In order to prevent the reappearance of separatist rule of the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty created a complex and inefficient local administrative system. Above the prefecture army, the "Lu" was established as an administrative unit, and the transfer envoys, the prison envoys, the comfort envoys, and the Changping envoys formed a situation where the four departments jointly manage the same route, so as to divide the power of local officials.

The jurisdictions of various "roads" in the Song Dynasty were not always fixed, and they often changed. The number of "roads" in each period was different. From the first fifteenth road to the later eighteenth road, twenty-threeth road, and twenty-sixth road, sometimes it increased and sometimes it decreased.

In addition, in some places, there will be situations where one person is in charge of two or several routes. For example, the Hebei Road Transportation Commission is a "Duo Transportation Commission" who is in charge of the two to four routes. The reason for this is two to four routes is that the road system in Hebei will change from time to time. Sometimes it is divided into two routes, sometimes it is divided into two routes, sometimes it is divided into two routes, Dingzhou Road, Gaoyangguan Road, Damingfu Road, and sometimes it is divided into two routes, plus Yanshanfu Road.

Now, due to the fall of Yanshan Prefecture Road, Hebei is only left with east and west routes. However, due to the emergence of the Hebei Marshal's Mansion, it will inevitably invade the territory and power of Hebei West Road. Therefore, splitting Hebei West Road has become an inevitable choice!

In the past, Zhao Kai adopted a vague route in order to avoid stimulating the pacification envoy of Hebei West Road. On the one hand, he did not openly split Hebei West Road; on the other hand, he took the two areas of Xiangzhou and Huaizhou as his base.

Now because of the two victories of Niangzi Pass and the Punishment Army, Liu Wei, Liu Ziyu and his son have completely joined Zhao Kai's command, so Zhao Kai is preparing to strike while the iron is hot and split Hebei West Road into Zhending Road and Xiangzhou Road. The Zhending Road among them is different from the Zhendingfu Road that was once established. It is the territory of Dingzhou Road plus a Zhending Mansion. The territory is not small, but this location looks a bit scary, and it is blocking the main road where the Jin soldiers headed south from Yanshan Prefecture!

What’s even more scary is that there are not many troops on this Zhending Road territory... If you want to defend it, it seems that you can only manage the camp and Tianbing!

Ji Yi and Qin Hui had just escaped from the danger of pacifying the army. Now, why are you willing to make a decision again? This dangerous place that is so dangerous that it is too dangerous, you all have a sad face to refuse.

But how could Zhao Kai let them go?

"Taiwei Ji, Qin Huizhi," Zhao Kai smiled and said to the two, "When today is a chaotic world, men should seek wealth from danger! The two either follow the orphans to advance to Hedong, or go to Zhending Road to guard one side... Zhending Prefecture, although Dingzhou is close to Yanshan Prefecture under the rule of the Jin thieves, there are no Jin thieves there at present. Moreover, the Jin thieves are trapped in Hedong, while the East Army is far away in Kaifeng Prefecture. You have at least a few months to rectify Zhen and Dinger's defense. And the two do not have to defend the entire territory of Zhending Road. As long as you can defend Anxi and Zhending County of Zhending! If you don't help, you can defend Anxi and Zhending City of Zhending City, even if you have great achievements in the Gu family!"

It sounds like it's OK!

Ji Yi and Qin Hui were finally convinced by Zhao Kai... It would be impossible not to accept it! It was even more dangerous to go to Hedong. More than 100,000 Jin Thief Western Route Army were there! If Zhao Kai had the intention to make them loyal and fierce, it would be lifeless.

In Zhending Road, not only is there no danger for the time being, but they are also the first and second leaders, so it is always easier to protect themselves. Now it is wartime, and the situation of the four local governments in co-governance will of course be replaced by the situation of transfer and appeasement of the two departments.

Seeing that Ji Yi and Qin Hui finally took over the mess of Zhending Road, Zhao Kai finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Now the mess on Hebei East Road has been packaged with the original appeasement envoy Li Lu, and the mess on the West Road has taken over the two traitors, Ji Yi and Qin Hui. Zhao Kai's Marshal's Mansion can concentrate on managing the six "Taihang Prefectures" of Xiangzhou, Huaizhou, Weizhou, Cizhou, Zhaozhou and Xinde Prefecture.

A considerable part of these six prefectures are located in the Taihang Mountains. Even if the plains fall, it is easier to maintain it. If Zhao Kai can succeed in entering Hedong this time, he can break the Taiyuan siege and then firmly control Hedong. Then he can lead Hedong and Shaanxi troops to cross Taihang Mountains and go out of Hebei at any time.

