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

In the small Pingzhou, Li Jing suddenly dispatched the three armies of the selection, Tianlang and Guanhe to guard the army. Several generals and counselors were sent to Lin Wei, Li Zhen, Liu Xun, Li Juyi and Fu Wenda.

This time, the three armies of Zhen**, the second battalion of the Navy, and the three counties of Pingzhou, were stationed at once.

Pingzhou is the new prefecture of the town and the third state completely occupied after Dengzhou and the Liaonan Governor's Office. Li Jing's personnel appointment and removal were somewhat unexpected. Many people initially believed that Lin Wei would serve as the governor of Pingzhou and serve as the regiment training envoy. After all, Lin Wei, as the deputy envoy of the town's military governor, was appointed by Li Jing as the left-behind when he sent troops many times.

Li Jing served as the governor of Dengzhou and the governor of Liaonan. Now he has the newly appointed Pingzhou. Li Jing will no longer serve as the governor, so he will definitely be granted the most trusted Lin Wei. However, when the official appointment was made, the governor fell on the head of Li Zhen, the governor of Zhen**, and Lin Wei served as the defensive envoy of Pingzhou. These two appointments surprised many people.

Nowadays, the governors of various states in the Tang Dynasty have gradually become military generals. Li Jing appointed Li Zhen as the governor, but Lin Wei was appointed as the defensive envoy. Lin Wei, the general in charge of the army, was instead under the civil service position of Li Zhen.

However, the notice issued with the appointment surprised more officials.

Li Jing changed the Liaonan Governor's Office to Jinzhou, transferred Guo Cheng'an to the Governor of Jinzhou, and appointed Wang Chong as the Governor of Jinzhou. At the same time, Li Jing no longer served as the Governor of Dengzhou, and appointed Wang Pu as the Governor of Dengzhou. In addition, the official document announced that from now on, the 27 counties in the three prefectures and 27 counties under the town of ** will have clear civil and military responsibilities. Local government affairs are all subject to the Governor and the County Magistrate, and each defense envoy only commands the troops and has no right to manage civil affairs. Even the grain of each garrison must be transferred by each prefecture and county government to the General's Office, and then the General's Office will transfer the grain and grass to each army and battalion.

From then on, the soldiers and civilians in this town were separated, and the military and civilians were separated. The governor no longer managed the military, and the defense envoy was dedicated to the military.

But at the same time, although the defense envoy has the responsibility of unified command of the garrison in the state, the troops and towns in the prefectures and counties are also under the command of the commander of the town’s commander. Without the joint military orders of the General Office, the General Office of the Staff and the Military Office, the defense envoy has no right to mobilize troops. The troops of each unit are led by the battalion leader. The second-level army above the battalion and army level can only be mobilized if the military order is received.

This series of dazzling announcements unexpectedly exceeded everyone's expectations. All of the people in the town's civil and military officials were buried in their heads and pondered.

In this change, almost all officials saw that with the growth of the town's troops, the rights of officers, or the rights of senior officers, have been weakened again. However, since Emperor Xuanzong, the power of civil servants has been strengthened.

Civil and military officials are in charge of half of the sky, not only that. Senior generals even could not directly command the army unless they were in the early Sui and Tang dynasties. The command of the army almost fell into the hands of officers at the battalion level. No matter how high a general is, the power in his hands is greatly restricted.

Moreover, although the defensive envoys of each state can nominally command the towns, Pinglu Army, Unity Army, and Township Army in the state, their actual rights are more restricted.

Although the chief officials of prefectures and counties lost their power to lead the army, their power over the local area has been expanded.

Everyone could see that this change was a precaution for military generals, avoiding the possibility of the autocracy of military generals, and preventing the emergence of small hills within the town. Such a change. The senior generals had almost no soldiers in their hands, and the food and grass were not directly supplied by local authorities, and the shogunate directly blocked the supply of food and grass from each army.

At the same time, after the original governor's military and civilian power was divided into military and civilian power, Li Jing once again divided the governor's rights, and each state established a new Censor who was at the same level as the governor, and the defense envoy was the same.

The Censor was the chief officer in charge of justice in a state. His duties were to correct officials, evil and evil, to silence prisons, to sanction, to savage lawsuits, to curb injustice, to promote moral discipline, and to clarify the administration of officials.

After the new Censorate was added, the governor was in charge of administration, the Censor was in charge of justice, and the defense was in charge of commanding troops.

The power of the governor of the Yuanzhou Province is divided into three parts, whether they are related or not, and they are mutually supervised.

This system was also considered to be a painstaking effort and hard work to prevent problems from happening. Before the town had formed a complete set of systems, these new systems were slowly established to prevent the biggest military warlordization in the late Tang and Five Dynasties.

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

Just like the addition of tutoring positions in the army, although many generals were dissatisfied and puzzled, although the army had many soldiers and generals, Li Jing had always been very concerned about the army, so there was no such situation in the army where the military leaders occupied the top of the mountain. These changes were soon smooth.

