(Thanks to Lin Shuangyi's monthly pass support, I asked for a monthly pass for three consecutive shifts in the early morning!) ）

At the beginning of October, Li Jing once again greeted the angels from Chang'an in Liaodong City.

All the way from Chang'an hurriedly, ran 800 miles a day, first rode to Dengzhou, then took a boat to Liaodong Bay to land, and then along the Liaoshui north, 3,500 miles, the messenger desperately took only five days from Chang'an to Liaodong City, bringing the emperor's holy decree.

When he arrived, it was just in time for the national army in the city of Liaodong to celebrate the demise of Goguryeo. The envoy was also surprised when he heard that Goguryeo had been wiped out by Li Jing's army.

But then he was happy again, the last time Li Jing refused to be recruited by the imperial court, one of the important reasons was that Li Jing thought that it was the critical time to destroy Goguryeo, so he would be outside, and the king's order would not be accepted.

Now that Goguryeo has perished, Li Jing should accept the dispatch of the imperial court. Especially this time, the imperial court also added the marshal of the Northeast Province to Li Jing, and returned the military power of the Zhenguo Army to Li Jing.

The angel was full of joy and read the holy decree to Li Jing and the soldiers in person, and the holy decree said a lot of words praised Li Jing's merits. In addition, Li Jing was added the title of Hebei Marshal and the commander of the troops and horses of the Hebei Battalion on all sides, and the Son of Heaven authorized full authority to command the soldiers and horses of the Hebei Rebellion Battalion.

In addition, he also issued an order to grant Cui Yunqing the envoy of Ziqing Festival as the commander of the camp in the north of Hebei.

Of course, the previous order was to dismantle the Zhenguo army, and only two armies of 10,000 people were retained in the last five towns. Now the emperor naturally knows that Li Jing has dismantled all the armies according to the order, but on the other hand, he has cut off the most elite ten armies, and then recruited him as the tooth soldiers of the marshal of Hebei Province. Now is the time for the imperial court to employ people. He simply made another order. The ten armies recruited by Li Jing privately were all ordered to be transferred to Marshal Li Jing's Tenth Army. In addition, the 100,000 unity army and township soldiers who were dismissed. They all rebelonged to Li Jing's subordinates.

The generals of the Zhenguo Army also have a will to seal them. For all officers above the rank of commander, they are promoted to the first rank of the martial arts rank.

In short, the imperial court not only did not mention Li Jing's previous disobedience to his will, but rewarded him heavily.

I sent my grandfather to tell my grandmother, and knelt down to beg Li Jing to send troops.

After announcing the holy decree, the fat eunuch said to Li Jing with an eager face: "The emperor and all the princes of the imperial court hope that the king of the county will immediately lead the towns of Northeast Province to enter the customs to quell the rebellion. I hope that the rebellion can be suppressed as soon as possible and the unai can be paid off. ”

After Li Jing received the order, he just smiled faintly, and there was no joy and excitement on his face.

"The angel has worked hard all the way, and I asked my father-in-law to go with the guards to rest."

"I wonder when the king of the county can send troops?" The eunuch asked with a look of eagerness.

"This king will also consult with the generals on this matter." Li Jing said lightly.

After letting the guards take the eunuch away, Li Jing summoned the generals.

The faces of all the generals were happy, this side had just destroyed Goguryeo, and the emperor over there finally issued another order and returned the military power to Li Jing.

Although the Zhenguo Army was not restored, Li Jing was directly promoted to the position of marshal and controlled the five towns. still holds the power of the Zhenguo Army. Especially for Li Zhengaiyu, a civil and military official who has just been promoted to the important posts of Jiedu envoy and Jiedu government, this is the case. They don't have to take back their positions, and they can still keep their position as marshals. People have selfish intentions, and being the marshal of a town is naturally better than being a state assassin. Not to mention, according to the system, the commanders of each town not only serve as the observation and disposal envoy of the town, but also serve as the envoy of the branch battalion, and concurrently serve as the governor of the shogunate.

The rights of this section marshal are much greater than the rights of the original Li Jing's revised assassination history.

However, the only point is that at present, of the 200,000 soldiers and horses, only 50,000 are retained by the Marshal of the Five Towns, and the remaining 150,000 people belong to the Northeast Marshal Li Jing. This is the case, which also makes the new marshal still maintain respect for Li Jing. Without military power, the marshal is not as good as an observer.

Relying on the military power in his hands, Li Jing still actually firmly controls the current territory of the 21st Prefecture.

Regarding the rewards and conscriptions of the imperial court this time, many generals think that since everyone has already taken the benefits, then they should do something. After all, take people's money and eliminate disasters with people.

At the meeting, Li Jing didn't say a word, just watched Zhu Wenwu's speeches and discussions.

Li Jing has his own ideas, and even said that Li Jing has great ambitions.

This ambition is to occupy the Northeast Plain and establish the Northeast as a stable granary dominated by Han Chinese.

Although the Goguryeo Kingdom was destroyed at present, in fact, the area under its control was only a little larger than the later Liaoning Province. The three major plains in Northeast China only occupy the middle and lower reaches of the Liaohe Plain.

