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In the third year of Qianfu, the Zhenguo Army was stationed in Pingzhou.

In the small Pingzhou, Li Jing suddenly dispatched the three armies of Xuanfeng, Tianwolf, and Konghe to guard it. Lin Wei, Li Zhen, Liu Xun, Li Juyi, and Fu Wenda were dispatched.

In this transfer, the three armies of the Zhenguo Army, plus the second battalion of the water division, and the three counties of Pingzhou, stationed 16,000 soldiers and horses at once.

Pingzhou, as the new state of the Zhenguo Army, is also the third state to be completely occupied after Dengzhou and the Governor's Office of Southern Liaoning, and Li Jing's appointment and dismissal of officials is somewhat unexpected. Many people thought at first that Lin Wei would serve as the commander of the Pingzhou Assassin and the regimental training envoy, after all, Lin Wei, as the deputy envoy of the Zhenguo Army, was appointed by Li Jing to stay behind when the Zhenguo Army sent troops many times.

The position of Dengzhou Assassin and the Governor of Southern Liaoning is both concurrently held by Li Jing, and now in Pingzhou, Li Jing himself is no longer concurrently serving as the position of Assassin History, which must be given to the most trusted Lin Wei. It's just that when the official appointment came out, the position of assassin fell to the head of Sima Li Zhen, the commander of the Zhenguo Army, but Lin Wei served as the defense envoy of Pingzhou. These two appointments have filled many with surprise.

Now the towns of the Tang Dynasty and the history of the state assassins have gradually been served by military generals. Li Jing appointed Li Zhen as the assassin, but made Lin Wei a defensive envoy. Lin Wei, the general who commanded the army, was under Li Zhen, a civilian.

However, the subsequent announcement that accompanied the appointment surprised more officials.

Li Jing changed the Governor's Mansion of Southern Liaoning to Jinzhou, and transferred Guo Chengan to serve as the assassin of Jinzhou. With Wang Zhong as the defense envoy of Jinzhou. At the same time, Li Jing no longer served as the defense envoy of Dengzhou. Wang Pu was appointed as the defense envoy of Dengzhou. And it was announced in the official document. From now on, the Zhenguo Army will be under the 27 counties of the three prefectures, and the civil and military responsibilities will be clear. Local government affairs are all under the history of the assassin and the county order, and the defense envoys only command the army, and have no power to control civil affairs. Even the grain and grass of the garrisons must be handed over to the commander's office by the prefectures and counties, and then the marshal's government will transfer the grain and grass to the armies and battalions.

In this town, the soldiers and civilians were separated, and the military and civil were separated. The assassin is in charge of the people, and no longer manages the soldiers. The defense envoy is designed to manage the army.

At the same time, however, although the defense envoy had the responsibility of commanding the garrison in his own prefecture in a unified manner, the garrisons of all armies and towns in the prefecture and county were at the same time under the command of the commander's office of the town and state army. In the absence of a joint military order from the Marshal's Office, the General Staff Department and the Bingcao, the defense envoy has no right to mobilize troops and horses in peacetime. The soldiers and horses of each department are led by the battalion commanders, and the soldiers and horses of the battalion and the second level of the army can only be mobilized when they receive a military order.

This series of dazzling announcements surprised everyone, and all of a sudden made the civil and military officials of the Zhenguo Army ponder.

This change. Almost all the officials saw that with the growth of the Zhenguo army. Once again, the rights of the officers, or the senior officers, have been weakened. Since the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, the diminishing power in the hands of the civil officials has been strengthened.

Not only that, but even high-ranking military generals could not directly command the army in non-war times, as they did in the early Sui and Tang dynasties. Command of the army was almost always in the hands of officers at the battalion level. No matter how senior a military general is, the power in his hands is greatly limited.

Moreover, although the defense envoys of the states can nominally command the Zhenguo Army, the Pinglu Army, the Unity Army, and the Township Army in their own states, their rights are in fact more restricted.

