Chapter 753 The Right Way
When Little Dad Zhang died, the legs of these fourteen warehouse chiefs were broken.
The Taishan Army's grain station can be divided into three places. One is the Mangshan Camp north of Kyoto. All the baggage transported from Yecheng and Taiyuan will be transported to the Mangshan Camp for storage, and then the general grain road will meet the needs of each army. Allocate corresponding materials from Mangshan Camp.
The second place is Taicang. As the Han family's hundreds of years of accumulated reserves, Taicang is naturally rich, but in fact, after inspection by the officials of the Taishan Army, there was not as much as they imagined, and it was estimated that it was only around a few million dan.
The reason for this is not complicated. First of all, in these years of great chaos in the world, water transportation from Kyoto has been cut off. In addition, among the princes, only Xuzhou and Jianghuai still send tribute. In fact, in the past few years, the Kanto court has been eating away from the past. old capital.
In the past few years, the Guandong court had consumed the most food. Several wars required hundreds of thousands of grains of grain and grass, which greatly depleted Taicang's reserves.
In addition, another important reason is that the management of Taicang by the Kanto court was too arrogant. A large number of Chen Su rotted and could not be used due to poor management. Of course, it is not sure whether it was really arrogant or intentional.
Complementing this, a large amount of Taicang grain was discovered after the warehouse was opened. Except for the corn at the top, the rest was sand.
The true situation in Taicang was told to Zhang Chong, which made Zhang Chong once again recall what he saw and heard when he first transported grain.
In this way, he was relieved. This big man turned out to be rotten long ago.
Therefore, the remaining Taicang grain continued to stay in Taicang to supply the more than 100,000 people in Kyoto.
The timely supply to the Fourteenth Army on the front line was the third food platform of the Taishan Army, Jinyong City.
In fact, both Jinyong City and Beimang Mountain Camp are a bit far away from the Taishan Army and are not suitable as the general food station of the Taishan Army.
But there was nothing we could do about it, because if we had to store such a large amount of food and grass, no one would be able to sleep well unless they were stored in solid walls like Beimang Mountain and Jinyong.
Zhang Chong will not forget Wuchao's mistake in history. Although that mistake was made by the opponent Yuan Shao, Zhang Chong does not want the opponent to make a comeback like this.
In this era, it is very technically difficult to supply supplies to the army.
The Taishan Army's logistics supply capabilities are undoubtedly stronger than those of the opposite Yuan Shao. Because they have a professional military supply chain, a large number of strong men accompanying the army, and have learned lessons from several wars, but even so, many troops will still starve.
This is the current situation. When transporting military rations, delays often occur. In fact, during Guan Yu's Northern Expedition, supplies were interrupted because the back road was blocked by water. Therefore, from that time on, the Taishan Army began to order all armies to prepare ten days' worth of food with them, just to deal with this situation.
But now, Little Dad Zhang wants all the soldiers in the army to eat meat meals. There is no telling how complicated work needs to be done.
There are about 70,000 officers and men in the whole army, and about 100,000 civilians accompanying the army. According to the calculation, there is one pig for each team of combat officers and one pig for every hundred civilians. This requires, well, a lot of pigs.
In fact, these Cangcao officials only knew how to do simple calculations. This kind of mathematical calculation with double variables has exceeded their mental arithmetic ability.
But all in all, to complete the task of being a little daddy, they must be busy peeling off their skin. But so what if I lost half my life?
This is the critical moment of their own decisive battle. If they can't let the brothers on the front line eat a meal, then they might as well die.
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Most of the Cao officials at the General Grain Station stayed at Beimang and Jinyong grain stations, but there was a small branch station at Piyong on the Luoshui front line.
Piyong is surrounded by water and is a natural material transfer station.
The Taishan Army relied on the moat outside Kyoto to transport tens of thousands of stones of military supplies to Piyong. Then the subordinates and conscripts here accepted the goods from the ship, unloaded and repackaged the military supplies, and then hired a large group of Porters and convoys transported them to the Luoshui front line.
These convoys were organized in groups, led by Cao Li from the Taishan Army, and then transported military supplies to each battalion according to routes planned in advance.
Along the way there are always thefts, quarrels and punishments.
Some soldiers would steal the food from the vehicles privately, and some would even have evil intentions to escape with the vehicles. Taishan's army officers did not have enough manpower, so they could not effectively prevent this situation.
In fact, this was also the first time many Cao officials of the Taishan Army encountered them. In the past, when they were transporting grain in Hebei, the local government not only actively signed up, but even did not pick up any items along the way, showing a high level of awareness.
