Chapter 819 Stairs
After October, the first batch of government troops to change defenses arrived in Pingyang. They were Shao Xun's top Luonan killers, with a total of 6,000 troops.
The Yi Congjun arrived from Liyang.
The left battalion of Heijian came from Hanoi, and the middle battalion of Yinqiang came from Bianliang to replace the two left and right battalions of Yinqiang.
Ten thousand people from the right guard of the Forbidden Army also arrived in Hedong.
The defense change was actually a considerable expense, and was supported by grain shipments from the four counties of Chen, Liang, Nanton, and Xincai as usual.
From this point of view, the basic market is still the best. During disaster relief in Hebei, tax revenue was collected quickly, and officials had no constraints and sent a steady stream of grain to Hebei.
Of course, there are more than twenty counties in the world. There are also a lot of holes to be filled among the twenty counties. The real big head has to come from other places.
On October 20, the first day the Luonan Mansion soldiers arrived, they solved a major case, which opened the eyes of the six thousand soldiers of Heijin Zuoying who had just arrived.
A group of disgraced scholars were escorted by the government soldiers into a military camp outside the city, ready to serve as Liu Kelan. The charges were provided by Shao Fan, the governor of the assassination: brewing wine secretly, violating the ban; being drunk in the mourning hall, Violating human ethics.
These seven or eight children from the Cai family in Kaocheng, the Luqiu family in Juye, the Zhong family in Changshe, the Feng family in Beihai, and the Xu family in Gaoyang are considered dead.
When an old man died in the Jia family in Xiangling, it was normal to make some wine during the funeral. The assassination supervisor originally turned a blind eye and didn't intend to care.
However, these seven or eight people who came to express their condolences got drunk before leaving and ate some Wushisan. After running to the mourning hall, they drank heavily again and then got naked in front of all the guests. Hair disheveled and dancing.
At the end, seven or eight naked men danced around the host’s female family members...
However, it didn’t take long for Pingyang County Magistrate Liu Fang to follow the order of the old chief Shao Fan. The soldiers came to the door and took all these people away. At the same time, they also locked up several people from the main family Jia family.
If nothing unexpected happens, these scholars' children will pack their bags and go to settle in Langu County, Kelan County. As for whether Amnesty can come back, it depends on the situation. In short, it is not optimistic - the preferential policy is for family members to follow whatever they want. , and settled in Langu together.
Fu Jun General (third grade) Hou Feihu had no expression after hearing this.
He has the power to open the shogunate. The lower-level staff of the shogunate are mostly taken care of by the old brothers, or some local tycoons and children from poor families are recruited. However, the middle- and high-level staff need to report to the Ministry of Civil Affairs for approval, so there are several children of rich families. So he knew very well the virtues of these people.
A while ago, a son of the Liu family of Pei Kingdom was fired because he had sex with the host’s concubine at the wine table when he attended a party. A group of people also watched and commented together and exchanged their experiences.
Although this move was not uncommon among scholars, it was still too frivolous, so he was dismissed.
Hou Feihu has a keen mind. He feels that today's arrest of this group of people is not only because of the listed crimes, but also more likely to attack the wealthy families.
Without breaking the rules, fair and just punishment leaves people speechless.
The person who assassinated Governor Shao Fan had probably been observing them secretly for a long time.
"General Hou." Wei Zhan, Zuo Cheng, Minister of the Fifth Army, had been waiting for a long time. When he saw Hou Feihu dismounting, he immediately stepped forward to salute.
Although Hou Feihu is only a third-grade Fujun general, don't forget that he has the privilege of opening a mansion.
In the bureaucracy of the Liang Kingdom, the "Kaifu Yitong Sansi" was an additional title, a casual official, ranking first grade. This was given to him as a reward for capturing the enemy's capital, and should not be ignored.
"Duke Wei." Hou Feihu saluted.
“That’s a serious statement.” Wei Zhan smiled and said, “Does the general have any words to express?”
“Yuan Nen.”
