Thief Emperor

Chapter 550 Old Department
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jiangdong's military will undergo further evolution.

Because after the complete control of Huainan Road, in the foreseeable future, the military strength under Li Yun's command will definitely expand to the level of 100,000.

Once you reach this level, everything becomes huge and complex from top to bottom.

Moreover, as time goes by, those unmarried people among these 100,000 people will gradually get married and have their own families.

In addition, there will be various auxiliary personnel surrounding these 100,000 combat forces. Over time, a "military group" with possibly hundreds of thousands of people will be formed.

Managing this group of people in an orderly manner is not much easier than governing a local area. For many details, Li Yun needs to align information with several generals.

This discussion lasted for several days, and the final result was to establish some defensive military towns around the existing territories while expanding the army.

A map was hung high in Li Yun's study. Li Yun pointed to the southernmost part of the map and said in a deep voice: "As long as Huainan Road is restored, there is only one Lingnan Road in the entire southeast. It is not in our hands. This Lingnan Road..."

"At the moment, I have no intention of taking it."

"Therefore, the southern regions of Jiangnan West Road and Jiangnan East Road need to station troops in several states to prevent the enemy from breaking in. Coincidentally, Li Zheng is nearby, so I plan to temporarily hand over our housekeeping in the south to Li Zheng."

"General Zhao is still in charge of the Huai River defense line."

As he spoke, he looked at Su Sheng and said, "Brother Su's Qiantang Army also seems to need to move westward. To the west of Huainan Road, Shenzhou, Anzhou, and Mianzhou all need garrisons, as well as Lizhou, Shaozhou, and other states to the west of Jiangnan West Road."

Li Yun knocked on the table and said, "Every existing border state city must be stationed with at least two captain battalions and two captains to garrison together."

"But there is one thing I want to tell you in advance."

Li Yun pointed at the map and said, "This is the division of the map by the imperial court, but it may not be in line with actual combat. Sending troops to garrison is garrison, but once a battle breaks out, we cannot stick to this map and must be flexible and adapt according to the actual combat situation."

He looked at Zhao Cheng and Su Sheng and continued, "You commanders should go to the border in person to survey the terrain. If possible, redraw a defense map based on the existing terrain and send it to me."

The administrative divisions of the imperial court sometimes have profound meanings.

At that time, the areas were still divided by roads or paths, and the provincial system had not yet been developed. This became more obvious when the provincial system was established.

Sometimes, even though it is a round area, the imperial court chooses not to divide it into a province, but instead assigns an important part of it to the neighboring province.

In some important places, we must divide the land into three parts.

The purpose is to prevent these first-level administrative regions from separatist and autonomous rule.

The administrative divisions of the Zhou Dynasty are not yet so obvious, but there may be problems in many places.

So you can’t just follow the map.

Several generals nodded in agreement.

Deng Yang on the side looked at Li Yun and gritted his teeth and said, "Master, what should I do?"

"In addition to defending Jinling, your other mission is to train new soldiers."

Li Yun said slowly: "From now on, the new recruits of each army will be trained in Jinling Army for three months before being distributed to various armies."

"However, I will not set a hard limit on this matter. If you come across a good candidate on the road, or if you take in a captive who surrenders and recruits him into the army, that's fine. Submit the list to me for review, and then I'll approve it."

"Just give them the salary."

Li Yun and Su Sheng bowed their heads and saluted: "As you command!"

After the general rules were decided, what remained were the details. Another whole day was spent on finalizing the detailed rules. Then, because Su Sheng had to prepare for the garrison of several states in the western part of Jiangnan and the "relocation" of the Qiantang Army, he left Jinling early and rushed back to the army to do his work.

As for Zhao Cheng, under Li Yun's arrangement and introduced by Xue Yun'er, he met two or three girls in Jinling City. He chose one who looked honest and decent, and decided to get married after the new year.

After the marriage was settled, he had a lot of things to do because of the defense of Huainan Road, and he also had to personally take over and clean up the vacated space of the Pinglu Army. Therefore, he did not dare to stay in Jinling for long. After saying goodbye to Li Yun, he also set off.

With the departure of these two generals, the Jinling Army near Jinling also began a new round of recruiting new soldiers.

This time, the notice for recruiting new soldiers was written by Li Yun himself, and the recruitment area was no longer limited to the vicinity of Nanjing.

Deng Yang sent several generals of the Jinling Army to cross the river to the north and set up a new recruit camp between the Yangtze River and the Huai River, where they also began to recruit soldiers.

After all, the source of soldiers there is relatively higher quality. As long as the progress of training new recruits can be guaranteed, it doesn't matter where the training is done.

Therefore, under Li Yun's will, the imperial edict of the court did not bring any changes to the entire southeast.

