Chapter 41: Taiyuan's Military Control
After hearing this, He Bai nodded and said, "So that's it. It seems that Li Le has his own way to kill him. However, the Lord Devourer is disgusted with it. Even though you surrender to me, I cannot use you and will not kill you, so as not to others say that I am cruel and surrender. So, give you one million yuan and you are a rich man in Jinyang City. It can be regarded as a benefit of surrendering you, and you will no longer be held accountable for being a thief. But if you have a repetitive heart, don't blame me for being ruthless."
Li Leng escaped his life, and immediately kowtowed and thanked him in great joy, and left the bill.
He Bai turned his head and looked at Lu Ping again, and smiled and said, "It seems that you are very smart. You know what you can do and what you can't do. But it is precisely because you are too smart that it makes it difficult for me to believe in you."
Lu Ping shivered all over and said with a forced smile: "The villain was originally a poor scholar in Li Shicheng, Xihe County. He knew the way of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness. However, the thieves attacked and had to be carried over to the thief. Because he knew some plans and was also Li Le's cousin, he was appointed as the leader of the baggage camp. The villain had never done any vicious things such as killing people and setting fires, including killing Li Le, which was also Li Leng who came to me to discuss. I hope the Duwei Master will observe clearly."
He Bai nodded and said, "Okay, after I investigate and ask, you have no bad records, so let's take up the post of my work to see what you do."
Lu Ping was overjoyed and kowtowed to thank him repeatedly, saying, "Report to the Duwei, the villain was in charge of the thieves' baggage. Li Le's thieves' troops plundered a county in Hedong and three counties in Taiyuan. A total of 60,000 stones of grain were obtained, more than 500 million yuan in money, and nearly 10,000 pieces of cloth were also found. Now they are all in the camp, and I hope the Duwei will investigate it."
Seeing rebellions all over the country, the people had no place to cultivate. The food was getting smaller and smaller, and most of the money was useless. Only cloth could be worn to keep warm, so the value remained unchanged. At this time, more than 20,000 thieves were reduced. Without food, resettlement was also a big problem.
He Bai said unhappily: "Why are most of them money and there is no food?"
Lu Ping smiled and said, "Li Lezi believed that money and cloth were relatively lighter, and it was enough to eat enough food, so he robbed some more money."
He Bai waved his hand and said, "I won't check it out, so I will stay in the camp. When the Taiyuan Prefect comes tomorrow, you can hand over it with him."
Lu Ping was shocked and asked quickly: "Will the lieutenant intercept some money from it?"
He Bai shook his head and said, "This money is a disaster for the people, but it is better to use it to accommodate the good thieves and the victims. I am not short of money, so what is the interception?"
After hearing this, Lu Ping was impressed by He Bai's charity, but did not agree with He Bai's handling plan. So he stepped forward and said, "Master Commander, please listen to Lu Ping's words."
"Oh? What?"
Lu Ping reported: "The people in the world are very poor. If there is some food or some food in the family, there is basically no money or cloth. Therefore, most of these money is only owned by the county treasury and wealthy families, and it can be said that it has nothing to do with the people. In addition, the officials in various counties and counties are extremely ruthless and have no bottom line when they are collected. If the Duwei gives the money and grain to the prefect Anmin, they will probably keep one hundred and all of them will be filled with their own pockets. Therefore, the Duwei's charity is actually not beneficial to the thieves and the disaster victims."
He Bai remained silent. Didn’t the corruption and decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty start because Emperor Ling of Han bought and sold official positions? If there was no matter of buying and selling official positions, he would not randomly appoint officials in the world. How could there be officials who spent money to buy positions? In order to recover the capital, they would plunder them from the people. How could there be rebellions such as the Yellow Turban Rebellion?
Lu Ping also reported: "The county magistrate, the commander, the governor, or the governor, or the affairs of the people, has some income every year. However, as a military position, the Duwei Master, in addition to deducting the food of the soldiers under his command, only the wartime seizure. Lu Pingguan is a man with great ambitions and will never be willing to be trapped in the Duwei Master. But if you want to climb a high-ranking official, you will inevitably have the way to open up money. The villain is to make a plan for the Duwei Master, and it is better to intercept some from it."
He Bai was also thinking that if he was in the clear and clear government affairs, he could be a clean official. But seeing that the world was in chaos, money was essential for reunification. Especially when he was summoned to buy horses in the future, when there was no territory, every infantry summoned and a full set of weapons would be around 3,000 yuan. If the infantry in iron armor would have to add 8,000 yuan. A year's food would cost about 7,000 yuan. A light cavalry would cost about 30,000 to 50,000 yuan for war horses alone, and the food for people and horses would cost 20,000 yuan. For heavy cavalry, it would cost two or three times more expensive.
