The imperial envoy arrived at the Guihua Railway Station under Qingzhong the next day. After arriving at Guihua City, they learned that Yang Fan was in Heishui City.
However, looking at the Alxa Desert on the map, they did not have the courage to cross the desert and Gobi. They had to ask the scouts from the Beijing camp to notify Yang Fan and Zhang Shize to come back to receive the order.
It would be more than ten days later when Yang Fan and Zhang Shize rushed back.
Yang Fan and Zhang Shize received the emperor's order at the Shunyi Palace in Guihua City. In fact, there was nothing unexpected for them, it was all expected.
Zhang Shize replaced Yang Fan as admiral of the military affairs of the capital.
Yang Fan was promoted to the post of Commander-in-Chief of Suiyuan Province. At the same time, he was awarded the honorary title of Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army Commander-in-Chief.
There is no mention of the title of marquis in the imperial edict.
This is equivalent to lifting Yang Fan's military power in the capital. He did not even wait for the army to return to the capital.
Seeing that Yang Fan handed over the work to Zhang Shize very happily without raising any objections, Du Xun breathed a sigh of relief.
This time it was not a good job. Uncle Dingyuan did not become Marquis of Dingyuan, and it was really not good-looking to ask him to hand over his military power here.
The emperor didn't even let him lead his troops back to the capital before handing over. This made Du Xun feel a little embarrassed.
It can be seen that the emperor was very anxious about being away from the capital for a long time.
Everyone could see that after this time, it was impossible for the emperor to hand over the military power of the Beijing camp again.
After Yang Fan handed over the work, he said goodbye and left.
Now that Zhang Shize has taken over, the affairs here have nothing to do with him. Let Zhang Shize come forward to entertain the imperial envoys.
Guihua City is too small, with a circumference of only two miles, which is a small city of 500 meters square. In addition to the Shunyi Palace, there are two Lama temples in the city. The place is cramped, and there is really not much space for construction.
Since Suiyuan was established as a province, the administrative seat was Guihua City.
So in this small city, at least the governor's office and the yamen of the third division must be built. The chief envoy, the inspection envoy, and the commander-in-chief all have an independent set of subordinate officials. Guihua City is so small, it really can't be accommodated.
Yang Fan was originally unwilling to deal with those civil servants. He simply placed his Suiyuan Commandery Division near the Guihua Railway Station on the south bank of the Dahei River.
Yang Fan plans to build another new city on the south bank of the Dahei River. If he doesn't mix with them, it won't be convenient for him to do anything on his own.
At this time, a three-story, zigzag-shaped cement and bluestone building had been built opposite the square of the station. It served as his temporary office and residence. The Jia Ding Regiment also had a battalion of cavalry stationed here.
After Yang Fan captured the Tumut and Ordos tribes, he basically drove away all the Mongolian herders.
The Duolun Grassland side needs more manpower.
Since settlement and pasture planting began, the number of livestock carried has increased significantly. These four to five million people are only enough to fully develop the Duolun Grassland.
This has resulted in the Ordos Plateau and Qiantao becoming a no-man's land. Except for a few military inns and a few limited cities, there are basically few people living there.
The population of Alxa was concentrated by Yang Fan into Heishui City and Juyan City. Alxa also became a wasteland.
The front cover and back cover have great development value. The land here is fertile, but the climate has been too cold in recent years and the frost-free period has been too short. It snowed before the crops matured.
But Yang Fan has short-growing corn in his hands, and he can use steam engines to extract groundwater or divert water from the Yellow River for irrigation. Agriculture can be developed here.
Now the northwest is in such chaos, with refugees everywhere. Yang Fan plans to introduce refugees to cultivate Qantao and Houtao. These two undeveloped fertile lands, Yang Fan does not intend to give them away. This will become Yang Fan's next destination in addition to Duolun Grassland.
, the second base in Saibei.
Yang Fan was in the study, looking at the maps of the front and back sets that had been surveyed by the scouts in the past few days, and considering how to further develop them. At this time, Zhang Geda came in and reported that Zhang Daojun came to see the master.
