After Lingzhou changed hands, Tiance Mansion had a space for strategic maneuvering, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs finally sorted out the basic situation of the counties under the jurisdiction of Lingzhou after a busy month.

"The situation in Lingzhou is much better than we expected." Li Xuanqing looked at the summary report sent by Cen Tianshi and said with a smile: "The foundation of the six counties is much better than that of Fengzhou. What about the staffing situation in each county? Is there any resistance? ”

Cen Tianshi sat on the side and said with a smile: "Lingzhou is located on the border, it has always been the western barrier of Chang'an, densely populated, according to the records of Lingzhou Prefecture Chronicles and the former Jiedu Envoy Register, Lingzhou has a population of more than 400,000, not counting the displaced people who have fled from the mainland in recent years, and the Civil Affairs Department estimates that the population may be about 600,000. ”

"According to our method in Toyosu, the field should be divided, and the agricultural tax collection standard should also be in line with Toyoshu. The patrol and arrest department should cooperate with the Department of Agriculture to investigate and deal with all illegal land transfers in the past three years, preside over the division of land as soon as possible, and divide it according to the standard of 10 to 15 mu per person. Li Xuanqing sighed and said: "Social turmoil has always been land annexation, and peasants have no way to live without land, and this lesson cannot appear under the rule of Tiance Mansion." ”

"Don't worry, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has already arranged it, and the entire six counties of Lingzhou have now moved, and the announcement of Tiance Mansion has also been posted to all counties and villages, and the General Staff has also dispatched garrisons to assist in this matter." Cen Tianshi said: "In the past few days, it is estimated that Lingzhou will change color again, but fortunately, Tianshi can still bear it." ”

Li Xuanqing naturally knew the pressure of Cen Tianshi, and the investigation and punishment of illegal land transfer alone involved the interests of all strata in Lingzhou. To put it bluntly, Li Xuanqing also wants to find a reason for these people to spit out all the war wealth they made in the past few years.

"Don't worry, I have already asked Tianxiang to conduct a census in the army, and the Xuanying Weiling Prefecture Branch will also coordinate with the Ministry of Civil Affairs at that time. The world is in turmoil, and there are people who want to get rich, and I don't mind killing. Li Xuanqing's eyes flashed with coldness, and he said with a smile: "The household registration system of the Department of Civil Affairs must be implemented as soon as possible, on the one hand, with the division of fields by the Department of Agriculture and the arrangement of people to settle down, on the other hand, we must make every effort to investigate the occurrence of private illegal population incidents." All people in the jurisdiction of Tiance Mansion must have household registration, and for those large households who hide the population under the banner of miscellaneous servants and slaves, the patrol department will directly come to the door to get people, and they must knock on this fortress. ”

"Don't worry, the time has already been arranged, that's why I said that it will change color in the next few days." Cen Tianshi also knew Li Xuanqing's grievances, so he didn't say much, and said with a smile: "How to deal with the household registration of the Wenmo people, Tubo people, and Uighurs in the jurisdiction?" According to the preliminary statistics of the Civil Affairs Department, there are more than 100,000 people, and a small number of them are scattered in various counties, most of which are concentrated in Lingzhou and Wenchi in the southwest. ”

Li Xuanqing knocked on the table and said in a deep voice: "For these people who are willing to engage in farming, they can settle down as people on the spot, and they are willing to continue to migrate to Dingyuan City and Sanfeng to settle down, build a new state-run pasture, and let them become professional herdsmen." By the way, after the division of Lingzhou, the surplus population migrated to Fengzhou, and they were exempt from tax for one year, or they could directly enter the workshop to become industrial workers, or they could become merchants. ”

"Do you want to continue with the state farm?" Cen Tianshi tasted the good of the state farm, looked at Li Xuanqing and said with a smile: "I have seen the land in Lingzhou, the fertility is not inferior to Fengzhou, according to the estimate of the Department of Agriculture, eight or so state-owned farms of about 200,000 mu can be built." ”

Li Xuanqing nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, the specific strategy of the Agriculture Department will arrange it by itself, and there is no need to ask for instructions on everything." What has Murong Hanhai done recently? ”

When Murong Hanhai Cen Tian was mentioned, he suddenly smiled: "Don't say it, my lord, this kid is really a natural businessman, and he wants to do business as an official, in addition to presiding over some handicraft workshops moving west, he has also started to engage in minced meat workshops, and I heard that Zuo Tiancheng of the logistics department is also ready to participate." ”

"Minced meat? What is this? Li Xuanqing didn't react for a while and asked.

"It is to mix and boil meat products such as beef and sheep and rice and flour with salt, press them into minced meat, seal them in clay pots, and seal them with wax, so that they can be stored for a long time, and they are extremely convenient for transportation. After Zuo Tiancheng heard about this, he immediately participated, and mobilized the troops of the logistics department to participate in the construction, which was put into production a few days ago. Cen Tianshi explained with a smile.

