When he received the news from Shouzhou that the imperial court mission had passed Gwangju, Jiang Feng knew that he might need to go south to return to Xuzhou.

It is undoubtedly inappropriate to let the imperial court envoy go to Qingzhou specifically, especially since there is not only Her Royal Highness Princess Jin in the mission, but also Guo Tao, a fellow acquaintance of the Privy Council.

I still have some understanding of this Guo Tao Jiangfeng, even if he is a powerful faction in the Privy Council, the Guo family has a lot of power in Guanzhong, and it is not much better than the Wei Chi family.

Although the nine princes of Guanzhong are now declining day by day, under the guise of the imperial court Zhengshuo, as long as no one destroys the imperial court, it will always be Zhengshuo, and its orthodox status among the people cannot be replaced, which is also the main reason why the feudal lords have complex feelings about Guanzhong.

No one wants to pay tribute to Guanzhong year after year, from money and silver to grain, cloth, salt and iron, horses, medicinal materials, everything, as long as you recognize the imperial court, you have to give, if you don't give, it means that you, the feudal lord, have not gone to the official recognition, you want to rule the people under your rule will lose moral support, and it is easy for your neighbors to take advantage of it.

The imperial court sent a huge delegation to Huaiyou, which was an emphasis on Huaiyou, a high opinion of himself, not to mention Guo Tao's identity, just the significance of Li Jin's arrival also made Jiang Feng have to go south.

Fortunately, with the division of the five towns, the formation of the governor's office of each town is very smooth, whether Zhu Mao is in charge of Tianping Town, or Liu Yansi is in charge of Ziqing Town and Wang Shouxin is in charge of Wuning Town, these are likely to intervene in the Central Plains war in the shortest possible time, although Jiang Feng has not fully considered it so far, how to intervene in the war.

In fact, before, Jiang Feng also considered giving up his involvement, at most, he would take over Cao Pu Erzhou, and it was best for Song Zhou to support Pang Yuan's self-reliance, but now it seems that Pang Yuan probably does not have this mind, and the Tianxing Left Army can't do this, in this case, he has to face the threat that Song Zhou may be occupied by Caizhou Yuan.

Songzhou is very important to Caizhou Yuan, and it is also very important to Huaiyou, but it is far less important to Huaiyou than to Yuan, so this point also makes Jiang Feng very entangled.

If a war with the Yuan clan started because of Song Zhou, it would undoubtedly prompt the Yuan clan to fall to the Shatuo people, and the situation of Huaiyou would become more difficult.

Jiang Feng is no longer too sure about the Shatuo people, and if he adds a Caizhou Yuan clan, I am afraid that Huaiyou, whose foundation is not solid, will be even more difficult.

However, the rapid annexation of the Pinglu Army and the Pinglu Prefectures made Jiang Feng feel a little more confident in his heart, especially Liu Yansi and Wang Shouxin led the Pinglu Army to accept the reorganization smoothly, even if this reorganization was more nominal, but this was a good sign, which meant that the Pinglu Army was not satisfied with their original situation, and they hoped to be more eager to get a bigger stage of performance.

This can be seen from Wang Shouxin and Liu Yansi's execution of accepting orders to rush to the front, which also strengthened Jiang Feng's determination to break his wrists with Caizhou in disguise.

The location of Songzhou is really good, it is a little unpleasant to give it to the Yuan family so cheaply, and after taking Cao Pu Erzhou, if Song Zhou is obtained by the Yuan family, then it will be like a sharp knife under Caozhou, which will pose a great threat to the entire Tianping Town, so Jiang Feng feels that he should do something in this.

Maybe dismembering Song Zhou is a good option? Jiang Feng pondered.

"County Prince, Wu Ningjun has arrived. Cui Shang's voice will wake Jiang Feng from his contemplation.

To see Wu Ningjun is Guo Tao's request.

It stands to reason that it is inappropriate for a court envoy to welcome the army under the command of a vassal lord, Jiang Feng can take it over, but Guo Tao, who is a fellow member of the Privy Council of the Tang Empire, also came to greet him.

However, Guo Tao asked for this, of course Jiang Feng couldn't refuse, and besides, Guo Tao definitely had his intention in making this request.

Of course, Jiang Feng is also aware of the current situation of the imperial court, and after being taught a lesson by the party members, the imperial court has been beaten to the point of losing confidence and courage, and realizing that the imperial court army, which has not experienced a war for a long time, is vulnerable under the impact of the fierce and wild party iron cavalry, and it also looks immature in front of the Shannan army that Yang Wenchang has experienced in the bloody battle with the Tubo people for many years, so the imperial court is eager to have one or two armies that can give the imperial court confidence to support their confidence.

The new construction of Wuning Town is not a suitable object, who let the Wuning Town Army just catch up with this bone joint, Jiang Feng can't refuse.

"Hmm, Master Guo, Wu Ningjun has arrived. Jiang Feng turned around and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that if they travel thousands of miles, the military appearance will disappoint Lord Guo and his party." ”

"Hehe, the county prince, this is a bad statement, you and I are both from the army, the more tired the division, the more you can see the combat effectiveness of an army, isn't it?" Guo Tao smiled, "I heard that the military governor of Wuning is Wang Shouzhong's younger brother Wang Shouxin? ”

The establishment of the five towns submitted by Jiang Feng also caused a great deal of controversy in the imperial court.

