Xiangyang City, early August.

In the hot weather, one day after another, the office in the front yard of the prefect's mansion was always supplied with ice.

On August 14th, before dawn, it was already lively ahead.

More than a dozen servants carefully carried large basins of ice and walked towards a heavily guarded hall.

It was originally a conference hall. After Wang Hongyi temporarily lived here, for convenience, he converted the hall into a hall, which was nothing more than based on the original hall and expanded to the surrounding area.

There is a high seat in the hall with nine steps below, and the lower ones are the positions of civil and military officials.

At this time, because Wang Hongyi had decided to move the inner palace and the Sixth Division here, and the king's ceremony was being secretly prepared, the officials of the Secretary-General's Pavilion had already moved to Xiangyang City.

According to past habits, Wang Hongyi started a daily meeting again and asked everyone about it.

Listening to the important matters of civil and military officials, there is not a day's free time.

When the first morning light burst out from the horizon, the entire sky began to become brighter.

The streets are still a little dim, only the place near the inner city is brightly lit.

A large area has been designated as the scope of the expansion of the inner city. The original residents have long been moved away one after another, and the craftsmen are working there overnight.

After half a stick of incense, carriages began to travel from afar, one after another, entering the inner city.

There were groups of three or five outside the hall, whispering in groups.

Wang Hongyi gave the officials under his tent very generous treatment, and at the same time, his requirements were higher.

Until the civil and military officials were almost there, a sound of music came. Behind the servants, Wang Hongyi's carriage had arrived.

Chengyu was gently put down in front of the steps. An eunuch came forward to support him. Wang Hongyi, wearing a crown and a crown, calmly came down from Chengyu and accompanied by the eunuch, walked up the steps.

After he went up, all civil and military officials rushed into the hall.

At this time, the sun was rising, and the bright morning light had already shone directly in from outside the hall. Although the entire hall was simply arranged, it seemed magnificent at this moment.

The originally hot summer is still a bit cool, and there is a row of guards in front of the hall.

Civil and military officials were arranged on both sides according to their identities, with their own solemn expressions.

There were hundreds of people in the entire hall, but they were silent.

Wang Hongyi stepped up the stone steps and sat behind the main seat. The civil and military officials fell to the ground and shouted: "Greetings to the Duke!"

Wang Hongyi raised his hand slightly and said to the civil and military officials below: "The family of all the ministers is peaceful."

"Thank you, Duke of Guo." The civil and military officials stood up and stood still.

Wang Hongyi sat in the upper position, wearing a crown robe, and his eyes swept down.

"I have a copy to report." A civil servant took the lead at this time, bowed his hand to the upper hand, and said.

When Wang Hongyi saw that the person who was speaking was Cheng Xiang, the deputy director of the Department of Industry. The person in charge was busy supervising internal and external affairs. He was ill in bed these two days, and now the deputy director was in charge of the matter.

Seeing that it was him who came out of the line, Wang Hongyi said softly: "Please speak Cheng Qing!"

"No." Cheng Xiang bowed and said clearly.

"There are two things to report. The first is the reconstruction of the inner city. According to the drawings, the reconstruction of the inner city will be expanded outward with the original site as the point, and the official residences will be built near the inner city to facilitate the discussion and court meetings. These are not large in scale, but they involve many residential houses."

In fact, according to Wang Hongyi's thoughts, it is definitely not Xiangyang, but it is just a temporary residence for one year or two years, so there is no need to mobilize the masses too much.

However, the requirements of office and court meetings alone made this transformation necessary.

"It involves the relocation of the original residents, so just ask the Ministry of Works to buy it at the market price." After a moment of thinking, Wang Hongyi said directly, not wanting to encounter the problem of demolition.

Only when you are in this position can you realize that sometimes conflicts between planning and residential houses are inevitable, but the expansion of the inner city is very important, and some places are not suitable for residential houses.

"Yes!" Cheng Xiang got the desired reply and said, "The second thing is the business of each shipyard. According to the instructions, twenty-one shipyards are now under construction, and the third batch of warships has been prepared. May I ask if the lord needs to carry out the fourth batch?"

"No need, let's see it later." Wang Hongyi thought for a while, and said, asking Cheng Xiang to retreat to the official ranks.

"Who else has something to do with Qing family?" Wang Hongyi continued to ask.

Several officials followed suit and reported to Wang Hongyi, and Wang Hongyi responded one by one.

"I have my report." After another official retreated, Zhang Youzhi took a few steps out from the front of the civil service team, bowed his hand and said.

"Please talk to you in your family." Wang Hongyi sat in the upper seat and said warmly.

"No!" Zhang Youzhi paused for a moment and reported to the upper house: "I report it is about the transfer of several officials..."

He provided Wang Hongyi with the names of these officials who had worked in the Secretary-General's Pavilion, and also told about the performances of these people over the past few days of office.

As the head of the Secretary-General, he regularly reported to Wang Hongyi that the officials who should be moved out were his business.

"These officials are to be moved to county and county according to the system. Please beg us!"

Wang Hongyi listened carefully and was generally consistent with what he saw on the case file submitted by the Thirteenth Division, so he nodded: "Accurate!"

Zhang Youzhi then stepped down.

