When Li Jing received the holy decree, the imperial official who passed the decree said with a smile: "Congratulations to Hou Ye Li for his ascension, His Majesty has another will, and Hou Ye will hand over the military talisman seal letter and let these hundreds of thousands of troops return to the court." The other generals in the army will also return to the court with the army, and His Majesty will have another reward at that time. ”

A hint of coldness flashed in Li Jing's eyes, and he still said with a smile on his face: "That's natural, there are laborious envoys who will temporarily go to the partial tent to rest, and I will sort out the roster of the soldiers of the army and the accounts of the heavy food and salary, and return it together with the soldier seal letter." ”

When the imperial official was about to say something more, he suddenly saw that all the generals under Li Jing's tent had anger on their faces, and he felt a slight chill in his heart, and the words changed to his lips again: "That's natural, although the Hou Ye is slowly tidying up, the lower officials are not in a hurry, not in a hurry." ”

Li Jing nodded, and asked the imperial official to go down to entertain him.

After the imperial official came out of the account, Xin Huan, who was the youngest and Li Jing's apprentice, was the first to jump up and shouted: "Master, that new monarch is so unfair in his handling of things! The apprentice heard that Huang Feihu, who was originally of the same grade as his master, had been crowned King Wucheng of Zhenguo. If we talk about military exploits, how can Huang Feihu compare with Master! Why is he a prince and enjoys honor in the court, but Master wants to go to that remote Chentang Pass?"

Zheng Lun on the side sneered angrily: "Why? Naturally, his sister is the new monarch's Xigong Niangniang!"

"Shut up!" Li Jing changed color and shouted angrily, "Brother Feihu and I have a young relationship, I know his personality very well, how can he be a villain who will rely on nepotism to drill camps? As for the meaning of the king, it is not something that you and I can comment on as ministers!"

The generals have always been in awe of Li Jing. Seeing that he was angry, he didn't dare to say it again, but the indignation on his face was always difficult to hide. Among them, Li Jing's four disciples Fang Bi, Fang Xiang, Wu Wenhua, and Xin Huan exchanged glances with each other. said in unison: "Since the master is leaving, it is not interesting for us officials to do it or not, we are willing to go to Chentangguan with the master!"

"Exactly, exactly!" Chen Qi and Zheng Lun both laughed and said in unison, "The two of us are also willing to follow the marshal!"

Ding Ce, Guo Chen, and Dong Zhong also bowed their hands to Li Jing, and Ding Ce said earnestly: "My three brothers were on the occasion of Marshal Jian Ba and Wei Mo. has long been determined to follow for the rest of his life to repay the kindness of his encounter, and he went to Chentangguan. Count us brothers as well!"

Yin Rui then stood up and said succinctly: "The last general swears to follow the marshal to the death!"

Gao Ming and Gao Jue then expressed their stance and clearly expressed their willingness to follow Li Jing. Now their body is still in Li Jing's pagoda, but this is not Li Jing's blackmail. It's the demands of the two themselves. Needless to say, the safety inside the Li Jing Pagoda is that the water and earth systems contained in it are of great benefit to their body. After tasting the sweetness, the two specially begged Li Jing to let the body borrow a place in the pagoda to live for a long time.

Then the other deputy generals opened their mouths one after another, expressing their willingness to continue to follow Li Jing, and the only one who did not express his position was Lei Kai.

"Lei Kai, what do you say?" asked him with Yin's broken face a little gloomy.

Lei Kai hugged his fists at Li Jing with some embarrassment and said: "Marshal, the last general also wants to follow him, but the last general lives in the court." The family is afraid that it will be difficult to leave their homeland, so they ......"

"Thunder open your ......" Xin Huan, who had the hottest temper, was about to do it on the spot.

Li Jing waved his hand to stop Xin Huan, turned to Lei Kai and smiled unconcernedly: "Everyone has their own ambitions. Don't force it. General Lei, this commander only hopes that you will not forget everyone's love for several years in the future. ”

Lei Kai's face was ashamed, and he retreated without saying a word.

