Li Rupei stayed in Xiangyang, did not return to Liangzhou, in fact, he is not ready to return to Liangzhou, the iron-blooded army occupies Xiangyang, this will become the center, whether it is from the geographical location, or from the solidity of the city, even the size and prosperity of the city, Liangzhou is not comparable to Xiangyang, with Xiangyang as the center of development, it is obvious that it can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Liu Yunzhang also rushed to Xiangyang, according to Li Rupei's arrangement, began to calm the situation in Shannan East Road, more than 10,000 days passed, more than 10,000 Xiangyang Tooth Army were all wiped out, most of the Tooth Army sergeants after learning the news, all chose to surrender, and a small number of escaped from Shannan East Road, nowhere to be found, a small number of stubborn soldiers, were ruthlessly killed. Now Liu Yunzhang's biggest thing is to allocate enough food to maintain the vitality of the people, after all, there are too many displaced people, which is a great obstacle to stabilizing the overall situation.

More than 100 officials brought by Liu Yunzhang have been scattered to various prefectures and counties, these people can stabilize the panicked officials at all levels in the shortest possible time, so that the government can really start to play a role, of course, in this process, there are still many specific matters to worry about, but these are not very important, as long as things start to be done, they can always achieve the goal.

At present, the most important issue is the issue of system construction, that is, to implement many rules and regulations of Shannan West Road to Fuzhou County of Shannan East Road, so that it is the same as Shannan West Road.

There are also businessmen in Liangzhou who move quickly, especially those big businessmen, after learning the news, they began to migrate and develop to Xiangyang, compared with the geographical location of Liangzhou and Xiangyang, these businessmen certainly understand that Xiangyang is facing greater business opportunities.

Everything is in the process of implementation, and Li Rupei seems to be idle.

Liu Yunzhang once suggested. Whether to let the princess come to Xiangyang, Li Rupei did not agree for the time being, he thought that after Shannan Dongdao was completely stabilized, he could consider letting the princess come to Xiangyang, and at that time, Cui Anqian's family could reunite in Xiangyang, Liu Yunzhang thought that Li Rupei's words were reasonable, so he did not continue to mention the matter.

Li Rupei mainly thinks about big things, and as for the specific implementation process, he usually doesn't bother with it.

There are two big things that need to be implemented. The first is the problem of the officials at the mercy of Shannan East Province and Shannan West Province, the government can really play a role, the focus is on the officials at all levels, if the people are used correctly, all the problems will be solved, otherwise the top is tired enough, and the following will not have any effect, and the second is the internal establishment of the Iron and Blood Army, after the Iron and Blood Army is expanded to 60,000 people. There is already an extreme shortage of high-level generals, plus the sergeants of the Xiangyang Ya Army who surrendered this time, close to 30,000, and some sergeants must be recruited from among these people. Entering the sequence of the Iron Army, Li Rupei's goal, the Iron Blood Army needs to be expanded to about 100,000 people, as for whether it needs to continue to expand in the future. It needs to be decided on a case-by-case basis.

Zhu Wen's performance this time is very outstanding, and Zhu Wen, who is seriously injured, is still in the stage of recuperation, precisely because of Zhu Wen's bravery. The 3,000 soldiers of the Iron Blood Army resisted the repeated attacks of more than 20,000 Xiangyang Ya Army, held the full gate, and let the Iron Blood Army capture Xiangyang City at the smallest cost.

Li Rupei temporarily lives in the Yamen of the Jiedu Envoy, but Liu Yunzhang has already taken a fancy to a residence in Xiangyang City, this residence is very large and magnificent, it is very suitable as a palace, it happens that the residence here belongs to Liu Ziheng, it is natural to take it, Liu Yunzhang is already organizing people to rest in the mansion, and it will take half a month at most, Li Rupei can move in.

Gao Chibang and Huang Biao came to the wing.

Li Rupei was looking at the map and was distracted, the two of them were very familiar with Li Rupei's action, once Li Rupei had such an action, it meant that he was thinking about a big thing.

After a while, Li Rupei turned his head to look at Gao Chibang and Huang Biao.

"General Gao, how many sergeants of the Xiangyang Tooth Army are suitable to become sergeants of the Iron and Blood Army."

"After more than ten days of screening, 18,000 of them meet the requirements to become sergeants of the Iron and Blood Army, and the combat effectiveness of the sergeants of the Xiangyang Ya Army is still good, but it is a pity that their leading generals are too."

Li Rupei smiled, after all these years, Gao Chibang's monk temperament is gone, no matter who sees it, he will not believe that Gao Chibang was once the treasurer of Famen Temple.

"The total number of officers and men of such an iron-blooded army will reach 75,000, and with such a huge team, officers at all levels also need to be seriously considered, especially senior officers, who must be equipped in place."

Gao Chibang and Huang Biao looked at Li Rupei and did not speak.

"In a certain opinion, the Iron and Blood Army allocates officers according to the sequence of the Shence Army, but only removes the position of lieutenant, and does not arrange any supervision of the army, and what literati are arranged to supervise the army in war, which is nondescript, as for those eunuchs, a certain is even more unaccustomed to it."

"The Iron and Blood Army has set up a general, a middle guard, three commanders, and ten generals, and a certain nomination is as follows, Gao Chibang is the protector of the Iron and Blood Army, Huang Biao, Song Hu and Yan Fu are the commanders of the Iron and Blood Army, Yan Fu is still in the capital, and he is also the commander of the Iron and Blood Army, as for the ten generals, two people are nominated, namely Zhao Laibao and Zhu Wen, and the rest are recommended by you."

