Qi County, Jiyin Mansion Administration. After the Yanzhou Mansion Army ceded the Yanzhou Mansion to the Shanyang Army, it became the headquarters of the Yanzhou Mansion Army and the place of the Governor's Mansion of Xu Jie. Of course, it has now become the jurisdiction of the Sanyang Army.

The Governor's Mansion, Xu Jie, spent a lot of money to rebuild the original Governor's Mansion. Now, it has become Zhao Xun's residence. Although Yanzhou Mansion is the current headquarters of the Shanyang Army and the place where it is governed, there are many things to deal with because it has to take into account both the north and the south, especially since Jiyin Mansion and Songzhou Mansion have just been taken over by the Shanyang Army. In addition, the south side had to take on the defense of the armed guards, and the east side had to deal with the remnants of the Yanzhou Prefecture Army, so it became a temporary headquarters.

"My subordinates see the general, and I wish the general a great defeat of the Wuwei Army and the Yanzhou Mansion Army, and dominate the land of Yanzhou." In the Governor's Mansion, all the civil and military officials saluted and congratulated Zhao Xun, who was sitting still on the main seat.

Zhao Xun smiled and said: "Everyone, please get up!" This southern expedition, first defeated the Wuwei army, and then defeated the Yanzhou army, and achieved great things, all of which were the achievements of all soldiers and officials. Everyone has a share, and I don't dare to have it alone. Okay, sit down. ”

"Feng Ziming, this succession should be your greatest. Not only did he make detailed arrangements for the actions of the army on the northern front, but he also pacified the rear of our army and ran the Yanzhou Mansion Shun Lì. ”

Feng Ziming said urgently: "The subordinates don't dare to make the first merit based on this, in this battle, the generals first defeated the Wuwei Army, and then defeated the Yanzhou Mansion Army, this is the real first merit." Among them, the general should come first. ”

Feng Ziming knew that in addition to the above reasons, this first effort also took the lead in taking action against the Yanzhou Mansion Army. The order to take the lead was given by Zhao Xun, and Zhao Xun's original intention was to let the army of Yanzhou Mansion take the first move and attack Xu Jie's lair, which would be beneficial to the next action. After all, the guards of this Jiyin Mansion are stronger than other places. If Qi County and other places that are valued by Xu Jie, it will not be a problem for other places.

However, Feng Ziming not only raided the borders of the three eastern and northern counties and Xu Jie's lair under the pretext of transporting grain from the front line, but also announced the reason for the action on the grounds that the Yanzhou government army intended to seize the baggage of the Shanyang army, and even faintly expressed that he wanted to retaliate for being betrayed by Xu Jie.

In other words, there are only two reasons for the Shanyang Army to send troops, one is that the Yanzhou Mansion Army wants to rob the Shanyang Army of grain and grass. This is not impossible, the Yanzhou army is short of grain and grass, it is already an obvious thing, and it is not impossible to snatch the grain and grass for the sake of feeding tens of thousands of troops for months. But in the eyes of those who have a heart and in the eyes of those who are capable, this is impossible. First, the Yanzhou Mansion Army would not do this now, unless he wanted to face a simultaneous counterattack by the Wuwei Army and the Shanyang Army. Second, the counterattack ability of the Shanyang Army's baggage team is also too strong, and it is a bit incredible that it can be attacked by the Yanzhou Mansion Army and capture several cities in a row. Well, it can be said that it is outrageously strong. Obviously, this operation was prepared by the Shanyang Army for a long time. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the Shanyang Army has always been cautious about the Yanzhou Army.

The second reason is that Feng Ziming vaguely said that in order to repay the betrayal of Xu Jie's betrayal in the past, and when the Yanzhou Mansion Army had bad intentions towards the grain and grass of his baggage team, he planned to take advantage of the situation to counterattack, and plotted to seize Xu Jie's territory, incorporated the Yanzhou Mansion soldiers, and collapsed Xu Jie. Of course, some people naturally don't think this is true, after all, the Shanyang army in the south only started to move after only one day's slow work. It's not that the other party has the end of time, but that the southern Shanyang Army is preparing too quickly. The defense line of the southern Shanyang Army is in the south, and now it is transferred to the north to operate, according to the time, the opportunity is to get the message of Feng Ziming, and the army will start to set off. So, didn't they have already prepared the army and waited for the military order?

