The power of the military department is not as hollowed out as in the later period of Yang Guang, Zhang Xuan gave a lot of management power to the troops, such as militia management, warship management, military food allocation, recruit recruitment and training, military field reclamation, military merit awards and soldier pensions, etc., in the face of the generals of the army, Zhang Xuan's identity is the marshal of the Qingzhou Army, and in front of the military department, he is the regent, the top boss of the military department.

Zhang Xuan generally does not intervene in the recruitment process of soldiers, but before recruitment, Zhang Xuan will put forward some special requirements, and the military department will formulate a recruitment plan according to these special requirements.

Of course, Li Jing knew this very well, and he smiled slightly: "Your Highness, please speak, Weichen listens!" ”

Zhang Xuan walked a few steps with his hand in his hand and said: "First of all, the land of soldiers, I hope that this recruitment of 50,000 troops will be carried out in the western counties of Hebei, including Zhao County, Wei County, Ji County, Hanoi County, Wu'an County, Xiangguo County, a total of six counties, of which Wei County and Ji County are the mainstay, can Shangshu understand my intentions?" ”

Li Jing nodded, "Wei Chen understands, mainly considering the needs after moving the capital. ”

Zhang Xuan said with a smile: "There are only 20,000 militias in these six counties, and the other 30,000 soldiers will be real recruits, not something that can be trained in a short time, so I plan to let them defend Zhongdu to ensure the safety of Zhongdu, as for the equipment, it doesn't need to be too high, B-level equipment is enough." ”

The equipment of the Qingzhou army is divided into three classes, the first class and the second class, the difference between the first class and the second class is the armor, the first class is equipped with Mingguang armor, the second class is equipped with leather armor, and the third class is also equipped with leather armor, but it is even inferior in weapons, mainly based on captured weapons, and most of the equipment of the third class is used on the militia group.

"Weichen remembers, Your Highness, please continue to explain."

Zhang Xuan took a few steps and said: "The second is the recruitment time, the imperial court's New Year's holiday to the fifth day of the first month, the military department will start to formulate a recruitment plan from the sixth day of the first month, be sure to complete the recruitment in 20 days, and then train in Wei County, and complete the deployment before the end of February, the time is very tight, and the plan must be considered carefully, and there can be no accidents." ”

Li Jing also felt the huge pressure, in fact, he only had two months, and it was very difficult to complete the recruitment, training and deployment in two months, but Li Jing didn't say anything, just nodded silently, and said to Zhang Xuan: "Weichen will definitely go all out!" ”

Zhang Xuan could understand Li Jing's pressure, he smiled and said: "Because there are 20,000 militia groups in the six counties we mentioned above, in fact, we only need to recruit 30,000 troops, if the recruitment is really insufficient, it is okay to use the militia groups in other counties, the conditions do not need to be so strict, but in any case, Li Shangshu should take a good rest and spend this New Year well." ”

The coming New Year is a little more solemn in Chang'an, although the streets and alleys are full of lanterns, and the officials try to establish a festive atmosphere, but everywhere are groups of soldiers patrolling with knives, patrolling the streets with murderous spirit, staring fiercely at every passerby, as if everyone is a spy who wants to destroy the Zen ceremony.

Passers-by hurriedly walked on the street, acquaintances no longer greeted each other, only made eye contact, lest they invite unwarranted disasters, and the neighborhoods everywhere could not hear the cheerful running and laughter of children, and the adults restrained the children at home and did not allow them to go out, and the whole Chang'an became deserted, and there was no New Year's atmosphere at all.

At noon, a liquor shop outside the gate of Chang'an West City finally had a few customers, and the liquor store was called 'Yellow River Ancient Road', which is said to have been invested and built by a big businessman in the Hetao area.

In Chang'an, this wine shop can only be regarded as medium-sized, but his location is very good, it is actually near the gate of the West Market, so the business has been good, not close to the New Year, and the atmosphere in the city is fierce, so that the business of the wine shop is extremely cold, not only them, but the business of all wine shops has been affected.

Due to the presence of a few guests, the originally lazy and lazy bartender began to get busy, several drinkers sat on the second floor, drinking silently, without the previous high-mindedness, at this time Chang'an City was full of eyeliner, and no one wanted to get into trouble.

At this moment, two people walked in from outside the gate, the leader was tall and thin, looking young, but the black beard under his jaw was half a foot long, which made him quite a bit fairy.

This person is Li Qingming, who transferred from Jiangdu to Chang'an, Li Qingming has been appointed as a squire in the military department, but before he took up his post in Zhongdu, Zhang Xuan gave him a task to transfer him to Chang'an and establish an efficient intelligence agency in Chang'an.

Chang'an itself already has an intelligence point of the Qingzhou Army, but Zhang Xuan is not satisfied, he hopes that the intelligence point in Chang'an can operate as efficiently as the Jiangdu intelligence agency, so Zhang Xuan decided to transfer all the Jiangdu intelligence personnel to Chang'an, and Li Qingming is responsible for reorganizing and operating them.

