Chapter 664: Care
Shao Xun arrived in Guanggu via Laiwu Valley in late June.
On June 28, the Third Battalion of Silver Spear paraded in formation in the north of Guanggu City.
For a time, the flags covered the sun, the armor shone, the murderous aura was overwhelming, and the power of shock spread to all directions.
Unlike the last time he led a sheep to surrender, Cao Yi, who was under house arrest, had someone find a rope, tied himself out of the city, and apologized.
Shao Xun personally stepped forward, untied the rope for Cao Ni, and said warmly: "Why do you do this?"
"A servant does not understand the general situation and resists the power of God. People who have sinned deeply, I don’t dare to have any extravagant hopes. Now I just want to be punished, and the rest of the people will have nothing to ask." Cao Yi fell to the ground and said.
"Please get up quickly." Shao Xun helped Cao Ni up and said: "You have been in Qingzhou for several years. You have kept it quiet and done nothing to harm the people. In the future, there will be more people to borrow from. Don’t give up on yourself.”
At this point, Cao Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
In front of so many people, Mr. Liang personally promised to use him again, so he shouldn’t be settling scores later, right?
After getting up quickly, he followed Shao Xun step by step and introduced to him the surrendered Qingzhou generals.
When he came to Fengpi, Shao Xun paused and praised: "I really love him for his talent in eloquence when offering wine. Well, Longxiang shogunate's west pavilion offered wine before returning home to mourn. , I wonder if Fengjun will come to help me?”
“Who in the world is not willing to serve me?” Fengpi was secretly happy and fell to the ground.
Shao Xun helped him up again and said with a smile: "I am not happy to win Qingzhou, but I am happy to meet you."
Although he knew it was just a scene, Fengpi still felt great Satisfied, he choked up and said: "Ming Gong's demeanor can make people's hearts change. From now on, no matter how hard I am, I am willing to die for Ming Gong."
"What is immortal?" Shao Xun was displeased. He said, then took Feng Pi's hand and said, "I want to share wealth and honor with Feng Jun, so why die?"
Feng Pi wiped his tears with his sleeves, followed Shao with his head held high and his chest high. Xun's death.
When the Qingzhou generals and officials from various counties saw the surrender, they were greatly reassured.
Pardoning Cao Yi, and maybe even giving him an official position, means that the Qingzhou shogunate will have nothing to do.
He praised Fengpi very much and appointed him to offer wine in the West Pavilion of General Longxiang, which represented that Liang Gong valued the scholars of Qingzhou. From now on, everyone will have a way to make progress.
From officials and nobles under a separatist regime that was doomed to fail, they transformed into officials under the command of Duke Liang, the most powerful person in the world. Such a transformation made everyone excited and inexplicable.
Thinking of Wang Xuan’s hints when he summoned everyone before, and then thinking of Liang Gong’s identity as a Xuzhou native, it’s enough!
It’s time for the Qingxu scholars to rise.
Liang Gong is the god of Qingxu scholars. From now on, if you work for him, you may not be unable to steal opportunities from Yanyu scholars.
"How are these soldiers?" After receiving the surrendered people one by one, Shao Xun led everyone to the high platform and asked with a smile.
“It’s extraordinary.” Cao Yi looked at it for a while and sighed: “In the past, someone in the government advised me that if Qingzhou didn’t practice fighting, it would be difficult to withstand the powerful soldiers of Henan. I didn’t think so at first, but now I know that it was all in vain. "Anti-ear." If you don't follow the conquests from all directions, you can achieve hegemony."
"If you don't see the heavenly soldiers and don't know the power of heaven, you will lose your horizons after living in Donglai for several years." Fortunately, there are strong soldiers to clean up the old mountains and rivers. The servants are ignorant and only want to lead the horse and ride for the Ming Dynasty. They will not regret it even if they die." Most of them are like this. Now that I see the appearance of the Silver Spear Army, I know that I am ignorant." Chang Guanghao Qiang Lu Pi bowed his head and said: "I am a warrior, and I am willing to lead my troops to join Ming Gong's tent, defeat the enemy, and die a hundred times. Instead of turning his heel."
