year exemption from land tax gave the people a buffer time, followed by the purchase of large quantities of relief grain from other places, including Tianwang rice, sorghum and bean cakes. The three kinds of grain were crushed and distributed as rations to more than 50,000 extremely poor people in Qingzhou, pulling them back from the line of life and death. Then there are the seeds, and the comptoirs sell the seeds on credit, train the technology for free, and return the seeds after the autumn harvest. Some commercial houses, chambers of commerce, and maritime merchants also often come to Qingzhou to recruit some temporary workers. The local surplus labor force in Qingzhou also has something to do, and gradually regained its vitality.

The weather at the end of March, the grass grows and the warbler flies is the busy season of farming, Chao Gai has to estimate farming in addition to training, and at this time the eldest wife Hu Sanniang is already pregnant, Chao Gai just returned from home to the barracks intelligence department of the second time Qian sent someone to come, Chao Gai opened to see, the problem is still more serious.

It turned out that Taiyuan Tianhu took advantage of the time when the court had no time to estimate him, and proclaimed himself emperor in Taiyuan. The generals under his command have also expanded to hundreds of yuan, and the soldiers have been trained to have more than 100,000 yuan, with Taiyuan as the center, occupying dozens of counties, and the soldiers are strong and strong, and they are ambitiously preparing to go east or south.

Chao Gai looked at it and handed the information to Wu Yong.

Wu Yong said: "Tian Hu dares to be the emperor with this little talent, I really don't know what to say." Tong Guan only needs to transfer the Western Army to Tian Hu, and it's over. However, Tian Hu was also accurate, Tong Guan's army had to face the Western Xia, and he had no leisure to take care of Taiyuan, so he dared to be the emperor at this time. ”

Chao Gai said: "I estimate that my uncle should arrive again, Tian Hu rebelled against the imperial court and could turn a blind eye, but Tian Hu said that the imperial court could not sit still, we have to consider whether to send troops and how to send troops." ”

Zhu Wu was speechless, and Gongsun Sheng said: "We have newly acquired Hu Yanzhuo, and occupying Qingzhou is also a thorn in the eye of the imperial court, a thorn in the flesh, so the imperial court hopes that our two tigers will fight, no matter who wins or loses, it will make the imperial court proud, so I conclude that the minister who came to convey the will will will soon arrive." The journey to Taiyuan is a bit long, and if we can't win quickly, it will be another test for our logistics. ”

Chao Gai nodded: "The last time they sent troops to resist Liao, it was Wu Junshi and Gongsun Junshi, and this time when they entered Taiyuan, it would be hard for Zhu Junshi and Gongsun Shengjunshi." The military headquarters immediately began to formulate a plan for the expedition, and only waited for the holy decree to send troops as soon as it arrived. ”

Chao Gai's intelligence was faster than that of the imperial court, and the plan for the expedition was also formulated earlier. It took more than a day for the imperial court to learn the news that Tian Hu was proclaimed emperor, and when they got the news, the Jinluan Palace became a vegetable market, and it was chaotic in an instant, and the ministers of the court were divided into two factions, one faction advocated immediate extermination, and they must not be allowed to run rampant. The other faction advocates ignoring Tian Hu's clown, after all, Taiyuan is a border area, and the most important thing is to quickly clean up Fang La in the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River, only by cleaning up Fang La, can more money and food be raised to exterminate Tian Hu.

Just as the two factions were arguing, the high-ranking and powerful Gao Yu coughed and said, "Why do you need to use a single soldier of the imperial court to destroy Tian Hu." ”

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