Gao Cheng's views on subdividing states and counties are inconsistent.

Subdividing states and counties will certainly increase the financial burden, but for the Gao family back then, for the sake of provincial officials, it caused local instability, and the gains outweighed the losses.

Through Gao Huan, especially Gao Cheng, weakened the strength of the scholars, promulgated various measures conducive to the centralization of power, and devoted himself to the governance of the local government, although the Gao clan had only been in power for eight years, his rule could be called stable.

Now looking at the breakdown of states and counties, it seems that it will do more harm than good.

Not only for financial reasons, the states and counties are subdivided, and the armies that can be mobilized by the assassins of each state will be relatively reduced, and the invasion of foreign enemies must be rescued by the surrounding states and counties.

Everyone is also a history of assassination, who is the master and who is the second will not be convinced, and the lack of unified scheduling will inevitably lead to their own battles.

As a result, confidants are bound to serve in the military of several states to deal with military threats on the border.

Zhang Liang, the assassin of Southern Jingzhou, was entrusted by Gao Cheng with the history of Yuzhou Assassin, and the military power of eight states such as Eryu, Yang, and Ying.

And the Liang general Xiahou Kui also sat on the military of seven states in Huainan for the same reason.

The merger of states and counties is simple, a paper edict is sufficient, but the biggest problem is how to settle the officials who have been dismissed.

Emperor Wen of Sui and Emperor Yang of Sui took 20 years to adjust the administrative divisions, and only then did they successfully reduce the number of counties from 698 to 190 counties, and the number of officials was abolished by more than 100,000.

But coincidentally, the biggest problem of personnel placement does not exist for Gao Cheng.

Because four of the five subjects of the imperial examination created by Gao Cheng belonged to practice, Gao Cheng allowed officials to abandon their posts and retake the examination in order to seek talents.

After the feast, Gao Cheng returned to his residence, not in a hurry to rest, he spread the Kanyu map on the long case, looked at the land of Kanto and pondered.

After thinking about it for a long time, Gao Cheng decided to make adjustments from Henan first.

He has been in Luoyang for eight years, and it can be said that he is deeply rooted in Henan, and Hebei and Hedong can be re-planned after the north is settled, but Henan can be the first to pilot.

This is also related to the history of assassins in Henan states, almost all of which are related to his cronies.

Gao Cheng merged Eastern Jingzhou and Southern Jingzhou into Eastern Jingzhou, and the state was governed by Anchang City (Zaoyang, Hubei).

Northern Yuzhou and Liangzhou were merged into Liangzhou, and the state was governed by Daliang (Kaifeng, Henan).

Yuzhou and Southern Yanzhou were merged into Yuzhou, and the city of Hanging Gucheng (Runan, Henan) was still the state rule.

And Xuzhou, East Xuzhou, and North Xuzhou were merged into Xuzhou, and the governance office was set as Pengcheng (Xuzhou, Jiangsu), and Gao Cheng did not hesitate to write Gao Yue's name in the blank.

Jiaozhou and Gwangju were merged into Jiaozhou, and the state was still governed in Dongyang City (Qingzhou, Shandong).

Qizhou and Jeju are Qizhou, and the administrative office is located in Licheng (Jinan, Shandong).

Qingzhou and South Qingzhou are merged into Qingzhou, and the state is governed in Dongyang City (Qingzhou, Shandong).

and so on, or merging or dividing the food, the south of the Yellow River is divided into Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Jingzhou, East Jingzhou, Qizhou, Liangzhou, Guangzhou, Jiaozhou, Shaanzhou and Sizhou, where Luoyang is located, a total of 12 states.

Liu Honghui, the sister-in-law of Yanzhou Thorn History, Zhao Yanshen, a confidant of Qingzhou Thorn History, Yao Xiong, a confidant of Yuzhou Thorn History, Gao Yue, uncle of Xuzhou Thorn Shitang, Hou Jing of Jingzhou Thorn History, Zhang Liang, a confidant of Dongjing Thorn History, Wen Zisheng, a confidant of Qizhou Thorn History, Li Huibo, a cousin of Liangzhou Thorn Shi, Duan Shao, Gao Shen of Guangzhou Thorn Shi succeeded Gao Aocao, and Gao Jishi of Shaanzhou Thorn Shi led Tongguan, and Sizhou Mu was still served by Ke Zhu Hunyuan.