"After all, the Predator Army is stationed in the local area, and it is inevitable to deal with the local area. There is a rule that must be strictly observed, that is, the iron-blooded army stationed in the garrison is never allowed to meddle in local affairs, except in the event of an emergency, and anyone who dares to violate such rules will be severely punished. ”

"The iron-blooded army has slowly grown, far from the situation when it was in Guanzhuang Town before, you are afraid that you are a little worried, the more the number of troops, the more difficult it is to govern, in fact, there is no need to worry, it is enough to grasp two aspects, one is that the military salary must be sufficient and in place, and the treatment of the sergeant's family is fully guaranteed, so that many sergeants can be completely stabilized, and the other aspect is to continuously strengthen education, and the study that is carried out to the team level must not be weakened, and it will continue to be strengthened in the future, so that all the soldiers are proud of the iron-blooded army, In this way, the army can be fundamentally stabilized. ”

"Occupy Shannan East Road, the scope of the Iron Blood Army's need to govern and protect is larger, a careful consideration, Shannan West Road guards three places, Liangzhou, Yuzhou and Lizhou, Shannan East Road guards four places, Xiangyang, Shangzhou, Suizhou and Jingzhou, among which the need to deploy heavy troops for Xiangyang, Jingzhou, Suizhou and Lizhou, these places guard the Iron and Blood Army officers and soldiers to more than 10,000 people."

Li Rupei walked to the side of the map and pointed to the map to explain briefly.

"There is no need to explain the heavy garrison in Xiangyang, this will become the base camp of the iron-blooded army, Jingzhou's location is critical, and it has always been a place where soldiers must fight, so it is necessary to deploy heavy troops, just in case, the heavy troops stationed in Lizhou will monitor the situation in Jiannan Road all the time, as for the heavy troops deployed in Suizhou, it is aimed at Huangchao."

"The Iron Blood Army will not be divided into the Divine Tooth Army, the Tooth Outer Army and the Outer Town Army, and the status is exactly the same."

Li Rupei said this, Gao Chibang and Huang Biao's faces began to become solemn, they already knew that the next task of the Iron Blood Army would be to exterminate the Huang Chao entrenched in Huainan Road, this task was not easy, Huang Chao had rebelled for many years, although the Iron Blood Army had defeated Huang Chao in Luoyang, but at that time Huang Chao did not know the strength of the Iron Blood Army, and it was an initiative to challenge, and now the situation is different, if the Iron Blood Army wants to exterminate Huang Chao, it must cut off the advantage of Huang Chao's mobile combat.

As for the expansion and enrichment of high-ranking officers in the Iron Army, this matter should have been done a long time ago, but because there are too many things in Shannan West Road, this matter is not on the agenda for the time being.

After Li Rupei made arrangements, Huang Biao left first, and Gao Chibang stayed.

Li Rupei's expression became serious.

"General Gao, you know the character of a certain person, you can not blame the past, do not care, and do not investigate, but in the future, a certain must be cared about, a certain knows that the relationship between you and Gao Biao is not ordinary, the next task of the iron-blooded army is to completely exterminate Huang Chao, Huang Chao is entrenched in Huainan Province, Gao Biao is an envoy of Huainan Province, it is almost impossible to say that there is no connection with Huang Chao."

"The generals Qin Yan, Bi Shiduo and Li Hanzhi under Gao Biao were once generals under Huang Chao, and they were forced to surrender to Gao Biao, but now Huang Chao is entrenched in Huainan Road, and there is no conflict between Gao Biao, and no large-scale battles have broken out, which is indeed very strange and unreasonable."

"This kind of situation is in the past, a certain will not care, now it is different, you are the middle protector of the Iron Army, commanding the entire army, every move has a very big impact on the soldiers below, a certain has always used people without suspicion, and the friendship between you and a certain is also extraordinary, once the Iron Blood Army and Gao Yu have a conflict, I hope you can grasp it well."

After Li Rupei finished speaking, Gao Chibang quickly spoke.

"The trust of the prince, the subordinates have always been in mind, the relationship between the subordinates and Gao Biao is indeed a kinship, but that is all in the past, if there is a conflict between the Iron Army and Gao Biao, the subordinates will not hesitate and waver in the slightest."

"Very good, your words, I have remembered them, Gao Biao is different from Liu Ziheng, after all, he has made great contributions, and he doesn't want to kill the heroes of the Tang Dynasty, but Gao Biao has made too many mistakes in the matter of encircling and suppressing Huang Chao, so that Huang Chao's power is getting bigger and bigger, and he almost captured the eastern capital Luoyang, from this aspect, Gao Biao has an unshirkable responsibility, in the past year or so, Gao Biao has been complacent, does not obey the imperial decree of the imperial court, blindly preserves his strength, and can even be said to be drunk and dreaming of death, It has long been unsuitable to serve as the envoy of Huainan Province, if the iron-blooded army exterminated the Yellow Nest, it will inevitably enter Huainan Province, when the time comes, if Gao Biao is interested, it is best to consciously leave Huainan, at this time, you can also persuade Gao Biao to return to his hometown to be a princess. ”

Hearing Li Rupei say this, Gao Chibang's expression softened significantly. (To be continued......)