"What kind of minced meat, this is canned food." Li Xuanqing suddenly realized, patted his head and smiled: "How ugly the minced meat is, let's call it canned food." Tell Murong that not only beef and mutton can be made into canned food, but also fruit, but sugar should be put in it, so that he has time to find someone to try. Clay pots can also be replaced with porcelain pots. After a pause, he continued: "The relocation of the workshop involving the military industry involves Xuan Yingwei. This time the population has increased, and the workshops, whether civil or military, should be expanded and rebuilt. I reckon our good days are coming to an end, and someone is eyeing them. ”

Cen Tianshi was about to speak, but he saw Xu Tianxiang walk in, holding a piece of information in his hand and hurriedly said: "Lord, civil affairs chief, the latest news from Chang'an." ”

Li Xuanqing took the information and glanced at it a few times and handed it to Cen Tianshi, then walked to the window and was silent.

"The imperial court wants to send a prison army to Lingzhou? Let the lord be the envoy of the festival and give up Fengzhou to the Zhenwu army? What kind of mess is this? Cen Tianshi glanced at the information, and said with a smile: "Lord, have we been plotted by someone?" ”

"Who else can there be, it must be Yang Fugong, the dead eunuch. This is to provoke the struggle between our Tiance Mansion and Hedong. Xu Tianxiang was a little angry and said: "Otherwise, I will inform Xiao Si to slaughter this damn prison army on the way, and the provincial people from Lingzhou will point fingers and mess with our good deeds." ”

"No, we can't do it, this way from Chang'an to Lingzhou, in addition to the territory of the Shence Army is the jurisdiction of the Fengxiang Festival Envoy, Li Changfu must have guessed Yang Fugong's thoughts, in a vain attempt to bring disaster to the east and relieve our pressure on Fengxiang, so as long as something happens to the prison army, everyone knows that it was my Tiance Army who did it." Cen Tianshi shook his head and denied Xu Tianxiang's idea.

"Lord, how should we deal with it? We can get the news, and Li Ke has also got the news over there. Xu Tianxiang saw that Li Xuanqing didn't speak, and immediately said urgently.

Li Xuanqing smiled: "Tianxiang, your heart is in turmoil. Isn't it going too smoothly during this time? It is not good for the General Staff to have this kind of thinking, and it is necessary to urge all armies, and the people below must not have this kind of thinking. Seeing Xu Tianxiang's face stunned, he reacted and continued: "Lingzhou Jiedu made this official position, we directly refused, so when the prison army came, let him live in Lingzhou, and send someone to keep an eye on it." Under the rule of the Tiance Army, all officers and soldiers are equal, and no one can exceed their authority, right? ”

Cen Tianshi smiled and nodded: "Don't worry, my lord, just leave the affairs of the prison army to Tianshi to deal with." ”

Li Xuanqing nodded and continued: "The General Staff's reorganization of the Lingwu Army has been completed. Then immediately increase the troops in Fengzhou, I don't know if Li Keyong will do it, but what I want to make sure is that in case Zhou Dewei on the front line wants to do it, we will take advantage of the situation to take Shengzhou, completely occupy the front cover, and take Tumochuan into the bag. ”

"Tianxiang, you immediately convey the order, the second battalion immediately returned to Fengzhou, and the fourth battalion Chen Fan moved to Tiande City after Chen Yu arrived in Fengzhou. In this way, Fengzhou concentrated two infantry battalions and one cavalry battalion, which was enough to deal with any move by Zhou Dewei. Li Xuanqing said solemnly: "At the same time, the first battalion, the third battalion, the heavy armored battalion, the second cavalry battalion, the sixth battalion and the three newly formed battalions in the Lingzhou area are organized into two independent combat clusters, one is concentrated in Wenchi and arranged along the boundary from Lingzhou to the Yellow River, and the other is stationed in Dingyuan City to deal with all parties. Tell everyone, get ready for war. ”

Xu Tianxiang hurriedly returned to the General Staff and began to formulate plans and give orders. Cen Tianshi, who was on the side, asked a little hesitantly: "Lord, listen to what you mean, the current situation has deteriorated a little." A Yang Fugong won't let the whole army of 100,000 troops of the Tiance Army be dispatched, right? ”

"Sir, come and see," Li Xuanqing pulled Cen Tianshi to the side of the hanging map and said, "The two jurisdictions of Tiance Mansion are in a long and narrow direction, and the surrounding feudal towns have greatly increased their hostility towards us after the Battle of Lingzhou. If my guess is correct, Li Keyong is just a chess piece that Yang Fugong wants to use, and he still has a back hand. ”