However, Wang Hongyi's eyes swept over Zhang Youzhi and found that he had a serious expression and had something to say, but he didn't say it in the court. It should be a secret matter, right?

A moment later, there was a silence in the hall and no officials came out to report the matter again.

So the morning meeting ended.

"Zhang Qing, stay here." Wang Hongyi said namely.

"No." Zhang Youzhi bowed his hand in the queue and responded with his head down.

As the leader of the civil servants of the army, Zhang Youzhi, like Yu Liangbo, was Wang Hongyi's right-hand man, which was extraordinary.

I have to discuss things with Wang Hongyi in private. Who among the officials dares to ask more questions?

Seeing that there was nothing to do with him, all the civil and military officials dispersed one after another.

All the officials in the hall had left. Wang Hongyi slowly walked down the steps and asked, "Zhang Qing, do you have something to talk about?"

Zhang Youzhi lowered his head and said, "I have something important to do, so I will report it to the lord."

"You haven't mentioned this in the palace just now, it's all about the secret!" Wang Hongyi ordered the eunuch to go out to prepare the carriage and said to Zhang Youzhi: "Go to the study room to talk."

"I follow the order." Zhang Youzhi followed him.

When he entered the study, the attendant went to prepare tea. Wang Hongyi sat down and asked Zhang Youzhi to take his seat. Zhang Youzhi thanked him, and then took his seat.

After a while, the servants served the tea and no orders needed. These people naturally immediately withdrew from the study room. Without orders, no one would enter without permission. They asked Zhang Youzhi: "What are you going to say about Zhang Qing?"

"I have received the situation in Xiyizhou through the Thirteenth Division!" Zhang Youzhi straightened his upper body solemnly and reported: "Sometimes, since the establishment of the Eight Banners System in Xiyizhou, it has achieved very good results so far."

"The situation in Western Shu is becoming more and more stable. I received information from General Pingman last night that the Six Banners had been established. In addition to these Six Banners, most of the mountain tribes have been cleared."

"The Iyama tribe is now the first flag with outstanding achievements. In addition to handing over most of the spoils, they hunted countless wild tribes. By their hands, the mountain tribes have become different from the past, and most of the wild tribes have fled into the mountains."

As he said that, he handed over the information.

Wang Hongyi took it over and watched it carefully. After a moment, he smiled and said, "Ding Huchen did a good job in this matter. Xiyizhou has settled down and solved the rebellion of the mountain tribes. There are no more internal troubles in Shu..."

"There are 300,000 mountain tribes, except for the Six Banners, and 40,000 people have been cleared and killed, which means that there are about half of the mountain tribes and wild tribes."

"But these mountain tribes are sporadic tribes, and most of them have escaped into the deep mountains. Although they should not be taken lightly, the overall situation has been decided."

The Eight Banners system is actually a masterpiece of Wang Hongyi. Now it seems that the effect is excellent.

In history, there was no good way to deal with wild tribes like the mountains, it was nothing more than to win over and divide.

In the history of the earth, during the Three Kingdoms, Shanyue was once a major disaster in the Wu Kingdom. It took 30 years of conquest to settle it.

Now this method only takes three years to promote it.

"The encirclement and suppression of Xiyizhou must continue. The first is to hunt those who go deep into the mountains, and the second is to gather households who are willing to go down the mountains. However, at present, this matter needs to be temporarily slowed down."

After handing the information back to Zhang Youzhi, Wang Hongyi stood up, walked around the study with his hands behind his back.

"Leave the newly introduced three flags and continue to kill the mountain wild tribes. The main force of the mountain flag soldiers must be dispatched. Enter Jiaozhou, cooperate with our army to attack Jingnan."

"On that day, the Eight Banners in the Mountains were built, and every 300 people were one Niulu, every five Niulu was one Jiala, three Jiala and one Banner, and there were five thousand people. But this first Banner had a lot of tribes, even eight thousand people, and they were also able to produce. In terms of power, they kept pressing other small flags, which was very inappropriate."

"Sending the three flags to Jiaozhou can not only attract Jiaozhou, but also echo our army and attack Jingnan. It can also eliminate the forces of the three flags, killing two birds at one stone."

After hearing Wang Hongyi's words, Zhang Youzhi agreed.

"The lord is wise. The mountain tribe is born warlike. At this time, the flag has only been established for a few years. The time is still short. Although most of the mountain tribesmen surrender to the lord, they are wild and difficult to tame. They are afraid that they are a group of wolves that they cannot raise. It is better to put them on the battlefield. They are restrained by their tribes and lure them with their high officials and generous salaries to lure them. The Eight Banners in the Mountains will surely become a sharp blade for our army."

Regarding the mountain tribe, Zhang Youzhi has always advocated suppression. Later, Wang Hongyi introduced the Eight Banners system, and Zhang Youzhi's side no longer proposed to wipe out the mountain tribe.

At this time, Wang Hongyi's proposal was exactly what he wanted.

Seeing that Zhang Youzhi agreed, Wang Hongyi immediately said: "Then you will draft an order, and ask Ding Huchen to lead the headquarters to 5,000, three banners, seven,000, totaling 12,000. Go deep into the path and attack Jiaozhou, and then Jiaozhou attacks Jingnan from the south... Zhang Qing's family, you can draft an order now. This matter will be faster, the better."

"promise!"
Chapter completed!