Late Tang

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In the third year of Qianfu, the town government entered Pingzhou.

In the small Pingzhou, Li Jing immediately dispatched the three armies of Xuanfeng, Sirius, and Konghe to guard it.Lin Wei, Li Zhen, Liu Xun, Li Juyi, and Fu Wenda were dispatched as advisers.

This time, the three armies of the township army plus the second battalion of the naval division, and the three counties of Pingzhou were stationed at once with [-] soldiers and horses.

Pingzhou, as the new prefecture of the town, is also the third fully occupied prefecture after Dengzhou and the Liaonan Governor's Mansion. Li Jing's appointment and dismissal of officials is somewhat unexpected.Many people thought at first that Lin Wei would serve as the governor of Pingzhou and also as the regiment training envoy. After all, Lin Wei, as the deputy envoy of Jiedu, was appointed by Li Jing as the left-behind guard when he repeatedly dispatched troops to suppress the eunuch.

Both the governorship of Dengzhou and the governorship of southern Liaoning were concurrently held by Li Jing. Now that Pingzhou is newly acquired, Li Jing no longer concurrently holds the position of governor, so it must be given to the most trusted Lin Wei.It's just that when the official appointment was made, the position of governor fell to Li Zhen, the commander of the Jiedu marching army in the town, while Lin Wei served as the defense envoy of Pingzhou.These two appointments surprised many people.

Nowadays, the governors of various towns and prefectures in the Tang Dynasty have gradually been served by generals.Li Jing appointed Li Zhen as the governor, but made Lin Wei the defensive envoy.Lin Wei, the general in charge of the army, was placed under the civilian position of Li Zhen.

However, the announcement followed by the appointment surprised even more officials.

Li Jing changed the Liaonan Governor's Mansion to Jinzhou, and transferred Guo Chengan to be the governor of Jinzhou.Take Wang Zhong as the defense envoy of Jinzhou.At the same time, Li Jing no longer served as the defense envoy of Dengzhou.Wang Pu was appointed as the defense envoy of Dengzhou.And it was announced in the official document.From now on, the 27 counties in the lower three prefectures of the town will have clear civil and military responsibilities.Local government affairs are all assigned to the governor and county magistrate, while the defense envoys only command the troops and have no right to control civil affairs.Even the food for each garrison must be handed over to the commander's mansion by the states and counties, and then the commander's mansion will transfer the food and grass to each army's battalion.

Since then, the military and civilians in this town have been separated, and the military and civil affairs have been separated.The governor, Guanmin, no longer manages the soldiers.Defensive envoys are designed to manage the army.

But at the same time, although the defense envoy has the responsibility of commanding the garrison of the state in a unified manner, the garrisons of various armies and towns in the state and county are under the command of the town commander's office at the same time.Without the joint military order of the commander-in-chief, the staff department, and the soldiers, the defense envoys have no right to mobilize troops at ordinary times.The soldiers and horses of each department are led by the battalion master of each battalion, and the troops above the battalion and the second level of the army can only mobilize the troops and horses of the headquarters only after receiving the military order.

This series of dazzling announcements exceeded everyone's expectations, and immediately made the town's civil and military officials sink into deep thought.

This change.Almost all the officials have seen that, with the growth of the army and horses in the town.The rights of officers, or the rights of senior officers, have been weakened again and again.Since Xuanzong, the weakening power in the hands of civil servants has been strengthened.

Not only that, senior military generals can no longer directly command the army when it is not in war, just like in the early Sui and Tang Dynasties.Army command rested almost entirely in the hands of officers at the battalion level.No matter how advanced the military commander is, the power in his hands is greatly restricted.

Moreover, although the defense envoys of each state can nominally command the township army, Pinglu army, united army, and township army in the state, their powers are actually more restricted.

Although the chief officials of the prefectures and counties have lost their right to lead the army, their power over the localities has been expanded.

Everyone can see that this change is to guard against generals, to avoid the possibility of military generals monopolizing power, and to prevent small hills from appearing inside the town.After such a change, the senior generals had almost no soldiers, and after the food and grass could not be directly supplied, the shogunate directly blocked the supply of food, grass and military equipment for each army.

At the same time, after dividing the original military and civilian power of the governor into separate administrations, Li Jing divided the power of the governor again, and set up a new inspector at the same level as the governor and defense envoy in each state.

According to the procuratorate, the chief executive in charge of the judiciary of a state, his duty is to correct officials and evil, suppress rape and violence, settle prison lawsuits, avenge injustice, so as to promote morality and clarify official governance.

After the addition of the procuratorate, the governor is in charge of administration, the procuratorate is in charge of justice, and the defense envoy is in charge of commanding the army.

The power of the governor of Yuanzhou is divided into three, which are not related to each other and supervise each other.

This system can also be regarded as Li Jing's painstaking deliberation and racking his brains, in order to prevent erroneous things from happening.When the town government has not yet formed a complete set of systems, these new systems are gradually established to prevent the biggest problem of warlordization of the army in the late Tang and Five Dynasties.

It's not that Li Jing doesn't believe in Lin Wei or Li Zhen and others now, but that he always believes that the system is much stronger than the simple rule of man.

Just like the addition of teaching officers in the army, although many generals were dissatisfied and puzzled, because although there are many soldiers in the town, Li Jing has always been concerned about the army, so the army has never There can be a situation where the military leaders each occupy the top of the mountain.These changes were carried out quickly and smoothly.

After the town army entered Pingzhou, Lin Wei first asked for orders to send troops from various ministries to sweep up the bandits and pirates in Pingzhou.Every time one enters a place, it has become a common practice to suppress bandits first. More than 1 soldiers and horses were scattered, and the biggest thieves in the small Pingzhou were first uprooted and completely destroyed.

