On December 20, 890 AD, under the persuasion of Hu Xiaosi and Wang Yan, Wang Jian announced a change of course in Tongzhou, attached to the leadership of Tiance Mansion, handed over the entire territory of Dongchuan, and led a group of high-level civil and military personnel to Chang'an.

After the news spread, the world was in an uproar, and within four months, the Tiance army extended its pace from Shannan and Sichuan along the Yangtze River, completing an unprecedented expedition.

Zhu Quanzhong, who was in the Central Plains, was silent for a long time after getting the news, and his once invincible face was full of frustration and despair, and the increase and decrease of the Tiance Army and the Xuanwu Army pulled the strength of both sides to a point that made him unsightly, which made this also aspiring hero feel unbearable, and also made him feel more and more that he could not fall behind, and he wanted to start his own actions.

Li Xuanqing may not know how much pressure he will put on Zhu Quanzhong if he takes Sichuan and Shannan Province, and he doesn't know that this move has made the other party implement the steps of history in advance, but this time the Tang Dynasty did not lose the last conquest power as in history and let him bully.

However, when Zhu Quanzhong discussed his thoughts with Xie Tong and Zheng Fan beside him, there was a strange look on their faces, which made Zhu Quanzhong stunned and didn't understand what was wrong with the countermeasures he had been thinking about for a long time.

Zheng Fan glanced at Xie Tong, who was expressionless, stood up and said: "It's not difficult for the lord to go further, the imperial court in Luoyang is not of much use to Li Xuanqing if he stays now, and if our Xuanwu army can't defeat the Tiance army, it won't be able to expand the territory southward with peace of mind, so Weichen agrees, but Li Xuanqing claims to be a Tang clan, and if we act rashly, we will inevitably attract strong retaliation from the other party." Therefore, if the lord wants to achieve his goal, Weichen has two ways to operate at the same time. ”

"What is Zheng Qing's good plan?" Zhu Quanzhong originally frowned when he heard Zheng Fan's analysis, but when he heard that he had a way, he suddenly became interested again, and even spoke elegantly.

"First, the current emperor must be allowed to hold a ceremony of Zen concessions, so that everyone in the world knows that this is not the lord plotting to usurp the dynasty, but the emperor feels the disputes in the world, and decides to give up the Tang dynasty to virtuous people to ensure the continuation of the people. After the lord ascends the throne, he can seal all the princes in the world and make his name justified, mainly to add an unexpected title to Li Xuanqing and let him weigh the benefits. The second is to quickly rectify the army, expand the troops, make up for the previous losses, and resist the war that the Tiance army may launch, as long as we can resist the first wave, then the war potential of the Tiance army will naturally decline, and we can also free up our hands to occupy the southern front, so as to gradually bring back the balance between the two sides, and wait until we have the opportunity to occupy Jiangnan, so even if we give Jiangbei to Li Xuanqing, what is the difficulty? At most, it is the coexistence of the north and the south. Zheng Fan's words made Zhu Quanzhong's heart bloom, but Xie Tong on the side shook his head invisibly, sighing that Zhu Quanzhong had lost his enterprising spirit. If it was before, Zhu Quanzhong would not be complacent because he was in a corner. Could it be because the death of the first lady brought an unimaginable blow to the lord?

Xie Tong couldn't help but want to go out to see the celestial phenomena and see what the stars representing Zhu Quanzhong were doing now. It's just that at this time, Zhu Quanzhong suddenly spoke: "What Zheng Qing said makes sense, I don't know what Mr. thinks?" ”

"Reinstate Ge Cunzhou and other generals to their original positions, and order them to immediately recruit new recruits, train quickly, and prepare for war." Xie Tong didn't answer the question, but said another thing, but Zhu Quanzhong understood what he meant as soon as he heard it, and without saying much, he directly asked the guards to go out and give orders.

"Zheng Qing, this matter will be left to you to handle. I think the fifth day of the third month is a good day, how about our Zen ceremony set on the fifth day of the third month? Zhu Quanzhong said with a happy smile.

Zheng Fan glanced at Xie Tong, and the two bowed to Zhu Quanzhong and slowly retreated. Zheng Fan followed Xie Tong directly back to his mansion.

"What are your plans, sir?" Zheng Fan directly asked the most heart-wrenching sentence.

Xie Tong's eyes suddenly sharpened when he heard this, as if he knew what Zheng Fan was thinking, but in the end, he couldn't say another word, and said with a long sigh: "You and I have known each other, originally I planned to wish you a hand, but the lord is not Li Xuanqing's opponent, let alone others?" ”

As soon as Xie Tong's words came out, Zheng Fan's face also changed, knowing that his mind could not be hidden from the other party, but sometimes the development of things could not be transferred by personal will. Zhu Quanzhong's transformation and Li Xuanqing's sudden rise made the original pattern of the world extremely confused all of a sudden, making these wise men who could have influenced the situation in the world feel a little confused and helpless.