Shao Xu, Gao Jiang, Liu Mi, Liu Xia, Duan Pixi, Duan Wenyang and others who were standing on the general stage were also shocked when they saw it.
Some of them had seen the Silver Spear Army, but they had never seen the three battalions on the left, center and right arrayed together in armor.
With tens of thousands of soldiers, it is boundless. With so many powerful soldiers arrayed in the field, the visual impact is very strong.
Unknowingly, Liang Gong already has so many soldiers with three battles and excellent armor. Who wants to rebel? Who dares to rebel?
Before the melee between the kings, the Chinese army in Luoyang had more than 100,000 soldiers. But most of these soldiers are not people who have experienced three battles and are proficient in various skills. Archers are archers, spearmen are spearmen, and sword and shield bearers are sword and shield bearers. Their skills are single, and that's it.
But in the past twenty or thirty years, the situation in the world has changed dramatically.
During the Qi Wannian Rebellion, the Hu cavalry still had one-sided stirrups, but now they have two-sided stirrups.
When Zhao Wanglun usurped the throne, the Xianbei people did not have many armored cavalry, but now Duan Bu can make up two thousand.
When Sima Yue was in power, Hu Qi still focused on riding and shooting, supplemented by hand-to-hand combat. Now hedging has begun to take shape.
The Hu cavalry has been making progress, and its combat effectiveness is increasing day by day. Even if the Luoyang Chinese Army resurrects more than ten years ago, it will be very difficult to resist now.
All of the elite soldiers with silver spears trained by Liang Gong can shoot arrows and can fight at close range. They have high morale, are unparalleled in bravery, and have tyrannical fighting power. They far surpass the elite infantry since the two Han dynasties. They are just as good as those in the two Han dynasties. The Hu cavalry whose combat power has increased dramatically since the Three Kingdoms period.
In extraordinary times, extraordinary people should make extraordinary changes.
At least in terms of military reform, Liang Gong can be said to be decisive, and he should be the master of the world.
Now that I have seen the results of the reform, I am convinced.
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After the military parade, Shao Xun moved into Guanggu City.
In the past ten days, I have been meeting with local officials and scholars in Qingzhou, and even people from Xuzhou came to pay their respects.
On the eighth day of July, he led people to inspect the villages around Guanggu.
At the end of the war, all the soldiers who had been recruited by Cao Yi returned to their hometowns and farmed. The entire land of Qingzhou once again returned to its former peace.
In the evening, as the sun set, it was very cool under the lush and shaded mulberry trees. Shao Xun and the accompanying Qingzhou scholars sat on the ground and took a nap.
"Although Qingzhou is peaceful, there are still big things going on." After the soldiers cooked the tea, Shao Xun distributed it to everyone one by one and said. "Ming Gong takes care of many things every day, and everything is complicated and hard-working. Qingzhou is a small state, and we are willing to share your worries for Ming Gong." After Feng Pi took the tea bowl, he immediately expressed his loyalty.
Shao Xun smiled when he heard this, his eyes fell on Wang Pe behind Feng Pi, and said: "Your Majesty is a great virtue in Qi, can you teach me?"
Wang Pe arched his hands and said : "Ming Gong's wishes are nothing more than opening up acres of land, equalizing households, and paying taxes and services."
"The prince knows me." Shao Xun praised.
Wang Pei was born in the Wang family of Chengyang and lived in Yingling - this county originally belonged to Chengyang, and later moved to Dongguan and then Beihai.
My grandfather Wang Xiu (Wang Xiu) was a famous scholar in Cao Wei, and his father Wang Yi was Sima Zhao. After he was killed, he never served in the Jin Dynasty. He studied in Yingling Township and taught students, and he became very famous.
Of course, Wang Pei is not the kind of person who just studies. In fact, he is very organic.
He once had a student who was arrested by the county and suffered terribly, so he asked him to intercede on his behalf.
Wang Pei said that your knowledge was not enough to be exempted from military service, and he did not want to write through the back door. However, when it came to the period of military service, he personally carried the meals, and his son brought salt, black beans, and straw sandals to accompany him. More than a thousand disciples came to see the student off.
The county magistrate was "ashamed" when he saw it. The whole county felt "ashamed", so he exempted the disciple from labor.
