As the situation in Guanzhong became more and more stable, especially the gradual recovery of Sanfu's vitality, Bashang, as a gateway to Chang'an, became more and more prosperous. The traffic of boats and vehicles near Baqiao has gradually restored the prosperity of Chang'an, the core of the three auxiliaries.

In midsummer May, there was a slight change in the vicinity of Chang'an, and the soldiers of the Wang Division and the children of the Guanzhong Military Government lined up eastward along the Weishui River one by one, until they reached a long distance from Chang'an, clearing the road and strictly checking the pedestrians.

Seeing this scene, many people around Chang'an were palpitating and rushed to visit to ask what had happened. This situation has not been settled for a long time, and people have finally enjoyed the benefits of stability, and they really do not want to be unpredictable and interrupt this orderly and stable life.

This panic did not last long, and soon the assassination of Shifu and Jingzhao Judu issued a notice, which not only comforted people, but also made people feel angry: it turned out that Wang Shi was on guard along the Weishui Waterway because General Shen was going to Chang'an in the near future!

After learning the news, the people of Sanfu rushed to tell each other, and soon everyone in the realm knew about it.

For those old families of the clan, the general's arrival in Chang'an is indispensable to summon the county, county and township sages, and promote some of them with outstanding talents to be used by the king, which is an extremely rare opportunity for them.

As for those military officers and soldiers, they were also excited, one by one, waiting for the grand martial arts occasion to make a splash with their skills.

The ordinary people of the township community are diligent in farming and weaving, and it has nothing to do with them that there are any big people, but after learning the news, they all became turbulent, and their hearts were full of curiosity, wanting to see what kind of person this general Shen Da who swept away the thieves in Guanzhong and brought them a stable life.

After several years of operation, the road between Guanzhong and Luoyang Xingtai has also become very smooth, Yongzhou Thorn Mansion has not been notified for a long time, and soon the news that the general's Yijia has traveled through the east of the river and turned into Weishui.

Two days later, in the expectation of the villagers of Sanfu, the building boat of General Shen and a group of important subordinates of Taiwan slowly arrived at Baqiao.

The summer sun is scorching, but it does not detract from the enthusiasm of the people. Not to mention the civil and military officials who surrendered to Huan Xuan of the Yongzhou Assassin Mansion have long been waiting here, and the surrounding villagers have also flocked to here, as for the area around the Baqiao that is set up for watching and greeting, it has already become crowded.

When the Shuo Building, which was several feet high and dozens of feet long, slowly approached, the surrounding people were already shouting in amazement. Although the surrounding area of Chang'an is also known as surrounded by eight rivers, there is no shortage of boats and boats, but such a large scale of ships is really rare, this is like a small city floating on the river!

This big ship happened to be named "Chang'an", and in the early years, it once shined in the Huaishui Battle of Zhao's southern expedition, and comprehensively suppressed the Qianguo naval army with a devastating spirit. This time, the general chose to use this as the ship in the western tour, in addition to the occasion and show the majesty, another point is to test the repair status of the Guanzhong Caoyun.

In terms of water transportation, Guanzhong is naturally not as blessed as Jiangdong, but it is not without foundation. It's just that in the past years, due to the war and the abnormal climate, the river has been flooded and silted, not to mention the water transportation, and even the basic reclamation irrigation can not be satisfied, and every year there will be a drought of varying severity or severity.

One of the very important tasks of Xingtai is to repair the water network in Guanzhong, to restore irrigation and alleviate drought conditions internally, and to strengthen ties with the outside world, especially for the transfer of various military goods and goods.

In just a few years, the Chang'an ship can sail directly from Heluo to the Baqiao at the gateway of Chang'an, although in some small sections of the river still need the assistance of manpower on both sides of the river, but it is enough to show that the business results in the past few years are great.

The onlookers naturally did not understand the meaning of this, in addition to lamenting the grandeur of the ship, they were looking forward to it, hoping to see what kind of demeanor the general Shen had.