After Li Zhen took office, he not only immediately surveyed the land, counted the registered population, arranged for the people to repair water conservancy, open up land, build cities and build houses.Immediately, he started posting lists everywhere, one was to recruit refugees from all sides, and the other was to appease the bandits in the territory.

Li Zhen issued an announcement that all the bandits in Pingzhou, as long as they are willing to go down the mountain and surrender to the army, except for some thieves who have been extremely evil in the past and the people are full of grievances.The rest of the bandits will be given a chance to be pardoned and restored to their status as civilians.Even some gangsters with a bad reputation in the past, after interrogation, they will be given a lighter punishment and given a chance to reform themselves.

The newly appointed procuratorial envoy also began to sort out the prisons, and took the initiative to try some old case disputes in the counties and townships of Pingzhou, and mediate the conflicts in the villages.

Under the multi-pronged operation of Pingzhou, in more than a month, the bandits in Pingzhou fled, disappeared, and surrendered themselves.People from all over the country also returned to their hometowns and resumed production.Li Zhen directly took out the work-for-relief practice in Dengzhou, and began to build roads, schools, water conservancy, and repair cities, villages, etc. in Pingzhou.

With the backing of sufficient food, Pingzhou is almost the same day by day, the city and the countryside have been revived, and the depressed market has also begun to be lively.

More and more people in Youzhou, even Hu people and Han people in western Liaoning and grasslands, began to come to join them one after another.

Lin Wei did not intervene in Li Zhen's administrative matters in Pingzhou, nor did Li Zhen intervene in the procuratorial envoy Li Meng's criminal matters.

The more than 1 garrisons in Pingzhou are also undergoing intensive training.

Liu Xun, who was stationed on the border between Lulongsai and Xibu in Yanshan, led the forward army to build a defense line between the mountains of Lulongsai.

Located between Jizhou and Yingzhou, Lulongsai is a pass in the eastern section of the Yanshan Mountains, which was later known as Xifeng Pass.For thousands of years, it has been a military fortress and a battleground for military strategists.Like Yuguan, another dangerous pass in Pingzhou, Yuguan is the Shanhaiguan Pass of later generations.

Lulongsai is the barrier to the north of Pingzhou, and Yuguan is the gateway from Pingzhou to Liao Dynasty.

Lulongsai is located at the easternmost foot of Xuwu Mountain, between the two mountains.On the left is Meishan, and on the right is Yunshan.

After Liu Xun took office, he immediately led the army and recruited civilians to repair Lulongsai. After several months and the efforts of tens of thousands of people, Lulongsai built on the mountain was repaired and strengthened.The new Lulongsai City was built on the hillside, with three walls forming a sun-shaped defense system.The outer main city wall is five feet high, three feet wide, and one hundred feet long. It is made of stones stacked from the inside to the outside.There is also a three-foot-high tower in the center, named Wangri Tower.At both ends of the main city wall, auxiliary walls were built according to the mountain situation, and each city wall also had a floor.The one standing on Meishan Mountain is called Meilou, and the one built on Yunshan Mountain is called Yunlou.Starting from the auxiliary walls on both sides, it extends to the farther mountains.

The Han once built a city wall about 200 miles long here to prevent the Hu people from invading.A hundred steps back from the main city wall, between the two mountains, there is another tall tower. The height and width of the city wall are the same as the main city wall, and it is fifty feet long.Both sides are connected with the main city wall by stone walls.On both sides are two columns of soldier barracks.Further back, a hundred steps away, is the Crescent Tower facing the official road.This city wall is four feet high, two feet wide, and eighty steps long, with a floor above it called Crescent Tower.On both sides of this place are warehouses for stockpiling grain and grass, stables and wooden houses for treating wounded soldiers.

The new Lulong fortress city is guarded by the dangerous pass, and the frontier army is guarded here, so that Pingzhou will not have to worry about the Hu tribe in the north.

Fu Wenda led the Sirius Army to Yuguan, and also worked day and night to strengthen Yuguan.

According to Li Jing's military order, Yuguan was not only reinforced and renovated, but also expanded.Xinguan, which is planned to be expanded, is adjacent to Yanshan Mountain in the north and Bohai Sea in the south. Li Jing changed its name to Shanhaiguan.Although it is not yet completed, the new level is already very imposing.

Shanhaiguan New City has a square shape, with a circumference of eight miles, 130 seven steps and four feet, a width of five feet, and a moat of two feet and five feet deep.The outside of the city wall is covered with blue bricks and filled with rammed earth. It is about five feet high and more than two feet wide.There are four city gates, the east is called "Zhendong Gate", the west is called "Ying'en Gate", the south is called "Wanghai Gate", and the north is called "Weiyuan Gate".

Standing on the top of Guancheng, you can see all around.You can overlook the whole view of Guancheng and the wilderness outside the pass.Looking north, you can see the majestic appearance of the Great Wall of Jiaoshan in the distance; the sea in the south is also dimly visible.

As the town's attack base against the Khitans, and a stronghold against Youzhou in the future, Li Jing spared no expense in strengthening Pingzhou's defense.On one side of Pingzhou is the sea, on the other three sides are the Khitan people of Yingzhou in western Liaoning, the Xi people outside Yanshan Mountain in the north, and the soldiers and horses of Fan Xinglong in Jizhou in the west.Although the town government controls the Bohai Sea and can reinforce Pingzhou at any time without hindrance, Li Jing still refuses to relax his defense against Pingzhou.

Under full management, in just a few months, the situation in Pingzhou has improved a lot compared to when we first arrived, and it can even be called a great order, culture and military preparation, and it is a lively scene! (To be continued..)