Chapter 476 New Establishment
"What a disaster!" He Ming hurriedly got off the bullock cart in front of a manor on the outskirts of Dongpinglu County, said with an anxious expression, and then choked.
"Where is Yidai?" He Ming looked at the scene of the whole house, and was a little confused.
"The head of the family died suddenly the day before yesterday." The person greeting the guests at the door said with a sad look on his face.
"What?" He Ming was shocked: "Hengyi Dai was always in good health, why did he die so suddenly? Was he suffering from some serious illness?"
The man who welcomed the guests looked troubled and said : "He Gong is a close friend of the head of the family. Let's go in and talk about it."
He Ming calmed down and nodded. Just as he was about to walk in, he saw a large group of people not far away, supporting the elderly and the young, riding on ox carts. Donkey cart, heading south.
“Why is this?” He Ming stretched out his hand and asked.
“These are my villagers, totaling more than 400 households, and now they are all let go.”
“Why are we let go?”
"It's a last resort."
He Ming was startled, and after taking a closer look, he found that these common people were actually escorted by soldiers - or escorted?
He seemed to understand somewhat, but he didn’t seem to understand quite yet.
However, he did not get too entangled and soon entered the Heng Mansion - the Lu Heng family in Dongping and the He family in Fanxian County were small noble families that were gradually declining in Dongping and Gaoping respectively.
After He Ming entered the house, the door was quickly closed.
Besides the people traveling south, Shi Xian rode a horse, traveling south slowly.
He is from Kaocheng, and his ancestors were once nobles in the Later Han Dynasty. After more than a hundred years of war, the family was in decline and was in decline. As a side clan, his family was in even worse shape. They had been serving as soldiers for a long time, and now they were able to get the job of head of the building. Their life was better than before, but it was not enough to revive the family.
Because he became a soldier in Gaoping Prefecture, his family has moved to Rencheng and settled there.
There is a difference between Fu Bing and Fu Bing, and the gap is huge.
Take him as an example. He only has a pair of leather armor, which he bought with his own money.
There are also very few instruments. After the tip of the original bow cracked, it was only in the middle of this year that I saved enough money to make a new one.
As for the horse under the crotch, it is a new hair from the top. It is said that it comes from Guangchengze Ranch.
Shi Xian is very satisfied with this horse. It is only three years old, which is the beginning of the golden age of the horse's life.
The horse has been gelded.
I heard that Guangchengze now has six to seven thousand horses, including three thousand mares, and the remaining three to four thousand male horses. Except for a few, most of them are gelding.
The stallions that have not been gelded are stallions, which are generally the strongest and are used to breed mares.
The gelded stallions were used as war horses, pack horses, and draft horses, and were consumed repeatedly on the battlefield without mercy.
Actually, this is normal.
It is not the stallions that determine the size of the horse herd, but the number of mares.
It takes eleven months for a horse to conceive to give birth to a foal, which is slower than humans, and it usually only has one pregnancy every two years, which is similar to humans.
Of the three thousand mares in Guangchengze, excluding those that failed to conceive and the foals that were not fed, it would be good to be able to produce more than a thousand foals a year.
This amount is not enough to consume in two wars.
So horses are very valuable. It is really good that Mr. Chen can be gracious and give Gaoping Mansion troops 500 horses.
Well, not only were the horses divided, but the people were also divided, namely the more than 400 households they escorted.
Not everyone in Gaoping Prefecture has enough tribes. Shi Xian himself only has two households, one of which has five people and the other has only two people.
This time when the Huns invaded, the Lu Heng family in Dongping was lucky and failed to harvest the grains in the fields in time, which became the Huns' supplies. When the superiors came to urge me, this person was rude and procrastinated.
At this time of reckoning, the head of the family "died" of illness and his nephew was appointed as the head of the family.
Not only that, the Heng family also provided 100,000 hu of grain and 1,000 pieces of cloth and silk, which were deposited in the county warehouse, and then gave away more than 400 households of villagers and transferred them to the soldiers of the government as a tribe. It was considered a great source of vitality. hurt.
Shi Xian didn't pity them at all, it was only himself who was to blame.
If the Xiongnu could resolutely implement the strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country, it would be impossible for the Huns to successfully harvest enough food. Their horses can only graze in the wild, where they graze most of the day—grazing during the day and at night. How many hours can they be out in a day?
But it's different when there is food. After the horses are fed quickly, their attendance and power increase greatly.
It’s simply capitalizing on the enemy!
Fine snowflakes were floating in the sky again, and the horse snorted unconsciously.
Shi Xian turned over and landed on the ground, leading his horse and walking.
While walking, he gently stroked the horse's neck. The horse also leaned its head over and touched his face affectionately.
Alas, I can’t even bear to ride this horse on the road.
When can we be like the Huns cavalry, with one person and three horses, traveling across Henan?
The ranch run by Chen Gong is out of business. Horses that are new in the first year may not die as many as on the battlefield.
You still have to buy it, and you have to buy a mare.
As for the horses captured on the battlefield, they were basically gelding stallions. They could only be used as emergency relief, not as a long-term solution.
A few days later, when more than 400 households were almost dying from the cold, they finally arrived at Xialou City, a "Longxiang Mansion" of Gaoping Fubing, with hundreds of Fubing families scattered around.
