Speaking of Liu Xin's family ancestors and fathers for several generations are the bandit leaders near Qingzhou, which can be regarded as looting heirlooms, according to the habitual 'nature' Liu Xin should also inherit the foundation of his ancestors and fathers, strive to become a very rich and famous bandit, carry forward this 'promising industry', and even pass this profession to his son, grandson and grandchildren.

However, the world is always unpredictable, in the year of Liu Xin's birth, the uprising of the six towns in the north and the border people, the original social order of the Northern Wei Dynasty was shattered, not only in Hebei, but also in the south of the Yellow River.

At that time, the city and countryside were full of bandits and wanderers, and it was also a golden age for the bandits, and the bandits who had been hiding in the mountains before went down the mountain to earn extra money, and Liu Xin's father was of course no exception, and he took hundreds of his subordinates to 'swing' in the vast area between Qizhou and Weihe.

Because at this time, most of the Northern Wei army east of Qizhou was mobilized to the north of the Yellow River to suppress the rebel army led by Ge Rong, and there was no time to take care of these small bandits who took advantage of the fire to rob, so the harvest of Liu Xin's father during this period of time was called a rich one.

On the way back to the mountain after a plunder, Liu Xin's father's unusually kind heart rescued a middle-aged scribe named Zhang Lin, who was not an ordinary person, he was previously a staff division under Du Luo Zhou, the leader of the rebel army in You, Ji, and Yingzhou annexed by Ge Rong.

Because Ge Rong killed Du Luo Zhou and annexed the rebel army under his command, Zhang Lin, as one of the military advisors trusted by Du Luo Zhou, was of course not tolerated by Ge Rong, and the Northern Wei court was eager to make these rebel leaders into 'meat' and eat them, so Zhang Lin had to flee.

But at that time, because of the great 'chaos' bandits in the world, Zhang Lin finally escaped to Qizhou to Qingzhou on the way to be attacked by a group of bandits, fortunately, these bandits were only for wealth and did not want Zhang Lin's life, leaving him on the side of the road with blood, and was finally saved by Liu Xin's father.

Liu Xin's father was also overjoyed when he later learned Zhang Lin's origin, and he couldn't imagine that picking up a scholar on the side of the road was so powerful, and Zhang Lin saw that he had nowhere to go, and he inherited Liu Xin's father's life-saving grace, so after recovering from his injury, he became a dog-headed military advisor in Liu Xin's father's cottage, when Liu Xin was just one year old.

When Liu Xin grew up, Liu Xin's father pondered how to let his son gain a little knowledge, and he couldn't be blind like himself, so Zhang Lin, a military advisor who had seen the world in his eyes, became Liu Xin's ready-made teacher.

Liu Xin's father's cottage turned out to be a broken cottage of more than 1,000 people, only a few hundred young and strong, since Zhang Lin came to help 'operate' every day, and it has slowly prospered, but how many things can a broken cottage have, so these days Zhang Lin has also been idle.

As soon as he heard that Liu Xin was going to study under his own 'door', Zhang Lin was immediately overjoyed, and what was even happier was that Liu Xin was different from his father and ancestors, and he was also very interested in reading, and the daily learning progress made Zhang Lin a little surprised.

So as soon as his heart moved, Zhang Lin taught Liu Xin what he had seen and learned in dealing with political affairs and military affairs under Du Luo's weekly account without reservation, hoping that this disciple would be able to fulfill his unfulfilled wish to open peace for the world in the future.

Liu Xin also lived up to the teacher's expectations, while learning with Zhang Lin, he followed his father to slowly take over the affairs of the cottage, and when he was twelve years old, he took over all the housekeeping of the cottage, and there was no unconvincing in the whole cottage.

By the time Liu Xin was weak, his knowledge far surpassed that of his teacher Zhang Lin, not only in the handling of government affairs but also in other aspects.

But in this period when the nobles and nobles were in power, even ordinary heroes could not squeeze into this circle, so as a bandit, even if he was highly educated, he was still a bandit, where did he find a place to show? At this moment, Liu Xin really realized the dilemma of learning a dragon slaying technique, but there is no dragon to slaughter in the world.

Liu Xin had no choice but to help his father take care of the cottage more and more prosperous, and when Liu Xin's father died five years ago, Liu Xin, who was only thirty years old, took over the cottage when he was already a big force with a population of tens of thousands and thousands of young people.

Because Liu Xin has always been strict and honest, he never bullies the weak, and the cottage is united and united, and even when there is a conflict between the bandit forces within a hundred miles nearby, they like to come to Liu Xin to mediate.

