On the first day of April 889, the garrisons of Tiance Prefecture suddenly received a strange order from the General Staff: the commanders of each military camp must hand over all military affairs to the adjutant general within ten days, and they themselves must rush back to the Chang'an headquarters to accept the latest orders from the General Staff. Originally, this kind of large-scale order had been given before, but the strange thing is that this time, in addition to the field troops, the logistics department, the special operations department, and even Zhang Tianhu and his entourage, who were temporarily inspecting Fengzhou and preparing to change the lecture hall into a military academy, also received orders.

"Third child, did you say that Xuanqing recalled the main generals on such a large scale, is there something going to happen?" Zhang Tianhu and Ma Laosan, who were already in charge of garrisoning in Fengzhou, and Chen Fan and others chatted on the road while hurrying to Chang'an.

"I guess it's a military and political reform. After all, the military is developing too fast, and if the system building cannot keep up, it will not only slow down the pace, but also affect the combat effectiveness. Our little disciple is thoughtful and thinks more than us. I don't think the two of us old guys will be able to see the time when the world is unified. Ma Laosan thought for a while and smiled: "Chen Fan, do you think about what military rank you will give this time?" I heard that your third brother is not at the same level as we used to be. ”

When Chen Fan heard Ma Laosan's words, he urged the war horse to follow, and said with a smile: "Teacher, our brothers don't care about the title or anything, but when the junior came over some time ago, he mentioned that the army was going to be reorganized, which made me think about these things these days." ”

Zhang Tianhu and Ma Laosan looked at each other and smiled: "The reorganization is for sure, there is no major war at present, and Li Keyong went north to fight Helian Duo, Zhu Quanzhong also fought Qin Zongquan in Caizhou, Yang Fugong on the southern line shrank in Shannan Road, Li Maozhen and Wang Jian are also in Sichuan, we have ushered in a rare short period of peace, when will it be reorganized if it is not reorganized at this time?" ”

"Okay, the front is the boundary of Xiazhou, I heard that Wu Huan and Hou Yong are conducting cavalry training with the party members, let's go together when the time comes." Liu Baoliang roared in the back and said with a smile.

At this time, such a scene also appeared on the other straight roads leading to Chang'an, and these young Tiance army generals were all taken to Chang'an by an order from the Supreme Command, where the base camp of Tiance Mansion was located.

Zhang Tianhu, Chen Fan and the others were the latest to receive the notice, so when they arrived at the newly established military headquarters building in Chang'an that was put into use for the first time, the other generals had already arrived, and Xue Wanli and the others stationed in Chang'an were already giggling and blowing in one of the small conference rooms.

"Tahi, I'll go, how are you faster than me! It doesn't make sense. Liu Baoliang spotted Taxi sitting in it at a glance, and immediately shouted.

"How unreasonable? I'm a prairie person anyway, if I can't outrun you, then I might as well die. Tahi glared at Liu Baoliang and then shot back.

Zhang Tianhu and Ma Laosan were really tired from traveling day and night in the past few days, so they hurriedly said hello to everyone and went to rest. As soon as the two of them left, the others immediately chatted again. Liu Baoliang saw Tahi's expression of joy, talking and laughing with others, and even the two commanders of the party cavalry battalion, Ye Gu and Lang De, also squeezed in to join in the fun, and immediately smiled: "My Lord Khan, what good thing makes you so happy?" Did you find a treasure? Hurry up, meet and divide half, otherwise I will go to the law court to sue you, and I will not take everyone to share the money. His words immediately made other people react, and Taxi also came when Li Xuanqing got married during the New Year's Day, but his expression was depressed and his heart was heavy.

"Haha, that's it, people are in good spirits when they are happy, I just learned this sentence. My two old fellows have been found, wounded, but all are fine. And Baixin also asked the lord to send him to school. I'm going home soon to retire. Tahiha laughed.

When everyone heard him say this, they hurriedly stepped forward to say hello. Everyone basically knows Tahi's story, and the Flying Eagle Brigade has been wandering the steppe for more than three months for this reason, and now it is a great joy to hear that it has been found. Suddenly, the big guys blackmailed Tahi and asked him to have a treat.

"Tiancheng, when will the General Staff have a meeting?" Chen Fan saw that everyone was very interested, and asked Yang Tiancheng, who had just walked in.

