The naval army, field brigades, and other soldiers and civilians in the Battle of Jiangyuan have all performed outstandingly, and they will be rewarded for meritorious deeds in accordance with the system of the Perak Army. The biggest hero was Xia Dagen, it was the warships he led that sank a large number of Mongolian river-crossing boats, and its cannon sound also gave timely warning to the Jiangyuan army and civilians, and bought time for the arrival of reinforcements. It's just that how to reward this young hero made it difficult for the top brass of the Thunderbolt Army. Reward the property, Xia Dagen is not interested. He and his younger brother Xia Xiaogen are orphans, and their guardian Liao Loach also has no family, and they all eat and live in the barracks. The dozens of acres previously allocated were also managed by the township neighbors. Let's get promoted, he just turned sixteen and became a company commander, although this is a promotion based on military merits, and everyone has no opinion. But if you are promoted again, it will not be good for your personal growth, or even more harm than good, after all, "the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it". Ouyang Xuan thought about it and decided to transfer him to his side and serve as a company-level staff officer of the General Staff.

Ouyang Xuan's doing this was based on many considerations, and the most important thing was that Xia Dagen was already a leader of the younger generation of the Perak Army, and it was worth cultivating carefully. Although Xia Dagen is a young talent, he is still immature both physically and mentally, and he still needs long-term experience. There are many famous generals who died young in history, and the most famous is Huo Qu's disease. Xia Dagen was wounded again in this battle, and if he led his troops into a high-intensity battle, he was likely to become ill from overwork, and the Thunderbolt army could not take this risk. At present, Xia Dagen has shown excellent military talent, but due to the limitations of the times, his thinking, vision and pattern still have their limitations. Ouyang Xuan transferred him to his side, hoping to make up for his shortcomings in this area through daily listening.

Liao Loach also shouted that he wanted to be transferred to the General Staff, but was vetoed by Ouyang Xuan. After Liao Loach was punished, he corrected his mistakes as soon as he knew them, and his performance was also very outstanding. After the study of the military-political joint conference, he was asked to replace the battalion commander position vacated after Le Quanan was promoted to brigade commander.

In fact, for a soldier like him, who drinks in a big bowl and eats a large piece of meat, it is the happiest thing to rush to the front line. The reason why he made this request was that, on the one hand, he and Xia Dagen were like father and son, and they were really reluctant to separate, and on the other hand, Huang Dagen was also transferred to the General Staff Department as Chief of Staff. After the two were suspended from their duties last time, Liao Loach had no opinion on his punishment, he just felt that he had affected Huang Dagen, and always wanted to express his guilt in various ways. After Huang Dagen annihilated the Mongols in Weimao Prefecture with almost zero casualties, Ouyang Xuan proposed that he be appointed chief of staff, which was unanimously approved by the joint military-government conference.

There are rewards and punishments, and the first person to be punished is Chang Yuan's boss - the commander of Jiang Yuan's basic company. Although this person did not know what Chang Yuan and his gang were doing, he turned a blind eye to Chang Yuan's formation of factions everywhere, and obviously committed dereliction of duty and negligence, so he was sentenced to one year's hard labor after trial, and his position as company commander was naturally dismissed. According to the judicial principle of the Perak Army, although the relatives of Chang Yuan and his henchmen have not been punished, their immediate family members within three generations will be deprived of citizenship, which means that they cannot study, be an official or managerial position, and cannot enjoy the right to be exempt from food tax. This latter article was put forward by Yang Xiucai after he took charge of the judiciary, and was discussed and adopted by the joint meeting, and won the strong support of the Senate. "Not paying food is sympathetic to the people, but there are bad people among the people, and of course they must not be allowed to suck the blood of the Thunderbolt army." Tang Shun, president of the Senate and a famous doctor, said that he represented the voice of the people.

