Yang Hao didn't expect that Meng Bochang would suddenly leave Fengzhou, and the cause of the incident was that Xia Sui Jiedu made Yin Hong killed by the general Tan Chong, and Yin Hong's son Yin Qinglin defected to Shuofang. Tan Chong in order to protect himself to promote Youzhou Thorn Shi Zhang Qingliang as the festival envoy, Zhang Qingliang is the Baoli Society is the third grade horizontal knife, old and capable, quite prestigious, and Shuo Fang Tang clan has an old, by him as the festival degree envoy can stop a fight.

But Zhang Qingliang is a civilian official who does not understand military affairs, and Xia Sui's military power is still in the hands of Tan Chong. Baoli Society carefully planned to assassinate Tan Chong. After the chief steward invited Emperor Wenzong, he transferred Meng Bochang to serve as the deputy envoy of Xia Sui Jiedu, and assisted Zhang Qingliang to take charge of Xia Sui Prefectures and Counties. Meng Bochang had already received the news before the attack on Fengzhou, but in order to stabilize the morale of the army, he kept it secret.

Before going to Xia Sui to take office, Meng Bochang did two things, one was to personally lead the army to break through the Ice Rock Valley defended by Xiao Qijin's serious illness, and the other was to force Liu Wei and Don't think about fulfilling the previous agreement to lead the army eastward. The 1,500 men of Liu Wei, Beisiguo and Tiande's left army marched eastward along the river almost under the escort of Meng Bochang.

Dugu Chang gave up the post of Jiedu envoy in accordance with the previous agreement, took the sixteen wives and concubines and the gold, silver and jade silk looted for many years, and returned to Luoyang to enjoy the blessings of Qingfu with the title of Shengzhou defense envoy.

Since the end of last year, when they were desperate, they came to Yongfeng, and in the past eight months, Yang Hao and Meng Bochang have shared life and death together, and their friendship has increased day by day. Meng Bochang encouraged Yang Hao to rest assured and boldly create a world of his own.

Meng Bochang left, and the imperial court's edict to withdraw and annex the three cities of Hetao was subsequently sent to Fengzhou.

Fengzhou was placed under the jurisdiction of Shuofang, and Yongfeng and Feng'an were reduced to Fengzhou counties, but now these do not have much impact on Yang Hao, and the three cities of Fengzhou are firmly in their hands. Whether it was Wang Rui, the assassin sent by Shuo Fang, or Xiao Mingyue, the assassin sent by Qiu Shiliang, they were all bombarded back by Yang Hao.

Finally, under the mediation of the upper echelons of the Baoli Society, Zhang Huchen, the former assassin of Tongzhou, was transferred to Fengzhou Assassin, and Yang Hao was appointed as the defense envoy of Fengzhou. This is the first official appointment that Yang Hao has obtained, at first, whether it is Yongfeng Changshi, Tiande Military Judge or Feng'an Assassin Shi, they all appointed themselves by themselves, although the knife handle is in hand, others dare not say anything, but they always feel that the name is not right.

At the beginning of October, Zhang Huchen went to Fengzhou alone to take up his post. Zhang Huchen is nearly fifty years old and is also a member of the Thorn Horse Battalion, but he is only a seven-rank halberd who has just joined the society, and Yang Hao was promoted to the fifth grade horizontal knife after breaking through Fengzhou, and the Thorn Horse Battalion has a strict hierarchy, although Zhang Huchen is older and more senior than Yang Hao, but the first time he saw Yang Hao, he still bowed deeply to Yang Hao in accordance with the rules of the camp.

Yang Hao was courteous to the gray-haired old man, Zhang Huchen personally supervised the repair of the Fengzhou Thorn History Mansion before he took office, and all the original officials in Fengzhou were retained, and Zhang Huchen decided to advance and retreat by himself.

However, after all, Zhang Huchen has been in the officialdom for half his life, and he knows who is the family member in Fengzhou. Therefore, he discussed with Yang Hao the appointment and dismissal of all officials and officials in Fengzhou, and he resolutely did not use those Yang Hao didn't like. Yang Hao was also very tolerant in this matter, except for a few core positions, he also tried to respect Zhang Huchen's intentions as much as possible.

After all, the three cities of Fengzhou have a population of more than 100,000 people, and they also need a cadre to be in charge. And Yang Hao thinks that he does not have this ability at present, not to mention that he is not willing to spend his energy on cumbersome government affairs.

After settling Zhang Huchen and the main team of Sancheng, Yang Hao decided to concentrate on solving two things: one is military affairs, but finance. Fengzhou has been assigned to Shuofang, and the garrison can no longer use the banner of the Tiande Army. Yang Hao renamed the Sancheng garrison as the Xining Army, and reported to the general manager of the Baoli Society for approval, and after some operation, the name of the Xining Army was recognized by the Ministry of War, and the military flag festival order was issued. Yang Hao naturally became the first general of the Xining Army.

