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Generally speaking, the six ministers in the Tang Dynasty were empty posts. They were concurrently held by foreign senior officials or concurrently as prime ministers. An Sishun concurrently served as the minister of the Ministry of Industry, Yang Guozhong concurrently served as the minister of the household department, Wei Jiansu concurrently served as the minister of the official affairs department, and Chen Xilie concurrently served as the minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Zhang Jun also serves as the Minister of Rites, and Zhang Jun also serves as the Minister of Punishments. These are just titles.

Especially foreign officials, who have nothing to do with the Sixth Ministry. Even if An Sishun comes to Beijing, he will never go to the Ministry of Works to visit his subordinates. He will not even go.

The real power and daily affairs of each ministry are in the hands of the Minister. However, the Ministry of War is in a special situation. One minister alone cannot control the millions of troops of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Dugulie, the Minister of War, is actually granted the title. Although he does not care about daily affairs, he has the approval power of the Ministry of War. In his hand.

In the Song Dynasty, the Ministry of War was split into two departments, the Ministry of War and the Privy Council. In the Tang Dynasty, there was no Privy Council yet. Emperor Li Longji had sole military power, but he actually had no energy to interfere with the army, so he gave some of the military power to In the Ministry of War, the Minister and the Minister were each responsible for part of the military power. Dugu Lie's authority was actually equivalent to that of the Privy Councilor.

It was precisely for this reason that Dugu Lie had the power to secretly assist Li Ye, arrange for his family members who were accompanying him in the army, arrange for his close men, and prepare a large number of camels and supplies for him.

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At nightfall, Dugu Ying found an opportunity and said to Li Ye: "Our Hezhong Army is very short of generals. We only have three Yingyanglang generals and most of the Yingshitanglang generals are missing. Do you have any ideas, Governor?"

Li Ye nodded, "I still have some confidants in Suiye, and I plan to bring them in, like my cousin Pei Xiu, and my uncle's son-in-law An Taixuan. They are both talented people. At present, they are working for me. Sitting in Suiye, I plan to promote them to General Ying Yanglang. In addition, I have a confidant called Black Spear who serves as General Modao Army in the Anxi Army. I plan to transfer him back to Suiye as General Ying Yanglang. "

"It's a pity that General Modao will serve as General Ying Yang in the general army!"

Li Ye smiled slightly and said: "I also have a Modao army of 500 people in Suiye. It was left to me by Cheng Qianli. It was originally the Modao army in Beiting. I asked Black Spear to lead this Modao army, but His official position is Yingyang Langjiang."

Dugu Ying was overjoyed, "The Hezhong Army actually also has the Mo Dao Army, that's great!"

"In this way, there will be six Yingyanglang generals, not counting Black Spear. In fact, there are only five. It would be better to have six. Each of them can command an army of 2,000, but there is still one person missing."

Dugu Ying hesitated and said: "How about letting the humble position take over?"

The deputy governor only had a nice name, but had no real power. If he was the deputy governor sent by the imperial court, Li Ye would never agree and directly ignore him. But Dugu should be a general of the Dugu family and worthy of trust. Li Ye nodded happily, "Okay. You also serve as General Ying Yanglang of the Sixth Battalion."

Dugu Ying struggled with this problem all the way. It was too boring to be the deputy governor, because the general of the first battalion, Ying Yanglang, was concurrently served by Li Ye. He thought it would be best for him to also serve as the general of Ying Yanglang, so that he could actually control the army. .

Dugu Ying was overjoyed and knelt down on one knee to salute, "Thank you, Governor, for your trust!"

Li Ye, Dugu Ying, Wang Xuanwu, Duan Xu, Pei Xiu, An Taixuan, and Hei Spear, these seven people were officially designated as the top generals of the Hezhong Army.

Of course, Li Ye did not forget the past. Through Dugulie's relationship, he also transferred a group of old brothers such as Yuchiguang, Wang Yu, and Wu Tai. Yuchiguang has been promoted to school captain, and Wang Yu and Wu Tai have also become The brigade commander and seven or eight other veterans who had followed him in Shuofang were also transferred.

Yu Chiguang was directly appointed as Eagle Striker General by him, Wang Yu and Wu Tai were promoted to school captains, and the other brothers were promoted to brigade commanders. They were able to get ahead.

However, there were still not enough middle and low-level generals, so Li Ye was ready to select people from the 300 private troops of the Pei family who had been following him.

Early the next morning, Wang Sheng, a member of the Ministry of War, returned with several followers.