Under such circumstances, even if the Jin thieves conquered Kaifeng Prefecture, they would not be able to grasp it for a long time. And it would not seem difficult to recover Kaifeng Prefecture from the east from Luoyang...

Thinking of this, Zhao Kai said to Ma Kuo who had followed him all the way from Niangziguan: "Ma Taiwei, I want to entrust Zhaozhou to you. Are you willing to serve as the governor of the state, and to command the military and horses and the field envoy?"

The magistrate is in charge of the government, the commander of the army, the camp and the land commander of money and grain, and the military, government and finance of Zhaozhou are all handed over to Ma Kuo!

Moreover, Ma Kuo has a very close relationship with the local tyrants in Zhaozhou. Half of the new recruits he recruited in Zhaozhou were strong men recruited from Wuma Mountain in Zhaozhou.

In addition, Ma Kuo was born into the Western Army's generals and traveled for a long time between the Song, Liao and Jin dynasties. A team had long gathered around him to do something. Zhao Kai now granted him full authority to rule Zhaozhou, which actually turned Zhaozhou into Ma Kuo's territory.

"My Ma Kuo is willing to protect Zhaozhou for the king and serve his life!" Of course, Ma Kuo cannot refuse the territory and power given by Zhao Kai... Even if he takes this call, he will be marked as the best friend of Prince Yun!

Because he has his own group of people and the powerful Wuma Mountain who depend on him, and there is no land in a state, what should this group of people do?

Zhao Kai then said to Liu Ziyu: "Yan Xiu, with your talent, you can stand alone, so the lonely family wants you to serve as the military commander of the Punishment, the commander of the military commander, and the field commander."

Another three-piece set of military envoys, commanders and camps!

Of course, Liu Ziyu took on these three assignments without hesitation.

Zhao Kai nodded with a smile, then turned his eyes to Han Shizhong, Yelu Yuji (Liu Yu), Huang Wuji, Xiang Ke, Li Xiaozhong, Yue Fei, Dong Jingang, Liu Yan, Yang Weizhong, Liu Xi and other ten generals of the Tiance Army, smiled and said, "The gains and losses of Taiyuan are of great importance. As long as you can protect Taiyuan, the lonely family can be invincible. All the nobles have the ability of generals, but can they break the siege of Taiyuan?"

"I have a way!" Yelu Yukyu knew that his chance to show off had come, so he immediately spoke.

"What good advice does Taiwei Liu have? Tell me quickly and know with the orphans."

Yelu Yujiu said, "As far as I know, Nianhan and Xiyin did not know the situation of the Jin thief Eastern Army, nor did they know the truth of the king. They thought the king was leading an army of hundreds of thousands of people!

If the king really had hundreds of thousands of soldiers, of course he would not have taken the main force to enter Hedong with his main force. After all, the Jingxing Road was narrow and Hedong was ravaged by the Jin thieves, making it difficult to support the supply of soldiers. Therefore, the king should act as the main force to go north to Yanshan and use an elite army to enter Jin and restrain the Jin thieves."

Zhao Kai nodded, and then looked at Han Shizhong again - although he trusted Yue Fei more, Han Shizhong's qualifications still need to be respected.

Han Shizhong said: "King, we have less than 10,000 people on hand, which is the size of a partial army. We can first advance westward to Shouyang by the minister's banner, and then send Xizuohe Chuanqi to Taiyuan, Xinzhou, Daizhou and other places to spread news, saying that the Jin thieves Eastern Route Army was dug by Prince Yun in the Battle of Sanshan Bridge, and suffered heavy losses. He was trapped in Liyang. He would soon be completely wiped out. Now Prince Yun personally led his army northward and was about to recover Yanshan to cut off the retreat of the Jin thieves Western Route Army. Any heroes who are willing to raise an army to resist the Jin thieves and restrain the Jin thieves Western Route Army for the King will be rewarded after the matter is completed!"

I have to say that Han Shizhong is still very good at telling stories. Based on the information provided by Yelu Yukyu, he tailored a set of fake news for Wanyan Zonghan and the others... and it sounds quite real!

The Eastern Jin Army had 100,000 people! Even if there were 800,000 imperial guards in the Song Dynasty, it would be impossible to clean up them all and not one of them had escaped. But it would be different if the Yellow River water was flooded. Once the flood came, the cavalry could not escape, so they had to retreat into Liyang City to defend. Moreover, there was a lot of water around, and the Jin soldiers had no naval troops and could not fight at all, so they could only stay in the trap and wait for assistance!

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Chapter completed!