He Bai has only 15,000 million yuan of household wealth now, and at best, he can only summon 10,000 light infantry or 2,500 light cavalry. There are also many army tents, supplies, supplies, spare weapons and equipment. He Bai has not calculated it yet, otherwise he would have spent more money. Moreover, relying on the thousands of soldiers and horses now, a year and a half later, the strength of Dong Zhong and the princes in the unit of ten thousand is not enough. It seems...
He Bai immediately made a decision and said, "Discontinued 200 million yuan. Lu Ping, you will be responsible for this matter."
Lu Ping knelt down and answered his order, "Thank you for your trust, Lu Ping accepts the order."
After the Taiyuan Prefect came to the bandit camp the next day, He Bai's army returned to the military camp in Jinyang City and continued to train troops. This battle can be said to be another great contribution to the martial blood cavalry. Most of the five thousand new recruits in Taiyuan County just started the attack, and only two thousand people who attacked halfway were considered to have made medium contributions.
When dealing with the bandit army without strong bows and crossbows, the fighting blood cavalry can be said to be a big killer. However, in the future battle between princes, most of the Han army had strong bows and crossbows, and the range was very long. The fighting blood cavalry's outstanding achievements at this time were probably not successful. Just like meeting the Mongolian army of the Song army, it took half a century to conquer the Song Dynasty with the help of the traitors of the Song army.
It seems that in the future, the cavalry troops should be changed to an attack method that combines light and heavy weight, and mainly use them to intercept long distances and charge to break the formation. The main combat troops will still be more cheap infantry. You should know that infantry has been the main force in the world for thousands of years.
In view of the great military achievements of the bloody cavalrymen, He Bai paid for them to start a family, marry a bride, and bought some industries, which changed it to the name of the Han people, and then settled a household in Taiyuan County.
From the five thousand surrendered thieves, hundreds of elite soldiers were selected and each of the Fighting Blood Knights was given three auxiliary soldiers. The number of Fighting Blood Knights suddenly increased to 1,080.
From the 5,000 chaotic war horses seized, three hundred good horses with a shoulder height of six feet and can fight in vests, and matched the unknown white horse Yicong cavalry, and expanded the team of the white horse Yicong cavalry to three hundred.
In the future, the blood-fighting cavalry will be the main force of the light cavalry ranger, while the white horse Yicong cavalry will be the main assault cavalry that can be far or near. When there are high-quality horses with a shoulder height of seven feet in the future, a heavy iron armored cavalry will be specially used to charge into the formation, or a crutch horse.
However, war horses with a shoulder height of seven feet are basically common treasure trotters for war generals. If you want to collect thousands of treasure trotters, I am afraid that the entire north will be defeated at that time, and it seems that it is not very suitable. In the end, I can only consider it at six feet and ask people to study whether it can be successful.
The destruction of Li Le's bandits shocked the Han Siong thief tribe who was attacking Jingling County. Han Xian couldn't help but retreated a hundred miles away. After thinking about it, he retreated to Wu County to watch the movement. However, He Bai was busy training the 5,000 infantry and finding Shanxi women for the fighter blood cavalry. He had no time to pay attention to them, and the war in Taiyuan was calmed down.
However, for the Han Siang thief division that stayed in Wu County, the fighting blood cavalry divided into three batches and went to Wu County to attack them continuously. The bloody tactics of the cavalry made the Han Siang thief division frightened, and finally withdrew from Taiyuan County and went to Hedong to find Guo Tai, Yang Feng and Hu Cai, who invaded Shangdang, met.
On this day, the Taiyuan Prefect came over sneakily, and He Bai felt confused. He heard the Taiyuan Prefect snorting for a while before saying, "Emperor He Duke's affairs, thanks to the great power of the Li Le thieves' army, he wiped out it just now. However, the 300 million yuan of money left behind is difficult to arrange."
He Bai knew that the prefect had bad intentions when he heard this, so he asked, "I don't know what the prefect has to do with him."
The prefect laughed and said, "I took 70 million yuan and sent people to Wei County in Jizhou. Henoi County in Sili to buy 200,000 stones of grain and reserved 60 million yuan to prepare for the people's peace, but left 170,000 yuan idle. I want you and I to add 21 to 5, what if I have divided it privately?"
He Bai couldn't help but gasp. If he hadn't hidden 200 million yuan for future plans, he was afraid that the prefect would be able to swallow it without hesitation. It seemed that this greed was really endless.
