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There are 6,000 soldiers in the Zhichong Prefecture in Yizhou, all of whom are young and middle-aged farmers, who work in the farming season and are called to the Zhichong Prefecture during the slack time to carry out military training. The governor of the state is the official of the sixth rank and is the highest military governor of a state. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info the county under the prefecture also has the Zhichong Governor's Mansion, the number of people depending on the size of the county is one or two thousand, but also from the peasants recruited young and middle-aged, peacetime and war, with agriculture to raise war, do not occupy too much national financial expenditure.

In peacetime, Lieutenant Zhichong led a group of permanent officers to train soldiers, and selected elite soldiers to take turns to guard in Beijing; During the war, the Ministry of War was ordered by the emperor to issue an order to recruit troops and horses to the supreme governor of the prefecture, the Assassin Shi and the Prefecture Zhichong Commander, and the Prefecture Zhichong Commander jointly inspected the authenticity of the documents and conscription orders of the military department before sending troops.

The history of the assassin in the upper state of the Gyeonggi region is from the third grade, and the middle and lower states are the fourth grade, and he is the chief official of a state, in charge of administration, justice, public security, and finance, and is in charge of everything except the military, and is the food and clothing of the people of a state.

It can be seen that the state Zhichong Governor was a very important officer in the Tang Dynasty, and now it is the autumn and winter alternate agricultural season, and the 6,000 troops of the Yizhou Zhichong Governor's Mansion are full. Yizhou Zhichong Governor Lu Dapeng is also a member of the Hou Party and is in cahoots with Fan Wei.

Before Xu Qing arrested Fan Wei, the assassin of Yizhou, before the Yizhou Prefecture Ya arrested Fan Wei, he led more than 1,000 accompanying guards to the Yizhou Zhichong Governor's Mansion to relieve Lu Dapeng of military power. Xu Qing's official position and status are incomparable to Lu Dapeng, not to mention that Xu Qing is holding the imperial gift Shangfang sword engraved with "If I am here", and there are elite guards of the 16 guards of the Central Army, Lu Dapeng does not dare to resist the slightest and is captured.

The removal of Lu Dapeng's military power was very smooth, to Xu Qing's surprise, Xu Qing originally thought that the members of the Hou Party were used to being arrogant and accustomed to being powerful, and his Qin Cha, the identity of the horse and the monk Fang Baojian, was afraid that he would not be able to suppress Lu Dapeng, and he would resist arrest with five times the strength of his own.

The removal of Lu Dapeng's military power can be described as a killer, and the arrester of the hundreds of people in the Yamen of Yizhou to maintain law and order is usually obedient to Fan Wei, seeing that Xu Qing led troops to the Yamen to arrest Fan Wei, none of them stood up to defend Fan Wei.

Pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, almost all the officials under Fan Wei and Lu Dapeng are corrupt officials, and almost all of them are members of the back party. Xu Qing looked at the Yizhou officialdom, but he couldn't find an official who could temporarily replace Fan Wei and Lu Dapeng, so he had to stay in Yizhou for a while, sit in Yizhou, and thoroughly rectify the Yizhou officialdom to prevent a resurgence.

The arsenal is the lifeblood of the army, and if you want it to be surnamed Li and not Wu, you must find a reliable person to manage it. On the second day after Xu Qing took up the town in Yizhou Yamen, he led 300 new troops and 100 old troops to the Yizhou Arsenal with Zhao Mengchen and others, arrested the management of the arsenal, arrested first and then interrogated, and then left the 100 old troops to take over the arsenal. The weapons and armor produced by the Yizhou Arsenal were supplied not only to the army of Yizhou, but also to the government soldiers of the other states of Jiannan Province.

The arsenal has more than a thousand craftsmen. For the craftsmen, Xu Qing is only appeasing them at present, work hard, pay their salaries, and how the weapons of the arsenal are lost to the hands of the Black and White Sect must be thoroughly investigated, but it will not be found on the heads of ordinary craftsmen and middle and lower-level managers for a while and a half.