In the 12 states of Henan, non-confidants and relatives, only Hou Jing, the assassin of Jingzhou, and even Gao Shen, who took over the history of the assassin of Guangzhou, are a little close.

The five generals who left office, such as Hu Luguang, Gao Aocao, Gao Aocao, Murong Shaozong, Liu Feng, and Hou Yuan, each led their troops to Luoyang to reorganize the Gyeonggi Army, and changed from the foreign assassin to the general stationed in Beijing.

The rest also went to Luoyang and Jinyang to serve in the central government.

Gao Cheng plans to expand Henan's 34,000-strong number of soldiers to 55,000.

Among them, 5,000 people guarded Xuzhou with Gaoyue, with 15,000 state and county soldiers, a total of 20,000 people guarded the southeast, and then Qingzhou, Jiaozhou and other reinforcements.

A total of 10,000 Gyeonggi soldiers under the command of Liangzhou Assassin Shi Duan Shao and Yuzhou Assassin Shi Yaoxiong were transferred out of the Gyeonggi Army, but they were still guarded as middle soldiers.

Another 5,000 people will be led by Gao Jishi to guard Shaanzhou and Tongguan, and Tongguan Town will still be served by Dugu Yongye.

The remaining 35,000 Chinese soldiers were all under the Gyeonggi Army, divided into six divisions, namely 5,000 Han troops under Gao Aocao, 5,000 under Hou Yuan, 5,000 under Liu Feng, 5,000 under Hu Luguang, 5,000 under Murong Shaozong, and 10,000 under Gao Cheng, including 4,000 Wuchuan Xianbei.

The reason why Gao Cheng wanted to make such an adjustment was also because he felt the disadvantages of the generals separating the places when he captured Tongguan before, and he needed to mobilize troops from all over the country.

At that time, they had just been in power and needed their help to sit in the place, but now it is clear that there is no need for such trouble.

Whether it is the merger of states and counties, or the expansion of the army, it is necessary to communicate with Gao Huan in advance, Gao Cheng has learned that Gao Huan is going to Luoyang for funeral, so he wrote all his plans and reasons in the letter, and sent them to Luoyang.

In this series of state and county mergers, it is not difficult to see Gao Cheng's selfishness, the most important thing is that Hou Jing's Jingzhou territory has not changed.

According to Gao Cheng's plan, in fact, the southern border can be divided into three defense zones: eastern, central, and western.

In the east, Xuzhou, which was merged with the three states, and in the middle, Yuzhou, which was merged with the southern Yanzhou, and in the west, it was supposed to be Jingzhou, which was merged with the three states.

But Gao Cheng couldn't trust Hou Jing, and it was impossible to really entrust all the three Jings to him, so he only merged Eastern Jingzhou and Southern Jingzhou into Eastern Jingzhou.

Of course, Gao Cheng also has a reason that not all prefectures and counties have been merged, such as Gao Ji's Shaanzhou and Gao Shen's Guangzhou, which have largely maintained the status quo, but there is only one more Tongguan.

This can't be said to be King Xiao Gao's targeting of you Hou Jing.

The 12 prefectures of Henan may continue to be merged and streamlined after the war is quelled in the future, but for the time being, it is the most appropriate, so as not to let the localities sit big and threaten the central government.

Gao Cheng stayed in Southern Qingzhou for a few days, and then set off to the north to Qingzhou, and Jizhou Assassin Shi Lou Zhao also got an order early, 20,000 salt soldiers have gone south to Qingzhou, temporarily under the deployment of Qingzhou Assassin Zhao Yanshen, waiting for Gao Cheng to review in Dongyang City.

Lou Zhao was ordered to train 20,000 salt soldiers for more than half a year, and it was time to take a look at the results of their training, if they were used, Gao Cheng planned to send them to Liaodong to have physical exchanges with Wei and Khitan.

Lost Wei is Mur Wei, but the name Mur Wei was translated in the Sui period.

Lost Wei originated from Dongyi Mengguo Fengwei, after moving north to translate as Donghu Xianbei room pseudo, Lost Wei and Khitan come from the same source, with Xing'an Mountains as the boundary, the south is Khitan, and the north is Lost Wei.

Nowadays, it is generally active in the west of the Nenjiang River, and there is friction with Liaodong from time to time.

And the Khitan don't need to be introduced, but now Goguryeo is not dead, and they are still just small characters on the grassland.

Something to go, more than an hour late, and there are still at night, at least two chapters

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