Luochuan is located in the territory of Fucheng County in North Huazhou, which is nearly 200 miles away from the withered yin where Li Tai originally planned to set up the defense city, and it is also where the title of the prince of Luochuan County of Li Tai is located today.

However, Li Taigai set up the defense city here, which has little to do with the feudal city, and is mainly related to the local conditions.

The personnel foundation of Dongxia Prefecture is too weak, and even Li Mu, the assassin of Dangzhou, who entered the state earlier than Li Tai, basically has nothing to do except knock on the disrespectful forces in the territory on weekdays, otherwise he will not have time to travel and hunt with Li Tai.

It is already good that the other realm can build and maintain the development of a Blackwater Defense City. If you add another withered defense, it will only drag each other down. Moreover, the part of the money and food allocated by the overlord is not enough to maintain the two places going hand in hand.

When Hui was in the town of North Huazhou, he benefited from the printing of official documents, which increased the number of households in this territory. Now in the town, the thorn Shi Cui is also a cousin of the porcelain, and the fortification here is a good shade with his back against the big tree.

Li Tai's current official position is still that of Daxingtai, who is engaged in Zhonglang, the envoy of the capital, and the governor of the capital, supervising the three defense cities, but he does not have the addition of state and county officials, and he has no power to meddle in local administration.

On the contrary, the local assassins and county guards are often crowned with the titles of metropolitan governors and marshal governors, and they are under the control of the military and government. This resulted in an overlap of powers, which can be regarded as a chaotic distribution of local power caused by the Western Wei regime under the rule of the hegemon.

This kind of chaos can also be regarded as the intention of the overlord, Li Tai is a subordinate official of the hegemon, in charge of the army in the locality, and has the responsibility of monitoring and checking and balancing the assassins of Beihua Prefecture and Dongxia Prefecture, so as to avoid these Fang Bo being alone in one place.

In theory, the distribution of power is like this, but in practice, there is much room for accommodating human feelings.

At least Li Tai cooperated tacitly with the assassins of the two places and did not lag behind each other, such as Li Mu in Dongxia Prefecture, who was enthusiastic about helping Li Tai Tuntian Kulichuan, not out of sycophancy, but to enhance the hematopoietic ability in the state, so that his subordinates could eat this side as soon as possible.

Not to mention Cui Ji, after entering the country, he gave the green light to Li Tai's various measures, and even supported them at the expense of state affairs. The history of the assassin is prominent, and all the measures have attracted much attention.

But Li Tai, the head of the overlord's mansion, has a large area of model lake, and the one that is fished in his own hands is called a dish.

On the premise of not violating the principle of the big one, if Li Tai can be helped to become the new head of the hegemon's army, or even the representative of one party's forces, and even directly affect the power structure of the hegemon, the benefit is far greater than being in the position of assassin in history for many years.

There are now more than 2,000 troops stationed in Luochuan Fang, and a considerable part of them are township soldiers who were cut off by Cui Ji after entering the country and streamlining and reducing the armed scale of the local township regiments, and then recruited by Li Tai, including a part of the garrison of Heishui Fangcheng, which was also recruited and dispatched. Then Mao Shijian's Beidi villagers moved to this realm, and Ding Yong enlisted in the army and merged.

Now in the area under Li Taifan's control, there are about 1,500 soldiers in Heishui Defense City, Xiazhou borrowed 2,000 men and horses to supervise the construction of canals, Luochuan Defense garrison is more than 2,000 people, and the Shibao Defense Garrison downstream is more than 1,300 people, plus more than 2,000 elite cavalry directly led by Li Tai, it is already nearly 10,000 people.

Of course, these horses can't be simply and rudely classified as Li Tai's personal troops, not to mention the 2,000 people and horses in Xiazhou who are borrowed, and the garrisons of Zhufang City also have their own hometowns. If Li Tai no longer supervises these three fortified cities, these horses will no longer be under his command.

If Li Tai wants to continue to expand his personal power, he can only declare his favor during his tenure, and gradually absorb outstanding military talents from these defense men and horses to join his own troops.

If he can be virtuous and respectful, and establish a deep relationship with his subordinates that transcends official subordination, then it will not make much difference whether he is the chief officer of these people or not.

After all, Yuwentai is also the leader elected by the Wuchuan heroes, and the righteousness is the trend and the people's hearts are attached, and the imperial court can only be recognized by the name.

Aside from some feudal officials and prominent Beizhen generals, Li Tai's current command of the people in his post can be regarded as among the best in the entire military power system of the hegemon. After all, he controls the entire Luoshui Basin, and even through the construction of canals, he is about to reach into the Yellow River.

Others who can control so many people by one person must at least be at the level of Kaifu and the level of not pulling the two Wei Dynasty battles, even if it is the Yuwen Hu Dragon Slaying Squad.

Li Tai Datong entered Guanzhong in nine years, entered the government in ten years, and now in the eleventh year of Datong, he has been able to hold such considerable power, and he is not affected by the restrictions of Beizhen's seniority, and the biggest reason is naturally the effective interaction with the boss Yuwentai.

But there is another important reason that his progress does not follow the progress line of the traditional tyrant generals at all, but opens up a new increment of Luoshui, which does not constitute a conflict of power and interests with those tyrant old men, and naturally avoids being suppressed by these people.

