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Volume 2: Looking to Chang'an Chapter 60: Three Gongs and Nine Qings

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    The autumn morning in Qiuci is already a bit chilly. Although Li Zuoguo spent nearly a night with Xiaoyun and newlywed Hu Tianhu Di last night, he still got up early in the morning. Li Zuoguo's martial arts is not based on talent.  To reach this point, it was all due to hard work. Xiaoyun wanted to get up with a tired body to scout Li Zuoguo to get dressed, but Li Zuoguo chuckled and let Xiaoyun sleep again, and put on a coat himself.  Go to the courtyard outside the small building and start practicing.

    Stretching his muscles to warm up, Li Zuoguo moved his fingers, upper arms, shoulders, waist, thighs, and joints all over the body meticulously. After half an hour of warming up, Li Zuoguo took off his coat. His whole body was filled with heat. Li Zuoguo picked up the ground.  Leather vests, wristbands and other equipment were put on one by one.

    These leather clothes are all made of pieces of pig iron, with a total weight of one hundred and twenty kilograms, including wrist guards, gauntlets, shoulder armor, upper body leather armor, and leggings from thighs to feet. Li Zuoguo's  I hurried back to Anxi for a while, and it had been a while since I put on this suit. After putting it on, Li Zuoguo jumped on the spot and felt nothing uncomfortable.

    Li Zuoguo started boxing. After finishing a set of tiger-shaped fists inherited from the Li family, Li Zuoguo picked up a huge iron bar on the ground and started to use his moves. It was a solid iron bar weighing 150 kilograms, with huge two ends.  It has a hammer-like protrusion with a thin handle in the middle. This is an instrument specially used for practicing martial arts.

    At this time, the weight on Li Zuoguo's body reached 270 kilograms. Li Zuoguo slowly moved the iron rod, first in postures, and maintained each posture for about five minutes, and then began to swing the iron bar. The huge iron bar was lifted by Li Zuoguo.  The hands of the state danced faster and faster, and already made a whining sound that broke through the air.

    After maintaining this for another half an hour, Li Zuoguo suddenly stopped dancing the iron rod like this and began to use shaking force. Every time he hit the iron rod in his hand, he exhaled loudly. The iron rod suddenly paused when it was struck out, and then immediately moved in the other direction.  Shake out again, then stop and shake again.

    This kind of exercise is a great test of strength and muscle strength. Li Zuoguo only started to exert such force after the activity started. When he started to practice like this, his muscles and bones were about to break after a few blows. Now Li Zuoguo can continuously perform such fierce exercises.  Hit for about an hour.

    There is sweat on Li Zuoguo's forehead. Now Li Zuoguo is twenty years old. His body has basically grown and his height has exceeded two meters. When he puts on the armor, everyone who sees him will feel like he is facing a wild beast.  , imposing and powerful, five years of training have completely turned Li Zuoguo into a tough and strong man. The exposed muscles are like cast iron. As Li Zuoguo moves the iron rod, it shakes, exuding a sense of peak male strength.

    Li Zuoguo shouted loudly, and the iron rod suddenly hit the ground. When it was close to the ground, Li Zuoguo suddenly withdrew his strength. The iron rod suddenly stopped about an inch away from the ground amid the scream. However, the huge inertia caused the head of the iron rod to hit hard.  It hit the ground, which was paved with cobblestones. It hit a fist-sized pebble. With a "boom", the pebble that was usually embedded in the ground suddenly shattered into powder.

    Li Zuoguo let out a long breath and slowly retracted the iron rod. There was a huge weapon rack next to it. There were weapons such as Heng Dao and Mo Dao on it. They were all enlarged versions of weapons. Li Zuoguo picked up a huge Mo Dao.  He played with the knife again, but this time he slowly relaxed his movements. He put down the knife and Li Zuoguo finished his morning exercise and began to take off his leather armor filled with iron blocks.

    The strong muscles on Li Zuoguo's body were exposed. Li Zuoguo's upper body, which was only wearing a pair of cloth trousers, was shiny with sweat. As Li Zuoguo slowly took off his leather armor, pieces of clear-cut steel and iron were revealed.  The muscles trembled slightly, as toned as Western sculptures.

    Li Zuoguo took off all his leather armor and slowly shook his head. A steaming towel was handed over to him. Li Zuoguo took it and wiped his face first, then wiped two handfuls of it on his body, and handed the towel over.  To Zheng Chunyun who was standing next to him, Li Zuoguo put on his coat and said, "Chang Nu, you can tell my soldiers later that Chu Tianshu, Li Yi and others will come to the Protector's Mansion in half an hour."

    Zheng Chunyun nodded and responded in a low voice: "Yes."