Since Wang Yong, Wang Ze and his son made a big fuss in Qizhou, stirred up the 'chaos' and finally occupied these places, although Liu Xin has been defending himself, he has also been paying attention to his father and son, and the behavior of these two people is also quite in line with Liu Xin's taste, and his heart is also full of appreciation.

When Wang Yong, Wang Ze and his son came to the cottage in the deep mountains in person and sincerely invited themselves to go out of the mountain to help, Liu Xin received a letter from his old friend Kong Yi before, and after thinking about it for a day, Liu Xin finally agreed, because he felt that this was a rare opportunity for him to show what he had learned, and it was also the wish of the deceased teacher.

I have to say that this Liu Xin is a great talent, although he is a reckless scribe, but he is very familiar with military affairs, and on the first day he came to Wang Yong's command, he handled many political affairs that had plagued Wang Yong and others for many days in an orderly manner, and instantly convinced Pu Yangxun, Lu Wen and others.

In Pu Yangxun's words: "Zhuo Ran and Fan Wenzhong can be county guards at most, and at most they can be state assassins or court auxiliaries, and Yang Ruogao (sheep withered) 'sex' is bold and capable and can be a scholar, but only this Liu Xinfang is a person who seeks the country, and at least he can be the prime minister!" ”

Lu Wen also agreed with Pu Yangxun's words, to say that Lu Wen is basically at the level between Zhuo Ran and Pu Yangxun, at most he can 'operate' the government affairs of a state, and he has long been busy with the political affairs of the states and counties under Wang Yong's rule, and now someone is just right to come to the top of the tank.

In the two-month gap when the Northern Qi Dynasty had no time to take care of Wang Yong's side, under the auspices of Liu Xin, Wang Yong and Wang Ze carried out a major military and political change with the support and cooperation of a series of generals such as Cheng Chong, Hu Bingchang, Ge Wei, Xun Yun, Sun Xing, etc.

The first is to carry out a reform of the army, after summoning Lu Wen, Pu Yangxun, Hu Bingchang, Ge Wei, Xun Yun, Qin Lang, Yuan Jia and other leading generals to discuss, and even Cheng Chong and Zhu Rui and Sun Xing, who was stationed in Jishui, Qizhou, came to Qingzhou City.

Of course, a simple-minded and well-developed fierce general like Zhou Tong is okay, and it is better to let him have this kind of meeting than to let him fight a good fight.

From this day on, the army under the command of Wang Yong and Wang Ze began to implement the military rank system, and the current supreme military leader is the general, and Wang Yong personally takes the post of general.

The general has the post of Zhonglang general, who is responsible for being in charge of the whole side and has the power to open the government and hold the festival, where the distance from the general is thousands of miles away, Zhonglang will be able to independently mobilize the army below 1,000 people at a critical moment, and the army led by Zhonglang will range from 50,000 to 100,000.

Under General Zhonglang, he also has the post of General Wei, which is also directly under the command of the general, and leads 20,000 to 30,000 people under his command, and the level is called the army (from here you can see the influence of Wang Ze), which is a military unit under the general.

Zhong Lang will be a partial general, commanding 10,000 people, called divisions, these are the high-level generals on Wang Yong's side, and below is the captain, commanding a brigade of 3,000 to 5,000 people divided into two to three battalions.

The lieutenant led a battalion of 1,500 people, and the battalion was divided into five and was commanded by Guo Wei, who was currently the lowest-level official officer, and his team leaders, sergeants, and captains mainly existed as non-commissioned officers.

However, whether it is a non-commissioned officer or a lieutenant to a lieutenant, they are all divided into upper, middle and lower grades, so Wang Yong finally straightened out the ranks of all the generals under his command.

Wang Ze also breathed a sigh of relief, there are two levels of generals and marshals above the generals, so that each level is divided into upper, middle and lower grades, and there are enough twenty or thirty grades for everyone to slowly promote. If you start with the soldiers, you need to add twelve grades.

After some reorganization, the army gained a total of 50,000 cavalry (most of them were rookies), 180,000 infantry troops (most of them were rookies), and the rest were included in the ranks of county soldiers (basically rookies) in various states and counties, responsible for garrisoning all states and counties under Wang Yong's current rule.

In addition, the most important point is that from the beginning of this reform, the military and political powers of all the states and counties under the influence of Wang Yong and Wang Ze were all separated, and the separation of military and political affairs in Chinese history was only carried out in the Song Dynasty after the "chaos" of the warriors of the five dynasties and ten states.

In order to avoid the interference of the military in the local government, Wang Yong, at Wang Ze's suggestion, attached great importance to the separation of military and political affairs, even if some generals opposed it.

After dealing with the military, the civil affairs side also ended its military management for nearly a year and began to formally appoint officials in various prefectures and counties.