“General Yuan Nen, the king has prepared for you. The mansion in the city is ready. It is the same house that General Wang (que'er) has just moved out and vacated. From today until the middle of the twelfth lunar month next year, it will be the general's residence." Wei Zhan said: "One application in the mansion. If the general has a complete degree and has a family——"
"Brought it." Hou Feihu nodded.
Wei Zhan was confused and subconsciously glanced at the driver who was being guarded by his own soldiers.
He inquired and found out that Hou Feihu was slightly younger than King Liang. He had been married for ten years and had a son and two daughters.
The principal wife came from a small family and was born into a wealthy family in Luyang. She died of illness during the great epidemic.
When Ye Wang held his funeral, it could be said that generals and schools gathered together. Officials from Hanoi, Shangdang, Jijun and other places also sent people to express their condolences, which was very exaggerated.
It has been almost a year now, and Hou Feihu has not married a new wife, so many people are interested in her.
Wei Zhan was hinted by Shangshu Ling Pei Miao and planned to marry Wei's daughter Hou Feihu as his wife, but he had not yet made any move and planned to test it out first. But, who are the so-called family members he brought today?
Hou Feihu has a delicate mind and is vaguely aware of Wei Zhan's thoughts.
Actually, it’s nothing, he plans to straighten his concubine Liu.
Mr. Liu is the concubine Liu Cong given to him by King Liang. She has given birth to a son for him. He still likes Concubine Liu very much.
It was not that there were no people around him to advise him, saying that taking an enemy concubine as his wife would affect his future and was unethical, but Hou Feihu came from a grassroots background and sometimes put too much emphasis on feelings. He was determined to make Concubine Liu his first wife and had no intention of marrying a new wife.
Fortunately, Master Shao didn't blame him and even sent someone to give him a gift.
Having Mrs. Liu as his wife is better than marrying a woman from a wealthy family. He doesn't want to get involved in too many troubles.
Wei Zhan calmed down his thoughts and added: "There are 40,000 dendrobiums of millet, 20,000 dendrobiums of wheat, more than 10,000 dendrobiums of millet and beans, and 50,000 bundles of hay in the camp..."
"There are already 20,000 bundles of arrows required for training. If the swords, guns, swords and halberds are damaged, someone can be sent to the Imperial Household for repair. There may be an ordnance supervisor next year, and the Imperial Household will no longer have jurisdiction over ordnance matters. There will be dedicated personnel at that time. Come and hand over..."
"There are also herbs, quilts, shoes..."
Wei Zhan spoke eloquently, Hou Feihu only nodded slightly, and then handed the order to his staff for inspection and delivery.
"Is there any movement at the rope head?" Seeing the howling wind and cold weather, Hou Feihu was ready to enter the camp and asked casually. "Yesterday, an envoy from Helan Aitou came and said that he had entered Shengle at the end of last month. Wuyuan County Duke Tuoba Yihuai supervises the country's administration, with Helan Aitou as the assistant prime minister. I don't know how many more generals entered the palace. You can ask your Majesty when you have an audience," Wei Zhan replied.
“This happened!” Hou Feihu was a little surprised and a little excited.
"Who says otherwise!" Wei Zhan said with a smile: "He Lan looked forward and backward, but he finally entered Shengle before winter. According to what the captive envoy said, there was no resistance wherever he passed. Xianbei and Xiongnu were nearby Shengle , Wuhuan adults came to the city to celebrate, and Tuoba Yihuai has become a success. "
"Will it be impossible to fight after winter?" Hou Feihu asked.
“The grassland mostly rains in summer and snows in winter. Once winter comes and the weather is cold and freezing, you may be able to fight, but it will probably be very difficult. Therefore, Helan Aitou also saw the opportunity before entering Shengle, that is, Bet Tuoba Hesuo stopped his troops in winter and ignored him. "Wei Zhan said: "And spring is not suitable for using troops. In this way, Helan Aitou had half a year to reorganize his internal affairs, appoint officials and make wishes, and consolidate his power. In the early summer of next year, even if He Suo sends troops to attack, it will not be that easy."
