Late Tang

If Li Jing is asked to compare the characters of the Three Kingdoms with those of the late Tang Dynasty, then Li Zhen and Jing Xiang, who are both counselors, are roughly equivalent to the phoenix and the young crouching dragon.Maybe Li Zhen and Jing Xiang are not as famous as Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, but looking at their contemporaries, they are definitely among the most shining advisers.

After finally confirming that the tall, thin scholar who was a few years younger than Li Zhen and about the same age as him was Jing Xiang, although Li Jing didn't have much surprised expression on his face, in fact, he was about to scream in ecstasy. .

He once sent Xiao Qisi to inquire about Jing Xiang's news, but there was no result.Unexpectedly, Jing Xiang has been following the army for more than two months.This is really nowhere to be found, and it takes no effort to get it.

Jing Xiang's answer just now not only let Li Jing confirm that he is the number one counselor of the back beam, but also let Li Jing confirm that Jing Xiang is indeed a bold person.What Li Jing said just now is very clear, and he wants to pursue a bigger cause.Saying this, even if you don't understand it as a conspiracy, it at least shows that Li Jing is not as loyal to the Tang Dynasty as he is now on the surface, and at the very least wants to be a separatist vassal town with self-respect.

But Jingxiang didn't seem to care about these things at all, which fully showed that he didn't care about them.

Li Jing was very satisfied, "Very well, right now is the time for employing people, and I want to enlist Mr. Pi to enter the town [***] to give advice, I wonder if you would like it?"

Jing Xiang was a little surprised, he didn't expect that such a famous yet so young marshal would only ask such a question after meeting him, and then he had already decided to call him into the scene.Jing Xiang, who came back to his senses, nodded immediately without any hesitation, "Yes, I am willing."

Li Jing pinched his chin, and originally wanted to give Jing Xiang a low-level staff position first, asking him to be a pusher or inspector.But when I think about it again, the Tuiguan and the inspectors are both responsible for handling lawsuits and disputes. In the army, low positions and light powers are undoubtedly a waste of talents.After thinking about it, I changed my mind. Since this is a talent, it should be used in an eclectic manner.

Immediately returned to the upper seat, picked up the pen, took out a blank letter, and immediately granted Jingxiang an official position.

"From today onwards, Jingxiang and Jingzizhen will be the Jiedu counselor of my town [***]." Li Jinglang said.

After finishing speaking, he handed over his official position to Jingxiang.

Jing Xiang accepted the report in shock, completely unbelievable.Although it is said that his father also served as the governor, in fact, his father has already retired from illness.Moreover, he is only 22 years old now, and he has not even married a wife. He only participated in the imperial examination once, but failed.Now that he was defecting to Li Jing, he never thought that Li Jing would use him after only asking him a word, and even gave him a high-ranking official.

This is really a high-ranking official. He has been with Zhen[***] for two months, and Jing Xiang is also familiar with Zhen[***], knowing that there are many official positions and military systems in Zhen[***]. Other feudal towns are slightly different.For example, in each camp and each camp, under the chief officers at all levels, it is not the deputy ranks, nor the marching Sima ranks second, but the teaching envoys and teaching ranks second.In addition, the commander's mansion also has a staff department, and the marching staff has a very important position, second only to the marching Sima.Under the marching staff officer, there are two deputies, namely Jiedu Counselor and Jiedu Counselor.Below them, there are staff officers, secretaries, recording offices, Yatui, post station inspectors, Kongmu officials, military followers, important records, driving, random, and important staff.

The official position of Jiedu Counselor is very high, and it is an important position.In the town [***], the level is the same level as the owner of the box, or even half a level higher.The marching staff officer is even on the same level as the governor, and higher than the military leader.

The thin yellow silk paper in his hand was as heavy as a boulder, and Jing Xiang even felt that he was going to lose his grip.

"Marshal, what is your virtue and ability under your post? How dare you take up such an important position as soon as you join the army."

Jing Xiang was overwhelmed by flattery, and the others present were equally astonished, and their eyes were even full of envy and jealousy.Li Zhen has always been Li Jing's first counselor, while his younger brother Li Liang is the second counselor. He serves as the marching commander, his younger brother Li Liang serves as the army's staff officer, and Guo Chengan serves as the secretary.Right now, as soon as Jing Xiang joins the army, he will be serving as the Jiedu Counselor, how can this not surprise them.Li Zhen even felt a sense of crisis. Could it be that the young commander-in-chief began to guard against and suspect their brothers, fearing that their brothers would be too powerful?

Among the crowd, Gai Yu, who was able to make an exception to participate in this meeting, was very happy, and felt that he was getting more and more attention from the commander in chief.But now his heart is full of bitterness. He has surrendered to Li Jing for so long, but he is only a staff officer. Compared with Xiang Yi, he felt that he was not taken seriously at all.

"Why, not confident?" Li Jing looked directly at Jing Xiang and asked.

"That's not the case," Jing Xiang hesitated, "It's just that the qualifications of the post are shallow, and I'm afraid it's unfair to others to take on this important position as soon as I come here."

Li Jing smiled lightly, picked up the teacup and took a sip of the tea, Jing Xiang's attitude was good just now, he was very confident in his talent, but he was just worried about other people's dissatisfaction. "The commander-in-chief employs people who are eclectic and only use talents. If Zizhen is confident that he has this talent, he doesn't have to care about other people's eyes. Although my town [***] also values ​​qualifications, qualifications only take up a small part of the standard Partly, the most critical thing is talent. Those with talent go up, and those without talent go down, so that our town [***] can become stronger and stronger."

