The plaque of the Prince of Qin's Mansion was removed and replaced with a new plaque of the Generalissimo's Military Office.
The plaque of Chengyun Hall was also replaced by the main hall of the Military Government Office.
Zhao Jifang, the commander of the handsome mansion, was sitting in a side hall of the main hall, burying his head in his desk and writing furiously.
He is the younger brother of Zhao Jichang, the magistrate of Xianyang County. He was a student in the county school earlier.
Liu Shishi once told him that he had few talents and few virtues. When employing people, he wanted to recruit him to serve as a minister's staff.
But to Zhao Jifang's ears, these words were tantamount to the threat of not rejecting the opportunity.
You sent troops to Guanzhong, and your cavalry traveled wildly, besieged my brother's Xianyang County, and you're a loner here. Then you can do whatever you want. What can I say?
I'm just a student.
Then become a lieutenant.
However, as a Langguan, his responsibilities had undergone tremendous changes after Liu Chengzong took control of Shaanxi.
Not only did he receive two young attendants from the Children's Camp, but he was also given a cabinet bachelor's experience card and was responsible for approving manuscripts for the military yamen.
Of course, it’s just an experience card.
What he was actually responsible for was actually enlarging the manuscript approved by Liu Chengzong in Guange style and turning it into an official document suitable for distribution to local places.
For example, the manuscript that Zhao Jifang is currently reviewing was sent by his brother Zhao Jichang.
Zhao Jichang of Xianyang was the first person to be promoted after Liu Chengzong entered Xi'an, and he was appointed as the prefect of Xi'an on the spot.
Several other magistrates who delivered taxes and grain but did not raise troops to resist were also promoted based on their actions during the war, considering their official reputation.
For example, Fan Zhimao of Heyang was active in transporting grain, but he did not submit the surrender form until the fall of Fucheng. However, he did well in his post in Heyang and was promoted to Tongzhi of Xi'an.
Mihara Zhang Jinyan also did a good job, but he did not transport food during the war and only reported the actual amount of conscripts to the marshal's army, and was only promoted to the chief secretary of Shaanxi Province.
The rank has been raised one level, but in fact the Shaanxi Chief Secretary of the Marshal's Mansion does not have a chief officer. His experience in handling document transfers is basically that of a sixth-rank official document receiver.
Of course, Zuo Maodi of Hancheng remained unchanged and was still the magistrate of Hancheng County.
The manuscript sent by the prefect Zhao Jichang reported the suicide of Zhu Yitong, the magistrate of Pucheng County, Huazhou.
Xi'an fell and news of Chen Qiyu's surrender spread to various places, and all counties surrendered after hearing the news.
In order to make the local officials look good and continue their work in the future, Liu Chengzong thoughtfully ordered the cavalry to go to each county in pairs to persuade them to surrender again, to show that they were not surrendering voluntarily.
But there are some who would rather die than surrender.
For example, Zhu Yitong was a defeatist who would rather die than surrender.
According to what the gentry in the county said, people have long seen that Shaanxi cannot be defended. How can I be attached to thieves if my family has seven generations of clothes?
As early as the fall of the Shaanxi Corps, Zhu Yitong had hanged himself. Because he was fat, he broke a branch. He was dissuaded by Yao Qichong, the county magistrate who arrived later, and told him to look again and see if he was alive.
When Fucheng fell, the cavalry sent by Liu Chengzong to persuade them to surrender rushed to the foot of Pucheng. Zhu Yitong did not know about this, so the city gate opened by himself, and the cavalry was welcomed into the city and headed straight to the county government office.
The government officials clamored to seize Zhu Yitong's official seal as magistrate. He said that no one could take away the official seal until I died.
He was advised that the governors had surrendered, and the Jinshi from the surrounding counties had surrendered. You were only a civil servant, so surrendering at this time was enough.
Zhu Yitong said: Does being loyal to the country still depend on qualifications?