When the military-government joint conference was discussing rewards and punishments for the cadres of the Jiangyuan Incident, Dong Hu, who had been silent, suddenly offered to take the blame and resign, which made everyone stunned. During this period of time, there have been successive incidents such as the defection of caravan personnel and Chang Yuan's collusion with the Mongolian army, which made Dong Hu, who was in charge of counter-espionage, feel deeply remorseful, and there were also people in the Thunderbolt Army who had a lot of discussions. Ouyang Xuan knew that Dong Hu had actually gone all out. Since its establishment, the Perak Army has been in a period of rapid growth, and the area and population under its rule have increased tenfold, and it is inevitable that there will be a mixture of fish and dragons. Especially after the battle of Yokohara Fort, there were tens of thousands of refugees who fled in, and it was impossible to screen out all the aliens among them. Looking at the world, the Mongols were also masters of spies and infiltration, and their intrigues were so intriguing that they were difficult to guard against. Dong Hu's internal security brigade has complicated affairs and limited energy, so it can only prevent changes in key areas and key groups. In Ouyang Xuan's view, it is not easy for the Thunderbolt Army's counter-espionage to have today's situation.

Although it is not easy to counter-espionage and eliminate traitors, the Jiangyuan incident has exposed problems after all, and they must be improved. Therefore, Ouyang Xuan put forward a plan that he had been thinking about for a long time at the meeting: reorganizing the counterintelligence and intelligence agencies. His idea was to have the General Staff in charge of intelligence and to reorganize the Internal Guard Brigade. This idea was applauded loudly by Dong Hu, and the rest of the people had no opinions, so it was successfully approved. According to Ouyang Xuan's plan, the internal guard brigade was reorganized into a special brigade, which was in charge of military intelligence reconnaissance and special operations, and it consisted of one reconnaissance battalion and two special battalions, both of which were three-company systems, and another brigade headquarters company, with a total number of 1,000 people, and the brigade commander was still Dong Hu.

The other units of the Internal Guard Brigade were placed directly under the General Staff to strengthen the role of the General Staff. The original staff department did not have subordinate troops, and only more than a dozen middle and low-level officers assisted in handling the military situation, and Ouyang Xuan was the de facto chief of staff. After the transfer of units of the Internal Guard Brigade, the General Staff will have five companies, namely the Guard Company, the Anti-espionage Company, the Communications Company, the Investigation Company, and the Intelligence Analysis Company. The main duty of the investigation company is to conduct covert investigations into the background and activities of internal military and political personnel, and to cooperate with and complement each other with the overtly counter-espionage company. The Intelligence Analysis Company conducts comprehensive analysis and judgment of intelligence from different system sources such as the Perak Army's government affairs, caravans, and military.

As soon as the military-political joint meeting ended, a letter came from Jiading. Since the Perak army occupied the Changqiu Mountains, although the two sides are still blocked by the Mongolian army's occupied areas, the difficulty of communication is much less than before. The messenger not only brought Yu Xing's handwritten letter and Lin'an's letter of appointment, but also a letter from Li Kaipeng. The envoy first hinted that there should be happy money here, and after smiling at a piece of gold, and then congratulating Ouyang Xuan, he read out the appointment of the imperial court: Ouyang Xuan is the commander of the Yongkang Army. The military is the imperial court governance body at the same level as the state and government, and is mainly located in important military places. The armies that were once set up in western Sichuan included the Huai'an Army in Genting City and the Yongkang Army in Guankou Village, but they were later abolished. Ouyang Xuan didn't know why he was appointed as the governor of Yongkang at first, not the governor of Qiongzhou or Chongqing, and only vaguely guessed the reason after reading Li Kaipeng's letter.

Li Kaipeng's letter was written in the code language of the Thunderbolt Army, and in the eyes of outsiders, it was not at all incomprehensible, and it was mixed with some characters as strange as earthworms, which outsiders could not understand at all. Ouyang Xuan sent it to be translated and read it several times. In his letter, Li Kaipeng said that they had established a firm foothold in Lin'an, and that under the cover of doing business, they had initially established an intelligence-gathering network. At present, in addition to getting in touch with Lu Wende and Jia Yidao, he has also established relations with many high-ranking officials in the DPRK and China through the simple and crude method of sending money and bribes. At present, half of the goods they brought with them have been spent, and in order to avoid sitting on the mountain, they have now begun to do business in Lin'an and its nearby cities, and are establishing trade routes with Zhoushan, Quanzhou and other places.