Back to Tang Dynasty to be Emperor

"I have no objection, Your Highness has considered it too much for me." Di Zhixun said, "I just have a question, that is, after the development of the Black Clothes Guard, does His Highness want to place it under the Governor's Mansion? How about continuing to stay under your command in the name of the King of Han's guard?"

Di Zhixun's question is indeed the key point. When the number of black guards was 1, Li Shimin would not care about the force around him. Now that the black guards have grown to more than [-] people, no matter how generous the king is, Li Shimin It was impossible to tolerate the power gathered around him.

"I don't know the same thing," Li Ke said, "The black-clothed guards are on the face of the expanded 800 Eagle Guards and the three thousand wolf cavalry. The father of the Qianqin Army still doesn't care. As for the heavy cavalry battalion, it is still under the command of the new army, and the ghost-faced cavalry belongs to the soldiers and horses under the command of the governor of Bingzhou. Under the name, the black-clothed guards are still the king's black-clothed guards, and the heavy cavalry battalion and ghost-faced cavalry are still the new army and Bingzhou cavalry."

Although Li Ke's last sentence was very cryptic, how could Di Zhixun not understand it? After listening to Li Ke's explanation, he pondered for a moment, then smiled clearly, "Your Highness thinks it is really thoughtful, A humble minister can't do it."

"Tonghuai won the prize. This king just took advantage of the gap between the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion," Li Ke said with a smile. Proceed with caution."

"Thank you Your Highness, I understand!" Di Zhixun said modestly.

"En!" Li Ke nodded and smiled. He was deeply impressed by Di Zhixun's talent, so he stopped talking and turned his gaze to Su Dingfang. "That place, what do you think of Guo Shifeng?" Li Ke already knew Su Dingfang passed Guo Shifeng in the examination room, so he wanted to verify Guo Shifeng's talent through Su Dingfang's mouth, and if possible, he would take him for his own use, and if he was just a reckless husband, he would abandon him.

"Your Highness, according to the general's investigation, Guo Shifeng can be of great use, but he is too young and needs more experience." Su Dingfang expressed his pertinent evaluation.

"Well, I'm at ease with these few words of Dingfang." Li Ke continued, "Dingfang, Guo Shifeng is young and energetic, and he is too young to be deceived by others, so you should always teach and supervise him , Let him become a pillar of talent as soon as possible."

"Please rest assured, Your Highness, you will not disappoint the Highness in the end." How could Su Dingfang not understand the meaning of Li Ke's words? Although Li Ke didn't finish his words, the meaning of his words is obvious, which is to cultivate talents of pillars for his use.

After discussing the reorganization of the Black Guards, Li Keyou asked Di Zhixun about the governor's mansion. Di Zhixun told Li Ke what he had seen and heard in the past few days, and Li Ke didn't speak after listening. , he knew that the governor's mansion did not need to be swift and resolute like the governor's, but to slowly infiltrate, so he told everyone some specific details, and then let everyone leave.

Li Yan, Yuan Deqian, and Yu Kailun were quite surprised that Hanwang Li Ke, the governor of Bingzhou, resolved the conflict with the generals of the governor's mansion within a day. At the same time, they heard that Li Ke beheaded Xu Hui was even more shocked when he joined the army at the Dudu Mansion.They naturally knew who Xu Hui was, although in the eyes of the gentry, not to mention Xu Hui, even Li Ji was nothing.However, for Li Ke, the meaning is different. Li Ji is the fourth person in the Tang army besides Li Jing, Li Xiaogong, and Li Daozong. His attitude will affect Li Ke's future struggle for the reserve position. How could it be so easy to behead his nephew and offend him?The three of them have all been in contact with Li Ke, and they don't think he is a person who is prone to act impulsively, especially Li Yan. After he met Li Ke alone in the study, he found that he is not only brave but also resourceful. How about making such a mistake?However, no matter what, Li Ke used his iron fist to gather the military power of the Dudu Mansion, which made them look at Li Ke with admiration.

After Li Ke's order was issued, the generals of the Dudu Mansion began large-scale military training.Like Li Mengchang and Sun Erlang, although they were entrusted with important tasks by Li Ke, the drill three months later is the key to determining whether they can continue to serve, so both of them have tried their best. In the high-intensity training, the two of them would crawl around the training ground 24 hours a day without eating or drinking.But even so, the two of them stayed in the barracks all day.Chief Shi Guo Xiaoke was busy with supervising the training of soldiers and horses of the entire Dudu Mansion, allocating money and food for the ghost-faced cavalry, and supervising the construction of the left camp of the Bingzhou Horse Infantry Army outside the camp.There are also Su Dingfang and Guo Shifeng who want to train the new army, and Xu Jingzong and Chen Qi who want to integrate the Eagle Guard intelligence system.So everyone is very busy.

