And in Jicheng, the capital of Youzhou, the aftermath and news of the changes from Andong finally affected here;

The markets in the city are still in a state of depression and scarcity.

As a former hub and commercial port in Northeast China, Jicheng, whether it is fur cattle and horse from Jiubian, medicinal delicacies from Andong Silla, jewelry and treasures from the East China Sea, silk and cloth from the south, or foreign goods from the northwest, it has been a relatively large-scale business trip for a long time.

After spending a whole winter, Han Zhongyan, the acting governor who had held great power, did not have the pleasure or joy of holding power.

Because, as the biggest enemy and threat in the north, Huaizhen also suppressed and pacified the Liaodong area in the past spring, and unified and integrated the most important areas in the south of Andong Road, becoming the greatest help to Huaizhen; in terms of geographical success, the remnants of the Northern Dynasties in Pinglu Road formed a natural force of north-south crossing.

Not to mention that the Huaizhen Navy, who had been wandering around the sea outside Fanyang throughout the spring, just at the sea outlet and a few outer ports, restrained the considerable resources and attention of the Pinglu Road army; not to mention that after the melting of the ice and snow, the large number of local population fled due to the spring famine; part of it was tempted by Zhang Bangchang, who occupied most of Hebei, and the other part was divided into north-south roads, respectively, and fled into the Liaoxi Corridor controlled by Huaizhen or went south to Cangzhou along the canal.

Among them, there is even one of the foundations of the four towns of Pinglu, the origins of those military households and young generals of the lineage; but he no longer cared about these, and even sent troops and horse roads to intercept and block the roads and checkpoints to intercept and block them.

As the price of cleaning up the internal affairs of the 15 Pinglu states, although he was able to master the resources that had been monopolized and controlled by the generals for a long time, and further captured tens of thousands of soldiers inside and outside the mountain, he also became a very shortage of qualified middle and upper-level generals, and could only rely on those young middle and lower-level generals who quickly picked up their numbers;

It is also a safe and unrealistic thing for me to rely on them to make up their minds to restrain and stop the elders who have all kinds of relationships and involve themselves and not to leave and starve to death in their hometown.

Nowadays, the area inside the Pingludao Mountain is devastated and is in a state of destruction, while the area outside the mountain is poor and has poor land. It can only give priority to meeting the needs of the army, and in the short term, it is not enough to care about the lives and death of the people. Therefore, even if he knew that these people would not be able to vote for others, he would undoubtedly drink poison to quench thirst for the future and situation of Pingludao, and he could only accept it with his nose.

After all, for him, the current situation in Huaizhen has been established, and it is definitely not something that he can provoke and offend, which is a tired and difficult army who barely controls a corner of Pinglu Road. As the saying goes, he can't fight in front of the battle, and can't grab it in private and cannot grab it;

He could only watch the operation of the Huai Army in Cangzhou. With the rebuilt fortress and garrisons, the roads and canals that were built were gradually advancing northwards. Even the Hebei local rebels and bandits who had privately encouraged and supported the settlement activities of the Hebei region and bandits, harassing and destroying the Huai Army's settlement in the southeast of Hebei, were ineffective and lacking in the past, and had already stopped.

At least before this year's autumn harvest, he no longer had the intention of continuing to use troops, and would not have involved Huaizhen's attention, which had just been pulled out of Anton, and granted the excuse and reason to reopen the offensive.

But another thing that bothers him even more was the news sent from the west, that there were people in the northwest and Hedong Road successively established countries; and he, the governor of Pinglu Road and the commander of the Four Towns and Jiedu, who was also under the banner of the Northern Dynasties, became embarrassing and unable to deal with it.

Moreover, the Northern Han Kingdom, which had not been in power for a long time in Hedong, had sent people to go around the border, and sent him a proclamation and booklet, allowing all the generals, officers, soldiers and civilians of Pingludao to submit to the Northern Han court, and he was appointed as the ambassador of the King of Yanshan, and gave him the title of honor and honor...

It sounds powerful, but once you accept it, you will wait to put your home on the fire and roast it.

Not to mention the remnant of the Northern Dynasty Regent Zhang, how good is Zhang Dekun, who secretly took over the Hedong land and became the king, how many substantial actions and influences could he have; the difference in size between the traditional Hedong land and the Pinglu Road alone was difficult to make him recklessly live in others, even if it was just a low-ranking person.

This was a long-term weakening and damage to his reputation and control after completing the internal purge and integration. The famous Northern Dynasties, which ruled the Central Plains for a hundred years, could not be compared with a grass-headed king who had privately seen him? Moreover, in terms of selfishness, since he had similar capital conditions, could he not stand on his own?

Even if he wanted to surrender to a certain force, the title and identity of the last important official of the Northern Dynasty could also add a lot of important bargaining chips. However, if he was involved in this small regime of Northern Han in Hedong, he would not only not be able to attract support and echo, but also cause greater trouble and hostility for his side.

