Deng Gui happily accepted the imperial court's decision to select a place south of the Yangtze River to set up a garrison for the Xuanwu Army, move the family home, and recruit new soldiers for training. In the Zichen Palace, Hu Kai took advantage of the situation and suggested that Luzhou be merged with Huaixi Road and the Huaixi system be established as a department.
Moved from Shouzhou to Luzhou.
Although Shouzhou is the top priority of the defense line in the middle reaches of the Huaihe River and must be heavily defended, due to the loss of all the cities north of Shouzhou (the north bank of the Huaihe River), once the enemy launches an offensive from Yingbo and other places on the north bank of the Huaihe River to the south bank
, Shouzhou’s communication with the outside world is easily cut off.
At this time, if you want to better mobilize the resources and people of the counties in Huaixi to reinforce Shouzhou and resist the enemy, it is obviously more appropriate to set up a division and place it in Luzhou than Shouzhou.
Of course, the imperial court also had to prepare a plan for Shouzhou to be captured. Only by moving the Zhizhisi from Shouzhou to Luzhou could it be said to have strategic depth; a large number of accompanying personnel should accompany the Zhizhisi to Luzhou, which would also significantly reduce the risk of Shouzhou being captured.
The pressure on food and fodder supply in frontline cities such as Shouzhou.
Gu Fan thought that after Liu Yan was transferred to the Huaixi Construction Division, Yangzhou could be naturally merged into Huaidong Road, thus making the two major defense theaters of Huaidong and Huaixi truly complete, so he immediately stepped forward
Agree with this proposal.
Zhou He, Gao Chunnian, Zhu Hang and others pondered for a moment and then all agreed.
They knew very well that the reason why Emperor Jianji separated Luzhou and Yangzhou and put them under the direct jurisdiction of the central government was that except for the Huaidong and Huaixi camps at that time, they were not strong enough and needed to be centered on Luzhou and Yangzhou to the north of the Yangtze River.
Another reason for constructing the second line of defense was that Emperor Jianji was not very confident about the Huai Palace Army and the Zheng family at that time, so he did not place Zuo Xuanwu Army and Zuo Xiaosheng Army under the jurisdiction of the Huaidong and Huaixi camps.
These worries and worries no longer exist. The juxtaposition must be juxtaposed, so as to make government orders, defense and other matters smoother. Not to mention that Emperor Shaolong still wanted to strengthen the influence of his direct generals on the Jianghuai region deep in his heart.
Take control.
The court meeting did not mention the transfer of Liu Yan's troops to Huaixi for the time being, but the left Xuanwu Army will be stationed separately, and it is inappropriate for the Right Xuanwu Army stationed in Jianye to continue to be mixed together.
The Youxuanwu Army served as the garrison of Jianye and the imperial palace. The conditions for garrison separation had actually matured. During ordinary times, generals and their families were stationed in the military strongholds built in various places in Jianye Prefecture. It was not just the daily management of the military strongholds.
, Generals such as Zhang Xin, Yu Gong, Ling Jian, Chen Jin, etc. were all responsible for the training of generals and daily defense, without distinction.
The right Xuanwu Army's garrison division is actually the daily management of the general's stronghold, strictly separating soldier training from defense command and other matters - the relevant provisions have been drawn up, and Zhou He, Hu Kai and others have discussed it maturely, but when encountering
Emperor Shangjian's successor was critically ill and passed away, and there was no time to implement the plan.
At this time, it was brought up for discussion, and everyone agreed, and it was decided to command the envoys, and the generals above Du Yuhou were responsible for guarding the garrison, while the Yuying Division sent other officials to serve as the generals of Youxuanwu Army and the garrison of the family.
The commanders, commanders, and other middle-level military officials of the military camp are responsible for the daily management of the military camp, as well as the training and recruitment of generals.
The biggest difference from the previous provisions was that Wang Boqian recommended Zhang Xin to the imperial camp to promote official affairs.
As the prime minister, Zhou He also leads the imperial envoy. He is nominally the highest officer of the imperial envoy, but the day-to-day affairs of the imperial envoy are handled by official officials.
When Emperor Jianji ascended the throne in Xiangyang, he established the Imperial Camp Division. Wen Hengyue was responsible for promoting official affairs. After Wen Hengyue, Hu Kai served as the privy envoy, and the deputy imperial envoy also led the Imperial Camp Division for promoting official affairs.
It can be said that after the capital was moved to Jianye, Emperor Jianji completely entrusted the military and political power to Hu Kai.
The left and right Xuanwu armies were all divided into garrisons. At this time, Wang Boqian proposed that the Imperial Camp Division should be truly independent from the Privy Council and control the military. Who can say that he was wrong?
Besides, Hu Kai and Zhang Xin were both close confidants and old ministers of the late emperor. Wang Boqian's suggestion cannot be said to be an attempt to suppress the former emperor's old ministers on behalf of the new emperor.
Zhang Xin was summoned to the Zichen Palace and saw that all the princes had agreed on everything. Although he had great doubts in his heart, he accepted it "happily".