"That's it." Hou Feihu said with a smile: "Your Majesty, if you attack Dai Kingdom next year, it will be a little clever. , It will definitely get twice the result with half the effort, but I don’t know whether the food, grass and equipment are ready.”
If you want to attack Daiguo, considering the siege, occupation of land, and large-scale field battles, at least 40,000 soldiers will be dispatched. Including auxiliary troops, the number is almost 100,000.
These 100,000 people consume 300,000 hu of grain per month. If we prepare food for a year, it will be 3 million hu of dendrobium.
In order to send these three million hu of grain from Henan to the front line, you must prepare more than 15 million hu of grain and beans and more than 200,000 young slaves, because most of the grain will be Spend on the road.
Well, we haven’t considered the consumption of war horses and draft animals in the army. Those animals have a huge appetite.
Of course you can feed fodder, but you can't do it all the time. When there is a military emergency and you don't have time to herd the horses, you have to feed grain. When it's not so urgent, you can go out to herd the horses.
To put it bluntly, this is no less than the food consumed by Hebei for disaster relief in a single year.
Those who think that fighting in a war requires little food are probably only the children of scholars who are not familiar with worldly affairs.
Of course, all this is Hou Feihu's guess. King Liang may not send 40,000 to 50,000 soldiers, because he still has to guard against the Huns and Jiangdong.
The final scale of the battle will be much smaller, but the consumption will still be huge, and there will be no next large-scale disaster relief.
Hou Feihu finally entered the camp in the evening.
The military camp is located on the bank of Fen River in the east of the city. On the river, there are forests of rafts and oars. A large amount of grain collected from Hedong, Pingyang and even Hongnong counties is shipped north and transported to Jinyang.
War is a ladder for warriors to climb up. This is what Master Shao often said, and Hou Feihu believed it deeply.
Without war, he would not "open the government and unite the three divisions".
Without war, he would not have a beauty who is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Without the war, he would not live in a tall mansion with many servants.
Without the war, he and his descendants might have been farming in the East China Sea, wandering among the ravines after being expropriated.
People are different.
He has been fighting for twenty years, and has even made extraordinary achievements such as capturing the enemy's capital. In the end, the family fortune is not as big as a newborn baby from a wealthy family can inherit.
Is it fair? Fair, but unfair.
The ancestors of these wealthy families may have made great achievements in the past. They have been through fire and blood. They were also good men who dared to fight and fight. They also knew how to run the family business, and they have developed to this day. A suffocating behemoth.
Sounds fair.
However, their descendants did the ridiculous act of getting drunk before their death, lying naked among the woods and springs all day long, and squandering their pleasures, which is shocking.
This is unfair again.
Hou Feihu also wants to fight for the interests of his descendants. It may take several generations for his family to accumulate the family fortune of today's aristocratic family, or it may never happen, because times have changed.
But no matter what, there are only so many things. If someone else takes one more bite, he will take one less bite. This is a very clear truth.
This is the main reason why he does not want to have a relationship with a wealthy family like the Wei family.
Concubine Liu was born into the emerging Liu family. She was the granddaughter of Liu Yin, the successor to Guanglu of the Han Dynasty and the Huns' Taibao Lu Shangshu. She had a well-established family background and beautiful appearance, which was enough for him.
The Xinxing Liu family has been destroyed.
Xinxing is uninhabited for hundreds of miles, and all the ancestral property is lost in one day.
Most of the family property in Pingyang was also confiscated, and the rest was used by the Liu clan to barely survive. Their lives were not even rich, they were just ordinary well-off people.
Such a woman, talented, beautiful, and famous, but without family power, is the most suitable candidate for him.
After night falls, the sound of trackers on both sides of the Fen River continues all night long and never stops.
The ladder for the warrior group to rise appears again.
In the past twenty years, there have been too many legends about penniless people breaking into houses.
Opportunities don’t come often, so you have to seize them every time they come up.
At the beginning of winter, news came again from the grassland: Tuoba Heli sent troops to attack Shengle in the west, and Helan Aitou personally led the troops to repel them.
The internal conflicts of Dai Country finally evolved into a substantial stage after two years of interference from external forces.
(End of this chapter)