Zhu Long didn't know that he had become the focus of attention of the major forces in the world, and if he knew, he might not be happy.

He is familiar with history books and knows that since ancient times, in the vigorous wave of peasant uprisings, those who jumped up and down more happily, made more trouble, and mixed more beautifully, and finally died more miserably.

The ones who have the last laugh are always those who are obscure and hide in the corners and develop obscenely.

Zhu Long just wants to secretly accumulate strength, and when the world is in turmoil, all forces are swept in it, and when the fight is exhausted, he will kill it in one fell swoop and calm the world.

Defeating Gao Yu this time, Zhu Long won a complete victory, almost ate a big fat man of two hundred catties in one bite, if he didn't digest the results well, I was afraid that he would choke himself.

For this reason, he recalled Wu Yong, who was secretly plotting against Lu Junyi in the Daimyo's Mansion, and together with Zhu Biao and Xu Guanzhong, the four of them planned the expansion of the army and the adjustment of personnel all day long.

In a sense, the four of them are the core of power in Zhujiazhuang.

Zhu Hu also has the power and qualifications to participate, but he is impatient and not interested in these.

What is interesting is that when they make personnel adjustments, they first start with their own internal adjustments.

Although due to Zhu Long's restrictions, Wu Yong has not yet pulled Lu Junyi into the gang, but he has also made great contributions by mistake.

If he hadn't discovered the 40,000 officers and soldiers of the Daimyo's Mansion, this war would have been more than auspicious.

It was also Zhu Long who defeated these 40,000 strange soldiers in advance, and suddenly broke Gao Yu's heart, abandoned the army and fled, and was defeated and died.

Wu Yong also set up an intelligence network in the four Hebei prefectures (Damingfu, Dongchangfu, Gaotang Prefecture, and Lingzhou) to the west of Zhujiazhuang to closely monitor the four unfriendly neighbors behind him.

After returning to Zhujiazhuang, Wu Yong and Xu Guanzhong were talking and laughing, talking about the past and the present, very harmonious, as if they had been friends for many years, but Zhu Long felt the subtlety and embarrassment in the air.

Zhu Long also understood what was going on, in order to stabilize and unite, after Zhu Long and Wu Yong had an in-depth conversation, Wu Yong was relieved, at least on the surface.

In the end, Zhu Long decided: Wu Yong was the left army division, in charge of the secret guard battalion, responsible for spying on news, bribing spies, dividing and disintegrating the enemy, and even assassination business.

Xu Guanzhong is the right army division, in charge of the post of marching staff officer, marching and fighting, collecting intelligence, making suggestions, coordinating various armies, carrying out the orders of the commander-in-chief, and being responsible for specific implementation, which is equivalent to the deputy of the commander-in-chief. In peacetime, he presides over the daily work of the army. It's a very important position, and it's quite tiring.

After straightening out the relationship between the two, everyone put themselves in the right position, and getting along with each other is much more natural.

That night, Zhu Long, Zhu Biao, Wu Yong, and Xu Guanzhong discussed until late at night, and they all dragged their tired bodies back to rest.

Two guards carried lanterns in front, and Lu Fang followed behind with ten guards.

After Ren Yuan's assassination, even in Zhujiazhuang now, at every moment, Lu Fang, Jiao Ting, and Hu Gang take turns to lead twelve guards with knives with extremely high martial arts skills to protect Zhulong.

Although Zhu Long is very confident in his skills, he can't resist the insistence of others, even if he is the boss.

When he came to the gate of the courtyard where he lived, he saw a man lingering at the door.

When I got closer, it was the old man.

"Lord!" He bowed and saluted.

"There is Lao Zeng, the old general, who has been waiting for a long time, and has just discussed some things with the military advisors and staff officers, you have come to visit at night, is there anything wrong?"

Zeng Lang said solemnly: "Exactly! ”

"Okay, come in and talk!" Outside is not the place to speak, Zhu Long invited him to enter the office next to him, and retreated left and right, while Lu Fang was guarding at the door.

"If General Zeng has something, it's okay to talk about it!" Zhu Long still has a lot of respect for Zeng Lang, five sons, all of whom are promising, and the 1,000 elite cavalry of the Qianji Battalion is equivalent to his private soldiers.

