Yelu Dilie and Wang Weiji in Qingzhong kept reporting to Yelu Zongzhen stationed in Baishui, which lasted for nearly half a month before the rough result was achieved. The Khitan did not settle down to offer horses, so the Song Dynasty suspended the annual monies this year. The matter would be discussed later. The Khitan was unable to maintain a standing army of 400,000 to 500,000, and demanded that the Song Dynasty reduce the military strength in the border areas, and compromised the two and agreed to the 350,000 troops. The Yunzhong area was changed to three armies, with 100,000 troops on the Hedong Road and 150,000 troops along the Hebei Road.

As a result, many imperial guards in Hebei retreated south, along Zhending Prefecture to Beijing Daming Prefecture, and the other part retreated to Cangzhou to flank the Khitan's route of march south. In fact, the Song army threatened the Khitan's Yunzhou and Shuozhou areas from Daizhou and Yunneizhou. It is unlikely that the Khitan will go south again.

The rest of the matters were based on the precedent of the Chanzhou oath. The outline was decided, the details were negotiated, and then the formal oath was made. After Fu Bi and Zhang Maoshi returned to Yunneizhou, they did not stop for a long time and returned to the court to report. The annual monies were not negotiated, but they were simply deleted from the oath. At this time, it was Song Zhan's offensive, and the Khitan was eager to seek peace, so they could not persist in this matter.

From this moment on, both sides withdrew their troops from the front line one after another, and the front line forces reached the agreed number before February next year.

Xu Ping used Maocheng in the northern section of the Liu Jianji garrison to Sicheng, Cao Keming stationed in Zhenwu County, Zhang Kang stationed in the new and old cities in Yunneizhou and his subordinate cities. He and the Protectorate Office brought Zhe Jimin's troops to Dongshengzhou. Before leaving, Xu Ping ordered the three generals stationed in front to repair and connect the entire section of the city wall before the formal oath was completed to serve as the Great Wall that separated the Khitan.

Shortly after arriving in Shengzhou, he submitted a report to the court, abandoning Dongshengzhou on the north bank of the river, moving the prefecture city back to Yulin County on the south bank, and restoring the name of Shengzhou in the Tang Dynasty. Shengzhou was established after the Tang Dynasty defeated the Turkic Republic. This time, Xuping's victory was worthy of this name.

After moving to the south bank, Shengzhou retreated a hundred miles away from the border line as the base camp to support the border defense line.

Now Xu Ping can only decide on the military deployment in this area, how to set up prefectures and counties, and it will take the imperial court to discuss it before the decision was made. Before the Protectorate was abolished, this area was still under the jurisdiction of the Protectorate and belonged to the military-controlled area.

The Longyou Protectorate Office is to be abolished. This is not a permanent institution. The war will naturally end, otherwise it will become another form of vassal state. The Khitan also clearly demanded the abolition of the Longyou Protectorate Office, and the Pacification Envoy Department is still set up in this area as a formal yamen for negotiations between the two sides. Only when the Protectorate Office is abolished will the war be officially concluded.

On November 20, the first year of Qingli, on the winter solstice, Xu Ping officially received an edict to return to Beijing before the end of the year, and to use the Minister of Justice as the Minister of Justice as the political affairs officer. Now, only Li Di and Yan Shu are above Xu Ping, and Xu Ping is the first-ranked political affairs officer under the two prime ministers. However, this is more likely to be a temporary arrangement, just to let Xu Ping return to Beijing. The two governments may face large-scale adjustments, and Xu Ping can feel this trend in the court in the northwest.

However, letting Xu Ping return to Beijing in the name of being the chief political affairs, rather than the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, is very clear. He will no longer directly participate in the military in the next period of time. The military achievements are too great, and Xu Ping established the Longyou Army. If he returns to the court to serve in the Privy Council, he will have the power to become a powerful minister. This is also Xu Ping's own intention. It is also the suspicion that the melon field and the plum tree must be avoided. It is meaningless to take over that power, and it is not beneficial to him. The military reform of the imperial guards has already begun, so naturally someone will continue. This is the general trend and no one can stop it.

Before returning to Beijing, Xu Ping needed to do a good job of post-discipline. Xu Ping had to settle down the dismissal of the Dangxiang army, the reorganization of the northwest army, the garrison areas of each army, and even some personnel.

After submitting the court, Zhong Shiheng and Liu Ping's troops on Xingling Road were reorganized into imperial guards, with the military name Jingrong, and the deputy inspector of the Southern Metropolis Commissioner was selected. Tian Kuang and Shi Yuansun's troops were reorganized into the Qing Guards, and the deputy inspector of the Northern Metropolis Commissioner was selected. This has been decided long ago, and they were asked to conduct a temporary inspection, just to reorganize Xu Huaide's army.

