The sullen Liu Cun left Licheng that day and returned to the Zouping Shadowless Mountain Camp to focus on the education of the fourth batch of students of the Martial Arts Academy and the distribution of the third batch of students.

In the past two years, Liu Cun has done many trespassing things that do not comply with the legal principles of the imperial court, such as the scale and height of the construction of many cities, the formation and expansion of the army, the improvement and equipment of weapons, etc., all of which have exceeded the strict laws and regulations of the Han court, and even the setting up of the Zhendong General's Mansion is an illegal transgression, all of which are essentially no different from the rebellious acts of the princes of all walks of life who despise the imperial court and do their own thing.

It's just that Liu Cun has a piece of ugly cloth that is enough to block all the open guns and arrows - to do it under the banner of implementing the "Qingzhou New Deal", and the implementation of the Qingzhou New Deal is legal, no matter how the reputation of the people in the world is, Liu Cun's Qingzhou New Deal was approved by the first emperor Liu Hong, and this approval document has a loud name: Qin Ming Edict.

Just three days after Liu Cun returned to the camp of Shadowless Mountain, a shocking news suddenly came:

Three days ago, the fierce general Sun Jian suddenly accelerated the onslaught of Taigu Pass, in the night battle, the right wing of the Xiliang army bombed the camp, Sun Jian seized the opportunity to command the whole army to swarm up, quickly defeated Lu Bu and Hu Zhen 30,000 people occupied Taigu Pass, and then the troops were divided into two ways to break north, in the north of the Guanbei forty miles to attack the Xiliang fierce general Hua Xiong, the brave and unstoppable Sun Jian led two thousand personal soldiers into the enemy camp, in the chaos of the army Hua Xiong beheaded under the horse, the leaderless Xiliang army was scattered and demoralized, Sun Jian led the army all the way to cover up, At this moment, it is already approaching the city of Luoyang.

"Dong Zhuo is defeated!"

Liu Cun was very helpless to throw down the battle report, as long as the coalition forces occupied Luoyang. Yuan Shao will be able to free up his hands to get his hands on Jizhou.

Lu Pei and Xu Yan were puzzled by the defeat of the Xiliang army, and Xu Yan asked the doubts in his heart: "The nearly 20,000 elites under Lu Bu's command are all the soldiers he brought from Bingzhou. Well-equipped and battle-hardened. How could it be possible to suddenly bomb the camp when the time and place were right? ”

Liu Cun told the inside story of his own understanding: "Lu Bu was recruited by Dong Zhuo and was reused, Hu Zhen, who worked hard, was greatly dissatisfied, and quarreled with Lu Bu many times under jealousy, after Dong Zhuo replaced He Jin to control the government, three columns plundered the rich land around Luoyang to replenish military expenses, Lu Bu and Hu Zhen on the distribution of spoils and defense areas, once again a fierce conflict broke out, almost caused a fight between the two armies, at that time Dong Zhuo also had to transfer Hu Zhen to Hedong to guard. As a result, the resentment between Lu Bu and Hu Zhen grew deeper and deeper. ”

"I deduce that Lu Bu must think that even a defeat will not affect the overall situation, and he will soon be able to kill Sun Jian with his ability, so he deliberately retreated and gave up his position, wanting to use Sun Jian's hand to get rid of Hu Zhen, so an inexplicable bombing of the camp occurred, and the result was beyond Lu Bu's control, causing an irreparable defeat for the entire Xiliang army."

Lu Pei and Xu Yan were shocked by Liu Cun's bold inference, and carefully recalled the classified information they had seen in the archives of the Military Command Department. gradually found that Liu Cun's inference was very reasonable.

