The Hanhai, Tianshan and Yiwu armies were under the jurisdiction of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, of which the Han Navy was stationed in Tingzhou, while the Tianshan Army and the Yiwu Army were stationed in Xizhou and Yizhou respectively, but Xizhou and Yizhou were not administratively under the jurisdiction of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, but were directly subordinate to Hexi Province. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Before the early years of Tianbao, compared from the administrative level, the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate and the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate were at the same level as Xizhou and Yizhou, and they all belonged to the jurisdiction of Hexi Dao, but since Zhao Ziliang swept away Mobei, the strength of the tribes in Mobei was greatly reduced, and they could no longer pose a threat to the northern Xinjiang of the Tang Dynasty, the status of Hexi Dao began to decline, and it was no longer able to govern the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate. Xizhou and Yizhou were divided into the jurisdiction of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, and the history of Xizhou and Yizhou were to be under the jurisdiction of the Beiting Xingying Jiedu Envoy.

But these two states have always belonged to Hexi Road, and suddenly they were placed under the jurisdiction of the Beiting Xingying Jiedu Envoy, and the assassination history of the two states was not very obedient for a while, Wang Zhengjian was also very troubled for this matter, and what was even more nerve-wracking was that although the Tianshan Army and the Yiwu Army were under the jurisdiction of the Beiting Xingying Jiedu Envoy in terms of establishment, they were financially responsible for Xizhou and Yizhou respectively, and the expenses required for food, clothing, and military salaries of the Tianshan Army and the Yiwu Army were all borne by Xizhou and Yizhou, and the financial power was controlled by these two local governments. These two armies naturally inevitably had to be dispatched by the assassins of Xizhou and Yizhou, and Wang Zheng saw that it was very difficult for this Beiting Jiedu envoy to mobilize the Tianshan Army and the Yiwu Army, let alone Zhao Ziliang, a soldier and horse envoy.

For this matter, Zhao Ziliang deliberately approached Wang Zhengjian to discuss the recovery of the military power of the Tianshan Army and the Yiwu Army.

"Marshal, now the reorganization of the Han Navy has been completed a long time ago, and the training is still ongoing, and it will be persistent, other military towns are easy to handle, if there is no cooperation, directly change the chief officer and general, but the Tianshan Army and the Yiwu Army are not easy to handle, these two military towns are not within the administrative jurisdiction of Beiting, and they belong to Xizhou and Yizhou respectively in terms of financial power, even if the marshal wants to mobilize them, I'm afraid it's not so easy, right?"

Wang Zhengjian was also so worried about this matter that his hair turned white, although the two military formations of the Tianshan Army and the Yiwu Army were only about 3,000 people, they were the only three large military towns in Beiting, if they lost their command over these two military towns, wouldn't it make people laugh off their big teeth?

"Well, who's to say it's not? This official was trying to discuss this matter with you, but I didn't expect you to come first, do you have any way to solve this matter? ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Marshal, if you want to solve this matter, there are only two ways, and these two methods must be carried out at the same time, first, remove the main generals and officials of the Tianshan Army and the Yiwu Army; Second, our Beiting side will allocate the military expenses of the Tianshan Army and Yiwu. But in this way, are we too much of a loss? We have to pay for our own military expenses, but we have to be responsible for the defense of Xizhou and Yizhou, and Xizhou and Yizhou are not administratively under the jurisdiction of our Beiting, so why should we garrison them for them? How can there be such a good thing in the world? If the marshal doesn't want to suffer this loss, he will write to the imperial court, either asking the imperial court to assign the administrative jurisdiction of Xizhou and Yizhou to the jurisdiction of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, or we will transfer the Tianshan Army and the Yiwu Army back, and after changing their names, they will be stationed elsewhere, as for the security and defense of Xizhou and Yizhou, they will recruit troops and buy horses by themselves, or write to the imperial court that our Beiting side will automatically give up the jurisdiction of the Tianshan Army and the Yiwu Army, it is better than not worthy of the name, like now, we can't transfer these two armies, if something happens to these two armies, But we Beiting are not stupid! ”

After listening to Zhao Ziliang's suggestions, Wang Zhengjian felt that it was best to write to the imperial court to request that Xizhou and Yizhou be administratively divided into the jurisdiction of the North Court, after all, this is not only not a loss, but it makes a lot of money, but I don't know if the imperial court will agree. Another suggestion was to withdraw the Tianshan Army back to Tingzhou, change its name and then send it to another place to station, which did not suffer a loss, but it did not make any profit. As for the third article, the automatic relinquishment of the command of these two armies is not a gift of troops for nothing? Don't do it, it's too much of a loss, we're not stupid.