The big ship had a heavy draft and could not dock directly, so it stopped directly in the middle of the river, and then the small boats approached on all sides, and the officers and men of the general on the ship disembarked and sailed to the shore to take over the defense on both sides of the wharf.

In the past few years, because the generals are often on the stage, the Shengwu Army has rarely appeared on the frontal battlefield because of the defense of the army as a whole because of the need to defend in the game.

However, this does not mean that the officers and men of the Shengwu Army will be lazy and relaxed, although the banner order of the Shengwu Army is not dispatched, but specific to each soldier, every year it needs to be transferred to the front-line combat units for training. Moreover, talented and outstanding officers and men in various armies have been selected to serve in the Shengwu Army for a period of time.

Now in the entire royal division system, serving in the Shengwu Army is a very important resume. Even if it is the same talent performance, if you have this resume, you can get more appointment and performance opportunities if you deploy troops on the battlefield.

Therefore, today's Shengwu Army has gradually moved away from the mission of conventional combat troops, but has covered the entire royal division system, the most important institution for the selection and training of generals.

Even if he is an inconspicuous pawn in his army, he may be the first to ascend and trap the camp master as the elite of the sharp knife in the original army. And the military lords and superintendents who seem to be majestic and majestic in each army, when they see some captains and the like in the Shengwu army, they probably have to salute and worship.

The soldiers of the Wang Division on the dock retreated separately and gave up the defense area to the Shengwu Army to take over, and when they saw the vigorous and powerful Shengwu Army soldiers, they were also envious. Maybe one day in the future, one of these guards of honor will become their top commander.

"It's easy to get first, it's common to fall into battle, and it's not enough to praise the generals, and the only great wish in life is to win the martial arts."

In recent years, this kind of argument, which has been widely circulated in various departments of the Wang Division, is also enough to show the lofty and transcendent status of the Shengwu Army in the military system of Xingtai.

As for the general, as the scale of the Wang division became larger and larger, especially the military structure at all levels, such as conquest, town guard, military government, cantonment and garrison, including the township brave, it was difficult for him to inspect all parties and go deep into the ranks of various armies to inspect the armament. Nowadays, it is only necessary to look at the flow of personnel of the Shengwu Army to have an intuitive understanding of the combat effectiveness and performance of each army.

After the Shengwu army took over the defense, Huan Xuan, Li Chong and other civil and military officials of the three auxiliary took small boats to board the big ship, and after a while, General Shen, who was wearing Mingguang armor, got off the big ship surrounded by a group of subordinate officials and Wu Ben.

"Greetings to the General!"

"The Great General is mighty!"

As soon as General Shen's figure was revealed, all the surrounding Wang Shi soldiers and officials, including officials, raised their arms and shouted, and for a while, the thunder rushed straight into the sky, covering the surroundings. After hearing these shouts, some onlookers from afar also joined in with high interest, and the shouts came and went for a long time.

"Sergeant Guan and the people have been thirsty for a long time, and the general is here, and he finally got what he wanted."

Huan Xuanxing was on the side of the general, half a position behind, and he was also very satisfied with such a lively occasion.

Shen Zhezi laughed when he heard this, first glanced at the extremely lively scene around Baqiao, and then pointed to Huan Xuan and the officials behind him and said with a smile: "In this way, it is really a joy to see each other." Originally, before entering the country, I was still worried that the new Sanfu had not been established for a long time, and the people were still tired, but now I heard this loud and full of energy, which shows that you are diligent and diligent, and I have to choose the right people and know people wisely. ”

After Huan Xuan and the others heard this, they were slightly embarrassed at first, after all, this scene was indeed deliberately created, hoping to win the favor of the general, and the general said this is really subtle and transparent. But after that, they couldn't help but be proud, after all, being able to put on such a grand occasion is enough to show that their past achievements are indeed good.

After landing on the shore, the general did not let people prepare for the car, and directly got on the horse, and then went straight to Chang'an surrounded by a group of attachés.

