Chapter 671: Soldiers and horses move, food and grass move
On the outskirts of Xuchang, soldiers bid farewell to their families and prepare to set off.
Zhang Gou looked at his shack-like house and said to his family members who were seeing him off: "I will definitely earn some merit when I go north this time. It's okay to not want this dilapidated house that has been passed down for generations."
The house has been passed down for several generations, but it has not been passed down from one family to another. Just like their pitiful land - the land does not belong to their family either.
The only way out for Shibing is to risk his life to perform meritorious service and then be selected as a soldier.
However, the number of soldiers in the army is limited, and the competition is fierce, but it is not easy to get.
This is the sorrow of the lower-class military households. Opportunities are so pitiful that they have to fight for their lives.
Wang Cai was still busy in the fields.
"Husband, the team is already shouting." The wife came over, grabbed the sickle, and cut the grass quickly.
Wang Cai looked at his wife's hands, which were as dry as bark from doing farm work, and sighed, then tied up the cut grass.
There were indeed people urging him, not only the team deputy, but also the team leader came once, but Wang Cai still wanted to seize the last moment and do as much farm work as possible for his family.
After going on an expedition, without a sword or a gun, who dares to say that he will be able to come back?
Wang Cai continued to bundle the fodder until the passing teammate yelled again, then he reluctantly put down his sickle and turned around to leave.
In a house with four entrances outside Xuchang City, Liu Shan finished his breakfast, picked up a big halberd, and waved it twice.
The movements are still in place, but only he knows that as he grows older, his strength is losing little by little.
A person who is fifty years old is no longer young.
Looked down at the halberd in his hand and sighed quietly.
I used it when I was young, and went into battle with the robes to kill the enemy. After getting old, the robe of the past has disappeared, only the halberd is still by his side.
If he could be twenty or thirty years younger, he would be right where he is today.
The nephew lacks enough capable relatives. So far, he only has three generals: General Shao Shen, General Shao Guang, and Shao Fan, the governor. Unfortunately, the uncle's family is also short of talents and cannot provide him with much. Big boost.
His two older sons, one is Liu Bin, who has mediocre talents and looks like a middle-aged man. He is the governor of the military department in Puyang and was promoted by his nephew for the sake of relatives; the other is Liu Fang. As a law enforcement officer under Shao Fan, he was engaged in shady activities all day long and could not make meritorious deeds and kill the enemy openly.
In the end, he, an old man with half his body buried in the ground, had to go into battle.
It’s a pity that he can no longer draw the strongest bow, and his accuracy when riding and shooting is much worse than when he was young. When fighting on foot, he can’t fight for too long before he loses his strength, and his brain doesn’t feel as good as before. Soon.
Now he can only manage the auxiliary soldiers - at the level of Xuchang Shibing, he is between the combat soldiers and the auxiliary soldiers, closer to the auxiliary soldiers.
"The children's studies must not fall behind." Before going out, Liu Shan looked at the wives, concubines, and their families and warned: "Xiao Chong was already famous in Luoyang at a young age. You should learn from it. "
After saying that, he looked at his old wife again and said: "Bianliang is a new house in Jishanfang. Let's go and see it when you have time. Let's take a look at my brother-in-law and sister. "
Bianliang is a new city. , according to the plan, similar to Yecheng, the Lifang system will be adopted.
The city has not been built yet, but the bases of each building have been divided. Jishanfang is a neighborhood relatively close to the palace. Many dignitaries want to buy land and houses here. Liu Shan did not contribute any money, so his nephew directly gave him a piece of land. He spent his own money to build the house, which is already half completed.
Since last year, a large number of refugees have crossed the river to beg, and the price of labor has been reduced to dust. Many officials and generals took out food and hired these people to build houses for themselves, which was regarded as a private version of work-for-relief. Objectively speaking, Liang Guo's food relief expenditure was reduced.
"Okay, husband, be careful." the wife replied.