Wang Zhengjian said; "Your first and second suggestions are feasible, so let's do it, this official will write to the imperial court, and the imperial court will either promise to assign the administrative jurisdiction of Xizhou and Yizhou to Beiting, or Beiting will transfer the Tianshan Army and Yiwu Army back to Tingzhou, and let Yizhou and Xizhou cry by themselves, let's leave them alone!" I'm afraid it will take a while to wait for the imperial court's reply, but the matter of reorganization and training can't be stopped, you first carry out it in other guards, cities, towns, Wubao and Yifeng, and when the imperial court replies, we will deal with the court's reply."

Zhao Ziliang said: "It has already begun to be carried out, the end of the day before yesterday has already sent people to various places to check the number of troops, check the old, weak, sick and disabled, and at the same time send a team of people to the interior to recruit new soldiers, in another ten days or so, the number of troops and the old, weak, sick and disabled officials and generals will come back!" ”

On December 18, the officials and generals sent to various places to check returned, they brought back the roster of the inventory, Zhao Ziliang ordered people to spend two days to reorganize the roster of soldiers, the old, weak, sick and disabled to be cleared out separately, and then sent to various military towns, and at the same time sent people to send severance pay, there are family members at home, and want to go home The old, weak, sick and disabled can return to their hometown after receiving severance pay.

In this short period of time, some officials in military towns have found Zhao Ziliang to turn themselves in, confessing that they had eaten empty salaries, embezzled military salaries and military funds during their tenure, Zhao Ziliang carefully listened to the reports of these people and compiled them into a book, recorded them, and asked them not to commit crimes again in the future, to take them as a warning, if they commit again, they will be sentenced to death, as for the question of whether these people will stay or not, Zhao Ziliang has discussed with Wang Zhengjian, for officials and generals with less serious circumstances, they can consider staying in their original posts, but for the more serious circumstances, They must all be transferred out of their original positions, and they must no longer be allowed to stand alone or be the commanders and generals.

As for those who are guilty but have not turned themselves in, problems will certainly be discovered in the course of the investigation, and once problems are discovered, the Metropolitan Protectorate will immediately send people down to investigate, and if evidence is found, the person concerned will be immediately arrested, and his official position will be removed first, and then his crime will be investigated.

On December 20, Gong Ren, the chief in charge of the investigation, came to the Soldiers and Horses Embassy to ask to see Zhao Ziliang, who had just returned from the Han Navy barracks and had been training for a whole day.

"General, in this investigation, there are many problems, and they are not small, and the others are okay, but one person is afraid that it will not be easy to handle!" Gong Ren said and handed a file bag to Zhao Ziliang.

Zhao Ziliang took the file bag and asked, "Who is it difficult to handle?" ”

"General Cheng Qianli, the deputy envoy of Jiedu!"

Zhao Ziliang frowned, and while opening the file bag, he asked, "What's the matter with him?" ”

"The amount of empty salaries and military salaries deducted is huge!"

Zhao Ziliang immediately took out a few case files and looked at them together. After a long time, he sighed, shook his head and said, "This Cheng Qianli, he is not without money, why do you want to make these famous halls?" ”

Gong Ren asked, "General, how to deal with this matter?" If you want to move him, I am afraid that neither the general nor the last general will have this right."

Zhao Ziliang thought about it, waved his hand and said: "This is pressed down in advance, I have to think about it!" ”

"No!"