Although the governors of the prefectures and counties lost the right to lead the troops, their power over the localities was expanded.

Everyone can see that this change is a precaution against military generals, to avoid the possibility of military generals' dictatorship, and to prevent the emergence of small hills within the Zhenguo Army. With such a change, the high-ranking generals had almost no soldiers in their hands, and the grain and grass could not be directly supplied from the locality, so the shogunate directly blocked the supply of grain, grass and ordnance to the various armies.

At the same time, after dividing the power of the soldiers and the people of the original assassin history into the soldiers and the people, Li Jing divided the power of the assassin history again, and set up a new envoy in each state at the same level as the assassin history and the defense envoy.

According to the procurator, he is the chief of justice in a state, and his duty is to rectify official evil, rape and violence, settle prison lawsuits, and redress grievances, so as to promote discipline and clarify the rule of officials.

After the addition of the procurator, the assassin was in charge of administration, the procurator was in charge of justice, and the defense envoy was in charge of commanding the army.

The power of the Wonju Assassin is divided into three, which are not subordinate to each other and supervise each other.

This system can be regarded as Li Jing's painstaking and painstaking efforts, in order to prevent the slightest problem. At a time when the Zhenguo Army had not yet formed a complete set of systems, the purpose of slowly establishing these new systems was to prevent the problem of militarization, the largest army in the late Tang Dynasty.

It's not that Li Jing doesn't believe in Lin Wei or Li Zhen and others now, but he always believes that the system is much stronger than simple rule by man.

Just like when the teaching officer position was added to the army, although many generals were dissatisfied and puzzled, because although there were many generals in the Zhenguo Army, Li Jing had always been very concerned about the army, so there has never been a situation in the army where the military leaders occupy the top of the mountain. These changes were carried out smoothly and quickly.

After the Zhenguo army was stationed in Pingzhou, Lin Wei first asked for an order to dispatch troops and horses to sweep away the thieves, mountain bandits and pirates in Pingzhou. Whenever they enter a place, they are the first to carry out anti-bandit operations, which has become the practice of the Zhenguo Army. More than 10,000 soldiers and horses were scattered, and several of the largest bandits in the small territory of Pingzhou were uprooted and completely destroyed.

After Li Zhen took office, he not only immediately carried out land surveying, counted the registered population, arranged for the people to renovate water conservancy, reclaimed wasteland, and repaired cities and built houses. As soon as he started, he began to put up a list everywhere, one was to recruit displaced people from all sides, and the other was to pacify those bandits in the territory.

Li Zhen issued an announcement that all the bandits in Pingzhou should be willing to go down the mountain and surrender to the officials and soldiers, except for some thieves who were extremely evil in the past and the people's resentment was boiling. The rest of the bandits can get a chance to be pardoned and reinstate their civilian status. Even some bandits who had a bad reputation in the past, but after being interrogated, they will be given a light punishment and given a chance to mend their ways.

The newly appointed procurator also began to sort out the prisons, took the initiative to try some old cases and disputes in various counties and townships in Pingzhou, and mediated the contradictions in the townships.

Under the multi-pronged operation of Pingzhou, for more than a month, the bandits in Pingzhou fled, exterminated, and surrendered. People from all over the country also returned to their hometowns and began to resume production. Li Zhen directly took out the cash-for-work practice in Dengzhou and began to build roads, schools, water conservancy, and repair cities and villages in Pingzhou.

With the abundant food backing, Pingzhou is almost the same every day, the city and the countryside are rejuvenated, and the depressed bazaars are also beginning to liven up.

More and more people in Youzhou, and even the Hu and Han people in western Liaoning and the grasslands began to come to join one after another.

Lin Wei did not interfere in Li Zhen's Pingzhou administration, and Li Zhen did not interfere in the criminal affairs of Li Meng.

The more than 10,000 troops stationed in Pingzhou are also in intense training.

Liu Xun, who was stationed on the border between Lulongsai and Xibu in Yanshan, led the Feng army to build a defensive line between the mountains of Lulongsai.