In the first year of Zhenguan (627 AD), Tang Taizong Li Shimin divided the territory of the Tang Dynasty into ten provinces, namely Guannei, Henan, Hedong, Hebei, Shannan, Longyou, Huainan, Jiannan, and Lingnan, and the geographical scope of each province was larger than that of the province of the Celestial Empire more than a thousand years later.

The difference between the prefecture and the prefecture is that the prefecture with great military strategic value is renamed the prefecture, and its highest governor is called the governor, not the assassin. The Governor is in charge of the administration, justice, finance, military, and public security of a prefecture, and he has both the posts of the state assassin and the state Zhichong Governor, and the Zhichong Governor's Mansion not only has a combination of peacetime and wartime soldiers like the state, but also has an elite standing army like the Central Sixteen Guards.

The central government of the Tang Dynasty regularly and irregularly appointed the history of observation and interviews to inspect the states and counties under the name of each province. Usually the history of observation and interview is served by high-ranking officials in Beijing (such as the prime minister and Shangshu) or the emperor's advisors, speech officials (such as the imperial history and the imperial history), and advisers (such as the scattered cavalry permanent attendants).

According to the statistics of the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty had a total of 358 state capitals and 1,551 counties. Later, Tang Ping destroyed the small Western Regions Gaochang (now Turpan, Xinjiang) and Da and Xiao Bolu (now Afghanistan and Pakistan), Tang Gaozong destroyed Goguryeo and Baekje in the early and middle periods, and after Persia (now Iran) was invaded by Da Shi (that is, the Arab Empire), he made the Persian prince in exile the governor of Persia, and established the Persian Governorate at the junction of Persia and the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, the Tang Dynasty established the capital protectorate in the newly opened frontier areas of the southeast, northwest and northwest, namely the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, the Shan Yu Metropolitan Protectorate, the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate, and the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate, each of which was at the same level as the prefecture, but the area and population under its jurisdiction were much larger than the prefecture.

The minister of Qincha is referred to as Qincha, which is a temporary official position in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Qin, which means emperor, is the meaning of the emperor to send, so the minister is an official sent by the emperor to handle something. Because it represents the emperor himself, his status is very high. The official position was often a high-ranking official favored by the emperor, and the official position was abolished after the reinstatement.

In fact, the emperor sent ministers to go out to do things for himself before the Ming and Qing dynasties, but they were not called "ministers of the Qin Mission", but called supervising the army, observing history, interviewing envoys, and making strategic envoys, or did not take another temporary official name, so they called their official names, such as imperial history, supervising imperial history, and serving imperial history.

The status of the ministers in the Ming and Qing dynasties was higher than that of such ministers in the previous dynasties of the Ming Dynasty, which was related to the fact that the Ming and Qing dynasties implemented a high degree of emperor centralization, and the power of the prime minister was sidelined, or there was no post of prime minister and prime minister.

The Qing Dynasty implemented an unprecedented centralization of the emperor's power, and the dispatch of Qincha became more frequent. In the Qing Dynasty, the envoy was also called the envoy, the commander of the army was called the commander, and the envoy stationed abroad was called the minister of the envoy. For example, when Lin Zexu went to Guangzhou to ban smoking, he went there as a messenger. In general, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the popularity of ministers was related to the fact that there were no prime ministers in these two generations, and the emperor's power was unprecedentedly strong.

Xu Qing knew that if he was just an observer or interview envoy of a certain way, after discovering the corrupt officials of the Hou Party, he would only report to the imperial court, and under the protection of the Hou Party, the matter would be over.

Therefore, Xu Qing instilled the concept of the minister of the later dynasty to Gaozong Li Zhi, asked him to give himself the identity of the "minister of the minister", and gave him a sword of Shang Fang engraved with the words "such as I come in person" that was common in the costume film and television dramas of the Celestial Dynasty in later generations. Li Zhi didn't say a word, and agreed to Xu Qing's request.

Xu Qing served as the minister of the Qin Mission, and inspected the world on behalf of the Tang Dynasty, so he had to spend time to understand the scope of each province, Guannei: roughly equivalent to the central and northern parts of present-day Shaanxi, Gansu Longdong to Pi Inner Mongolia Hetao and other places.

