Chapter 555 Chang Shi and Sima
In the twelfth lunar month, the Pingdong General Shogunate quietly turned into the Chariot and Cavalry General Shogunate.
The staff has not changed, but the brand has changed.
As the shogunate chief, Pei Kang went out for inspection a year ago and suddenly fell ill.
Fortunately, the illness was not very serious, and he refused to delegate power. He only handed over some of the official duties to the left-behind left Sima Chen Yougen, the Zhonglang Mao Bang, and the army Yu Liang to share the important tasks. Make your own decisions.
At the end of November, Lekuan and Wu Qian, two of the ministers in the palace, returned to recruit troops and asked for more money, food and equipment.
After Pei Kang reviewed it, he approved it and handed it over to the person in charge of joining the army.
More than 4,000 soldiers were recruited this time, and they were all organized into the Silver Spear Middle Camp.
The middle camp originally had six buildings, two of which were sent to the Heiji Army, and one each to the left and right battalions to replenish the battle damage. After recruiting new soldiers, they were reorganized into buildings 21-29. Training in Xiaochang'an, Nanyang.
After handling this matter, Pei Kang approved the distribution of a new batch of pension grains.
Unconsciously, the number of deceased and disabled soldiers receiving pensions has exceeded 30,000, and the annual expenditure is about 800,000 grains and beans, which is very huge.
But it is impossible to reduce this cost, so I have to bite the bullet and pay.
If you want to destroy everything on the battlefield, but are unwilling to pay for it, how can there be such a good thing in the world?
Pei Kang actually didn't understand this, but he didn't intend to have trouble with his "son-in-law" on this matter.
Many people wonder why Chen Gong's army is so brave and brave in fighting. This is the reason. Let him go, it is better than losing nothing.
After lunch, Pei Kang reviewed the suppression of the Runan civil uprising. After giving instructions, he finally couldn't stand it any longer and lay down on the couch.
"Pei Gong, what do you think you are doing?" Zuo Sima Chen Yougen sat in the Changshi Yamen office, stared at his eyes like bells, and deliberately said a few words of sarcasm. Seeing Pei Kang's wretched appearance, his words It reached my mouth and swallowed again.
Although this old guy is greedy for power, he still works hard and is much better than those people who travel around all day long and die carefree.
"Chen Sima, the wealthy people in Runan have never been convinced by Mr. Chen. It is my fault that they have imposed too much wealth and provoked a civil uprising." Pei Kang closed his eyes and kept mumbling: "Yu Yuangui failed to do anything he did, but this time he reacted quickly. The field army dispatched immediately and put down the Lu rebellion, which is remarkable. But, alas, it was still too hasty and the killing was too heavy."
"Just kill them." Chen Yougen said disapprovingly: "These wealthy families have lived a good life for too long. They have never experienced real troubled times, so they always think that they are very powerful. Killing the Lu family will make it easier to conquer the land."< br>
"It's not that simple." Pei Kang said softly: "Mr. Chen is back, and he still needs to be comforted."
In this place, Runan, there was fighting for a while during the Eight Kings Rebellion, and then the refugee commander Li Hong After a brief commotion, the rebellious Wang Ru's troops harassed them for a while, but there was no major external invasion.
The subsequent rebellion of Zhang Xiaoer and Li Mazi was also caused by the excessive oppression of the Kansai refugees, coupled with Yu Liang's improper operation, which eventually led to a chaos, with many people killed and injured.
This time the powerful nobles led by the Lu family launched a rebellion, and the reasons were complicated. Excessive taxation was just an inducement. Basically, the shogunate ordered the land survey in Runan and asked the powerful nobles to give up part of their land to the newly arrived Kansai refugees. It was an alienated version of the dispute between natives and guests.
Fortunately, it was suppressed quickly.
The field troops in Xiping and Langling were dispatched urgently and wiped out several wealthy families such as the Lu family. The land was measured and distributed.
