After Chen Songze stayed in Mingzhou for two days to cross the Qianjiang River and return to Hangzhou, Wei Chujun took a boat south and went to Huangyan County, Taizhou to meet Ge Boyi and tell Chen Songze all the details of his trip.
Although Mingzhou and Yuezhou are the most elite places in southern Zhejiang, Yuezhou has even had a higher status than Hangzhou in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for a long time. It is prosperous and prosperous, but Mingzhou, Yuezhou and Hangzhou, an important town in northern Zhejiang, are only across the river.
Separated, the city is located in an open terrain. In order to avoid the nightmare of waking up and being besieged by the Sikong Mansion army, Ge Boyi, Ge Yu, Luo Wang and others usually stay in the more dangerous terrain, in Taizhou Zhihuangyan City on the lower reaches of Jiaojiang River.
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In the study, Ge Boyi's energy has been obviously lower than in previous years in recent years. He can hardly find a single black thread in his beard and hair. Such a major event seems to be unable to arouse more vitality in his body. He is feeling dizzy.
The sleeping one is sitting behind the desk.
Ge Yu, who is in his prime, has a thick short mustache on his lips, but his temples are also a little gray. In recent years, Ge Yu has mainly acted as agent for military and political affairs on the East Road of Zhejiang Province.
Wife and nephew report.
Ge Yu was wearing a green shirt and sat beside Ge Boyi. He narrowed his eyes slightly and listened to Wei Chujun detailing the many details of Chen Songze's trip. From time to time, he interrupted Wei Chujun and asked about some details.
Luo Wang, Li Shaotong, Liang Shufu and other major generals in eastern Zhejiang, with advisors sitting on both sides, listened to Wei Chujun saying that Chen Songze's attitude was so unruly and arrogant, and they felt resentful but helpless.
After a long time, Ge Yu said to Ge Boyi, "I want to go to Mingzhou with my uncle to meet this Chen Songze. What do you think, uncle?"
"Okay, you might as well go and meet this Chen Songze." Ge Boyi said in a hoarse voice.
When the escape from Beijing incident occurred, even though the Chihu people had been severely bitten at the mouth of the Pishui River, their strength was not greatly damaged. They still occupied the Central Plains region including Hehuai, Guanshan, Hedong, Hebei and other places.
They once thought that they were restrained by the Chihu people, and then they said that they were in close contact with the Gao family, so they should have the opportunity to separate the region.
Who could have imagined that the situation would change so quickly, turning everything upside down almost in an instant, catching people off guard.
Who would have thought that the once arrogant Chihu people would be killed so badly in just four or five years?
At this time, the Chihu people have basically been expelled from the Central Plains, and the Sikong Mansion can completely free up its hands to attack the internal vassal. But now, no matter how arrogant Ge Boyi, Ge Yu, Luo Wang and others are in their hearts,
No matter how confident you are, you don't think that with 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers and horses, you can withstand Sikong Mansion's gathering of hundreds of thousands of troops into southern Zhejiang.
What's more, Xu Huai threatened the world and ordered the princes, and the army of Sikong Mansion crossed the Qianjiang River and marched south. How could Ge Boyi, Ge Yu and others expect that the local forces in southern Zhejiang would really stick together with them and fight to the end?
impossible.
It is not that they have given up on the idea of going to sea in southern Zhejiang, but the problem is that even if they give up in southern Zhejiang, Sikong Mansion may not let them go and not send troops to sea to pursue them.
In addition, in addition to the supply problem of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, Chen Songze also pointed out the more critical problem mercilessly, that is, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses fled across the sea with their families. Who can ensure that the morale of the army does not collapse, and who can ensure that the middle and lower-level military personnel do not collapse.
Will the officials and soldiers not mutiny?
The Hulu were defeated again and again, and retreated again and again. Finally, when they withdrew from Yunshuo, the surrendering Han army broke out into a large-scale riot and mutiny. The root cause was the inevitable collapse of military morale.
Now, in addition to the overwhelming strength of the Sikong Mansion, escorting Emperor Shaolong's eldest son Zhao Xian out to sea to establish the Fan Kingdom would seem to involve a lot of masters for no reason, but it was not without its benefits.
On the one hand, they went to sea under orders, and they had to explain to the middle and lower-level military officers and soldiers, which could better appease the morale of the middle- and lower-level officers and soldiers.
on the other hand They do not need to rush to the Sikong Mansion to send troops and carry all their family wealth at once to embark on the road of escape with an uncertain future. Naturally, they can more calmly formulate and implement overseas strategies, and even divide their forces to cross the sea to capture overseas footholds.
At the same time, it continued to operate in southern Zhejiang and continuously obtained supplies from southern Zhejiang.