After that, Li Jing began to prepare for the return of military power and the transfer to Chentangguan. After the news spread, more than 100,000 soldiers who had followed Li Jing for several years were greatly unhappy and expressed their willingness to go to Chentangguan with their marshal.

Li Jing knew that it was not a big problem for the generals in the camp to go with him, if he abducted these hundreds of thousands of troops together. I'm afraid that Ann will be charged with plotting rebellion immediately, and I think that the current King Xià will be happy to see this happen. So he comforted the people with kind words. Only the soldiers in the army who have no family and are willing to follow themselves were selected, a total of more than 30,000 people, and then they were included in the list of battlefield dead with a stroke of the pen. Since then, these more than 30,000 people have disappeared in the sequence of the Great Merchant Army and become Li Jing's private soldiers.

A few days later, Li Jing returned the sorted out military talisman seal letter and roster accounts to the imperial officer, which was regarded as officially resigning him from the post of generalissimo of sweeping the north. Then he arranged for Ding Ce to take Fang Bi and Fang Xiang brothers to return to Chaoge with the army to pick up the families of the generals, and he led the rest of the soldiers to set off to Chentangguan to take office.

After Li Jing stepped down, Chonghou Hu's nature of tending to be inflammatory. In the past few years, the cold and warm face was immediately put away, and the rewards sent to the army every once in a while on weekdays were gone, and even sent several envoys in a row, ostensibly asking Li Jing when he would leave and whether he had anything to serve, but in fact it was clearly the intention of expelling guests. However, Chongheihu complained about his brother's approach, and after several attempts to persuade him to no avail, he left Chongcheng in a fit of anger and went to Caozhou, which had just been sealed.

Li Jing just laughed at this, and set off on a certain day. There was nothing to say on the road, so I arrived at Chentangguan in one day. The original officials in the city, big and small, heard that Li Jing, who had been appointed as the protector of the country, and would be in charge of the power of life and death within a radius of 400 miles from Chentang Pass, hurriedly welcomed Li Jing and his party to the city.

After receiving the household registration, army roster, and treasury accounts within a radius of 400 miles from Chentang Pass, Li Jing officially became the owner of this territory. He had made a detailed understanding of his territory in advance, so he methodically made arrangements for the generals who followed him.

Chentang Pass is bordered by the sea in the east, and there are four county towns in the south, southwest, west, and north of Li Jing's fiefdom, which are Dinghai, Wen'an, Baxian and Qingwu, and Li Jing took Chen Qi as the general soldier of Dinghai County, Zheng Lun as the general soldier of Wen'an County, Guo Chen as the general soldier of Ba County, and Dong Zhong as the general soldier of Qingwu County, each leading 3,000 troops to garrison and defend Chentang Pass. Li Jing is now the master of one side, so it is naturally inconvenient for him to serve as the commander of the three armies, so he left the position of commander to Ding Ce, who has not yet arrived, and let Yin Po continue to be in charge of the heavy food and salary, and the rest of the generals are still in the army. As for the original officials of Chentangguan and the four counties, those who are willing to stay are hired according to their talents, and those who are unwilling are allowed to let go of Sichuan at their own convenience.

Li Jing was busy for more than a month before and after all kinds of affairs, and only then could he roughly straighten out the affairs in the territory, and the various government offices from top to bottom were back in normal operation. Li Jing, who was even more exhausted than fighting a big battle, was finally able to relax a little, thinking in his heart that he had a lot of generals under him, but there was still a lack of a person in charge of government affairs, and he must pay more attention in the future to see if he could find such talents. At that time, he and Ding Ce will be one to govern and one to govern the army, and he will be able to live a happy life again.

On this day, Li Jing was in the middle council of the Yin'an Palace, which had been changed from the original city guard mansion to the Hou Mansion, Xin Huan hurriedly ran in, and shouted with joy on his face: "Master, Marshal Ding and the two senior brothers escorted the brigade of vehicles to arrive, and now they are about to enter the city. (To be continued)

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