Liu Shan then looked at the concubines he had taken after coming to Luoyang, and said, "Take care of the children."
After that, he strode out.
The soldiers brought the horses, Liu Shan jumped up and inspected them carefully.
In the sheath are a bow tip, an iron sword, a saber, and a small buckler tied to the side.
There are several short spears for throwing and a small amount of water in the saddle bag.
Holding a large halberd in his hand and a quiver on his waist.
That’s enough, let’s go to war!
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The mighty team left Xuchang, joined the first part of Yinqian Zuoying from Xiangcheng, went north from Yique, and went straight to Heyang.
Yu Liang led a group of scholars and disciples to Bianliang.
After returning to Xuchang in late July or early August, he sent people to various places to gather familiar scholars and children together.
Half a month later, almost everyone from near and far had arrived.
Yu Liang is very satisfied with this, and his appeal is increasing every year.
Especially the few scholars who had never had a relationship with him before. When they saw him looking so respectful, they couldn't help but laugh: They must be scolding me in their hearts, right? Don't think you can deceive me by pretending to be submissive. We'll see.
After a brief explanation with them, a number was set: depending on the family's different properties, grains ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 were levied.
This figure hit the psychological bottom line of the wealthy people. After wrangling for a long time, they reluctantly made a small discount, and finally collected more than 700,000 dendrobium of grain - Yu Liang asked the nobles to share it, and the nobles then looked for the dependents. Their tyranny is apportioned.
This return to Bianliang was at the request of Duke Liang. He wanted to bring the top five nobles and powerful sons who donated the most food. He wanted to "employ them according to their talents" - to award the shogunate Cao Lingshi and Liang Guoshe. The place of man. The group arrived at the Guanfeng Hall on August 20th happily, chatting and laughing.
Shao Xun met Yu Liang in the bamboo forest of Lichuntai.
"The Chen family of Xuchang donated 100,000 hu of dendrobium to a person from Liang Guoshe who will be responsible for the communication." Shao Xun looked at the list handed over by Yu Liang and said.
There is no fixed number of people, it can even be said that there are many people, and they are responsible for different affairs.
Among the self-appointed subordinates such as Prime Minister Yu Chen and Yu Shi Dafu Pan Tao, there was Shiren - they paid their own expenses.
For example, Liu Bai and Yang Kai were directly subordinate to Shao Xun. The former did the work of writing, specializing in drafting orders, while the latter went to the field to deliver orders, and then obtained them from the Prime Minister Yu Chen. He returned to the more important memorials and presented them to Shao Xun for reading.
This time I promised Chen’s family member to do the same job as Yang Kai to share his pressure.
As Liang Guo becomes more and more stable, there are more and more affairs, and there will be new positions for everyone. On this occasion, after comprehensive consideration, of course the person who donated the most food was the Chen family. Among the Yingchuan clans, the food donation ranked second only to the Yu family's 120,000 dendrobium.
"Zao family is also working hard like this? Offering 91,000 dendrobium of grain?" Shao Xun looked at the list and asked again.
“I heard that Zaosong tried his best to persuade the tribesmen and even borrowed 30,000 dendrobium grains from a close friend.” Yu Liang said with a smile.
The Changshe Zao family is in a bit of decline, and their family is not rich, so much so that they have to borrow food...
"He can be appointed as the commander of Mo Cao, the general's palace." Shao Xun shook. Shaking the list, he said.
Mo Cao is a newly established department.
The two Registrar Supervisors (Yang Yu and Jing Chan) of the General's Office have been complaining that there are not enough manpower and they are too busy to work, so Shao Xun has just approved the establishment of Mocao, recruiting pen holders, and managing it under the supervision of the Registrar Supervisor - the shogunate's participation in the army and other After getting close to officials and supervising Cao in depth, some shogunates would set up a record office to specifically manage places where pen masters like Mo Cao gathered.