No matter what capable people think, Feng Ziming still took the responsibility of taking the initiative to send troops to his allies. That's a lot of credit. However, Feng Ziming also began to spread the fact that Xu Jie, in order to achieve the unity of the three armies, attacked the Wuwei Army, and ceded the land of the Three Prefectures to the Tang Army and the Xuzhou Army respectively. If it weren't for the rise of the Shanyang Army, I was afraid that tens of thousands of soldiers in Shanyang Mansion would be betrayed as outcasts, and hundreds of thousands of people would become the souls of others.

A simple matter suddenly made Xu Jie lose the support of the people in Yanzhou. Speaking of which, it is not for nothing to cede territory in exchange for coalition forces, but it is a bit too much to treat tens of thousands of soldiers as outcasts to cover up the actions they are preparing for. I don't know, once it is understood, how can the Yanzhou government army continue to be loyal to Xu Jie? In this way, Xu Jie was once again forced into a desperate situation.

Zhao Xun smiled: "Okay, don't shirk." The soldiers can fight on the front line safely, without worrying about the instability of the rear, and they can also be the Yanzhou Mansion that has only been successful for a few months, and can well guide the government affairs of Jiyin Mansion. As he spoke, Zhao Xun waved his hand to interrupt Feng Ziming's words and wanted to excuse himself, and continued, "Although my Shanyang Army has not taken the entire territory of Yanzhou, we have already occupied the central land, and we are already the party that occupies the most prefectures in the land of Yanzhou. Therefore, we need to manage it as a whole and make a name for ourselves. ”

After a pause, Zhao Xun said in a deep voice: "From now on, Shanyang Mansion, Yanzhou Mansion, Jiyin Mansion, Songzhou Mansion, and the four mansions are all under the jurisdiction of my Shanyang Army. The system of each county and each government is exercised in accordance with the new policy. Civilian-military division, complementary interference. Local security is in charge of government officials and county soldiers, and county lieutenants are in charge. The army can only station troops in the local area and cannot interfere in local government affairs. Otherwise, they will be severely punished. ”

"Secondly, the area under the jurisdiction of our Shanyang Army is also managed in parallel by three sets of officials. We follow the example of the Xiaoguo Army, government affairs, taxation, supervision, three military forces, not subordinate to each other, supervise each other. Taxation and supervision officials, appointed every three years, are rotated on a regular basis, and are permanent. ”

As soon as these words came out, many people were secretly shocked. Although most of the officials in the Shanyang Army were drawn from the Xiaoguo Army by Zhao Xun, and those who were selected from the Young Guards were scholars, half of the officials were still selected from the Yanzhou region. In this way, the officials who were originally in charge of the political affairs of a place will now separate the powers in their hands, and in addition, they will have to add a watchdog by their side, so that they will become officials in the future, how can they not be careful.

Zhao Xun glanced at everyone and said in a deep voice: "These systems, the northern overlord Xiaoguo Army are already being implemented, and the results are obvious. Naturally, we need to learn from the strengths of others and make up for our own shortcomings. The matter is decided, no matter what happens. As soon as Zhao Xun made the final decision, he gave the matter a decision.

"The highest civil affairs official of the state, like the Xiaoguo army, is the governor, patrolling and pacifying the whole territory, and the head of the government is the governor of the government. Taxation is divided into three levels: the state tax department, the government tax department and the county tax department, which are subordinate to the upper and lower levels and are supervised by the supervision department. Subsequently, Zhao Xun gave a detailed explanation of the functions and powers at all levels. Officials of the Department of Taxation and the Department of Supervision shall be transferred every three years, and local officials shall be promoted, dismissed or demoted every year according to merit. However, local officials can be officials in one place for up to five years, and after five years, they can change places. This move is also to prevent local officials from doing evil to the local area, harming the people, and operating a secret network of relationships in the local area. The deadline is given first, and it reduces their collusion into a net, which is a disaster for one party.

"Feng Ziming, you are fully responsible for the government affairs under the rule of my Shanyang Army, you must attach importance to production, promote etiquette and education, promote talents, reduce rent and probation, and show grace to the people. Our Shanyang Army has been able to get to where it is today, it is driven by these reasons, and we must not forget it! Zhao Xun said in a deep voice, and designated Feng Ziming as the highest civilian official of the Shanyang Army.

