Chapter Ninety-Four: Miscellaneous and Miscellaneous Affairs

Liu Hou has been busy dealing with political affairs and military affairs in the past few days, and he has been very busy. Because Zhang Bao and Guan Xing poached people everywhere, and also went to Liu Hou to ask for a holy decree to select people from the Vulture Bone Army, most of the generals in the army knew about the emperor's plan to reorganize the army in two days.

As a result, Liu Hou had to deal with the visits of various generals in the army, and they all wanted to know the exact news from the emperor. Liu Hou, who was overwhelmed, had to convene the # generals in the army to gather together and hold a military meeting to discuss the reorganization of the army.

Everyone expressed their opinions, and many of them, like Zhang Bao, were against the reorganization of the army, while the generals who tried the advantages of mixing the combat of # spearmen and rattan armor soldiers were very supportive of the adaptation.

In the end, Liu Hou had to use the power of the emperor to forcibly end this senseless controversy, he said: "The advantages of reorganizing the army outweigh the disadvantages, and you ministers don't need to argue about this issue anymore." We have made up our minds and decided to reorganize the 1st Division into a mixed unit, and the other units will remain unchanged for the time being.

Now I will announce the adaptation plan, this is a preliminary plan, you can put forward your opinions on this plan, I will collect everyone's opinions, and then formulate a final plan after considering various factors. ”

After that, Liu Hou explained the plan and inventory that he had said to Zhang Bao before, and everyone really stopped arguing about whether it should be adapted, and turned to discuss the details of the adaptation plan. After several years of conquest, Liu Hou has established absolute prestige in the Hong army, not to mention that he is now the emperor of Shu Han, and he is even more true to his word, he said what has been decided, and now there are really not many people who dare to refute it to the end.

However, there is no opposition to the reorganization of the army, but some people come out to mess around, and it is the vulture bones who are usually not very reasonable. After listening to Liu Hou's adaptation plan, he found that he and his second division did not have a share in the plan, so he came out and shouted that their second division would also be reorganized.

Liu Hou was angry and funny, and said to him: "General Wu, the main purpose of this reorganization is to establish a brigade-level unit, and the official position of the brigade commander is between the regiment commander and the division commander, if your second division is also reorganized, you can only be demoted to a brigade, and when the time comes, you will be demoted to a brigade commander, which is one level lower than the current division commander, are you willing?" ”

When the vulture heard that he wanted to demote himself, he immediately waved his hand and shook his head and said that he was unwilling, which caused everyone to laugh, but how did he feel that something seemed to be wrong? What the hell is wrong with him, and I can't think of it for a while.

After the vulture bones were discarded, it was finally time to discuss the adaptation plan. In this reorganization, six brigades will be established, and the original commanders of the six regiments of the First Division will be promoted to brigade commanders, and they are Zhang Bao of the First Brigade, Guan Xing of the Second Brigade, Huang Xu of the Third Brigade, Zhang Bai of the Fourth Brigade, Zhong Dong of the Fifth Brigade, and Liu Fei of the Sixth Brigade.

As for Wu Daniu of the Seventh Regiment, he is still young, and he did not get a chance to be promoted this time, he is still a regiment commander, and his Seventh Regiment was scattered and mixed into various brigades, but he has finally changed from the commander of a reserve regiment to the commander of the main battle unit, which can be regarded as an improvement.

The six brigades totaled more than 30,000 and nearly 40,000 people, and there was a huge shortage of personnel; in addition to the 8 to 9,000 men who were transferred from the 2nd and 3rd Divisions, all the 6 to 7,000 Chengdu defenders who surrendered this time were recharged into the newly reorganized brigades. Even so, it was still not enough manpower, and in the end it could only fight the idea of Zhu Bao's Fourth Division.

The Fourth Division has always served as a reserve division, a training camp, and an assistant to the baggage team, and they have to transfuse blood to the main battle unit from time to time, and they have long been accustomed to being drawn from the elite. This reorganization was no exception, and several thousand better soldiers were taken from the Fourth Division, and finally enough combat personnel for six brigades were gathered.

A major feature of this reorganization is that a large number of non-combat personnel have been added to each unit, and these auxiliary personnel include medical personnel, engineering and technical personnel, etc., so the original medical battalion in the Hong Army was split, and the artisan battalion was also split, and after the split, some of the personnel were scattered and distributed to various brigades.

The scout battalions, artillery battalions, and special forces in the army were also split, and they were also broken up and divided into brigades. After the reorganization, each brigade can become an independent combat unit in addition to replenishing the heavy grain and grass, and the grain and grass must be grasped in the hands of the imperial court, which is one of the methods used by the imperial court to control the army.

After this meeting, the vigorous reorganization work began in the Hong army, and the generals were also so busy that they did not touch the ground, and no more generals came to bother Liu Hou. But the military generals stopped, but the civil officials did not.

The main reason why civil officials do not stop is that almost all of them are waiting for crimes. Liu Hou asked them to temporarily return to their original positions, just for the sake of the stability of the court, and did not say that they would be pardoned for the crime of rebellion. If the emperor doesn't let go for a day, the ministers don't dare to breathe a sigh of relief.

So these days, all the ministers are trembling, and there are people knocking on the side to test how the emperor wants to deal with them, Liu Hou actually has a headache how to deal with these ministers, it is definitely not possible to deal with them, there is no punishment is a taboo for the ruler, and it is not good to deal with it seriously, if you leave them, who will deal with the government?

Liu Hou had no experience in dealing with government affairs, nor had he dealt with such a complicated political issue, so he could only put the issue on hold first. However, the problem cannot be put on hold forever, there will always be a time when it needs to be dealt with, and in desperation, Liu Hou had to urgently send a holy decree for 800 miles to summon Zhuge Liang back to Beijing, and it was really inconvenient to leave this prime minister.