Henan: It roughly corresponds to the area south of the Yellow River in present-day Henan and Shandong provinces, and north of the Huai River in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces.

Hedong: Roughly equivalent to the area between the whole province of present-day Shanxi and the inner and outer Great Wall in the northwest of Hebei.

Hebei: Roughly equivalent to the south of the Great Wall of Hebei today. Most of the area north of the Yellow River in Henan and Shandong provinces.

Shannan: Roughly equivalent to the eastern part of present-day Sichuan, the southern part of Shaanxi and Gansu, the southwestern part of Henan, and the western part of Hubei.

Longyou: Roughly equivalent to the area west of Longshan and Liupan Mountains in present-day Gansu, east of Qinghai Lake in Qinghai Province and eastern Xinjiang.

Huainan: Roughly equivalent to the area south of Huaishui in present-day Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, and north of the Yangtze River in eastern Hubei.

Jiangnan: Roughly equivalent to the four provinces of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Hunan, the south of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu and Anhui, Hubei, part of Jiangnan in Sichuan, and the northeast of Guizhou.

Jiannan: Roughly equivalent to the central part of present-day Sichuan and the northern tip of Yunnan.

Lingnan: Roughly equivalent to the area of present-day Guangdong, Guangxi and northeastern Vietnam.

Yizhou is the capital of Jiannan Province, also known as Chengdu, under the jurisdiction of ten counties, handicrafts, commerce, agriculture are very developed, the population is large, is a famous big city in the Tang Dynasty. The Jianghu gang organizations in Yizhou mainly include Tianbi Villa, Chengdu Branch of the Beggars Gang, Chengdu Branch of the Tianxing Sect, Chengdu Branch of the Yangtze River League, and Guojiabao.

Tianbi Villa has Zhuang Ding 3,000, known as the first village in the world, Zhuang advocates Songnian, is the top master of the rivers and lakes, famous all over the rivers and lakes, his son Zhang Yingfeng, is a famous beautiful man in the rivers and lakes, martial arts is not weak, but far from the top masters of the rivers and lakes, Zhang Yingfeng's sister Zhang Yingxue, ranked fifth among the top ten beauties in the rivers and lakes, did not walk around in the rivers and lakes, martial arts are unknown.

Zhang Jintian, the father of Zhang Songnian, is the owner of Tianbi Villa in the previous generation, and was known as the world's first master 20 years ago, and was respected as the "Sword Saint" by people in the rivers and lakes.

The masters of the Black and White Sect are like clouds, with 30,000 members, and the main altar is not far from Chengdu, but they dare not annex Tianbi Villa, because Tianbi Villa has the first master of the rivers and lakes "Sword Saint" Zhang Jintian in charge, so that Shi Zhiyuan does not dare to touch the tiger's beard.

The beggar gang and the Yangtze River League themselves are strong, they are all big gangs with more than 20,000 people, and they are willing to advocate Songnian as the strongest martial arts in Jiannan Province and even the entire southwest region, and the Chengdu branch of the beggar gang and the Chengdu branch of the Yangtze River League form a community of interests with Tianbi Villa, instead of competing for the sphere of influence and jointly fighting against the black and white sect, so after the first major sect in the rivers and lakes, the Chengdu branch of the Tianxing Sect, the original incense main Feng Zhensheng was bought by the black and white sect, the Chengdu branch of the beggar gang and the Chengdu branch of the Yangtze River League can still survive in Chengdu, It has not been annexed or bought by the Black and White Sect.

Xu Qing is very interested in Tianbi Villa, if he can merge Tianbi Villa, the income will be huge, and he can get twice the result with half the effort by running Chengdu by himself, otherwise if there is a conflict with Tianbi Villa in business or sphere of influence, he will be twice as effective as he does with half the effort.

Chengdu was the largest city in the southwest and one of the most prestigious cities in the Tang Dynasty, and Xu Qing's commercial empire had to occupy the commanding heights of Chengdu if it was to expand to the southwest. Therefore, after Xu Qing took control of the Yizhou Prefecture Yahe Prefecture Zhichong Governor's Mansion and took over the Yizhou Arsenal, he decided to go to Tianbi Villa and visit Zhang Songnian in person.

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