Feng Ziming came out of the column and said in a deep voice: "The subordinates will definitely live up to the general's trust!" ”

Zhao Xun nodded and said: "Very good, what you do in Jiyin Mansion is very good, above the place, except for the things of my Shanyang Army, anyone who does not obey the command of my Shanyang Army will be punished as a traitor, and will be killed." As for the bandits and the army organizations that call themselves rebels, let them take the initiative to come out and surrender, otherwise, there will be no mercy for killing. Notices were issued to all localities that anyone who killed one of the evil bandits would be exempted from the crime, and those who killed two or more people would be rewarded. ”

"Tax reduction, distribution of land, confiscation of private members of large clans, and re-measurement of land must be dealt with more urgently. If there is a shortage of food in the locality, they will go to the gentry of the great clans and buy it at the market price. In addition, the government will limit the market price of daily necessities and not allow it to fluctuate beyond the upper limit. As for those who hoard goods in order to disturb the market, they confiscate their property. ”

With Zhao Xun's narration, many officials were secretly surprised. The policy now implemented by the Shanyang Army has basically begun to move closer to the Xiaoguo Army. There are many princes in the world who imitate the Shanyang Army, but the only one who has changed so much on the original basis is so similar to the Xiaoguo Army. Now that the Shanyang Army and the Xiaoguo Army are connected, many officials have begun to doubt the relationship between the main general and the Xiaoguo Army. Of course, those officials from the Xiaoguo Army and some who guessed the truth are a different story.

"It's December, the last month of the year. Although we have taken all parts of Jiyin Mansion and Songzhou Mansion, it does not mean that we have already governed these places. I hope that after you take office, you will focus on reassuring the people and people's livelihood. At the very least, it can let them have a good New Year. Why was our army able to take the counties so quickly, and why was the resistance of the defenders and young men in various places not strong? Without him, because these places were wantonly looted by Xu Jie, the people's hearts have been lost. ”

"In addition, I will recruit those who have learned in these places, and those who have the ability to do so for my use. You don't need to care about your identity, as long as you have the ability, you can use him. ”

Zhao Xun explained the government affairs that need to be dealt with one by one, and for these things, his own officials will deal with them. What I need is to control the general direction, and in addition, it is the Supervision Department and some covert supervision. As long as there is no confusion up and down, nothing big will happen.

"Now, Jiyin Mansion and Songzhou Mansion have been taken by us, and in general, there will be no accidents, but we must not be careless. In addition to appeasing the people, it is still necessary to severely punish those rich gentry and bandit rebels. As for the prisoners held by the local government and county governments, they need to be retried, those who have been wronged are released, and those who are guilty are punished. These are all things that you need to keep in mind. Zhao Xun commanded in a deep voice. Subsequently, Zhao Xun asked the local officials to go down to rest and prepare to return to their respective places of governance to carry out local governance. And Zhao Xun left the generals and Feng Ziming and other high-level officials to continue to discuss the important matter of conquest of the army of Yanzhou, the capital of Luzhou.

"Now, the most important thing is the remnants of Xu Jie. Xu Jie's grain and grass materials were insufficient, so he instigated his soldiers to drive the people of Songzhou Mansion to the place under the jurisdiction of the general, which made the already insufficient grain and grass even more tense. Subsequently, he took advantage of the opportunity of our army to transport grain and grass materials for the front line, and prepared to seize our grain and grass materials. If it weren't for Feng Ziming, our army would be worried, more than 20,000 grains on the front line, and more than 100,000 people would fall into a food shortage. This matter is unbearable and unbearable. Since he and Xu Jie's opposition has been antagonized, it must be completely resolved. Zhao Xun said in a deep voice. Although he was the first to make the move, since he had already announced to the public that Xu Jie was the first to do it, he naturally would not make any mistakes in his words. Even if you want to cover it up, you still have to do it, and you just need to know it in your heart. Of course, this is also to tell those generals that it was Xu Jie's first move on the Yanzhou government army, not our premeditation, and it cannot be omitted.

