After the banquet, Deng Gui eagerly left hand in hand with Zhong He. Jin Zhuang Cheng also took his eldest son Jin Yuzhu to see Deng Gui off. Zhong He left - the Nanyang gentry would spend more time listening to Jin Zhuang Cheng's teachings. Seeing this scene
, especially seeing Zhong He’s flattered look, he couldn’t help but mutter a few words sourly:
"Don't really think that you are very capable. If you hadn't misjudged me at the beginning, you might have already been granted the title of prince and marquis by now, and you still need to rely on the promotion of others in despair?"
Dai Viet values civility and restrains military force, uses civility to control military affairs, and treats its ministers favorably. All ministers and officials at the ministerial level are basically given titles, and the generals who command the army, even if they are able to control the first level, their rank is extremely low.
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People like Zheng Huaizhong, Gao Junyang and others were already military envoys during the Tianxuan period, but they barely had the title of governor to receive the corresponding salary? However, to get a title, they had to have great merit.
After Emperor Jianji ascended the throne in Xiangyang, the critical situation determined the urgent need to upgrade the status of military officials.
At that time, in addition to Gao Junyang, Gu Jiqian, Zheng Huaizhong, Wen Hengyue, Xu Huai, Ge Boyi, Han Shiliang, Liu Yan, Deng Gui, Zhang Xin and others were directly granted the title of county prince, and in addition to the county marquis, there were also a group of military generals with outstanding military achievements.
Everyone must be knighted.
Like Tang Pan and Xu Xin'an, they had already been conferred the title of Viscount of the Founding of the Kingdom. This time Chushan recommended Tang Pan and Xu Xin'an as the controller. Once the court agreed, they would inevitably have to change the title to the Count of the Founding of the Kingdom.
Even if the Nanyang gentry who hastily moved to Jianye resented Chushan's barbaric trampling of the gentry in their bones, Chushan's martial arts victory was something they could not deny without closing their eyes; otherwise, they would not have sold off their land in a hurry.
Escape from Nanyang.
During the Tongbai Mountain Bandit Rebellion, Zhong He's achievements were higher than those of Tang Pan and Xu Xin'an. They naturally had reason to believe that if Zhong He had not parted ways with everyone in Chushan, his achievements today would have been higher than those of Tang Pan and Xu Xin'an. There was no need for Deng He.
Gui's promotion?
Besides, Deng Gui was probably crossing the river as a clay bodhisattva at this time, and he couldn't protect himself, right?
Some people couldn't help but say something sour about Deng Gui being jealous of the new emperor.
Of course, there are some people who are sensitive to the difference. They can still see that after Deng Gui recruited Zhong He at the banquet, Jin Zhuangcheng became more enthusiastic about Deng Gui. He couldn't help but think that maybe Deng Gui's recruitment of Zhong He was not
How much ability do you really value in him? What's more important is to use Zhonghe to show his attitude, just like appearing at the banquet of Jin Mansion today?
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"How can Sun Yanzhou and other thieves be willing to accept recruitment?"
In the gloomy Chuigong Hall, the new emperor Shaolong of the Yuan Dynasty could not enjoy the joyful mood after ascending the throne for a few days. Ge Boyi once again sent an envoy to Jianye to report that the recruitment and security of the Dongjing Allied Forces had made far progress.
Not as smooth as expected.
Emperor Shaolong, Zhao Guan, sat behind the dragon chair, staring with puzzlement and confusion at Zhao Jingcheng, the Jinghu South Road Production Department who came to Jianye to meet the saint on the order of Ge Boyi.
Facing the new emperor's question, Zhao Jingcheng, who stood respectfully in the palace, was speechless.
What can be explained has been explained, and other than that, there is nothing he can say randomly.
Gu Fan had just returned to Jianye. At this time, he was sitting with Wang Boqian and listened to Zhao Jingcheng explain in detail that Wei Chujun had negotiated with Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and other thieves after returning to Yuezhou from Jianye.
Gu Fan's trip to Chushan to recruit the Huaidong Army generals went relatively smoothly this time.
Except for the children of the Zheng family, the other three commanders and nine commanders of the Shenwu Army were all charged with impeaching Zheng Huaizhong. Zheng Cong and his son were guilty of corruption, perverting the law, forming cliques for personal gain, and arbitrarily abolishing the establishment, etc., in order to draw a clear line between them and the Zheng family.
boundary.
The crisis in Huaidong seems to have been alleviated, but it has not been completely resolved.
