If Li Jing is asked to compare the characters of the Three Kingdoms with the characters of the late Tang Dynasty, then Li Zhen and Jingxiang, who are both strategists, are roughly equivalent to the phoenix and the dragon. Maybe Li Zhen and Jingxiang are not as famous as Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, but looking at their contemporaries, they definitely belong to the most shining among the ministers.

After finally confirming that the tall and thin scholar in front of him, who was a few years younger than Li Zhen and about the same age as himself, was Jing Xiang, although Li Jing didn't have much surprise on his face, he was actually screaming in ecstasy.

He once sent someone to inquire about Jing Xiang's news, but there was no result. Unexpectedly, Jing Xiang had been following the army for more than two months. It's really hard to find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get there.

Jing Xiang's answer just now not only made Li Jing confirm that he was the first strategist of Houliang, but also made Li Jing confirm that Jing Xiang was indeed a bold person. Li Jing's words just now are very clear, he wants to have a bigger career. When this is said, even if it is not understood as a rebellion, it at least shows that Li Jing is not as loyal to the Tang Dynasty as he seems at the moment, at least he wants to be a separatist town that supports the army and respects himself.

But Jing Xiang didn't seem to care about these at all, which fully showed that he didn't care about them.

Li Jing was very satisfied, "Very good, now is the time to employ people, this marshal wants to recruit Mr. Pi into the town of the national army, give advice, I don't know if you are willing?" ”

Jing Xiang was slightly surprised, he didn't expect that this handsome man who was so famous and so young would only ask such a question after meeting, and then he had already decided to summon him into the scene. Jing Xiang, who came back to his senses, did not hesitate at all, and immediately nodded. "Yes. Under willingly. ”

Li Jing pinched his chin. Originally, I wanted to give Jing Xiang a low-level staff position first, and let him be a pusher or inspector. But when I think about it again, both the magistrates and the inspectors are responsible for handling lawsuits and disputes, and in the military, the position is low and the power is light, which is undoubtedly a waste of talent. After thinking about it, I changed my mind. Since this is a talent, it should be used in an eclectic way.

Immediately returned to the upper seat, picked up the pen, took a blank letter, and immediately conferred an official position on Jing Xiang.

"From today onwards, Jing Xiang and Jing Zizhen are the senators of our town's national army." Li Jing said loudly.

After speaking, he handed over his official position to Jing Xiang.

Jing Xiang took the sue with some shock, completely incredulous. Although his father also served as a assassin, in fact, his father had already retired from home. And he's only twenty-two years old now. He didn't even marry a wife, and only participated in the imperial examination once. But it didn't get there. Now that he has defected to Li Jing, he never thought that Li Jing would use him after asking him just one sentence, and he also awarded him a high-ranking official.

This is really a high-ranking official, following the Zhenguo Army for two months, Jing Xiang is also familiar with the Zhenguo Army, and knows that there are many official positions and military systems in the Zhenguo Army, which are slightly different from other feudal towns. For example, in each battalion, under the commanders at all levels, it is not the deputy rank that ranks second, nor the marching Sima ranks second, but the teaching envoy and teaching rank second. In addition, the Marshal's Mansion also has a staff department, and the power of the marching staff is extremely heavy, second only to the marching Sima. Under the marching staff officer, there are two deputy positions, namely the Jie Du Senator and the Jie Du Counselor. Below them, there are also staff officers, secretaries, clerks, yatui, post house inspectors, Confucian officials, military officers, important registers, drives, random, and other low-level staff.

The official position of the Senate is very high, and it is an important position. In the Zhenguo Army, the level is the same as that of the owner, or even half a level higher. The marching staff officer was even at the same level as the assassin, and was a little higher than the military master.

The thin yellow silk paper in his hand was as heavy as a boulder, and Jing Xiang even felt that he couldn't hold it.

"Marshal, how can you dare to hold such an important position as soon as you enter the army."

Jing Xiang was flattered, and the others present were equally surprised, and even their eyes were full of envy and jealousy. Li Zhen has always been Li Jing's first strategist, and his younger brother Li Liang is the second strategist, he served as the marching Sima, his younger brother Li Liang served as the army staff officer, and Guo Chengan served as the secretary. Right now, as soon as Jing Xiang entered the army, he actually had to serve as a senator of the festival, how could this not surprise them. Li Zhen even felt a sense of crisis, could it be that this young marshal began to guard against suspicion of their brothers, afraid that their brothers' authority would be too heavy?

Among the crowd, Gai Yu, who was able to participate in this meeting exceptionally, was very happy, and felt that he was getting more and more valued by the handsome. But now his heart is full of bitterness, he has surrendered Li Jing for so long, but he is just a staff officer, although the staff officer belongs to the secondary staff, and there are subordinate staff and low-level staff below, but no matter what, it is nothing if it is not compared, and now compared with this Jing Xiang, he feels that he is completely unvalued.

"What, no confidence?" Li Jing looked directly at Jing Xiang and asked.

"That's not the case," Jing Xiang hesitated, "It's just that the seniority of the post is shallow, and I am afraid that it will be unfair to others to take on this important position as soon as I come." ”

Li Jing chuckled, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, Jing Xiang's attitude just now was good, he was very confident in his talents, but he was just worried about the dissatisfaction of others. "This handsome employs people, eclectic, and meritocracy. If Zi Zhen is confident that he has this talent, then he doesn't have to care about the eyes of others. Although the national army in our town also attaches great importance to qualifications, qualifications only occupy a small part of the standard of people, and the most important thing is talent. Those who have talent go up, and those who don't have talent go down, so that our town army can become stronger and stronger. ”

Jing Xiang knelt down on one knee, which can be regarded as a very heavy etiquette in the Zhenguo Army. "The grace of the handsome promotion, the post is unforgettable, in this life, before and after the saddle, go to the soup and die!"

