Although things have become weird and the style of painting has begun to be bizarre, there are still things to face.

The next day, Miao Yin, who was in a slightly calmed mood, began to pack her luggage, especially the gifts she was going to bring back to Guanzhong to visit relatives and friends, and she needed to carefully consider and prepare.

This lady was a little regretful because she couldn't return to Guanzhong to visit relatives and friends a few years ago, but she didn't want to have another chance in the next year, but she was in a bad mood and couldn't be happy at all.

It's just that her father's letter also vaguely pointed out that this matter is not just a simple recognition of a relative, but also has a lot to do with her husband's situation in the country, so she can only hold back the displeasure in her heart and seriously prepare for the gift of returning to visit relatives.

As for Li Tai's busy business, there are even more, and early the next morning, he convened the officials in the palace to officially introduce Changsun Jian to everyone, and announced the news that Changsun Jian replaced Cui Qian as Changshi.

Before Li Tai, the eldest grandson Jian had served as the assassin of Jingzhou for many years, so there was no shortage of acquaintances in the governor's mansion.

It's just that when everyone heard the news, they were still a little surprised, including those who already knew Changsun Jian, and they all looked at Li Tai with straight eyes at this time, wanting to find out whether this was a normal personnel appointment, or if there was something else hidden in it, which would determine what kind of attitude they should take towards Changsun Jian in the future.

"The eldest grandson, Changshi, is a prominent scholar in the country, and he has presided over the military and political affairs of Jingzhou for many years in the old years, so I don't think I need to introduce it more. Now that I'm back in my hometown, I don't think I'm too unfamiliar with people."

Li Tai glanced at the eldest grandson Jian, who was slightly bowed and standing on his side, and then said to everyone: "It's just that the situation and government affairs in Jingzhen are more complicated than in previous years, and you and the others should also try their best to help the eldest grandson Changshi get familiar with affairs and be able to fulfill his responsibilities."

Although it is said that Changsun Jian has always maintained a relatively humble posture after his arrival, it cannot change the fact that his person was sent by the Chinese and foreign governments without authorization, and Li Tai naturally will not directly put his heart into it, so he is signaling Zhu Cao to join the army to seize their respective powers and give full play to their own subjective initiative, and some decision-making affairs are temporarily not allowed to be contacted by Changsun Jian.

Before the arrival of the eldest grandson Jian, Li Tai faintly felt a little bad because Cui Qian had not returned for a long time, and determined and divided the affairs of the governor's mansion and handed them over to the departments, and now he is about to lead the army back to the court, and this arrangement also comes in handy.

After everyone heard this, they all nodded hurriedly. And the eldest grandson Jian also said with a sincere face: "Compared with the prosperity of the current governor's office, the old facts of lowly duties are ashamed to mention. The general is full of intrigue and good at making things, and all the places where he sits are are called the rule. It may be early to enter the service, but compared with the people who have been under the command of the general for a long time and have been diligent in enlightenment, they are only the last to learn, I hope you will not alienate me because of my life, so that I can see the wise and think together, and share the worries and work hard for the general!"

The eldest grandson's attitude was still modest and polite, and he did not stand out to the crowd in the hall because of his seniority, and everyone responded politely.

Due to the convergence of the military and government of the Jingzhou Governor's Office, it can also be called a small hegemon in terms of personnel structure, but unlike the Chinese and foreign governments, everything revolves around military arrangements, and the development is more balanced.

When Cui Qian was the chief historian before, in addition to being responsible for specific government operations, he would also be responsible for some government decree decisions. In particular, many things are Li Tai first invested some personnel resources to start a start, and then there is not enough time to manage, often Cui Qian needs to take over the past to continue to promote the development of affairs, and after reaching a certain scale and progress, he will draft a set of administrative management regulations.

However, at the moment, Li Tai and Changsun Jian naturally can't reach such a tacit understanding, so he just sorts out the government affairs that will be run by the governor's office in the next order of priority, and then hands over these matters to Changsun Jian and asks him to coordinate and implement them.

Changsun Jian was also a feudal official before, and then entered the Bafu as a long history, naturally no stranger to these administrative work, after Li Tai handed over the matter to him a little understanding, he began to skillfully dispatch, occasionally some negligence and omission is only a lack of comprehensive understanding of specific affairs, in the side of the officials are reminded to be timely supplemented, there is no mistake in the process.

Li Tai stayed in the hall all morning, and saw that the eldest grandson Jian was becoming more and more proficient in handling affairs

Put your mind at ease.

Because he himself has an overall plan for the development of the Governor's Mansion, Changshi is just a big steward of government affairs for him, and he doesn't need Changshi to provide him with too many groundbreaking suggestions and decisions, so the role of the Governor's Mansion has always been only reflected in the implementation of his decisions, so he is not worried about what will happen to him once he leaves.

In the years he has been in Guanzhong, the promotion of his position is only the most superficial manifestation, and the personnel network and resources connected under this are more abundant, and with the support of these personnel resources, he can be comfortable in everything in this position.