On the contrary, when I arrived in Gyeonggi, a place known as the best place under the emperor's feet, I encountered some unruly people.
So these Taishan military officials could only sigh:
"The Han Dynasty was not killed unjustly."
But in fact, they did not know that the reason why the people of Hebei showed such a consciousness that was far ahead of their times was not that they were really a group of moral people, but precisely because the Taishan Army had fully completed the land distribution in Hebei.
Because the land is flat, almost all counties and counties in Hebei implement the commune system. After merging the previous Lishes into rural communes, the Taishan Army has replaced the past clans and wealthy families and become the new center of power.
Those who are sent out to work will not only receive corresponding work point rewards, but also receive help from the township office. This kind of help is both honorable and practical. So everyone was enthusiastic about it.
In fact, petty theft is very common among people in this era? Because there is no clear private property in a society of acquaintances, taking advantage of the public is completely subconscious behavior.
But why can the people of Hebei avoid or seldom engage in such corruption? Or because it’s not worth it. Once these behaviors are reported or discovered, not only will you be affected, but your family's land may also be taken away, which is not worth the loss.
Therefore, ordinary people have an account in their minds to see if it is worth it.
This is also the reason why the heads of Guizhou who were recruited by the Taishan Army in the Gyeonggi area were repeatedly prohibited from stealing. It is because the Taishan Army has not been able to form an effective division of land in the Gyeonggi area.
Because Yuan Shao counterattacked too quickly, so far the Taishan Army can only divide the areas south of Xin'an and south of the Dahe River. However, the Taishan Army's manpower requirements are too huge. It is completely impossible to conquer this area alone. Not enough.
However, Taishan Army is not without a solution, that is, Taishan Army really sends out money.
The money from Taicang was continuously used to recruit strong men. How many trips each person made and how much goods were transported were all real, and the money was given in real time.
Coupled with the Taishan Army's promise to divide the land after the war and the fear of the return of the Gyeonggi nobles, these conquerors were still very happy to help the Taishan Army.
After all, in terms of being paid for work, the Taishan Army is nowhere better than the Han family in the past.
At dusk today, the last batch of conscripts finally transported the raw meat to the Luoshui front line despite heavy rain.
It was the first time for many of them to see the Taishan Army's camp in Luobei. They looked at the continuous camp that stretched for more than ten miles and were stunned in a daze.
It was not until the previous battalions cheered because they heard that meat would be added in the evening that they were awakened, and then, with red faces, they transported batches of raw meat into the camp.
After layers of straw were opened and the heavy soldiers from each battalion carried down pieces of raw meat, the morale of the entire camp reached a climax.
In fact, the general food station of the Taishan Army really tried his best for this meal of meat.
As early as more than ten days ago, those Cao officials went to various villages in Gyeonggi Province to look for places where chickens, ducks, pigs, and sheep could be sold.
Fortunately, the Gyeonggi region has always been relatively prosperous, and most of the wars were centered around the Gyeonggi city defenses, so the vast rural communities were not destroyed, so there were so many meat reserves.
Because these things were originally supplied to the officials and noble families in the capital on a daily basis.
But it doesn’t mean that you can buy it with so many reserves. Let's put it this way, even though the Taishan Army made repeated orders to prohibit the forced requisition of supplies from the people, the officials of the Taishan Army also had enough money to buy it, and it was difficult to buy so much meat.
Because no matter what time it is, the common people or local tyrants who have surplus food will bury the food and drive the cattle and sheep into the mountains before the army arrives.
In this case, only the most experienced and communicative Cao officials can judge how many hidden resources a Lishe has.
It has to be said that the common people are cunning. Even if they know that the Taishan military officials in front of them are good people, they also hope that these people will make the decision and allocate the fields outside the society to them, but what to say?
Only when they really see these officials placing bags of copper coins in front of them will they open their hearts "enthusiastically".
So, relying on money, the reputation of the Taishan Army and the words of the Cao officials, the cattle and sheep stored in various communities were moved out of the valley and sold to the Taishan Army at a high price.
But in order to complete the mission and to allow many officials to have a meal of meat, the Taishan Army did its best and gave everything it had.
Therefore, the Taishan Army was destined to be happy that night.
The heavy rain stopped, and the officials in each camp walked out of their suffocating tents.
Looking at the sunset in the west and the curling of fireworks, these veterans of many battles felt the tranquility before the war in their own way.
