Hedong Province.

After Zhao Tai unified the north, he made some changes to the local official system.

Compared with the prefectures of the Han Dynasty and the roads of the Tang Dynasty, the areas under the jurisdiction of each road in the Song and Jin Dynasties were too small.

Although this can prevent local forces from becoming stronger, weaken local strength, and facilitate central control, it also creates many more officials and increases the burden on the court.

Unlike the Song Dynasty, the Qi State was too far away from the Middle Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. It mainly learned and summarized experience from the Song and Jin Dynasties.

In the local administrative system, Zhao Tai abolished and merged some jurisdictions that were too small and established a provincial system.

For example, the land of Shandong, which was originally Shandong East Road and Shandong East Road, was now merged into Shandong Province. Qi State was able to save a group of officials at the level of one road.

The move of changing the Qi State Road into a province was almost at the same time preparing to destroy the Song Dynasty.

Because the Qi State destroyed the Song Dynasty and occupied the prefectures and counties, they could not appoint and demote all of them. They had to have their own people.

At this time, the various roads in Qi were merged into provinces, and the freed-up officials, or even a full team of road-level officials, could directly take over the land of one or even two roads in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Nowadays, the Hedong Province of Qi State consists of Hedong North Road, Hedong South Road, and Datong, Shuozhou and other places in the south of the original Xijing Road of Jin State.

After the integration of Hedong Province, it will also be very beneficial to the defense of the entire Hedong area.

In the past, the Hedong area had two roads, the north and the south, and two administrative offices at the same level.

When defending against nomadic intrusions from the north, the Northeast Hebei Road bore all the defensive pressure and direct attacks from Hulu. However, when the Northeast Hebei Road needed support, it could not mobilize the troops and resources of the Southeast Hebei Road, which required the coordination of the central court at the upper level.

Just fine.

This undoubtedly reduces efficiency and increases costs.

After the merger of the two Hedong roads, this problem was completely solved.

An important purpose of Zhao Tai's establishment of Hedong Province was to mobilize Hedong's resources to resist Mongolian attacks.

The Jin Kingdom ruled the north for hundreds of years, during which time it paid little attention to the Great Wall.

After Zhao Tai regained Hedong, he began to repair the Great Wall and rebuild many passes to defend against the impact of northern nomads.

However, repairing the Great Wall is a big project. In the Hedong area, only Hebei Road was originally responsible for it, and Hedong South Road did not pay much attention to it.

Now that it has been merged into Hedong Province, the Hedong government can mobilize all the human, financial and material resources in Hedong to repair the damaged Great Wall.

Yunzhong City is a major Tongfu in the northern part of Hedong Province.

More than a hundred miles out of the city to the north is Migukou, an important pass of the Great Wall.

The Jin Dynasty and Mongolia were both regimes established by the northern peoples, and one characteristic of such regimes was that they often controlled the Central Plains and part of the grasslands at the same time.

For them, the Great Wall built by the Han people would not have much effect on them. Instead, it would affect the connection between the grasslands and the Central Plains.

Therefore, such a regime rarely pays attention to the Great Wall, and even deliberately damages it so that their cavalry can enter the Central Plains unimpeded.

Yunzhong is located at a strategic location, a place that northern peoples must seize when moving south.

Therefore, the Great Wall in Yunzhong was severely damaged.

Previously, Yunzhong's power could not complete the repairs. Now Hedong Province sent civilians to provide money and food, and nearly ten thousand people repaired Migukou Pass.

Early that morning, after breakfast, civilians from several counties in the southern part of Hedong Province began to carry stones and build passes.

People were busy, and the patrolling officer suddenly stopped, frowned, and turned to look north.

"Qianhu, what's going on?" The captain behind him couldn't help but ask when he saw the commander stop.

Qian Huguan frowned, "There seems to be movement in the north! It seems to be cavalry!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, "Cavalry?"

After the Mongols were driven out of the Central Plains by the Qi army, due to internal problems, they rarely went south to attack Qi for several years.

Therefore, in recent years, the northern border of Qi State has been generally peaceful.

Nowadays, there has been no war in the land of Yunzhong for more than three years, and many of Qi's elite soldiers have been transferred to the south to participate in the battle against Song Dynasty. The troops stationed in Yunzhong are mainly new soldiers recruited in the past three years.

These new recruits were trained rigorously, but they had not experienced a major war, so their experience was naturally not as rich as that of the officers.

"It's the cavalry, a large group of cavalry!" Officer Qianhu said firmly this time, and then his expression changed drastically.

Yunzhong is located on the front line. Qi's cavalry will not come from the north, so the cavalry coming can only be Mongols.

After thinking clearly, Qianhu quickly scanned the unfinished pass. Knowing that he could not withstand the Mongolian cavalry raid, he made an immediate decision, "Liu Baihu, lead the civilians to evacuate as quickly as possible."

When the alarm bell rang, the busy civilians heard the officer's call and hurriedly fled south without packing their bags.

At this time, Qianhuguan and more than ten people had already boarded the beacon tower. Not long after, they saw Mongolian cavalry coming overwhelmingly in the wilderness in the distance.

When Zhao Tai attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, Meng Ge seized the opportunity of Qi's inability to intervene in the Mongolian civil war and marched towards Helin.

He defeated Guyuk in a battle, and then led his troops to pursue him all the way to the border of the Chagatai Khanate, forcing Chagatai Khan to hand over Guyuk.

The fact that Ogedai and his family were able to seize the position of Great Khan from Tolei had a lot to do with Chagatai's support.

Now that Guiyou was defeated, he only led more than ten cavalry into the Chagatai Khanate. The Chagatai Khanate should have protected them, but they were afraid of Meng Ge's strength. Facing the threat of Meng Ge, the Chagatai Khanate finally drove them away.

Exit the country.

After Meng Ge captured Guiyou, he executed Guiyou and nearly a hundred princes and nobles of the Ogedei family.

Just like in history, Meng Ge killed the nobles of the Ogedai family, and the Tolei family became the rulers of Mongolia.

After acquiring Guyu and becoming the Great Khan of Mongolia, Mongol faced the same problems that all new kings face.

The new Khan ascended the throne, but he did not have enough prestige and was not completely convinced internally.

At this time, how can the grassland regime stabilize its rule?

Meng Ge chose to wage war against.

This can unite Mongolia, and the prestige brought by victory in the war can also allow him to evacuate and stabilize the position of Mongol Khan.

During this period of time when Qi State was attacking Song Dynasty, Brother Meng had actually been sending detailed troops to keep an eye on the battle between Qi and Song Dynasty.

After learning that the Song army had been defeated in consecutive battles, Meng Ge did not hesitate and immediately sent his troops southward, leading his army to attack Qi State.

He wanted to take advantage of the fact that Zhao Tai and the main force of the Qi army were in the Song Dynasty to grab a fortune.

In the wilderness, countless Mongolian cavalry galloped forward with a majestic momentum, like black clouds pressing over the city, which was terrifying.

Thousands of households of the Qi army looked at the Mongolian cavalry coming from the fields, with determination in their eyes, and ordered with gritted teeth, "Light the fire!"

The torch lit the beacon tower, and a column of smoke rose into the sky.

"Wolf smoke!" Soon, the nearby beacon tower saw the thick smoke rising from the entrance of Migu and couldn't help but exclaimed.

For a moment, a stream of wolf smoke rose into the sky, reaching Yunzhong City, and then passed all the way south from Yunzhong to Taiyuan.
Chapter completed!