Li Ye continued to lead the army westward for three full months. On April 17, the 12,000 Hezhong Army finally arrived at Suiye City.

Currently, Suiye is in charge of three people: Cen Shen, Pei Xiu and An Taixuan. Among them, Cen Shen is in charge of government affairs, and Pei Xiu and An Taixuan are in charge of military affairs. They have received the Flying Eagle Express from Beiting and are stationed outside Suiye City. Got off the camp.

When the army entered the camp, Cen Shen sent people to bring 500 pigs, 3,000 sheep, and 1,000 bags of sheep wine. The three armies killed pigs and sheep and drank heavily.

Cen Shen, Pei Xiu and An Taixuan came to the big account to give orders.

Li Ye comforted them, thanked them for their hard work over the past six months, and announced their new positions.

Cen Shen served as the recorder of the Hezhong Governor's Office and joined the army. His position was under Chang Shi and Sima. Wang Changling's judge and Gao Shi's secretary joined the army and were on the same level as him.

Then there were three other staff members, Chen Huan, Yang Shaohua and Qiu Xuan, as well as Qiao Bin and others, who were civilian officers of the Hezhong Army.

The Hezhong Governor's Mansion was divided into two parts, one for government affairs and the other for the army. Only Li Ye crossed over and served as the governor of Hezhong Mansion and the commander-in-chief of the Hezhong Army.

Everyone quickly adapted to their respective roles. For several days, Li Ye was so busy that he could hardly breathe.

In the past, Suiye was just a military town. Now that the military town has been upgraded to the Governor's Mansion, it is completely different. The Governor's Mansion alone needs to be expanded. The original government office is too small.

Dozens of civil servants and officials needed to be recruited, so Xie Jin, the chief official, was put in charge of this matter, with Cen Shen assisting.

Li Ye's biggest concern is food. The court will not transport food to him, so he needs to solve it himself. There are more than 10,000 people, and they have three meals a day. How can he feed so many people?

Their 30,000 camels carry not only food, but also a large amount of military supplies and daily necessities. The food is all eaten on the way, and now they can only rely on broken leaves for food.

Fortunately, Sui Yejun's military camp is doing well, growing grain, raising sheep, fish, pigs, chickens and ducks, etc. There are 300,000 sheep alone, but they can only last for half a year at most. What will happen after half a year? ?

In the morning, Li Ye led a group of officials to the wheat field. The wheat field is in the Chu River Grand Canyon. The Chu River Grand Canyon is located between the Qianquan Mountains and the Kunge Mountains. The widest part of the canyon is more than a hundred miles, and the narrowest part is For more than twenty miles, there are large expanses of grassland and forest on both sides of the river. From time to time, you can see groups of sheep. It is an extremely rare oasis.

The Chu River runs northwest to southeast, with wheat fields on the south bank and sheep on the north bank, thus preventing sheep from damaging the wheat seedlings.

There are thirty hectares of wheat fields, and winter wheat is planted. It is late April, and the wheat has already headed. It is the time when green and yellow alternate. The wheat will mature in another month.

At present, An Taixuan is in charge of the military camp. He introduced to everyone: "The water here is abundant, the sunshine is sufficient, and we can achieve two crops a year. After we harvest the wheat in late May, we will plant another season of corn, and the output will be double." Not bad, the wheat yield is about 350 kilograms per mu, and the corn yield is also 180 kilograms per mu."

Li Ye shook his head and said: "Thirty hectares of land is too little. It must be more than 400 hectares, with an average of three acres of ration land for each soldier, plus mutton supplements, to ensure military rations."

Gao Shi asked: "Can the land here be cultivated just after it is reclaimed? It does not need to be matured for a year."

Cen Shen smiled and said: "The soil here is very fertile. If you insert a branch, it will sprout. If you don't let it mature, you can cultivate it in the same year."

Li Ye nodded, "The land here is extremely vast. Mobilize the entire army to cultivate fertile land and rush to plant the next crop of grain in the second half of the year."

Xie Jin said with some worry: "It will take until May next year to harvest a large amount of grain. The grain harvest in the second half of the year alone may not be enough."

Li Ye smiled slightly and said: "The problem is not big. The Yaosha River Basin where the Sogdian countries are located is a famous grain-producing area, and Tocharo is also a grain-producing place. We can buy some of the grain, and then the Geluolu people will pay back the debt." I have 600,000 sheep, and I gave Geluolu’s stepping power to the Pogo tribe, and they still owe me part of the spoils.”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and laughed together: "Then seize the time and open up wasteland and cultivate fields together!"