In the northeast, Goguryeo is not the Goguryeo of 300 years ago, but only the weakest branch.

Even the weakened Bohai State is a great power in the eastern part of the sea with an army of five million and two or three hundred thousand. Moreover, there is also the Khitan, a strong horse tribe, and there is also a Xi, if you can't destroy the Khitan, Xi, and Bohai, it is impossible to really occupy the Northeast. Even the destruction of the Khitan, Xi, and Bohai Sea is only a temporary stabilization.

If we really want to occupy and transform the Northeast, Tatar, Tatar, and Silla all need to be cleared.

Only by defeating them in an all-round way, occupying them in an all-round way, and then building and reclaiming the city in an all-round way, so that the Han people occupy the real vast majority here, can it be possible to truly hold this black land in their hands permanently.

But it's hard to do this, and maybe the efforts of several generations may not be able to really accomplish it.

But at least now that he has achieved a good foundation, as long as Li Jing is given a few years of stable time to develop with all his might, he can make a big difference here.

To be honest, Li Jing didn't really want to participate in the battle in the Central Plains immediately.

It is not that after the Central Plains does not have the Northeast, the Central Plains is hundreds of times better than the Northeast. But such a good place also means strife, war, and even repeated disputes. There is no chance of peace of mind for development, there will only be a chaotic war on all sides, and the flames will be in the sky.

Li Jing was originally based in Dengzhou, but he crossed the sea and went to Liaodong, because although Liaodong was bitterly cold, it was a place where he could develop with peace of mind. By defeating these Hu tribes, Li Jing was free to move them away. Then a new group of people was relocated. There is no such thing as a tyrant family. A blank sheet of paper. You can be free to sway and develop according to your own envisioned system and concept.

Just like his development in the past few years, it has developed rapidly, but the imperial court has never really paid attention to this territory before.

And if Li Jing marches into the Central Plains, whether it is out of Shandong or Hebei, although Li Jing can ensure that his soldiers and horses can have an advantage, and even win a large area of territory. Can be a military victory. Not equal to a political victory.

If you can't really possess and control, you can't really succeed.

And whether it is Shandong or Hebei, no one will be willing to sit back and watch Li Jing's expansion.

At present, the imperial court still has great power, and under the orders of the imperial court, it can be said that they are all obedient.

Just look at this Hebei rebellion, and the reaction of the towns in the imperial court should be known. The three-hundred-year-old Li Tang Dynasty still occupies an orthodox position in the hearts of the people of the world.

If Li Jing rebels at this time, what awaits Li Jing may be the siege and strangulation of the whole country. Until that time. Li Jing can only fight with all his might, and the only places he can really rely on are Denglai Qingqi and a few areas in southern Liaoning. Moreover, Li Jing's biggest reliance on industrial and commercial manufacturing and commercial trade will inevitably suffer a devastating blow.

Without the support of industry and commerce, Li Jing would not be able to maintain his current advantage. The Zhenguo Army has not been established for a long time, and it is not the strongest, at least, Li Jing thinks that if the Zhenguo Army is compared with the Shatuo Army and the Dangxiang Cavalry, there is still some distance. The Zhenguo Army relied on equipment superiority, mobility superiority, and numerical superiority, but he estimated that if it was the enemy of the entire Datang at this time, when Datang imposed a blockade on the commodities of the Zhenguo Army, their advantage might become the biggest weakness of the Zhenguo Army.

Therefore, although the Zhenguo Army has been expanding rapidly, Li Jing is not conceited enough to know his own details.

He started from scratch and did not have a deep family background, and first relied on the support of Cui Yunqing, Yu Xuan, Song Wei and others to get through the initial stage. Then he curried favor with the emperor at all costs, and a large amount of money kept Li Jing through the most vulnerable period. Then he fought for the imperial court several times, in exchange for a higher official status. In this way, I was so frightened that I finally had enough capital.

But this capital is more than enough to protect itself, but it is not enough to challenge Datang.

Li Jing doesn't want to be tough, he knows the trend of history, and he is willing to wait. Therefore, he will concentrate on expanding to the northeast, immigrating to build cities, and cultivating barren fields.

An Lushan rebelled and was defeated.

The three towns of Hebei did not have more than 100,000 troops in each town at the beginning, and they were also defeated again and again.

Even the Li family in Ziqing Town, with thirteen states and 100,000 soldiers, and Ziqing Town is rich in the world, with enough soldiers and food, and it also allied with the four towns, but it was still defeated.

The rebellions in other places such as Huaixi and Shannan were all undefeated.

Qiu Fu raised an army and was defeated.

Pang Xun raised troops and was defeated.

Wang Xianzhi raised an army and was defeated.

Li Ke used the army, but he was defeated.

Although the current situation is gradually different from the historical one, Datang has not yet reached the weakest time.

A hundred-legged insect that dies but does not stiffen.

Emaciated camel, he is also bigger than a horse.

In history, Zhu Wen was able to kill the Tang Dynasty, not because he was strong early, but because at that time of the Tang Dynasty, the wall was already down and everyone pushed him, and he was just the one who laughed the least.

