The reason why Zhao Xun intended to agree to the retreat plan of the Yan Ya army was that in addition to not wanting to fight to the death with the Yan army, he was also worried about the people of Weizhou Mansion. The envoy of the Na Jing army also said that if the Huolin army insisted on fighting, the hundreds of thousands of people in Weizhou Mansion would suffer immeasurable losses because of the Huolin army.

In addition, the retreat route of the Yan army was extremely conducive to the expansion of the Huolin army's sphere of influence, and Zhao Xun also intended to agree to the other party's withdrawal agreement. Another reason is that after the reorganization of the Huolin Army, in the short term, the combat effectiveness will be greatly affected, and if you have to fight a decisive battle with the more than 50,000 people who have no way to survive and are determined to fight to the death, the losses will be not small.

As for Li Muzhi's matter, it was a big deal to get the five Fierce Cavalry Battalions to be dispatched, and they agreed to achieve their own goals.

However, what surprised Zhao Xun was not only the envoy of the Yan Army, but then there was another thing that surprised Zhao Xun, and the imperial court issued a holy decree to Zhao Xun.

A small yellow gate, under the escort of more than 100 Praetorian Guards, came to Yanzhou City and brought the emperor's holy decree. Zhao Xun didn't expect that the imperial court would reply to him. I thought that the court didn't take him seriously at all. Zhao Xun didn't plan to rebel now, and knelt down to accept the order according to the rules. In fact, Zhao Xun underestimated what he was doing now, defeating the Yan army and recovering the territory, no matter how it can be said, he also made a great contribution to the court and saved the face of the court. However, some of Zhao Xun's actions also made the court officials extremely dissatisfied, for this reason, there were different opinions on his reward, until the Shunzhou Mansion was taken by the Huolin Army again, at the insistence of Emperor Xuanwu, the court decided to lower this holy decree.

The handsome little yellow door opened the holy decree and read it loudly to Zhao Xun: "The holy decree, the order of Emperor Dayan, Xuanwu twenty-one years, the barbarians invaded and occupied my territory. There is a heroic man Zhao Xun in Youzhou, who is smart and martial, who led the righteous army to resist, broke the barbarians, and made outstanding achievements. I am very happy, and now I am specially allocated to the general from the third grade Yunlu, the fourth product of the northern patrol envoy, Yancheng Bo, the actual seal of three hundred households, the order to supervise the northern provinces, the north according to the barbarians, the fire lin army under it is named the Xiaoguo Army, continue to serve the country. Chin this! ”

Zhao Xun suddenly felt a little strange, the official position of Yan State inherited the former Chu State. There are four kinds of official positions: loose officials, ministry officials, honors, and knighthoods, and loose officials are grades, and modern people's halls, departments, and departments are the same meaning, which level you are at which level you will get which level of salary.

Officials can be high-grade and low-level, low-grade and high-level, or even have good quality and no position. And the ministry officer is his errand, and he is the minister in whatever position.

Honors are honorary titles awarded to officials, some of whom are modern advanced workers, May Day Labor Medal winners, and first-class combat heroes.

The title is similar to that of the lord, but the title can be passed on to future generations, and the title has a fief, if there are three words, then they can enjoy the tax of the corresponding fief, and the tax that the people in this fief should have paid to the court is transferred to the owner of the fief.

Zhao Xun's current official position is that the loose official is from the general Yunlu of the third grade, and the general is taken from the general Yunlu of the third grade, which is equivalent to the division of generals, colonels, and captains in the modern army, which is a grade. The official is the northern patrol envoy of the fourth grade, and he also got a knighthood, 300 households, and the fief is in Yanzhou City. For this, Zhao Xun is indeed very satisfied, the Youbei Patrol Envoy is the military and political authority in the northern part of Youzhou. Perhaps the imperial court also knew that the place taken by the Huolin Army would not go back, at least, the officials sent were also set aside, so they simply handed it over to Zhao Xun. What makes Zhao Xun even more happy in his heart is that there is no definite boundary in this Youbei, and when the time comes, ...... It's just that Zhao Xun couldn't understand why he would give him such a title, and he also corrected the name of the Huolin Army and became a guard recognized by the imperial court.

Zhao Xun took the holy decree with a smile, kowtowed to thank him, got up and said, "This father-in-law's surname?" ”

Xiao Huangmen also seemed to know that Zhao Xun was a ruthless master, and hurriedly responded with a smile: "Don't dare to be noble in front of the general, the little one's surname is Li." ”

Then, with envy and admiration, he said: "General, congratulations to the general, you have to be made an earl." He will be promoted as a general, but don't forget the small one. ”

Zhao Xun was not a villain, and said with a smile: "Gonggong Li said that he was joking, Gonggong Li is a close minister around His Majesty, and he will have to ask Lord Li to say a few more kind words by His Majesty's side in the future." ”

The general laughed, now in the whole country, no one knows that General Zhao is heroic, attacking the Yan army in the north and recovering the territory. The people of the world are all praised. In the future, the general will definitely be promoted to a higher rank. ”

"Then with the help of Gonggong Li's auspicious words, I still have a little local product captured from the hands of the Yan Army, which should be a gift from Gonggong Li and your brothers, and I am really uneasy to worry about you from Chang'an." Although he didn't know the details of this Gonggong Li, Zhao Xun knew that this kind of person could not be offended lightly, after all, he was a person around the emperor, and if it was not good, it would be a big trouble at that time.

