The territory of the Iron Blood Army has three independent and connected power institutions, the first is the Deputy Governor's Mansion, which is also Chu Yun's most powerful official position, after all, he can wage war on behalf of the imperial court on behalf of the state, and appoint some county-level officials and some low-level military attachés, which is also the foundation of his imperial command. Liu Kun is the governor of the prefecture and can appoint the county guard, for example, Chu Yun was personally appointed by Liu Kun.

This deputy governor's office is above the Shangdang County Governor's Mansion and the Xihe County Governor's Mansion, and the highest positions in the Deputy Governor's Mansion except for Chu Yun are the four official positions of left and right Changshi and left and right Sima. Wang Lian was appointed by Chu Yun as the left long history and was the first person under Chu Yun, but Wang Lian relied on his qualifications to ascend to the position, because in fact, Mo Han, who was the right long history, was the first person under Chu Yun. For example, when Chu Yun came to Xihe County, Mo Han was the actual controller of Shangdang County. As for Sima on the left and right, Chu Yun appointed Fang Qing and Fan Gao to serve as them. The four people, Wang Lian and Fang Qing, are the highest veterans who follow Chu Yun, Mo Han is self-contained, and Fan Gao is the representative of the local forces in Shangdang County.

Of course, Zhang Tong is also subordinate to the Deputy Governor's Office, and he holds the position of joining the army, and his status is not inferior to the above four people, but he is specifically to help Chu Yun manage the military, and Zhang Tong also showed his strength in leading troops this time.

In addition to the Deputy Governor's Office, the Shangdang County Shoufu and the Xihe County Shoufu are also two independent official offices, both of which have their own powers and responsibilities, and nominally they do not belong to the Deputy Governor's Office, but are relatively independent. But the same thing is that the supreme commander is the same person, and they are all Chu Yun.

Chu Yun appointed Gao Liangcheng, who surrendered from Luoyang County, as the county seat of Shangdang County, appointed Lu Wang, who surrendered with Gao Liangcheng, as the lord of Shangdang County, and appointed Lin Yu, the head of the Lin family who surrendered from Xihe County, as the secretary of Shangdang County, and completely excluded the local forces of Shangdang County from the management of Shangdang County.

However, Chu Yun will not completely give up on them, Fan Gao, Chu Chenglin and Li Jin, who represent the local forces of Shangdang County, Chu Yun appointed them to Xihe County as officials, Fan Gao is the right Sima of the Deputy Governor's Mansion, and Chu Chenglin Chuyun appointed him as the lord of Xihe County, and Li Jin is the secretary of Xihe County. Chu Chenglin and Li Jin neither have the ability to serve as the prime minister of the county, they can handle specific affairs, but they can't handle the general power. Fan Gao has this ability, but he has become the commander of Xihe County, and the strength of Shangdang County completely controls Xihe County, which is not what Chu Yun wants. And the other people don't have this prestige, and the prestige Wang Lian and Fang Qing don't have this ability, so Chu Yun had to be empty first.

Chu Yun now has no shortage of civil officials, whether it is Mo Han or Fan Gao and others, they are all talents who are in charge of their own affairs, not to mention governing a county, it is more than enough to govern a state, and in recent years, they have managed Chu Yun's Shangdang County in an orderly manner. However, there are more capable civil officials, and Chu Yun will not refuse, especially Ma Liang, the county commander of Pingding County.

As soon as Ma Liang went to Pingding County, he formulated a series of plans, the most important of which was a high-profile ethnic policy carried out by Ma Liang, no matter what nationality people were, as long as they made contributions to Pingding County, Ma Liang recognized them as first-class county citizens of Pingding County in the form of documents. Ma Liang divided all the people in Pingding County into three classes, the first class is the people who contribute to Pingding County, they can farm land and raise horses for the imperial court, and they can also contribute to the imperial court, of course, the most direct way is that they can become soldiers. First-class county citizens can divide land, be officials, and children can enter the school, anyway, there are a series of incentives. As for the second-class and third-class county citizens, the rewards are much less, the second-class county citizens only ensure their safety and finances, and can be promoted to the first class of county citizens, as for the third class county citizens, they are heavily taxed, and the safety of their lives is not guaranteed, and no one wants to become a third class county citizen. And this time is not the time of the Sixteen Kingdoms in later generations, to become a Han recognized by the imperial court, but it is the wish of many Hu people. With this measure alone, the entire county of Binh Dinh has stabilized.

