Xu Huai was granted the title of Privy Envoy this time and opened the mansion with the title of Sikong Chi Tianzi Fujie. This was nominally for the convenience of commanding all the soldiers and horses to cross the Huaihe River and the Northern Expedition, but it was also a rare event in the more than 160 years since the establishment of the Vietnam Dynasty.
, which is far beyond the reach of these empty titles conferred by important officials in the court in the past.
First, Zhou He and other important officials in the court petitioned for the title, and Emperor Shaolong issued an order to the court officials to gather for discussion. There were many petitions, and Emperor Shaolong responded to the people's wishes and conferred the title. Xu Huai declined with a small amount of merit;
After many more resignations, finally on May 18th, during the Jiaji period, a ceremony was held to open the palace in front of hundreds of civil and military officials in Jiying Hall.
In addition to Xu Huai as privy envoy, Jingxiang system as the envoy, and Sikong Chijie as the head of the government, the Sikong Mansion is under the jurisdiction of the Chief Registrar Office, the Changshi Academy, the Sima Academy, and the Military Information Staff Department, which has been officially upgraded to the first-level academy department, with the names of Han Gui,
Four people, Shi Zhen, Xu Wuqi and Chen Zixiao, were also awarded the honorary titles of privy bachelor, general minister, privy council general, general Xuanwei, state governor and other honorary titles.
When Xu Huai led Shi Zhen, Xu Wuqi, Chen Zixiao, Han Gui and other major generals of Sikong Mansion to receive congratulations from civil and military officials in the main hall, Emperor Shaolong sat on the dragon chair behind the imperial case with a gloomy face.
You have to be able to squeeze out the water quickly.
After the opening ceremony of the conferment festival, an edict was issued to confer Xiao Linshi as the king of Xiyan County, and he was allowed to establish a country to the west of Qionglai Mountain, between Dadu River and Yalong River.
The prime minister of the country, Xiao Yanhan is the princess, and Xiao Chunquan is the prince.
After that, the case of fleeing Beijing was gradually concluded.
Wang Boqian, Wang Xiuhan and his son, Jin Zhuangcheng, Jin Yuzhu and his son, and Luo Nanguang were sentenced to death for treason. Wang, Jin,
The nine clans of Luo (four from the father's clan, three from the mother's clan, and two from the wife's clan), including women and children, totaled more than 3,000 people who fled to Xiyan County.
Qian Shangduan and Zhang Xin were charged with conspiracy. They and their three clans (father, brother, and son) were all together, and one hundred and twenty people were exiled to Xiyan County.
In Gaochunnian, he was punished for the crime of blind obedience, but was exempted from the extreme punishment. He was expelled from Shang Pushe and held the title of bachelor of Zhaowen Pavilion. He was also dismissed from the title of Duke of the County and was demoted to the deputy envoy of Lizhou Tuanlian. Thinking of his old age, Xu Xian stayed in Xiangyang to think about his mistakes behind closed doors.
In addition, 21 officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, large and small, were beheaded for their participation in treason. More than 2,000 low-level palace servants and maids were released, and more than 200 people with dispatch duties were also sentenced to exile in Xiyan.
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Afterwards, an imperial edict was issued to abolish the Huaixi system and establish the Pacifying Envoy Division. Lu, Shu, and the three prefectures were merged into Jiangnan East Road, the Supervisory Department was moved to Jianye, and Liu Yan served as the Privy Deputy Envoy to establish the Pacifying Ambassador.
On May 28th, the Jingzhou Navy blocked Jianye and the Yangtze River waterway to the west. More than 300 boats formed a huge fleet and set sail from the Qinhuai River's ma branch on the north side of Jianye City, carrying Shaolong.
The emperor, his concubines, the prince, King Zhao Yin of Qi, Princess Yingyun, as well as hundreds of civil and military officials and their families, officials of the Imperial City Department, and more than 6,000 imperial guards returned to Xiangyang.
When Emperor Jianji moved the capital to Jianye, he retained Xiangyang's status in the capital. In addition to the palace where Emperor Jianji lived at that time, the two mansions and the monastery, ministry, and government offices were all retained. Zhou He, Qian Zerui, Zhu Hang and other major
All civil and military officials in the court had mansions and private residences in Xiangyang.