"The Yin family of Changping——" Shao Xun pondered for a while and said: "Yin Xi has made great achievements in capturing the unborn army and can be reused. After this battle, transfer him back. The General's Mansion The chief officer of the cavalry, Cao, was promoted from Ling Shi to a general, and he was appointed as the commander. "
The Yi Congjun and the Zhuosheng Army were Liang's armies, and the cavalry Cao had no control over them.
Theoretically, they can only manage the cavalry outside the territory of Liang State.
In fact, it is also an incredible power. For example, if the Hu tribes gather to form an army, then they will be directly managed by the cavalry Cao.
After the war and disbandment, it was no longer under the jurisdiction of Cavalry Cao. But this will be a war era, and Cavalry Cao has considerable influence on the Hu tribe. Therefore, shogunate assistants such as cavalry commanders or cavalry commanders are typical examples of low-ranking officials.
Yu Liang felt happy after hearing this.
The Yu family and the Yin family have a close relationship and can be called political allies. If Yin Xi, the deputy governor of the capture army, is promoted, the Yu family can also expand their influence.
"Mr. , With outstanding merits, he should be appointed as the governor of Qingzhou. "
This was said to Yu Liang, but he was not asked to appoint these officials. He was just a general and did not have this power. Shao Xun just told Yu Liang and asked him to spread the word, that's all.
Some of these official positions are newly established departments, some are reforms of old institutions, and some are newly acquired sites. They were originally going to be completed one by one in the near future, but they happened to be arranged together due to the time of raising food.
Yu Liang understood, and after discussing the details of the grain and grass collection process, he bowed and left.
The construction of the palace city was suspended, and he had nothing to do, so he was now focused on raising food.
Tomorrow he will set off to Jiyin and other places to tour and raise food. The task is still very heavy.
"Yu Yuangui is a little greedy." After Yu Liang left, Yang Xianrong turned out of the side hall, sat beside Shao Xun naturally, and said.
"Everyone has shortcomings, just use what he is good at." Shao Xun looked at the official letter on the case and said: "Xiangcheng collected 130,000 dendrobium grains and Luonan counties 50,000 grains. There are more than 700,000 dendrobiums in Yingchuan and 30,000 in Xingyang. If the counties in eastern Henan and Yan can raise two to three million dendrobiums, it will not be that difficult this year."
"Just raising money. When it comes to food, Liu Cong is far inferior to you. What can he do to fight? Even if Liu Yao takes Jinyang, it will be useless if he has an empty city." Yang Xianrong was also a little surprised.
The Xiongnu fought back and forth, and kept circling in Bingzhou and Guanxi. They even reached out to the old land of Shangjun, which had been abandoned long ago, to subdue the local barbarians. The closest they came to a prosperous land was when Shi Le, who was regarded as a partial force, occupied Jizhou.
"What do you think of Liu Yao?" Shao Xun held Yang Xianrong in his arms and asked softly.
"No." Yang Xianrong shook his head and said: "Lang Jun, you are the Holy Master of Kaiji, and Liu Yao is cramped and precarious, how can we compare them?"
Shao Xun felt satisfied and said: "One day, I will capture Liu Yao in front of the steps."
Yang Xianrong felt that Shao Xun's question today was a bit strange, but she didn't think much about it. Asked: "When are you going to fight?"
"Why are you asking? It's almost time."
Yang Xianrong looked at him, a little angry.
Before and after the Chinese New Year, he stayed in Bianliang for a period of time. He rarely looked for her, but mostly hung out with Pei, and even occasionally went to Cui's place to steal sex.
Mr. Pei got pregnant again a few years later, and she still had nothing to show for her. How could she not be angry?
“Aren’t I staying with you these days?” Shao Xun said.
Yang Xianrong was silent for a while and said: "I have asked Guang Chengze to prepare 150,000 dendrobiums of grain, but it is not more than the Yu family? How do you want to reward me?"
Shao Xun was stunned. Let’s not talk about feelings, let’s talk about interests, right? OK OK!
"I will accompany you before the expedition." Shao Xun promised.
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(End of chapter)