It was said that it was a consolation envoy to set out after the New Year, but in fact, Li Zhang rushed to the northwest that night. This was originally a large-scale military adjustment and defense process with consolation. The sooner the success, the more initiative the Khitan envoys would have in the court when they arrived in Bianjing.

Zhao Zhen said that he owed Xu Ping a favor, but Xu Ping agreed to transfer the Longyou Army to Hebei. It was originally the army of the court, and the Five Armies are now directly under the Privy Council. Lu Yijian could use letters to inform Xu Ping and directly move several of the troops eastward.

From the management, appeasement, recruitment, deployment and other departments, they were reorganized into the Protectorate, in order to completely separate the power of commanding the military from the commander's hands, and the Bian Zheng only had the power of using military forces. The reform has been completed, and the Five Army of Longyou actually became heavy troops in the hands of several imperial courts without the Three Yas. In principle, there is no difference from the army of Pangri, Tianwu, Longwei, and Shenwei. The military system reform of the Three Yas is very likely to continue to exist, but the power is adjusted and truly become a military commanding agency. In the words of Xu Ping's previous life, the Three Yas only manages business and has a relationship with the Privy Council.

After the restructuring, the three yamen and the Privy Council will reduce mutual restraint, and more because their respective responsibilities are different.

The daily management of the army is the three yamen, while the power of military command belongs to the Privy Council. The emperor gives command power through the Privy Council. The general pattern of the system design has not changed. It has only changed that the power of the three yamen as an institution has increased, while the power of the commanders under it has been reduced, and the daily management of the army has been taken away by the yamen from the commanders. The power of the Privy Council has not increased. This yamen is nominally in charge of the military affairs of a country, and there is no increase. The rise of the Privy Council status comes from the confirmation of the power of the nominal and unreal because of the restraining power of each yamen, and the power of the commanders at all levels is seized. Xu Ping's restructuring was originally to take power from the commanders and use the system to the yamen.

In the future, no matter whether it is a civil servant or general, commanding troops and taking power, it is because you hold this position. Once the position changes, the military power will naturally disappear. From soldiers to generals at all levels, they will become more and more responsible to the system, not to the superiors. After the system becomes the main body, the class law is actually abolished. Institutionalization is strengthened, and the influence of people is reduced. On the surface, whether it is the Three Yamen, the Privy Council, or the various army, a large number of officials will be added. These officials who do not have the power to command military will no longer determine their destiny by the officers at all levels, but will be responsible to the officers and the authority above. If there is a conflict with the officers in command, the superiors will be in charge of their own hands. They do not control the army, but will take a large amount of officials from the officers in command of the army into the hands of the system.

The ten generals of the Five Army and Ten Generals of the Longyou Army were regarded as the governing army because they were actually generals who were not in the Three Yas. They were not just treated, but their sphere of authority was like this. It was from this era in history that the positions of the eight generals of the Three Yas gradually began to become empty ranks, and the power of the Three Yas moved downward to the commanders of several large armies. This was a natural process of history, not Xu Ping's whim. He just let this process bring his own color and a management model that would be a thousand years later.

What made Zhao Zhen feel that he owed Xu Ping was not expecting that Xu Ping suggested that he would be the two main forces of Sang Yi and Gao Daquan, who were under him. Originally, Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian just wanted to choose one from Liu Jianji, Zhang Kang and Cao Keming to move eastward, which could create enough deterrence to the Khitan.

In Lu Yijian's view, the Khitan barbarians were naturally afraid of strong and insulting. As long as one or two armies that were winning consecutively in Longyou were moving toward the direction of the Khitan, it would be enough to scare them. The Khitan was the old enemy of the Song Dynasty. Even if they started a war with Dangxiang, there were hundreds of thousands of troops left in Hebei and Hedong. The ones they were defending against were the Khitans. If they felt that it was not enough, Lu Yijian suggested building Daming Mansion for Beijing, and to show that Zhao Zhen would personally fight against the strong, and let Yelu Zongzhen die and use the army to blackmail them. It was not your army going south, but it was really annoying that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty wanted to personally fight and regain Youyan to see who was afraid of who at this time.

After all, if the peace talks with Dangxiang broke down, Xu Ping still had to lead his troops north to attack Weizhou, Zhanxing and Lingzhou, so that Dangxiang could completely cut off the foundation for Dangxiang's re-emergence. Moreover, in the future, not only Dangxiang, but also Longyou would have enough troops to intimidate Hehuang and the Hexi counties. If one Yuanhao cannot be destroyed and several Yuanhao will be raised, there will be many places where Xu Ping wants to use troops.

Longyou said it was the Five Armies, but in fact, only Sang Yi and Gao Daquan were fully equipped, and the other three armies only had about half of the troops. It would take time to train the imperial guards on Jingyuan Road, and it would not be completed in a short time. Sang Yi and Gao Daquan moved eastward, and Xu Ping's 200,000 troops went to most of the combat power. Zhao Zhen was really moved.

He took on the difficulties himself and tried his best to make others relax. Xu Ping has been like this for more than ten years. Now, he has given the court this convenience to the commander. He held two of Sang Yi and Gao Daquan's strongest heavy troops. Lu Yijian said that the founding of the capital was not just a threat to the Khitan. He was really impatient. Zhao Zhen really had the confidence to go to Daming Mansion.

At that time, more than 100,000 imperial guards in Taizu's hands looked around and surrounded by a single place. Zhao Zhen had hundreds of thousands of imperial guards as the foundation, and with two victorious troops Sang Yi and Gao Daquan, he was not so afraid of fighting with the Khitan in Hebei. In the battle of Tiandu Mountain, Dangxiang was completely destroyed. Now the fighting spirit of the entire court has risen, and even Zhao Zhen felt that the strong enemy in the north is actually not that scary.

Although no one in the court made it clear, they regarded Sang Yi and Gao Daquan as Xu Ping's confidants. When Xu Ping and Sang Yi met at a low age, Sang Yi became an official in Yongzhou under Xu Ping. The relationship between them was intriguing. Not to mention Gao Daquan, they were originally a servant in Xu Ping's family, but by chance they joined the army and made great achievements.

Xu Ping has always wanted to use the system to confiscate the power of the commander, but with Sang Yi and Gao Daquan around him as generals, he could not get rid of the suspicion of being a soldier. Letting these two men lead the troops out of Longyou was not only Xu Ping avoided suspicion, but also considered the future of these two men.

In making such an arrangement, Xu Ping was not without the idea of ​​pulling it into the water and fighting another battle. At this time, Dangxiang could be destroyed just in the near future, and Yuanhao's pursuit of peace could only be a delusion. His rebellion against Song had already defeated Dangxiang's credit, and the battle in Tiandu Mountain had lost capital. He wanted to beg for the Song Dynasty. He also pretended to behave and hoped to use the power of the Khitan to get a decent ending from the Song Dynasty. It was no longer possible.

Without Dangxiang's threat, the army that completed the training of 100,000 and 200,000 Longyou will face the Khitan directly. Yelu Zongzhen has not yet reacted to who would be worried about being attacked in the future. Military system reform will lead to many difficulties once the war is not fought. Once Dangxiang is destroyed and the Khitan does not come forward, Xu Ping will use various excuses to attack Yun, Shuo and other states of the Khitan. If they bump into it, they will not blame anyone.

The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are actually the same as Xu Ping's attack on Dangxiang from Qinzhou. Attacking Yunzhou is as far and far as it is. As long as the troops that can support the attack, it is much easier to attack Yunzhou than from Hebei to attack Youzhou. In Yunzhou, the gateway to the Sixteen Prefectures will be opened.
Chapter completed!