Everyone is fighting to become a first-class county citizen, and all the Hu and Han contradictions are put aside, and all the measures in Pingding County have developed rapidly, and even attracted a large number of people from the grassland tribes in the north, who are vying to enter Pingding County. In a short period of time, a new city wall was built in Pingding County, and all the cultivated land was cultivated, and the most important thing was that Ma Liang recruited six or seven thousand soldiers in just a few months, which was several times higher than Ma Liang's promise to Chu Yun when he took office.

Chu Yun's vision is far beyond the people of this era, this kind of hierarchy has been practiced in many history, for example, in the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols divided everyone into four classes, but they were to show the nobility of their own nation, and these ranks were basically fixed, which made the vast majority of people quit, why were you born nobles, and we were born untouchables. So the Yuan Dynasty only lasted for fifty years, and it was replaced by the Ming Dynasty.

However, the good thing about Ma Liang's method is that the various levels are not fixed, and compared with the third class of county citizens who have no security, the first and second levels are the most, which attracts the majority of people, so the system is quite stable.

However, Ma Liang's system was produced under the special circumstances of Xihe County, and Chu Yun was not prepared to promote it on a large scale, especially Shangdang County, which would never be implemented. However, like Pingding County, there is room for implementation in several counties where Hu people are the majority. If you have merit, Chu Yun directly appointed Ma Liang as the acting county governor of Xihe County, responsible for promoting his measures in the whole county, which shocked everyone at Chu Yun's exceptional promotion, Chu Yun just told everyone that Chu Yun would reuse those who have the ability. Ma Liang also became the first high-ranking official of the surrendered personnel in Yizhou, which would definitely cause the rise of new forces, which Chu Yun didn't care about.

As soon as Ma Liang took over as the county guard, he showed extraordinary talent, he adapted measures to local conditions, and did not implement the grading system in Zhongyang County, Lishi County and Lin County, but implemented it in several other counties, and the other counties had fewer Han people and more Hu people, so it did not cause a particularly big resistance, but everyone wanted to become a first-class county citizen, who was originally a county citizen, but now he has become a county citizen, which is considered an upgrade.

With the help of Ma Liang, the recruitment of the Iron Blood Army was very smooth, and the fertile land of Xihe County was cultivated in large quantities, which would undoubtedly make Xihe County the granary of the Iron Blood Army next year, which was excellent.

Chu Yun newly established the Seventh Cavalry Brigade and appointed Zuo Song, who had rushed from Shangdang County, as the brigade commander of the Seventh Cavalry Brigade, of course, his position in the Iron Cavalry was replaced by Mao Yu. Then two infantry brigades were expanded, namely the 1st Temporary Brigade and the 2nd Temporary Brigade, mainly because they had not undergone formal training and could not become a regular army like the other twelve infantry brigades.

The brigade commanders of the two brigades, respectively served by Fang Yong and Lin Heng, Fang Yong was mobilized from the brigade commander of the reserve brigade, he jumped from the city gate officer of the year, and became an important general in charge of one side, and Lin Heng is the younger brother of Lin Yu, the head of the Lin family, after Liu Bi occupied Lishi City, the Lin family followed Liu Bi back to Shangdang County, in recent years, Lin Heng has been making many military exploits from the army commander, after all, he was originally born with iron and blood, and his combat exploits are also convenient. Step by step, he became the commander of the iron-blooded cavalry, and this time he became the acting brigade commander, which was also the inevitable result of Chu Yun's wanton promotion of the forces of Xihe County and the balance between the patriarchal faction and the local faction of the Shangdang.

Chu Yun put 20,000 troops of the 4th Infantry Brigade, 8th Infantry Brigade, 12th Infantry Brigade, and 2nd Temporary Second Brigade in Zhongyang County, and also placed the 7th Cavalry Brigade in Zhongyang County.

The temporary first brigade was put by Chu Yun in Lishi City, and just when Chu Yun continued to strengthen the defense of Xihe County, the battle situation in Shangdang County took a major turn.

