Liu Hou convened the people of the General Staff to discuss the selection of the new commander of the Tubo Army, and this time, he did not ask the General Staff to recommend the quota, but directly nominated Zhang Bao and asked the people of the General Staff to demonstrate the feasibility of his post. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But in a meeting where freedom of speech is allowed, there will always be two positive and negative opinions. This time is no exception, and there are both people in favor and against Zhang Bao's appointment.

The opponents are mainly because he is too young and feels that he is not enough to take on the heavy responsibility, and the other is that the original commander of this army was Zhang Fei, and now he is replaced by his son, and they think that there is a big hidden danger in this way of inheriting his father's business.

The army in the feudal era paid attention to the fathers and sons in battle, and it was common for people from a family to serve in the same army, so there was such a name as "a certain army".

For example, the Yang generals of the Song Dynasty, the Yue family army, the Zhejia army, and so on. In fact, in the era of feudal dynasties, in the army, it was beneficial for fathers, sons and brothers to go into battle together during war. Such an army is united and united enough, and as the commander is usually the head of the family, he has absolute prestige in this family.

This makes personnel management relatively easy, and there will be no disobedience to the public, which is conducive to the implementation of military orders. There must be a reason for the long-term existence of this kind of military familialization. However, existence does not mean that it is necessarily reasonable, the key is to look at the problem from an angle.

A familial army is very uneasy for the emperor. No emperor likes what is not under his control, especially the army. The army is a sharp weapon of the country, this sharp weapon can hurt others as well as himself, and the emperor is most worried about the army rebellion.

The emperors of all dynasties tried their best to restrict the army, supervise the army, and control the army, so there was the position of supervising the army, sometimes the power of the supervising army was even greater than that of the main general, and some dynasties adopted the form of civil and imperial military to prevent the army from rebelling.

In fact, this part of the courtiers who raised objections were also kind-hearted, and they felt that this army was controlled by Zhang Fei's father and son for two generations, and it would become their family army. The imperial court, or the emperor, can easily lose influence and control over this army, which is definitely not a good thing.

However, there are also many people who agree, they believe that Zhang Bao has performed brilliantly in the Battle of Guanzhong before, has experience in commanding large armies in battle, and with the relationship between their father and son and two generations of emperors, there is no need to worry about loyalty.

Liu Bei and Zhang Fei are sworn brothers, and the brotherhood of Liu, Guan, and Zhang has been passed down through the ages, so there is no doubt about this. And Zhang Bao, Guan Xing and the current emperor Although they did not officially worship, the three of them began to play together from the time they wore open crotch pants to grow up, studying together, practicing martial arts together, and going out to fight together, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the three of them wore the same pair of pants.

Although the three of them are not brothers, their feelings are closer than their brothers, and their relationship is not much better than that of their parents.

In fact, Liu Hou had a plan in his heart, so he directly nominated Zhang Bao. In addition to Zhang Bao's loyalty, he is not worried, there is a system of supervising the army at all levels, and he is not worried that the imperial court will lose control of this army.

Zhang Bao went to take over this army this time, and there were two major things to do in the early stage, one was to disarm, because the Tubo War had basically been completed, the entire territory of Tubo had been occupied, and the hostile forces had almost been eliminated.

However, because there are many ethnic groups in this place, the folk customs are fierce, and there are all kinds of contradictions and problems between different nationalities and different tribes, so the law and order in the whole region is still very chaotic, and it is very necessary to station a strong army here.

The garrison is different from the expansion of the territory, the expansion of the territory requires a large number of troops, and the garrison is mainly to maintain law and order and play the role of deterrence, and the number can be reduced a lot. Liu Hou's plan is between 50,000 and 100,000.

After Zhang Bao took office, he successively laid off some old and weak soldiers, so that more than 200,000 laborers could be released. Moreover, even the remaining elite soldiers will gradually demobilize them, and the shortfall will be filled by the recruits recruited each year.

Zhang Bao's second major event was to reorganize this army and thoroughly reorganize it in accordance with the style of the Hong Army. After the reorganization, this army can be merged into the Hong Army system and become a truly new army.

This is the real purpose of Liu Hou's plan to send Zhang Bao to replace Zhang Fei, like many people privately discuss what son inherits his father's business and family army Liu Hou didn't think about it at all, he just felt that Zhang Bao, who was familiar with the Hong army system, was suitable for this position.

The debate was not too heated, and the opposition was not too loud in the case of the emperor's personal nomination, thanks to the fact that Liu Hou was very different from other feudal emperors, and he always encouraged his courtiers to raise more different opinions, otherwise no one would necessarily raise objections to his nomination in this case.

Zhang Bao's appointment was quickly approved, and he soon set off to take over Zhang Fei's position. When Zhang Bao set off, Zhang Fei had not yet returned to Chang'an, and the father and son could only hurriedly talk on the way.

Zhang Bao's trip was not grand, and one day, he quietly went out of the city gate with a team of personal soldiers and embarked on his journey. Liu Hou did not send him off, let alone hold a grand ceremony for him to worship the generals like those generals in the past.

Of course, this does not mean that Liu Hou does not attach importance to Zhang Bao's expedition. In fact, before Zhang Bao set out on the expedition, Liu Hou had a secret conversation with him all day. No one knew the content of the secret conversation, and even the most intimate palace maids and eunuchs around Liu Hou were dismissed.

No one knows what secret mission Zhang Bao took to Tibet. Even, because Zhang Bao did not go out of the city with great fanfare, many people did not know that he had gone to work. Although Zhang Bao quietly went out of the city to take up his post, his heart was extremely agitated, and the whole person was full of fighting spirit and excitement.

Since he destroyed Wei and Wu and unified the world, he has been idle for a long time, and for a general of his age, he doesn't want to go into battle to kill the enemy all the time, and this kind of leisurely life is not what he wants.

This point, in fact, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu are the same, if Zhang Fei is not seriously ill, he does not want to retire from the battlefield, this kind of veteran feelings who have fought all his life are incomprehensible to ordinary people.

On this expedition, in addition to the two initial tasks of disarmament and reorganization of the corps, the emperor also talked freely about the follow-up strategy of the Western Regions. Liu Hou told him a lot about the customs and customs of the countries in the Western Regions, the natural scenery, the intricate relations between the countries, and the military strength of the various forces in each country.

A small part of this information comes from what he has seen and heard in his previous life, and most of it is news that the "CIA" has probed in recent years. The "CIA" has completely shifted the focus of its work to foreign countries, and a large number of spy personnel have disguised themselves as caravans, homeless people, monks, craftsmen, and other various characters, blended into neighboring countries and regions, and collected a large amount of intelligence on their economy, culture, military, and natural environment.

They also surveyed and mapped the terrain of these places and made military maps, all of which were regularly compiled to Liu Hou. Now, Liu Hou handed over all these materials to Zhang Bao as auxiliary materials for his subsequent strategy in the Western Regions.