Of course, in addition to further confirming whether the Sikong Mansion had any deeper sinister intentions, Ge Yu went to Mingzhou to meet Chen Songze in order to try his best to obtain favorable conditions for Ge.
After Ge Yu arrived in Mingzhou, Chen Songze first went to Mingzhou to meet with Ge Yu, and then invited Ge Yu, Wei Chujun and others to cross the Qianjiang River to Hangzhou to meet with Wang Fan, Tang Tiande and Tang Qing.
After all, Wang Fan, Tang Tiande, Tang Qing and others were in Hangzhou on behalf of the Sikong Mansion. Wang Fan, Tang Tiande, Tang Qing and others were also in Hangzhou to cooperate and supervise the subsequent implementation of the sea crossing.
The two parties also quickly negotiated many details in Hangzhou.
First of all, the Sikong Mansion will soon promote the canonization of Zhao Xian, the eldest son of Emperor Shaolong, as the prince of Yongjia. He will first vassalize Wenzhou. In addition to appointing Gaochunnian as the prince and Fu Jianzhi of Wenzhou, he will also convene a group of people other than the Ge family in the government and the public.
Qian Di was an old minister who formed the team of the county prince's palace.
Only in this way would Emperor Shaolong believe that he could co-rule the vassal state with Ge family after he abdicated and went to sea, instead of just escaping from the control of Sikong Mansion and then turning around and becoming a puppet in Ge family's hands.
Of course, the Sikong Mansion will try its best to ensure that the Ge family's status is above ten thousand people and below one person in overseas vassals.
Secondly, the Ge family escorted Yongjia County Prince to establish a vassal state overseas. Not only did he have to be nominally subordinate to the empire, but the hereditary king also needed to accept the canonization of the empire before he could formally succeed to the throne. He also needed to set aside one or two seaport cities as the empire.
The transit base for overseas commercial goods exports is under the direct jurisdiction of the empire.
In return, the Sikong Mansion, in addition to agreeing to reorganize the elite troops under Ge's command into the Jing Navy, will also provide Ge's with a batch of fine weapons, including four newly built large sea-going ships, to assist Ge's in strengthening sea-crossing operations and suppressing overseas Tibetan people.
The strength of resistance helped Gurdjieff gain a foothold overseas as soon as possible.
However, as long as the Ge family initially established a foothold overseas, they would unconditionally hand over the governance of Mingyue and other states; Sikong Mansion would later merge Liangzhe East Road and Liangzhe West Road to establish Liangzhe Province, and gradually restore
Direct rule over southern Zhejiang.
This is also the greatest sincerity that the Sikong Mansion can show to Ge's choice to cooperate during the escape from Beijing incident. If Ge is still not satisfied, the Sikong Mansion will never mind a fight.
At the same time, the Sikong Mansion has already formulated a strategic expansion strategy overseas. It is in line with this strategy for Ge to escort King Yongjia to conquer overseas. Ge does not need to worry about the sinister intentions of the Sikong Mansion - at least for Ge's time.
The current strength in southern Zhejiang was no longer worth the efforts of the Sikong Mansion.
After the secret meeting in Hangzhou, Wei Chujun directly accompanied Chen Songze to Xiangyang.
Now that everyone can sit down and discuss things calmly, the Sikong Mansion also plans to formally enthrone Xu Huai as the King of Yu, establish the Kingdom of Yu based on Henan Province, and then slightly relax the restrictions on Emperor Shao Long, so that Wei Chujun can return to Emperor Shao Long.
He served as a member of Zhongshushe, responsible for the liaison between Emperor Shaolong and southern Zhejiang, so that Emperor Shaolong could keep abreast of the progress of the sea-crossing strategy...
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In late April of the thirteenth year of Shaolong, Xu Huai was officially granted the title of King of Yu, added Jiuxi, and established the Yu Kingdom based on Henan Province, officially opening the era of governance in the Yu Kingdom.
In the governance of the State of Yu, in addition to setting the capital in Biyang and directing the province of Henan to establish the State of Henan, in addition to the Changshi Academy, the Sima Academy, the Military Intelligence Staff Department, the Chief Registration Office and other institutions, the government handles matters both inside and outside Henan.
In addition to the ministry affairs, the Design Department, Hongluyuan, Official Selection Department, Supervisory Yuan and other directly-governed agencies have also been added successively to take over the finance, official selection, supervision and other functions of the central household department, official department, Yushitai, Honglu Temple and other institutions.
, the powers and duties in diplomatic relations and other aspects were equivalent to merging the government affairs into the Yu State system for execution; Xu Huai also formally used the Yu King's edict to carry out military and administrative affairs on behalf of the emperor.