At this time, Emperor Shaolong ordered Han Shiliang to concurrently lead the Shenwu Army and command the Shenwu Army. At this time, there was no more suitable candidate to take over the post of Huainan East Road Envoy.
Although Gu Fan was very excited about the post of Huainan East Road Envoy, he really didn't have much confidence in continuing to lead the Shenwu Army to guard the lower reaches of the Huaihe River, which was full of panic and unknown to many hidden changes.
Zhou He, Hu Kai and others recommended Liu Yan to take over as the envoy of Huainan East Road. However, Liu Yan, Zhang Xin, Deng Gui and Emperor Shaolong were not at ease and did not agree at this time.
However, Ge Boyi's recruitment of the Dongjing Allied Forces in Jingnan did not go as smoothly as expected. Emperor Shaolong wanted to restrict Chushan, but there was no way to proceed.
Although Emperor Shaolong had authorized Ge Boyi to assume power in Jingnan, with the aim of recruiting the An Dong and Jing coalition forces as soon as possible, in fact, in addition to strong opposition from Zhou He, Hu Kai and others in the court, there was also strong opposition from Jingnan locals.
Recruit the Dongjing Allied Forces without restriction.
Last year, the Dongjing Allied Forces invaded the north bank of the Jingjiang River, especially when they occupied Qianchapu for a long time without retreating. In addition to Xu Huai, many people in the government and the public also suspected that the Dongjing Allied Forces might collude with the Chihu people.
Even if the Dongjing Allied Forces did collude with the Red Husbands, it is not impossible to recruit them, nor is it impossible to allow Sun Yanzhou and other thieves to change their minds and make new choices - after all, in the eyes of most people in the government and the opposition, raising troops to rebel and
There is not much difference between colluding with the barbarians or even surrendering to the barbarians.
Since we are unable to eliminate them quickly, and the situation requires us to resolve the Jinghu banditry as soon as possible, recruiting security forces is a helpless move, but it cannot be restricted.
The ministers in the court, including Hu Kai, Zhu Hang and others, never thought that the rebel generals would be loyal and good people. If there were not enough restraint measures, how could they not worry about the rebel army?
After accepting the recruitment, he became erratic and became a bigger nuisance?
The threats felt locally are more urgent and direct.
Without sufficient restraints, or before the Dongjing coalition shows enough sincerity, who would dare to easily agree to let Sun Yanzhou, who has troubled Jing Lake for many years, lead tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops directly into the territory, or even garrisoned in the city?
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Not to mention the strong opposition from the local gentry in the states along Jingnan Road, no one from the Jingnan soldiers and even the direct troops led by Ge Boyi to suppress the bandits in Jingnan were willing to take the risk.
After multi-party consultations, a compromise plan was finally formed within the Jingnan Production and Construction Department. Even if they agreed that Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and other thieves would continue to command their troops, they also strongly requested that the thieves eliminate the weak and retain the strong, and reduce the number by 60,000.
below the scale, and garrisoned in the designated city; at the same time, the thieves were also required to gather the families of the 80,000 generals, and arrange them uniformly under the leadership of the Jingnan Zhiji Department. In fact, they were moved as hostages to Yuezhou and other places to accept the local military capital.
Under the supervision of the Supervisor, the young families of Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and other thieves requested to move to Jianye. In fact, they were used as hostages and directly accepted the supervision of the imperial court.
The recruitment conditions for the Jingnan Zhiji Division are definitely not harsh, but the prerequisite is that the Dongjing Allied Forces must be defeated first, so that they have no better choice, and at the same time, the Dongjing Allied Forces must be convinced that the imperial court will not go back on its word.
Recruitment is not a trap.
Xu Wei organized and trained the soldiers and horses of Jingnan, and when Ge Boyi led an elite force to replace Xu Wei as the envoy of Jingnan, Jingnan indeed reversed the previous passive situation, and combined with the soldiers and horses of Northern Jing to limit the rebel army to a certain area, and
Several times, the rebels' ambitions to expand to the two wings were severely damaged, but the campaign to suppress the core areas controlled by the rebels has not yet achieved a decisive victory.
After the death of Emperor Jianji, Jingnan changed its campaign from suppression to appeasement, and the superimposed flood season gave the traitor army a chance to breathe. How could Sun Yanzhou and other traitor generals not develop a wait-and-see attitude?
Even without Jiang Ang and others to contain the Dongjing coalition forces, Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and others were not so willing to accept the recruitment at this time. "What is the Nancai Recruitment Division doing now? These thieves will not surrender for a long time.
