In order to prevent the recurrence of the Tang Dynasty's feudal rule, the Song Dynasty created a complex and inefficient local administrative system. Above the prefectural army, the administrative unit of "road" was set up, and the transfer envoy, the prison envoy for promotion, the envoy for pacification, and the envoy for promotion to Changping formed a situation in which four departments co-managed one road to divide the power of local officials.
The jurisdiction of each "road" in the Song Dynasty was not always fixed. It often changed. The number of "roads" in each period was also different, from the first fifteen roads to the eighteenth, twenty-third, and later three roads. Twenty-six roads sometimes increase and sometimes decrease.
In addition, in some places, there will be situations where one envoy is responsible for two or more roads. For example, the Hebei Road Transport Envoy is a "Du Zhuanshi" who oversees the affairs of two to four Road Transport Envoys. The reason why there are two to four roads is because the road system in Hebei Province changes from time to time. Sometimes it is divided into east and west roads, sometimes it is divided into Zhendingfu Road, Dingzhou Road, Gaoyangguan Road, and Damingfu Road. At that time, it was divided into east and west roads and Yanshanfu Road.
But now in Hebei under Zhao Kai's jurisdiction, due to the fall of Yanshanfu Road, there are only two east and west roads left. However, due to the emergence of the Hebei Military Marshal's Mansion, it is inevitable that the territory and authority of Hebei West Road will be usurped. Therefore, splitting off Hebei West Road has become an inevitable choice!
Previously, Zhao Kai took a vague route in order to avoid irritating Hebei West Road's pacification envoy Liu Kai. On the one hand, he did not openly split up Hebei West Road; on the other hand, he took over Xiangzhou and Huaizhou as his base areas.
Now because of the two victories at Niangziguan and Pingding Army, Liu Kai and Liu Ziyu and his son have fully devoted themselves to Zhao Kai, so Zhao Kai is ready to strike while the iron is hot and split Hebei West Road into Zhending Road and Xiangzhou Road. Among them, Zhending Road is different from the Zhendingfu Road that was once established. It is the territory of Dingzhou Road plus a Zhendingfu Road. The territory is not small, but the location looks a bit scary. It is blocking the main road for Jin Bing to go south from Yanshan Mansion!
What's even more frightening is that there aren't many troops on this Zhending Road territory... If you want to defend it, it seems the only way is to set up camp troops!
Ji Yi and Qin Hui had just escaped danger in the Pingding Army. Now how could they really decide on the road to this extremely dangerous place? They all wanted to refuse with sad faces.
But how could Zhao Kai let them go?
"Ji Taiwei, Qin Huizhi," Zhao Kai said to the two of them with a smile, "Today's world is in troubled times, and men should seek wealth and honor from danger! You two can either go to Hedong with the lonely family, or go to Zhending Road to guard the road. On one side... Although Zhending Prefecture and Dingzhou are close to Yanshan Prefecture Road under the rule of Jin Thief, there are currently no Jin Thieves there. Moreover, the Jin Thief's Western Army is firmly tied to the east of the river, while the Eastern Army is far away in Kaifeng Prefecture. You two have at least a few months to reorganize the defenses of Zhen and Ding. And you don’t have to guard the entire Zhending Road, as long as you can defend Anxi, the first county of Dingzhou, and Zhending, the first county of Zhending! It’s no good. , if you guard one of the two cities of Anxi and Zhending, you will be considered a great meritorious deed!"
It sounds like it’s okay!
Ji Yi and Qin Hui were finally persuaded by Zhao Kai... They couldn't accept it! It's even more dangerous to go to Hedong. There are hundreds of thousands of Golden Thieves' West Route Army there! If Zhao Kai had the intention to make the two of them become loyal heroes, it would really be a dead end.
On Zhending Road, not only is there no danger for the time being, but the two of them are still the first and second-in-commands, so it is always easier to protect themselves - now is wartime, and the situation where the four local departments are co-governing will of course be affected by the situation controlled by the two departments of transfer and pacification. replaced.
Seeing that Ji Yi and Qin Hui finally took over the mess of Zhending Road, Zhao Kai finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Now the mess on Hebei East Road has been packaged up to the original comfort envoy Li Lu, and the mess on West Road has been taken over by the two traitors Ji Yi and Qin Hui. Zhao Kai's Marshal's Mansion can concentrate on running the six "Taihang Prefectures" of Xiangzhou, Huaizhou, Weizhou, Cizhou, Zhaozhou and Xinde Prefecture.
A considerable part of the territory of these six state capitals is located in the Taihang Mountains. Even if the plain areas fall, they can still persist in the Taihang Mountains, which is relatively easy to maintain. If Zhao Kai can succeed in entering Hedong from the west this time, he can relieve the siege of Taiyuan and then firmly control Hedong. Then he can lead the troops from Hedong and Shaanxi at any time, cross Taihang Shandong and exit Hebei.