In fact, Zhao Ziliang is not willing to move Cheng Qianli at all from the heart, no matter what, he and Cheng Qianli are both generals brought out by Fumeng Lingcha, and they are in the same line, so it stands to reason that they should support each other and help each other, but Cheng Qianli is a little small-bellied, jealous and jealous, and he can't see that others are more talented than him and live better than him.

In the past, when he was in Anxi, he often said bad things about Zhao Ziliang in front of Fumeng Lingcha, after Zhao Ziliang was transferred to the capital, Gao Xianzhi appeared in the sight of Fumeng Lingcha again, and was vigorously promoted, he began to say bad things about Gao Xianzhi in front of Fumeng Lingcha, but there is nothing wrong with such a person, the crime is not death, and it is unbearable to let Zhao Ziliang kill him, this matter is really difficult to do.

After thinking about it for a few days, Zhao Ziliang decided to force Cheng Qianli away and no longer pursue the matter, if he really wanted to be investigated, Cheng Qianli's crime was not small, but in this way, the face of Fu Menglingcha, who was far away in the capital, was not good-looking, so after thinking about it, Zhao Ziliang still decided to have a showdown with Cheng Qianli.

"Come on, prepare the horses!"

In the middle of the night, Zhao Ziliang came to the door of Cheng Qianli's mansion with a few guards, and said to the two soldiers standing guard at the door: "Go and report to General Cheng, just say that I, Zhao Ziliang, are visiting!" ”

"Yes, please wait, General!"

Soon, the door opened, and a family member came out and saluted: "My general invites General Zhao to the front hall to serve tea, and he will come later to change his clothes."

Zhao Ziliang nodded: "Lead the way!" ”

After drinking only half a cup of tea in the front hall, Cheng Qianli walked into the front hall and said, "Lao Zhao, what do you mean?" This late in the middle of the night, still let people sleep? Is there anything you can't talk about tomorrow? ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at Cheng Qianli and said, "Let the people go down, I have something I want to tell you alone!" ”

Cheng Qianli hesitated, but waved his hand to the subordinates and drove them away.

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

Zhao Ziliang didn't speak, took out the investigation results from his arms and threw them on the table in front of Cheng Qianli, "This is the result of Gong Ren's investigation, it's not that I, Zhao, want to deliberately target you, Wang Dashuai and I have already said that if there is a problem, you can surrender to us, as long as we explain it clearly, we can not blame the past, we didn't know before, but now that this evidence is in front of me, I can't turn a blind eye." You think you're doing it secretly, but you don't know that there is no wall in the world that doesn't leak! ”

After reading the results of the investigation, Cheng Qianli's face turned pale, and his spirit seemed to be drained all at once, and it took a long time before he asked, "What do you want?" ”

"What do I think? Do I really want to deal with you, do I need to come to you with this thing? Take it directly to Wang Dashuai! After Wang Dashuai watched it, what do you think will happen to you? ”

Zhao Ziliang stared at Cheng Qianli and continued: "How can you say that we are all carried up by General Fumeng, although the relationship between you and me is not very good, but how to say that we are also from the same line, how did you slander me before, how did you mess with me, I don't care about General Fumeng's face, but you shouldn't do this kind of thing, don't you have money?" Even if you don't have money, it's easy to get money with your official position and power, so why drink the blood of soldiers? What is the difference between us and those ordinary soldiers? Everyone is pinning their heads to the waistband of their trousers and licking the blood with knives, and you are not afraid of choking to death if you drink their blood? ”

Zhao Ziliang took the investigation file in Cheng Qianli's hand and put it on the lamp and lit it, and said: "Although only I know about this matter, and I also ordered the investigation officials to keep it secret, I don't dare to guarantee that the person in charge of the investigation below will not inadvertently leak it, once this matter is leaked, the consequences will be more serious." You can't stay in this Beiting anymore, I heard that General Fumeng has been appointed as the general of the Right Xiaowei, you write a transfer letter to Wang Dashuai, I will send a letter to General Fumeng, let him do some activities in the capital, and arrange a position for you in the capital! ”

Cheng Qianli now finally knew his mistake, he gave up his hands with difficulty and said dryly: "Thank you for letting me go, my old Cheng will remember your kindness, if you are sent in the future, just say it!" (To be continued.) )