Compared with the complicated matters of the Administrative Secretary and the Military Affairs Department, the Supervision Department was much simpler, but it made Zhao Xun frown.

Because under Zhao Xun's order, it is necessary to verify and arrange the officials left over from the past, and at the same time adjust the promotion and adjustment of the adjutant officials in the state capitals and counties.

As a result, the Supervision Department found out more than 300 to 400 unqualified people from among the adjutants in various localities, and more than 300 of them were charged with serious crimes. Half of them are former officials who have stayed in office, and half are new officials. For the past officials, Zhao Xun didn't have any feelings, these people, if they were honest, it would be strange. Dishonesty is the real normal.

What made Zhao Xun frown was that more than 160 of them were selected from among the former scholars and adjutants after the selection. It has also been found that there are all kinds of problems, such as accepting bribes, embezzling property, shielding others, and so on.

"Those old officials, if they were made before we were included in the system, will not be held accountable. If it is a mistake made later, it will be dealt with according to the law. Zhao Xun said lightly.

"As for those officials who are chosen from among the scholars and appointed by us, they will be punished severely. No matter how big or small, they will be dismissed and investigated, and they will never be hired! Zhao Xun said gloomily. For these people, at the beginning of the training, they talked many times that they should abide by the law. However, it is these "own people" who make more mistakes than the old officials.

"Never hired? Isn't this too strict! Pei Yi said softly. What is the scholar studying for, isn't it just to be an official? If you never hire you, you will never have a chance.

Zhao Xun shook his head and said, "Yan zhòng? Not at all! It's only been a long time since these people got carried away. They forgot why they didn't even have to participate in the scientific examination to become an official! Now is to use them as an example and serve as a wake-up call to others. ”

After thinking about it, Zhao Xun said again: "This corrupt official, there have always been officials who act recklessly, so if I want to choose a few officials at all levels, I can directly write to me and say the expressions of officials at all levels." ”

Officials at all levels were stunned, and in this way, these officials bypassed the Secretary of Administration and directly secretly inquired about Zhao. At the same time, without the knowledge of officials at all levels, there is a sense of surveillance on other officials. And officials at all levels do not know who the people around them are, who are the secret agents, and when they act, they are naturally much more cautious.

"And you, the Supervision Department, in the future, will take the number of officials at all levels as the most important basis for the evaluation of officials at all levels. The Inspectorate should shoulder the responsibility of the Inspectorate and should not be suspicious. ”

Then Zhao Xunyou explained to Pei Yi: "The Secretary for Administration should reformulate the salaries of officials at all levels, especially those ordinary adjutants and petty officials, and also give them enough sources to live, so as not to be forced to make mistakes." ”

As soon as the place was stabilized, this corrupt official appeared, how could Zhao Xun not be annoyed. Anything can be tolerated, this thing must not be tolerated, if you are not careful, your great reputation as a fruit army will be completely ruined.

Although never hiring is too strict for these personnel, especially some of them are just confused officials who have been dragged into the water by others, they are indeed stricter. But since he is an official, he should be responsible for his actions, and Zhao Xun needs to give a stern warning to future generations. As for those officials who committed serious crimes, they were executed and imprisoned.

Immediately, up and down Youzhou, a severe crackdown was launched, and many officials were arrested one after another, the heavy ones were severely punished, and the light ones were never used, that is to say, don't want to mix in the government for the rest of your life, and the government will never want you.

At the beginning of April, the weather warmed up. The expected scenario arose, and the Turks began to wreak havoc in the northern part of the state, killing the people of the northern state and plundering their property.

These places are not something that Zhao Xun can intervene in, and they can only be dealt with by local governments, whether they can resist it, and the affairs of the state at that time. Even if Zhao Xun wants to help, it needs the other party's consent. If Zhao Xun led the army from the Taihang Mountains into the state, then Cao Gang, the general of Zhenbei, would take the lead in fighting himself, not the Turks.

Zhao Xun could only sigh and be speechless, but he couldn't do anything, so he targeted the Murowei people in the north, and the attack was strong, and the latter was killed. Zhao Xun personally inspected the five prefectures in Beiding, looked at the situation in the five cities, and focused on the Murwei people in the north and the Turks in the west.

In the face of the Turks, Zhao Xun really can't afford to provoke them now. must be antagonistic to the Turks, then the Beiding Five Prefectures will face the full suppression of the Turks, although it will not bring any big damage to the headquarters of the Xiaoguo Army, but if the Beiding Five Prefectures do not do well, they will be lost to the Turks.

Now the Turkic Ministry doesn't know anything about the Earthquake Thunder, but if they really want to fight together, they will definitely not be ambiguous. Zhao Xun naturally did not provoke the overlord in the north, but focused his attention on the Murowei people who were directly north of the five prefectures in Beiding.

Dingbei City, the northernmost city of the five provinces of Beiding, because here and Dingxi City were the first to start construction, therefore, it has been largely completed. Although it was built of concrete, the sturdiness of the city walls was far from as good as expected, let alone reinforced concrete. But in any case, the city has been built, let alone the big city.

The first to fourth banners of the Eight Banners and the first soldiers of the Third Mansion were stationed here, and when Zhao Xun arrived with the personal guard battalion, the commanders of the various departments who had already heard the news were already ready to greet them.

