The arrival of Chen Baoqiang and Qiu Mingbo's family is only a small episode for the current crossing team, and now Wang Kunjun and others are focusing on more important matters - reforming local administrative, judicial, and military institutions.

Although the relevant institutional reform plan was released as early as the pacification of Houshu, and its relevant contents have been repeatedly scrutinized and discussed, this is after all a major change in the local administrative, judicial, and military institutions that have been in operation for three or four hundred years since the Sui and Tang dynasties, and a major change in the complete end of the division of feudal towns since the Tang Dynasty. It is also very cautious.

According to the established plan, this institutional reform is divided into two aspects and three levels, and the first of these is to reduce the power of the envoy and assassinate the history, and complete the last step of the previous imperial court's work to weaken the power of the feudal towns and end the secession of the feudal towns. In the future, official positions that symbolize the power of the local military and government, such as the Jiedu Envoy and the Assassin History, the Defense Envoy, and the Unity Envoy, will only be honored and conferred on meritorious officials.

Second, in terms of administration and justice, the administrative organs at the level of the Tang Dynasty will be restored to those at the provincial level in the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the current local administrative organs such as the military, prefectures, and counties. However, according to the habit of the crossing team, it was rerouted to a province, and the area currently controlled by the Later Zhou court was divided into twelve provinces, namely, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Shaanxi. The highest administrative body at the provincial level is the Secretary for Administration, and the highest chief executive is the Political Envoy. At the same time, the provincial-level judicial organs will be separated from the administrative organs, and the judicial department responsible for the judicial and criminal prisons of a province will be established, and its supreme judicial chief will be the procurator. In addition, in order to prevent judicial organs at all levels from bending the law for personal gain and protecting each other, the Criminal Department and the Dali Temple will send envoys from time to time, and the Imperial Envoy Taiwan Association will send envoys from time to time to visit various places in an open or secret manner to accept reports and appeals from the common gentry and officials and their subordinates.

The prefecture is the administrative body of the province at the lower level, and each prefecture has several to more than a dozen counties (prefectures) under its jurisdiction, and its highest chief executive is the prefect. In addition, in order to highlight its special status, Kaifeng, the current capital, and the Kaifeng and Beiping Prefectures, which belong to Beiping, the foundation of the crossing team, are directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and their administrators are called Fu Yin rather than prefects.

The county is the subordinate administrative body of the government, and it is also the grassroots administrative body of the imperial court at the local level, and its highest administrator is the magistrate. The original administrative organs at the military and prefecture levels were all abolished, and all the administrative areas under their jurisdiction were merged into the prefecture. However, the name state will not be abolished, but will be given as an incentive system to those counties that have excelled in terms of area, population, economy, etc., and the chief executives of these counties will also be called governors.

At the same time, the police and urban management personnel under the jurisdiction of the various armies, prefectures, and counties were all reorganized. The police will still retain their original names, and on the basis of their original functions, the responsibilities of the original urban management team will be added to maintain urban order, and the police directly under the former military and prefecture yamen will be assigned to the corresponding law enforcement agencies of the provinces and provinces after the survival of the fittest; The chengguan corps was abolished, and some of its members were reassigned to the provincial, prefectural, and county police agencies through the survival of the fittest, and some of the personnel who were able to remain were incorporated into the provincial, prefectural, and county police agencies to augment their personnel. The other part was assigned to the newly established provincial, provincial and district paramilitary forces, the Armed Police.

The armed police are local paramilitary forces, which are formed by the provincial political departments to convene young men in their jurisdictions and undergo a certain course of military training. In terms of subordination, the armed police are under the jurisdiction of the provincial, provincial and county administrators, and are mainly responsible for assisting the law enforcement police in maintaining local law and order, cracking down on banditry, and protecting the city, and is not under the command of local military organs. In terms of weaponry, the level of individual equipment of the armed police force is basically the same as that of the local "security forces", but it is slightly inferior in terms of long-range weapons. In terms of numbers, the number of armed police officers directly under the jurisdiction of the provinces shall not exceed 2,000, the number of armed police officers under the jurisdiction of the provinces shall not exceed 500, and the number of armed police officers under the jurisdiction of the counties shall not exceed 200. Financially, the daily expenses of the armed police force, such as salaries, training, and the performance of duties, are borne by the local administrative organs of the provinces, prefectures, and counties, and the imperial court is only responsible for providing weapons and equipment and training recruits.

Third, on the military front, we should establish a new structure of local military forces that is independent of the executive and judicial organs.