Liu Cun didn't give the two of them much time to think about it, motioned for the two to sit down, and told the two beloved disciples about the decision he had made repeatedly for three days:

"I plan to make adjustments to the various departments under the General's Mansion and double the number of personnel. The name remains unchanged, and an internal affairs department is added, which is responsible for internal security, anti-intermediary, and conducting secret investigations into violations of law and discipline by internal military and political officials. I don't need to be responsible to the shogunate and the military council, it's under my direct jurisdiction! ”

"Ji Fang (Xu Yanzi). You have become a lieutenant of the garrison battalion, and I want you to set up and take charge of the Internal Affairs Department for me. and Yupu (Lu Pei character) one to the inside and one to the outside, so that I can rest assured, I don't know if you want to? ”

Xu Yan immediately knelt down on one leg: "In terms of the combat ability of commanding troops, the apprentices are not as good as Senior Brother Yupu (Lu Peizi) and Senior Brother Wanli (Cheng Jizi), and in terms of bravery, they are not as good as Zhongming (Zhai Chaozi) and other junior brothers, but they are slightly better at internal and external liaison and handling complicated affairs. ”

"The apprentice has been looking forward to returning to the master day and night to listen to the teachings, and the only thing he is worried about is that he is not talented enough and will live up to the master's high hopes!"

Liu Cun was pleased, and helped his beloved disciple to nod frequently: "Okay!" I'm relieved, although there are a lot of talents under my command, only you Xu Yan can take on this big responsibility! ”

"I will go back and hand over to you the information I have written in the past few days about the purpose and principles of the establishment of the Internal Affairs Bureau, personnel screening, inspection and training, including the "Internal Affairs Secrecy Regulations" and the "Reward and Punishment System".

"Understood!" Xu Yan and Lu Pei replied in unison.

Liu Cun advised: "Each office under the Department of Internal Affairs is set up with reference to the Military Command Administration, and there is no need for too many personnel to handle daily affairs, and the roster of personnel whose identities are open must be submitted to the Military Judge Advocate General's Office and the Military Affairs Administration for the normal record, so as to facilitate the supervision of the Military Judge Advocate General's Office and the unified payment of salaries by the Military Affairs Administration......

"You set up a separate general affairs office, and choose two of your brothers and sisters to serve as your adjutants, one to assist you in handling various affairs, and the other to manage the files, various expenses, and salaries of secret personnel for you."

"I am responsible for this secret fund, without going through the Military Affairs Bureau, nor through the shogunate, the more hidden the better, you can make your own ideas on how to do it, discuss it with Yupu in case of trouble, and if you can't decide on matters or other needs, submit it to me alone, and I will do my best to solve it for you."

Xu Yan felt the heaviness of courage on his shoulders, and after thinking about it for a long time, he solemnly proposed two candidates: "The apprentice wants to ask the master to transfer the fifth junior brother Zou Yi and the junior junior brother Zhi Zhen to the Internal Affairs Bureau. ”

Liu Cun smiled helplessly: "You are really good at picking people!" Your little junior brother Zhi Zhen is easy to do, he joined the army under your uncle, I can write a letter, I must let him come back no matter how much your uncle likes him. ”

"However, your fifth junior brother Zou Yi is a little troublesome...... He is the most popular instructor among the students in the martial arts academy, and he revised and taught the two courses of "Military Logistics Support" and "Military Consumption and Accounting", and none of the 384 students in the first three sessions failed the exam. ”

"Zou Yi is leaving, I can only transfer two first-class graduates from the army to the martial arts academy to fill the vacancy left by him."

Xu Yan and Lu Pei smiled, their twenty-nine brothers followed the master Liu Cun to study hard for five years, each with their own specialty, in addition to the six who died in the battle and died of illness, eight people followed the eldest son Liu Zhen to Yizhou, the fourth junior brother with the highest knowledge Mu Heng took over the position of director of the research institute left by Liu Zhen, and the other two junior brothers stayed in Zhushan for a long time to assist, and five junior brothers served in the navy as captains and captains, most of the time they spent at sea every year, and it was not easy to see each other.

Now the only person who can meet Lu Pei and Xu Yan from time to time is Zhai Chao, who served as Liu Cun's personal guard, this time Xu Yan was promoted, and then transferred the fifth junior brother Zou Yi and Xiao Zhizhen to take over the position of captain of the garrison battalion left by Xu Yan, must be Cheng Ji, the captain who has been stationed in the Dong'an front line in the west of Chengyang County for a long time, and has the highest martial skills and the best command of all the senior brothers, so that the six senior brothers who have been separated for a long time can meet from time to time.

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