Between Chang'an and Baqiao, the avenue is flat and spacious, and the people are more than ten miles away to see how the general's majesty is.

"That silver-armored jade-faced prince is General Shen? How can you be so young? ”

The people of Sanfu have long heard the name of General Shen, but this time they were able to see it in person, and after seeing General Shen who was surrounded by Huan Xuan and other Sanfu powerhouses, their first reaction was mostly incredulous, and they only felt that the true image of General Shen was completely contrary to what they imagined.

In their opinion, such a noble man who can control so many strong people, deter many Jin Hu Haoqiang, and create a vast atmosphere of Xingtai, even if he is not an old and old traitor, should be a strong and domineering choice to look down on the common people.

However, the General Shen they saw was too young compared to his prestige and achievements. Of course, it's not that they can't accept the young and powerful people, most of those situations are the shade of the door, but it is said that this General Shen is not from a famous family, and he can do it all by his own struggle to this day, so it is inevitable that people will be amazed.

After being amazed, they couldn't help but turn into excitement and joy, although they only watched from a distance, but the heroic and handsome image of General Shen made them remember deeply.

People are always a visual animal, and the beauty of the naked eye subconsciously feels that his character must be noble and benevolent, on the contrary, an ugly and vicious person will always make people stay away, and the impression is not good, and only through deeper contact can we understand that this person is also a good person with a pure and good character.

This is not shallow or not, after all, even Confucius judged people by their appearance, and saints were still like this, let alone ordinary people.

Most of the people present did not have the opportunity to make deep contact with General Shen, and seeing that his handsome posture was far different from the fierce and powerful overlords they saw in the old years, they all smiled: "The general is indeed a benevolent and beautiful example, and it is even more rare for the king under his command to be loyal and brave, probably the sky is sympathetic to the blood and tears of the three Qin fathers and the old people, and this sage is born to create benevolent governance......"

Baqiao to the west has not been long ago, and Chang'an City has been vaguely in sight. In the fourth year of Qitai, the king regained Chang'an, when a ruined city, tigers, wolves, foxes and squirrels scurried among them, and there was no longer the prosperity of the old year. But now two years have passed, and the construction of Chang'an City has been extremely large-scale.

Now that the king lives in the river, the line is in Zhongzhou, and Chang'an City, the old Han Dynasty, is not easy to locate. When restoring the system and planning, considering the important position of Guanzhong in the overall trend of the whole world, Shen Zhezi personally instructed Chang'an City to compare the system with the Jingfu in Jiangdong, and the scale to compare Jiankang, and build it as the absolute center of Guanzhong and even the whole of Shaanxi.

Today's Chang'an New City was rebuilt as Luoyang, while the old city was slightly renovated as the base camp of the Yongzhou Assassin Mansion and the newly formed Guanxi Army.

The overall planning of Chang'an City is grand, but at present, the world is far from being stable, and Luoyang in Zhongzhou is still continuing to build, and it is difficult to carry out many large-scale construction projects at the same time in addition to supporting the army, so in the past two years, Chang'an City has only built a part of the inner city area.

But even so, the newly completed city is already the largest city in the entire Guanzhong, and the grand pattern has been seen.

After entering Chang'an City, Shen Zhezi stayed in the Jingzhao Official Office in the city, and he was tired all the way, and he did not immediately summon a banquet to invite a group of subordinate officials and village sages to worship.

Huan Xuan was in charge of the Guanzhong military, especially the establishment of the military government and the entire Guanxi Army, although in the past he had to regularly report the progress to Xingtai, but many details were not as detailed as the above. Therefore, after entering the palace, he explained this kind of situation to the general in detail.

"At present, the counties in the Guannai are peaceful, and General Hongwu Xiao is even more travelling to northern Shaanxi to deter the upper counties...... As for the construction of the military government, it has now become a large scale, and there are more than 30 military offices in the counties and counties in the Guannei, and there are nearly 90,000 people in the military household with armor......