After the abolition of the Protectorate, the direct troops were reorganized into the Qingshi Army, with Tan Hu as the commander of the capital, and the former judge Zeng Gongliang as the deputy commander of the commander of the Dangxiang Heishan Military Supervisory Office, Fengzhou was rebuilt with the ancient city of Fengzhou during the Tang Dynasty, and the Qingshi Army entered the city. Fengzhou was the Baotou area in later generations, and it was the key to the nomadic tribes north of Yinshan to cross the eastern side of Yinshan. During the Tang Dynasty, Fengzhou was established here, which was the center of the area south of Yinshan. Fengzhou of the Khitan and Fengzhou of the Song Dynasty, one east and one west, guarding the intersection of Yinshan to the south. Fengzhou on Hedong Road was reduced to a county under the jurisdiction of the Prefectures. The three states of Linfu Feng were actually dominated by the Zhe family, and the other two were considered vassals of his family. At this time, Zhe Jimin gave up his status as a hereditary vassal state, so naturally there was no need for Fengzhou to exist.

The troops and horses of Linfu led by Zhe Jimin were selected. The people who were selected were added to other imperial guards and generals and generals of the previous troops of Longyou, and were reorganized into the Pingsai Army, with Wang Kai as the commander of the capital and Zhe Jimin as the deputy. Although Zhe Jimin changed from Guan Gou's army to the deputy commander of the capital, he became the chief official of the court since then. With his current status as the chief officer of the army and deputy chief officer of each army, he was promoted.

Zhang Sheng was replaced by Cao Keming's deputy commander of Hengsai Army, Liu Jianji's deputy commander of the Qingshuo Army, and his position was replaced by Liang Xun, the former head of the Protectorate Office. Tian Kuang and Zhong Shiheng formed a self-established army together. The position of deputy commander of Ningshuo Army under Zhang Kang's headquarters was taken over by Liu Huan, the former Qinfeng Lufan Lu. Later, senior generals of each army formed their term of office and were transferred to the local officials after the expiration.

After the military system is improved, it doesn't matter if the generals don't know the soldiers and the generals don't know the generals. That is a manifestation of the lack of the system. Term-time officials have their superiority, which is far more effective and easier to accept than controlling the generals themselves through various means.

After half a year of reorganization, the Pingsai army of Wang Kai and Zhe Jimin replaced the Qingshu army of Liu Jianji and Zhang Sheng. The Qingshu army was transferred to Lanzhou to monitor the Kaisilu in Hehuang and cooperate with the military operations of several counties in Hexi.

Dangxiang was originally in Liangzhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou, Guazhou, Shazhou and Heishui Military Supervision Offices in Hexi Province, and Han Qi from Qinfeng Road was transferred to Gansu Road. Zhong Shiheng and Liu Ping's Jingrong Army, Tian Kuang and Shi Yuansun's Qing Guards were transferred to Gansu Road to cooperate with the military operations of the General Secretary. Gansu Road is a nominal domestic area, and the battle is mainly based on the Metro Inspection Office. The two armies only cooperate, so there is no commander, and Han Qi is not a commander in using troops.

At this time, some places were still remnants of Dangxiang's forces, and some places were old forces drove the Dangxiang people away and regained control of the place, which was very chaotic. After Dangxiang was destroyed, Si Duo, who lived under the siege, brought 10,000 or 20,000 to Liangzhou and stationed in Renduoquan City, trying to retake Liangzhou. If it were not for the power of the Song army in recent years, Yan Si Lu would have intended to go north to occupy territory and expand his own power. All the surrounding forces were eyeing the blank Hexi area, and the westernmost Shazhou had already fought with the Uighurs.

After the war with the Khitan ended, the strategic direction of the Song army turned to the Western Regions, and the first thing was to pacify several counties in Hexi. After staying on Qinfeng Road for more than a year, Han Qi was the right person to go there. He could move to Hexi what Xu Ping did in Qinzhou.

This is a good time to manage the Western Regions. There are no strong forces around the grasslands, the west, and the declining Tubo. There are constant struggles among internal forces. As long as the logistics of the Song army can keep up, they will not encounter fierce resistance when they enter there. In history, Yelu Dashi and the remnants of the Khitan tribes were able to fight out a Western Liao there, and the Song army would not be worse.

More importantly, with the expansion of the Karakhanate, the Buddha Kingdom in the Western Regions longed to be protected by the Central Plains dynasty. The distant Central Plains was once the root of their culture. Compared with their fear of the Western forces, they were more willing to return to the embrace of the Central Plains dynasty. It was in history that Shazhou was violated by Western forces and the destruction of Buddhas followed. A large number of classics were sealed into the Buddha cave by local forces, becoming the Dunhuang Sutra Cave in later generations.