On the other hand, in addition to Shi Zhen, Han Gui, Xu Wuqi, Liu Shiwang, Su Laochang and other direct generals of the Sikong Mansion, officials like Zhou He, Gu Fan, Qiao Jien and other officials who had previously been directly affiliated with the central government also successively served as ministers of the State of Yu.
Zuo Cheng, You Cheng and other officials; Liu Xian, Liu Yan, Zhu Hang, Kong Changyu and others even went out of town in the name of Yu Guo Zhongshu Shilang, in order to promote the merger of court officials and Yu Guo official positions, and also from political
Complete the transition before abdication.
Except for the five major camps of Yunshuo, Yanji, Shuofang, Lingwu, and Qinfeng, which actively resumed the construction of border defense lines, and except for the Ge family who actively planned sea crossing matters in southern Zhejiang, other places were mainly resting and recuperating.
The new Wuguan Road was finally completed before the end of the 14th year of Shaolong. The Wuguan Road, which is more than 700 miles long, took more than three years. In addition to the construction of more than 70 large and small iron bridges along the way, the road hardening required
To produce gravel, a total of more than 20 large and medium-sized hydraulic gravel plants have been built deep in the East Qinling Mountains.
The construction of these hydraulic gravel plants lasted two years. A number of dams were built in the mountains to store water for the operation of the hydraulic crushers.
Of course, these embankment projects also greatly improved the water conservancy infrastructure of Shangluo and other counties in the hinterland of the East Qinling Mountains, improved the irrigation conditions of a number of sloping mountain fields, increased grain production, and hired tens of thousands of young people to participate in the construction of Wuguan Road.
After the Wuguan Road is completed, these hydraulic gravel plants will also be taken over by the local government. Some will continue to produce gravel and play a role in subsequent local road construction. Some will be transformed into other types of hydraulic plants to improve the level of local construction.
With the completion of the new Wuguan Road, the bottleneck of large-scale transportation of materials from Jinghu and Jianghuai to Guanshan has been completely opened. The annual transportation of materials of millions or even tens of millions of stones will no longer be unimaginable.
The cost will also be significantly reduced by about one-tenth of the previous level.
Based on this, in addition to increasing the output of grain, fodder and other materials to the garrison areas of Qinfengxingying, Lingwuxingying, and Shuofang, and dispatching a large number of combat troops to the three major camps, it will also speed up Shaanxi local
The speed of recovery of production.
Since Chihu invaded the south, it has caused unimaginable heavy damage to the entire Central Plains region, including Shaanxi Fifth Road.
The five roads of Hedong, Hebei and Shaanxi plus the fourth west road of Beijing and Tokyo had a total population of 40 million in the late years of Tianxuan. However, by the end of the 13th year of Shaolong, according to Sikong Mansion, Hedong, Hebei, Shaanxi, Qilu and Henan Provinces
A population survey showed that the total population in these areas dropped to less than 18 million.
If the core areas controlled by Sikong Prefecture, such as Rucai and Nanyang, which have maintained a net inflow of population over the years, are excluded, the Central Plains region will have suffered a net loss of 25 million people in the nearly twenty years of foreign ravages.
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Although the recovery of production and population in the entire Central Plains region will take a relatively long time, the Jianghuai and Jinghu regions are the first to show a very strong recovery momentum in terms of production and population.
After Jingzhou, Nancai and other places were re-merged into Jinghu North Road, Kong Changyu further promoted the flood control work in the Hanshui River and Jingjiang River basins in Jinghu North Road, and promoted textile, shipbuilding, smelting and other industrial manufacturing industries in Ezhou, Huangzhou, Suizhou and other places.
development; Zhu Hang also actively promoted flood control in the Dongting Lake Basin in Jinghu South Road, Liu Yan in Jiangdong, Deng Gui in Huainan, and Wang Fan in western Zhejiang all actively promoted the implementation of the New Deal to varying degrees.
In addition to the population of Huainan Road, which still has certain shortcomings compared with that before the war, Jiangdong Road, Zhexi Road, and Jingbei Road In the past ten years, the population of Jingnan Road has increased significantly compared to before the war, and the cultivated land has increased even more.
Of course, the increase in cultivated land is not only due to local governments actively organizing people to build water conservancy projects and reclaiming some new fields, but also the increase in tax land and official land due to the inventory of land concealed or privately occupied by wealthy gentry households in recent years.
Jiangdong Road, Zhexi Road, Jingbei Road, Jingnan Road, and the official land under the jurisdiction of prefectures and counties also increased on a large scale. Among them, after the merger of Jingzhou and Nancai in Jingbei Road, the largest scale of newly added official land reached 800
With the area of 10,000 acres, in addition to paying central taxes, local governments also withhold more money and grain for people's livelihood and local construction.
