The first year of the Shaoming Dynasty of the Great Zhou Dynasty, 946 AD, the twenty-second day of the first lunar month.
Zhou State, which only controlled the five envoys of Hezhong, Shaanzhou, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Dengzhou, and Shannan West Road in the Central Plains, finally completed the last piece of the political puzzle.
Zhang Zhao announced that the Great Zhou Dynasty would implement the five-capital system, with Luoyang as the sacred capital, Kaifeng as Tokyo, Chang'an as Jingzhao, Liangzhou as Xijing, called Xijing Chengtianfu, Taiyuan as Beijing, and Beijing Fengtianfu.
The emperor temporarily resided in Kaifeng Mansion, Tokyo. At the same time, Cao Yanming, Duke of Ziting County, was appointed as the construction envoy of the sacred capital, Luoyang, responsible for building the sacred capital of Luoyang and dredging the Bianhe River, Yangqu and Yinluoshui.
Ziwei Palace and Daming Palace were built on the basis of the original Tang Dynasty Palace in Luoyang, and Jinyong City was renamed Wuliang Palace.
In order to commemorate his hometown, Beimang Mountain was changed to Jinshan Mountain, and Jinshan Palace was built in the south of the mountain. When the construction is completed, the capital will be moved.
Zhang Huaiqing, the Duke of Nanyang County, was appointed as the left-behind envoy in Xijing, and Pei Yuan, the Duke of Hedong County, was appointed as the deputy envoy to stay in Xijing and the Yin of Tianfu.
Cao Yuanzhong, Duke of Qiao, was the governor of Chang'an and the governor of Jingzhao Prefecture, and Duke Yan Jin of Jin was the governor of Beijing and the governor of Fengtian Prefecture.
He also issued an explicit edict requiring Liu Zhiyuan to obey the imperial edict and lead his subordinates, civil and military officers from Hedong, to move to Yedu and stay in Yedu.
In the harem, Zhang Zhaojin named Cao Yannai, the wife of Shouchang County, and Li Ruoliu, the wife of Shanshan County, as noble concubines.
Cao Yanmian was the Concubine Xian, Guo Wan'er was the Concubine Shu, Ayiguli was the Concubine Zhuang, and Li Cunhui's aunt Li Yunxiu was the Concubine Hui.
The Persian princess Sefiye was the Kang concubine, and her sister Pantaya was the Li concubine. When she saw the flowers, she was the virtuous concubine.
However, the six bureaus and twenty-four divisions of the harem of the Tang Dynasty were too complicated, so they were reduced to six bureaus and twelve divisions by Zhang Zhao. Even these twelve divisions had many shortages, and it was just a formality.
At the same time, politically, Zhang Zhao made certain changes to the system.
The central institution at this time was a parallel model between the Zhongshu Sheng and the Privy Council. The Zhongshu Sheng was more civilian, the Privy Council was responsible for military affairs, and the ministers of the Zhongshu Sheng and the Privy Council envoys were the prime ministers.
In the name of reviving the dynasty, Zhang Zhao brought back the Shangshu Province, which had lost its real power in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and took over some of the responsibilities of the Zhongshu Province and the Privy Council.
The specific method was to elevate the authority of the six ministries, especially the Ministry of War, which took away the military registration, horse administration, and armor inventory functions of the army belonging to the Privy Council.
It is equivalent to that the Privy Council will only be responsible for dispatching, training, border defense, operations and other matters from now on, but personnel and logistics will be returned to the Ministry of War.
This was Zhang Zhao's preliminary preparation for reducing the power of the Jiedushi envoy until he finally turned it into the commander-in-chief.
Because the Privy Council of the Later Tang Dynasty was actually the decision-making body of the Jiedu Yamen when Li Cunxu was a vassal town.
The privy envoy is the chief secretary of the Jiedushi envoy, and is itself the product of Jieduzhen becoming the center.
Or to put it more broadly, the Privy Council was not only such an institution in the later Tang Dynasty, but also the product of the Tang Dynasty Central Committee weakening into the Jiedu Envoy in the late Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, in order to eliminate the martial arts culture since the late Tang Dynasty, the first thing to do is to eliminate the concrete products of the martial arts' sole power from the highest political ecology.