If you really want to be replaced casually, then this so-called Jingzhou chief does not seem to be much different from some grassroots positions. Sweeping the street has to recognize the pit and recognize the road, if he can really do it casually, then he is really damned.

Other people are not easy to compare, at least the performance of Changsun Jian, who has been in Jingzhou for many years and is still staying in Jingzhou during the same period of history, is fully crushed by Li Tai today.

Compared with the step-by-step approach in government affairs, the military needs to be more cautious. Although Yuwentai has shown enough kindness, and he has also given Yuwenhu this guy as a hostage, Li Tai must not be completely defenseless.

The Later Three Kingdoms is an era of demonic things, and the frequent occurrence of various small probability events makes the cost of trust between people extremely high.

And even if you don't consider whether Yuwentai will attack him, the brothers of the Yu Chi family have to guard against it, this is really a grudge.

The two brothers have served as leading generals to take charge of the forbidden army, Wei Chigang is still in this position now, and the abolition of the emperor will be held in Chang'an City, Li Tai belongs to going to the home field of others, of course, you have to be vigilant and careful, not to mention whether you will be stabbed head-on, even if they bring someone to block and humiliate it, it is very uncomfortable.

Therefore, from his personal security work to the military layout of the governor's mansion after he left, Li Tai also weighed it for a long time, even if it was not foolproof, he had to strive to have a backup plan in the face of various accidents and emergencies.

As for not going to go for fear of accidents, this is not in his consideration. In this way, it is undoubtedly written on the face, and there were a lot of things to talk about blind beep and Shu before, but I didn't even dare to go back to Guanzhong, how the background color was revealed, then it will only usher in more persecution that crosses the bottom line.

Putting aside these small calculations, with the arrival of the new year, the situation around the jurisdiction of the Jingzhou Governor's Government has also undergone new changes.

Because Li Taiwan rejected Wang Sengbi's request for cooperation last year, Wang Sengbi did not wait for the Northern Qi army to come south to join the division, but first launched an attack on Guo Yuanjian's headquarters in Hefei and broke his army.

With Guo Yuanjian retreating, several strongholds occupied by the Northern Qi in Jiangbei and Huainan became isolated, and the defense of the city was acceptable, but there was not enough strength to echo each other's support. This also alleviated the situation of Jiangfang, which had been relatively severe after the recovery of Jiankang in Southern Liang, and Chen Baxian's activities in Jiangbei became more bold and active.

The improvement of the situation in the downstream will undoubtedly increase more confidence in Jiangling, and according to Xiao Laoqi's consistent urine nature, it is very likely to restart the border provocation. In particular, he had sent envoys to Jingzhou to ask for Xiakou and other ports in the Southern Liang Dynasty, and it is estimated that there will be further moves.

As for the Northern Qi side, if they want to save the current unfavorable situation in Huainan, then they will naturally have to send more people from their countries to the south.

However, since Yiyang in the upper reaches of Huaishui was occupied by the Western Wei Dynasty, it was difficult for the Northern Qi military operations in Huainan to be fully launched, and it was necessary to guard against this variable. In order to avoid this constraint, it is also possible to attack Yiyang first and capture Yiyang.

Although Huainan and Jiangbei have not yet figured it out, and then rashly start the war with the Western Wei Dynasty, is Gao Yang a reasonable person?

Therefore, the current border situation in Jingzhou is still relatively grim, before the arrival of Yuwenhu and others, Li Tai arranged for people to gather in Xinye to prepare to patrol the border, on the one hand, to look at the variables on the outside, and on the other hand, to strengthen the border defense arrangement.

Now we know what the variables are

, but the pressure on the border has not changed. It happened that Li Tai was about to lead the army back to the court, so he took this opportunity to transfer the main force out of the north and distribute it around.

Now in the military layout around the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, the farthest away from the base camp of the north of the province is naturally the department of He Ruodun and Li Qianzhe of Bashu, plus the rear division led by Yu Wenshan, more than 10,000 men and horses have been dispatched before and after.

Although these horses are far away from the north of the city, they can form a constraint or response to both the gorge and Hanzhong, and they are also a very important part of Li Tai's layout.

In Hanzhong, there were more than 3,000 people under Guo Yan's subordinate who assisted Cui You to sit in Nanzheng, and 3,000 boat divisions led by Yu Wenqiu and Li Xian from Shannan, as well as Xi Gu and Li Qujisuo from Xingzhou, who supervised the construction of boats and trained troops. Of course, the tens of thousands of prisoners of war who had exchanged food from the Gangneung armies also had a certain combat effectiveness, but Li Tai needed their shipbuilding skills more comparatively.

In Wuning, south of Xiangyang, when Li Tai threatened Jiangling, he had sent Liang Shiyan to garrison 3,000 elite cavalry, but he had not yet recovered it. On the east bank of the Han River is the stone city of Yingzhou, where Li Yunxin was stationed, which was also the center of trade between Chubei and Jiangling.