The commander of the third province is Zhu Tear, and the four banner owners are Hu Ze, Yiqi, He Xiong and Li Jiqing, these eight banner owners were originally all Yan people, and it is inconvenient to communicate, plus now all departments are learning Han culture, so they all changed their names, and changed the names of the northern miscellaneous names to one of the hundred family names. Speaking of which, this is also a credit for this time. I don't know who is popular, so that people all over Youzhou believe that the surname of the hundred families is the name of the Han nationality. As a result, the surrendered Tatars and Khitans of all tribes, especially newborns and young children, will mainly have Han surnames and Han names.

Speaking of Zhu Tears, Zhao Xun is already an old acquaintance with him, who met in Shunzhou Mansion in the past and inhaled his subordinates. Now he has also become a lieutenant of the capital.

"How about it, are you still used to this bitter cold place?" Entering the camp in the north of Dingbei City, Zhao Xun asked casually.

Seeing that Zhao Xun still had the same attitude as before, Zhu Xian couldn't help but feel a little relieved in his heart, and responded with a smile: "It's no different from Shunzhou here, it's just that the weather is colder, and there's nothing unsuitable." ”

Zhao Xun paused and said, "If there is anything needed, just report it, and don't let the soldiers have any discomfort." By the way, what are the big moves of the people of Murowei this month? ”

Zhu tearfully said: "According to the orders of the lord, we have now shrunk the pastures of the herdsmen of various departments, retreated for dozens of miles, and even had a small fight with the Murwei people. The people of Murowei found that our counterattack was not as strong as they imagined, so this time more than 20,000 people gathered to come to Dingbei City to ransack it. ”

Zhao Xun said with a smile: "It's finally out, let them see again this time, my Xiaoguo army is not a Khitan person to provoke, and it is also not something that they should provoke the Murwei people." Give them a stick before we can continue to negotiate with them. In this operation, the two banners of the Eight Banners and the Shenji Battalion participated. Zhu Tear, you stay here and urge these captives to continue to build the city. ”

Zhu tear squeezed his hand and said, "Lord, my third capital and the first capital also pleaded to participate in the war. ”

Zhao Xun said with a smile: "In this northern battle, we want to ambush and secretly attack the enemy, or all cavalry, and the third of you are all non-infantry troops, how to ......"

Zhu tearfully smiled: "Don't worry, this is not a problem at all. All the armies of the three prefectures that take turns to guard the five prefectures in Beiding will not be short of horses. Therefore, every time the guards of each prefecture were guarded, they were all regarded as training in horsemanship. Therefore, we are all soldiers, all cavalry. ”

Zhao Xun was stunned when he heard this, thought about it, and then remembered that the five prefectures in Beiding were in the territory of Khitan, and herdsmen were everywhere, not to mention that countless prisoners were also captured, and their mounts were all confiscated, and many of them were placed in small herdsmen for them to be stocked. If you want to say that the most lacking in the north is probably cattle, sheep, livestock and war horses.

"That's good! You are also in the army first. The first and second flags of the Eight Banners remained this time. The third and fourth flags moved with the army. Zhao Xun ordered.

Just when Zhao Xun gathered troops to fight the idea of the Murwei people, there were also people who beat his idea. In Langya Mansion, Qingzhou, this is the base camp of the Wuwei Army and the Shence Army to conquer the Xuzhou rebels. The Xuzhou rebels have been conquered for more than two years, they advance and I retreat, and they retreat and I advance, and the two sides have fought a lot of times, but they have never divided the winner or loser. Of course, this is also related to Murong Cheng's lack of full effort.

In the past, Situ Lei thought that this rebel army was raised by ordinary people, and the Shenwu Army and the Changwu Army were defeated here, so he suffered a loss because he underestimated the Xuzhou rebels. The equipment of the Xuzhou rebels has always been no worse than that of the guards, and more importantly, these rebels always seem to be trained soldiers, not the legendary people who can't survive.

After the two guards of the Wuwei Army and the Shence Army failed to conquer Xuzhou, they slowly reached the Qingzhou Navy according to Murong Cheng's intentions. As long as the Qingzhou Navy is annexed, it will be much easier to deal with the Xuzhou rebels. For this reason, they sent a lot of people into the Qingzhou Navy and quietly bought some low-level officers.

However, what is good is that when the two guards launched their operations, the Xiaoguo army suddenly attacked, knocked over the Qingzhou Navy with a stick, and sank directly, not to mention the death of several main generals, the whole army fell into the hands of the Xiaoguo army, and even Donglai Mansion was occupied by the Xiaoguo army.

Although Murong Cheng swallowed his anger and ceded the Qingzhou naval army that had been lost to Zhao Xun, in exchange for Zhao Xun's covenant that he was not allowed to intercept the caravans going north from Yangzhou and Jiangzhou, and that he was not allowed to sell weapons and grain to Xuzhou. But the generals of the two guards were clearly unwilling to stop there.

Just kidding, we have worked hard for more than half a year, and when we were about to speed up the action, we didn't expect to be picked with peaches, and no one was comfortable. As a result, the two guards wanted to kill the Xiaoguo army in Donglai Mansion in Qingzhou, and swallowed these water armies by the way.

The difficulty is not small, but the two generals also see themselves as having a positive side. First, the peace talks have just begun, and the Xiaoguo army will not think that the Wei army will suddenly appear in Donglai Province. Second, they prepared to detour to the southeast of Qingzhou from the waterway, and insert Donglai Fu diagonally from the southeast to give the Xiaoguo army the intention of a surprise attack.

As for disobeying military orders, hum...... As long as the Xiaoguo army is defeated, no military order is a problem. Didn't the Xiaoguo army also ignore the laws and regulations of the imperial court, first occupy northern Hebei, and then occupy Donglai Mansion in Qingzhou?