Lulongsai is located between Jizhou and Yingzhou, and is the pass of the eastern section of the Yanshan Mountains, which is later known as Xifengkou. For thousands of years, it has been a military fortress and a battleground for soldiers. Like Yuguan, another dangerous pass in Heping Prefecture, Yuguan is the Shanhaiguan in later generations.

Lulongsai is the northern barrier of Pingzhou, and Yuguan is the gateway of Pingzhou to Liao.

Lulongsai is located in the easternmost part of the foothills of Xuwu Mountain, between two mountains. On the left is Meishan, and on the right is Yunshan.

After Liu Xun arrived, he immediately led the army and recruited people to renovate Lulongsai, and after several months and the efforts of tens of thousands of people, the Lulongsai built by the mountain was repaired and reinforced. The new city of Lulongse, built on a hill, has three walls forming a Japanese-shaped defensive system. The outer main city wall is as high as five zhang, three zhang wide and 100 zhang long, and is made of stones piled up from the inside to the outside. There is also a three-zhang high city tower in the center, called Wangri Tower. At both ends of the main city wall, auxiliary walls were built along the mountain, and there was also a floor on each wall. Standing on the plum mountain is called the plum building, and the building on the cloud mountain is called the cloud building. It starts with the auxiliary walls on both sides and extends further up the hill.

The Han Dynasty once built a wall of about 200 li here to prevent the invasion of the Hu people. One hundred steps back from the main city wall, between the two mountains, there is a tall city tower again, the height and width of the city wall are the same as the main city wall, fifty zhang long, there is a floor named Lu Long. The two sides are connected to the main wall by stone walls. On either side were two columns of soldiers' barracks. Further back, a hundred paces away, is the Crescent Tower facing the official road. This city wall is four zhang high, two zhang wide, eighty steps long, and there is a floor called Crescent Moon Tower. On both sides of the area were storehouses for storing grain and grass, horse sheds and wooden huts for the treatment of wounded soldiers.

The new Lulong fortress city is guarded by dangerous passes, and the Fengjun is selected to defend here, so that Pingzhou will not have to worry about the Hu tribe in the north.

Fu Wenda led the Heavenly Wolf Army into Yuguan, and also rushed to strengthen Yuguan day and night.

According to Li Jing's military order, Yuguan was not only strengthened and renovated, but also expanded. The new pass that was planned and expanded was completed, leaning on Yanshan Mountain in the north and connecting the Bohai Sea in the south, and Li Jing changed its name to Shanhaiguan. Although it is not yet completed, the new level is already very imposing.

Shanhaiguan New Town is square, with a circumference of eight miles, one hundred and thirty-seven steps and four feet, a moat of five zhang wide and two zhang and five feet deep surrounds it. The outside of the city wall is covered with blue bricks, and the inside is filled with rammed earth, which is about five zhang high and more than two zhang wide. There are four city gates, the east is called "town east gate", the west is called "Ying'en gate", the south is called "Wanghai gate", and the north is called "Weiyuan gate".

Standing on top of the city, looking at the four fields. You can overlook the whole city and the wilderness outside the gate. Looking north, you can see the majestic posture of the Great Wall of Jiaoshan in the distance; The sea to the south is also dimly visible.

As an offensive base for the Zhenguo army to deal with the Khitans, and a stronghold to deal with Youzhou in the future, Li Jing spared no expense in consolidating the defense of Pingzhou. Pingzhou is surrounded by the sea on one side, and the other three are the Khitan people in Yingzhou in western Liaoning, the Xi people outside Yanshan in the north, and the soldiers and horses of Fan Xinglong in Jizhou in the west. Although the Zhenguo army controlled the Bohai Sea and could reinforce Pingzhou at any time without hindrance, Li Jing still refused to relax his defense of Pingzhou.

Under the full management, in just a few months, the situation in Pingzhou has been much better than when it first arrived, and it is even called a great governance, cultural cultivation and military equipment, a lively scene! (To be continued......)