Shen Zhezi listened carefully to Huan Xuan's report, asked for some details from time to time, and attached great importance to the construction of the Kansai Army.

Since the growth of Xingtai, the military establishment has also undergone several turns. For example, when he first marched north to Tuzhong and built Liang County, Shen Zhezi's subordinates were mainly from Jiangdong and Wuzhong counties, as well as the Jiangzhou soldiers who were obtained when they attacked Wang Shu in the early years, including the original militia of Liyang.

Later, during the period of the Huainan Governor's Mansion that went north to recover Shouchun, the army under his command had to be expanded again, and the children of Jiangdong were no longer the mainstream of the army, but they were still an important part, mainly concentrated in the naval army.

It's not that the children of Jiangdong are unavailable, and the quality of the soldiers is not as good as that of the north, but if the soldiers of Jiangdong are recruited and left their hometowns, morale will inevitably be low, and the cost is too high. On the contrary, it is better to go to the Central Plains to recruit the soldiers, those displaced people have a wide range of courage, enough to use, and scattered in the suburbs is a hidden danger.

Among them, the biggest change is that after the victory in the Central Plains and the defeat of Shikan in Hebei, Shen Zhezi also led Xuzhou, and the number of troops under his command reached hundreds of thousands.

After several years of operation, the growth in strength in terms of quantity is not large, and the main thing is to digest the gains and rectify the interior, which is accompanied by large-scale disarmament.

On the one hand, after more than ten years of hard work, although those soldiers have become experienced in battle, the decline in physical strength and the consumption of old pawns are also a very big problem. On the other hand, as the territory of Xingtai grows, there is an urgent need for a credible group for local control, and Shen Zhezi is reluctant to quote local village sects on a large scale, so he can only rely on these old pawns who were born and died.

The aging of soldiers and the emergence of a fault line in the construction of the armed forces are hidden dangers that any political regime must face. Especially in the turbulent era after Yongjia, the rise and fall of several Hulu regimes are related to this.

For example, in his early years, Shi Le was born as a slave and had eighteen horsemen under his command, and he was a thief at the beginning, and then he was a coward, and then he fought in Hebei and became the overlord. However, the hidden dangers of the state in the later period of Shile have actually been revealed, that is, there is no supplement with a stable source of troops, and the original team has also been consolidated and began to have internal friction.

In the original history, although the state of Qian did not experience the great rout of Huaishang and the years-long division and infighting, Shi Hu's strength actually declined all the way after he came to power. The powerful army that originally followed Shile across Hebei and swept away all directions seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and Shi Hu used his troops many times to defeat him.

For example, the black lance dragon army of the Qianguo country boasted by many people in later generations is really just literally good-looking, maybe it is strong, but after being brought to Liangzhou by Ma Qiu, a loser, it was heavily damaged by the Liangzhou army led by Xie Ai, and it was almost wiped out.

Behind these diametrically opposed manifestations is the weakening of military construction, the half-withering of the old war soldiers and the serious decline in combat effectiveness. Although Shi Hu started with martial arts and was known for his tyranny, it was common sense that he would not be so sloppy in his armament, but he faced one of the biggest difficulties, that is, he did not have enough troops.

This seems to be a ridiculous argument for the Qi Kingdom that dominates the north, but Shi Hu has one of the biggest knots in his heart is that he doesn't trust the Jin people, which causes the desperate suppression and enslavement of the northern Jin people, but he doesn't dare to use it for reuse.

The Qi people themselves are not a big clan, and they cannot be compared with the Jin people in the north in terms of size, and the Shihu seizure of the country has also caused him a certain negative impact. So in the later period of Shihu, it seemed to be a big reality, and a civil strife in Donggong Lishi fought all the way from Guanzhong to Heluo, sweeping half of the north, and it was only by relying on foreign tribes such as Diqiang to calm down.

