The structure of the foreign army in the Bafu was established, and the Chinese army sergeants became professional soldiers like the Xianbei sergeants before. The foreign army was the township, Tuan, state and county soldiers, and the organization and management were still very loose.
In order to reflect the overlord's management power and authority over these township regiments, the overlord brought local powerful and armed forces under control by selecting the chiefs of the townships and granting them military power.
Needless to say, whether these selected state leaders have outstanding virtues and reputations is another matter. The most important thing is that they have the most private tribes and are the most powerful group of people in the township. Only in this way can we quickly build a
local military system and maximize the effect.
However, Huazhou is the seat of the Bafu, and many Beizhen military leaders have settled here. Compared with other areas, it is naturally different. The powerful people in the township obviously have little say.
Guo Yan was born in the Guo family of Taiyuan. Because his ancestors served as officials in Kansai and settled in Fengyi County, Huazhou, he was considered a prominent family in the county. However, in fact, both his hometown reputation and clan power were far from worthy of the high reputation of being the head of the state.
.The reason why he was chosen as the chief minister was obviously due to the decision-making of the hegemony rather than the recommendation of the village, or he deserved the title.
In the final analysis, Bafu still does not want the local local forces in Huazhou to be too strong. Guo Yan had to choose the chief minister to be the commander-in-chief of Wuxiang County just like Zhou Changming did before. The logic behind it is the same, and they do not want to support it.
An overly powerful representative of local forces.
Zhou Changming's position as Commander-in-Chief was donated to him by Li Taizhen, who had been conscientiously involved in river defense and the reorganization of the Chinese army for several years before he was able to stabilize his position.
Although Guo Yan was also a well-known figure in the countryside, his previous experience was as a civil servant in the Taiwan government and as a court official. He had no experience in commanding troops in combat. He was suddenly given the position of being in charge of the local soldiers in the state, which inevitably made him feel a little at a loss.
If the changes in authority only require self-adjustment and adaptation to gradually get on the right track, then in some cases it is completely beyond his ability. Because the number of rural regiment soldiers is seriously insufficient, no matter how much he adjusts and adapts, it will be in vain.
No help.
In the military organizational structure of Bafu, the prefectures, counties, and township regiments are the reserves and supplements of the Chinese army. They are responsible for local security and relatively easy combat tasks, and sometimes have to undertake combat assistance to the Chinese army, such as building fortifications,
Transport baggage, etc.
In some places, such as several states in western Henan, the powerful and private soldiers are the most important military force, and their combat effectiveness is no less than that of the Bafu Central Army.
Although Huazhou is the seat of the Overlord and the Chinese army is also stationed here, it does not mean that the state, county and township regiments are not important. On the contrary, more rural regiments are needed to be armed. One is naturally to serve as the auxiliary troops of the Chinese army.
The second is to participate in river defense and repair fortifications, and there are also many other tasks.
Prefecture, county and township regiments are not regular armies. They need to raise at least half of their own supplies and replenishment, and they do not have a fixed station. They often gather when things happen and then disperse when things are done, such as the grand parades held in previous years.
Last year there was a crisis like the army pressing down on the border, and there was also ice digging at the mouth of the river every year, etc.
Guo Yan had to lead the rural soldiers last year. It went smoothly at the beginning. He handled the military affairs of the Huazhou rural soldiers in an orderly manner before and after the Battle of Yubi. However, after the rural soldiers disbanded and returned to their hometowns last winter, problems began to arise one after another.
, and the biggest problem is the large shortage of battalion soldiers.
"Last winter, the township regiment was disbanded on the spot. We were originally told to gather in the camp at the turn of March or April in late spring, after the farming work was over, to train in martial arts and take turns to guard the river. But now the military period is approaching, and we should have gathered eight
There are thousands of soldiers from all over the country, but now there are only more than 3,000 soldiers in the camp, and more than a thousand of them are the powerful chieftains of the Di tribe who have migrated inland."