"Now, the people of Luzhou Mansion and the soldiers of the Yanzhou Mansion Army have begun to be very dissatisfied with Xu Jie, because of the new policies implemented after we took Jiyin Mansion and Song Prefecture Mansion, so what I mean is that it is naturally best to let the officials at the lower levels of the Yanzhou Mansion Army surrender and make the Yanzhou Mansion Army completely collapse. In addition to sending people to contact the military officials of Yanzhou Prefecture to persuade them to surrender, the army also had to march eastward from Lincheng and Kangfu County at the same time. Before the Chinese New Year, I need to take the Luzhou Mansion and completely disintegrate the Yanzhou Mansion Army in the Luzhou Mansion. Never leave him a chance to recover. Only by completely disintegrating the Yanzhou government army can we officially deal with the Tang army in the north. The Wuwei Army in the south and the Xuzhou Army in the east. ”

Feng Ziming said: "General, from the perspective of his subordinates, this Yanzhou Mansion army in Luzhou Mansion should not be a big problem. With the current Xu Jie and the Yanzhou Mansion Army under his command, presumably, the Xuzhou Army should reconsider its relationship with us and Xu Jie. Now that the Xuzhou Army is facing the blows of the Wuwei Army and the Tang Army from the north, south and east, it is natural that he will not take the initiative to provoke us, and he is willing to let himself be enemies on all sides. His subordinates guessed that this Xuzhou army was afraid that they had already sent an envoy to establish a new relationship with us. Even, he hoped that we could attack the Tang Army in the north, or the Wuwei Army in the south, to share the pressure for him. ”

"As for our other enemy, the Don Army. He was connected to the Xiaoguo army in the north, and we and the Xuzhou army were in the south. And he is directly engaged with the Xuzhou army, so unless we take the initiative to provoke, he should not fight us head-on. Even, Tang Xian also hoped that we could attack the Xuzhou army in the east and carve up the land of Xuzhou with it. ”

"As for the southernmost Wuwei Army, this is also the force that Yanzhou has prepared to expel from it. Although he has suffered heavy losses now, his subordinates believe that he is our worst enemy. There is no him, because behind him stands the King of Qi, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and countless grains, grasses, materials and money. Therefore, the view of the subordinates is that they must be driven out of Yanzhou first, and then seek other things. ”

Zhao Xun understood what Feng Ziming meant in his heart, because the Shanyang Army and the Xiaoguo Army were one, so the land north of the Yangtze River was not his opponent now, but Murong Cheng, the king of Qi in the south, was the enemy that the Xiaoguo Army would face in the future. Therefore, from the perspective of the overall situation, the armed guards must expel it first.

Subsequently, the generals also expressed their views one after another. However, most people believe that defeating the Wuwei Army will definitely set up a strong enemy in the south, but now that they have offended Situ Lei, if they fall out with Murong Cheng again, it means that the Shanyang Army will face two strong enemies. In addition, to defeat the Wuwei Army means that the Tang Army must develop and grow, and the Xuzhou Army must be relieved of pressure. For the Tang Army and the Xuzhou Army, it is naturally good, but for the Shanyang Army, it may not be very favorable.

These generals preferred to go north first, completely defeat the Tang army, and at the very least, expel the Tang army from the territory of Yanzhou and recover the field. Because attacking the Tang army is the most beneficial to the Shanyang army, a few days ago, Feng Ziming said that Xu Jie's betrayal of the land of several mansions and the Tang army, but the Tang army did not take any action, which was regarded as treachery. In addition, there are many soldiers and soldiers and ordinary people in Liangzhou who are dedicated to Yanzhou, which are the most favorable conditions for the operation of the army.