After the town was stationed in Pingzhou, Lin Wei first asked to order the troops to dispatch various troops to sweep away the thieves, mountains, pirates in Pingzhou. Every time he entered a place, he first launched a bandit suppression operation, which became the custom of the town. More than 10,000 troops were spread out, and the small number of the largest thieves in Pingzhou were first uprooted and completely destroyed.

After Li Zhen took office, he not only immediately measured the land, counted the registered population, arranged for the people to repair water conservancy, military farmland and land reclamation, and built houses outside the city. He immediately began to make a list of the list, one was to recruit refugees from all sides, and the other was to appease the bandits in the country.

Li Zhen issued an announcement that as long as all bandits in Pingzhou are willing to go down the mountain to surrender to the official army, except for some thieves who have committed extreme evil in the past and are full of public grievances. Other bandits can get a chance to pardon and restore their civilian status. Even some bandits with bad reputations in the past will be given a lighter punishment after interrogation and will get the opportunity to reform themselves.

The newly appointed censor also began to clear the prison, actively tried some old cases and disputes in various counties and townships in Pingzhou, and mediated conflicts in the villages.

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

With sufficient food as a backing, Pingzhou is almost the same every day, the cities and villages have regained their vitality, and the depressed market has also become lively.

More and more people in Youzhou, even the Hu and Han people in western Liaoning and on the grasslands, began to come and defect.

Lin Wei did not interfere in Li Zhen's administrative affairs in Pingzhou, nor did Li Zhen intervene in the criminal affairs of the censor Li Meng.

More than 10,000 troops in Pingzhou are also under intense training.

Liu Xun, who was stationed on the border between Lulongsai and Xi tribe in Yanshan, led the front-superior army to build a defense line between the mountains of Lulongsai.

Lulong Pass is located between Jizhou and Yingzhou, and is the pass in the eastern section of the Yanshan Mountains, which is later Xifengkou. For thousands of years, it has been a military fortress and a place that must be fought for by military strategists. Like another dangerous pass in Hepingzhou, Yuguan is the Shanhaiguan of later generations.

Lulong Pass is the northern barrier of Pingzhou, while Yuguan is the gateway for Pingzhou to enter Liao.

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

After Liu Xun took office, he immediately led his army and recruited civilians to repair Lulongsai. After several months and the efforts of tens of thousands of people, Lulongsai, built on the mountain, was repaired and reinforced. The new Lulongsai City was built on the mountain, with three walls forming a defensive system in the shape of a Sun. The outer main wall was five meters high, three meters wide and one hundred meters long, and was made up of stones from the inside to the outside. There was also a three-meter high city tower in the center, called Wangri Tower. At both ends of the main city wall, auxiliary walls were built according to the mountain, and there was also a floor on each wall. The one standing on Meishan was called Meilou, and the one built on Yunshan was called Yunlou. Starting from the auxiliary walls on both sides, it extended to the further mountain.

The Han Dynasty once built a city wall of about 200 miles here to prevent the Hu tribe from invading. One hundred steps back from the main city wall, there is another tall city tower between the two mountains. The city wall is the same as the main city wall, fifty feet long, and a floor above is called Lu Long. The stone wall is connected to the main city wall. On both sides are two rows of soldiers' barracks. Further back, one hundred steps apart is the Crescent Tower facing the official road. This city wall is four zhang high, two zhang wide, and eighty steps long, and the first floor above is called the Crescent Tower. On both sides are warehouses with grain and grass piles, horse sheds and wooden houses for treating wounded soldiers.

The new Lulong Fortress City is located in a dangerous pass, and the Selected Front Army guards here, so there is no worries about the Hu tribes in the north attacking Pingzhou.

Fu Wenda led the Tianlang Army to Yuguan, and also worked day and night to strengthen Yuguan.

According to Li Jing's military order, Yuguan not only strengthened and renovated, but also expanded. The planned expansion of the new pass was built on Yanshan Mountain in the north and Bohai Sea in the south. Li Jing changed his name to Shanhaiguan. Although it has not been completed, the new pass is already very imposing.

Shanhaiguan New City is square, with a circumference of eight miles, one hundred and thirty-seven steps and four feet wide, five feet wide, and two feet deep, surrounding it. The outside of the city wall is covered with blue bricks, filled with rammed earth inside, about five feet high and more than two feet wide. There are four city gates, called "Zhendongmen" in the east, "Yingenmen" in the west, "Wanghaimen" in the south, and "Weiyuanmen" in the north.

Standing above Guancheng, you can look at the four fields with a majestic view. You can look down at the full view of Guancheng and the fields outside the pass. Looking north, you can see the majestic posture of the Jiaoshan Great Wall from afar; the sea to the south can also be seen hazy.

As the offensive base for the town to deal with the Khitans and a stronghold for the future against Youzhou, Li Jing spared no expense to consolidate Pingzhou's defense. Pingzhou is on one side with the sea, and the other three sides are the Khitans in Yingzhou, Xishan, the Xi tribe outside Yanshan, and the troops of Fan Xinglong, Jizhou, to the west. Although the town controls the Bohai Sea and can reinforce Pingzhou at any time without being blocked, Li Jing still refuses to relax his defense against Pingzhou.
Chapter completed!