Could it be that the Nancai Recruitment Division is doing something secretly?" Emperor Shaolong asked helplessly after knowing many difficult details.
"Nancai Recruitment Division has all the reports on the recruitment plan between Jingxiang and Jingzhou. According to the reports of Jingbei Zhiji Division and the officials of the four northern counties of Jingzhou, except for Xu Huai's report on the recruitment plan,
"Except, the Nancai Recruitment Division seems to have made no other moves." Wang Boqian replied.
In mid-October, Xu Huai expressed his plans for the Nancai Recruitment Division to suppress the Recruitment, and made it clear that the Dongjing bandit army should be suppressed and appeased at the same time, and it was not advisable to act too hastily.
In his recruitment plan, Xu Huai mentioned in lengthy documents that the Wu State in the late Han Dynasty and the Jingnan separatist forces in the late previous dynasty had built large weirs to the north of Jingzhou City and south of Wazi Lake and Bailu Lake to cut off the Juzhang River.
Let it flow eastward and flood the low-lying areas in northern Jingzhou, forming a swamp stretching for hundreds of miles in the northern part of Jingzhou, which is a flat river, to prevent the enemy from moving south.
Therefore, the Nancai Recruitment Division learned from the previous sages and went the opposite direction this time. They planned to build long weirs in the north of Wazi Lake, Bailu Lake, and Chisang Lake, supplemented by fortresses, and the walls would be integrated. When the time comes, the long weirs and fortresses will be built.
The fortress and Changyan as well as the Bailu Lake, Chisang Lake and other waters connected to the south can block the rebel army outside Jingbei.
During the process of building Changyan, the Nancai Recruitment Division will also start recruiting small groups of civilian armies that are outside the core force of the Dongjing bandit army.
In addition to supplementing the labor shortage of weir repairs, this can also achieve the purpose of pruning the branches and leaves of the Dongjing army.
In order to ensure that Changyan is not affected by the floods of the Han River during the flood season, the Nancai Recruitment Division also needs to change the Hualing River from the east of Hualing County to the south, passing through Mianyang to the south of Jianli County and into the Honghu Lake in Jingmen East Zhang.
A new river channel was opened in the mountain to connect it to Fantai.
In the recruitment plan, Xu Huai patted his chest to ensure that everything would be successful and banditry in northern Jingbei would be eradicated. To this end, he requested the imperial court to allocate two million stones of grain to ensure that Changyan could be built as scheduled.
There is definitely no extra money and food, but when it comes to the use of troops, no one in the court, including Hu Kai, can tell Chushan what to do?
Ge Boyi's recruitment campaign in Jingnan made no progress, and no official in the court was willing to stand up and impeach Xu Huaixiu's strategy of locking down the enemy at the Weir, which was nonsense.
Judging from the feedback from the four counties in northern Jingbei, Xu Huai is indeed making every effort to promote the construction of weirs in northern Jingbei, and a considerable number of refugee forces have accepted the recruitment.
However, these refugee forces are basically Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and other thieves will look down upon them. Even the old, weak, sick and disabled who have been abandoned by them, even if they recruit ten people, they may not be able to get a young man.
As long as Ge Boyi could spend enough money and food to care for these old, weak, sick and disabled people in Jingnan, and even provide them with food, people would continue to come to help them.
However, firstly, Ge Boyi looked down upon these old, weak, sick and disabled people, and secondly, there were too many old, weak, sick and disabled people, as many as hundreds of thousands or millions, and Jingnan could not afford so much money and food for their resettlement.
If it can be resettled, the banditry in Dongjing will not last for several years and cannot be eliminated...
"You just sit back and watch Shuzi build the weir, extending his tentacles to every corner of Jingxiang, or do you also hope that Jingxiang will be included in the Chu Mountain, so that Shuzi can ride on my head and urinate?
?" When Emperor Shaolong saw Wang Boqian, Gu Fan couldn't think of a feasible solution after talking for a long time, so he asked angrily.
In addition to setting up grain depot posts in the four counties of northern Jingshan, Chushan also moved forward with the construction of weirs and rivers. The Nancai Recruitment Division directly controlled military villages along Changyan and Hualing Xinhe and Zhangfan Rivers.
When it is completed, it will not be so much a blockade of the Dongjing bandits, but rather a defense line in Chushan that prevents the imperial troops from crossing the Han River and entering the hinterland of Jingxiang after the Jingjiang River.
Wang Boqian, Gu Fan and others could see this, but they had no good way to stop it. They could only ask Emperor Shaolong to calm down...