During Wen Hengyue's tenure in Xiangyang, he also presided over the construction of an outer city wall with a total length of nearly 60 miles. The city of Xiangyang south of the Han River was expanded to a depth of 13 or 4 miles based on the mountains and rivers. The overall length was larger than Jianye without expansion.
Out three or four times.
During his lifetime, Emperor Jianji always regarded moving the capital to Jianye as a temporary measure. He thought more about returning the capital to Xiangyang one day and using Xiangyang as the basis to promote the Northern Expedition and regain the great cause of the Central Plains.
This is also the key reason why after Xu Huai persuaded Zhou He, Qian Zerui and others, the resistance to moving the capital was not so great and the move was carried out quickly.
After entering May, the Jianghuai River and Hehuai River have fully entered the flood season. Especially along the Huaihe River, which has been devastated by war, the dams have been in disrepair all year round. After the flood season, both sides of the bank, including the main branch rivers, are flooded - the flooded area is not only limited.
It is difficult for both the enemy and the enemy to start a war because the depth of the water is unpredictable and it is difficult for boats to pass. As a result, both the enemy and the enemy have entered a period of silence.
Xu Huai also calmly and personally escorted Emperor Shaolong and all the civil and military officials to move back to Xiangyang.
In Xiangyang, in addition to Pan Chenghu, the prefect, Xu Xin served as the military supervisor and the magistrate of Xiangyang County, and Chen Songze, Su Mi and others were in charge of the Imperial City Department, responsible for palace confinement, Emperor Shaolong's bodyguard, and personal bodyguards.
Above the hall, Gu Fan
As Shangshu Zuopushe, he was actually in charge of the political affairs hall; Qian Zerui continued to be responsible for the daily affairs of the Privy Council as a scholar. Although Xu Huai was appointed as the Privy Council envoy, he was not usually stationed in Xiangyang and was unable to take care of the daily affairs of the Privy Council.
Zhou He was appointed as the imperial envoy, and Zhao Yi, the king of Wuwei County, was appointed Zuocheng and minister of the Ministry of Rites; Qiao Jien was appointed as the internal minister of the capital to save trouble and take charge of the affairs of the Prince's Palace and the imperial palace.
Although Ning Ci and others have always been in the same pot with Jingxiang (Chushan), they did not participate in the "escape from Beijing" and had no other obvious reasons. Naturally, they were still in their original positions and jointly maintained the central government.
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As the capital city, Xiangyang is theoretically no longer under the jurisdiction of the Jingxiang Road, but is directly under the central government. This is to make up for the financial gap of the Jingxiang Road, and also to better coordinate the defense of prefectures and counties involved in Tongbai Mountain and Huaiyang Mountain.
Arrangements were made to transfer Suizhou and Anzhou from Jinghu North Road to Jingxiang Road.
In addition to dividing Jizhou from the abolished Huainan West Road and dividing Qiazhou into Jinghu North Road, Xu Huai also added Xincai County, where the encirclement and Kentun were completed, to Ezhou.
Regarding the disposal of Jinghu South Road after Ge Boyi left, in addition to placing Jiazhou under Jinghu North Road and the four southern counties of Jingzhou under Jingzhou, Xu Huai recommended Zhu Hang to serve as Shangshu Zuocheng as the pacification envoy of Jingnan.
On the one hand, except for a limited number of people such as Zhu Hang, no one else in the center had enough prestige to take charge of Jinghu South Road, where Ge Boyi's influence remained.
On the other hand, although Zhu Hang is more loyal to the Zhao family in his heart, whether he is the core representative of the former emperor's old ministers or he is too far away from the philosophy of the Qiandi family
, or maybe everyone thought that the Zhu family had already taken refuge in Jingxiang, which destined Zhu Hang and Ge Boyi's remaining troops on Jinghu South Road to be unable to urinate in a pot, and could even restrain each other.
As the main area where the Dongjing Lake bandits were raging, the production on Jinghu South Road has been greatly damaged in the past few years. The local population has been severely lost, and a large number of refugees have been stranded.
