As far as Yue Fei is concerned, he is already the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Palace. If there had not been the coup, it would have taken at least ten years for him to become the commander-in-chief based on his resume, so it would be difficult for him to gain real power.
There is room for promotion, because the next promotion will be the Privy Council, so we can only give some false names and upgrade to lower grades. This article was first published by..
In addition, Li Qi also asked Yue Fei to serve as the defense envoy of Jiaozhi County. This defense envoy usually has a false position and will not take up a position locally. Unless there is a war in this place, the defense envoy will come here to lead the troops in combat. Of course, in the northwest and
In key places like Yanyun, the defense envoys have a real job. They have to lead the local defense.
Wu Jie also served as the defense envoy of Dali County.
However, Dali and Jiaozhi counties are also important military areas. Because the battlefield in the south will continue, troops must be deployed here.
After private discussions with Zhao Jingyan, Li Qi decided to establish the Yunnan Army. This army was divided into the Yunxi Army and the Yundong Army, which were stationed in Dali County and Jiaozhi County respectively.
Wu Lin will serve as the Dali County regiment training envoy to know the Yunxi Army.
Wu Lin may be slightly inferior to Wu Jie in terms of military ability, but his character is more calm and cautious than Wu Jie. Wu Jie is a bit of a success-loving person, so he can only live in a busy life and cannot be allowed to stop. If he is allowed to live
If he is very comfortable, he may lose his way and forget who he is.
At this point, Wu Lin is much better than Wu Jie.
And Yue Fan will serve as the training envoy of the Jiaozhi County regiment to know the Yundong Army. Yue Fan's military ability is not as good as Wu Lin, but he is also more restrained, calm, and will not make big mistakes. Although Yue Fei and Niu Gao are both suitable, but in the north,
They are needed both in the west and east, and Li Qi doesn't want them to stay here and waste their talents.
As for those chiefs, they have all been promoted in the Forbidden Army. Just as Li Qi promised at the beginning, those who are capable will be promoted. The more merit you make, the greater the official position you will get.
Of course, this is just Li Qi's own idea. The final decision still has to wait for Zhao Kai's imperial edict. After all, Zhao Kai is the emperor, and the imperial edict is a powerful tool to consolidate imperial power, and military commanders are very subtle in the emperor's mind.
It must be appointed by the emperor himself.
In fact, this is just a process, and of course Li Qi's intention is still the main one.
Because Zhao Kaiyuan didn't know anything about the situation here in Bianliang. How did he know who was suitable and who was not? Of course he would choose to adopt Li Qi's suggestion.
These rewards are easy to arrange, but the most difficult thing is to integrate the military and political affairs. The military power of Jiaozhi has been lifted, but what about the troops in Dali?
This is a difficult problem.
If it is not handled well, big trouble may arise.
In Li Qi's plan, there must be 60,000 troops stationed on the Yunnan Road. This cannot be more. But it cannot be less, because this army must not only target the south, but also take care of the western side of Tubo.
And Li Qi only brought 60,000 forbidden troops here. Of the 60,000 troops, Li Qi would only leave at most 10,000 troops here. Because this is the central forbidden army, the emperor's personal army. It was really forced to send these people south.
It is a last resort. Because all the elites of the Song Dynasty are in the northwest and Yanyun, they only have such an ace army in hand, and there are no soldiers to mobilize. But if you want to arrange them all to the local area, then Zhao Kai will have to kill you.
But the problem arises again. The total number of soldiers from Guangdali, Yi, and Qinzhou, as well as those who surrendered, is nearly 200,000. This must be reduced. Otherwise, with so many troops, the annual salary alone will be enough.
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The most important thing is that if all these laborers go to serve as soldiers, what will happen to agriculture and industry? You can't count on those old, young, women and children.
Therefore, disarmament is imperative.