In this battle, a lot of credit was also made.

"Lord, the old man is old and frail, and he is not suitable to be the commander of the Qianji Battalion!"

Zeng Lang spoke, which surprised Zhu Long, and said politely: "General Zeng's body is tough, and his sword is not old, how can he retire." ”

"Huh!" Zeng laughed and said: "People don't use their muscles and bones as their ability!" ”

Zhu Long carefully looked at Zeng Rong's face and found that he was telling the truth, otherwise he would not have waited at the door in the middle of the night.

"Then Zeng Tu will succeed him as captain!" Zhu Long Dao.

Zeng Lang shook his head and said, "The old man wants to ask the lord to remove the Qianji camp!" ”

"Why is that?" Zhu Long was stunned, the Qianji Battalion was actually equivalent to the Zeng family's private soldiers, although there were not many of them, but they were all good at riding and shooting, brave and good at fighting.

Immediately, Zhu Long figured it out, the so-called this time and that time! In the past, he wanted to firmly grasp his old capital in his own hands, but now that the Zhujia army is developing rapidly, the status of the Qianji Battalion is becoming less and less important, and every time in the war, he can only serve as a watchman and other miscellaneous things.

He was worried that his sons were nested in the small Qianji camp, which would delay their development.

When there is a war, others eat meat, they can only drink soup, and the sons have long been dissatisfied!

Abolishing the Qianji Battalion, Zhu Long was happy to see it, and said: "What do the old generals Zeng and Ling Lang think, just say it." ”

"It's all up to the lord!" Zeng Rong's statement was very good, and Zhu Long was very happy.

Early the next morning, when the foursome had a meeting, Zhu Long said the news.

"That's great!" Xu Guanzhong said with a smile: "The Qianji Camp is just used as a scout, it's too wasteful!" The four brothers of the Zeng family, as well as Su Ding, are all fierce generals. ”

Wu Yong thought for a moment and said: "Zeng Lang is indeed old, but he is good at management, let him manage the money and grain accounts, but he does his best!" ”

Zhu Long's eyes lit up, and he smiled with a smile: "This proposal is good, although Brother Jiang Jing can settle accounts, it is limited to this." If you want to revitalize the money and food of Zhujiazhuang, you also need people who are good at taking care of money. ”

"I thought that the eldest brother would let Chai Daguan take care of the money and food!" Zhu Biao was a little surprised.

"Third brother, why do you think so? Chai Daguan is a person born with a golden key, he has never spent money without calculation, he is generous, and he has never cared about money. ”

In the original book, Song Jiang asked Chai Jin and Li Ying to manage the finances together, but Zhu Long never had such a plan.

What are you kidding, let the firewood into the tube, and it will be spent in a few days.

For Chai Jin, he also has arrangements in mind, that is, to engage in reception and diplomatic work. He is extravagant, talkative, and noble, and he is quite suitable for this job.

Speaking of Chai Jin, I can't help but think of Chao Gai.

Chao Gai's identity is special, and how to arrange him is also a test of Zhu Long's political wisdom.

"Let him sit in Liangshan!" Zhu Biao proposed.

Zhu Long looked at him and smiled angrily.

Obviously, Zhu Biao wanted to pull the top cylinder of Chao Gai and take his place, so that he could get out of Liangshan by himself.

But how could Zhu Long let Chao Gai return to Liangshan!

In case Chao Gai saw the scenery and remembered the majesty and leisure of the past, so he ignited his ambition, broke off with Zhujiazhuang, re-erected the banner in Liangshan, and became the owner of Liangshan Cottage, then the consequences would be serious.

Although Chao Gai's character has nothing to say, Zhu Long will never test the loyalty of others, doing so is harming others and himself, and being irresponsible to his subordinates.

As a mature leader, you can't give your subordinates a chance to betray you.

For Chao Gai, Zhu Long has already thought about it in his heart, Zhujiazhuang still lacks a master book to supervise military discipline and record military exploits, so Chao Gai will serve as it, and let the iron-faced Pei Xuan serve as his deputy, and Pei Xuan will be responsible for specific affairs.

After more than a month of research, conversation, and repeated discussions, we finally decided on a plan for the expansion of the army and the adjustment of personnel!