Theoretically, Jinghu South Road can be used for large-scale land clearing and reclamation. However, considering the influence of Ge Boyi's remaining power and considering that the Jiangbei area of Jiangnan East Road should be promoted first for land clearing and land reclamation, Xu Huai still hopes that Jinghu South Road will be cleared for the time being.
Maintain the status quo and make a smooth transition first.
Zhu Hang can be considered a transitional period in all aspects, and he is a good choice to sit on Jinghu South Road.
Of course, Xu Huai also had to be on guard against Zhu Hang's other plans, and recommended Cheng Yi as deputy transit envoy for Jinghu South Road so that the Sikong Mansion could have a certain degree of control over Jingnan.
Xu Huai returned to Biyang, and the Sikong Mansion Office would also be stationed permanently in Biyang. It was also necessary to make large-scale adjustments to the Jingxiang Road system to appease the envoys.
After the main core functional departments were transferred to the Sikong Prefecture, the Jingxiang Road system was established to pacify the envoys, and the structure of the four divisions of Shuai, Cao, Cang and Xian was also restored.
Jingxiang Road is the fundamental place of Sikong Prefecture. Xu Huai will continue to take charge of the pacification envoy, while Cheng Lunying will serve as the transfer envoy of Jingxiang Road and promote Changping envoy to take charge of Caosi and Cangsi, and also know the affairs of Nanyang Prefecture;
Xu Wukun took charge of the deployment of the army and horses, and was in charge of the commander's office, which was responsible for the formation and organization of the local garrison on Jingxiang Road and the defense of the city walls except Biyang City. In addition, Xu Huai also recommended Zhou He's eldest son Zhou Lianggong to take up the post.
Jingxiang Road promoted criminal and prison affairs and took charge of the Constitutional Affairs Bureau; Shi Zhen's eldest son Shi Xun came to know the affairs of Biyang County.
At the level of the Sikong Mansion, Shi Zhen was in charge of the Changshiyuan and the five-way envoy. He still ranked first among the officials in Beijing and Xiangzhou, presiding over the major and minor political affairs of the Sikong Mansion; Han Gui was appointed as a military advisor, in charge of the chief secretary's office, and served as a bureaucracy.
The head of the post is responsible for presiding over the cardinal's documents and other matters; Xu Wuqi is in charge of the Sima Yuan, responsible for the organization, training, military law supervision, city construction, ordnance and uniform manufacturing, logistics, transportation and supplies, military command school construction and other military affairs related matters.
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The Military Intelligence Staff Department has been upgraded to a first-level organization at the same level as the Changshi Yuan and Sima Yuan. In addition to military intelligence reconnaissance, it also focuses on combat planning and execution, and will actually become the combat command center of the Sikong Mansion.
In the past, Zhou Jing and Zhang Xiongshan, who were mainly responsible for military intelligence spying and other matters, were not qualified for the position of chief officer. Xu Huai then transferred Chen Zixiao to Sikong Mansion to take charge of the Military Intelligence Staff Department. Zhou Jing and Zhang Xiongshan served as Chen Zixiao as military staff officers.
Xiao's deputy, jointly in charge of the Military Intelligence Staff Department.
After Chen Zixiao left the Caizhou camp, Tang Pan was appointed as the capital commander and knew the affairs of Caizhou Prefecture, and Han Lurong was appointed as the deputy capital commander.
In addition, in addition to Zhufengtang being transferred back
The industrial and mining bases in Yunyang, Huaiyuan and other places directly under the Sikong Prefecture were also divided from Jingxiang Road with the upgrade of the Ordnance Supervision and Construction Supervision and were placed directly under the Sikong Prefecture.
Although the "Escape from Beijing Incident" delayed the scheduled Northern Expedition across the Huaihe River, it also provided a rare buffer time for sorting out all aspects of the empire's military and political affairs, focusing on Beijing and Xiangzhou. This allowed for the recovery of production in the Huaixi region and for Jingsheng.
Xiaosheng and Xuanwu's generals relocated and resettled their families, gaining a rare buffer time.