He turned around and returned to the county government house, mobilized his family's servants, widened the mouth of the well for him, wore an official hat, official uniform, official seal, bowed three times to the north, and committed suicide by throwing himself into the well.
The county magistrate Yao Qichong was shocked and planned to follow suit, but was stopped by the government officials.
Liu Chengzong's instructions on this manuscript were very simple. He underlined the names of the county magistrate and the county magistrate, and Zhu Mo approved two words: "Feng Guan".
Zhao Jifang racked his brains, but it was difficult to understand what Liu Chengzong meant, and he could only write out two letters of appointment.
One was to promote Pucheng County Prime Minister Yao Qichong to Xianyang County Magistrate, and the other was to appoint Longxi Juren Zhou Su as Pucheng County Magistrate.
The appointment of the former was because Zhao Jifang considered that it would be best for Yao Qichong to be promoted to Pucheng County Magistrate. However, with Zhu Yitong taking the lead, he would probably be looked down upon by others if he was appointed as County Magistrate.
So he moved to Xianyang where his brother had just been transferred.
As for Longxi Juren Zhou Suan, the Marshal's Office had a list of Jinshi, Juren, and scholars from various counties who were idle at home, and he just randomly found one.
Anyway, these letters of appointment have no effect. After they are written, they have to be sent next door to the eunuchs of the military government office.
The eunuch also thought there was no problem, so he handed it over to Liu Chengzong, who approved it and issued it to the official department before it became effective.
There was only one eunuch in the Marshal's Mansion, Zhang Yuanheng, who monitored Xining's tea horses.
This guy came from a scholarly background and was both civil and military. He was basically a castrated version of Liu Chengzong.
Liu Shizi once promised that he would be made a county magistrate, and if he did well, he would be rewarded with a prefecture magistrate within six years.
In return for his kindness, Zhang Yuanheng also did a lot of things for Liu Chengzong, instigating the Songpan banner guard and helping his uncle Cai Zhongpan formulate governance regulations in Luhuo County.
So Liu Chengzong went to Xi'an and gave him the yamen of tea inspection and inspection. He served as tea horse censor and was responsible for tea law and horse administration.
However, the yamen was burned down by rebels before the city was breached, and it will not be repaired until next year, so it was just a good time for Zhang Yuanheng to experience the feeling of being the eunuch Bingbi, the Supervisor of Ceremonies.
After all, he had gone through the job transfer procedures himself, so he should experience it if he had the chance.
Originally, Zhao Jifang was in trouble, and he happened to catch up with Liu Chengyun, who was carrying the raccoon team manager in his pocket. He Zaiyouzai came in with the official documents of the household office, and glanced this way.
The two brothers were of the same mind. They shook their heads and sighed. Looking at Zhao Jifang, he opened his mouth and asked, "Didn't my brother ask for the title of official? Then why didn't Zhu Yitong?"
"Well, the three generals and Zhu Yitong are dead, so why should they be granted the title?"
"What's wrong with dying? You don't work anymore when you drill into a well?"
Cheng Yun's eyes widened and he was very surprised, and then he said to Zhao Jifang: "He was buried in a good coffin and buried in the City God's Temple. He was named Pucheng City God, and then he went to work for my brother."
When Mr. Liu was in Prince Su's Mansion in Lanzhou, he dispatched several surrendered generals who were living on a daily basis to train the guards.
Among them was the leader of the squadron who went to Lanzhou to work in Lintao, and the commander Gu Huai.
Gu Huai's son was named Gu Tianshou. He was going to take the martial arts examination. He was about the same age as Cheng Yun. The two got along quite well, and Cheng Yun also learned the word "work".
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In Chengyun’s mind, going to work means something that people don’t want to do but must do.
Zhao Jifang, who was frowning, suddenly became enlightened. He immediately expressed his thanks and wrote a letter of appointment.
Cheng Yun waved his hand and let the cat go away, hiding his merit and fame.
