The personal army's Duwei Mansion is an institution with the chief commander of the third rank. It seems to be just the emperor's guard organization, but in fact, it now holds the two powers of intelligence and supervision, equivalent to the embroidered envoy of the Han Dynasty.

Especially this personal army commander's mansion was only responsible to the emperor, and even the prime ministers of the three provinces had no right to take jurisdiction.

Even the prime minister was under the supervision of the personal army's chief lieutenant's office.

Compared with the news and impeachment of the Censorate, the personal army's commander's mansion was more secretive and more powerful in walking in the darkness.

No one knows how many spies there are in the personal army's lieutenant's mansion, because this list is only in the hands of the emperor.

Pei Xingyan hurried to the palace after receiving the emperor's summons.

He is now the deputy military envoy of the Zhongwu Army and the position of General Zuo Yi Guard. However, compared with the actual position of Deputy Military envoy of the Zhongwu Army, the current military positions of the 12 Guards are actually empty.

Under the current military system, the real masters of the towns and military envoys were the governors of each town. Except for the four prefectures in charge of the palace and the forbidden city defense, the other twelve guards were actually only empty yamen, without any substantial positions, and each army was not affiliated with the twelve guards. Therefore, although the twelve guards have not been abolished, their position is only a bonus, at least now.

Pei Xingyan handed over his general's tiger talisman in front of the palace guards, civil servants used fish talismans and military generals used tiger talismans, while the prince and prime minister specially gave Qilin jade talismans.

After layers of palace bans, he finally came to the front court, and the eunuch took him to meet in the side palace.

After waiting for a while, the emperor told him to summon him.

Pei Xingyan tidied up his clothes and then looked at the bronze mirror in the side hall carefully. He felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so he followed the eunuch to the main hall.

"Pei Sanlang, let me tell you good news. Your father has decided to surrender to the Qin Dynasty." The emperor smiled at Pei Xingyan.

Pei Xingyan replied to the emperor, "I have been cutting off the news with my father for a long time."

There were two fathers and sons, one serving in the Qin Dynasty and the other serving in the Sui Dynasty.

In fact, the personal military commander's mansion also found Pei Xingyan several times, asking if he had any letters with Pei Renji, but since Luo Cheng supported Yang Ming as the emperor in Liaodong, his father has not contacted him again.

Pei Xingyan was still very happy to hear the news about his father.

"When will my father enter the court?"

"I can't enter the court for the time being, because Wang Shichong is here, it's not easy for him to leave."

Pei Xingyan was a little disappointed. He was very worried about his father's safety. At this time, Luo Cheng comforted him and said, "Your father wants to do a big thing. Now Luoyang has been defeated by Li Mi several times, and the city is short of food. The people of Luoyang are tired of war. Wang Shichong has no source of troops and no food and grass. He is already extremely distressed, but he still refuses to give up. Not only does he refuse to surrender to Li Mi, but he also refuses to surrender to me and Li Yuan."

Of course, Luo Cheng also told him that the small court in Luoyang no longer wanted to continue to waste time with Wang Shichong. Yuan Wendu and others were willing to submit to the court with the efforts of the personal army's commander's mansion.

But Wang Shichong is an obstacle.

Now Wei Wensheng has retired due to illness and lives in Luoyang City without caring about worldly affairs.

Wei Wen's more than 20,000 troops are now under the command of Pei Renji. In addition, Pei Renji used to command the troops when he was commanding western Henan, Pei Renji now has about 30,000 troops.

And Wang Shichong still has about 60,000 to 70,000.

"Your father wants to get rid of Wang Shichong, but he is afraid that Li Mi will take the opportunity to seize Luoyang, so he asks the court to send troops to help him. I am going to ask you to lead a soldier to Luoyang on the ship of the Donglai fleet."

"Your Majesty, I am willing."

"This operation, there are no more troops. I can only give you a few thousand troops, and I have to pass through the territory of Dou Jiande and Li Mi. To the north is a place controlled by Yang Yichen and Xiao Yu, and to the west is Li Yuan, who is sandwiched among several troops. If you are not careful, you may not be able to come back. Have you thought about it?"