Including recruiting generals from the Niushoushan Rebel Army and the Jianye Prefecture Army, a new town combat force was attached to the Xuanwu Army and stationed in Jianye and other areas along the river. The Jingsheng, Xuanwu, and Xiaosheng armies totaled 140,000 generals, and the family totaled six
More than 100,000 people were all moved to Huangchuan, Gushi, Guangshan, Shangcheng and other counties. A total of more than 460 fortresses and fortresses were built, 300,000 new houses were repaired, and 100,000 new houses were restored and cultivated.
One and a half million acres.
Although only one-third of the resettlement process for military dependents has been completed, more than 300,000 houses will be built, more than 3 million acres of farmland will be newly reclaimed, and a large number of dams, canals, roads and other supporting facilities will need to be repaired.
Although the resettlement has been initially completed, seeing that Jingxiang has invested so much manpower and material resources in such a rapid progress, the morale of the generals and generals is also unspeakably strong.
Jingsheng, Xiaosheng, and Xuanwu armies all followed the example of Tianxiong Army in setting up more than a dozen intermediate and junior military command schools, and conducted short-term military training for three months for all grassroots military officers of the entire army; at the same time, Jingsheng, Xiao???
After the victory, more than half of the mid-level and senior generals in the Xuanwu armies also went to the Advanced Military Command School in Biyang for six months of rotational military training.
The resettlement work of refugees in Lu, He, Shu, Qi and the four southern counties of Jingzhou has also gradually begun.
In traditional resettlement of refugees, prefectures and counties come forward to distribute a small amount of food rations and farm tools so that they can reclaim unowned wasteland. After the land is reclaimed, the land becomes their own and they can be exempted from taxes for a certain period of time.
Since the refugees' ability to support themselves is extremely limited, this kind of free-range land reclamation and resettlement process is extremely arduous. The refugees need to endure hunger, disease, and sleeping in the open for a long time. Most of them may not be able to survive until the end of their hardships.
In this process, easily cultivated land and semi-cultivated land were often occupied on a large scale by Zong Jin, a gentry who colluded with the government, leading to unfair land distribution from the beginning.
The resettlement of refugees led by Beijing and Xiangzhou is much more detailed. A large number of village officials will be dispatched to organize personnel and preside over the construction of villages, villages, roads, bridges, and canals. Manpower and materials will be concentrated to reclaim wasteland in large areas.
, build houses, and ensure the supply of food rations and other basic living materials for the refugees during the resettlement period.
Of course, the cultivated fields are all official land and are not directly granted to private individuals. Farming requires not only paying taxes and land rents, but also the young and strong refugees need to be organized into the equivalent of reserve troops to carry out training and undertake certain work tasks.
If necessary, they will need to turn into guards to participate in defending the city, but in the end they will be awarded fields based on the corresponding service years and meritorious service.
Although this model of resettlement of refugees requires a huge investment in manpower and material resources in advance, it can also directly solve the problem of insufficient reserve soldiers and thus has great flexibility in the organization - just like Jingxiang after recruiting Dongjing refugees, it has a standing reserve
Although the number of soldiers and horses can be controlled at about 100,000, it can be expanded to 300,000 to 400,000 at the limit.
In other words, as the resettlement work of refugees in Lu, He, She, Qi and the four southern counties of Jingzhou gradually begins, the Sikong Mansion's soldier reserve will usher in a new stage of expansion...
In addition, including the Jiangxi, Jiangdong, Zhejiang, Jingnan, and Jingbei five routes, soldiers and horses drafted by local prefectures and counties as corvees participated in the Huaihe River defense line cities and the subsequent Huaihe River crossing operations.
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Although the total number of soldiers and horses regularly participating in the garrison will be further controlled at around 50,000, the garrison cycle will be extended to one year, allowing for more systematic battalion and battle training.
At the same time, the soldiers and horses participating in the rotation of the garrison were mainly landless farmers. When they returned to the local area after completing the rotation of the garrison, Xu Huai asked the local government to include the soldiers who participated in the rotation of the garrison into reserve forces for management, and give priority to the official land leased to them.
They farmed and their rents and taxes were halved.
These matters are managed by the Privy Council at the central level, and at the local level by the regiment training envoys who were previously appointed to ensure that enough qualified soldiers can be recruited from the local areas when necessary.