There are 31 counties in the five counties of Xiangcheng, Runan, Xincai, Nandun and Chen in western Henan. There are currently nearly 150,000 households and more than 700,000 people. This has been compiled into a book. The power that Mr. Chen can directly call upon is not the same as the household registration attached to Wubao or the manor in other places, so it cannot be ignored.
"To comfort, to comfort, you know how to comfort." Chen Yougen muttered a few words, too lazy to talk to Pei Kang.
In fact, the order to mobilize troops was issued by him.
The troops that participated in the massacre of the Lu family and other families were the field troops transferred from Duyang. They were led by his confidants, so they would not indulge those local snakes.
If you don't accept it, kill me. What can you do to me? Mr. Chen, who is far away in Yecheng, doesn't blame him. Why are you so confused?
"Chen Sima, you can't just rely on fighting and killing. If Mr. Chen can achieve his great ambitions, he still has to rely on the support of scholars." Pei Kang sighed and said: "Otherwise, it can be said in a long way. Live?”
Chen Yougen was stunned.
"Forget it this time, next time you take action, say hello to me first."
"I am Sima." Chen Yougen said politely: "Chang Shi does not need to worry about military affairs. Furthermore, the counties in western Henan are the foundation of the Ming Dynasty and should not be ignored. Did you see that I killed people in Yingchuan and Chenliu? "
"Runan is a place where people gather together," Pei Kang reminded. road.
"Ming Gong needs a foundation, and he must have a territory that can be used as an arm." Chen Yougen stood up and said, "Since Mr. Pei is ill, he should take a good rest. I will handle some matters."
After saying that, he bowed and turned around and walked out the door.
Pei Kang opened his eyes and looked at the roof.
People like Chen Yougen, Jin Zheng, Wang Queer, and Hou Feihu have become popular.
They have their own ideas and their own rules of conduct. Perhaps because Shao Xun came from a military household, these warriors no longer felt inferior and were no longer submissive in front of the scholars, and gradually dared to talk back and confront them.
And these people are only on the surface.
The Fu soldiers who are rooted in the local area are even more silent, occupying the right to speak in the countryside.
After the Battle of Yecheng, Chen Gong collected hundreds of elite soldiers from Hu and Han in Hebei, organized them into government soldiers, and settled in Dongping.
As a result, Gaoping has 6,000 soldiers, Dongping and Puyang each have 3,000 soldiers, and there are scattered soldiers from Luonan counties, Yingyin, Yangxia, Chen County and other places. There were 4,200 people up, which was more than 16,000.
According to the military records of General Long Xiang’s Mansion, there are more than two tribes of soldiers in these more than 10,000 households, which adds up to more than 50,000 households and a population of 200,000 to 300,000, which is already one person. A considerable amount of power.
The number of accounts that Mr. Chen can directly call has exceeded one million before he knew it. His foundation is much more stable than Sima Rui of Jianye. In the latter, there were also Zhongzhou nobles and refugees who went south, but there should not be millions of them.
Lying in the hospital bed, Pei Kang thought a lot. Moreover, people like him always like to use the events of the previous dynasty as a trap, and they feel that something is wrong, and they are a little confused for a while.
I don’t know where this world will go.
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After Chen Yougen left the shogunate, he wandered aimlessly in the countryside.
The soldiers followed on horseback, talking and laughing.
They are all relatives of the four brothers Chen Yougen. They have always been more casual and courageous.
“When there was a locust plague that year, it was so overwhelming that it scared people to death.” Someone said: “Mr. Chen was originally going to fight with the Huns, but in the end even the hair on the horses was eaten away, and both sides stopped fighting. Old people who have lived their whole lives have never heard of such a strange thing."
"The locust plague was preceded by a drought. The old people also said that they had never seen such a severe drought in their lives, and the Luo River stopped flowing." Someone said: "The alternation of drought and locusts is not giving people a way to survive. No wonder Mr. Chen wants to come down to earth."
"Is Mr. Chen really a white star spirit coming down to earth?"
"Of course. Otherwise. , do you think the princesses of the Sima family will commit themselves to him one by one?"
"Isn't that good for Mr. Chen..."