However, Zhang Zhao's changes ended here. He did not immediately change the situation where various places were guarded by Jiedushi.
Because taking over the power of the towns and districts cannot be achieved overnight.
Especially when the world is uncertain whether there are enough high-quality officials, it is better to be slow rather than hasty.
The first thing to do now is to strengthen the strength of the Central Forbidden Army.
Therefore, Zhang Zhao expanded the left and right Yulin Guards to 6,000 people.
He also recruited the warriors who had taken refuge in Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo some time ago to form the left and right Jinwu Guards, also with a size of 6,000 people.
Zhang Zhao then selected 6,000 people from the original towns of Yong and Guanzhong volunteers to form the left and right Longxiang Guards.
These six guards, together with the Han Shandu with a thousand people, the Shenji Camp and the Silver Spear Capital with about a thousand people, and an unknown number of Jinyi personal guards, formed the emperor's personal army. The seven guards were in both capitals.
The camp has a total size of 21,000 people.
How shabby! Since the wealth of Longyou, Hexi, Anxi and other places could not be transported quickly to the Central Plains, Zhang Zhao could only afford to support 20,000 personal troops in addition to the troops sent out from various places.
It's just that these 20,000 people are treated very well, and their equipment is also the best. Half of them have cloth armor, hundreds of camel cyclone cannons, and 1,500 divine arm bows. They can be said to be the elite among the elite.
At the same time, Hanhai, Yingyang, Yucheng, Wuwei, Xiongwu, Datong, Lingwu, Dingyuan, Feng'an, and Jiuzhen of the Yong army from Hexi were all promoted to the Forbidden Army.
At this time, most of the fields around Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo were abandoned, and there were still a large number of women who had lost their husbands in Henan.
Zhang Zhao then granted them fields and marriages from Tokyo to Luoyang, and their descendants served as imperial guards to guard the capital for generations.
The shape is somewhat similar to the Weisuo Army in the early Ming Dynasty, and it should still be able to maintain combat effectiveness for decades.
At the same time, the Hexi Yi Cong Xiaoqi, united archers, and Guanzhong Yi soldiers who followed, according to the practice at this time, will be divided into various places and become the tooth soldiers of Jiedu in various places.
There are still about 14,000 former Hou Jin troops remaining around Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo. Zhang Zhao thought about it and still couldn't abandon them.
At least these people still made meritorious deeds in the two battles with the Khitan. It was not their original intention to surrender. They also made great achievements in turning back the enemy outside Yanshi City.
So after Zhang Zhao arranged his own army, he selected 6,000 people from these former Jin troops to form the left and right Shenwu armies of the Forbidden Army.
The rest were given pensions to the elderly and injured, and then retired. The remaining 5,000 or so people were left by Zhang Zhao for later-promoted and demoted generals like Fu Yanqing.
After all this is done, Zhang Zhou's overall framework is completed.
However, at this time, the uneasiness of An Shenqi, Fu Yanqing, Gao Xingzhou and other later-promoted generals had arrived.
Zhang Zhao learned from the report of Jinyi's spies that An Shenqi had prepared a coffin at home.
Zhang Zhao then laughed and said that the days of being an eagle should be over. He just wanted these people to understand that he, Zhang Zhao, could do without them, and the Zhang Zhou Dynasty could do without them.
On the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month, Zhang Zhao drove to the residence of Wang Zhou, the Jiedu envoy of the Yiwu Army in Dingzhou, Jin Dynasty. Murong Nobunaga, Hu Guang, Huangfu met his nephew Huangfu Chong and others accompanied him.
When the car started driving, Zhang Zhao asked Hu Guang with a smile, "I heard that your brother Hu Wei divorced his wife and married Li Jing's cousin. The dowry alone was 10,000 yuan. Are you envious?
If you don’t come back, this treatment will definitely be yours.”
Huwei's ability is far inferior to Huguang. If Huguang is still protecting Hucile, Huwei will definitely not be able to get ahead.