Yang Fan was stunned for a moment. Although he and Zhang Daojun both had official positions in Jinyiwei, they really had nothing in common.
Zhang Daojun and Luo Yangxing were close, but Yang Fan and Luo Yangxing were somewhat at odds with each other. Luo Yangxing and Yang Fan always had a strange relationship. Therefore, Yang Fan and Zhang Daojun had little contact.
This time he was responsible for protecting the imperial envoys who came to announce the decree, and Yang Fan just gave him the usual courtesy.
Although Yang Fan had some personal relationships with his grandfather Zhang Wudian, his mother Huo Shi, and his sister Zhang Fengyi. However, in official circles, he and Zhang Daojun were not very close, they were just acquaintances.
Zhang Daojun was in charge of the health center in Jinyiwei. There were sixteen health centers in Jinyiwei, and he was in charge of some of them. However, it was Beizhen Fusi who was engaged in spy work, and Nanzhen Fusi was in charge of internal discipline. They had nothing to do with him.
Therefore, it has nothing to do with military, intelligence and other matters. It has nothing to do with this war.
Yang Fan didn't know what he was looking for for a while. He was a little confused.
But Yang Fan still asked Zhang Geda to invite him in.
"Uncle Dingyuan, your place is much more comfortable than Guihua City. Not only is the place spacious, but the scenery is also excellent. Haha." Zhang Daojun walked in the door with a big smile.
Yang Fan's study is on the third floor. The floor-to-ceiling windows can just cross the station and see the Dahei River on the opposite side. The view is very broad. The grasslands of Hebei are full of green and have an unobstructed view.
The splendid towers of Guihua City in the distance and the Daqingshan Mountain behind form a beautiful picture.
Zhang Geda and several attendants in the room saw that the master had something to discuss, so they all left and closed the door.
Yang Fan smiled and said: "Guihua City is too small, and there is no place to build an yamen. So we simply moved it here at the station. Brother Zhang came to me, he didn't come to visit my Dusi Yamen, right?"
Zhang Daojun smiled and said: "I received a letter from Xiaoqing, saying that Uncle Dingyuan has allocated five hundred fine war horses to my Zhang family. Daojun thanked Uncle Dingyuan first."
Yang Fan waved his hand indifferently and said: "Mr. Zhang and your family escorted the grain and grass for thousands of miles, and they worked hard all the way. It's just a small thing for me to move some horses, and it's not worth mentioning."
Yang Fan invited him to sit down, then found tea leaves from the cabinet and made him a cup of Longjing tea.
Zhang Daojun smelled it and said in surprise: "I didn't expect that in this land in the north of the Great Wall, it is really not easy to drink Longjing before the rain."
Yang Fan smiled and said nothing, waiting for him to explain his intention.
Zhang Daojun would never come to his place to chat. Yang Fan and Luo Yangxing couldn't deal with each other, and Zhang Daojun still had to live in Jinyiwei. There was no need to come to make friends with his boss's enemies and cause trouble for himself.
Zhang Daojun put down his tea cup and said, "Uncle Dingyuan, you know that there are traitorous ministers in the court. Someone has said something bad about you somewhere, Your Majesty."
When Yang Fan heard this, he sat up straight and said, "This is actually happening. I don't know who said bad things about me and what bad things they said."
"Uncle Dingyuan doesn't know who you have offended. If you hadn't suddenly shown your power this time, you would have defeated the Oirat people who were six times your size. All the conspiracies would have disappeared like boiling water and snow.
.I am afraid that this time, I will be punished by the treacherous officials."
Yang Fan smiled bitterly and said: "It's impossible to hang around in the court without offending others. However, those in the cabinet are not something to be afraid of."
Zhang Daojun smiled and said: "Xiong Tingbi thought so too back then."
Yang Fan's pupils shrank, and alarm bells rang in his heart, it turned out to be him.
This chapter has been completed!