Gao Chibang's analysis is accurate, but he didn't expect Li Rupei to do things so decisively.

Li Rupei made a bold move and directly appointed many officials, this move did not go through the imperial court, Qian Shiqu served as the assassin of Liangzhou, and concurrently served as the prefect of Xingyuan Mansion, which can be described as a high degree of concentration of power, Xie Guoxi served as the assassin of Quzhou, and Lu Shengan served as the assassin of Lizhou.

Without the appointment of the imperial court, it should be said that Qian Shiqu and others have no official status, but Li Rupei has already made it clear that the Iron Blood Army took Liangzhou and commanded the entire Shannan West Road, also without the permission of the imperial court, but no one stood up and said that the Iron Blood Army should not do this, in the final analysis, everything needs to rely on strength to speak.

Li Rupei's biggest move was not in the appointment of officials, but in the deployment of the iron-blooded army.

After occupying Liangzhou and commanding the entire Shannan West Road, how to be able to defend this hard-won base area well, Li Rupei can be said to have taken great pains, the sand table of the terrain of the entire Shannan West Road, he looked at it for several days, and marked out many key places on it with red flags, especially in several places where it was handed over with Xichuan, Longyou, Guannei, Henan, and Shannan East Road, and he paid special attention to it, and in every dangerous place, it was full of red flags.

Gao Chibang and others believed that these places full of red flags must be specially guarded, and elite iron-blooded soldiers should be stationed, but this suggestion was directly rejected by Li Rupei.

Li Rupei believes that these dangerous places only need to be guarded by a small number of sergeants, these places are generally in sparsely populated places, if a large number of people are stationed, the consumption is very large, just relying on Shannan West Road to feed a large number of troops, the difficulty is not small, the iron-blooded army focuses on guarding the city.

In addition, the place where Li Rupei asked the Iron Blood Army to be stationed was not in full bloom.

There are 5,000 iron-blooded soldiers stationed in Liangzhou, 3,000 iron-blooded soldiers stationed in Bazhou, and 2,000 iron-blooded soldiers stationed in Lizhou, of which 3,000 iron-blooded soldiers stationed in Bazhou mainly guard Shannan Dongdao, and 2,000 iron-blooded soldiers stationed in Lizhou mainly guard Xichuan.

For such an arrangement, Li Rupei specially explained, Xichuan and Shannan Dongdao, Jiedu envoys are Chen Jingxuan and Liu Ziheng respectively, these two are Tian Lingzi's absolute henchmen, once the imperial court makes the decision to attack Shannan Xidao, the two will definitely take on the most important offensive task, and the rest of the Jiedu envoys will not go all out to encircle and suppress the iron-blooded army, even if they send a large army, it is perfunctory, and they don't want their own strength to be damaged at all.

After receiving the imperial decree of the imperial court, the first thing that comes to mind is to think of itself, and the thought is to preserve its own strength, even Liu Jurong, who has always been loyal to the imperial court, has left a hand when he exterminated the Yellow Nest, not to mention other festivals, and the festival envoys have a relationship in the imperial court, once the imperial court makes a decision, the pros and cons of it, all the festival envoys will know, and they can easily understand, Did the court make them scapegoats?

Li Rupei also specifically emphasized that Huangchao, which has crossed the Yangtze River, threatens the imperial court and the capital all the time.

Gao Chibang and others will not have the slightest doubt about Li Rupei's analysis.

The 5,000 iron-blooded soldiers in Liangzhou were personally commanded by Li Rupei, the 3,000 iron-blooded soldiers in Bazhou were directly commanded by Gao Chibang, and the 2,000 iron-blooded soldiers in Lizhou were directly commanded by Huang Biao.

Within a month, Li Rupei arranged everything that needed to be arranged and paid attention to.

Of course, changes in a place can not be effective in a short period of time, especially in places like Shannan West Road, where in the past, because of the frequent changes of festivals, the people suffered a lot of exploitation, and even the situation of moving their families out, Li Rupei's people-oriented thinking still needs to be understood and implemented by officials at all levels.

Li Rupei was not in a hurry, and seemed to have expected that the imperial court would not send a large army to encircle and suppress the Iron Blood Army for the time being.

Because of the effectiveness of many measures, less than two months have passed, and all parts of Shannan West Road have settled down.

Yan Fu, who had been investigating the situation outside, wrote secret letters many times, informing them of the situation in various parts of Shannan West Road, and judging from the situation reflected in these secret letters, Shannan West Road was relatively stable, at least those gentry and wealthy families did not think of rebellion.

To be able to achieve this goal, Li Rupei is very satisfied, after all, the iron-blooded army has just commanded Shannan West Road, and the situation before Shannan West Road is very complicated, this is because the atmosphere in the late Tang Dynasty has been very corrupt, and the festival envoys in various places, Yang Feng Yin violated, and even openly confronted the imperial court, especially the many festival envoys in the north, because of the strength of the force, they did not put the court in their eyes at all, and they did their own thing, such behavior affected the south, and Lu Yanhong, the Jiedu envoy of Shannan West Dao who was killed by Li Rupei, is a typical example, relied on force to occupy Shannan West Road, and forced the imperial court to make him a jiedu envoy.