"Shut up!" Heshang rode forward, sternly. He said: "It's just an arrangement for others. Even Mr. Chen dares to tease me. Don't you want to live?"
The voice suddenly fell silent.
Chen Yougen seemed unaware, only looking at the dense mulberry forest in the wild, with a smile on his face unconsciously, and said: "Okay, that's great."
The soldiers listened, They all looked around.
After the locust plague, most of the mulberry forest was destroyed. But in the past few years, Sangma has gradually improved, and people's lives are getting better day by day.
In fact, if you think about it, you will know that there are so many wastelands with only so many people, and there is no need for intensive farming. No one can starve to death, and the livestock at home can also have enough fodder to feed - provided that they can maintain their livelihood. A relatively stable world.
Chen Gong obtained two books, "Growing Ma Seeds" and "Essential Techniques of Planting Mulberry", and contributed the composting method practiced in Yunzhong Sanwu in his early years, and slowly taught the people to improve the planting method. .
There is no doubt that this change is very slow.
The reason is that there are not enough people to do it. Furthermore, the people promoting it don’t seem to understand much. For example, they only know that when manure is piled together, they must dig out the river bottom to cover it and stir it. As for why they did this, no one knows. Anyway, they heard that anyone in Chen County would be whipped if they covered it with dry loess, so they all dug wet mud out of the Suiyang Canal - and for a while they actually dredged the river channel. .
After many years, no matter how slow the progress of promotion is, some results are finally seen.
Henan mulberry trees are planted in front of and behind houses, around ponds and on both sides of roads.
Every night, the sound of women weaving can be heard throughout villages and forts of all sizes.
On several occasions, everyone rushed back to Xuchang overnight. When they heard the cries of jealousy, they privately commented on which family's women were hardworking and which family's women were lazy.
Men farm and women weave, what a wonderful life.
In those years when locusts alternated between droughts and exchanged their offspring for food, and the Xiongnu looted and burned the countryside, who could have imagined that we would be here today?
After careful calculation, it turns out that not many years have passed since the Battle of Gaoping, but surrounded by a stable life, they always subconsciously feel that it is far away.
After the battlefield moved to Hebei, the "illusion" that the war was far away became more and more obvious.
Actually, this is all due to Mr. Chen.
Chen Yougen stopped suddenly.
Yingchuan is, after all, the Yingchuan of aristocratic families, with manors one after another. In recent years, some villages where farmers live together have appeared one after another, but they are very few.
He doesn't like it very much, it can even be said that he hates it.
"Do you want to be a soldier?" He turned his head, looked at the soldiers, and asked.
The soldiers were stunned. After confirming that Chen Sima was not joking, they boldly smiled and said, "If uncle is willing to let us go, of course he is willing."
Chen Yougen smiled, Said: "I won't tie you to me. When the young eagle grows up, it will always spread its wings and fly high."
The soldiers looked at Chen Yougen who suddenly became formal and at a loss.
"The beggar army in Junyi area is going to Hebei." Chen Yougen said: "Chen Gong plans to place government soldiers in Chenliu, and you all have a chance."
"Why is that? Junyi?" someone asked.
"Chen Gong plans to move the government to Junyi, taking into account both Henan and Hebei." Chen Yougen said: "If the Bafu opens in the future, it is probably there."
Junyi belongs to Chen Liuguo, in Xuchang It is more than 200 miles northeast, not far from the river, and is on the water transport line, extending in all directions, and can fully utilize Henan's manpower and material resources.
The only shortcoming is that Chenliu has been in war for a long time and is a bit dilapidated overall. Junyi, which is occupied by the beggar army, is even more dilapidated and requires a lot of effort to operate.
But this also brings a benefit: white paper is easy to draw on.
"If you become a soldier and live a good life, you should remember one thing." Chen Yougen looked at everyone and said seriously: "This life is not given to you by the imperial court, not by the Wang family of Langya, and not by the Pei family of Hedong. Yours is not given to you by the Taiyang family, nor is it given to you by the Yingchuan Yu family, but by Chen Gong. "
(End of this chapter)