There are no places where large troops are used in the Western Regions now. The first army has enough troops to destroy the country. Jingrong and Qingwei armies are the most powerful troops in that area. More importantly, the inspection of the siege army under the jurisdiction of the General Secretary, to quell the rebellion and maintain the local area, mainly relying on them. There may not be any major wars, and there will be countless small wars. At this time, the use of regular imperial guards is not worth the loss.

At this time, in the entire northwest region, the regular army of the Song Dynasty was the seven armies expanded from the Longyou army, namely Ningshuo, Qingshuo, Hengshuo, Jingrong, Qingwei, Qingshuo, and Pingshuo. They were all abandoned and unused military numbers by the three imperial guards, with a total of about 250,000 people.

The regular army outside this system is only tens of thousands of original Fuyan Road Imperial Army under Wang Xin's army. They will be dispersed, and after being selected, they will be added to other armies, and the remaining ones will be selected as the wing army, and enter the inspection department of various capitals. As for Wang Xin himself, he will be transferred back to the capital and serve as a general in the military management service in the third yamen. In the future, the imperial army will be digested by the original Longyou army and reorganized.

This was a method that Xu Ping used his knowledge in his previous life to slowly explore, and finally formed a system of completely separate the imperial guards and local wing troops. The two armies each had their own combat tasks, which were fundamentally different, and of course they were different in systems.

As a regular army, the imperial guards were united in heavy troops, and their combat effectiveness was far from comparable to that of the inspection department. The military equipment and the treatment of soldiers were also significantly different from the local Xiang army. Later, the imperial guards were military positions, and the inspection department was military positions, and there was no intersection between the two. The Xiang army took local security as its main task and was still under the jurisdiction of local officials. Its equipment and military strength were restricted.

The imperial guards were completely separated from the local government, and local officials no longer had the power to command the imperial guards, and the imperial guards no longer interfered in local affairs. Their supplies were completely responsible for the transfer envoys sent by the Privy Council and no longer depended on the local government. In the event of war, a Protectorate Office was set up and the commander was temporarily assigned.

Military positions are similar to the system of local prefectures and county officials, implement the system of transit and term of office, and completely accept military power to the central court. Military positions are also assigned to the military positions for years of service, and military positions that are decommissioned can be entered into the Inspection Department. Generals and schoolmen of the Inspection Department are generally transferred from military positions.

Correspondingly, the Imperial Army will have a complete system and organization, as well as its own officer training system, becoming a professional and professional army. The human and financial power of the Imperial Army will be collected from the Privy Council and the Emperor. The officers at all levels will no longer manage people and money, and will only be responsible for specific military and political affairs. Operations, training, logistics, equipment and other specific military affairs will be arranged uniformly by the Privy Council, with special yamen set up and professional personnel.

The power system is nothing more than a piece of block and a piece of block. It is similar to the fact that the army is difficult to manage. The lack of systems and organizations from top to bottom will inevitably lead to the expansion of power in the lower block. If the system of the piece is established, the power of the lower block will be restricted and separated from the local government. Whether it is a feudal state or a military commander, they will lose the basis for chaos.

Since he arrived in Qinzhou and Xu Ping came to the northwest for three years, he did two things. The first thing was to kill Yuan Hao and destroy Dangxiang, and the second thing was to initially formulate the organization and system of the imperial guards from top to bottom. Later military reforms were to strengthen the system and management of the imperial guards, and gradually take military power from the commanders to the central court. Such reforms were actually the same as the acquisition of local power and abolishing vassal states at the beginning of the establishment of the Song Dynasty, but the object was different. It was precisely because of this that his ideas were easily accepted by Zhao Zhen and the Privy Council, because the same reforms had already had successful experience in the local area.

Xu Ping's extra thousand years of knowledge understands that the state's control over the army is actually like this. The so-called modern and modern army in his previous life was actually the professionalization and professionalization of military and political affairs, forming a control of the lines, and taking up the power of the chief officials at all levels, making them a piece in the entire organizational structure.

In the power system from top to bottom, it is manifested as a large number of officials. Many of them actually do civil servants and require high cultural literacy. In his previous life, in the armies of many countries, these people were civil servants. If we put aside cultural factors and use civil servants to build military affairs, we would eliminate tribalization, vassalization, and centralization of military power in the army.

The process of civilization is already there, which is what Xu Ping would do in his previous life. What he does is a system of election, and what he does not do is a system of ignorance and backwardness. This is common sense in his previous life. Using civilized military forces has never been the reason for the weak combat effectiveness of the army. Only a strong organization can ensure the combat effectiveness of the army. The organizational power is in whoever is in the hands of the organization. The centralization of military power is the fundamental guarantee for the effective control of the army by the central court.
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