When the team entered the city, the tiger head and tiger skin that Li Tai hunted with his own hands were covered on the car, and the accompanying troops also shook the drums, and they were happy to preach the heroic deeds of the lord over and over again.

The people of Kansai were even more so, and Li Tai was also happy to get the masses to spread the power of his personal force, and even planned to make up a tiger hunting show to tour the defense cities, which was even more exaggerated. When he tries to enter the battle with people in the future, the enemy will be frightened and flee when he hears his prestige.

After returning to Fangcheng, Li Tai took a short rest, and then came to report to Liu Chang'an, who had come here, to see him, and he was not alone, his father and brother had also come to Luochuan Fangcheng to wait for a summons.

After hearing this, Li Tai was immediately happy, he had a lot of intentions to win over this withered Yin Liu clan, and he had agreed with Liu Changan to visit his tribe before, and his father and brother took the initiative to come to see him if he didn't want to turn around.

It should be that Liu Chang'an went on a journey, seeing that his power is not bad, and he still has a long-term business situation based in this township, so he quickly sent a message to his father and brother, so that they lowered their posture.

Li Tai sneered in his heart as he invited people in. According to his earlier virtues, he must have dried the other party first, vented the sullenness that had not been summoned for a long time, and overwhelmed the other party in terms of momentum.

However, he also feels that he is already a character now, how can he always be a villain, but he still has to show magnanimity and courtesy. If you talk about it properly, it's naturally good, if you don't talk about it properly, you can do it directly, anyway, he doesn't expect to be able to use Liu Renyuan in his life.

It didn't take long for several people to be introduced into the straight hall, walking in the front was an old man with a hooked nose and sharp eyes, who looked nearly sixty years old, and one of the two behind was Liu Changan, and the other was a little older. The three of them stood together, their eyebrows, eyes and appearances were quite similar, and they could be seen at a glance that they were father and son.

After entering the hall, Liu Changan took two steps to salute Li Tai first, and then stood beside the old man and introduced: "Before the humble post, the governor of the capital urgently told the elders about the intention to visit the township. This is the father and the brother......"

After Liu Chang'an's introduction was completed, the two of them hugged their fists and saluted, and Li Tai also stood up from the banquet, nodded and smiled at the old man Liu Kang: "I have been famous for a long time. I regretted not being able to see it before, and I learned from Liu Shuzhu that the old villagers were sick and deeply worried, and now I see that the disease is getting stronger, which is gratifying. ”

"The old man in the countryside is not worthy of praise, and most of the governors are concerned about it, and they are really ashamed."

That Liu Kang first bowed his head and responded modestly, then took a small step back, and his eldest son Liu Ping presented a wooden box, and then said: "I heard that the thief leader Hao Renwang who made a rebellion last year was actually hiding in the countryside, and a certain clan was also deeply shocked and did not dare to slack off, and urged the children to search the township, and finally captured and killed this bandit to avoid his disaster in my township. ”

Li Tai opened the wooden box, and there was the head of King Hao Ren in it, although his face was already bloodless, but his cheeks were actually a little plump compared to what he saw last year, which showed that in the past few months, the Liu family had also been entertained with delicious food and drink.

Naturally, he would not take the initiative to expose this lie, and after a little verification, he said with a smile: "The current theory is that Beizhou has been desolate for a long time, and the royal road is difficult to do, but I don't think so. Such as the patriarch Liu is jealous and hateful, which shows that he is pure, understands righteousness and admires the king. I have eaten the kingdom and enjoyed a great deal of grace, even if I have received this thief, I have added very little. However, the righteous deeds of the villagers should not be hidden, and it is also within the scope of the office to play the book and praise the hometown and the righteous deeds. ”

When the father and son heard Li Tai say this, their expressions were relaxed.

That Liu Kang was even more touched and clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "It is human nature to seek good and avoid evil." Although our people are not praised for their meritorious deeds, they often think of loyalty. It's just that the local voice is vulgar and can't be listened to, so that people can't know it. Fortunately, the governor of the capital is looking down on it, and if you can follow this expression, you will definitely thank you for it! ”

Their clan has also entered the imperial court's fetters system and been awarded the left official, almost to complete the transformation from Hu chieftain Haoqiang to the feudal official, but in a series of Jihu rebellions around the fourth year of the Great Unification, because their clan saw evil to the then commander and general Hou Mo Chen Chong, so that the official was taken away, and even almost became the target of the Western Wei army's purge.

The withered Yin Hus are not as aggressive as the Heishui Hu and the Beishan Hu, and there is also the reason behind these two Hu people that the Eastern Dynasty is supporting and clamoring, and their clan lives in the inland of northern Shaanxi, if possible, they still prefer to accept the restraint of the imperial court and coexist peacefully with each other.

Li Tai's appearance, they didn't care at first, but it was an official who was temporarily sent by the overlord to appease the detainees, but gradually found that it didn't seem to be the case.

Its power has grown rapidly, and it has the potential to take root in this place for a long time and operate deeply.

After some weighing and discussion, the father and son decided that they could not give up this opportunity and hoped to move closer to the Western Dynasty again. However, they didn't know that Li Tai was a more insatiable and more powerful object than Hou Mo Chen Chong.