The expansion of the armed forces is not a simple matter of increasing the number of people. It's a very complicated thing.

In light of the actual needs of the war, the number of combat units at each level must be repeatedly studied, so that they can be easily dispersed for small-scale operations, and they must also be able to be condensed into a single fist as if they were commanding by an arm.

In addition to the 9,000 elite soldiers who surrendered with Qiu Yue, Chen Shou screened out 20,000 of the remaining 70,000 captives.

In addition, there are many bankrupt homeless, peasants and small traders who can't survive, hot-blooded rangers, and robbers from all over the country...... They came to vote one after another, and there were more than 6,000 of these people.

For a time, the strength of the army expanded by 35,000 people, almost twice the current army of the Zhu family army, which had expanded to 55,000 people.

However, Zhu Long regretted a little that there were not many war horses captured, only more than 3,000, which was much less than expected.

As the number of troops expands, the size of the armed forces will naturally change.

The four main armies of Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird and Xuanwu were expanded to 8,000 people, with four divisions.

Each division had 2,000 men and five battalions.

The main generals of the four main forces were promoted to "generals", and there were two deputy generals, the left general and the right general.

The "division" will be the "captain" and the deputy lieutenant.

The Guards were expanded to 10,000 men, with a camp of guards and 8,000 troops, although the number was far more than 500, and they were all called "battalions".

There were 2,000 people in the camp of the guard, and the commander was the general of the guard.

In addition, there are left wing generals and right feather generals who are in charge of the guards respectively.

The dragoons broke away from the Guards and formed a separate army, expanding to a thousand men.

Both the garrison battalion and the naval division were expanded to 6,000 men.

Revoke the number of "Qianji Battalion".

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After the plan for the expansion of the armed forces is agreed, what is more important is the personnel arrangements for generals at all levels.

To this end, the group of four organized a conversation with all the generals above the capital battalion, and of course, each of them talked individually.

Some people ask for progress, and some people don't.

The two people who don't want to be motivated are Lu Zhishen and Qin Ming.

Lu Zhishen made it clear that he didn't want to be a Xuanwu general anymore, and he admitted that he was incapable and could not lead a team of 8,000 people, unless he asked Wu Song to come back to help him.

Qin Ming was depressed that in the last battle of White Horse Plain, he sat on the cold bench and had no chance to play. After all, there are not many opportunities in the dragoon field.

In the end, the list came out, and not much changed.

The governor of the Guards was Zhu Hu, the titular supreme commander of the Guards.

Qin Ming, the general of the left wing, and Hu Yanzhuo, the general of the right flank, each commanded 4,000 guards.

Xu Ning, the general of Yamen, was in charge of 2,000 people in the camp of the guards.

Below Xu Ning, there are three captains Bian Xiang, Jiao Ting, and Hu Gang, who are responsible for protecting Zhu Long's safety in shifts.

Originally, this Yamen general was supposed to be Wu Song's, but he was asked to go back by Lu Zhishen, and Zhu Long had no choice but to replace him with Xu Ning.

The reason why Xu Ning was selected was mainly because he was originally a teacher of the Golden Gun class, and his duty was to protect the safety of the emperor, and he was very professional as a bodyguard;

Moreover, he joined Zhujiazhuang earlier, and has made many achievements, plus he has a calm personality, meticulous work, and is trustworthy.

Ahem, and his wife and children are all in Zhujiazhuang, and he is a man who cares about his family very much......

Zhu Hu became the governor of the Guards, and Zhu Biao became the governor of the navy, with a total of 6,000 people. The left and right generals are still Hua Rong and Li Jun respectively, and Zhang Shun, Er Ruan, Zou Yuan, Shan Tinggui, and Han Bolong are all naval captains.

The chief general of the dragoons, "General Feilong", is Shi Wengong, and there are three fierce generals under him: Suo Chao, Lu Fang, and Zeng Kui.

Lu Fang was Shi Wengong's apprentice, and he asked him to go over, saying that he would stay by his side to improve his martial arts, and Zhu Long also hoped that Lu Fang would make faster progress, so he let him go to the dragoon.

The main generals of the four armies of Qinglong, Baihu, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu remain unchanged, and they are still Guan Sheng, Lin Chong, Luan Tingyu, and Lu Zhishen.