"It is estimated that tomorrow, the lord is still discussing the matter of the law with the Lord of the Law Court at this time." Yang Tiancheng smiled bitterly: "I thought that the brothers could get together early and taste the cooking skills of the lord and Qiaoxi." Now it seems that there is no play. The third sister-in-law has been busy looking for a master for the children in the orphanage for the past two days, and she has no time to pay attention to us. ”

"You have it, let's go, let's go find Tianxiang, he should be ready for nothing." Xue Wanli stood up and pulled everyone away.

Everyone giggled and went to the Taibai Restaurant to have a meal and then wandered around in Chang'an, Chang'an City is also the second time to welcome so many senior officers in Tiance Mansion, some shops are sharp-eyed and began to fight the ideas of these officers, and try their best to do preferential activities for military consumption, even the fat powder land in Chang'an City began to play the words "reward the three armies" outside the hook bar, and those women dressed in flowers and branches stood outside the building to greet them.

After everyone wandered around for a day, the next day the meeting of senior generals of the Tiance Army was officially convened, presided over by Xu Tianxiang, chief of the General Staff, and there were two main topics, one of which was the issue of troop reorganization, and the second was the issue of awarding the titles of the current generals.

Originally, there was no big problem with the reorganization of the troops, but this time Li Xuanqing changed the previous number setting, began to reorganize according to the numbering method of later generations, and set up a higher-level corps-level command structure according to the current region, and stipulated that the corps-level was the largest regular army establishment of the Tiance Army, with three battalions under its jurisdiction. In this way, it is basically possible to deal with general geographical conflicts. If there is a larger campaign that requires more troops, several corps can be organized together to form a group army, and the General Staff will appoint the commander of the group army.

According to this thinking, the General Staff Department organized the current field units of the Tiance Army into three infantry corps, three mixed corps, two cavalry corps, four central garrison battalions, one archery battalion, and three detachments of the Special Operations Department, totaling 320,000 people.

The First Army Corps was located on the Eastern Front, stationed at Tongguan, and Yang Tian became the general of the military command; The Second Army was located in Xiazhou, with Chen Yu as the general commander-in-chief; The Third Army Corps was located in Fengzhou and the city of Western Surrender, with Liu Baoliang as the general commander-in-chief; The Fourth Army was located in Hanzhong, with Wang Houchun as the general in chief; The fourth to sixth are the establishment of mixed corps, and the fourth corps is in Lingzhou, with Wan Yi as the general general; The Fifth Army Corps garrisoned Tiande City, with Tuoba Si succeeding as the general of the general system; The Sixth Army was located in Fangzhou, with Xue Wanli as the general in chief; The seventh to eighth were cavalry corps, and the seventh corps had Hou Yong as the general and garrisoned Dingyuan City; The Eighth Corps was stationed in Ningzhou, with Wu Huan as the general in chief. As the main force of the current Tiance Mansion, the eight legions are stationed in all directions, which is also to prepare for the next plan.

The next four central garrison battalions are the Modao Battalion, the Heavy Cavalry Battalion, the Directly Subordinate Battalion, and the Guards Battalion, which are successively organized into the first to fourth battalions of the Central Garrison.

Because the archery battalion has a special mission, it is directly under the General Staff and will not appear in other establishments for the time being.

The level of the Eagle Brigade, the Shadow Guard, and the Hellfire Brigade has been increased by one level, which is the same as the level of each legion, and there is no limit to the number of people.

Moreover, in this reorganization of the army, the General Staff also delegated the establishment of the ballista brigade to each army corps as one of the regular establishments of the corps, thus opening the regular practice of long-range troops as regular troops.

In addition, in the establishment plan of the General Staff Headquarters, in addition to the fact that the number of each regiment is superimposed according to the number of battalions and the number of troops directly under it, the number of the central garrison battalion has begun to increase, of which the number of heavy cavalry battalions is positioned at 50,000, which will be supplemented in three years, the Modao battalion will be expanded to 20,000 people, and the number of directly subordinate battalions and personal guard battalions will also be increased to 30,000. In this way, the reorganization of the Tiance Army is actually an alternative army expansion plan. This made all the generals present feel a strong atmosphere of war. The concentration of three corps in the Fengzhou area near the north also made the new commander-in-chief Chen Fan, Chen Yu and Tuoba Siji look at each other and guess the next battle plan of the General Staff.