However, this news was a mistake for one's own momentary negligence and hesitation, as well as the other party's deliberate propaganda, which also brought about a series of responses and movements;

At least a considerable number of young generals who have recently promoted have been moved by this. Compared with those conservatives with deep backgrounds, those from the bottom of the generals and officials had a much weaker sense of belonging and traditional inertia to the Northern Dynasties, and they had never enjoyed the last glorious era that the Northern Dynasties were nostalgic.

As a result, even Han Zhongyan, as the chief governor, dared not make any statement easily. He could only use an ambiguous attitude to ease this momentum to stabilize the army. On the one hand, he stepped up the arrangement of close confidants and replace important positions to complete his control over local government offices at all levels.

Of course, from the heart, he hopes to obtain conditions from the Southern Dynasties, even if he lowers many conditions and standards of treatment, and lowers his posture and makes a humble attitude, but as long as he can continue to protect his power and strength in essence.

It’s a pity that on the one hand, because of the existence and deterrence of Huai Town, his requests always lack sufficient confidence; on the other hand, Zhang Bangchang, a surrendered minister of the Northern Dynasty who changed his banner in Hebei, was no longer needed any more examples;

Therefore, the south side was uninterested in his requirements and conditions, and the messengers and secret letters sent were always in the sea without any news.

Therefore, the only thing he could wait and count on now was the only thing he could do was to detour outside the border again and cross Songmo, the governors of Jinwei, Yunzhong, and Beiyuan, and to the messenger of the Xining court, which brought good news...

As a result, I missed both of them when I was having breakfast the next day, and it was not until lunch that someone asked for instructions and reminded outside the door whether to bring a portion of lunch in.

Then the mysterious creature who was still lazy continued to retract from the bed sheet to supplement her beauty and beauty sleep. I simply took a refreshing bath after washing. It is said that I could strengthen my body, and sat on the big table with a lively lunch. I listened to Su Su, the concubine who managed the maid and Mei Mei, who was in charge of the family's plan, and reported on the various situations at home.

There are also girls around me who are talking about what has happened recently at home from time to time.

For example, Schrödinger, the largest pet cat in my family, was forced to learn to swim; his eldest daughter Hatsune had already seated and climbed blankets, while his second daughter Ayane began to have baby teeth; his home was built with a new greenhouse and greenhouse, and Xiao Jiajia completed the expected course in advance, hoping to take the economics knowledge...

The meal was also very long. It was not until less than four o'clock in the afternoon (about two o'clock in the afternoon) before returning to the front yard office and began to deal with the recently backlog of things.

Of course, the real major, important and critical things are already far away from Liao and on the way back, and have made preliminary decisions and handled through exclusive messengers of foreign relays; therefore, what remains after returning home must be mainly me to see and know about some routine matters,

For example, after the expansion of the territory this time, a relatively obvious problem was also exposed.

Huai Land is still obviously lacking in high-level talents; although through cramming mass production education over the years, a large number of grassroots personnel who can respond to emergency have been trained, but it also caused most people to lack potential and pattern, and the corresponding space and upper limit for growth are also limited. Even if there is a bonus for re-education, it can only stop at the grassroots and lower levels of officials; in the end, only a few people can stand out and go to higher-level positions and meet corresponding needs.

After all, it takes enough time and cycle to cultivate talents suitable for middle and even upper-level positions from the beginning of grassroots positions, and also requires corresponding luck and opportunities. Therefore, most of the senior executives in Huaizhen civil service system are still the group of elderly people who followed or defected to me at the time;

The corresponding position is also quite stressful, and there are few candidates to replace; after all, it has only been a few years since Huaizhen started to now, and it is not easy to have this pattern and atmosphere from another perspective.

And I am unwilling to easily retain the old personnel and the old-school military officers, but rather send them to the joint school and isolate them in disguise in the name of learning; I will screen and select one by one in daily life so that I can get a few people who can really use them, who have ambition and a sense of identity.

Therefore, under this system of preferring to be insignificant than to be insignificant, shortage of manpower in the near future is also inevitable;

Otherwise, I would just need to maintain the basic status quo and only require money, grain, corvee service as a condition, and let go of my hands to attract surrender and rebel in the external expansion. Are I still afraid that there will not be enough people to surrender?

However, the rule base obtained by those who come in this way is undoubtedly quite fragile and not reliable enough, and can only be guaranteed by force deterrence. Otherwise, they can surrender to me in the face of strength and situation, and naturally they can betray and turn to others in the face of greater costs and interests;

After absorbing a large number of old things that are mixed with mud and sand, it is also a long-term and potential harm and negative impact on the basic and new systems I have consolidated.
Chapter completed!