Zhao Ziliang walked around the back garden of the Governor's Mansion with his hands behind his back, thinking about something in his mind, and came in to report to the army: "General, the promotion official document of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate has arrived!" ”

"Oh?" When Zhao Ziliang heard this, he turned around and took the official text handed over by Yu and opened it to look at it, the list of promotions was basically consistent with the roster of meritorious generals he had submitted, and the meritorious generals and colonels in the previous war had basically been promoted in military ranks.

After reading it, Zhao Ziliang put away the roster and instructed Chu Ge, who was standing not far away: "Inform the chief officers of the various departments of the Governor's Mansion and the generals and colonels above the rank of lieutenant colonel to come to discuss the matter in an hour!" ”

"No!"

An hour later, in the council hall of the Governor's Palace, the officials and generals who had arrived one after another sat on the left and right sides, and the first people had already started talking in low voices, some were asking each other about the situation during this time, some were asking about the topic of this discussion, and some were joking with each other.

"The general has arrived-" As the chief of the guard, Chu Ge, shouted, the officials and generals all got up and saluted to Zhao Ziliang, who walked behind the desk: "Meet the general!" ”

Zhao Ziliang sat down and raised his hand: "It's all free!" You may be seated! ”

"Thank you, General!" Everyone sat down.

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "I brought you here today for only two things, one is a happy event, and the other is not known whether it is a happy event or a bad event for the time being, only after doing it can we know the result, I don't know which one you want to hear first?" ”

Li Siye got up and said, "General, let's listen to the happy events first."

"Good!" Zhao Ziliang said and took the official document from Chu Singer, and said: "After the end of the last war, General Ben handed over a roster of meritorious generals to Lord Gai of the Dadu Protectorate, and now the official document for the promotion of the Dadu Protectorate has been approved, and this is in the hands of the general, next." The person who reads the name stands up and says yes! ”

In the hall, the lieutenant generals and colonels of the army were full of energy when they heard this, this is a matter related to their future, of course, they can't take it lightly.

"Li Siye!"

"In!" Li Siye immediately got up and walked to the middle, and said yes.

"Promote you to guerrilla general!" After Zhao Ziliang's voice fell, a man next to him brought up an official light brown official uniform, a gold belt, and a gold boast from a tray. The light brown official uniform represents the five-rank official, whether it is the fifth grade or the fifth grade. All of them are light brown, and the gold belt is only worn by the general rank and above, the fifth and fourth ranks, while the third to the first rank wear the gold and jade belt, the sixth and seventh grades wear the silver belt, and the eighth and ninth grades wear the (Jin Yu) stone belt, and the color of the official uniform of each major grade is different. The first to third grades are purple official uniforms, the fourth rank official uniforms are crimson, the fifth rank is light brown, and the sixth rank is dark green. The seventh rank is light green, the eighth rank is dark cyan, and the ninth rank is light cyan.

"Thank you for the promotion!" Li Siye stepped forward and took the tray with both hands.

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and continued: "Wei Meng! ”

"In!"

"Promote you to guerrilla general!"

"General Xie!"

"Wang Can, Huo Kan, promote you to guerrilla generals!"

"Liang Qi, Zheng San promoted you to be the general of Guide Lang!"

"Thank you, General!"

The military rank of the general is the same as that of the guerrilla general, and such military ranks are awarded to non-military commanders, as well as the rank of Guide Division, Huaihua Division, Guide Zhonghou, Huaihua Zhonghou, etc., which are awarded to non-military commanders and non-combat military officials

"Lei Wu. Promote you to Captain Zhaowu! ”

"Thank you, General!"

"Chen Biao, promote you to deputy lieutenant of Zhaowu!"

When Zhao Ziliang finished reading. Almost all the generals in the hall have been promoted, and of course, the more meritorious and greater the meritorious service, the higher the promotion. These are just military ranks, as for the specific military positions, Zhao Ziliang has already made an appointment, because the Broken Leaf Governor's Mansion has just been established. Gai Jiayun did not interfere too much, so almost all the appointments of officials and generals were handed over to Zhao Ziliang for his own appointment, and then reported to the Dadu Protectorate for his approval. Gaijia operated as a four-town festival envoy, and of course had no right to intervene in the affairs of the Broken Leaf Governor's Mansion. But as the deputy protector of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, he has the right to directly manage it, after all, the Metropolitan Protector Li Linfu is only a remote leader, and he, the deputy protector, is responsible for all affairs in the Metropolitan Protectorate.

After the generals put the trays on their sides and sat down, Zhao Ziliang accepted the official document for promotion and said: "The credit is earned by yourself, and this general is just giving you this opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and it is you who fight for your own strength." Of course, General Ben also gave some people a chance, but they themselves were not angry, they had no talent, and they were greedy for life and afraid of death, and they did not make contributions in this war, so they naturally could not be promoted. For such people, they will only be given fewer opportunities in the future, and be careful, opportunities are often only reserved for those who are prepared! ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Ziliang took a sip of water from the teacup and continued: "Next, let's talk about another thing, which is divided into several small steps. Recently, after some investigation, General Ben found that since the Turgish rebellion, the merchants and travelers between the East and the West have taken this route a lot, if this continues, the income of our Governor's Mansion will be difficult to feed 5,000 soldiers and horses, if we don't want to attract more merchants to take this route, we can only loot the surrounding tribes, but this is tantamount to drinking water to quench thirst! Therefore, this general wants to talk to the leaders of the various tribes on this route, and ask them to protect the safety of the merchants and travelers, and no additional fees shall be levied except for the normal passage tax, Lord Liu, you send an invitation letter to the leaders of the five departments of the crossbow in the name of the Governor's Mansion, and ask them to come to the Governor's Mansion to discuss this matter before the fifth day of the tenth month in half a month, and everyone will think of a way to come out and save the vitality of this Silk Road! ”

Liu Shan said worriedly: "General, the leaders of the five crossbow departments are all unruly, and whether they are willing to come or not is a question!" ”

"If the vitality of this Silk Road is cut off, they will not have a good time, as long as they are not stupid, they will come to this meeting. Where is the Lifei Yuan ceremony! ”

"The last general!" Li Fei Yuanli stood up and bowed. Li Fei Yuanli is a Qiang person, and he has been serving in the Qiuci Army before, he is the chief general of a thousand field cavalry drawn from the Qiuci Army, and he is a general, and he was also promoted to a level in this war.