However, Cen Tianshi, who attended the meeting of the General Staff as an observer, calculated the reorganization plan of the General Staff and was secretly worried, not understanding what Li Xuanqing's confidence was in such a large-scale military expansion, and the current population and experience strength of the area controlled by Tiance Mansion were not enough to support such a huge military expenditure; although all the military expansion plans were gradually completed in years, the military expenditure would increase by several million Tang dollars every year, not counting the cost of logistics procurement and the resettlement of retired personnel.

And Li Xuanqing seemed to know what Cen Tianshi was thinking at this time, and waited until Xu Tianxiang finished announcing the reorganization and adjustment order after standing up and said: "Everyone, the expansion of the field troops must be carried out in strict accordance with the plan formulated by the General Staff Department, and the task of the Recruits Department is to send qualified soldiers to all armies every year, and it is strictly forbidden for all armies to expand their armies without permission. ”

"Secondly, such a huge plan does impose a heavy financial burden on the Ministry of Civil Affairs, so the streamlining plan of the Logistics Department must be implemented immediately. The factories and mines that were sold were turned into cash and handed over to the Ministry of Finance to replenish the military budget year by year. Li Xuanqing signaled Zuo Tiancheng to prepare the speech of the logistics department.

Zuo Tiancheng stood up and began to introduce the reorganization plan of the logistics department. First of all, the various branches under the Logistics Department began to be streamlined, and all the 48 workshops, factories and mines under the Equipment Department that did not belong to the military industry were handed over, and the Department of Finance and the Department of Industry and Commerce purchased them at a price, and then auctioned them off to all interested merchants. There are more than a dozen large-scale workshops and factories and mines, and even Li Xuanqing directly gave up the newly established iron and steel plants and handed them over to the Ministry of Civil Affairs for state-run operation, and began to instruct the Department of Industry and Commerce to start banning small workshops and small factories and mines in the iron and steel field, complete the rapid integration of the iron and steel industry, and pave the way for the next industrial development plan.

Cen Tianshi saw Zuo Tiancheng take out all the factories and mines in one go, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face, and said with a smile: "Lord, you should let the logistics department report first, see what scares me, if it weren't for Lao Zuo's hand, I would even have the heart to cry." ”

Li Xuanqing said disapprovingly: "Sir, your Ministry of Civil Affairs's idea is actually misunderstood, there is actually a difference between governing the country and a family, private families hope to have more than every year, but the country is sometimes different, in the period of rapid development of various industries, the fiscal does not need to follow the practice of having surplus money, and the appropriate fiscal deficit can actually improve the development of the economy, especially when the money has been stabilized, the government has more means to deal with emergencies, When necessary, it can directly borrow money from the bank in the name of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, so that economic input can be increased in the annual budget and more policy support can be ensured for regional economic development. ”

Li Xuanqing's words made Cen Tianshi feel a burst of surprise, this idea has not yet summed up the law of economic operation, and Li Xuanqing himself is the biggest loophole in this era, which can be easily regulated by borrowing the economic experience of later generations, so as to achieve advance prediction of economic development.

Moreover, as the rule of Tiance Prefecture in the northwest became more and more stable, and its policies stimulated economic development more and more, while agriculture recovered rapidly, industry and commerce were developing at an unprecedented speed, which also gave Li Xuanqing more confidence to carry out economic reform and expand the army.

"Okay, the General Staff will start the next meeting topic, which is also to solve the issue of the rank of the heroes of the Tiance Army since its establishment for so long." Li Xuanqing ignored Cen Tianshi's contemplative expression, nodded at Xu Tianxiang, and began the highlight of the supreme meeting. And as soon as this sentence was spoken, everyone present straightened their bodies, in this troubled era, it is the best time for military generals to make meritorious contributions, and the establishment of this military rank also represents their own recognition within the Tiance Army. Although the Tiance Army has abandoned the hierarchical division and rewards of the previous dynasty and other feudal towns, when there is no shortage of materials, these ranks and ranks represent their own honor, and they cannot be taken seriously. After Cen Tianshi heard this, he also began to put down his contemplation and began to listen carefully, the civil and military hierarchy needs to be reasonably connected, the army was originally waiting for the plan of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but the task of the Ministry of Civil Affairs was too heavy, and the Tiance Army promulgated was not the previous set of hierarchy, so Cen Tianshi thought about it again and again and decided to formulate the civilian hierarchy according to the military rank and rank of the General Staff.