The First Tyrant

  An imperial edict was issued to send Liu Ye as an envoy to Western Liang. What specific task he was entrusted with was not mentioned in the court, but all the officials present had their own thoughts on this matter and were all in favor of it.

  If this matter is successful, Xiliang will return to the court's rule. For today's court, this is a great help - the current situation is chaotic, and each local governor has its own policy. Among them, Yizhou, Jingzhou, and Youzhou have set up state pastors, although they are all Han family members, but who is not stupid in this year?

  Moreover, there was another point of chaos among the four sides. Even if there were people who wanted to turn to the imperial court, it was difficult to convey messages due to unclear policies. For example, Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou, originally planned to summon him back to the imperial court to take up one of the Three Dukes positions, but due to the chaotic situation, he could not do so and remained in Youzhou.

  At the beginning of this year, the imperial court again appointed Liu Biao as the governor of Jingzhou and set out to go to Jingzhou. As a result, due to the bandits along the way, Liu Biao could only enter Jingzhou alone, and so far there is no news coming back, nor does he know how Jingzhou is doing?

  As for the governor of Yi Province... Liu Yan petitioned to restore the provincial governor system, but in reality he wanted to become a local emperor. Although he may not have been doing it for himself, but rather for his son, it made no difference to Emperor Xian, as it was still detrimental to his imperial interests.

  In short, due to various reasons, the imperial court has now lost control over all parts of the country. Although it can still issue decrees and bestow rewards, direct intervention in local administration and military affairs is no longer possible. If this situation continues for a long time, I'm afraid the people will not take the imperial court seriously anymore.

  If we can now recover Xiliang under Ma Teng's rule, it would also make the people of the world re-recognize the imperial court.

  Of course, what is wanted of them is not that they should surrender again, but that they should strike an attitude - our dynasty has not yet been dissolved!

  The imperial decree has been issued, and the rest of the matters do not require Liu Xuan to worry about. He just needs to take some time to meet with Liu Ye after court and instruct him for a while, and the specific matters will naturally be handled by the lower officials.

  Liu Xuan then issued another edict, formally proclaiming Cai Yan as the Empress.

  He had this idea long ago, and even the civil and military officials of the court all knew that the position of empress would likely fall to Cai Guiren's hands. Who made the emperor only take in one concubine after ascending to the throne?

  They didn't know that previously, Liu Xuan had no time to take a concubine. Now he looked down on those ordinary women. At present, he has already set his sights on those who can leave their names in history, and even secretly listed a list of names, with the likes of Zhen Mi and Da Xiao Qiao at the top.

  But at this time, the civil and military officials of the court still involuntarily glanced at Cai Yong, who was now sitting in the position of Minister of Rites, one of the most powerful speakers on the court.

  Besides, Cai Yong now has the identity of Guo Zhang, it can be foreseen that Cai Yong's position in the court will become higher and higher, and he will no longer be as embarrassed as before when Dong Zhuo was in power.

  Liu Xuan issued two consecutive edicts before he began to ask if anyone had any matters to report.

  But currently, the imperial court only has control over a small area, where do all these big matters come from to ask the emperor? Every day at court, it's just the same old things being repeated.

  It is just that the reorganization of the Forbidden Army has been handled more or less, and now it's a good time to bring it up for all the officials in the court to know.

  According to the discussion of Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and Lu Zhi, after consulting with the emperor, the highest authority in charge of the Imperial Guard was the Zhonghu Jun, ranking above miscellaneous numbered generals (such as the General Who Smashes Bandits or the General Who Waves the Flag) but below heavy-numbered generals (the Four Generals, Four Conquerors, Four Pacifiers and Four Peacemakers were all heavy-numbered generals), with full responsibility for various affairs of the Imperial Guard, except that when the emperor personally went on a campaign, the Zhonghu Jun did not have the right to lead troops.

  Currently, the Jin army has about 10,000 people. In the Han Dynasty, there were two military systems, each with five divisions, a tooth general was set up for each division, and each division had two qu (a unit of soldiers), each qu had five tun (a smaller unit of soldiers), and each tun had two teams...

  To put it simply, this arrangement goes from 2-5-2-5 down to Wuzhang.

  Originally, Liu Xuan was not very used to this system, but after finding the rules, he felt that it was not bad, so he continued to use it. At the same time, he was also thinking about when to reorganize according to the military division's brigade regiment company squad system? However, the current timing is not suitable, and even if we really want to do this, I estimate that we will have to wait until the country is unified.

  The 10,000-strong Forbidden Army has begun training and their combat effectiveness is better than Liu Xuan had initially expected, as most of them are elite veterans.

  At the same time, the Imperial Guard had begun to take over the defense of the city. Upon learning this, Liu Xuan directly spoke out and abolished the original gate guards, also abolishing the position of Gate Commandant. In his opinion, defending the land was originally the duty of military officers, so it was unnecessary to create a special position for it - as a result, these gate guards were not good at fighting or defending the city, but they were experts at making money and causing trouble.

  Liu Xuan's words came out, and Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song had not reacted yet. Lu Zhi was greatly surprised - he originally didn't think much of Liu Xuan, but since the new emperor ascended to the throne, he hadn't made any wrong decisions. Moreover, he had trapped the treacherous Dong Zhuo in Luoyang, and after arriving in Chang'an, his various edicts also showed some wise intentions, so he stayed in the court to assist the Han dynasty wholeheartedly.

  But this time, Liu Xuan bluntly pointed out the drawbacks of the original system and cancelled the useless official title with relish, which showed a few points of decisiveness.