Today's court meeting solved many problems that had been confusing for a long time at once. Emperor Shaolong felt as happy as cutting through the mess with a sharp knife. He was in a happy mood. He left the generals and ministers in the palace to have a banquet and returned it to Deng Gui.
Zhang and Xin received many rewards.
Two days later, Deng Gui accompanied Wen Hengyue, Wang Boqian and Zhang Xin to go directly to Lu to announce the decree. Then he took Zhong He and a group of staff to gather the guards and horses, and first accompanied Wen Hengyue to Chuzhou for his appointment; Wang Boqian served as the deputy privy envoy, and Zhang Xin served as the deputy privy envoy.
The imperial camp secretary took up official duties and stayed in Luzhou to take over the subsequent relocation of families and children of the Xuanwu Army and the transfer of generals to the garrison.
At the same time, the latest developments in Jianye City were also conveyed via secret letters to Xu Huai, who was still in charge of Jingbei at this time.
At this time, it was already the coldest month of winter in Jingbei, and there was a thin layer of snow on the ground.
The Nancai Recruitment Department set up large camps in Sangchi, Changlin, Fantai, and Zhangshan. More than 20 military villages rose up in a T-shape along the Changyan and Zhangfan-Changlin rivers in the north of Jingbei.
In addition to constantly migrating some people from Nancai to fill Jingmen, Nancai Recruitment Division mainly recruited landless poor people from local areas and recruited refugees from the south to dig rivers and build long weirs.
As the blockade between Jingnan and Jingbei soldiers and horses and Nancai Zhao'an Division became increasingly tight, the Dongjing coalition army had no way to replenish food supplies through plundering surrounding prefectures and counties after autumn and winter.
In the entire Dongting Lake and even the Jingjiang River, freshwater fishing harvests are very limited, and it is impossible to sustain the huge consumption of one to two million people.
Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and other thieves still wanted to wait and see the situation and refused to accept recruitment. They could only barely maintain the survival of hundreds of thousands of people in their immediate family and their families. Many more were attached to the Dongjing Alliance Army or could only be regarded as refugees on the periphery of the Dongjing Alliance Army.
The forces were left to fend for themselves, and livelihood became more difficult.
Different from Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and other thieves, Dongzhou Village took a different approach and contacted the Nancai Recruitment Department at Bailu Lake to discuss recruitment matters; Sun Yanzhou did not give Dongzhou Village food and grass, and the binding force was very limited. Previously, each family was an alliance.
There are more properties: if it is beneficial, it will gather; if it is not beneficial, it will go.
During the negotiation, the Nancai Recruitment Department promised to send 10,000 shi of grain and fodder to Dongzhou Village every month to show its sincerity, which also attracted a large number of refugee forces to gather in Dongzhou Village.
Ten thousand kilograms of grain per month seems quite considerable, but after shelling and removing the bran, less than thirty thousand kilograms of coarse grains are available for consumption a day, which can barely sustain the livelihood of thirty to fifty thousand people.
Regarding the gathered refugee forces, Jiang Ang and others advocated eliminating the weak and leaving the good, eliminating the weak and leaving the strong.
Dongzhou Village wants to keep as many young men as possible as well as relatively healthy women and teenagers, expand the scale of its troops, and build embankments and walls on a larger scale in the Linjiang area south of Bailu Lake.
Opening up grain fields and handing over more weak and sick people to the Nancai Recruitment Department to show their sincerity, the refugee leaders who helped the old and young to gather at Dongzhou Village naturally had no objections.
The refugees who were sent out did not feel abandoned, and even the strong ones who stayed felt like they were stuck in a quagmire, unable to get out.
In fact, the refugee forces who were forced to flee their homes due to the invasion of the Chihu people did not reject Chushan.
They joined the Dongjing Allied Forces mainly for survival, and had no ambition to overthrow the imperial court. They were even willing to accept recruitment from local officials.
The problem is that millions of refugees have flocked to the south in the past few years, competing with local people for land, intensifying conflicts with local governments, and being ostracized by local gentry and people. Later, they were forced to take up swords and guns to rob prefectures and counties in order to make a living.
, prefectures and counties carried out traps and killings in the name of recruiting security officers. The hatred between the two parties became deeper and deeper, let alone any trust.
If we exclude the interference of other factors and choose to surrender between the Nancai Recruitment Division and the Jingnan Zhizhi Division, the vast majority of the refugee forces and even a considerable number of the direct forces of the Dongjing Allied Forces will choose the latter.
In the past two years, Chushan Qiaozhi Nancai County in northern Hubei has spent so much effort to resettle more than 200,000 hungry people, which is definitely not comparable to the rhetoric of Jingnan Zhijisi.
After Bailu Lake was opened, hundreds of skinny and hungry people came to surrender almost every day. They were then diverted through Changlin and Chisang camps to more than 20 military villages located along the Changyan and Zhangfan-Changlin Xinhe rivers in the north of Jingbei.