Gonggong Li smiled and said, "Then thank you for the reward from the general, by the way, the general, Your Majesty said that the Xiaoguo Army's Yulu has the tax expenditure of the three mansions." The general also knows that the imperial court is suffering a lot now, so the imperial court is afraid that it will not be allocated, but the taxes of these three prefectures, the adults do not need to pay the taxes to His Majesty, and said that if they can, they can only go to the northern ministries to ask for it. ”

When Zhao Xun heard this, he looked stunned. Zhao Xun didn't care about the imperial court's refusal to allocate the army, because the Xiaoguo army was originally raised by himself. Now it's just a matter of getting right. It's just that this emperor allowed himself to plunder the northern tribes, which made Zhao Xun a little puzzled. The policy of the imperial court was that it was not to be lightly warring with the northern tribes, so why was the policy of the emperor and the imperial court different?

Later, Zhao Xun invited the father-in-law and more than 100 Praetorian Guards to the banquet, and also got a lot of news from the mouth of this father-in-law Li, of course, this is also the initiative of Gonggong Li to explain, and the deep meaning is naturally self-evident.

One of the points is that Zuo Xiang and King Qi do not seem to approve of giving themselves a reward, this reward is directly approved by the emperor, because the Huolin Army took the Shunzhou Mansion, and Zhao Xun is famous, which is only the decree of the reward can be issued.

"It seems that the emperor, the king of Qi, and the left minister are three different forces, and the emperor is still in the weakest position. No matter what, getting the actual benefits is the most important thing, and now the land of Sanfu has truly belonged to itself. The Youbei Patrol Envoy is completely the Youbei Festival Envoy, in charge of military and political affairs. "In fact, Zhao Xun also understands that there is only such a non-permanent official position for himself, at that time, because these three mansions were completely controlled by himself, only Yanzhou Mansion has a history of assassination in the three prefectures, and it is still hollow. Now the imperial court is worried about internal and external troubles, and the land of Sanfu is handed over to himself, so that he can fight the Yan army with all his strength, and even resist the invasion of the north, and defend the northern frontier for the Yan State. Coupled with the great victory of the Huolin Army, it can be regarded as saving some face for the imperial court. After all, the reputation of losing territory is not so good.

After Zhao Xun clearly expressed his absolute allegiance to the emperor to Gonggong Li, Gonggong Li left with a satisfied expression, perhaps this Gonggong Li came here to help the emperor.

When Gonggong Li and more than 100 Praetorian Guards were satisfied with Zhao Xun's many gifts, the Secretary for Administration and his various divisions, military divisions, and generals all stood up solemnly and said, "Congratulations to your Excellency on your promotion to the post of general, and General Hexi has been promoted to Yancheng Bo." "Title, this is something that everyone in the world envies, and it is still a real seal. As for Zhao Xun's cronies and some civil officials, what is more important is that Zhao Xun has been recognized by the imperial court, and has been justified by the imperial court, and what he has done is no longer illegal.

"Okay, we have been recognized by the imperial court, and your official positions have also been recognized by the imperial court, so we will put your worries in our stomachs. From now on, our self-proclaimed Fire Lin Army has been renamed the Xiaoguo Army. The fruitful, brave and resolute, brave and daring to die. I hope that my army will be brave and brave to the death. ”

Looking at the worries of some officers and colonels, Zhao Xun smiled and said: "Except for the name changed to Xiaoguo Army, the rest will not be changed." It's just that we have become an army recognized by the imperial court, and we are no longer a private army. ”

Xue Lei strode in front of Zhao Xun, and said with emotion, laughing loudly: "The general is the chief general of my Xiaoguo Army, and this promotion is really the glory of all the soldiers of my Xiaoguo Army, and we are all happy for the adults." Therefore, we are going to give everyone a banquet, how about it? ”

"Good! That's a good idea! Not only the military generals, but even the civil officials also came to join in the fun, Zhao Xun saw that everyone was so happy, and said with a smile: "Okay, good, good, I'll invite you to a banquet, so that everyone can eat and drink well." ”

Yu Jing, who was not far away, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw this, although some of Zhao Xun's practices made Yu Jing feel overstepped, but he still became an official under Zhao Xun. Now seeing that Zhao Xun has been appointed by the imperial court, he is naturally happy for Zhao Xun in his heart.