  But the city gate lieutenant was abolished, so who is responsible for the defense of the city gate?

  Liu Xuan directly gave advice: "Take turns being in charge, anyway during peacetime there is no need for a commander to sit and direct, just have someone inspect every day."

  He paused for a moment and continued: "In this way, the generals' inspection of troops that are not their own will also avoid private dealings."

  All the officials in the court naturally echoed their approval. Now that His Majesty has said so, they would not dare to strongly oppose it either. Besides, this arrangement doesn't seem inappropriate anyway.

  Later, some old soldiers who were eliminated from the selection of forbidden troops were compiled into the Zhongwei Temple to serve as Zhongwei soldiers. However, according to the emperor's intention, a patrol office was set up under the Zhongwei Temple, and the old soldiers took charge of patrolling the whole city and maintaining law and order.

  Actually, Liu Xuan didn't know if the imperial court originally had similar powers as the "captain of the guard" or not. Now that the situation is chaotic and government affairs are in disarray, even if there was such a department originally, it would have been abolished by now. So Liu Xuan took advantage of the situation and directly established the Patrol Department. If in the future there were to be departments with overlapping powers, he would simply abolish them - of course, he wouldn't abolish the Patrol Department, but rather abolish the original department instead.

  After a round of twists and turns, Liu Xuan also established new rules - from now on, the Forbidden Army would not only be responsible for defending the capital and its surrounding areas.

  At the same time, the troops stationed on the border were also forbidden, and each state's capital had to be garrisoned with a contingent of forbidden troops. As for counties, no forbidden troops would be stationed there.

  The garrison of the Imperial Guard was not fixed and would be changed regularly. Even the troops originally stationed in the capital would be rotated to the border or inland provinces, Liu Xuan believed that only such frequent adjustments could guarantee the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Guard.

  Otherwise, the troops stationed in the comfortable place for a long time will soon be abandoned, and they also have to worry about being bought and pulled by local officials. In any case, Liu Xuan would be depressed, so he wants to fundamentally prevent this possibility from happening - plus the Han Dynasty has had similar systems before, it's just that the implementation is not good, so Liu Xuan's suggestion was unopposed.

  Apart from the Forbidden Army, the garrison troops stationed in non-border prefectures were local soldiers and horses, also known as prefectural troops. These troops belonged to semi-professional and semi-farmer categories, and it was difficult to say that they were a group of militia. However, in inland areas outside of border towns, they were sufficient for anti-banditry purposes - if the bandits were strong, the provincial government would dispatch the Forbidden Army to suppress them.

  At the county level, there will be no large-scale deployment of troops and horses. At most, there will be a small number of soldiers from the commandery or state, and below that, at the town level, there will be no troop deployments at all.

  Liu Xuan also demanded that the patrol police station must be established at the level of Ting, but now all these are only in the plan, and it is unknown when they will be implemented.

  After listening to Liu Xuan's arrangements, Lu Zhi asked in surprise: "According to Your Majesty's intention, the Forbidden Army should be completely supported by the court and not engage in production, specializing in warfare. If we are to deploy them to various border areas and even state capitals, how many soldiers will be needed? How much grain and salary expenditure will be required each year? Can the court afford it?"

  He naturally didn't know that Liu Xuan had a magical solution to the food problem, and since there was no more problem with food, it wasn't a problem to raise as many soldiers as they wanted in this era.

  Moreover, he really looked down on the existence of those half-farmer and half-soldier, the combat effectiveness of those soldiers was really too weak. Liu Xuan didn't just want to reunify the world so simply, if he wanted to continue expanding his territory, how could a small number of professional soldiers be enough?

  "I want to make the number of imperial guards reach 800,000, which should be barely enough."

  As soon as this remark came out, the faces of all the officials in the court changed at once, and many people's faces turned dark purple in an instant.

  Eight hundred thousand forbidden troops, it sounds like a very grand goal indeed. If the Han Dynasty really had eight hundred thousand professional soldiers dedicated to warfare, I estimate that they could sweep across the land unopposed.

  According to the situation of this era, it is already difficult for 20 people to support one soldier, and this is also on the premise that the soldier himself still has to do some garrison work.

  If they were completely non-productive soldiers, it would probably take fifty or even a hundred people to support one, which is why the number of professional soldiers in the Han Dynasty was actually not large.

  The Northern Army, the five schools, the Feathered Forest and the Tiger's Fury combined do not have a total of 10,000 people. The rest are basically semi-agricultural and semi-military in nature. But Liu Xuan opened his mouth and wanted to increase this number by eighty times. How many people would be needed to guarantee enough grain supplies? Just rough calculations, at least nearly 100 million people, right? Moreover, this is only the consumption during peacetime. What about wartime? Besides, the imperial court cannot just focus on raising soldiers without doing other things, can it?

  Many people looked at each other and had the intention of speaking out to advise, fortunately Liu Xuan followed up with a sentence: "However, this is just a goal, to really achieve this point, it still needs everyone's cooperation." This made the officials breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that the Emperor's mention of 800,000 imperial guards was just an empty phrase spoken by a young emperor who didn't know the difficulties of governing the world. Perhaps in the future when the Emperor remembers this idea again, he will treat it as a joke.

  No one knows that Liu Xuan set the goal of 800,000 because of the memory of the title "Eight Hundred Thousand Forbidden Army Commander" was too deep, if someone knew the reason behind it, I don't know if they would spit out three liters of blood.

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