When the whole piece of meat is tumbling in the pot, the aroma of meat permeates the entire Luoshui River. At this time, everyone's fatigue and acrimony are not worth mentioning in the aroma of meat.
At this time, there was a vague commotion coming from other barracks.
Soon they knew that the king came to inspect the camp with a group of subordinates and military leaders, so the officials who heard the news stood up and looked forward to seeing the king again.
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On the eve of the war, Zhang Chong took He Kui, Tian Feng, Ju Sue, Xun You and others to patrol the camps one by one.
There were hundreds of generals accompanying him. They were not prepared for any accidents but wanted to maintain order. After all, too many people wanted to see the king up close, and it would be bad if it caused a commotion.
When Zhang Chong walked to the westernmost camp of Wei Bojun, it was already midnight, but the entire Wei Bojun camp was still waiting around the campfire.
At night after the heavy rain, even though there were a few bonfires, they still couldn't drive away the cold night.
But all Wei Bojun's hearts are hot.
Their blood was surging, and they gathered together, looking at the figure of the king, and sang "Long live" one after another, while some invisible ones from afar did not care and joined in.
There were old soldiers in the crowd constantly telling the new soldiers around them about the king's illustrious military exploits.
They talked about the Battle of Yecheng, they talked about the Battle of Handan, they also talked about the Battle of Zhongrenting, and some who were not so old talked about the Battle of Taiyuan, the Battle of Yanmen, and even some Pingzhou scholars proudly recounted the Liaodong Battle of that year During the war, King Zhang’s majesty was great.
The old soldiers are proud, the new soldiers are proud, and without exception, everyone is full of confidence in tomorrow's decisive battle.
Zhang Chong wore an apricot yellow cloak and wore straw sandals as he walked on the muddy ground. He passed by the officials and patted them on the shoulders from time to time.
Every official who saw him excitedly offered his loyalty to Zhang Chong. Zhang Chong did not say much, but tried his best to keep the faces of these loyal and brave warriors in mind.
He knew that many of these children actually spent their lives trying to remember them.
At this time, Zhang Chong was about to walk to the edge of the crowd when he suddenly heard someone nearby yelling:
"Long live your Majesty! Long live your Majesty!"
Then even the nearby camps began to cheer, and many people even excitedly raised the torches in the bonfire and waved them wildly, hoping that the king could see them.
I don't know how many people were like this, but the north bank of Luoshui suddenly looked like stars, almost lighting up the night sky. They shouted one after another, and even frightened the Yuan army on the other side, thinking that the Taishan army was going to sneak attack without respecting martial ethics.
But when these people heard that the other side was just shouting long live without taking any other actions, these people were happy and complicated.
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Because more and more people wanted to see the king, the Taishan Army officials lit straws as torches to light the way.
At this time, the voice of long live continues for a long time. This is the heartfelt cry of countless officials and their truest wish.
They really, really hope that their king can live for tens of thousands of years.
Zhang Chong kept laughing. As long as he knew and could name anyone, he would call them out immediately. He gave these people honor and respect.
In fact, when he reaches Zhang Chong's status, he no longer pursues any low-level needs. Only this kind of need and trust makes Zhang Chong happy.
At this time, an old pawn whose name had just been called came out excitedly and shouted:
"Your Majesty, tomorrow our Wei Boying will make a great contribution to the King. Let the King see how powerful our Wei Boying is!"
The nearby Wei Bo soldiers applauded, and they even called out the name of their military leader on the spot, asking him to come out and express his stance.
At this time, Xie Bi was standing next to Zhang Chong. Looking at the old soldiers who were making trouble, he first cursed:
"What are you yelling about there? The King decides everything."
Then he said to Zhang Chong with a shy face and a smile:
"Your Majesty, the brothers have said so, so let us, Wei Bojun, fight first in this battle."
At this time, the other dozen or so military leaders were not happy. They all secretly cursed Xie Bi for being cunning and doing this to them.
Okay, okay, this is how you play, right?
So Li Hu, Xu Huang, and Zhang Nan all came out one after another to invite the battle:
"Your Majesty, the brothers in our camp are also eager to fight. This battle must be fought first by our army."
Zhang Chong didn't say anything. He just turned around and looked to the south. Unlike the noisy and lively place here, there was a kind of loneliness and desertedness there.
Then, Zhang Chong walked through all the remaining camp heads. He did not say any words of encouragement to the officials. Instead, after returning to the camp, he wrote a sentence and sent it to the entire army.
"If heaven has feelings, it will also grow old, and the right path in the world will be vicissitudes of life."