Chapter 144: Brush off your clothes
These appointed officials, regardless of the size of the place they govern or the size of the population, are all appointed as county commanders, county officials, and county lieutenants.
At the same time, the first literary examination in the Baiman Mountain Realm also began, and Yan Xu asked Yao Ang to take the exam to take a lift, and then through the operation of the Yan family, he got a position as the county commander of Tianxiangcheng.
Although this move is suspected of taking off his pants and farting, and the county order is also the product of secret operation, but these are all in accordance with the rules, and no one can find any thorns, after all, everyone has done this, and if they find out, they will become everyone's public enemy, so they can only pinch their noses and admit it.
With Jingguo's recognition and the relationship of the Yan family, Tianxiangcheng reluctantly joined Jingguo's forces, unlike other places in the Baiman Mountain Realm that were treated differently, and they were regarded as their own people.
Now that Tianxiang City has a civil official, and the military attache is not bad, the Yan family controls the military department, and there is no problem in giving Bei Yidao the title of a miscellaneous general.
As for Qin Ming, he doesn't look down on Jingguo's official position, not to mention that although this official position is beneficial, it is also a constraint.
In this way, although Tianxiang City is nominally owned by Jingguo, it is actually no different from before, although some people can't see it, but the strength of Tianxiang City is there, not to mention that there are so many families to support it, even if there is any dissatisfaction, there is no way.
There is also this treatment and Crouching Tiger City, the two have become the two nails that Jingguo has broken into the Baiman Mountain Realm, and it will only take twenty or thirty years to develop to the outside world, and the entire Baiman Mountain Boundary will be completely recovered by Jingguo.
In this critical period, Yan Xu has been sitting in Tianxiang City, after all, although Tianxiang City is not a small number of talents now, he is still the indispensable backbone and the link between everyone, not to mention that the important allies Tianluo City and Liwang City also need him to contact.
Fortunately, Jingguo doesn't want to do much, in the case of not being able to win it in one fell swoop, if you don't want to fight a tragic war, you must learn to compromise, and this is the best political means for the Jingguo court, not to mention that the Baiman Mountain Boundary does not belong to the enemy country, and it is still a part of Jingguo in name, so they are not afraid to spend time, they just need to wait slowly, and everything will naturally get on the right track.
Crouching Tiger City is still the center of the Baiman Mountain Realm, and the position of the Blood Knife Ancestor and the Zhushan Old Man's Dharma Protector remains unchanged, after all, the Jindan Ancestor is a very important combat force for Jingguo, and it is naturally good to be able to obtain two more Jindan Ancestors, not to mention that the Baiman Mountain Realm also needs a strong person to sit down.
In addition, Liwang City and Baiyun City are still in the same state, Crouching Tiger City will regularly transport grain, grass and armor over according to the past practice, after all, one goes deep into the Hundred Barbarian Mountain, is the eyes and ears of Crouching Tiger City, and the other is nailed to the front line, it is the most powerful fist of Crouching Tiger City in the face of barbarian invasion, even if the two city lords are thousand-year-old demons, and at the same time do not obey Jing Guo's orders, Jing Guo still can't do anything with them.
Not to mention how many soldiers need to be consumed to destroy these two cities, just to replace the vacancies in these two cities, it will require at least tens of thousands of standing troops and three or four Jindan ancestors to sit in town, as long as there is nothing wrong with the brain, Jing Guo will know what choice to make, not to mention that the various elixirs produced in Baiyun City are sought-after goods, and the brute beast yuan flesh and bone claws in Liwang City are also good things, Jing Guo is not a loss, and he can make a lot of money.
Of course, not everyone profited, the worst thing is that there are only 80,000 White Tiger Army left, and the military department was divided into two under a paper order, of which 30,000 people were stationed at the foot of Baiman Mountain, replacing the role of the original Tiger Ben Army to deal with the brute beasts who occasionally ran down the mountain, which was also self-inflicted.
As for the important cities such as Crouching Tiger City, where the White Tiger Army was originally stationed, they were guarded by a large army transferred from Jingguo, and they were not allowed to return without an order, which was considered to be a miserable pitfall.
In addition to these 30,000 people, the remaining 50,000 White Tiger Army were directly transferred to the border pass, after all, the deterrent power of 80,000 elite soldiers is too great, and it is estimated that many bigwigs in the court will not be able to sleep if they are not separated.
Flying Tiger General Luo Da in the name of the army needs the general to guard the town, was also assigned to the border pass, left the Baiman Mountain boundary, it is estimated that there is no hope of coming back in this life, after all, although the 50,000 White Tiger Army is strong, but leaving Crouching Tiger City They are rootless trees, without Jingguo's logistical support, they don't even have the strength to fight a big battle, but let Luo Da stay in Crouching Tiger City, with his local prestige, it is only a matter of time before he retrains a White Tiger Army, which is by no means what the gang of people in Crouching Tiger City and the bigwigs of the court want to see, so he must go, unless he wants to die。
Yan Xu understood that the next thing could not be solved by a simple war, so he decisively weakened the troops, Tianluo City and Tianxiang City each retained 5,000 soldiers and horses, and the rest except for the retired part, they were all classified as half-soldiers and half-civilian city defense army, so that although the strength was still a little exceeded, at least it didn't look so conspicuous.
Yan Xu's move was exchanged for a large number of appointment and dismissal letters, these were all sand that Jingguo originally planned to mix, and now Yan Xu took the initiative to weaken his troops in exchange for the initiative, so that the imperial court had to give certain benefits.
After all, although Jingguo has begun to take over the Baiman Mountain Realm, all kinds of pressures still exist, and the biggest pressure is probably the large number of soldiers brought by the previous war, as long as these soldiers still exist, the war may still break out at any time, so Yan Xu took Tianxiang City as an example and took the initiative to weaken the troops, so the imperial court must give rewards to encourage other forces to do the same.
This is also what the court wants to see, in fact, the court is not afraid of them forming gangs, because these are all political means, not to mention that the emperor has a veto, so as long as you don't get rid of it, you can rest assured.
After getting the letter of appointment and dismissal, Yan Xu selected a group from the Yan family, Yao Ang's classmates, and the talents who recruited talents, and filled them into the second city, so although the number of troops was greatly reduced, the control of the second city was stronger, not to mention that as long as Yan Xu and the other Jindan-level powerhouses were still there, the number of troops was not the key to victory or defeat.
At this time, Yan Xu was able to get out of a series of troubles in the Baiman Mountain Realm, and he was immediately relieved, impatiently dressed up, and ran away again overnight, but this time he didn't even bring Yu Niang, he was afraid, this master is not good, just a registered disciple dragged him into one trouble after another, if he hadn't been hanging all the way, he would have put himself in, and now he was finally freed, then he would stay longer.
Because Yan Xu had a history of stealing away, several apprentices who had expected this planned to take turns to come over to guard, but they didn't expect the master to be more decisive than they imagined, and they had already run away, and they suddenly jumped to their feet angrily, and they were really tired of having such a master.