The person who followed Li Qingming is called Yang Chonglan, Li Qingming's intelligence deputy in Jiangdu, and he will also be the intelligence chief of Chang'an in the future, Yang Chonglan is also a military Chinese officer, once served as the Flying Eagle Army Cang Cao, he is tall and strong, and his appearance is mighty, he is a native of Jibei County, only thirty years old this year, experienced and shrewd and capable, Li Qingming strongly recommended him to Zhang Xuan as Chang'an Houzheng, Zhang Xuan accepted Li Qingming's recommendation and appointed Yang Chonglan as Chang'an Houzheng.

Li Qingming and the others walked into the wine shop, and a bartender immediately greeted them with a smile on his face, "Welcome to the second floor, go to the second floor!" Quiet and comfortable. ”

Li Qingming looked at the wine shop and asked, "What about your shopkeeper Liu?" ”

The bartender was stunned for a moment, their shopkeeper's original surname was Liu, and later changed his surname to Wang, generally called Wang Shopkeeper, this person actually knew the shopkeeper's real surname, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "Please wait a moment, I'll call the shopkeeper!" ”

The bartender ran up to the second floor, and after a while, a white and fat middle-aged man walked down quickly, this person was the shopkeeper of the wine shop, called Wang Hao, formerly known as Liu Hao, a native of Qinghe County, Hebei, he saw Li Qingming and the two, so he smiled and asked, "Who are the two?" ”

Li Qingming stroked his long beard lightly, revealing the flying eagle gold ring on his finger, and the shopkeeper Wang's face changed, and he immediately said in awe: "Please follow me!" ”

He took Li Qingming and the two into the backyard from the side door, and came to a room in the backyard, which was a warehouse, full of all kinds of tables and chairs, and they came to a very hidden hut in the innermost, and the three of them walked into the hut, there was a couch in the middle of the room, and the table was full of pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and a bunch of small letterheads.

This liquor shop is the intelligence point of the Qingzhou army in Chang'an, which was originally only to monitor the activities of the Guanlong nobles, but since Li Yuan captured Chang'an, the importance of Chang'an has been immediately highlighted, and this small intelligence point is far from being able to meet the needs of large-scale intelligence.

The shopkeeper Wang also has a flying eagle ring, but it is a bronze ring, which means that he is only equivalent to a lieutenant in the Qingzhou Army intelligence system, and the silver ring is equivalent to a general, and the gold ring is at the level of a general, so the shopkeeper Wang is very trembling, and at the same time he is nervous, and he doesn't know who the other party is?

Li Qingming entered the room and sat down, and he smiled at the shopkeeper Wang: "I am Jiangdu Li Qingming, have you heard of Captain Liu?" ”

Shopkeeper Wang was startled, it turned out that the tall and thin young man in front of him was the famous Jiangdu Houzheng Li Qingming, who was appointed to join the army in Qingzhou Army, he hurriedly bowed and saluted, "Humble Scout Captain Liu Hao See Li Joins the Army!" ”

"I'll call you Shopkeeper Wang!"

Li Qingming said with a smile: "I was ordered to come to set up the Chang'an Intelligence Agency, but I won't stay for long, at most I will go to the Central Capital in a month or two, this is General Yang, he will be the Hou Zheng of the Chang'an Intelligence Agency." ”

The shopkeeper Wang also saw the flying eagle silver ring in Yang Chonglan's hand, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute, the two saluted, Li Qingming invited them to sit down, and then said to the shopkeeper Wang: "Let's talk about the situation of the intelligence point first!" ”

Shopkeeper Wang smiled bitterly, "I must have seen it when I joined the army, we have this intelligence point in the entire Chang'an, a wine shop, seven guys plus me, a total of eight people, and an eagle house outside the city, raising two letter eagles, the only thing we can do is to transmit the major events that happened in Chang'an to Anyang in time, in fact, the news we transmitted almost every person in Chang'an knows that if you want to dig deeper intelligence, you can't do it with a few of us, or just listen to the chatter of the drinkers, But that kind of hearsay information is very unreliable, and we don't dare to send it. ”

Li Qingming nodded, Chang'an's intelligence station was even worse than he imagined, no wonder the marshal must let himself come to Chang'an to rebuild the intelligence agency, Li Qingming muttered: "We brought more than a hundred intelligence scouts, and they will come one after another within half a month, and the top priority now is to buy an inn, the inn should be outside the city, as an intelligence exchange point, this matter will be left to you to do, money is not a problem, but the inn must be big." ”

Shopkeeper Wang thought for a while and said, "I remember that there is a big inn near Hanlin Bridge outside Dongcheng, and I heard that the innkeeper felt that the business was not good and decided to transfer it, so I don't know if I will sell it now?" ”

Li Qingming immediately stood up, "Now let's go and take a look right away!" (To be continued.) )