For the imperial court, Li Rupei's mind is complicated, on the one hand, he is an authentic royal family, according to reason, it should be to maintain the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and it should be to maintain the world of the Li family, but from another aspect, he is a royal child who was chased and killed, and his father was killed, although this may not be the emperor's original intention, but when he learned that King Wei and King Liang were killed, the court did not react much, and the emperor did not say anything, from this level, he has a huge hatred for the Li Tang royal family.

has crossed, he is not the Li Rupei he used to be, and he rarely feels the love of his father and mother, but the hatred of killing his father is not shared, this is an eternal truth, since he occupies this body, he must take the responsibility that he should bear.

Liangzhou Thorn History, Xingyuan Prefecture Governor Qian Shiqu came to the Jiedu Envoy Yamen.

This is the fifth time that Qian Shiqu has come to the Yamen of the Jiedu Envoy after taking office, and Qian Shiqu did not report on many matters in Liangzhou, but talked about Li Rupei's identity.

This is a tricky question.

How should Li Rupei be called, or what is Li Rupei's identity, from the sequence of the army, Li Rupei is the commander of the iron-blooded army, there is no doubt about this, but from the perspective of acting government affairs, Li Rupei does not have any identity, Qian Shiqu once suggested that Li Rupei serve as the envoy of Shannan West Province, and write directly to the imperial court, as long as the imperial court approves it, Li Rupei can appoint many officials in Shannan West Road as the envoy of the Jiedu, and the imperial court is not qualified to intervene, just give an order to allow it.

It's a pity that Li Rupei didn't agree to Qian Shiqu's suggestion.

Qian Shiqu also has a stubbornness, if he doesn't work once, he will do it twice, and if he doesn't work twice, he will do it three times.

The fifth time he came to the Yamen of the Jiedu Envoy, before Qian Shiqu could speak, Li Rupei took the initiative to speak.

"Old Qian, your suggestion, a certain has thought about it carefully, it is indeed good, but there is a lot of strange things in this, the reason why a certain did not agree immediately, is to take into account the attitude of the imperial court, you know the identity of a certain one, if the imperial court does not allow a certain twist and turn, doesn't it seem that a certain is in Shannan West Road, the name is not right, and there is no way out, the court still has all kinds of reasons, because it is a certain initiative to play a fold, and I implore the court to give it to Shannan West Road, the court can naturally not allow it, so a certain soldier does not move, Immersed in the construction of Shannan West Road, a certain has to wait for the imperial court to take the initiative to contact, so that a certain can justifiably put forward the conditions, and the imperial court has no way out. ”

Qian Shiqu still didn't understand.

"The meaning of the childe, the subordinates understand, but to achieve such a goal, it is too difficult, the subordinates still think of the future development of Shannan West Road, if the son becomes the festival envoy, a lot of things will be easy to do, otherwise the officials below are also panicked, after all, their identity has not been recognized, such a situation, for a long time, it must have a negative effect, the subordinates still suggest, the son to the court directly to the fold."

Li Rupei smiled bitterly, what Qian Shiqu said is indeed reasonable, the scholars of the Tang Dynasty are looking forward to being recognized by the imperial court in their bones, and those officials who do things in Shannan West Road are obedient to the commander of the Iron and Blood Army on the surface, but they are worried in their hearts, and they are even afraid of encountering the calculations and retaliation of the imperial court, which has a huge impact on acting government affairs.

After sighing, Li Rupei spoke again.

"I know, you're right, think about it and take it out as soon as possible to decide, if you insist on going your own way and don't consider the feelings of many officials below, wouldn't it seem too ruthless."

A smile appeared on Qian Shiqu's face, since Li Rupei said so, then he must do this, his suggestion was successful, once Li Rupei became the envoy of Shannan West Dao, many officials below were naturally relieved, and according to Li Rupei's style and ability, there would definitely be countless people with lofty ideals who came to take refuge.

The two chatted for a while, during which they talked about the situation in Liangzhou.

When Yan Fu came in, Li Rupei was a little surprised, Yan Fu, who had just returned to Liangzhou, was making preparations, according to Li Rupei's requirements, Yan Fu was about to lead some of the scouts to the capital, set up a stronghold in the capital, and spy on all aspects of intelligence, once Li Rupei grasped the movements of the capital, he could make many decisions that were beneficial to himself.

"Report to the marshal, Huang Chao sent a messenger to ask for a meeting."

Li Rupei slowly stood up, and his slow movements showed that his heart was full of horror.

Qian Shiqu on the side, his face has changed, and Huang Chao's fame is still very great.

After thinking for a while, Li Rupei spoke.

"Let the envoy of Huangchao wait in the wing, and then go with Qian Shiqu to meet this envoy."