Very good, Li Jing smiled and personally helped Jing Xiang up.

glanced at the generals in the hall and collected everyone's expressions in his heart.

"Gai Yu stepped forward to listen to the seal!" Li Jing suddenly shouted.

Gai Yu, who was full of gloom, suddenly heard his name, and was stunned for a moment, and when he came back to his senses and understood the meaning of coming forward to listen to the seal, his face turned red with excitement. Hurriedly stepped forward, knelt down on one knee, and bowed his head to listen to the seal.

"The heaviest rewards and punishments of the Zhenguo Army are clear, and Gaiyu has repeatedly offered good plans and merits, and he has been promoted to the Counselor of the Zhenguo Army!"

Gaiyu, who was still envious of Jing Xiang's appointment just now, was completely immersed in excitement at this time. What did it become to follow Li Ke and use them to plot the Yunzhou soldiers? Isn't it just to find a better background? Although he joined the Zhenguo Army as a general, he finally managed to see the bright moon. Counselor of the Zhenguo Army, this is an official position that will never be changed in the history of Yunzhou.

From today on, he has finally become a core member of the Zhenguo Army.

"Presumably everyone already knows the way, the holy decree decreed Wang Jingwu to serve as the deputy envoy of Ziqing Town Jiedu and the history of Qingzhou Thorn, in addition to Zhang Chan as the history of Qizhou Thorn, Lu Hong as the history of Zizhou Thorn, in addition to the original Tianping Army Festival to make Xue Chong as the history of Laizhou Thorn, and the original Taining Army Festival to make Li Department as the Sima of the march of Ziqing Town. Even the 25,000 rebels under the former Wang Jingwu are still under his command. Li Jing paused, "Yesterday, we discussed the preliminary decision to retreat as advance, temporarily retreat to Dengzhou first, and at the same time take Ziqing Qingzhuang away." Respectfully Senator and Counsellor Gai, do you have anything else to add? ”

Gai Yu cleared his throat, "My subordinates think that it is not enough to take away Qingzhuang, and all the big families in Ziqing Town must be moved away." ”

"What do you think, Senator?" Li Jing looked at Jing Xiang.

Jing Xiang groaned and asked rhetorically, "Then Ziqing Town doesn't care about it?" How to arrange the Ziqing Ping Lu Army? Do you want to withdraw together? ”

"This hasn't been decided yet, what do you have a good proposal?" Li Jing asked.

In the last few years, the number of troops in Ziqingping Lu Army has always been 37,500, but in fact, it is naturally more than this number. After Wang Jingwu's rebellion, the Pinglu army was divided into two, and both sides continued to expand their armies.

Now, Wang Jingwu has 25,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of auxiliary soldiers, but all of them have become Li Jing's prisoners, so it is naturally impossible to return them to them.

On Song Wei's side, there are still 50,000 soldiers left and 80,000 auxiliary soldiers. However, according to accurate statistics, among the 50,000 soldiers, it was actually 5,000 soldiers from Song Shuai, 5,000 from Zhang Wanrong, 15,000 from the state army, 10,000 soldiers from various military towns, counties and towns, and 15,000 soldiers from various counties. The 80,000 auxiliary soldiers, except for dozens of township soldiers organized by many large wealthy families, the rest are mostly temporarily conscripted people.

Now, after the war, according to the rules, the auxiliary soldiers have to be disbanded and return to their hometowns, and even the united soldiers have to be disbanded and return to their hometowns. In this way, the rest is only 35,000 square meters of Lu army. However, among the 35,000 people, 5,000 were Zhang Wanrong's soldiers and horses in the Supervision Army, and they did not belong to the commander of the festival commander.

Song Wei went to Beijing, but his 5,000 personal soldiers could stay. But Kang Chengzhi and Cui Yunqing took office separately, and Li Jing couldn't let them go empty-handed. He had already decided to pull out Song Wei's personal soldiers, and give Kang Chengyu and Cui Yunqing 2,000 and 5,000 each, plus their personal families, and 3,000 per person to take them to the post.

In this way, the most defeated of the entire Pinglu army was Wang Jingwu's 25,000 men, and Li Jing took over 25,000 men.

However, Li Jing is not very at ease with the 25,000 Pinglu Army, mainly because there are too many leaders of the Pinglu Army, and even after this war, there is still some scattered sand. Li Jing is also hesitating now, leaving them in Ziqing Town, it is estimated that it will not be long before they will return to the same as before, and they will not be able to really use them for themselves at all. But if you bring them to Dengzhou and Liaodong, Ziqing Town may really not belong to you.

Jing Xiang thought for a long time, and then said: "It is not impossible for my subordinates to agree with the proposal of the marshal and the generals, return to Dengzhou temporarily, and hand over Ziqing Town to Wang Jingwu. However, the people can take it, but the army must stay. Not only must they stay, but they must also leave behind heavy troops. His subordinates proposed that the 20,000 and 50,000 Ping Lu Army should be brought back to Dengzhou for reorganization, and the Zhenguo Army should be left in Ziqing Town. ”

Hearing this proposal, Li Jing frowned, but he didn't interrupt Jing Xiang out of a voice, but waited for him to continue. (To be continued......)