At the provincial level, a metropolitan command department is established, and its highest military commander is the chief soldier. Depending on the location and possible threats to security, the provinces will be stationed with 5,000 to 7,500 local "security forces" (two to three regiments) under the command and command of the General Army. Moreover, unlike in the past, when troops stationed in various localities were stationed in various armies, prefectures, and county towns, the local "security forces" under the command of the general troops of each province will be stationed in specially built barracks in strategic points in the province according to the actual conditions of each province, and will not be allowed to enter the city without the will of the imperial court -- an exception may be made when the situation is urgent, when there is an official letter from the chief of administration requesting the commander of the province to send troops to assist in maintaining local law and order.

At the provincial level, a command and envoy department is established, and its highest military commander is the garrison. Depending on the location and the size of the area under their jurisdiction, each province will have 1,000 to 1,500 local "security forces" (two to three battalions) stationed. In addition, like the "security forces" under the command of the prefecture, the "security forces" under the jurisdiction of each prefecture are also stationed outside the city, and they are not allowed to enter the city without the joint authorization of the chief secretary of the prefecture and the commander of the prefecture - an exception may be made in the case of an emergency, when the prefect's yamen has officially issued a request for the commander to send troops to assist in maintaining local law and order.

There is no standing military structure at the county (oblast) level, but is guarded by the armed police force of the county (canton).

In addition to the above-mentioned local military equipment at the provincial, prefectural, and county levels, after pacifying the Southern Han Dynasty and eliminating the Khitans, the imperial court will also station the "Flying Dragon Army" subordinate to the central forbidden army system at strategic points throughout the country, and will be led and commanded by generals appointed by the imperial court, and will not be subject to the jurisdiction of local military and administrative organs.

In general, the set of local administrative, judicial, and military institutions adopted by the crossing team is similar to the separation of the three local divisions in the Ming Dynasty in the previous life. The difference is that, first, the garrison directly under the central forbidden army system has been increased, and second, it has abandoned the system of guards, which has been proved to deviate more and more from the original intention of setting up the army with the passage of time, and the drawbacks will become bigger and bigger, and has been criticized by later generations, and instead adopted a conscription method of central recruitment ("Flying Dragon Army" and "Security Army") and local recruitment (armed police), in order to develop a new way of combining the best of both worlds that can not only ensure the number and combat effectiveness of the army, but also reduce the financial burden of the imperial court. As for whether this method is perfect and whether it can be successful, it can only be tested by time.

Of course, such a large-scale institutional adjustment cannot be achieved overnight, not to mention that the local institutional adjustment led by the crossing team not only involves administrative and judicial institutions, but also includes local garrisons. The establishment of new organs, the transfer, appointment, and dismissal of officials, the construction of garrison barracks in various localities, and the transfer of soldiers are all innumerable. Even though the crossing team has experts such as Wang Kunjun, Zhang Weixin, Xu Shaoan, etc., who are proficient in government affairs and military affairs, and has the assistance of local officials who are familiar with political affairs such as Wang Pu and Fan Zhen, this major adjustment of the organization has been carried out for more than a year before it can be basically completed. During this period, some local envoys and assassins were reluctant to give up the power in their hands, even if it was already a power that could not be compared with their heyday, but they were passive and slow, and some even made secret preparations to resist this major adjustment of power to completely reduce the power of local feudal towns by force. However, after a series of powerful and effective measures to weaken the local feudal towns in the previous year, the power of these local feudal towns was greatly reduced, and their resistance in the face of a powerful imperial court was impossible to succeed. Second, in the face of the secret agents of the "Dark Feather" (Intelligence Department), who had already infiltrated the local feudal forces and were well aware of all aspects of their situation, it was impossible for those local feudal forces with bad intentions to prepare for resistance without anyone knowing or unknowing, and their defeat was inevitable. Therefore, although there were some minor twists and turns, and the "Flying Dragon Army" and "Security Army" stationed in various localities were ordered to make several small-scale sorties to cull a few localities that were incapable and daring, on the whole, the major restructuring of the organization was smooth and successful.

In this major adjustment involving hundreds of military states, tens of thousands of officials and generals, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and soldiers in the Later Zhou Dynasty, the crossing team can be said to have gained a lot.