However, Zhang Zhao was joking, but Hu Guang took it seriously. He looked at Zhang Zhao seriously, cupped his hands and said.
"It is unfaithful for my brother to avoid fighting and maintain his strength when the leaves are broken. It is unjust to abandon his wife for the sake of wealth. I will never envy such unfaithful and unjust people."
But after saying this, Huguang paused for a moment and then smiled.
"The next day when the Heavenly Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty came to Jiangning City, Your Majesty directly escorted him for three thousand miles and rushed back to Yuechang to eat sand. How could I envy someone who was about to eat sand?"
Hu Guang's words are very clever. If his brother Hu Wei almost betrayed Zhang Zhao at the critical moment of Suiye, and shamelessly encouraged his father Hu Cile to betray Zhang Zhao, he would just be sent to Yuechang (Qiemo).
If you eat sand, then the tiger thorn will naturally avoid death.
"You!" Zhang Zhao stared at Hu Guang speechlessly.
"If you can use this dexterity to familiarize yourself with the art of war and lead troops to fight, the Duke of Qinghai may not be as good as you.
Don’t worry, your father and I have known each other for many years, and we don’t have much regrets. I will retire in the holy city of Luoyang in the future, it’s just that my life will be a little harder.”
When Hu Guang heard this, he jumped off his horse and kowtowed to the ground.
"Your Majesty, Hu Guang, thanks you for not killing me. However, my father is old and has lived a good life. Please keep some assets for him."
Hu Guang knew that Zhang Zhao's words were nothing more than living a harder life, and what it meant.
From the perspective of the people in the world, Hu Cile actually did not betray Zhang Zhao that much.
Because Huchile was sent to Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo, it was part of the deal between Zhang Zhao and Shi Jingtang at that time.
By sending Huchile and hundreds of Liangzhou horses, Zhang Zhaocai stabilized the trade route from Hexi to the Central Plains, and even got Murong Nobunaga back.
It can be said that from the time Hu Ci Le arrived at Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, he became a minister of the Jin Dynasty rather than a minister of the Zhou Dynasty.
So he later ran back to Xuzhou instead of paying homage to Yelv Deguang, and finally defected to the Southern Tang Dynasty. How should I put it, not only was there no disloyalty, but he had some integrity.
But Hu Guang knew that when he and his son went to Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, they went with the mentality of driving a nail for Zhang Zhao in the Central Plains. The two of them also swore allegiance to Zhang Zhao, who was still the King of Liang at that time.
And during these years in Tokyo, Zhang Zhao never lacked the salary of his father and son, and even gave them more than in Liangzhou.
Over the past few years, the three fathers and sons of the Hu family and 700 Liangzhou horses had spent a total of more than 50,000 guan on Zhang Zhao.
Zhang Zhao said that Hu Ci Le would have a hard life, and he wanted to collect the money on the surface, but secretly he was still a little unhappy, because he really wanted Hu Guang to really suffer.
Zhang Zhao was stunned for a long time, and then looked seriously at Hu Guang on the ground.
"Do you really want to ask for this for your father? I think he has been spending money lavishly in Tokyo these past few years, corrupting his will. Otherwise, he would never have ended up like he is now, suffering a little but not dying."
Hu Guang raised his head, with tears overflowing on his face, "As a son, how can you see your father suffering in old age while you are a high-ranking official and well-paid? My father is guilty, but your Majesty, please look at me and be open-minded."
As Hu Guang took off the futou on his head, the dent in his skull that had been punched by the Khitan troops in the battle at Bai Tuanwei Village in Yangcheng appeared in front of Zhang Zhao.
Zhang Zhao looked up to the sky and sighed, "If this is the case, the father's fault can only be caused by the son. Otherwise, the national law does not allow it, and I will deprive you of your hereditary Earl and replace your father with a peaceful old age."
Hu Guang's face instantly showed a look of joy, and he kowtowed on the ground.
"I thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness! I thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!"
"Since ancient times, filial sons have produced loyal ministers! Get up! There will be many opportunities to make contributions in the future."
Zhang Zhao couldn't tell how he felt, but he was probably mostly happy. As he said, people with good character are mostly reliable.