Make placement.
These refugees, together with the people who moved from Nancai and the landless households recruited from the local area, invested in the excavation and construction of Changyan and new river channels.
Dongzhou Village claims to keep the strong and strong and send out the sick, old and weak, but in fact, over the past five or six years of displacement, a large number of old, weak, sick and disabled have died of illness or starvation.
At this time, most of the old, weak, sick and disabled people in Beitou were physically weak due to hunger and cold.
These hungry people were resettled in various military camps. There was not much refined grains. The beans and wheat were mixed with wild vegetables and cooked and served with sauce, which was enough to satisfy them. They did not have many good clothes. Geyi linen stuffed with reeds was enough to keep out the cold.
One or more families squeezed into a small hut, spread dry soft straw mats inside, and burned the charcoal stove made by Chushan for warmth, so they could finally sleep peacefully. In the military camp, a large pot of medicinal soup was cooked every day.
Some people quickly get over their weakness and engage in some light work.
In the west of Beijing, the enemies of Heluo have not made much movement this winter. They have all retreated to the north of Yingshui or north of Yiqueguan, avoiding contact with the Chushan army. The main cavalry forces of the Zhennan Zongfu and Pingyan Zongfu stayed in Yanshan.
To the north and to the north and south of Yinshan, this allows Chushan to save a lot of resources, and people and horses are used in Jingbei.
In fact, by the middle of the twelfth lunar month, the entire mobilization scale in Chushan was less than 70% of what it was when the situation was at its most critical the year before.
In addition to the excavation and construction of Changyan and Xinhe, the Nancai Recruitment Division also built large-scale settlements north of Changyan in northern Jingbei.
Jiangling, the north of Jianli, the west of Hualing County, the east of Dangyang County and the south of Jingmen County, as part of the ancient Yunmengze, are low-lying and are easily flooded by the Jinghan flood.
In the late years of the previous dynasty, the local separatist forces built large weirs north of Jiangling City, roughly along the south bank of Wazi Lake, and cut off the Juzhang Water flowing south into the Jingjiang River and diverted it to the north, forming a large swamp covering a hundred miles in northern Jingjing.
It was called the Three Seas at that time, and it blocked the troops occupying Xiangyang and other places from moving southward.
After the establishment of the Dai Viet Dynasty, the Juzhang River was redirected into the Jingshui River, and the large weirs on the south bank of Wazi Lake were gradually abandoned or demolished. The three seas restored the old appearance of lakes such as Wazi Lake and Bailu Lake, where the water was connected to the low-lying areas.
In some lands suitable for farming, households have gradually moved in to build villages and thrive over the past hundred years.
However, most of the land was privately owned by wealthy people from Zongshen Township, and was not even recorded in state or county land registers.
It has always been a rule in Chushan that all privately-occupied land that is not recorded in the state or county land registers will be confiscated.
After preliminary measurements, Han Gui estimated that after the completion of Jingbei Changyan, the newly reclaimed land plus confiscated privately-occupied fields will total up to 600,000 acres.
This is only part of the land resources that can be developed in the entire Jingdong and Jingbei regions.
In most of Jianli County to the east of Sangchi Lake, in the southern part of Hualing County, and in Mianyang and Hanyang counties, the scale of confiscated and reclaimable farmland is even larger.
Unfortunately, the terrain in these areas is more low-lying. At the same time, because the Jingjiang River and the Han River meet, the flood pressure during the flood season every year is even greater, making it difficult to fully utilize them in a short period of time.
In order to reduce conflicts as much as possible and mobilize the local middle- and lower-class poor, the Nancai Recruitment Division will directly transfer all confiscated privately-occupied fields north of Changyan in Jingbei according to the standard of five acres of grain fields and one mu of mulberry and hemp fields per ding.
Allotted to the tenants who originally farmed the land.
Long-term floods and the raging Dongjing bandits in recent years have left the counties in northern Jingzhou (the four northern counties of Jingzhou plus Hualing County, Mianyang County and Ezhou Hanyang County) with only 250,000 registered residents.
The implementation of the New Deal in Changyan and Zhangfan-Changlin Xinhe in northern Jingbei involves less than 100,000 households and more than 25,000 people. Most of them are tenant farmers. This shows how serious the land annexation is in this area.
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Excluding this part of the land allocation, the Nancai Recruitment Division can obtain a total of 400,000 acres of land for military settlement this time.
The low-lying areas in Jingbei have been flooded and lake-logged for a long time. The reeds and aquatic plants grow and wither every year and mix with the mud. Once the flooding can be overcome, the land will be extremely fertile.
The harvest of the newly cultivated fields in Nancai is as much as two or three seasons of the dry land in Tongbai Mountain. More importantly, the climate in northern Hubei and Jingdong is warmer and can be used for rotation of rice, wheat, hemp and cotton, and the average output per mu is
It is three times higher than the dry land in the Hehuai area, which is more than enough.
However, it is not easy to cultivate these fields...