The common people lived in adobe houses, lit fires, baked dry biscuits, and waited ignorantly for the soldiers to come and choose.
Shi Xian keenly discovered that there were more than two hundred households in Xialou City. When he asked, he learned that it was the Rencheng Jing family who had "given" them out, and he burst into laughter. In the livestock stables outside the city, hundreds of new horses were brought, and the soldiers were taking them into the stables to avoid the cold.
“Where did the horse come from?” Shi Xian asked subconsciously.
"It's not ours. It will be sent to Dongping immediately and raised here first." Someone said, "I heard that Mr. Chen is going to set up troops in Dongping."
"Where is it? "The soldiers who retreated from Fangtou turned around one by one."
"Where did the money and food come from?" The man smiled and said: "Isn't that a lot of fines? It's almost enough to last a year."
"What about the second year?"
"Let's talk about it in the second year."
"That's right. At worst, we'll go to those manor owners for money." Shi Xian smiled and said, "If you don't accept it, Use all your troops to destroy them."
"I said Shi Datou, I heard that a scholar bought your unmarried bride as a maid. At that time, you didn't dare to let go of anything, but now you are so arrogant. "?"
Shi Xian's face darkened, and he hesitated not to punch the man.
After snorting coldly, he said: "With Mr. Chen here, we and other warriors will never do such humiliating things."
The man chuckled and said: "I can't stand it either. Scholars. Yesterday, I followed Zhang Changshi to collect food at Jing's Manor. The men unsheathed their swords and strung their bows. The gang almost pissed themselves."
Shi Xian took a deep breath, his face showing. Smile.
A Longxiang Mansion has 1,200 soldiers, each with its own generals.
Although they are scattered in various villages, they have a sense of belonging psychologically: they are a collective, and if something goes wrong, someone will make the decision for them.
Wubao Shuai in Hengxing Township is not a good person. He often robs people as slaves. If he encounters passing business travelers, if there are not enough guards, he may be robbed and killed by them.
But they did not dare to bully the soldiers from nearby villages. Once something like this happens, the lowest-level Sima from other departments will report it. After getting approval, at least 1,200 soldiers from the government will be dispatched, fully armed to fight, often accompanied by other soldiers recruited from the county and neighboring counties. The forts were strong and surrounded the Wubao who committed the crime, forcing them to submit.
Why did the head of the Lu Heng family in Dongping "die" of illness so happily? There is a reason for this.
If there are no government soldiers in the county or even the county, things will not be that simple.
There are definitely not many soldiers in the county, so they cannot deter the Lord of Wubao. If the prefect or county magistrate wants to recruit private soldiers from other forts or manors, they will see you as a bare-bones soldier and won't care much at all, and they may not be willing to send troops.
Therefore, the government soldiers are the cornerstone of stabilizing the place.
There are six thousand soldiers in the ten counties of Gaoping, which is a huge force. Otherwise, based on the rumors that Prefect Yu was so desperate for money, he would have died in a mysterious way.
"I don't think it's that simple to set up troops in Dongping." Another man came over and fed the horse hay and said, "Maybe there will be a war."
"Oh? Fighting?" Shi Xian was startled, and then smiled: "I also want to get an official position. Fighting is good."
"I asked you to go to Hebei to fight the Huns, will you go?" The visitor sneered.
Shi Xian choked and said angrily: "If the Huns are willing to dismount and fight me face to face, I will chop down his whole family."
"Haha!" Everyone around them laughed.
I am a cavalryman, why did I dismount to fight you? It's only right to walk with four legs while you walk with two legs.
"I'm not kidding you anymore." The visitor said, "Gaoping and Dongping have sent troops to attack Cao Yi."
"Attack Qingzhou?" Shi Xian asked.
“I can’t say for sure.” The man shook his head and said, “It’s also possible to cross the river from Dongping and attack Yangping, Hebei.”
Shi Xian lowered his head and thought for a while, it really happened. possible.
If Chen Gong continues to attack Shile, he must start from Fangtou and march along the river. The soldiers from Gaoping and Dongping gathered together and crossed the river to march westward, where they could attack Chen Gong's army from east to west.
If we attack Qingzhou, the army will gather eastward and reach Mount Tai, where they can break into Cao Yi's territory at any time.
No matter which direction, the journey is actually not far.
Shi Xian secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
When soldiers go into battle, they need to bring their own dry food and troops.
If the journey is long, the cost on the road is not small.
If you fight right at home, the burden will be greatly reduced.
In fact, they can’t bear the expedition. If they do it a few more times, their wealth will be emptied.
"It is better to attack Hebei." Someone next to him gritted his teeth and said, "Half of my house was burned down and was just plastered with mud. If Shi Le is not pushed north, the thieves will still go south."
< br>"Yes." Someone echoed: "I think Chen Gong doesn't have many cavalry. If Shi Le comes next year, he will still be unable to stop him. If he goes to Henan the next year, he will still be plundered. Instead of doing this, it is better to go straight in Hebei, push him far away to prevent the house from being burned again."
"Cross the river and occupy Yangping, and let Shi Le plunder Yangping later."
Everyone talked about it. Defending one's homeland is full of enthusiasm.
Shi Xian listened for a long time and became angry. He wished he could follow Duke Chen on the expedition during the Chinese New Year, push Shi Le all the way to Youzhou, and get an official position by the way.
(End of this chapter)