Chapter 246 Self-disturbance (continued)

From a macro perspective, the massive and sensitive reforms currently underway in Kansai, namely the reorganization of the Western Army and the measurement and distribution of land, are unlikely to encounter any major obstacles or difficulties.

Because as many knowledgeable people thought, at this moment, there were too many favorable conditions... the internal destruction of Guanzhong caused by the Jin army's several raids, the re-establishment of the prestige of the Zhao Song Dynasty and the emperor after the great victory, and the absolute control of military force and absolute determination to reform by the emperor sitting in Chang'an at this time, almost ensured from every angle that this reform, which was unimaginable under normal circumstances and deeply rooted in the bones, would proceed smoothly.

This is a special bonus in extraordinary times and extraordinary circumstances, just like it always seems easy to establish a system at the beginning of a country, and it is also a bit like special measures taken to save lives in years of great disasters are always easy.

However, as the saying goes, those who do not plan for the future will have immediate worries.

After Yaoshan, Zhao Jiu finally solved the most fundamental dilemma of life and death, allowed the country to return to normal, and began to think about doing things. However, from his "high-level" perspective as a time traveler, the road ahead is destined to be long and difficult, and he must be mentally prepared to face many things.

Just because there are no problems in Guanzhong doesn’t mean there will be no problems in other areas; just because there are no problems now doesn’t mean there will be no problems in the future. We cannot take the temporary bonus of war as the norm, but we must take the opportunity to establish a political mechanism to deal with normal difficulties.

As for politics, once this word is mentioned, the first and inevitable thing is the personnel issue... Zhao Jiu did not dare to expect that all the people in the world would be Yao and Shun, so he could only demand that the government orders be implemented smoothly. In order to achieve this, the selection of the prime minister is of paramount importance.

Lu Haowen was promoted to prime minister, Wang Boyan died for his country, and Xu Jingheng had agreed to resign. This meant that according to the political tradition of the previous few years, two prime minister positions, one chief and one deputy, were vacant in the province, and the chief position in the Privy Council was also vacant.

Three of the four seats are vacant, which seems to be a lot, but considering that there are a bunch of envoys and ministers who are already half-step prime ministers, such as Guanxi Yuwen Xu Zhong, Southeast Lu Yihao, Jingxiang Liu Ji, plus the former prime ministers Li Gang and Li Boji who have been away from the court for two years but still have deep power in the court, and the current actual leader of Li Boji's faction in the court, Chief Censor Li Guang, as well as Zhao Jiu's trusted team of Zhang Jun from Bashu, Hu Yin from northern Shaanxi, and Liu Ziyu, the chief secretary of the Privy Council... it seems that everyone has hope, and there are definitely too many people and too little porridge.

Not only that, considering that Xu Jingheng had returned to Henan to deal with the military settlement and land granting issues, and his intention to resign was not yet known to the public, everyone had only two positions in their eyes, and the competition became even more intense.

However, it seems that it is precisely thanks to this that Zhao Jiu can clearly feel the activeness of many relevant personnel, which in turn drives the entire bureaucratic system to become active.

Although Zhang Jun was the transport commissioner of the five routes of Bashu, he personally went to the governor of Qinfeng Road to handle related land measurement matters.

The suppression of the rebellion by Zhong Xiang in Dongting Lake and the Wuling area was scheduled for the autumn, but Liu Ji had already impatiently proposed relevant routes and logistical arrangements.

Lu Yihao was even more direct. These days, his memorials to Tokyo and Chang'an were basically sent non-stop. This Southeast Envoy proposed successively to improve the army, to help students, and to simplify the government... For example, taking advantage of the great victory, some of the troops and generals with poor combat effectiveness in the imperial camp were expelled; for example, the three-school system (Imperial College, State College, and County College System) should be rectified on a large scale, and the relevant entrance examinations and student treatment, as well as the final palace examination, should be fully institutionalized; and all official appointments since the Jingkang period should be formally followed up and inspected, and officials should be dispatched to remote areas...

He even took the initiative to propose that the various complicated envoy systems in special periods should be ended, and the governors, pacification commissioners, and transport commissioners who were in charge of multiple routes should be abolished and the old system should be restored.

His aggressiveness could be felt even from a distance of thousands of miles, as if he had already regarded himself as the central leader. And because all these things were related to the foundation of the country, they shocked the government and the public.

For a time, messengers went back and forth constantly from Yangzhou to Tokyo, and from Tokyo to Chang'an, and both civil and military officials were worried.

However, Zhao Jiu did not keep these people waiting for long. He approved almost every memorial from Lu Yihao that was sent to Chang'an without hesitation, and almost every time he approved it, he made the most clear and unambiguous statement - Emperor Zhao unconditionally supported these suggestions and required full cooperation from Tokyo.

Even after the institutionalization of the Three-She System and the large-scale follow-up inspections of officials were sent to the capital, and after the Western Army was roughly reorganized into the Imperial Camp Rear Army, at the time of autumn harvest, Zhao Jiu simply issued an imperial decree, taking advantage of the upcoming land grant, to proactively and further streamline the Imperial Camp Army through an imperial decree... The Imperial Camp originally had more than 200,000 troops, and with the formal incorporation of the Western Army and the additional establishment of the Imperial Camp Cavalry, it was still subject to a total force limit of only 200,000, so that all units were largely laid off.

Among them, the left army of the Imperial Camp led by Han Shizhong was reduced to 30,000 troops; the right army of the Imperial Camp led by Zhang Jun was reduced to 25,000 troops; the central army of the Imperial Camp, including Li Yanxian's troops, Wang Yan's troops, Wang De's troops and the Xinnayuan Imperial Camp's rear army, actually only retained a total of 50,000 troops; Yue Fei's troops in the front army of the Imperial Camp were also reduced to 35,000 troops; Wu Jie's troops in the rear army were 30,000 troops; Qu Duan's troops in the cavalry were 15,000 troops; and Zhang Rong's troops in the navy were 15,000 troops.

Not only that, the appointment and dismissal of many generals were also decided directly by the emperor without any hesitation.

For example, the Xin brothers had great experience, and their loyalty and righteousness were also flawless. They had also been with the army for a long time and were considered Zhao Jiu's trusted soldiers. However, their abilities were too low. Therefore, this time only Xin Yanzong was transferred from the rear army of the Imperial Camp to the commander of the central army of the Imperial Camp. The other brothers were all dismissed and transferred to serve in local state armies.

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