Wang Yong's third brother Zhu Rui led the history of the Guangzhou Thorn, Pu Yangxun officially became the history of the Qizhou Thorn, and Liu Xin became the most important Qingzhou Thorn History, because the general was set up here.

Xiao Jing, who had followed Wang Yong and Wang Ze for many years, was appointed as the assassin of Jiaozhou, and although Nanqingzhou, which was further south, was still a border, considering the friendly relationship with Nan Chen, Lu Wen became the assassin of Nanqingzhou.

In addition, because of the special 'nature' of Jeju Island, a separate county was established for the occupied territory located in the East China Sea, and Fan Wenzhong was appointed as the county guard.

Although the area of Qinjin Island is relatively large, because it has only been occupied for more than a year, the number of Han people on the island is only less than 200,000 immigrants, so a county was also established to appoint Zhuoran as the county guard, including Tsushima, Jumu Island, Tanegashima Island, and the five islands were all assigned to Qinjin County.

Of course, Jeju and Jinjin, as well as the Ryukyus and Yiju regions to the south, were to obey the orders of the East China Sea to stay behind and defend Yangku.

The Ryukyu Islands, south of Qinjin, now have only five or six strongholds, adding up to less than 10,000 people, so a unified Ryukyu Prefecture was established.

However, during this period of time, there were many poor people from Nanchen in Yizhou, plus the Han immigrants who had lived in Yizhou for a long time during this time, adding up to more than 30,000 people.

Considering the importance of Yizhou's 'sex' Wang Ze decided to set up Yizhou County in Yizhou, and the county guard was a middle-aged man who pleaded with Wang Ze in Jian'an County, named Lin Jin, who was also a down-and-out scholar in exile in Jiangnan in the north.

In this way, all the territories under the rule of Wang Yong and Wang Ze were set up, but they faced a big problem, that is, there was a serious shortage of manpower in the state and county governments at all levels, and most of the previous officials were from the powerful backgrounds of various states and counties, and they had already fled under Wang Yong's cleanup.

In the end, Xiao Jing came up with an idea, first selected some of the talents cultivated by Wang Yong's cottage before, and then promoted a group of capable officials in the former official offices of various states and counties, but could not be promoted because of their poor backgrounds, and finally put the prefectures and counties in various places into operation.

Because of the desire for talents, Wang Yong ordered the establishment of a recruitment hall outside the west city wall of Qingzhou City, where there are talented people can take the newly established post carriage to Qingzhou, as long as the assessment is passed, it is appointed as an official, and the meals along the way are arranged by the General's Mansion, so it is also called the Qing'men' post house by the people, that is, as long as you sit in this carriage, you can step into the clouds.

After the reorganization of all the army and civil affairs, the topic of Wang Yong's respect was raised, but he still gave up under the opposition of Wang Ze and Liu Xin, Wang Yong was still called Xia Gong and General, and Wang Ze was called Xiahou as the eldest son.

On the day when Wang Yong officially established power, Nanchen and Baekje both sent envoys, all of whom were familiar with Wang Ze.

In addition, after Wang Yong and Wang Ze's frequent trade in the Khitan Li tribe got the news from the merchant fleet, they also sent envoys to arrive, it is said that the nephew of the old Khitan Li tribe is called Mu Huali, Wang Zexin said that fortunately it is not called Temujin or anything.

After the reorganization of the army, Wang Yong probably also wanted to show his strong muscles and 'flesh' in front of other countries, and also had the meaning of encouraging the confidence of the people under his rule, so a grand military parade was launched in Qingzhou City.

Seeing Wang Yong and Wang Ze's increasingly powerful troops, especially the soldiers holding sharp weapons in their hands, Wu Qiong, Fuyu Wang, and Mu Huali simply drooled one by one.

Because the Khitan is still a poor 'leg', of course he can't afford to buy the weapons sold by Wang Ze, a black-hearted guy, so he can only watch dryly, and finally only bought a part of the wrought iron and went home to make it himself, and the price of these wrought iron made Mu Huali tremble in distress.

However, the two rich landowners, Baekje and Namchen, are willing to 'spend' a lot of money, and the demand for 'fine' weapons in their country is also very large.

After Wu Qiong and Fuyu Wang went to the iron fields of Yidu and Changbai Mountain, their eyes almost flew out of their sockets, and of course, the money in that pocket also flowed into Wang Ze's pocket.

Here Wu Qiong was urging to move the weapons he had already bought, and over there he was discussing with Wang Ze the purchase of other weapons.

"What! You also need to buy 10,000 horse-slashing greatswords?! Wang Ze only felt that his eyes were almost popping out, and he quickly 'rubbed' his eyes and asked Wu Qiong, who was a little flattering in front of him.

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