    Li Zuoguo turned around and walked towards Xiaoyun's small building. Breakfast had been set up in the hall on the first floor. Xiaoyun was still sleeping soundly upstairs without being beaten. Li Zuoguo didn't wait for her and started eating. After eating, Li Zuoguo went straight to the restaurant upstairs.  I took a hot shower in the bathroom, then put on my official uniform and walked to the government office in front.

    When he walked to the door, Zheng Chunyun came up to him, followed behind Li Zuoguo, and then twenty soldiers followed him, forming two rows and following Zheng Chunyun. Li Zuoguo took the lead with his hands behind his back, and soon walked to the front office. As soon as Li Zuoguo entered  In the lobby of the Duhu Mansion's front office, the noisy sounds suddenly disappeared.

    Li Zuoguo walked straight to the only person in the hallSitting down in a chair facing the gate, Zheng Chunyun called: "The guard envoy has arrived, civil and military officials are paying homage."

    The civil servants in the hall, headed by Chu Tianshu, and the military attach¨¦s headed by Li Yi, all saluted Li Zuoguo. Li Zuoguo suddenly remembered the scene of hundreds of officials worshiping the emperor, and couldn't help turning his head and giving Zheng Chunyun a funny look, and then said: "No need to salute.  ."

    Everyone stood up. The number of civil servants was obviously smaller than that of the generals, because there were more than a dozen people in prison. The remaining dozen civil servants had some unnatural expressions on their faces. Li Zuoguo remained calm and said slowly: "  I have a few things to arrange when I come back this time, Li Yi, let me first tell you about the situation and military strength of the generals stationed in the four towns of Anxi."

    Li Yi was already wearing the official uniform of a fourth-grade military general, with a long black beard hanging down to his chest. He no longer looked like a scholar. He was just a general commanding an army. Li Yi turned around and cupped his fists and said: "  Yes, the current general in charge of Shule in the four towns of Anxi is Duan Heng, with a force of 20,000, the guard of Dalun Pass is Gao Chengwei, with a force of 15,000, General Duan Tianhe is guarding Anqis Pass, with a force of 30,000, and Sui Ye  The garrison general is General Liu Han, and half of the troops are allocated to the garrison envoy, which is now 30,000. The garrison of Khotan is General Alishe, with only 15,000 troops. The troops above are divided equally between regular soldiers and auxiliary troops.  configuration.

    However, as long as there are police, there are now 212 military mansions in Anxi. Each peasant mansion can deploy 400 troops, the pastoral mansion can deploy 1,000 cavalry, and more than 100,000 troops can be used. The new 130  Eleven military mansions are being built, and troops can be mobilized by the middle of next year. As soon as the herdsmen's military mansions are formed, cavalry can be deployed immediately. Now we have 212 military mansions and 180 agricultural military mansions.  There are thirty-one grazing military bureaus, and the number of people grazing in the military bureau is more than twice that of the farming bureau.

    Guard envoy, this is the strength of our Anxi Protectorate.  "

    Li Zuoguo nodded with satisfaction and said: "Not bad, I brought out 200,000 troops here, and actually I can have another 200,000 troops available in more than half a year. Li Yi, you did a good job, Chu Tianshu, that ordnance  How is the situation?"

    Chu Tianshu also went out to salute and said: "Report to the garrison, our Shule Military Manufacturing Bureau now has 20,000 people manufacturing various ordnance. However, because there are too many troops, it is not possible to complete the equipment of the entire army.  The soldiers in the military mansion can only use leather armor, and their weapons are only simple swords and spears. The regular soldiers in several military towns have completed the equipment change, and the equipment of the two hundred cavalry brigades has also been changed. However, because  The newly recruited soldiers have not yet completed their training and have not yet developed full combat capabilities."

    Li Zuoguo nodded and said, "What about the food situation? Now our small Anxi has a standing army of 400,000. The burden is very heavy now, isn't it?"

    Chu Tianshu said: "We are now relying solely on the army's farming and grazing meat, so our food demand can basically remain the same. If we want to use troops somewhere, it will not be enough. Therefore, we have been going to the areas around Anxi for more than half a year."  The country buys grain, and the main reserve of military grain is obtained through trade. The 130 newly built military rations this year will have harvests soon, and our reliance on external purchases of grain to reserve military grain can be alleviated."

    Li Zuoguo said: "Yes, Mr. Chu has done a good job. I have ordered Duan Tian and Deputy Protector Duan to draw people from Guanzhong to fill Anxi, Longyou and Hexi. The first batch will have a population of more than one million."  , I have arranged for 500,000 people to come to Anxi, and you will be responsible for settling them properly when the time comes. Anxi¡¯s military strength does not need to be maintained so much now."

