On October 20, a military meeting to discuss how to pacify the two prefectures of Guide and Bonan was held secretly in the Qingyang Castle Guard. Except for Ling Tianfang, who rushed back in the starry night, the rest of the participants were all high-ranking officers of the army's five divisions, including Liang Chongxin, Cui Wenxiu, Mu Lige, Kamapov, Kang Jianguo, Sang Sheng, Shenei, Helianbo, Shan Gen, Wei Chibin, Yue Shan, and Lu Man, as well as Mo Lun, who was in charge of intelligence work, also attended the meeting.

At the meeting, I first announced the appointment of myself as the military and political envoy of the Northwest County of the Empire on the 19th of the Imperial Express, and commanded all the important military and political affairs of the Northwest County, and asked myself to make military preparations for the pacification of Guide and Bonan Prefectures, and wait until the Sixth Highness of the Empire came to Qingyang to announce the official appointment and make arrangements for the counterinsurgency campaign.

The generals, who were still in the dark, were so stimulated by this unexpected surprise that they couldn't help but cheer, and only barely quieted down after I signaled them several times.

"My lord, please let our 1st Garrison Division be the vanguard, I promise to take Guide within a month!" Kamapov, who was still a little excited, took the lead in the battle.

"My lord, let me be the vanguard officer, whether it is Guide or Qingyang, I dare to make a military order, I can't solve it within 25 days, and I am willing to be punished by military law!" Even Liang Chongxin, who has always been steady, couldn't help but be a little eager to try.

Cui Wenxiu and Mu Lige also spoke one after another to ask for battle, and even Kang Jianguo, who had just formed the Qingyang Third Garrison Division, also exchanged words with his deputy Lieutenant Chi Bin, and it seemed that he also wanted to share a spoonful of soup in the counterinsurgency campaign.

To be honest, I'm still very satisfied with the high level of enthusiasm for fighting among my subordinates, but I can't despise the enemy because of this. Although the rebels were a group of bandits and peasant slaves, they were outnumbered, and they had already engaged in several encounters with the local garrison, which were not regular combat, and they had won victories and gained some experience, so they should not be taken lightly.

I motioned to everyone to keep a clear head, and then asked Ling Tianfang to arrange the battle plan that I had discussed with him, and asked them to go down immediately to arrange the deployment. Ling Tianfang immediately announced the battle plan, Qingyang 1st and 2nd Garrison Divisions immediately made pre-battle preparations, their target was Guide, the three wings of the Jinzhou 1st Garrison Division and the Jinzhou 2nd Garrison Division also immediately moved to the border area with Bonan, their target was of course Bonan Province, just waiting for Situ Biao to announce the order, they immediately marched. In view of the fact that the Qingyang Third Garrison Division was formed in too short a time, I asked Kang Jianguo and Wei Chibin to strengthen military training after they went down and stay in Qingyang.

Subsequently, Mo Lun gave a detailed account of the current situation of the chaotic activities of the two provinces in the hands of our intelligence organs. The rebel army in Guide Province is about 70,000 people, and it is mainly divided into three groups, of which the more combative force is the "Iron Cavalry Society," a bandit organization that was originally developed and strengthened by us from Qingyang to Guide as the core, and in the recent period of time, it has also collected a large number of displaced people and refugees, with the largest force, about 30,000 people, who are mainly entrenched in the northern part of Guide Province; and there is also a rebellion mainly the "Changsheng Society," a relatively powerful local underworld organization In the wake of this year's catastrophe, the common people were struggling to make ends meet, and they took the opportunity to gather a large number of vagrants and peasants who could not make a living, mainly in the western part of Guide Province, while the last group were poor hired peasants and slaves who were forced to make ends meet, and they were also the instigators of this rebellion, with about 30,000 men and a much larger sphere of activity, except for the north, almost the entire area of Guide.

The situation in Bonan was much the same as in Guide, where the peasant slave rebels, numbering more than 30,000 people, were mainly concentrated in the east, while the rebels, who had absorbed a large number of idle people and some peasants, were entangled in the west.

Since I had sensed the grim situation of Guide and Bonan a few months ago, I arranged for Mo Lun to arrange a large number of personnel to infiltrate Guide and Bonan, infiltrating and penetrating these teams through various channels, and achieving excellent results. Due to the relatively loose organization and discipline of these rebellious armies, except for the team dominated by the Iron Cavalry, our people have not yet penetrated into its upper echelons, and the upper echelons of the other contingents have more or less the shadow of our people, and some of them even hold the leadership of some of the troops.

For the sake of confidentiality, I did not share this information with the generals attending the meeting for the time being, but asked them to actively cooperate with the intelligence department and strive to solve the rebel problem with the minimum loss and the fastest speed.

After the military meeting, I summoned Xiao Tang separately, and I exchanged views with him on the issue of the post-war reconstruction of Guide and Bonan, and I asked Xiao Tang to make ideological preparations for taking over Guide and Bonan in a short period of time, and to set up and transfer some management personnel from now on, so that he could take on the heavy responsibility of economic construction and urban management of the two provinces after the war at an appropriate time. Xiao Tang said that this problem is quite difficult, because Qingyang's own construction is only on the right track, and some personnel were transferred in the early stage to support the needs of Jinzhou, and now there is really no more personnel to be drawn.