However, among the busy people, there is only one person who is living a leisurely life, and he is Li Ke, the governor of Bingzhou and Hanwang.As the governor of Bingzhou, Li Ke holds Hezhong Prefecture, Jiangzhou, Jinzhou, Xizhou, Fenzhou, Cizhou, Luzhou, Zezhou, Qinzhou, Liaozhou, Taiyuan Prefecture, Weizhou, and Xinzhou in his hands. There are more than a dozen states including Lizhou, Lanzhou, Shizhou, Shuozhou, and Yunzhou.However, these state capitals all have their own military directors. Although Li Ke is the governor, so all the soldiers and horses are dispatched by him, but how many people can really listen to his orders?Therefore, he has a great name and a great official position, but he can't even talk about real control over the military control of several states.Therefore, the only thing he wants to do now is to control Bingzhou's soldiers and horses in his own hands, and use his own authority to train Bingzhou's 3 horses into an iron army with one as ten.The art of war says again, soldiers are not many but fine, and what he is doing now is to streamline the administration.

However, the so-called superintendents, marching chiefs and other generals who can manage the military affairs of dozens of states actually, like Li Ke, only have the military power in their own places.If you want to control the entire military power within your own jurisdiction, in addition to cultivating your confidant generals in the army, you must also rely on your own prestige in the army.

Therefore, Li Ke knew that compared with Li Jing, Li Xiaogong and others, his prestige was not enough, even his ability was also far behind.Therefore, he was not greedy and thought about controlling the soldiers and horses under the control of the governor of Bingzhou. His goal was just to control the soldiers and horses of Bingzhou in his own hands.He himself knows the result of being greedy and swallowing elephants, and he understands that military power is a double-edged sword. When killing others, it will also hurt himself.

In addition, he also understands a truth, that is, if an army can maintain normal order in a tragic struggle, it will never be intimidated by imaginary dangers, and it will stand still in the face of real dangers. Don't let it, if it is proud of victory, can still obey orders in the face of defeat, and does not lose respect and trust in the general, if it can strengthen its physical strength in hardship and fatigue like an athlete exercises muscles, let it be This weariness is to be regarded as a means to his good fortune, not as a bad luck, which, if he has but a single and brief creed of maintaining military honour, so that he is constantly reminded of all the above-mentioned duties and virtues, it is An army that has always been rich in martial arts.Therefore, even if a general's prestige has reached a peak, if the soldiers and horses under his command are troops without military virtues, it will be difficult for this army to form a strong fighting force on the battlefield; .

So, Li Ke knows what he has to do now?Then train and cultivate an army that has always possessed martial virtues, an army that can win without arrogance, and lose without being tired.However, it is still difficult to achieve in the Tang Dynasty if every soldier has martial arts and can meet his own requirements.Therefore, Li Ke looks very leisurely on the surface, but he is constantly thinking in his heart.He was thinking whether to encourage soldiers to be proud of being a soldier and be proud of their responsibilities through a reward similar to a military medal, a knight's saber, and other honorary status?

However, he himself is also very vague about how to set up such a reward system. After all, he was not born in the army, and he is still lacking in army building and training.

"This king is too impatient. It really takes time!" Li Ke thought of this and sighed. He wanted to ask Su Dingfang about such a question, but the ghost-faced cavalry was being formed. Time, it is not easy for him to recruit him to the governor's mansion.

The time passed day by day like this, and it was March unknowingly.

In March, Taiyuan has already started spring, but it is still cold and windy.In the study, Li Ke was holding the information gathered by the black-clothed guards presented to him by Xu Jingzong, with a look of sadness and joy on his face.The good news is that the news from Chang'an said that Empress Changsun has been pregnant for several months, and Li Shimin threatened to hold a banquet to entertain the officials after the prince's birth.If this is the case, he can take the opportunity to invite Li Shimin back to Beijing, and he probably won't stop himself.Also, because of Empress Changsun's pregnancy, Changsun Wuji put his mind on Empress Changsun of the Lizheng Hall, which made Li Ke feel less worried.Regardless of what he did in Bingzhou, just saying that he beheaded Li Ji's nephew would cause him a lot of gossip in the court. Fortunately, Changsun Wuji didn't participate in it because of the pregnancy of Empress Changsun, so he didn't have to. Too much to worry about.What made him most happy was the news from Binzhou that Ruoyi's body was fine under the care of the imperial doctor, and he would recover in a few days. This made Li Ke feel less guilty towards Ruoyi. few.The sad thing is that news came from Shuofang that after Li Ji knew that he had beheaded his nephew Xu Hui, he lost his temper except for a thunderbolt.What Li Ke was most worried about was Li Ji's silence. Even if he wrote a letter saying that he abused lynching or avenged his private revenge, Li Ke would not be afraid, what he was afraid of was Li Ji's silence.As the saying goes, the most terrible thing is a dog that does not bark and calm water.