After Shi Hu's death, Di Qiang returned to the west, and the armed forces of the Jin State became weaker, and the Jin armed forces came to power again, the most representative of which was naturally the beggar army of Li Nong's line. And the reason why Ran Min came to power has a lot to do with the support of the beggar army.

On the other hand, the court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was actually a period of time when there was chaos in the north and the south was in turmoil. Especially when Hu died and the former Qin collapsed, the rebellion in the north was even worse than Yongjia, and a large number of Jin people fled south, which added many troops to the south. However, with the sinicization of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the situation became more stable, and the southern regime lost the largest source of strength of the floating militia, and the military declined all the way.

Shen Zhezi attached great importance to the creation of the Kansai Army, and the use of it was not at the moment, but an arrangement to be prepared for danger in times of peace. As a matter of fact, as the military system for moving to Taiwan has become more and more perfect, the current composition of troops is more than enough to unify the north and the south, not to mention the more ambitious goals.

So the creation of the Kansai Legion was not a priority, but a reserve force that he left to future generations. If an armed force wants to shine without getting out of control, it needs a relatively long gestation period.

In particular, the successors after the founders are themselves less prestigious, and what they need is stability and strength within the system, rather than extraordinary performance under the call of personal prestige and charisma.

As Guanzhong gradually stabilized, Xingtai had actually begun to plan the most important goal of the Northern Expedition in the future, that is, to go north to completely exterminate the Shihu regime of the Qiang State. The establishment of the Kansai Military Government was completed in less than two years, and it was certainly impossible to use it in this decisive battle.

However, in the coming period, whether it is to completely pacify Guanlong and even Hexi, or continue to attack Zhuhu in the north, the Guanxi Army will definitely shine in it.

Although there is not much hope for the Guanxi Army at the moment, Shen Zhezi is full of confidence in its future, and although the military government in Guanzhong is still unusable as a whole, since the framework has been built, it is also necessary to concentrate on cultivating a group of elite backbones.

So after listening to Huan Xuan's report, Shen Zhezi first expressed his satisfaction, and then said: "The military government is ready, and it should be sharpened a little." There is another business on my current visit to the west, that is, Xingtai has decided to select the best of the best among the military offices in Guanzhong, and form a new elite army, which will be set up side by side with the previous four armies. Later, I asked Huan Hou to work again and inform the prefectures. ”

Huan Xuan nodded after hearing this, and was not surprised by this, Guanzhong's long-term chaotic realm has cultivated a strong folk style, and with a little training and sharpening, it is the choice of elite and brave, and based on this, it is also a natural choice to form an elite army alongside the Fenwu Army. Moreover, in this way, it will also contribute to the overall integration and control of the Kwanti Army.

After talking about these, Shen Zhezi mentioned the new arrangements for Huan Xuan, that is, to leave Guanzhong and return to Xingtai, and serve as the new general of the Shengwu Army with the general of the chariot and cavalry, Kaifu Yi and the three divisions, and at the same time replace Huan Xuan with Guo Chen, the assassin of Qinzhou, as the assassin of Yongzhou, and Yu Manzhi, the governor of Longyou, officially serve as the assassin of Qinzhou.

For this arrangement, Huan Xuan did not contradict it, long before the Western Expedition, he understood that he was only sharing his efforts in Guanzhong, and he was getting older in recent years, and he was no longer suitable to serve as such a busy Shaanxi uncle, who could retreat bravely at the most respectful moment, and he was also the general of such a transcendent army as the Shengwu Army, which was really a generous arrangement.

Shen Zhezi is not a cold person, since Huan Xuan knows so well that he is advancing and retreating, he will not hesitate to give preferential treatment, in addition to arranging for Huan Xuan Ronggao, the newly formed elite of Kansai, the first military master is ready to be served by his son Huan Rong. In this way, Huan Rong became the backbone of the Xingtai lineage alongside Xiao Yuandong and others.

After the military affairs were discussed, the sky had completely darkened, and this was Shen Zhezi's personal time, and he summoned Shen Jin and others who stayed in the town to dinner.