The cavalry of the 5th Cavalry Brigade and the 2,000 Reserve Brigade of the Commander Guo Shuzi who stayed in the Changzi City suddenly appeared in Tianjingguan, and he joined forces with the 4th Cavalry Brigade of Zhao Hu stationed in Tianjingguan, and the 8,000 army suddenly appeared behind the Hun army from a secret path, so that the fox mud directly threw down the army and fled alone, and the 20,000 Hun army was defeated in one fell swoop.

This partial division, which was ordered to contain the forces of Shangdang County, completely lost its effect, and Guo Shuzi and Zhao Hu captured nearly 10,000 people this time alone. The two of them also kept going, captured several county towns again, looted Luoyang County, which was just about to recover a trace of vitality, and then returned to Shangdang County.

Although the victory of this battle did not have much loss to the Huns, because Linghuni's army was originally a new army that the Huns did not pay attention to, most of these people were prisoners captured by the Huns who fought with the Chang'an court in recent years, and their loyalty can be imagined. But they were defeated in one fell swoop, which made it necessary for the Huns to send a new army to Tianjing Pass, because the Huns wanted to continue to use troops against Xihe County, which could not free up Shangdang County.

Moreover, Tianjing Pass is not far from Pingyang County, if Tianjing Pass counterattacks Pingyang when their army is attacking Xihe County, this is not the result they want.

The Huns are now using troops on all sides, and the Huns in Chang'an have used more than 100,000 troops, and now they are inseparable from Chang'an. And Pingjingu, the emperor's younger brother Liu Yi constantly asked for more troops, Pingjingu was garrisoned by Guo Yong, he advocated attack, several counterattacks caused a lot of losses to the Huns, although Liu Cong suppressed Liu Yi, but also knew his important role along the way, Pingjingu cut off the connection between Shangdang County and Xihe County, so he increased his troops several times. Now Liu Yi has more than 60,000 troops under his command, not counting the 20,000 dead and wounded.

And Liu Wei has begun to assemble a large army, this time he is ready to lead an army of 130,000 to completely recover Xihe County, so calculated, the Huns have more than 300,000 troops. The total strength of the Huns is indeed one million, but it does not mean that they can be mobilized if they are mobilized, and many of the Huns are now addicted to the world of the Han people, so let them go to war, it is better to kill them. In addition, the territory of the Huns was the land of four wars, and they needed to send a large army to defend it.

In the end, Liu Wei reluctantly took out more than 10,000 people from his 130,000 army, plus the local soldiers transferred from all over the country, and finally gathered the 40,000 troops to attack Pingjin Valley. Jin Zhun's two daughters are married to Liu Cong and Liu Ji's father and son respectively, so Jin Zhun is really Liu Ji's grandfather and father-in-law, and the relationship is really messy.

Jin Zhun is a standard relative, he was originally just a Lang official, because he gave birth to two beautiful daughters, so he started to make a career, he was recommended by Liu Ji, Liu Ji thought that they were a family, and his father-in-law was the commander, so he must be more at ease than others, but he never considered that Jin Zhun had never led soldiers at all.

Shi Le was very concerned about this battle, after the defeat of Zhongyang County in Huyanyan, he immediately returned to Xiangguo from Youzhou, and immediately summoned Zhang Bin after returning, and as he collected more and more information, he paid more and more attention to the Iron Blood Army.

Although the Iron Blood Army has only two counties, its strength is very strong, and its successive victories can be seen in their military strength. What's even more terrifying is that Xihe County has been an important production and horse-producing base in the north since ancient times, Shi Le doesn't know if the Iron Blood Army has all taken Xihe County, if it is really completely occupied, then once they are given time, their potential is great, which makes the ambitious Shi Le not worried.

He deliberately came back from Youzhou this time, which showed that he attached great importance to the Iron Army. Shi Le worked hard to hold Tuoba Xianbei, and it constantly provoked Tuoba Xianbei's civil strife, which made Tuoba Yilu very annoyed, and Tuoba Yilu also knew that all this was done by Shile, so he commanded the army to invade Youzhou many times, and Tuoba Xianbei's iron cavalry also gave Shile a headache.