Seeing that everyone was expressing their opinions, Zhao Xun smiled and said, "Brothers, don't be busy discussing first, these are all things that need to be done next year." Now, what we need to do is to prepare for war, first pacify the Luzhou capital, and unify the central provinces of Yanzhou. ”

"After the reorganization of the Shanyang Army, so far, it will become the army of the three guards, which are the vanguard army in the south of Shunzhou Prefecture, the right guard army of Jiyin Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion, and the left guard army of Shanyang Mansion. Each guard has 25,000 men under its command, and its strength is the same as that of the avant-garde. These will be the regular soldiers of our Shanyang Army, responsible for foreign operations and defense against foreign invasion. For local security, county soldiers are responsible for the county level and above, and the county soldiers in a county are between 500 and 1,000 standing soldiers. At the same time, it was added as a supplement to the guards. Below the county level, between townships and towns, and between villages, there will be a public security inspection department, and each township and one town will have 10 to 50 inspectors, and the number of local people is limited. ”

"Each army shall establish a military law corps, which shall be directly under the direct jurisdiction of the general and shall be responsible for exercising jurisdiction over all kinds of military law issues of each army. In other words, in wartime, military judges are responsible for supervising the behavior of the upper and lower levels of the army, and verifying and supervising the issue of merit. It is not under the control of the officers of the various ministries and does its own thing. ”

Zhao Xun said in a deep voice what he wanted in the army, in addition to the military justice team, the quartermaster in charge of logistics was also directly under the jurisdiction of the general's palace and supervised by military judges.

Subsequently, in the territory of Jiyin Prefecture and Songzhou Prefecture, on the one hand, they continued to carry out local conquests, carried out policy reforms, and carried out the elimination of those bandit rebels, and on the other hand, they began to recruit soldiers. On the one hand, some wounded and disabled soldiers were transferred to the townships and towns to serve as officers of the inspection department, and some wounded soldiers were transferred to the county soldiers to teach the heads and officers. On the one hand, they began to incorporate those bandit rebels and soldiers from all over the country, and after strict training, they were incorporated into the establishment of various armies.

In addition, various localities have also begun to distribute food and winter clothes to the people on a large scale. Of course, winter clothes are all old goods, but heating should still be okay. As for the grain, under the ruthless methods of the Shanyang army, those big clans had to sell it to the Shanyang Military Officer's Mansion at a market price, and then the government government provided disaster relief to the people. Among them, there are dozens of merchants who were ruthlessly suppressed by the Shanyang Army because of hoarding goods and wantonly raising prices, and they exterminated their families. All of a sudden, these wealthy gentry and businessmen knew that this Shanyang army was not good at stubble. However, the people of the land of the two provinces were full of cheers for the Shanyang army. After all, since the Shanyang Army took over the land of the two prefectures, everything they have done has been for the benefit of the people. It can be said that compared with before, one is in the sky and the other is on the ground, and there is a difference between clouds and mud.

The land of Luzhou Mansion is different from the lively scene of Jiyin Mansion and Songzhou Mansion. In the territory of Luzhou Prefecture, the people began to be strongly dissatisfied with the Yanzhou Prefecture Army. Even, in some places, there were incidents of people attacking the soldiers of Yanzhou Mansion. Of course, this also has something to do with the nonsense of these soldiers.

After the fall of Jiyin Mansion and Songzhou Mansion, after Xu Jie's failure to send troops to conquer Lincheng, after Feng Ziming spread the news that Xu Jie's betrayal of the soldiers of the Mansion spread. These Yanzhou Mansion soldiers began to be unruly, not only did they not obey Xu Jie's military orders, but even some of them were no different from bandits.

At this time, Xu Jie, it can be said, has reached the end of the road. With gray hair on his head, if Feng Ziming saw Xu Jie, he would definitely be surprised. But at this moment, he no longer cares about grooming. After Feng Ziming vaguely said that he regarded tens of thousands of soldiers as outcasts in order to join forces with the Tang Army, he lost absolute control over his subordinates. Unlike before, a few days ago, the corporal under the command of the other people did not want to fight to the death with the Shanyang army. However, they are still loyal to him Xu Jie, at least, there is no problem with the officers, these are all cronies.

However, since Feng Ziming did this, not only the soldiers below talked about him, but even the officers around him began to be dissatisfied with him. Some of his military orders will also be shirked by these officers under various pretexts.

"Could it be that this is the end of my Xu Jie?" Looking at himself with silver hair in the mirror, Xu Jie couldn't help but sigh.

"Lord Governor, report to Lord Governor, subordinates and others found out that the soldiers outside the palace began to change people on a large scale, I don't know what happened. The subordinates were worried that something would happen, so after the governor put on makeup, he left the temporary governor's mansion. Xu Feng, the captain of the guard battalion, reported urgently.