In order to effectively control the nearly 10,000 garrisons of the three cities of Toyosu. Yang Hao overrode the public opinion and carried out a reorganization of the original Tiande Right Army, the Sancheng Patrol City Battalion, the Sancheng Assassin Shifu Guard, and the local regimental defense. According to the different tasks undertaken, it is divided into three categories: regular army, garrison, and reserve.

The regular army is the regular army, which has the largest number of people, the highest degree of training, the most sophisticated equipment, and the strongest combat effectiveness. Because the Xining Army was of a lower rank than the Tiande Army, the establishment sequence was also adjusted to a certain extent, from the original five-level sequence of battalion, regiment, brigade, team, and group to the four-level sequence of battalion, outpost, team, and group.

Each battalion was reduced from 1,000 to 500, and the chief officer was changed from an adjutant general (partial general) to a commander of the army, supplemented by two lieutenants; There are sentry posts under the battalion, one hundred people per sentry, one sentry commander and one sentry commander; There are teams under the post, with 30 people in each team, and one team leader and one team deputy; The team is a gang, with ten people in each group, one team leader and one veteran fire, and senior veterans are selected to fill the position.

The garrison is adapted from the old and weak eliminated from the original patrol battalion, town garrison and regular army, and is responsible for the garrison and defense of the town, specifically responsible for guarding the official office and warehouse, guarding the city gate, patrolling the streets and arresting thieves. The order of establishment is basically the same as that of the regular army, and the garrisons of Fengzhou, Yongfeng, and Feng'an must also accept the local county orders.

The reserve army, also known as the people's army, is the focus of this reform of the military system. The decree promulgated by Yang Hao stipulated that all people over the age of 15 and under the age of 50 in Fengzhou, who were able-bodied and had no diseases, must be incorporated into the people's army, and the roster was compiled by the Assassin Prefecture in conjunction with the counties, and it was checked every three years. Its upbringing and training, ordnance management, patrol duty, and pension for orphans and disabled are all uniformly dispatched by the defense mission.

The people's army patrols and keeps vigil on weekdays, purging spies and suppressing places, and in wartime, it assists officers and soldiers to defend the city.

The people's army is divided into four levels: regiment, sentry, group, and corps, with five men per corps, ten men per gang, 50 men per sentry, and 200 men per regiment. The People's Army is at home on weekdays, and in their spare time, the commanders of the sentry are convened for military training, the commanders and the commanders of the regiments are elected by the People's Army themselves, and the commanders and captains of the regiments are filled by special personnel, and most of them are officers and senior soldiers who have returned from the disabled.

Weapons and clothing are provided by the government, and meals are provided when on duty, and there is no salary except for the regimental captain and the sentry commander.

After the reorganization, the Xining Army always had 12 battalions of the regular army (Tiger Battalion, Leopard Battalion, Jinfeng Battalion, Iron Bell Battalion, Flying Tiger Battalion, Breaking Wave Battalion, Breaking Prisoner Battalion, Fengya Battalion, Xiaofeng Battalion, Agni Battalion, Jingqi Battalion, and Xiaoqi Battalion), with a total of 6,000 people. Two of the battalions were stationed in Fengzhou, one battalion each in Yongfeng, Feng'an, and Jiuniang Pass, and one battalion was stationed in Bingyan Valley.

The garrison has a total of six battalions (the first police battalion, the second police battalion, the third police battalion, the Fengzhou battalion, the Yongfeng battalion, and the Feng'an battalion), two battalions stationed in Fengzhou, one battalion stationed in Yongfeng, and one battalion stationed in Feng'an.

The People's Army had 223 regiments, with a maximum of 123 regiments in Fengzhou and a minimum of 38 regiments in Fengan.

Before the reorganization, Yang Hao first announced that the food, clothing, housing, use, transportation, medical care, pension, and funeral of the regular army and the garrison soldiers would all be arranged by the army in the future, but the military salary would be reduced to one tael per person per month, and it would be paid annually instead of quarterly. Because of the significant reduction in military salaries, more than 900 people have been discharged from the army, and Yang Hao has been paid severance pay.

But then 3,000 young people came to apply, and Yang Hao recruited 500 people. One is to save military spending, and the other is because what Yang Hao wants in his heart is a loyal, capable, and idealistic army. Yang Hao politely refused all those applicants who came just for dinner.

Yang Hao renamed the Staff Office and the Military Orders Department as the General Staff Department, and the Military Orders Department was renamed the Military and Political Division, and the Ordnance Department, the Military Justice Department and the Supervision Department were added. The staff generals of the General Staff Division, the same staff generals, and the chief officers of each department are collectively referred to as the generals, and participate in the highest military decision-making in Toyosu.