"What does the lord mean is that he will pry up other knots to attack my Tiance Mansion when necessary?" Cen Tianshi stared at the feudal towns of Fengxiang, Wuding, Yanzhou, Xiazhou, and Shengzhou around Tiance Mansion, and said, "With Yang Fugong's mind, it is possible to guess our next goal, but what is the reason?" He himself is now at war in Shannan Dongdao and Sichuan, hasn't Chen Jingxuan recently fallen out with that Wang Jian under him? Besides, except for Li Maozhen's Wuding Army around us, he can't command the others. ”

"Sir, you forgot something-" Li Xuanqing smiled: "That's me, sir, do you think, the youngest of these festivals around us is Li Maozhen, he is also forty this year, right?" Will they tolerate a man under the age of twenty to grow stronger? I have a hunch that this battle is coming, and for them, it is not for the sake of turf, but for the sake of their children and grandchildren. ”

Cen Tianshi was silent, to be honest, he ignored this, or in his heart, Li Xuanqing already had the ability and strength to wrestle with other princes, and age was no longer a problem in his heart.

"Since the lord can predict it, what can he do that day? Should the reform of Lingzhou be temporarily halted and wait until this battle is over? In the middle of the night, Cen suddenly raised his head, and there was a crazy look in his eyes.

Li Xuanqing shook his head, and his voice became high-pitched: "On the contrary, the reform of Lingzhou cannot be stopped for a single step, I just want the people of Lingzhou to know that Tiance Mansion would rather withstand the pressure of war than seek their well-being." The Ministry of Civil Affairs should publicize this matter at the same time as the reform, so that the hearts of the military and the people of Tiance Mansion can be united, and at the same time, we will also tell all the enemies that we are ready, even if we fight the world alone, our Tiance Army is capable of fighting strong enemies and protecting the people. Go and tell them that this war is to protect the family and the country, and everyone has a responsibility. ”

"Please rest assured, Tianshi will do his best, and he will never let these things hold back the army and the lord." Cen Tianshi solemnly arched his hand and said solemnly: "Tianshi has to meet the lord in this life, and he has been doing his best since he died." ”

Li Xuanqing smiled slightly, stretched out his hand to support Cen Tianshi and said with a smile: "Sir, don't worry, we won't lose." The Tiance Army has combined the essence of the two border armies of the Anxi Army and the Lingwu Army, and has given birth to its own military soul, which is rampant in the world and sweeping the Quartet. ”

In Li Xuanqing's profound eyes, Cen Tianshi began the pace of reform in Lingzhou, and for a while, Lingzhou was shaken, and new regulations were issued, and batches of big landlords who had seized and seized were bloodily suppressed, and a large amount of land that had been accumulated in their hands was found out and redistributed, and a large number of ownerless people were also listening to the small team specially sent by the Ministry of Civil Affairs to tell about the impending predicament of Lingzhou while being allocated to the fields. Since ancient times, land has been the lifeblood of the Chinese, and when I heard that someone was going to snatch the land that had just arrived, Lingzhou suddenly burst out with a strong and powerful force in the bloody rain, and these people gathered in Yamen almost at the same time, rushing to ask whether to recruit soldiers to participate in the war, and many people directly said that they would rather die in battle than keep the land and defeat the enemy. Because the Ministry of Civil Affairs did not say who the enemy was, many people even suspected that it was Wen Mo who came again, and the ethnic minorities in Lingzhou almost suffered from the pond fish, and Cen Tianshi also made a timely decision to migrate these ethnic minorities to Dingyuan City and other places in the name of protection.

This internal integration in Lingzhou lasted for a whole month, Lingzhou was purged in one state and six counties, and after the land issue was resolved, handicraft workshops and commercial development promulgated by the Department of Industry and Commerce were also carried out, and the Fengzhou model was officially promoted.

In this storm, the Tiance Army also assisted the local reform operations while purging the interior, blockading the four borders and arresting a large number of unscrupulous landlords and wealthy merchants who tried to flee Lingzhou. What makes Li Xuanqing a little different is that this operation also involves the original Lingwu Army. Many middle-level generals of the Lingwu Army were also involved. For this reason, the General Staff Headquarters began to issue directives strictly prohibiting the military from participating in local affairs, and directly sentenced all the more than a dozen generals who were involved in the localities and used their positions to cover up their family members' violations of the law or interfered in local government affairs, so as to strongly deter those who dared to cross the red line.

At the end of March 888, just when the Tiance Mansion had just finished the wind of reform and the military administration began to formalize according to the new rules, the envoy of Chang'an also brought Cui Lian, the eunuch of the Lingzhou Jiedu envoy, to the belated arrival. At this time, Lingzhou was also ready for the final preparations.