In fact, in Xie Tong's view, there is a fatal problem in Zheng Fan's approach, that is, there is no eye-catching among Zhu Quanzhong's heirs, and rashly trying to replace Zhu Quanzhong will only backfire and make the Xuanwu military regime collapse in advance. But if there is no way to change the situation, then according to the strength comparison between Zhu Quanzhong and Li Xuanqing, the gap will become larger and larger with the delay of time, and in the end, they will inevitably fall first in the final desperate struggle.

Xie Tong was so stunned that he didn't pay attention to when Zheng Fan left, and his rickety body was pulled for a long time under the illumination of the candlelight.

The unexpected changes on the side of the Xuanwu Army did not plan the wedding prepared by the Tiance Army in Chang'an City, and ended with the surrender of the Wang Jian brothers, Wang Jian and Wang Yan entered Chang'an and met with Li Xuanqing and the high-level of the Tiance Army and were left behind, ready to attend the year-end meeting of the Tiance Army, and participated in Hu Xiaosi's wedding.

However, Cen Tianshi originally planned to let Cui Lian be in charge of Hu Xiaosi's wedding, at least to set an example for others, but after hearing Hu Xiaosi's thoughts, he was dumbfounded, this guy typically wanted to copy Li Xuanqing's wedding, and changed all the etiquette rules and regulations in a mess, making everyone cry and laugh.

While Chang'an was preparing for a lively wedding, Xue Yang returned to Chang'an with the cavalry brigade of the Hanzhong Group Army and the reorganized Wang Jianjun to hand over the command of the Hanzhong Group Army to the General Staff, and coincidentally, Chen Yu's Shannan Group Army also returned to Chang'an the next day, and handed over the tens of thousands of Shannan Army soldiers captured from Shannan West Road to the Logistics Department and the recruits for screening and screening.

At this time, the whole Chang'an was lively all of a sudden, the Shannan Army and Wang Jianjun were both branches of the Shence Army, and many people were still from Guanzhong, and almost 100,000 people were transferred to Chang'an at once, and the problem of military discipline almost made the General Staff revise the previous order. After Xu Tianxiang consulted with He Qikai of the Judge Advocate General's Office, he sent his direct battalion out to assist the Judge Advocate General's Office in suppressing those who violated military discipline. Lu Yi, a cold-faced man, frightened everyone as soon as he made a move, and on the first day of his office, he directly beheaded hundreds of soldiers and some generals who violated military discipline and showed them to the public, and the bloody heads were hung at the entrances of the camp gates everywhere, and asked He Qikai to issue an order, from now until the end of the reorganization, anyone who violates the military discipline of the Tiance Army has only one word, kill. And in the following ten days, he fulfilled his promise at a rate of almost several hundred heads a day. The bloody slaughter completely suppressed these branches of the Divine Ce Army, making everyone tremble when they saw the soldiers of the battalion directly under them, and the headache that caused the top brass of the Celestial Army was finally solved.

"It seems that these descendants of the Shence Army really need someone to deal with it, if this problem is handed over to Feixue, it is estimated that this Chang'an City will suffer another disaster." Yang Tiancheng watched Li Feixue and Lu Yi walk in together, and said with a smile.

"I said lord, why don't you let Lu Yi go to the military justice department, this guy is simply a military judge by nature." Xu Tianxiang shook his head, looked at Li Xuanqing and said with a smile.

"Forget it, it's embarrassing for Lu Yi." Li Xuanqing was also helpless, "But this time Yang Yi's team is estimated to expand a lot." Let Zhang Cheng remove 50,000 people from these people and give him all the rest, and let him add more material to these people and work hard to reform. ”

"Lord, your method of labor reform is absolutely amazing, the hundreds of thousands of people who were left behind in the fight against Chang'an City have now become good people of our Tiance Mansion." Cen Tianshi didn't know when he touched it and said with a smile, but when he saw Hu Xiaosi sitting on Erlang's legs crossed, he suddenly became angry and said: "Xiaosi, now the whole Chang'an City knows that you want to get married, but you kid is good, hide here in the General Staff to relax, let our gang of people work hard to help you do it." Say, how are you going to compensate? ”

Hu Xiaosi couldn't stand it all of a sudden, and hurriedly stood up and slipped away, knowing that it was so troublesome to get married, he regretted that he agreed so happily at the time, so instead of looking upset, it was better to come casually. After slipping out of the General Staff Building, turn left and right, and the ghost actually transferred to the post house where Princess Gesang lived, which was good, even more embarrassing, there was no way that the people in the house seemed to see it, so they could only walk in, but fortunately, they took it out from their bodies and took out a gift that they had extorted from Xu Xingxia before.