He came here first to deliver official documents from the government office, and secondly to look for Liu Chengzong. However, seeing that Liu Chengzong was not around, there was no point in staying here, so he went to the bookstore in Zhulin in the east of the city to read.
Since winter has arrived, it has been difficult to see Liu Chengzong except for dinner at the palace in the evening.
Even though he was working on the government affairs of the Marshal's Mansion, Liu Shizi only needed one hour a day to finish it because of the two increasingly busy artificial intelligences, Zhao Jifang and Zhang Yuanheng.
Half an hour was spent reviewing the manuscript, and another half an hour was spent revising the official documents sent by Zhao Jifang and Zhang Yuanheng.
However, besides official documents, Liu Shizi still has many things to worry about.
For more than ten days in a row, Liu Chengzong went to the school grounds outside the city for exercises at dawn and returned to the palace city in the evening.
Logically speaking, we should stop fighting in winter.
Soldiers should go home and take a vacation.
However, the Marshal's Mansion has its own national conditions. There are not many people in the army who have married, and there are still many unlucky guys who have married but lost their families.
On the contrary, there are old ones at the top and young ones at the bottom. They are a species cherished by the Marshal's Army.
Of course Liu Shizi gave them a holiday for those rare and exotic animals. Not only did he give them a holiday, but he also gave orders and formulated a set of relocation regulations.
All the reorganized garrison brigades and soldiers who have families will be reported by the officers at different levels. Finally, the commander-in-chief will come forward to negotiate with the local magistrate, prefecture magistrate, and county magistrate to arrange land near the garrison camp.
All the provinces under the Marshal's Mansion have been plowed by soldiers and horses more than once, and the most indispensable thing is unclaimed wasteland.
Those with fields are mainly fields, while those without fields are divided into pastures, grasslands, forests, and ponds, each divided into sizes according to their value. Taking fields as an example, depending on their rank, between fifty and two hundred acres of land are granted.
This field is a resettlement place.
Once the land is allocated, our brigade will arrange manpower to build a four-room house for those who move into the yard, and then move their families there to avoid having to travel back and forth during the holidays.
This order directly caused the three brigades stationed in Guanzhong to become enthusiastic and excited.
But Liu Chengzong also had a way to cheer up the unmarried soldiers, which was to practice.
Drilling certainly doesn't make soldiers happy, but it doesn't make people unhappy either.
After all, this is what you do as a soldier.
But that is a daily drill based on the standard of a small team or a large team, and that is all decided by the team leader and the boss.
Throughout the ages, any army can only manage the training outline at the most basic level.
Even if you are a boss, you can't focus on training the soldiers every day.
This matter is all decided by the management team and President Bai.
They are the grassroots officers who are closest to the soldiers and can arrange daily training most easily.
However, this also determines that the daily drills of an army, in each brigade and squad, use the same training outline and conduct the same training subjects, but the specific arrangements still depend on the personality and ideas of the commander.
In addition to daily training, it is exercise.
This is the so-called exercise every five days, exercise every ten days, or even exercise every half a month or every month.
Whether an army conducts military exercises once every five days or every ten days is not directly related to the eliteness of the army.
Because the training here is not about military training, but about performing martial arts.
It requires a battalion, or even multiple battalions, to gather in one place to conduct team-level formation drills, division- and battalion-level camp drills, and individual skills assessments.
If the battalion is not dispersedly stationed, it can conduct operations every five days.
If the garrison is scattered across several gates in a county, it is best to conduct operations every ten days.
Otherwise, if you spend one day gathering in place, one day practicing, and another day returning to each camp, there will only be two days left for daily training out of the five days.
On the contrary, it will affect the quality of the army.
This is called running back and forth, which is a waste of time and energy.
At the same time, military exercises are not only exercises, but also a good opportunity for generals at all levels to teach military skills.
According to the tradition of Jiubian, after the exercise, there is an official training day.
It means that the experienced frontier generals and servants are mixed into each battalion, and their experience of running and fighting outside the border, shooting from head to head, and spinning swords and horses is passed on to the battalions that have not been in battle.