He Bai unintentionally blamed the prefect for his greed and said, "You can do it."
The prefect laughed happily and said, "I really did not read He Duwei wrongly. He Duwei is indeed one of us. Hahaha, yes, let's go down and distribute the benefits of the subordinates of both civil and military departments..."
He Bai said this. The prefect said mysteriously: "This place in the six southern counties that were destroyed by the Baibo thieves, has thousands of hectares of land left after the civil service. Although it is a little poor and Taiyuan County lacks manpower to cultivate, it is still a piece of land."
He Bai was shocked and happy. Although this matter was not good, Taiyuan County would not be so fast without himself, so he settled down. It was also what he deserved. Moreover, the Taiyuan Prefect got from it, I was afraid that it would be no less than himself. So he smiled and said, "There are such good things, Lord Taishou said it straight, how many will be attributed to my name?"
The Taiyuan prefect compared a three-character word and said, "It's about 3,000 hectares."
3,000 hectares, each hectares of 100 mu is 300,000 mu. At this time, the total arable land area of a middle-class county is almost the same. According to the harvest of 2 shi and 120 kilograms per mu of poor ridge land per year, 600,000 shi and 36 million kilograms will be 600,000 shi and 36 million kilograms. If someone cultivates it, it will be divided into 50,000 shi and 500,000 shi and 300,000 shi and 300,000 shi are worth 75 million kilograms. Beloved, this is more than the income of a ten thousand hukou in a year.
However, when the world is about to be in chaos, no matter how much land is, it is useless. He Bai then asked: "Mr. He Bai is still young. I don't know if he is still working in Taiyuan in a few years, and no one at home manages these land, so He Bai wants to sell these land and exchange for some money to make it more stable."
"You, you..." Taiyuan prefect said with a look of regret that he was not strong enough, and said, "Money is just some floating wealth, what's the use of more? Land is the family inheritance of one family..."
Taiyuan prefect taught He Bai a lesson as an elder in his family, but He Bai just smiled and refused. In the end, Taiyuan prefect could only say helplessly: "Well, it's okay, don't care about you. You don't want these land, what you want in Taiyuan County is. But if you want to sell 300,000 mu of land at one time, the price per mu of land may not be high. Well, the average scenery is about 10,000 mu of land, the medium land is 5,000 mu, and the land is only 1,500 mu. Your land is mixed, and I will take 2,500 mu per mu..."
He Bai smiled slightly and briefly said some of the auction items in the ear of the Taiyuan Prefect. The Taiyuan Prefect immediately regarded He Bai as a celestial being and raised his thumbs up. So he patted his butt and said, "Prince He Du, just sit down. With such a wonderful method, I will give you at least 1 billion yuan for this 300,000 mu of land."
He Bai held his hands and smiled, "Thank you, sir, you can get 10% of the benefits at that time, which is He Bai's thank you."
The Taiyuan prefect bowed his hand and was about to say goodbye happily, He Bai hurriedly shouted: "Let's wait..."
The prefect looked at He Bai in confusion, and He Bai smiled and said, "I have won the thief for 30,000 yuan this time, but I have not reported to the court to know. However, I am not good at writing. I want to ask the prefect to help me write. I wonder if it is possible?"
The prefect laughed and said, "This is a small matter, please come here... However, He Duwei is already a high-ranking official of 2,000 stones, and he should also find a few literary officials to serve as staff for the shogunate..."
After the prefect left, Lu Ping came to report again and said, "Lord, the villain picked out three hundred blacksmiths and carpenters from the thieves and formed a craftsman camp to develop vests for the lord. It required some money, which was about three million yuan. I would like to ask the lord to assign it to you."
He Bai snorted coldly and said, "You are right. If you really leave the seizure to them, I am afraid that you will be able to keep one hundred and all your personal pockets. If you go to the prefect to get 85 million yuan, you will withdraw the money from it. Send someone to investigate whether the matter of Anmin can be implemented. If not... I will pay for some reputation."
Lu Ping was stunned and quickly left. However, the Taiyuan prefect was not really greedy. He was very dedicated to Anmin. Moreover, his reputation was also the court, the prefect and the chief lieutenant, which made He Bai's reputation spread throughout Taiyuan County. He Bai was happy and completely trained troops with peace of mind.
In Da'an, Taiyuan County, He Bai also had a lot of time to train troops, but although he had troops, he could not find a few good generals who could lead the troops. The grassroots sergeant chiefs could also give outstanding soldiers to serve as the leader, but the tun, Qu and troops needed good generals with experience in leading troops and war experience. Especially for the middle-level generals, He Bai's army was extremely short of it.
Chapter completed!