At the end of February of the first year of Zhonghe, the new official took office to inspect Weizhou, so that Chai Cun was resolute, and the first fire burned into the Weizhou army. For a time, the crackdown was severe, which made the Weizhou army jump up and down, and the people were panicked.

As the main components of the Weizhou Army, the Feilong Army and the Weiyuan Army became the hardest hit areas of the Strike Hard Campaign. These two teams have many problems, such as bullying local civilians at the station, looting passers-by without permission, etc.

The most serious of these was that the commander of a battalion in the two armies fought over a prostitute, and when Chai Cun investigated and punished the two, the two actually resisted angrily.

After hearing this, Li Bao, the king of Ji, was furious and sent a letter to instruct Chai Cun to strictly deal with such lawless fanatics, and mobilize the new army of Weizhou to suppress it.

In the face of the two battalion commanders who were heavily surrounded, under the persuasion of Yang Siqi, the flying dragon envoy, they abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

Chai Cun had Li Bao's support, and regardless of Yang Siqi's plea and persuasion, he beheaded the two commanders involved on the spot and showed them to the public, and punished the sergeants who participated in the brawl to hard labor for one month, and revoked the qualification of King Ji for reward.

Such a heavy punishment made Yang Siqi extremely unhappy in the face of Yang Siqi, so he threatened him, but the new inspector did not buy his account, and his face did not change and left.

However, the deputy envoy of the patrol, Karondawa, made a strong effort to compensate Yang Siqi, and when he saw this humble Tubo general, Yang Siqi, who was holding back the fire in his stomach, was even more angry.

But he also knew that it was not appropriate to have a hard time with Chai Cun at this time, so he held back his anger and walked away. Where did Karondawa fall, his face full of depression.

The undesirable phenomena in the Weizhou New Army are not too prominent, and the problematic ones are still conspicuous in the imbalance between the branches of the army. These are all minor problems, and after a period of hard crackdown, the morale and military discipline of the Weizhou army have greatly improved.

Li Bao was very satisfied with Chai Cun's work, and greatly praised Chai Cun and Karondawa in public at the high-level military and political meeting in Weizhou.

Now that the reorganization of the armed forces has come to an end, the work of mixing the armed forces must be started. The two forces of the Feilong Army and the Weiyuan Army must be completely dismantled, after all, these two armies are the number of troops of the imperial court, and the Weizhou Army can no longer be used.

Yang Siqi knew Li Bao's plan early on, but he knew that Li Bao was not the one who crossed the river and demolished the bridge, even if he was not allowed to lead the troops, he would arrange a good messenger for him.

Therefore, when Li Bao said that he wanted to break up the Flying Dragon Army and the Weiyuan Army, Yang Siqi did not have the slightest panic and was very calm.

The number of Weiyuan troops was about 4,000 people, but after coming out of Chang'an, many people were reluctant to Chang'an, and some were not optimistic about the Weizhou army, so they let them leave on their own when they left the city, so there are still more than 2,600 people left in the Weiyuan army today.

The Flying Dragon Army has always been a cavalry establishment, and there is not much loss in the Chang'an Guard, perhaps because the chief officers are Li Bao's people, and there are not many people left in the Flying Dragon Army, and now there are about 950 people and more than 1,100 horses.

The original establishment of the Weizhou New Army was 2,000 people, plus more than 3,600 people from the Feilong Army and the Weiyuan Army, a total of more than 5,600 people.

Li Bao was also a little worried when he looked at this number, although Weizhou is not short of money now, but there is a shortage of food, cloth and other materials, and Weizhou is a border state The trade route has not yet been completely smooth, and it is not easy to support the team of 5,600 people.

But now that Datang has recently entered the troubled times, the army is the foundation of the troubled times, so he must grit his teeth and build this team.

In order to accommodate a contingent of 5,600 troops, the establishment of the Weizhou Left and Right Battalions that Li Bao compiled last year had to be expanded and upgraded to the Weizhou Left and Right Army.

The new establishment is as follows: Each corps contains five battalions, each battalion contains five battalions, each contains ten squadrons, each corps contains two platoons, and each corps contains five men. The extra 300 people will be directly led by the main generals of the left and right armies, as the personal guard battalion of the main generals.

Zhang Chengfan, the chief general of the left army, Qian De'an, the deputy general, Xiahou Haoyue served as the marching Sima, Song Wentong was the commander-in-chief of the right army, Yang Siqi, the deputy general, and Ouyang Hui served as the marching Sima.

In addition, Li Bao also demanded that one of the chief and deputy chief officers above the rank of commander and above in the army must be appointed by the Shadow Guard, which would strengthen Li Bao's control over the army, and this criterion would serve as an unspoken rule for selecting generals in the future.

After hearing Li Bao's instruction, the middle and senior military officials present had different ideas. But no one expressed dissatisfaction. After all, they were all members of the Shadow Guard, and they had already sworn allegiance to Li Bao.

Li Bao continued: "The battalion commanders of the left and right armies have been appointed until the first level of the capital, and the commanders of the left and right armies must be submitted to me, and they can only be appointed after I confirm them. ”

The commanders of the battalions are middle-level cadres of the army, and they are related to the execution and combat effectiveness of the army, so Li Bao needs to go through all these people before he can rest assured.

Li Bao's request, the generals naturally have no objection.