This is also the most troublesome problem for me, because the northwest region has been in the war for a long time, many people of insight have left the northwest region, resulting in the extreme lack of talents in the northwest region, after I entered Qingyang, although I have done a lot of work, but at present can only barely cope with the work of Qingyang and Jinzhou, the problem in front of us is that once the two prefectures of Guide and Bonan are recovered, they will face no less than the heavy task of Qingyang reconstruction, where to recruit so many talents engaged in various management work, this is indeed a headache。

I can't think of a better way, but I still ask Xiao Tang to squeeze out some people no matter what, at least to make the work of the recovered Guide and Bonan prefectures barely run away, and as for the later work, I have to think of another way. Xiao Tang reluctantly agreed to my request, and I couldn't help but remind him to consider the problem from the perspective of the whole county in the northwest, and he couldn't be the administrative director of Qingyang Mansion for long.

As I walked out of the conference room with my waist stretched, two beautiful silhouettes came into my eyes.

Yun Yi and Qin Shuangying have officially taken up their posts as members of our guard wing, and their wing captain Yue Shan has also arranged the second daughter as my personal bodyguard very interestingly. But the second daughter was very wary of me, and when I went out to inspect, both of them just followed me closely, but did not talk to me much, and looked as cold as ice. In the past two days, I have also been busy arranging the affairs of marching to Germany and Bonan, and I have no intention of talking to them, so I will let them be. At night, the two daughters lived in a room near my dormitory, and according to the guards, they also came out from time to time to check on the night duty, and it seemed that they were quite conscientious.

After the second daughter put on my guard uniform, she pressed the sword and held the sword, looking heroic, and I was stunned for a while, until the second girl's face was blushing and a little annoyed, I came back to my senses.

"It's a pity, it's a pity!" I couldn't help but sigh.

My sigh immediately aroused the curiosity of the second daughter, "What do you think is wrong?"

"It's not appropriate, and it's a big mistake, such a heroic appearance, it's a pity that I'm surrounded by ordinary people who don't understand the artistic conception except me, isn't it a pity?" I explained with a shake of my head.

The second daughter knew that I was deliberately molesting the two, and her face suddenly turned red again, "Your Excellency, please respect yourself, the people of the Northwest call your adult a famous hero from all over the world, isn't it detrimental to the image of the adult if you are so oily and slippery?"

"What a hero, I think it's just a disciple!" Qin Shuangying also made a look of disdain.

These two little girls also gave me the magic to provoke, I laughed, "Whether Li is a hero or not is up to the people of the world to judge, how can you two little girls assert." Okay, bring your master, I have something to do with her. After saying that, I walked away, leaving only the second daughter, who was so angry that her face was pale, to stay in place.

Kim So-mei soon came to the castle guard mansion to meet with me. After learning that both the [***] sect and the Tianshan faction had not yet officially entered Qingyang, Jin Sumei was overjoyed and decided to immediately set up the headquarters of the Snow Mountain faction in Qingyang. According to imperial law, any civil society organization must be approved by the local interior department before it can be legalized, otherwise it will be considered an illegal assembly and association, and the government will ban it. However, due to the intertwined nature of various forces within the empire, and the fact that these civil groups and organizations have more or less certain forces and even the shadow of the government itself, the empire actually loosens the review conditions for approval, but the procedures must be complete.

"Master Li, is there anything wrong with being in such a hurry to find a concubine?" Jin Sumei actually understood what was going on after she came, and as soon as I introduced the identity of Mo Lun, who was sitting next to me, she immediately understood.

"Master Jin, the internal affairs department has received your application report, and Lord Li has also greeted me, I hope you can abide by the laws of the empire in the future and don't make trouble for us. "Mo Lun is also an official in front of outsiders, and he does a decent job.

"Lord Mo, please rest assured, our Snow Mountain Sect has always been strict in its rules, and its requirements for its disciples are also very strict, and we absolutely abide by the laws of the empire, otherwise how can we be selected as a guard by the city guard, Lord Li, do you say?" Jin Sumei smiled, but she still did not forget to lead my army between her words.

I was a little embarrassed, but it was true, so I had to keep my mouth shut. And Mo Lun was obviously a little dissatisfied with the performance of my heavy color and light friends, of course, mainly dissatisfied with his lack of profit, snorted, and corrected Jin Sumei, "Master Jin, Lord Li has been promoted, yesterday the Imperial Express has arrived, and Lord Li has been officially appointed as the military and political envoy of the Northwest County of the Empire." ”

My Gao Shengyuan was expected by Jin Sumei, but she didn't expect to come so quickly, and she was appointed by the empire as the military and political envoy of the Northwest County, which is a powerful and sought-after position, and my important surname in her mind has risen greatly.

"That's really great, the concubine is here to congratulate you. Jin Sumei was also very obedient, "My lord wants to take a concubine, but what about the disciples of this sect in Guide and Bonan?"

"Yes, Master Jin, I am going to take military action against Guide and Bonan in the near future, just waiting for the arrival of the imperial envoys. According to our agreement, you should provide us with the necessary information. "I don't mince words.

"Don't worry, my lordship, I have already made arrangements, and now we have our eyes in the rebel army in the two provinces of Debonan, just wait for the adult's army to set off, and our people can get in touch with them immediately. At this time, Jin Sumei didn't want to hide anything.

"That's good, Mo Lun, you and the head of the Jin family can do a good job of accounting, so that the people on both sides can cooperate with each other, avoid unnecessary omissions, and make sure that nothing goes wrong. "I solemnly ordered the two of them, and the next thing is for the two of them.

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