At least now, Li Keyong is still grazing in the north of Yinshan, Huangchao is still wandering in Jiangxi, and the four towns in Hebei are still in panic.

Has that time come to that time?

Li Jing asked himself, and he shook his head after the last moment.

No, it's not time yet.

It was only five years for the Zhenguo Army, and he conquered more than 20 state territories, but in fact, only five or six state territories were truly rich and self-sufficient. The rest of the land, such as building cities, building roads, immigration, military cantonments, building water conservancy, and so on, are all in and out, and a lot of money is being thrown into them, and there is no benefit in three or five years.

In fact, after the four towns of Hebei were reversed, it was the biggest opportunity for Li Jing.

As long as the rebellion in the four towns of Hebei is not quelled, Li Jing will never have to worry about the imperial court being unfavorable to him.

As long as the four towns of Hebei are still there, the imperial court will no longer dare to easily relieve Li Jing's military power as it did last time.

It is precisely with the existence of the rebels in the four towns of Hebei that Li Jing's Zhenguo Army can be regarded as truly able to enter the era of supporting troops and separating themselves from each other.

Huangchao is chaotic in the southeast, and the four towns are against Hebei, and Li Jing can sit leisurely in Diaoyutai now.

With this rebellion in the south and the north, Li Jing estimated that it would be difficult for the imperial court to calm down at this time.

Li Jing can have time to develop Liaodong with peace of mind, and he can expand his territory and increase his strength without entering the Central Plains and tearing up the imperial court and various towns. Maybe when they kill you to the death and divide the winner, Li Jing will be able to pass on the verdict to the Central Plains.

The next day, Li Jing met with the angel and said that after the soldiers and horses of the five towns in the northeast had rested for a while, they would go to Guannai to quell the rebellion.

Hearing the news, the envoy finally set off happily and returned to Chang'an.

North of Yinshan, Shatuo Camp.

At the beginning, he fled to the grassland in embarrassment, and after a few years, Li Keyong finally licked his wounds, and in several battles against the Yinshan Tatars, Shatuo won the victory. After plundering again and again, Shatuo gradually recovered his vitality, and attracted small tribes from all over the world to vote. The Tiele people, the Sogdians, the Uighurs, the Xi people, the Tatars, the Khitans, and even the Han people, the Tuyuhun people, the Dangxiang people, etc., Li Keyong now has 20,000 men.

The newly formed Black Crow Army has 10,000 elite cavalry, and has a population of 70,000 or 80,000, in the grassland, where all the people are soldiers and herdsmen, once necessary, men over the age of 12 and under the age of 60 can join the army, and he can completely gather 30,000 soldiers and horses. Even if it is elite and strong, it can reach 20,000. In today's Shatuo, strong young women can also join the army, and Li Keyong's wife, Liu, has a women's army of 3,000 people.

Today's Shatuo magpie occupies the dove's nest, and the original generation of the master Yinshan Tatar continues to migrate to the north and east. Li Keyong's prestige has reached its peak, and the Shatuo clan has begun to call Li Keyong the king of Shatuo.

However, what Li Keyong never forgot was the prosperity of the Central Plains, and the king of Shatuo on the grassland, in his heart, was really incomparable with the Tang Dynasty's festival.

Moreover, the original Daibei was defeated, countless Shatuo people died under the iron hooves and horizontal knives of the imperial court, and Li Keyong was almost killed by Li Jing's Zhenguo army several times. This hatred is still hard for him to forget.

For countless days and nights, he was waiting for the opportunity to return to the Central Plains.

Just when he heard countless times over and over again that Li Jing's strength was growing, and he had even been crowned the king with a different surname, he thought that with Li Jing in this life, he would never be able to step into the Central Plains again. Even after hearing that the Tatars had found Li Jing as a backer, he even repeatedly ordered his subordinates not to go to trouble the Tatars again.

What he didn't expect was that the four towns of Hebei actually reversed, which made him see an opportunity, an opportunity to return to the Central Plains.

Under his operation, he finally reached an alliance with the Yang Fugong brothers, and finally got a chance to return to the Central Plains openly.

The envoy sent by Chaoyan was reading aloud the decree that the emperor would pardon all the sins of Li Keyong and the Shatuo clan. At the same time, the emperor appointed Li Keyong as the governor of Yinshan, the military envoy of Shatuo, the envoy of the camp north of Yinshan, and the deputy commander of the camp in the west of Hebei, and officially transferred Li Keyong and the Shatuo army into Guanping Hebei rebellion.

Chen Jingsi, the eunuch who came to deliver the decree, is also the new military supervisor of Shatuo in the imperial court, and after announcing the holy decree, he said to Li Keyong with a smile: "This time, His Majesty pardoned Shatuo and reused the governor. ”

Li Ke held the holy decree in his hand, and a firm gaze flashed in one eye on his dark face that was blown by the wind outside the plug, and he said categorically: "Li Ke swears to serve His Majesty and the Tang Dynasty, and will never live up to His Majesty's holy grace!" (To be continued......)