After everything was put to a halt, Li Bao opened a military map again, this is the area around Weizhou, the map is very rough but there is no way, Li Bao has tried to be accurate.

Before Li Bao returned to Weizhou, Zhang Chengye asked Zhang Chengye to send someone to do it, but the people of the Tang Dynasty still stayed at the level of freehand drawing of the map, how far the surrounding area was, what mountains and rivers there were, and all of them were simple lines.

Li Bao called the painter sent to draw the map, and after careful inquiry, he added some rough numbers and some hydrological conditions of the mountains to the map.

Nowadays, in addition to Fengxiang Town, there are some remote prefectures around Weizhou, such as Hezhou (now southwest of Linxia City, Ningxia), Minzhou (now Minxian County, Gansu), Taozhou (now Lintan County, Gansu), Diezhou (now Diebe County, Gansu) and other places are all empty areas that are unguarded.

Li Bao planned to occupy these ownerless places first, so that they could be connected to Zhang Qingping's Shannan West Road and Zheng Jin's Fengxiang Mansion.

Seeing Li Bao say this, many generals were interested, after all, there is merit to be taken on the battlefield, and with merit, rewards will come.

The enthusiasm of the big guys is mobilized, and this is easy to do. Everyone began to demarcate the area with a mouthful of babble, and agreed, you take that side, I will take it, and I don't want Li Bao to open his mouth to give instructions at all.

When Li Bao saw that the generals were so active, he was happy. And from the generals' narratives, Li Bao also heard that they were not idle and enjoyable, but also worked the surrounding situation.

Therefore, Li Bao did not discourage the enthusiasm of the generals, and said to them: "This time the troops are only to open up the sphere of influence for Weizhou, and for the prefectures and counties governed by my Tang officials, we must not be rude and treat each other with courtesy." If it is occupied by the Tibetans, then don't be in a hurry to fight first, if you want Karondava to persuade you to surrender, it is really impossible to attack again, have the generals ever understood? ”

Everyone was not very happy to accept this order, after all, if you don't fight, it won't be meritorious.

Li Bao didn't care what they thought, he gave the order, and if someone didn't obey, he didn't mind who he would use to make an example. So he went on to say that this dispatch would be supervised by the Chai-Inspector Envoy, and that if anyone disobeyed the order, he would be severely punished.

Li Bao's words were categorical, and the generals would no longer dare to deal with Li Bao, and they all promised.

The most important thing before the opening of the government has been done, Li Bao is a lot more relaxed, and then ordered all the generals to go their own way, first do the mixed things well, and after some time and training, they can send troops.

Although the matter of the mixed formation of the Weizhou army has begun, Li Bao's busyness has not stopped, the military affairs are over, and the next thing is agricultural affairs.

The surrounding areas of Weizhou are mostly hilly and plain, so the food in the city is insufficient, and the land is narrow and barren. The yield per mu does not exceed one stone and five stones, and the yield per mu of fertile land in the Central Plains can reach three stones, and the population in Weizhou is large now, so there is a big food gap in Weizhou.

Although Li Bao had already entrusted Kang Qinliu and other merchant groups to transport grain to Weizhou when he decided to make his own in Weizhou, the transportation efficiency is very low today, so Li Bao has been thinking about opening up the grain buying trade route in Shuzhong.

However, now that the emperor has entered Shu, if he wants to open up trade routes, he must rely on Yang Yan and them. However, it is the end of February, and the annual spring ploughing will begin in mid-March.

Li Bao must solve the current food shortage, so he can't wait for the newly mixed Weizhou Army to go out and grab territory. Even if the surrounding states and counties cannot fill the food shortage, they can move the population to the surrounding states and counties to reduce the pressure on Weizhou.

Li Bao was born in a peasant family, and he needed to go around Weizhou to see if he could find a way to increase the yield per mu in Weizhou.

After the investigation, Li Bao sadly found that there were reasons why Weizhou's agriculture could not improve, one of which was the lack of farm tools and cattle, which could not be solved. After all, Weizhou's foundation is too weak.

In addition to the hardware shortcomings, Li Bao found that there was another measure to remedy and increase production. Because the people of the Tang Dynasty did not know how to fertilize, they still practiced the primitive fallow rotation farming method.

Faced with such a dilemma, Li Bao immediately mobilized Zhang Chengye, Jing Xiang, and others, the leaders of the Weizhou civil bureaucracy, to visit the surrounding counties and villages, and organized farmers to make fertilizer and teach new farming methods.

The poor and ignorant peasants could not understand the intention of a royal prince to let the villagers pile up their daily dung and urine and the silt and grass in the river, but they knew that they did what they were told, and they did not ask the reason.

By the time Li Bao had traveled around the four counties of Weizhou, the first year of Zhonghe had already reached the beginning of March, and the spring plowing in various counties and villages was in full swing.

That's all Li Bao can do, and the rest can only be left to fate.

The mixed formation of the Weizhou Army has been completed, and the whole training is underway, but at this time, someone from Fengxiang Town has come.

Zheng Zheng planned to teach Huang Chao a lesson, and told Li Bao that the "Anti-Huang Alliance" had been formed, and hoped that Li Bao would go to the war as soon as possible.

There has always been a lack of interest in attacking Huangchao Li Bao, but Zheng Zheng is his ally, he has sent people, and he must give face. And he promised Zheng Yan to visit her in the near future, so he still planned to join in the excitement.