However, as soon as Hu Xiaosi left, the General Staff Building continued to discuss the issue of the armies in Shannan and Dongchuan, and the reorganization plan drawn up by the General Staff Department partially supplemented the selected 50,000 people into other units after reorganization, and the rest were organized into three new battalions and transferred to the northwest to supplement the northwest defense line, so that Qian Lao Liu and other northwest infantry brigades could be transferred back to Guanzhong.

This silent adjustment also made Cen Tianshi feel that Li Xuanqing was going to solve the Central Plains region in the coming year. Think about it, the Tiance Army's big roundabout encirclement of the Xuanwu Army has been formed, and this competition has set the tone, and after the unification of the Central Plains, the Tiance Army's troops will inevitably be stronger, and the sweeping trend will make it more difficult to stop.

Cen Tianshi thought about this question and said with a smile: "How does the lord plan to arrange Brother Wang Jian?" I've talked to their brothers, and they're very talented, at least they're very disciplined about local governance, and if they can have a period of further study, I think they can consider going out. ”

"This is also the last legacy of the Divine Army." Li Xuanqing didn't discriminate so much against Wang Jian's brothers, and after listening to Cen Tianshi's suggestion, he nodded and said: "After the Spring Festival, you arrange for them to enter the School of Administration to study for three months, and then Wang Jian enters the Ministry of Civil Affairs to serve as a deputy to Mr. Wang Yan, and Wang Yan is transferred to Hexi Province as a political envoy, and the Hexi political envoy is transferred to Sichuan." ”

"Haha, how do I think Zhang Quanfu has been sent now, how long has it been since he was transferred to Hexi, I guess he didn't plant a few trees, and he entered Sichuan. But we still have two political envoys missing. Cen Tianshi said with a smile.

"It depends on how Mr. goes through the resumes of other state-level assassins." Li Xuanqing doesn't have any good way, it's sometimes not a good thing to be promoted too quickly, but if you don't promote, you can't let the positions of these feudal officials be empty, right?

"If the political envoy of Hanzhong Province can't do it, let Tuoba Si Jian take the lead first, Hanzhong and Guanzhong are basically one area, so you can make do with it." Li Xuanqing thought about it and decided to help Cen Tianshi, this guy in the province has to work overtime in a hurry for the New Year.

"Haha, I know that the lord has a way, now it's okay, it's just one short, and there is a way to do it. Settle down on these big guys, and let the team below give them a headache on their own. Cen Tianshi was a rare stretch.

"Next year, the institutions of the law courts will be laid out to the state and county level, right? I said that your Ministry of Civil Affairs should discuss with Du Yuanzheng, the construction of the law cannot be delayed, this is the key to maintaining the integrity of officials at all levels. Speaking of this, Xu Tianxiang suddenly remembered something.

"It's a bit difficult, the construction of law requires too much specialization, and the School of Administration has set up a law department, but the progress is still not as big as other subjects." Cen Tianshi shook his head and said, "Two days ago, when I met with Rang Neng, he also said that it was really not possible to set up legal processing teams in various provinces first, and then set up legal courts at all levels step by step. ”

"Don't say it, Du Yuan usually looks weird and serious, iron-faced and ruthless, how can this method be really good." Xu Tianxiang patted his thigh and looked at Yang Tiancheng with a smile.

"It seems that this Du Yuan has prepared the content of the year-end meeting. I said, are your two departments ready? Li Xuanqing nodded, to be honest, the method that Du Rang could think of was similar to the pilot project in later generations.

"The Ministry of Civil Affairs is almost ready, but the Department of Industry and Commerce has prepared a comprehensive industrial development plan and a financial expansion plan, and I find that it is really easy to be the civil affairs chief sometimes." Cen Tianshi said with a smile.

"The General Staff is in trouble here, Tiancheng and I have been busy for a few days and we don't have a clue, if Mr. has the heart to help us with the staff officers." Xu Tianxiang couldn't see Cen Tianshi's leisurely energy, and said with a smile.

"You're in your own business. Mr. Cen, let's go see Brother Wang Jian and invite them to dinner at noon. Li Xuanqing stood up and pulled Cen Tianshi to prepare to go out.

"Forget it, let's go, the lord should go back and cook for Qiaoxi." The son of our family went to visit Qiaoxi yesterday and said that his appetite has not been very good recently, so you should pay attention. The two talked about it as they walked, and pushed the rest of the General Staff aside.

Xu Tianxiang and Yang Tiancheng looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and directly grabbed Lu Yi and Li Feixue, who were pretending to be ostriches next to them, as errands.