At least on the surface, nothing has changed.

The only change may be that some opportunistic people will find Su Sheng privately and call him the general or Lord Su.

He wanted to follow Su Sheng and plan big things.

All of these people were captured by Su Sheng and sent to Jinling.

If we have to say what changes the imperial edict from the court brought to Jiangdong, it was that the emperor's edict rewarding Jiangdong's generals made Li Yun feel further urgency.

This forced Jiangdong to almost immediately embark on a new round of military expansion and reorganization.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, more than a month had passed, and it was the end of the third year of Zhaoding. At the end of the year, several happy events happened in Jinling City.

First of all, after Li Yun’s concubine Lu Huan became pregnant, at the end of the year, Liu Su finally became pregnant with Li Yun’s child.

The Li family will soon welcome two new lives.

At the same time, Li Yun's eldest son, Li Yuan, has begun to babble and can now call "Daddy" in a baby voice.

In addition, Major General Zhou Chang, who had been seriously injured, finally recovered and came to Li Garden to bid farewell to Li Yun, preparing to return to Qingzhou.

In Li Garden, the young general who had recovered from his injury bowed to Li Yun and said, "Uncle, my nephew's injury has fully recovered. I will take my leave now."

Li Yun invited him to sit in the main hall and said with a smile: "The young general was seriously injured, so don't try to be brave. It won't be too late to go back after you are fully recovered."

He was stabbed. Although the knife was not poisoned, it was obviously not very clean. He had a fever for half a month before the fever subsided and he survived.

In this era, sanitary conditions were extremely poor, and many important figures suffered minor injuries, which would take a long time to heal, eventually forming sores and pus, and eventually leading to death.

Sometimes, the wound burst open and it can be fatal.

"The wound has healed. If I don't go back to Qingzhou, I won't be able to go back in time for the New Year."

Li Yun tried to persuade him, but he didn't say much. He just said, "Well, I won't keep you, Major General. I will write a letter to my brother in Qingzhou. Major General, take it back for me and give it to my brother."

"it is good."

Zhou Chang nodded and was about to speak when there was a knock on the door: "Go up."

Hearing this name, Zhou Chang was obviously stunned.

He has been recuperating from his injuries during this period and has not been out for activities, nor has he heard the officials in Jiangdong call him Li Yun.

But he just lowered his head and drank his tea without saying much.

Zhou Bi, who was standing at the door, knocked on the door and said with his head down, "Master, Mr. Du is here."

Li Yun nodded and smiled: "Let the gentleman wait for me in the study."

"Yes."

Zhou Bi responded and was about to go down to reply to Du Qian when Li Yun called him back. Li Yun stood up and said with a smile, "Forget it, I'll go find him. Zhou Bi, take the young general down to find a place to rest. Tonight, I'll have a wine party in Li Garden to see him off."

Mr. Li said with a smile: "You two are from the same family, so it's a good opportunity for us to get closer."

Zhou Chang looked up at Zhou Bi, and after the two of them looked at each other, Zhou Bi said please to Zhou Chang, and the two of them left one after the other.

Li Yun quickly found Du Qian in the front yard of Li Garden. After seeing Du Qian, Li Yun stepped forward and said with a smile, "Brother Du is here."

Du Qian bowed and saluted, saying "Superior".

Li Yun took him all the way to his study and asked, "What's the matter that made Brother Du come here in person?"

“It’s not a big deal, but it’s not well known.”

"Plus, the matter of autumn grain has come to an end, and I am a little free now, so I came here to find my superior and talk about this matter."

Li Yun was a little curious: "What's going on? It's so mysterious."

"Something about the fields."

Du Qian handed the document in his sleeve to Li Yun and said, "Quanzhou is a large place, so a Jiangdong Army is stationed there to maintain order. There are about 2,000 soldiers, and the leader is a captain named Yu."

He looked at Li Yun and continued, "The document sent back jointly by Yao Zhong and Master Fei said that this Yu Duwei has only been stationed in Quanzhou for more than half a year, and now under his name..."

"It's more than three thousand acres of land."

Li Yun's face darkened when he heard this. After a moment of silence, he said expressionlessly, "Since we have discovered something illegal, we should deal with it. Would I be biased towards my own people?"

Du Qian looked at Li Yun and whispered, "Master Fei's document said that this Yu Duwei was from the anti-theft team."

"He is an old subordinate of the higher-ups."

"So it's not easy to handle. We can only inform Jinling and then General Li Zheng to work together to handle it."

Li Yun nodded silently.

"I see."

He didn't speak for a long time. After a while, he closed his eyes and spoke slowly.

"Let Zhou Liang come here immediately."

(End of this chapter)