Continue down along the Han River, and arrive at a series of Jiangbei ferries such as Xiashou and Xiakou, where Zhu Meng, Linghu Yanbao and Xu Wensheng and other armies sit in Zhudu. There are quite a few soldiers at Zhudukou, but there is a serious shortage of boats and boats used for patrolling the river and water battles, so they basically only operate along the river and cannot go deep into the river.

Originally, Anzhou Anlu to the north of Xiakou and the nearby Yiyang Sanguan were the southeastern border of the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, but before that, the Jin Xilu Siddha brothers and some other Jiangbei heroes came to ask for attachment, so Li Tai sent Li Tun to lead his troops to Qichang County to station, and the actual control area of the Governor's Mansion continued to advance eastward.

However, the garrison of Anzhou was not removed, and Wang Jie served as the governor of Anlu City Defense, and united with the local tyrant Ma and his son and other subordinates to garrison Suilu. As for the three passes of Yiyang, Quan Jingxuan is still in charge as Yiyang's backup.

The defenders of Yiyang were Zhao Gang and Dou Yi, and Liu Fanggui led a boat division to be stationed in the upper reaches of Huaishui to strengthen the influence and deterrence of Shouyang and other places in the east.

Fangcheng, which borders the north and south of the Northern Qi River, is still led by Shi Jing. The Sanya Road in the north and Xiangcheng in the east are guarded by Guo Yan.

In today's Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, there are more than 60,000 troops directly under the control and jurisdiction of the Governor's Office, and this number also includes the generals' respective troops.

In fact, this number could have been even greater, not to mention the number of men and horses in Jingzhou, the number of prisoners obtained through various channels in a few battles between the north and the south alone was tens of thousands, and the number of Ding Zhuang obtained after a few wars was also very considerable.

But quantity never equals quality, and the cost pressure of raising an army is too huge, so Li Tai has also been optimizing and selecting. Those who were laid off were either turned into household editors or craftsmen.

Including the generals, they also let them streamline their troops while maintaining their combat effectiveness, no longer three or five thousand at every turn, but at a thousand or even less, although the number has been reduced, but the combat effectiveness is still very considerable.

Of the more than 60,000 troops, excluding the generals and the soldiers of the prefectures, counties, and townships, only 15,000 people really belonged to the category of government soldiers, and only 12,000 people were in the towns. Because the government soldiers need to obey the dispatch of the Chinese and foreign governments, Jingzhou has to send 3,000 to 5,000 government soldiers every quarter to participate in the defense of the river.

In addition to these registered soldiers, there were also many powerful troops and barbarian armies, which added up to forty or fifty thousand. On weekdays, they have their own side, and once the Governor's Office issues an order, they will also fight with them.

These dependent peripheral forces are also an important force in Jingzhou's border defense, otherwise the more than 60,000 troops registered in the Governor's Mansion alone would really not be enough to be distributed in so many surrounding places.

For example, in a few directions with a lot of troops, there are 10,000 horses in Shuzhong, and there are more than 10,000 people in Xiakou, plus Yiyang is also resident in several thousand people, which deducts nearly half. Only by absorbing those dependent forces and allowing them to participate in the periphery can the Governor's Office maintain sufficient mobile forces and carry out rotational rotations.

Now there are more than 15,000 people in the governor's palace during the rest period, and they are all soldiers who have been replaced from various sides only a few years ago, and they need to rest until early summer

Again called.

There were 20,000 horses gathered in Xinye, and Li Tai planned to send 5,000 elites to follow him back to the court, and the rest would be mainly used to strengthen the defense along the river. Including the boats that have been built by the shipbuilding base last year, they have also been allocated to Xiakou for use to strictly prevent Nanliang from doing things.

This time back to the dynasty, Li Tai recalled Zhang Shinu, who had been released to lead the troops, to serve as the captain of his own soldiers, Zhang Shinu was extremely strong and loyal, and with his entourage to escort him, Li Tai could also be more down-to-earth. Liang Rui, several Feng and Li Ya will also follow him back to the court this time. The second-generation of these town soldiers have their own connections, and they can also inquire about some news that cannot be obtained through other channels.

Gao Le and Mo Chenqiong, the governor of Fangcheng City, followed Li Tai this time, Zhu Meng returned to Fangcheng to take over as the governor of Fangcheng, Liang Shiyan withdrew to Shicheng to garrison, and Li Yunxin went with the team to guard Wuguan.

The reason why he wanted to disperse his troops in all directions instead of concentrating on the city was that in addition to strengthening the border defense, Li Tai was also making plans to be prepared.

If there is really something evil happening to the dynasty this time, then no one can grasp the situation, and the generals under his command may not be able to bear the people sent by the overlord, but they can go directly to foreign countries.

It's like the one that Nanliang Wang Lin just fought, let's all gather together as a fire, scatter the sky full of stars, except for General Li, no one can control this situation!

After these military and political arrangements were completed, Xinye's troops had also been selected and arrived in Yucheng, so the group left Jingzhou and headed towards Wuguan.

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