In terms of civil affairs, the crossing team took this opportunity to arrange their brothers and a large number of henchmen to many local positions of real power, and while controlling the Later Zhou court, they also firmly controlled their local power in their hands. In addition to Zhao Dawei, the former prefect of Beiping, who entered the imperial court as the right attendant of the ministry, more than half of the political envoys in the twelve provinces came from the crossing team or were born in the Beiping military system. Among them, the prefects of the other six prefectures under the jurisdiction of the Beiping Army were all promoted to the posts of political envoys -- Song Feiyang, the former prefect of Jinzhou, was appointed as the political envoy of Hebei, Sun Yangyang, the former prefect of Datong, was appointed as the political envoy of Shanxi, Xie Tian, the former prefect of Xuanhua, was appointed as the political envoy of Shaanxi, Huang Shan, the former prefect of Lulong, was appointed as the political envoy of Henan, Zhong Shiwen, the former prefect of Daning, was appointed as the political envoy of Shandong, and Yan Chongli, the former prefect of Taiyuan, was appointed as the political envoy of Jiangsu. In addition, Zhong Youpeng, the doctor of Zuo Counsel and the intellectual system, was also released and served as the political envoy of Hubei, and finally maintained the same grade as his son, so as not to be embarrassed that Lao Tzu had to salute his son when he met on official occasions. And Han Deyi, the former Tongzhi of Beiping Mansion, who had always been deliberately suppressed by his son-in-law Wang Kunjun, was liberated to a certain extent in this major adjustment, and served as the left political secretary of Hubei Province to participate in politics, becoming the deputy and partner of his old friend. Even Gao Jun, who has been self-confined since he killed Fan Wucheng with his own hands, was persuaded by the three distressed brothers Xie Tian, Huang Hai, and Huang Shan, as well as Zhao Dawei, who moved with him most frequently because he was in a city, and successfully put down his psychological burden, walked out of the gate of Gaofu, which he had not taken a step in for nearly eight years, and served as the right senator of Hebei Buzheng - although Gao Jun had studied and practiced government affairs by Zhang Weixin's side for a period of time, but at that time, it only involved ordinary documents in Beiping Mansion. Second, Gao Jun has not been in contact with this aspect of affairs in the past eight years, and he must be unfamiliar with government affairs. Therefore, the committee decided to let him serve as a right-hand senator with a relatively low official position, and after he had been familiar with government affairs for a period of time, he would choose an opportunity to arrange for a higher post. As for the newly established more than 100 prefectures, although there are no longer members of the crossing team who serve as prefectures or prefects, there are also nearly thirty percent of the prefects or fellow governors who are from the first line of the Beiping Army.

In terms of military affairs, the crossing team took this opportunity to carry out a more thorough reorganization, transfer, and survival of the fittest of the local garrisons, which not only enhanced the combat effectiveness of the local garrisons, but also completely cut off all the connections between those local envoys and assassins who had lost their military and political power and the troops under their original jurisdiction, so that they truly became the commanders of the light poles, which was tantamount to staging a new version of "releasing military power with a glass of wine." It's just that unlike the previous life's "cup of wine to release military power", this time the crossing team neither invited guests to drink, nor did they pretend to pose in front of the public festivals, but first made a will to those local festival envoys and assassins who were still trapped in Kaifeng, announcing that while retaining their official ranks, salaries, and benefits, they would be stripped of their military and political power, and "magnanimously" said that they would support them for a lifetime until they "died" in the mansion in Kaifeng City. Then the newly appointed local military governors took another holy decree and confidently entered the armies and states, and together with the newly appointed civil officials, they began to take over power, reorganize the army, and intensively implement the organizational adjustment plan, without worrying about any unsightly guy daring to disobey the holy decree and obstruct it, because behind them were the powerful imperial court and the invincible "Flying Dragon Army" and "Security Army".

Although there were no crossing team members in the general army of all twelve provinces compared to the civil governors, the generals appointed as the general soldiers and the garrisons of most of the prefectures were from the officers of all levels of the Beiping Army, plus the "Flying Dragon Army" and the "Security Army" belonging to the Central Forbidden Army that had always been in the hands of the crossing team and their close henchmen. It can be said that in addition to the Yinxia Mansion (Dingyan Army) and Yong'an Mansion (Yong'an Army), which still controlled the military and political power by the original team after the reorganization of the army and the state as the government for the sake of stabilizing the northwest border, after the completion of this major adjustment, the 180,000 troops of the "Flying Dragon Army", including the newly formed departments, the 100,000 troops of the central "Security Army", and the 200,000 troops of the local "Security Army", including the 480,000 soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty, were firmly controlled by the crossing team in their own hands, and they could act at will and devote themselves wholeheartedly to the reorganization of the rivers and mountains. The grand cause of pacifying the world.