In this situation, even if the gold thief captured Kaifeng Mansion, he would not be able to control it for a long time. Going east from Luoyang, it doesn't look like it will be difficult to recapture Kaifeng Mansion...
Thinking of this, Zhao Kai said to Ma Kuang, who had followed him all the way from Niangziguan: "Captain Ma, I want to entrust Zhaozhou to you. Would you like to be the governor of the state, in charge of the military and horsemen, and the envoy of the camp?"
The magistrate of the state is in charge of government and the army, and the envoy of the camp is in charge of money and food. The three powers of military, government and finance in Zhaozhou can be regarded as handed over to Ma Kuo!
Moreover, Ma Kuo had very close ties with the local powerful men in Zhaozhou. Half of the recruits he recruited in Zhaozhou were strongmen recruited from Wuma Mountain in Zhaozhou.
In addition, Ma Kuo was born as a general in the Western Army and traveled between the Song, Liao and Jin dynasties for a long time. He had already gathered a team around him and could do some things. Zhao Kai now granted him full power to rule Zhaozhou, which actually turned Zhaozhou into Ma Kuo's territory.
"Your Majesty, Ma Kuo, is willing to fight to the death to protect Zhaozhou for your Majesty!" Of course, Ma Kuo cannot refuse the territory and power given by Zhao Kai... Even if he accepts this assignment, he will be marked as King Yun's best friend!
Because he has his own group of people, as well as the powerful people from Wuma Mountain who are attached to him, and there is no land in the state. What will this group of people do?
Zhao Kai then said to Liu Ziyu: "Yan Xiu, with your talents, you can stand alone, so the Gu family wants you to serve as the envoy of the pacification army, the commander of the troops and horses, and the envoy of the camp."
Another three-piece set of Military Envoy, Qian Ju, and Ying Tian!
Of course Liu Ziyu accepted these three assignments without hesitation.
Zhao Kai nodded with a smile, and then turned his attention to the ten generals of the Tiance Army, including Han Shizhong, Yelu Yujian (Liu Yu), Huang Wuji, Xiang Ke, Li Xiaozhong, Yue Fei, Dong Jingang, Liu Yan, Yang Weizhong, and Liu Xi. He smiled and said: "The gains and losses of Taiyuan are of great importance. As long as Taiyuan can be preserved, the Gu family will be invincible. All the ministers are capable of generals. Is there any way to solve the siege of Taiyuan?"
"I have an idea!" Yelu Yujian knew that his chance to perform had come, and he immediately spoke.
"Liu Taiwei, do you have any good ideas? Tell me quickly and let the Gu family know."
Yeluyu saw it and said: "As far as I know, Nianhan and Xiyin do not know the situation of the Jinthief's Eastern Route Army, nor do they know the reality of the king. They thought that the king was leading an army of hundreds of thousands of people!
And if the king really has hundreds of thousands of soldiers, of course he will not use the main force to enter Hedong via Jingxing. After all, Jingxing Road is narrow, and Hedong is ravaged by gold thieves, making it difficult to support the supply of soldiers. Therefore, the king should assume that the main force will go north to Yanshan, and use an elite force to enter Jin to contain the golden thieves. "
Zhao Kai nodded, and then looked at Han Shizhong - although he trusted Yue Fei more, Han Shizhong's qualifications should still be respected.
Han Shizhong said: "Your Majesty, we only have less than 10,000 people on hand, which is the size of a partial army. We can first march westward to Shouyang under the banner of the minister. After arriving in Shouyang, we can send out detailed work and Chuanqi to Taiyuan, Xinzhou, and Daizhou. They spread the news in other places, saying that the Golden Thieves' Eastern Route Army was flooded by the Yellow River during the Battle of Sanshan Bridge. It suffered heavy losses and was trapped in Liyang. It would soon run out of food and be destroyed. Now King Yun personally led the army to the north and was about to Recapture Yanshan to cut off the retreat route of the Golden Thieves' Western Route Army. All heroes who are willing to raise troops to resist the Jin and restrain the Golden Thieves' Western Route Army for the king will be rewarded heavily when the task is completed!"
I have to say that this Han Shizhong is still very good at telling stories. Based on the information provided by Yelu Yujian, he tailor-made a set of false news for Wanyan Zonghan and the others... and it sounded quite real!
There are 100,000 people in the Dajin East Route Army! Even if the Song Dynasty had 800,000 forbidden troops, it would be impossible to deal with them all without even one slipping through the net. But it was different when the Yellow River was flooded. Once the flood came, the cavalry could not escape, so they had to retreat into Liyang City and defend. Moreover, there is a lot of water all around. The Jin soldiers have no water army, so they can't fight at all, so they can only stay trapped and wait for reinforcements!
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