On this day, people will be rewarded with silver. Each person will be rewarded with three points of silver.
The officer training day is usually the day after the drill. If it is cavalry, it is the day after the drill.
Because the cavalry needed to rest for a day after the drill, they would go out to herd the horses on the fifth watch. At the same time, the soldiers collected horse grass for use on the official training day.
In these days, Liu Chengzong transferred three old men, Sheng Lue, Fang Maogong, and Li Changling, from Lanzhou.
These three retired old men were brought by Li Hongsi when he surrendered in Liangzhou.
They were all generals from Gansu. They had only been in office for a few years and originally received second-grade salaries after being promoted to higher ranks. Liu Chengzong occupied Gansu and cut off their retirement pay.
Later, with Li Hongsi's intercession, he used his remaining enthusiasm and became a training officer in the Marshal's Mansion.
I have no choice but to eat.
Fortunately, these three old men were now in their sixties and in good health, so they were appointed as regimental training officers of the Marshal's Mansion. With their experienced experience, they supervised the creation of the regulations for the exercises.
If there are assessments, there will be rewards and punishments, and if there are rewards, it will make people happy.
In addition, Liu Chengzong also held military exercises in the camp and met with generals from all over the country from morning to night.
This was what he specifically requested by writing letters to the generals guarding the area when he summoned people to enter Guanzhong, asking them to hand over defense to the deputy generals when they came, and to bring more surrendered generals and newly promoted generals to meet and recognize them.
Especially Gansu.
Cao Yao came back from Gansu this time and brought with him more than ten generals, all of whom were unknown to Liu Chengzong.
Among them are young generals who were promoted in battle in Gansu Province, such as Gao Dengke and Ge Yong from Dusi, Zhao Yongbin from Zhenyi, and Wang Wance and Deng Wanzhong who were born in garrison.
There were also Zhao Guangrui and the Zhao Guangyuan brothers who were defeated by the Yangbaozi offensive in Ningxia, Qianhu Huajinzhou from the Jinglu Guards, Li Shoukui, the commander-in-chief of Lutang, and others.
Call them over, firstly because Liu Chengzong wants to meet them so that they don't know who they are fighting for.
The second and most important thing is to separate them from the main army, so as to prevent Cao Yao from gathering troops to cause chaos in Gansu.
After all, when Cao Yao came over, Gansu's defense was left to Huang Shengxiao, Hei Chengyin, and Hu Zhishen.
Huang Shengxiao was Liu Chengzong's artillery battalion staff general, but Hei Chengyin was a strong general and Hu Zhishen was a useless general. The three of them had little problem in defending Gansu, but they had little trouble dealing with civil strife.
What's more, Liu Shizi started his career as a rebel, and he knew best that countering the rebellion would be a net loss no matter how you calculate it.
If someone rebels, it will be a loss for him; if he suppresses the rebellion, it will be a secondary loss.
Liu Chengzong's starting point was not to give people the chance to rebel.
But this time I saw it, I was really surprised.
These reduced generals under Gansu Governor Cao Yao were all mid-level officers who grew up under the Ming Dynasty's frontier army system, and their basic skills in dispatching troops were very solid.
Given time, there may not be one or two general military officers here.
However, this twelfth lunar month, Liu Chengzong received not all good news.
There is also bad news. His Henan commander Zhang Yichuan was defeated miserably by the Ming court's Henan commander Zhang Renxue in Henan Prefecture.
Of course, this is not bad news in itself, nor is it even unexpected.
Liu Chengzong had already arranged for Wei Qian'er's Tongguan guards to leave the border immediately and prepare to meet Zhang Yichuan.
The real bad news is that the 5th Henan Battalion of the Marshal's Mansion was beaten to the point of losing its organization and connections, and only one general, Song Jiang, withdrew to Tongguan.
The remaining four battalions, pulled by Zhang Yichuan, rushed towards Fengyang Mansion in the central capital in a state of collapse.