In terms of personnel, Ling Tong served as the first staff general, and Zhang Yannian served as the same staff general; Li Tong was appointed as the general of the Military and Political Division; Yu re-appointed as General of the Ordnance Division; Zhuang Yunqing served as the general of the Judge Advocate General's Department; The general of the Supervision Department is temporarily concurrently served by Yang Hao, and Lu Guang, the secretary in charge, presides over the daily life. General Yu Zhong of the Ordnance Department is an old friend of Meng Bochang, the former Shaofu Supervisor Zhuye Supervisor, the director of the world's armor, familiar with the manufacturing process of all weapons and equipment of the Tang Army, because of his affinity with Meng Bochang, he was removed from his post and exiled to Qianzhou after the Manna Change, and was rescued by the Assassin Horse Battalion, and has been idle at home.

During the battle of Feng'an, Yang Hao saw that the swords, guns and arrows used by the Tiande army were far from those of the Hedong army, so he came up with the idea of hiring a master craftsman to come to Feng'an to preside over the supervision of weapons. After the fish returned to Feng'an, he was highly courteous to Yang Hao. In the case of Feng'an's extremely tight finances, Yang Hao still supported him to preside over the construction of two weapons workshops. The swords, guns and armor produced are of high quality and low price, and have been successively installed in various armies in Fengzhou.

The second thing Yang Hao focused on doing was to solve the financial problems that had been bothering him.

Fengzhou has nearly 10,000 soldiers, and the monthly expenditure on food and salary alone reaches 20,000 taels, plus the expenses of soldiers, armor and horses, etc., the monthly military expenditure reaches 30,000 taels, plus the expenditure of officials at all levels and the official office 20,000 taels. At the end of each month, he would take out 50,000 taels of silver from the treasury, which would be 600,000 taels a year.

The total tax revenue of the three cities of Fengzhou last year was less than 500,000 taels, and this year, because of repeated wars, the fiscal revenue in the first ten months was only 180,000 taels, and it is expected that the whole year will be less than 300,000 taels, and the gap will reach 200,000 taels!

On the first day of Zhang Huchen's succession, he looked through the old accounts of the three cities, and he couldn't sit still any longer, and rode a donkey to Feng'an to complain to Yang Hao.

Yang Hao smiled bitterly: "The Three Cities are originally a mess, and whoever is in charge is worried about firewood, rice, oil and salt. Brother Zhiqing has any tricks to open up sources and reduce expenditure. ”

Zhang Huchen shook his head and said: "Fengzhou is vast and sparsely populated, and it is on the border, and it is in the midst of war. Unless there is money to grow in this field, it can only be ...... Went out to beg for food. “

Yang Hao smiled and asked Zhang Huchen: "I heard that Brother Zhiqing recruited displaced people to reclaim wasteland when he was in Tongzhou, and he did a good job. ”

Zhang Huchen's eyes lit up and asked, "What does my brother mean...... Reclamation? However, Fengzhou is different from the same state, this is the border, and the war is endless, who is willing to come here to reclaim the wasteland, but I am afraid that the fields will not grow crops and let Huma step on them. ”

"If the people refuse, then let the army reclaim the wasteland."

"Military reclamation?!" Zhang Huchen stood up and said excitedly, "I said, brother, how did you come up with such an idea, a real genius." ”

Yang Hao was a little ashamed in his heart, where is his own originality in the army reclamation and garrisoning, it has existed in ancient times, and it is even more so today.

"If the sergeants can support themselves, as long as the annual military expenditure will be reduced by half, then the situation in Fengzhou will be completely opened." Zhang Huchen swept away the frustration when he first came, and his face became red.

"How many people does my brother plan to send to reclaim the wasteland?" This is what Zhang Huchen is most concerned about now.

"Except for the town defenders, all the other armies participated in the military reclamation, and they were responsible for the small fights and small fights that were tasked with the task of preparing for war, and they were fed and clothed by themselves. It is also necessary to set aside four battalions to open up seven or eight farms in favorable areas along the river, not only to be self-sufficient, but also to hand over surplus funds to stabilize grain prices in the three cities. Food prices are simply too high right now. ”

Although Zhang Huchen didn't understand some of the words in Yang Hao's words, he figured out the general meaning, and he couldn't help but admire the young man in front of him a little. At first, he thought that Yang Hao's achievements today were just because of the shadow of his ancestors, or because he had a big backer in the camp for the guards of the Forbidden Palace. But after listening to the discussion just now, Zhang Huchen suddenly felt that the person in front of him was not to be looked down upon.

As for the details, Zhang Huchen's assassin's office was drafted in conjunction with the staff and the military and political departments, and Yang Hao's plan was to finalize all the details before the winter wheat was planted, and the first seeds would be sown in the reclaimed wasteland this winter.