    At this point, Li Zuoguo turned to Li Yi: "I came back to make arrangements to streamline a group of soldiers again. The government soldiers can train for four months every year, which is even higher than the current level of the Tang Army. I hope to reduce the standing soldiers to thirty  Within 10,000, I predict that there will be no major wars by the end of next year. The Tang army has been frightened by us, An Lushan was suppressed in Luoyang, and Shi Siming was seriously injured in Youzhou. Now is also the time for us to repair. I am ready  Before winter comes, we will mobilize at least another two million people from Guanzhong and establish about two thousand military mansions in Longyou, Hexi and Shuofang. In this way, we can hide troops among the people and reduce military expenditures.

    In addition to cavalry, the army in Chang'an rotates infantry every three months. No matter how well-trained soldiers have never seen blood, it is useless. There is no big war. Small-scale wars have to be fought constantly.  Shi Siming, An Lushan and Li Longji did not have time to carry out spring plowing. As long as there are no major disasters in next autumn harvest, the year after next is the best time to deal with them.  "

    Li Yi asked: "Guardian, are we going to go to war in three places at the same time? Isn't that a lot of pressure?"

    Li Zuoguo smiled and said: "With our strength, equipment level and elite level, we have an absolute advantage no matter which one we fight, but if we start a war with the three families together, our strength is still insufficient. The first step of the three-step war I planned is  In the middle of next year, starting from Li Hu,First eliminate Shi Siming, seize Hedong, Fanyang, and Pinglu roads, and truly trap Anlu Mountain in Luoyang. The second step is to start next autumn. Li Hu attacks from north to south, and I attack from west to east, capture Luoyang, and capture Luoyang.  By killing An Lushan, we will have Hebei and Guanzhong, the two most populous places in our hands, and unify the entire north. Then we will repair for another year and send troops to attack the south the year after. This is my three-step plan.  Do you have anything to add?  "

    Li Yi thought for a moment and said: "Although An Lushan and Shi Siming have been severely damaged, can we really eliminate them in such a short time? And although we have a lot of troops now, we must leave troops behind in the places we conquer.  In this way, the larger the territory, the more scattered the troops will be, which is not conducive to our strategy of conquering Shi Siming in the north and Anlu Mountain in the east. Ling Yun believes that the government army system should also be implemented in Guanzhong Longyou and other roads. This will strengthen the local governance and strengthen local governance.  Being able to mobilize government troops for conquest at any time, the consumption of a standing army is really too great."

    Li Zuoguo smiled: "Ling Yun, your idea coincides with mine. If we specially mobilize troops from Anxi, not to mention the long journey, the consumption of military rations is not a small amount. The most important thing for the soldiers is  It still depends on the fields, so the basis of my plan is the situation of farming next year. If the farming and grazing conditions are not good next year, it may not necessarily be necessary to send troops next year. The main thing is to use our food to determine the military.  This is a recipe for disaster. We have swallowed up too much territory at once, and it will take time to digest it."

    Li Zuoguo looked around, his face became serious, and he said to Li Yi: "I handed over Qiuci to you, and you got Qin Yizhou to raise troops for me. How do you deal with it now?"

    Li Yi said with a look of shame on his face: "The general didn't think carefully. I thought that a group of civil servants would be very capable and wanted to lure them all out in one fell swoop. Unexpectedly, Qin Yizhou actually invited the original horse thieves to the Duhu Mansion to assassinate him, which disturbed the guards.  The envoy¡¯s family members will eventually be willing to be punished by the guarding envoy.¡±

    Li Zuoguo asked: "Have everyone been captured?"

    Li Yi replied: "We have captured them all, including the family members of the horse thieves who entered the house. Because there are more than 2,000 people, the cells in Qiuci are not enough, and some of them are locked up in the military camp of the general outside the city."

    Li Zuoguo's face showed a cold murderous look: "Since a certain person came to power in Anxi, opening up trade routes has attached great importance to people's livelihood. In order to make all officials decent, we have given up the shares of Datong Commercial Bank and established a Yanglian Bank. Ask yourselves, and  How much more is your income than six years ago? You eat what I have, use what I have, and you still have to keep up your face. Isn¡¯t this an uncomfortable position to be in? You will jump out to cause trouble and rebel just for the sake of justice, and you use such despicable and despicable tricks.  , If you want to touch Mr. Li¡¯s family, are you really a white-eyed wolf who is not well-bred, and will it be disadvantageous to use Mr. Li¡¯s sword?¡±

    As soon as Li Zuoguo said these words, the murderous intent in them made all the civil and military officials tremble in silence. Several civil servants trembled all over. Although the military generals did not participate in this matter, Li Zuoguo's sword-like eyes glanced at them. These tough generals felt that  They were so frightened that they all lowered their heads.