After some discussion, Li Qi decided to select 25,000 soldiers from the tribal soldiers in Qinzhou and Yizhou, plus 5,000 forbidden troops for a total of 30,000 troops to form the Yundong Army, under the command of Yue Fan.
As for Dali, 15,000 soldiers and horses were selected from the soldiers Wu Jie recruited in Dali, and 10,000 soldiers and horses were selected from Duan's tent, plus 5,000 forbidden troops, a total of 30,000 troops were formed.
Western Army.
Li Qi learned Duan Zhengyan's lesson this time and did not take sides.
But there is another key to this, and that is how to deal with the military generals in Dali. Li Qi does not want to keep them here, because they are the local mountain kings and have deep-rooted influence in Dali. If they are left here, they will give Duan Zheng
Yan, Wu Lin and others have caused a lot of trouble. Once Li Qi leads the army away, who can guarantee that they will still be obedient.
Moreover, most of these people's troops are composed of their own tribesmen. They are monolithic. At most, you can only remove part of their military power. If you remove all their military power, then they will not fight you to the death!
But you can't demote them all to common people, then they will definitely rebel, there is no doubt about it.
The interest relationships here are very complex.
There was no other way, so Li Qi had no choice but to reward them lavishly and give them all high-ranking positions, such as commanders and regiment training envoys, to coax them and lure them all into the Forbidden Army, and then take the opportunity to slowly weaken their power.
Li Qi first distributed Duan's 10,000 troops to Han Shizhong to expand the navy. The navy was well treated and all of them were rich, because they had the support of the Fuzhou Shipyard and the customs where they could make some money.
, the welfare is much better than that of the Army, plus they float on the water all year round and have no place to use their money, forcing them to save money.
The soldiers are certainly satisfied with such good treatment. This is an iron rice bowl, and the Song Navy is invincible. The mortality rate is the lowest among the Song army, and it can even be said to be ridiculously low. And their chief or commander, although
They are not as carefree as in Dali, but under the current situation, they have no room for bargaining, and the official position given by Li Qi is so high and the salary is very generous. Naturally, they know how to accept it as soon as it is good. If they get into trouble with Li Qi, God knows.
Will this madman treat them the same as he treated Li Quansheng's men?
As for the remaining people, Li Qi divided 40,000 troops and gave them to Wu Jie, including 8,000 troops from the Tibetan regime Zhao Yanqin. Obviously, Li Qi shamelessly annexed Zhao Yanqin's forces.
There is no way, the Song Dynasty is so strong now, the weak Zhao Yanqin can only suffer the loss of being dumb and surrender to the Song Dynasty honestly.
Li Qi named this army the Zhenxi Army and granted Wu Jie the title of General Zhenxi. As the name suggests. This army will go to the Tubo territory in the west. Obviously Li Qi is already planning the next military plan.
The goal is to regain the political power of Tibet.
But Li Qi was not in a hurry to ask Wu Jie to send troops. You have to find a name to send troops first, but the reason is not difficult to find. Zhao Yanqin was originally a force in Tubo. Of course he had enemies in Tubo. On this reason,
Then the power of the Song Dynasty can be penetrated. However, this is the next military plan, and it will only be put on the agenda after careful arrangements and preparations.
As a result, out of the 200,000 troops in Shenglong Mansion, 100,000 troops have been assigned to their own families. As for the remaining 100,000 troops, Li Qi made a stroke of his pen - each went back to his own home, each to find his own mother.
Because Li Qi had arranged for some very powerful and famous chiefs and generals, the remaining soldiers were leaderless. Even if they didn't want to, they could only obey.
Of course, Li Qi couldn't let them return home and farm with resentment. Li Qi gave them enough reward, which was land. All veterans could get two acres of fertile land and two acres of wasteland.
After careful discussions with Duan Zhengyan, he decided to follow Li Qi's policy in Jiaozhi and implement the same nationalization of land in Dali. Break it into parts and centralize management first, and then slowly return to privatization when the time is right.