Jing Xiang knelt down on one knee, this is considered a very serious etiquette in the town [***]. "The kindness of being promoted by the commander-in-chief will never be forgotten in his post. In this life, he will go through fire and water, and he will never hesitate to die!"

Very good, Li Jing smiled and helped Jing Xiang up personally.

He glanced at all the generals in the hall, keeping everyone's expressions in his heart.

"Gai Yu stepped forward to listen to the seal!" Li Jing shouted suddenly.

Gai Yu, who was full of depression, suddenly heard his name, and was taken aback for a moment, and when he came back to understand the meaning of going forward to listen to the seal, his face turned red with excitement.He hurried forward, knelt down on one knee, and bowed his head to listen.

"The town [***] pays the most attention to rewards and punishments. Gai Yu has repeatedly contributed good ideas and made great contributions. Now I am promoted to the town [***] Jiedu Counselor!"

Gai Yu, who was envious of Jing Xiang's appointment just now, is completely immersed in excitement at this moment.What was it that followed Li Ke to plan the Yunzhou mutiny with them?Isn't it just to find a better background?Although he joined Zhen [***] as a general, he finally managed to see the bright moon when the clouds opened.Counselor of the town [***] Jiedu, this is an official position that even the governor of Yunzhou will never change.

From today onwards, he has finally become a core member of the town [***].

"Presumably everyone already knows that the imperial decree ordered Wang Jingwu to be the deputy envoy of Ziqing Town Jiedu and the governor of Qingzhou, Zhang Chan was appointed governor of Qizhou, Lu Hong was appointed governor of Zizhou, and Xue Chong, the former envoy of Jiedu of the Tianping Army, was appointed governor of Laizhou. The original Taining Army Jiedu envoy Li was appointed as the marching commander of Ziqing Town. Even the [-] rebels under the original Wang Jingwu's troops are still under his command." Li Jing paused, "Yesterday, we discussed a preliminary decision to retreat. In order to advance, we will return to Dengzhou for the time being, and take Ziqing Qingzhuang away at the same time. Dear Counselor and Counselor Gai, do you have anything to add?"

Gai Yu cleared his throat, "My subordinates think that it is not enough to take away the young and strong, and all the big families in Ziqing Town must be moved out together."

"Regardless counselor, what's your opinion?" Li Jing looked at Jing Xiang.

Jing Xiang murmured, and asked, "Did Ziqing Town just ignore it? How will the Ziqing Pinglu Army arrange it? Will they also withdraw together?"

"This has not been decided yet, do you have any good suggestions?" Li Jing asked.

The number of Ziqing Pinglu Army has always been [-] in the past few years, but in fact it is naturally more than this number.After Wang Jingwu's rebellion, the Pinglu army was divided into two, and both sides continued to expand their armies.

Now, Wang Jingwu has [-] soldiers and tens of thousands of auxiliary soldiers, but they are all captured by Li Jing, so naturally it is impossible to return them.

On Song Wei's side, there are still [-] soldiers left, and [-] auxiliary soldiers.However, according to accurate statistics, among the [-] soldiers, there are actually [-] soldiers of Song Shuai, [-] soldiers of Zhang Wanrong, [-] soldiers of the state, and [-] soldiers of each army town, county town, and guard. Fifteen thousand soldiers.As for the [-] auxiliary soldiers, except for dozens of township soldiers organized by many wealthy families, the rest are mostly civilians recruited temporarily.

Now after the war, according to the rules, the auxiliary soldiers had to be disbanded and returned to their hometowns, even the united soldiers had to be dismissed and returned to their hometowns.In this way, the rest is only 5000 Pinglu troops.However, among the [-] people, [-] were soldiers and horses of Zhang Wanrong's Supervising Army Academy, and they were not under the command of the Jieshuai.

Song Wei went to Beijing, but his five thousand soldiers could stay behind.But Kang Chenghui and Cui Yunqing took office separately, and Li Jing couldn't let them go empty-handed.He has already decided to separate out Song Wei's personal soldiers, give Kang Chenghui and Cui Yunqing 5000 each of [-] troops, plus their personal servants, and take [-] each to take their posts.

In this way, the entire Pinglu army ended up with 5000 people in Wang Jingwu's hands, and Li Jing took over 5000 people.

However, Li Jing was not very relieved about the [-] Pinglu Army, mainly because the Pinglu Army had too many soldiers, and even after this war, they were still a bit disorganized.Li Jing is also hesitating now, leaving them in Ziqing Town, it is estimated that it will not take long for them to return to the same as before, and they cannot really be used by him at all.But if you take them to Dengzhou and Liaodong, Ziqing Town may not really belong to you.

Jing Xiang thought for a long time, and finally said: "I agree with the proposal of the commander-in-chief and the generals. It is not impossible to return to Dengzhou temporarily and hand over Ziqing Town to Wang Jingwu and the others. However, the people can be taken away, but the army must stay. Excuse me. Not only must we stay, but we must also keep a large number of soldiers. I propose to bring the [-] Pinglu Army back to Dengzhou for reorganization, and leave the town[***] in Ziqing Town."

Hearing this proposal, Li Jing frowned, but did not interrupt Jing Xiang, but waited for him to continue. (To be continued.)