This kind of regulation of setting up military towns and grand governors only existed in the early Tang Dynasty, and later with the Anshi Rebellion and the Huangchao Rebellion, the Jiedu Envoy, the Wind Observation Envoy, and the Defense Envoy were the mainstream, or they were directly crowned kings and established the country, such as Liang, Jin, and Wuyue.

Now Jiang Feng has proposed the establishment of a general administration that has not been set up for two hundred years to govern the five towns, and that's it, but the jurisdiction of the five towns is somewhat different, such as Wuning Town incorporating Yingbo, Huaiyou Town incorporating Guangzhou, Shuzhou and Hezhou, and Tianping Town incorporating Caopu and Erzhou, which can easily cause disputes.

Yingbo is now controlled by the Yuan clan in Caizhou, and the Yuan clan has a very close relationship with the imperial court, and the imperial court will definitely not admit it, of course you can break the Yuan clan's control of Yingbo, that's another story.

Gwangju is just that, after all, it has been taken away by Nanyang in Huai's right hand, and the imperial court did not recognize Nanyang's occupation of Gwangju, as well as Shuzhou and Hezhou, Hezhou and Chuzhou originally belonged to Li Wu, but Li Wu himself did not have a good relationship with the imperial court, and now it doesn't matter if it is assigned to Huaiyou, Shuzhou is a vassal state, and it is reasonable.

Then there is Cao Pu Erzhou, if it was a year ago, Jiang Feng dared to ask for this, the imperial court would definitely not be able to ask for it, and it would be happy to see the relationship between the Great Liang and Huaiyou, of course, happy to see it, but now the Great Liang is obviously a little unable to support the offensive of the Jin army, if Huaiyou comes behind such a knife again, I am afraid that the Great Liang will really collapse, which is what the imperial court that has begun to turn its mentality does not want to see.

Therefore, in this case, Guo Tao came to Huaiyou this time, that is, to have a good talk with Jiang Feng about the jurisdiction of the five towns, and then to understand Huaiyou's next plan, and even to do some lobbying work.

Of course, a look at the appearance of the Huaiyou Army is definitely the most important thing, to comprehensively assess the strength of the Huaiyou Army, we must personally contact and observe, learned that the Ziqing Army just two days after going to Xiao County, Guo Tao was very regretful, and even pondered to go to Xiao County to have a look.

Then Liu Yansi can also be regarded as the right-hand man of Pinglu Wang Shouzhong, and now he is so willing to join Jiang Feng? What is the combat effectiveness of this Ziqing army?

I didn't see the Ziqing Army, but fortunately, the Wuning Army came again, and Wang Shouxin was the governor, which was even better.

The cavalry began to come.

The military uniforms of the Wuning army are still mixed, which is also a helpless move, it is really the Huaiyou expansion is too fast, the entire army system is undergoing drastic changes, like now Jiang Feng's various armies, basically have been disrupted, in addition to the earliest Huaiyou, from the Luzhou Zhongzheng Army and the Desheng Army, Xuzhou's Reform Army, Yanyunyi's Taining Army to the Pinglu Army and Ziqing Army, the military uniforms are different, which also makes it a nightmare for the logistics department to complete the reorganization of these armies in just over a year.

According to the estimation of the logistics department, it will take at least three years to complete the comprehensive change, and this will still be under the condition that the army of the five towns does not continue to expand.

Jiang Feng's order to the logistics department was that the change of clothes must be completed in two years, which made the logistics department complain.

Fortunately, the logistics department also had a trick, in order to distinguish the various armies, and at the same time to distinguish the army under the command of Pengcheng County from the army of other feudal lords, armbands and epaulettes began to be used.

The scarlet cloth armband attests to the army belonging to the Pengcheng County Prince, while the pattern on the armband distinguishes the towns to which the armies belong, and the epaulettes reflect the rank.

This suggestion was highly praised by Jiang Feng, in fact, he originally wanted to do this, but he didn't expect to be preempted, and his depression also made him realize that many things began to change with his arrival.

For example, the armband of the Wuning Army is a section of the city wall battlement, which means the meaning of defending and defending, while the armband pattern of the Ziqing Army is a mountain peak, which is taken from the majesty of Mount Tai, and no one can be defeated; the armband pattern of the Huaiyou Army is a blade, which means indestructible; the armband pattern of the Tianping Army is the head of a tiger, which means that it is like a fierce tiger; and the armband pattern of the Pinglu Army is a giant tree, which means that it is deeply rooted and no one can shake it.

All in all, the armband patterns of these towns and armies strive to be simple and profound.

"Hehe, Guo Gong's words are serious, the trustworthy general is deeply expected, and he is a well-deserved governor of the Wuning army, and I believe that Guo Gong can see the trustworthy general attacking the city on the land of the Central Plains in the future. Jiang Feng's response was also meaningful.

Guo Tao frowned slightly.

He had been thinking about how to convince Jiang Feng not to get involved in the battle of the Central Plains, but to focus more on the south, that is, Huainan and Jiangnan.

In his opinion, the battle of the Central Plains, even if the Shatuo people defeated the Great Liang, then Nanyang and Caizhou will not let go easily, and the Shatuo people also need to take a breather after defeating the Great Liang, and Nanyang and Caizhou are bound to form a stalemate.