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In fact, Duan Zhengyan saw Li Qi's actions in Shenglong Mansion, and he also felt that this set of policies was very suitable for Dali at the moment, because the rebellion in Dali came from the forces of local snakes from all sides, and the nationalization of land
These forces will be greatly weakened and unified management will be achieved. Otherwise, no matter how good your policy is, if no one below listens to you, what's the use.
After everything is arranged, the military will bear the first blow. Jiaozhi, Dali, including Yizhou, Qinzhou and other Lingnan areas have begun a new round of large-scale troop reductions. More than 100,000 or 200,000 soldiers will go home to work in agriculture, and all-out efforts will be made to
Promote agricultural production. Without agriculture, there will be no way to start business.
At the same time, Zhe Meiyue and Zhe Yanzhi led the Western Army and a part of the Dali Army in Dali County, sweeping away all the rebel forces like the autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves. Because all the Dali troops came to Jiaozhi, the internal situation was very tense.
The emptiness, coupled with the surrender of the thirty-seventh tribe, reduced a large part of the resistance. The rebel forces had just begun. They had no strength to compete with the Western Army and had no power to fight back. Of course, the Zhejia Army did not have a large force.
Start a killing spree, try to recruit those who can surrender, and beat those who don't surrender until you surrender.
Before Duan Zhengyan returned, the Song army had almost taken control of Dali.
In addition, Li Qi began to target the Jiaozhi area in the south. He had to take advantage of his army to wipe out the remaining forces in the south first, so he ordered Wu Lin and Yue Fan to lead an army of 80,000.
Heading south from Thang Long Palace, they announced an army of 150,000.
In fact, this was just a formality. Li Qi expected that the remaining forces in the south would all surrender before his army arrived, because he had already contacted the Champa State and reached a unified opinion. The Champa State would surrender to the Song Dynasty.
Li Qi paid tribute and became a vassal, and sent troops to frighten the Jiaozhi army in the south. In return, Li Qi promised to return the territory to the Champa state.
At the beginning, the Li Dynasty expanded to the south and occupied the Champa Kingdom's Dili, Maling, Buzheng and other places. The Champa State dreamed of regaining the three places. Now, although it has only regained Dili, it is better than nothing, and
The Champa Kingdom hated Jiaozhi, but was very friendly to the Song Dynasty.
Both sides simultaneously released news that they would attack Cochin's army in the south from both sides.
In fact, Li Qi warned the Champa Kingdom that no war would begin without his order. Otherwise, the Champa Kingdom would have taken action long ago, because the remaining forces were simply vulnerable without the support of Shenglong Palace.
The result also proved that Li Qi's prediction was correct. Wu Lin's army was only halfway through, and the generals of the southern army took the initiative to surrender to the Song Dynasty. Although they were Li Quansheng's subordinates, nothing was more precious than their own lives these days.
, they could not see the dawn of victory at all, and had no other choice but to surrender.
In fact, they wanted to surrender to the Champa State at the beginning, and even promised to return all the places such as Dili, Maling, and Buzheng to the Champa State. As long as you protect us, these places will be yours.
Of course, the Champa Kingdom is also tempted, but you have to hold on even if you can get it back. Li Qi sent someone to send a message to them earlier. Whoever dares to take in these rebels will be the enemy of the Song Dynasty.
Behind greed lies murderous intention!
The Champa Kingdom saw that the Song Dynasty had defeated Jiaozhi in less than a year. They asked themselves if they were not rivals of Jiaozhi. How could they dare to go against the Song Dynasty? It would be terrible if the Song Dynasty took the opportunity to attack. They resolutely rejected the southern
Despite the request of the army, they chose to join the Song Dynasty and work together to deal with these remaining forces.
The troops in southern Jiaozhi were forced by Li Qi to have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth, so they had no choice but to surrender to the Song Dynasty.
To this day, the Jiaozhi Kingdom has been completely destroyed and completely included in the territory of the Song Dynasty. (To be continued...)