The news of the defeat of the Weizhou Tiger Wing Army under the city of Fuqi was like a hurricane, and it had spread all over the world in just half a month, and all the feudal towns in various places launched activities to squeeze out the Weizhou forces one after another.

It is more obvious that Meiya and Qianjinlou branches in various places have been attacked and harassed by unknown persons to varying degrees.

And this is the beginning, Hu Sanbao of the Jinluanwei headquarters in Chang'an has recently received a succession of Jinluanwei spies under him from the arrest and killing of his subordinates or the destruction of Jinluanwei's outlets.

Seeing that the situation was so grim, Hu Sanbao suddenly felt that his heart was dripping blood, and these spies and outlets were all established by him with hard work. Now, almost overnight, Jin Luanwei's power has been destroyed by at least sixty percent.

After receiving the news, the Northwest Metropolitan Governor's Mansion had a more intuitive understanding of the losses of the Tiger Wing Army, the Tiger Wing Army itself plus the two brigades of the Tiger Tooth Army and the Tiger Tail Army were dispatched, totaling 14,000 people, and in the end there were less than 6,000 people left, and most of the soldiers were either blown up or burned to death.

When Li Bao received the news, he almost fainted in anger, this is all his hard work! This time, it was ruined in the hands of Xiahou Haoyue and Wang Bo, who were in a hurry.

As the commander of this action, Xiahou Haoyue and deputy marshal Wang Bo, immediately got on the excerpt of the petition, and Song Wentong, who was far away in Lingzhou, also sent the excerpt of the petition for the first time, and the three major coaches in the northwest have self-examined, and the review of themselves in the excerpt is very profound, but the big mistake has been made, and what to do needs to be done still needs the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to come up with a specific charter.

Li Bao was anxious about Weizhou's civil and military affairs and discussed for a long time, and the reason why Weizhou was so difficult was because Weizhou was now full of elites, and there were not many available soldiers in the state city. In addition, there was a great shortage of generals to lead the troops this time, and Li Bao was very anxious.

Wang Jian, Han Jian, and Lu Yanhong are considered to be usable talents, but Tuyuhun is a foreign land, in addition to the need to have a small number of elites for deterrence and supervision, it is absolutely impossible to enter the army, otherwise it will only cause the disgust of the Tuyuhun people, and it will also cause a waste of Weizhou's military strength.

Li Bao was very entangled in who to send, and finally Jing Xiang admonished, with Li Yi, the king of Mu, Han Jian and Lu Yanhong as the commanders, and led the elite of the four brigades to escort Ouyang Qingshuang's mother and son to Fuqi City to replace Xiahou Haoyue and Wang Bo and the remnants of their soldiers. As the town guard of the city, he supervised the containment of the Tuyuhun people.

This suggestion was made by Jing Xiang after careful consideration, and Li Bao agreed to it again and again, but he replaced Han Jian and Lu Yanhong, and ordered Ouyang Hui of the Hu Ren Legion to escort him as the military master.

The reason why Li Bao is not worried about Han Jian and Lu Yanhong is because these two people have a bad reputation in history, these two guys are ruthless characters who betray the lord and stand on their own, and the eighth is still a hairy boy, only the nominal main general, if these two bad breeds are let go to Fuqi City with Balang, maybe the eighth will be taught by the two of them.

It was because he sent Ouyang Hui, the giant of the mighty Hexi River, to fight the remnants of Xin Lihe who escaped, and to deter the Tuyuhun people with his banditry name.

Then Li Bao drafted a military order: except for the commander Xiahou Haoyue, all the officers of the Tiger Wing Army were demoted by one level and retained, and the army commander demoted Xiahou Haoyue by two levels, appointed him as the brigade commander to stay on probation, temporarily replaced the affairs of the Tiger Wing Army, and fined him for one year; The commander of the Huya Army demoted Wang Bo by one level and fined him for one year, and temporarily took over the affairs of the Huya Army.

As soon as the punishment order came out, there was a lot of discussion in the entire Northwest Metropolitan Governor's Palace, and some people said that the punishment of King Qin was too heavy, victory and defeat were a common thing for soldiers, and no one could guarantee victory in a hundred battles. Some people also say that the punishment is too light, this time Xiahou Haoyue and Wang Bo suffered such heavy losses, just a demotion and a fine, how can they be worthy of those sacrificial comrades?

However, Li Bao's punishment this time was due to his own considerations, Xiahou Haoyue's negligence was that he did not expect that the Tuyuhun people had grenades that were not inferior to those made by the Weizhou workshop, so they would suffer such serious losses, and Li Bao could not ignore the old feelings, otherwise it would only chill Zhang Qingping, Zhou Rui and others.

This time, Li Yi and Ouyang Hui led the Hu army to escort Ouyang Qingshuang's mother and son to Fuqi City, just to hone Li Yi and return the remnants of the Tiger Wing Army that had been disabled back to Weizhou to recuperate.

At the same time, Li Baofeige sent a message to Hu Sanbao, who was far away in Chang'an, and asked him to concentrate on restoring the Jinluanwei forces in various places. It's good to have a setback now, at least they won't shout every day that Weizhou's weapons are invincible.

Now that playing with fire is being burned, it can be regarded as a wake-up call to the officials and generals up and down Weizhou. If after this defeat, the Weizhou generals will no longer be able to clean up their hearts, and the pride will fail, and then Weizhou will really fall into a catastrophe.