In order to encourage local governments to implement the New Deal more actively, Xu Huai tried his best to leave the newly added land taxes and official land revenue to the local governments after allotment of acres, but as the population in Jinghu, Jianghuai and other places resumed growth, in the
The consumption of salt, iron, tea, cloth and other bulk commodities in these areas has seen considerable growth year by year.
This not only reflects the continuous improvement of people's livelihood in these areas, but also directly increases the central government's fiscal and tax revenue.
At the end of the 13th year of Shaolong, after merging the functions of the Ministry of Household Planning, the central annual income of the Planning Department reached 70 million yuan. This was a peak that the Central Plains region could not reach without being destroyed during the Tianxuan Period; as the most critical economic indicator
, grain prices in various places have generally dropped to the level of about two guan per stone during the Tianxuan period.
In the winter of the thirteenth year of Shaolong's reign, Ge Yu led 5,000 Jing's navy as the vanguard, and took more than a dozen ships to expedition to Luzon, and successively captured Buxi and other cities.
Ge Yu officially served as the Lieutenant General of the Yongjia Kingdom and the Governor of the internal and external military affairs in charge of the military affairs of Luzon Island. He was also ordered to supervise the construction of the new Yongjia Royal City and started the process of the Ge family's migration to Luzon.
In the spring of Shaolong's 15th year, it was confirmed that Ge Yu had initially established a foothold in Luzon and the new Yongjia City was initially built. Ge Boyi and Gao Chunnian, as ministers of the Yongjia Kingdom, escorted Zhao Xian, the prince of Yongjia County, on the way to Luzon.
sea ship.
At this time, the two Zhejiang East Roads and the two Zhejiang West Roads were also officially merged into the two Zhejiang Provinces. Wang Fan served as the Minister of the Secretary of the State of Yu and also served as the governor of the two Zhejiang Provinces. Mingzhou and Yuezhou were the first to be placed under the jurisdiction of the two Zhejiang Provinces.
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For the time being, Luo Wang, the direct descendant of the Ge family, will use the two-Zhejiang system to appoint deputy pacification envoys to stay in Taizhou to ensure that 100,000 soldiers and civilians will move to Luzon by sea. At the same time, Xu Huai also agreed to move Taizhou, Wen, Chu, Yan and other southern Zhejiang provinces.
The part of the taxes paid by the states and counties to the central government in the next ten years will be used to support the Ge family and the Yongjia Kingdom to establish a foothold in Luzon Island.
In the winter of the thirteenth year of Shaolong, as Ge Yu led his troops across the sea to attack Luzon, it was basically confirmed that the issue of southern Zhejiang could be solved satisfactorily. At that time, Xu Huai issued an edict and Tang Pan took over as the pacification envoy of the Hedong Province.
, Fan Zongqi took over the command of the Heshuo camp capital, transferred Dong Cheng to serve as the Xishu Road system and pacification envoy, promoted Zhu Zhi to serve as the Xishu Road transfer route, transferred Yu Zheng to serve as the Xishu Road military and horse deployment department, and rectified the local military affairs on the Xishu Road
, clean up the infiltration of Gao Junyang Gao family into Xishu Road.
At the beginning of Shaolong's 14th year, when he was over 70 years old, Gu Jiqian resigned from the Dongchuan Road Committee due to illness and appointed a pacification envoy. He hoped to return to his hometown of Fuzhou in his lifetime. Xu Huai repeatedly tried to persuade him to stay, but in the early winter of Shaolong's 14th year, he approved Gu Jiqian's resignation.
After Qian Qian's resignation, Liu Shiwang and Zhou Lianggong were transferred to serve as Dongchuan Road System's pacification envoy and transfer envoy respectively.
Although Zhou Lianggong and Liu Shiwang arrived at Jinzhou City where Dongchuan Luzhi was located on the same journey, he did not enter Jinzhou City to take charge of the transfer envoy for the time being. Instead, he continued upstream and rushed to Hanzhong to see him with his father Zhou He's autographed letter.
Gao Junyang.
Zhou He had held important positions in Shaanxi and the Western Army for a long time, and was quite familiar with Gao Junyang, who had served as the military envoy of Xihe Road. However, Zhou He was nearly eighty years old and could not bear the bumps in the road. Zhou Lianggong could only replace his father to go to Hanzhong to carry out the coup against the Gao family.
The final lobbying.
Whether the army marches westward to Longyou and Hexi, or whether Zen succeeds to the throne and creates a new dynasty, Xu Huai must first solve the remaining problems on the West Qin Road...