But Jingzhou left Zhuge Liang, and Liu Hou was worried that only the Guan Guild would not be able to hold Jingzhou, after all, it was not the first time that such a thing had happened. In the hands of Guan Gong, Jingzhou was almost lost twice, once when Liu Hou saw the opportunity and went to the rescue one step in advance, thwarting Lu Meng's strategy of "crossing the river in white clothes", and once Zhuge Liang led his troops to kill the siege.

Therefore, Liu Hou ordered Zhang Bai to reorganize the troops, and then led the Fourth Brigade to Jingzhou to assist Guan Gong in defending Jingzhou. Worried about the situation in Jingzhou, Liu Hou repeatedly urged Zhang Bai, and as a result, Zhang Bai completed the reorganization of the army in less than a month.

They hurriedly boarded the ship and set off after almost all the personnel and equipment, and as for the training of the troops, the familiarization and run-in of the new comrades, they could only be carried out after arriving in Jingzhou.

Another unit that Liu Hou drove away within a month was Huang Xu's Third Brigade, and Liu Hou ordered him to go to Guiyang to replace Zhao Yun, and he planned to transfer both Zhao Yun and Bu Qi back. Guiyang is not so important now, because now that he has returned to Chengdu, he no longer has to worry about others cutting off the way back.

Guiyang is actually a relatively remote and backward place, and its properties are relatively barren, if it were not for such an important strategic position at that time, there would be no need for a great future like Zhao Yun to guard it. Now that the big picture has been decided, it is enough to send only one brigade.

Originally, it was useless to send Huang Xu to guard such a place, but later Liu Hou thought that Eastern Wu could attack Guiyang through Guò Luling, so in turn, we could also attack from Guiyang to Luling.

So, Liu Hou decided to send his right-hand man Huang Xu over and pass through Guiyang. Huang Xu has made many military exploits, Liu Hou feels that he can take charge of himself, and he has long wanted to promote his official position, but he is still young and should not be promoted too quickly at once, so he let him be a brigade commander.

However, after he arrived in Gyeyang, he took over the defense of Gyeyang, and there was a Gyeyang garrison division here, which was equivalent to a division and a brigade in the troops under his jurisdiction. In that way, although he does not have the name of a teacher, he has the reality of a teacher.

As long as he has some more military exploits, it is a sure thing to be promoted to division commander, and he is also the second young man to stand out after Guan Suo.

Before Huang Xu set off, Liu Hou summoned him into the palace and had a good talk with him, he asked him to pass through Guiyang and march to Luling if he had the opportunity, but he must be steady and steady, and he must not rush forward.

Only then did Huang Xu know that the emperor had such a deep meaning in letting him go to such a remote place, and he said at that time that he would definitely not disappoint the emperor's high expectations.

As for Bu Qi, he is a talent, both civil and military, and he is also a talent who can take charge of himself, but it is a pity that he still cares about the old feelings of Dongwu and refuses to contribute to dealing with Dongwu, leaving him on the front line of Dongwu is undoubtedly a waste of talent, so Liu Hou also plans to summon him to Chengdu to see if there is a better position suitable for him.

Liu Hou asked Zhang Bai and Huang Xu to take away five hot air balloons each, and the newly expanded air force suddenly shrank a lot, which made him suffer for a long time. But there is no way, the place where these two people go will become the front line of the fiercest battle, and the hot air balloon will help them a lot, and he will have to reluctantly part with his love.

Four of the six brigades were left, two brigades of Zhang Bao and Guan Xing were responsible for guarding Chengdu, and only two brigades were left that could be sent out to fight, which suddenly made Liu Hou get rid of the joy of expanding the army, and turned into anxiety and uneasiness, his own troops were still too weak.

As for the second and third divisions, which had been transferred to several thousand people, they could only be supplemented by the fourth division and the baggage soldiers of Zhu Bao, and because the vulture bones had relatively high requirements for the physical qualities of the soldiers, Zhu Bao's fish belly troops and baggage troops could not meet his requirements at all, so Liu Hou specially allowed him to recruit troops from the people.

However, at this time, after years of war, there were not many strong men among the people, and the recruitment task of the vulture bones still could not be completed. Later, Guo Youzhi came up with an idea and asked him to send someone back to Nanzhong to recruit barbarian soldiers.

This trick really worked, and the vulture bone and E Huan successively replenished the shortage of soldiers, but the process was quite long, and it took more than three months. As for the missing rattan armor, it was also produced and transported from the hometown of Ugo Country of the vulture bone in the interior during this time.

During this time, in addition to the reorganization and rejuvenation of various troops, Liu Hou also did a very important thing, that is, to bury Liu Bei. In ancient times, it was very important to bury an ancestor, especially if the ancestor was still an emperor.

The funeral was handed over to the new Dahonglu Liu Yan to be in charge of handling it. Liu Yan and Liu Bei were both monarchs and ministers and friends during their lifetimes, so it was appropriate for him to go to the funeral.

According to history, Liu Hou gave Liu Bei the nickname of Emperor Zhaolie, and then chose a piece of feng shui treasure land in the southern suburbs of Chengdu to establish a cemetery, which was named Huiling. Because the treasury has little money, the world has not yet been pacified, and Liu Hou is not an extravagant and wasteful person, so the scale of this cemetery is not very large.

Liu Hou asked 5,000 soldiers to dig the mausoleum, and used a new building material, cement, which made the construction speed staggering. In the end, the entire mausoleum was built in only three months, and compared with those emperors who spent decades and used hundreds of thousands of laborers to build the mausoleum, Liu Hou was really a model emperor who cherished the people's strength.