Therefore, Li Bao had to take this defeat under the city as a typical example, and Li Keji and the personnel in the secretary and prison immediately took urgent action to start a top-down study and analysis self-review meeting from Weizhou to various states and counties outside the city.

In addition, Li Bao strictly ordered the Shadow Guard to catch the typical, and if anyone dealt with it perfunctorily, he would be severely punished immediately. The patrol made Chai Cun act immediately once he received the tip, and he would not be soft.

In addition, Li Bao instructed Yang Yinyue to mobilize the Honors House to carry out self-correction and self-examination in the Northwest Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and a mentality review meeting. The top-down movement was very necessary, so Li Bao not only led Chai Cun, Yang Yinyue and others to form a joint inspection team in Weizhou, which specially inspected the counties of Sifangzhou, and once it was found that local officials and generals did not pay attention to it and did not cooperate, they would be immediately removed from their posts and investigated.

In addition to the official means of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, Li Bao also mobilized the people under his rule to make him lose his official position and abandon his post if he found that there were local officials who were oppressing the good and corrupt, and if they were found to be corrupt, they would immediately lose their official positions and abandon their posts, and in serious cases, they would be beheaded for public display.

From the end of October of the second year of Guangqi to the cold winter of Layue, the Northwest Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and the East and West Erchuan in Shuzhong achieved remarkable results after nearly two months, suppressing many arrogant soldiers and fierce generals in the army, and in addition, the rule of officials under Li Bao was really much clearer.

It also provides many ways for people in China to report and inspires many people's wisdom. As for the price of this time, many people in Weizhou do not understand too much why Li Bao is so keen to inspire the wisdom of the people.

Some pedantic officials also came up with the theory that kings and herdsmen are like shepherds from ancient times to advise Li Bao, but as far as Li Bao is concerned, it is impossible to completely implement the concept of democracy this time, but if the seeds of democracy are sown little by little, they will one day blossom and bear fruit.

Also as a descendant, as he grew older, Li Bao became more and more worried about future generations, and he faced his lovely children every day, for fear that they would not be able to inherit his influence and political legacy in the future. It was his preference to appoint a set of institutions to ensure the stability of the regime for future generations.

There are still precedents to follow, Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, he came up with so many effective measures in his life, it can really be described as exhaustive, but Lao Zhu's efforts are also worth it, he specified that most of the measures were retained, and ensured that the Ming Dynasty was hundreds of years old.

If it were not for the "Xiaoice River Period", which was rare in history, which led to frequent natural disasters due to grain shortage in the Central Plains, the Northeast Jurchens could not survive because of the severe cold, so they had to fight hard. Later generations often assume that if it had not encountered the Xiaoice period, the rivers and mountains of Daming would have lasted for many years.

And as the master of the northwest region of the Tang Dynasty, Li Bao also wants to sow the foundation of a complete system in Weizhou, and the Honor House is the top priority of his political system, but now the territory under Weizhou is not large, he asked Yang Yinyue to try first, and then wait until he is unified in the future to take over the transformation.

In addition to the Honor House, Li Bao also wants to reorganize the current civil and military system, these are his ideas, he couldn't think of this layer before, but as he grows older and has more experience, his desire to transform this era is also stronger.

Since the establishment of Weizhou, although Li Bao has also set up such a high position as the Jiedu Envoy, the Jiedu Envoy under his rule has completely stripped off the military power, and it has just become a fictitious position.

He still firmly grasped the military power in his own hands, although the army in Weizhou was as high as more than 100,000 people, but the various armies were basically not under the control of each other. Unless it is a military position temporarily set by Li Bao, it is also a matter of stepping down.

The official positions of civil officials have always been at a low level, and the only high-level officials in Weizhou are only Li Bao, Zhang Qingping, Zheng Ningji, and Zhang Chengye.

The purpose of this is to strictly control the financial expenditure of the Northwest Metropolitan Governor's Office, and it can also greatly reduce the pressure on the expenditure of officials in the Weizhou Prefecture, of course, this careful thinking is just a small secret in Li Bao's heart, and he did not reveal it to his subordinates at will, after all, the pressure to support hundreds of thousands of troops is too great now.

In addition, he wants to work hard to encourage the people to restore agriculture, reclaim more wasteland, and the investment in civil affairs education is also very large, the most important thing is the road transportation construction in Shuzhong, there is a shortage of money everywhere, Li Bao only has one mountain and river society to open source, and it is too difficult to reduce expenditure in this chaotic era.

After the beginning of spring next year, Li Bao plans to carry out naval training in Yuzhou, Xichuan (now Chongqing), as well as to develop water transportation on the Yangtze River, which will require a large amount of financial investment from Weizhou.

The important part of the water transportation of the Yangtze River is not only to transport the grain and porcelain and silk from the south of the Yangtze River, but also to transport the well salt from Shuzhong. Salt and iron were a lucrative industry in ancient China at all times, so Li Bao planned to start water transportation along the Yangtze River as soon as possible.

In addition to the necessary financial expenditures, the cultivation of talents is also an important priority on Li Bao's desk. Li Bao has already sent people out to look for good shipbuilders, and in the coming year, he is bound to set off a wave of construction in Shuzhong.

Finally, at the end of the second year of Guangqi, Li Bao found that through years of hard work, Li Bao had initially achieved the goal of building the system in all aspects of Weizhou.