Soon Zhang Bin came, Zhang Bin's health has become worse and worse in recent years, Shi Le attaches great importance to Zhang Bin, so he didn't take Zhang Bin to Youzhou, and when he saw Zhang Bin who was already rickety, Shi Le personally helped him up.

"Right, you have to pay attention to your body. Shi Le said with concern that Shi Le was very ambitious, so although he did not become independent of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, he began to formulate a series of plans, which were soaked in Zhang Bin's hard work.

Everyone knows that the imperial examination was formally established during the reign of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and then it has been deeply influenced by it until now, and the beginning was precisely Shi Le. With the help of Zhang Bin, he invented the examination system, and he set up school officials in each county to be responsible for local education. Local schools were set up, each county enrolling 150 people, who had to pass three examinations before they could graduate, and were trained as reserve cadres of the state. Before that, they were all officials based on their family reputation, and Shiler's move was of epoch-making significance.

In addition, Shi Le also attaches great importance to farming, and he himself has personally performed the gift of borrowing land, which is the first person in this era, even Chu Yun has never done it. He also asked for advice on reduction, rent reduction and probation, and this series of measures greatly increased Shile's background. Otherwise, after Shi Hu came to power, he would be so brutal and still be able to maintain his rule for more than 20 years, which is the foundation laid by Shi Le. Of course, these are also the efforts of Zhang Bin and others.

After Shi Le helped Zhang Bin sit down, he gave Zhang Bin the information he had gathered. After the sudden rise of the Predators, and the fact that they had suffered a major loss because they had largely not been heard, Schler quickly began to focus on intelligence work. He appointed Guo Ao, one of the original eighteen horsemen, as honor. However, compared to Chu Yun's Supervision Department, they are not going well. Shangdang County was run into an iron bucket by Chu Yun, and Guo Ao couldn't understand the situation in Shangdang County even if he tried his best. But he found a lot of useful news in Liu Kun's Jinyang.

Zhang Bin also saw the strength of the Iron Blood Army for the first time, although his face was silent, but he was very shocked in his heart, he originally thought that the days of the Han people were over, and Shi Le would become the first Hu emperor to enter the Central Plains, he was confident in his vision. But I didn't expect that the way of heaven would turn around, and such a figure would rise among the Han people.

Zhang Bin is a Han man, and he didn't meet Shi Le because of Huaicai. But he was well aware of the vitality and xenophobia of the Han people, and if the Han people came to power again, he Zhang Bin would be nailed to the pillar of shame forever, and he would become a sinner of the Han people like the Bank of China (the first traitor in Chinese history and the founder of germ warfare).

Therefore, his sorrow with the Iron Blood Army not only involves personal enmity, but also involves his own name, Zhang Bin has a lot of thoughts, he feels that he will destroy the Iron Blood Army at all costs.

"General, we can move on to the second part of our plan. After Zhang Bin finished speaking, Shi Le's eyes lit up.

"Right wait, is this really the best opportunity?" Shi Le looked at Zhang Bin, although he trusted Zhang Bin, but he was a hero, it was impossible for Xiaoxiong to have someone he absolutely trusted, he was afraid that Zhang Bin would be eager to take revenge and destroy the plan they had already discussed, he needed Zhang Bin to give him a clear explanation.

How could Zhang Bin not understand the character of his master, he said with a smile: "Of course not now, but we must be ready at any time." Isn't Liu Cong going to do it for the second time? Let's wait for them to do it. When the time comes, let's take the Shangdang County with a salary, and I want to see what the so-called Iron and Blood Army is capable of. Zhang Bin coughed violently before he finished speaking, Shi Le hurriedly walked over and patted Zhang Bin on the back, and after a long time, Zhang Bin spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm with blood, which was much better.

The subordinate hurriedly came over to clean up, looking at the pale Zhang Bin, Shi Le wanted to say something several times, but in the end he didn't say it, just let Zhang Bin rest more.

"General, it's an old problem, just rest. Hearing this sound, doctors who know a little bit of pathology will know that Zhang Bin's disease is asthma, which is a terminal disease in ancient times, and it is also a disease that is difficult to cure in modern times.

"Right, you better take a break, don't worry that I will carry out your plan, but there is one thing I want to ask you, I want you to recommend me a person to lead the troops. ”

After Shi Le asked, a person's name immediately appeared in Zhang Bin's mouth.