    Li Zuoguo said slowly: "All the fourteen principal criminals were beheaded, and all the men in the immediate family were also beheaded. All the women were sent to the border town as slaves, and the remaining men were put into coolie camps to mine for ten years and were not allowed to be released early.  Li Yi, you have to deal with the leak you revealed."

    Li Yi smiled bitterly, lowered his head and said, "General, I will obey your order."

    Li Zuoguo's face relaxed at this time and he said with a smile: "Don't look downcast. You have done a good job. I have not been in Anxi for the past six months. Everything has been done in an orderly manner. If you have been punished, you should be rewarded. I want to reward you."  But it is obviously not suitable for us in Anxi to still use the official positions of the Tang Dynasty now. Tianhe told me about this during the Chang'an period, and I have been thinking about it for more than a month."

    Chu Tianshu immediately said: "I invite the guardian envoy to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor to rectify his name and boost our morale in both civil and military affairs."

    Li Zuoguo laughed loudly: "Proclaim yourself emperor? Do you want me to imitate that old man from An Lushan? He ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor without preparing anything. Now he is beaten so hard that he shrinks back to Luoyang and trembles. I, Li Zuoguo, will not be in such a hurry. Let's not do it first."  As for proclaiming the emperor, I decided to first use the official positions of the Han Dynasty and set up three ministers and nine ministers. Each state and county with a population of more than 200,000 would be established as a county. The chief officer would be the prefect. Under the prefect, there would be a patrol envoy, a bookkeeper, and a clerk.  Several, seven generals and twelve general positions are established at the same time. The generals are divided into seven majors: front, rear, left, right, chariot, hussar, and guard. The twelve generals are divided into three grades. They are named according to the place where they are stationed, and their titles are divided into Dukes and Marquises.  Bozi men are divided into civil and military officials, and there is no distinction between counties and villages. There are two types of titles: hereditary and non-hereditary. The fiefdom decreases every generation, and the title also decreases every generation. After three generations, it will be reduced and taken back. Encourage your descendants who have obtained the title to work hard and make progress. Every three generations  The county establishes a governor, who is directly responsible to me. The prefect, governor, and county magistrate are civilians and no longer interfere with the military. All leading generals are not allowed to interfere with civil affairs. For troops with more than 10,000 people, there are appointed officers and deputy generals who will accompany the army.  Two people, the commander-in-chiefHe was succeeded by the deputy general.  "

    As Li Zuoguo spoke, he observed the expressions of the civil and military officials below, and saw that there was no special look on everyone's face. Then he thought about it, in fact, since Li Zuoguo started his army, Anxi's future and official position must have been adjusted. Li Zuoguo's civil and military officials  The officials had already been prepared, so it was no surprise that Li Zuoguo said this.

    Li Zuoguo continued: "The way to cause disaster in the Tang Dynasty lies in the Jiedushi system. The Jiedushi system has too much power, and the military and political power is concentrated in the hands of one person. Once the personnel is improperly employed, it will cause thousands of disasters. Therefore, it is imperative to separate the military and political affairs. From then on,  Civil affairs and military affairs have nothing to do with each other. The transfer of more than 2,000 troops in the army must be approved by more than six generals. All generals directly obey my orders. Any civilian officials who interfere with the military will be executed. Do you have any objections?"

    Chu Tianshu was the first to bow and said loudly: "What the guardian envoy said is the way to build a country, and it should be like this."

    All civil and military officials reacted and said loudly: "It should be so."

    Li Zuoguo said with satisfaction: "Okay, now I have taken the post of Grand Sikong. Li Hu is the former general, and the other two are vacant. Li Yi is the rear general, Alishe is the left general, Duan Yuntian is the rear general, and Duan Tianhe is the rear general."  Ren Zhisu is also the governor of Chang'an, and Chu Tianshu is Dianke and the governor of Anxi. The other positions are temporarily vacant. When everyone has made meritorious deeds, some of them will be able to ascend to high positions. Okay, let's all go down now. Chu Tianshu and Li Yiliu  Down."

    After the civil and military officials bowed and retired together, Li Zuoguo recruited Li Yi and Chu%% military officials. The issue of enfeoffment of official positions was a systemic change and not a temporary achievement. Li Zuoguo wanted to put up a shelf first, and then move to this framework.  Just fill in the officials.

    As for proclaiming himself emperor, Li Zuoguo believes that as long as the time is right and the whole world is wiped out, all problems will fall into place, right?
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