The way celebrities do things, wow, can even lead to a good story.
I am not a person who is stupid because of reading!
After Shao Xun learned about Wang Bao's fame and status, he represented him as the prefect of Chengyang.
Wang Pei was determined not to be a minister of the Jin Dynasty, so he declined.
So he was appointed as the censor of the Liang Kingdom and inspected Chengyang and Beihai counties. Wang Pei thought about it again and again, and under the persuasion of his disciples, he was somewhat inclined to agree.
Shao Xun knew this very well, and he was very willing to use Wang Pei.
This man, like Liu Han of Yan State, was a very famous scholar in a state, with many disciples and great influence. Gaining their approval is crucial to stabilizing the local situation.
Furthermore, Wang Pei had a very bad impression of the Jin Dynasty.
My grandfather was a famous scholar and loyal minister of Cao Wei. His father was killed by Sima Zhao for no reason after the Battle of Dongguan. He was conquered three times and seven times by the Jin Dynasty in his life, but he refused them all and vowed not to become a minister of the Jin Dynasty.
To a certain extent, this was a local celebrity who was very happy to see the demise of the Jin Dynasty.
How can we not use this kind of person?
"Cao Yi has been in Qingzhou for several years, and there are many errors and omissions in the books. Princes and disciples are all over the counties. Are you willing to clean up the books for me?" Shao Xun mentioned the old things again and asked again.
Wang Pei was silent for a while, then bowed: "I have my wish, but I dare not ask my ears."
Shao Xun was overjoyed, stood up, helped Wang Pei up, and said, "Your Majesty, you can As a supervisor, he inspected the two counties of Chengyang and Beihai. After that, he inspected the three counties of Changguang, Donglai and Qi. After all the other things were done, the chief minister of the Liang Kingdom was waiting for him. "
The Liang Kingdom has its own. Shao Xun is planning to add one more member to the imperial censor Zhongcheng (Cui Yu), called "Zuo Cheng" and "You Cheng", and he will be the deputy to the imperial censor.
Qingzhou is a small state. The census during the Emperor Wu period showed that there were only 50,000 households, which is ridiculous.
Cao Yi said that he had "more than 100,000 soldiers." This is both true and false.
The wrong thing is that most of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers are temporarily recruited farmers, but the right thing is that he can indeed recruit hundreds of thousands of strong men.
If there are only 50,000 households in the household registration, what incredible ability can produce more than 100,000 strong men?
If Shao Xun lets it go and lets Qingzhou officials and scholars compile their own household registrations, he will probably only be able to compile 30,000 households, most of which are under the names of powerful nobles.
So he needed to recheck the household registration, but he didn't have the resources or manpower. After all, things depended on people.
After much thinking, I can only win over some local snakes in Qingzhou and promise benefits so that they will not be too biased towards the local area and conceal too many household registrations when compiling the household registration.
His bottom line is 100,000 households.
If the number you reported is still the 50,000 households during Emperor Wu's time, don't blame him for being ruthless.
Of course, the real household registration in Qingzhou does not exceed 200,000.
This is a small state after all, and for some reason, some places have very little development and there are many desolate places.
For example, Donglai and Changguang counties had a prosperous household registration in the Han Dynasty, but at this time they were sparsely populated, far less than before. Even during the Tianbao period of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the population of Jiaodong area was less than half of that of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is strange.
Of course, Nanyang was also sparsely populated during the Tianbao period, so that a large number of Turks were resettled. Those barbarians could still hunt in Nanyang to make a living, which shows how vast the land is and how sparsely populated it is. However, Nanyang had the largest population in the country during the Eastern Han Dynasty. A dense place.
It is indeed difficult to describe the vicissitudes of life and the changes in the world.
But Shao Xun wanted to take over Donglai and Changguang counties directly.
He also wanted to hold the two counties of Jinan and Le'an that had been repeatedly looted during many wars.
The martial arts students who graduate at the end of this year are destined to go to these four counties in large numbers. Start by resettling the refugees, and gradually build up local connections and prestige in the hometown. When the time is right, you can slowly move up the ladder, and finally lay the foundation for him to completely control the four counties.
There is always something good to gain from a trip to Qingzhou.
(End of this chapter)