Zhao Ziliang said: "Order you to lead a thousand elite horsemen to camp near Dunjian City!" ”

Dunjian City is located in the west of the new city and is one of the towns that must pass through the northern route of the Silk Road. It belongs to the territory of half of Geshu, one of the five parts of the crossbow lost Bi, the population of Geshu is not much, and it is scattered, there are only two or three thousand soldiers and horses, most of them are concentrated near Dunjian City, Zhao Ziliang asked Lifei Yuanli to lead troops to be stationed near Dunjian City. The intention is obvious, that is, to threaten Ge Shu with half a catty, as long as he dares not to come, he will send troops to attack Dunjian City, of course, this is just a deterrent, and it may not really fight.

Li Fei Yuanli arched his hand and said: "No! ”

Zhao Ziliang said to the army Lai Yao: "Come to my lordship, in the name of this general, send a letter to Mo Heji, the king of Shiguo, asking him to order the garrison of Hengros City to send troops to deter the Ashi Muddy Department who built the city with taxes!" ”

Lai Yao arched his hand and said, "No! ”

"This is the first step. The second step is to solve the problem of the smooth flow and safety of the Silk Road. We also want to build Broken Leaf City into a Silk Road commercial transit station necessary transit trade market and corresponding supporting facilities, such as the city to build a number of inns and warehouses, the scale should be large, the pattern should be atmospheric, to try to attract business travelers to live here, so the entire Broken Leaf City to re-plan, the general decided to set up the west of the city as the East-West trade transit area, the north of the city as the administrative and military area, the east of the city as a residential area, and the south of the city as a commercial and hotel area! ”

"First of all, let's talk about the trade transit market in the west of the city, which is divided into several areas, namely the livestock and horses trading area, the clothing, satin, cloth, shoes, socks, fur trading area, the jewelry and other valuables trading area, the porcelain and tea trading area, the wine trading area, and the slave trading area (but only foreign slaves are allowed to be traded. It is not allowed to buy and sell my Datang population), as well as other items in the trading area! ”

"Secondly, the residential area in the east of the city. We must move the people scattered all over the city to the east of the city, build a civilian area where the poor live, a rich area where the rich live, a military and political official's residence where officials and generals live, and an aristocratic living area where the nobles live, register them according to the number of existing households in the city, expropriate their residential land, and then give each family a set of houses, and replace the old houses with new ones! ”

"Again. In the commercial and hotel area in the south of the city, several commercial streets were built in the city, and the daily necessities needed by the residents inside and outside the city, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, etc., as well as the buying and selling of meat and other goods were carried out here, and restaurants, inns, inns and warehouses were also built in the south of the city."

"Finally, the official administrative district and the military control area in the north of the city. The administrative area is located in the east of the city, and the administrative offices at all levels under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governor's Office are located in the north and east of the city, and the military control area in the north and west of the city, and the military yamen at all levels under the military affairs department under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governor's Office are located here, and a military camp in the city will be set up for the soldiers who guard the Governor's Office and the officials at all levels to rest! This is General Ben's plan for the future construction of Shattered Leaf City, I don't know what you think? ”

Liu Dan, the chief official of the chief secretary of government affairs, got up and said: "General, the lower officials think that this plan is very good, as long as this plan is completed, everything in the city will be orderly, but the money required for construction is not a small amount, including labor costs, material costs, and so on!"

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "This matter is not difficult, we can first build the residential area in the east of the city, and at the same time as building the residential area in the east of the city, we can sell the property in advance and return some of the money, in addition, don't we still have a large number of captive slaves in our hands?" Let these captive slaves work, we can't support them in vain, so that all the labor costs will be saved, and in addition, we can attract investment from the private sector, let the private merchants bear the construction of the residential area, and the Metropolitan Government will first pay part of the money required for the construction, and the other part will be borne by the merchants who undertake the construction, and after they have completed the construction of the residential area in the east of the city according to the plan of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, the Metropolitan Government will pay the rest of the money. After the construction of the residential area, all the residents of the city began to move to the residential area in the east of the city, and the Governor's Office carried out the construction of the trade transit market in the west of the city, followed by the construction of commercial and restaurant and hotel areas in the south of the city, and finally the military and political area in the north of the city. We can sell or rent properties in excess residential areas to immigrants, and locals can also buy more apartments if they want to. As long as someone is willing to pay. In addition, whether it is the shops, restaurants, inns, and warehouses along the street in the west or south of the city, we can sell them for money, and the money obtained will go to the treasury of the Governor's Mansion. Trade Transit Market, which we rent to merchants, charge monthly rent and market management fees as well as cleaning fees! As for exchanging a new house for an old house, the local residents should have no opinion, right? ”

Lai Yao, who joined the army, said: "If the general's plan and assumption are followed, the subordinate officer thinks that it can be completely implemented, and there are no difficulties or problems."

Zhao Ziliang stood up: "Since this is the case, then do it according to this, everyone has their own responsibility, Lord Liu, you government affairs Sima come up with a complete urban construction planning plan!" If there's nothing else to do, let's go back and disperse."

Liu Shan and the others got up and arched their hands and said, "No! (To be continued.) )