"I've thought about it."

"Very good. I have issued an order to grant your father the Duke of Ji and the governor of Henan Dao. Now you are granted the title of the prefect of Xingyang."

After Pei Xingyan left, Luo Cheng summoned Wei Zheng and other prime ministers to discuss matters.

Over the past six months, Luo Cheng has been busy consolidating the newly occupied Huainan Fanyang and other places, and at the same time restoring production in Shandong, and is also very busy.

The autumn harvest has passed now, and the situation reported from all over the country is pretty good.

"Your Majesty, after the autumn harvest, the grain collected in Huainan, Shandong, Hebei and other places can be self-sufficient. Although Your Majesty issued an order to exempt the world from renting for one year, we purchased grain from the people through the method of peace and purchase, forbid merchants to buy privately, and prohibited grain from leaving the boundary, which greatly reduced the pressure on supplying the army."

"In addition, Liaodong is another bumper year this year, and we can continue to transport grain into the customs."

Du Ruhui said that through the ticket quotation method, merchants were responsible for transporting grain from various places to the military garrisons, and then exchanged for special commercial goods such as salt, iron, tea, wine, slaves, cattle and horses, which greatly alleviated the pressure on the court officials.

Although people still need to push and pull the horses in the end, the transportation method is different. What the imperial court needs to transport grain is to recruit the people, and recruit the people to serve, which will inevitably waste the people and even cause dissatisfaction.

However, although merchants are also employed in transporting grain, they have to pay for recruiting and hiring people. The people go voluntarily and can get income.

Another thing is that businessmen organize personnel and manage transportation, which are more professional and more efficient.

"As long as Huainan, Shandong and Hebei continue to be stable next year, without any war, no water, drought and locust plague, then these places will basically be able to restore self-sufficiency next year, and even supply troops from various channels and accumulate military rations for the next war."

Fang Xuanling reported.

It was said that the old man from Song Dynasty reported that the Goguryeo people from Lelang and the two counties of Dafang launched another large-scale rebellion. Now his army could not suppress it and asked the court to send more troops.

"Your Majesty, I think whether the Goguryeo people in Xuantu County are too harsh, which has led to the Goguryeo people in the two counties of Lelang and Fang. Can they be comforted?"

Luo Cheng smiled.

"What kind of comforting method?"

"You can stop demoting the Goguryeo people to slaves, and only pursue those who rebel and rebel. Regardless of the rest, they will be assigned to Qi'an, and all the fields will be granted land..."

Before Fang Xuanling finished speaking, Luo Cheng had waved his hand to stop him.

"No, my strategy will not change. Goguryeo is just a pus. It has been broken in the past seven hundred years and it is serious enough. Now there is no need to keep it. If you pick it up, it will bleed. Although it will bleed, it will be bleeded. It will squeeze out the pus and squeeze it out with the pus. If you remove the pus and blood, you will be able to get really good. Otherwise, the more you keep it, it will cause more hidden dangers. Now it is squeezed, and it will only cause some pus and some blood. There will be wounds, but it will be completely healed in some time. But if you keep it, it may be poisoned to the lungs and heart one day, and it will be difficult to save it at that time."

"I cannot leave hidden dangers for my descendants in the future, so I will take it as getting rid of it now."

"Let Shixin send his deputy army envoy Xu Shiji to lead his troops to reinforce Song Laosheng, and also transfer the troops from the five Turkic vassals of Xiqie to join the peninsula to quell the rebellion. He told Song Laosheng not to tell them any kindness. He let him rebel, and cleared them all the way, arrested every Goguryeo people he saw, sent them back to the Central Plains to sell them as slaves, and told the soldiers that every time they caught a Goguryeo, the money they sold would be rewarded to them in the end."

Luo Cheng did not listen to the prime ministers' advice when dealing with the Goguryeo people at all. Benevolence is not to them. Besides, if he is kind to them, how could Luo Cheng receive these lands and give them to the Han people?
Chapter completed!