When Guo Yan talked about this, he had a bitter look on his face again, and after a long sigh he continued: "In the past few days, I have been going to my hometown frequently to visit the wise elders, but they only complained to me, and the soldiers were scattered among the wild woodcutter.
It is difficult to recruit them to reclaim wasteland..."
After listening to Guo Yan's story, Li Tai understood in his heart why Guo Yan came to him for help.
The so-called rural regiment armed forces do not generally recruit strong men from the countryside as soldiers. They mainly consist of rural defense garrison and powerful private soldiers that already exist and are highly organized. For example, the Shangyang garrison where Zhou Changming was previously belongs to the township regiment.
a part of.
Guo Yan was able to successfully complete the task last year, but this year he was unable to gather even the basic personnel. To be honest, it was not a problem of his personnel's ability, but that the overlord's rule was still insufficient to deter the penetration of order in the countryside.
This person is not the leader elected by the village, but selected and appointed by the Bafu, so his authority comes from the Bafu rather than the village. Last year, Gao Huan's army surrounded the jade bi, so naturally everyone in the village was in danger.
Of course, there is strength in numbers, and only by gathering together can we deal with the danger of military disaster.
But now that the danger has been lifted, of course everyone is still busy with their own business. Guo Yan himself lacks prestige and appeal in the countryside, and his family has to do hard military service. If he can give an order and the villagers gather, or maybe
If you invite everyone to drink wine and eat meat, of course there will be no such difficulties.
His own prestige was not enough to summon the rural soldiers again. Of course, Guo Yan had to ask for help from someone who could do it. But as the Bafu intended to suppress the local rural forces in Huazhou, there were really not many such people, and
Li Tai is the person most likely to have this kind of influence.
Li Tai's current reputation is not limited to Shang Yuan. Although he does not often stay in his hometown, the influence and impact of the alliance he has established on his hometown is getting bigger and bigger. This time he returned to his hometown and gathered a lot of people.
His popularity is enough to reflect the grandeur of his hometown voice. Guo Yan came to ask for help from him, and he also worshiped at the right temple gate.
"Foreword to the end, it is definitely not self-effacing to have a reputation that is not matched by my hometown. But since I accept the ministry with a shy face, I always need to do my best. Now that I have a bad reputation, I am really ashamed. But a person's negligence is small, and if his hometown is wronged by me, he will be ashamed."
To be accused of being tough and difficult is even more contrary to the country's justice. I know that General Zhou has a close relationship with Xihe Gong, so I shamelessly ask for an introduction."
When Guo Yan said this, his body changed from bowing to bowing, and at the same time he said in a sincere tone: "There is no pity for those who just steal fame. But if the nostalgia breeds slander because of lack of talent, it will be difficult for the people to let go.
The Xihe Gongmen Pavilion stands tall, and I am lucky enough to be able to sit here today. I would like to ask you to give me a foot-long banquet so that my servants can listen to the teachings for a long time. I am very grateful!"
When Li Tai saw this scene, he quickly got up from the table, walked around the table and tried to help Guo Yan up, but Guo Yan just couldn't help him.
Next to him, Zhou Changming also left the table and stood aside to support Guo Yan and said: "Every time General Guo talks to others about Lang Jun's deeds, his admiration is beyond words. Especially for Lang Jun's many good deeds to benefit the local people, he admires him even more.
Today, when I go to pay homage to the prince, I should first tell you my worries and sufferings, and then ask for enshrinement at the door. This is also honest and sincere, and is not intended to steal fame and confuse the masses."
Li Tai has also faced many requests for refuge from Shiliu during this period. This situation has become somewhat common, but today's experience is still a bit different.
The Guo Yan in front of him is not an ordinary person, but the current leader of Huazhou. Although he does not truly deserve the honor, since the Bafu awarded this honor to him, it is obvious that he appreciates him.
But now, the leader of Huazhou selected by the overlord is bowing before him, begging to be his disciple. To be honest, this really makes Li Tai feel a little vain. Could it be that Lord Luke, another day of revolution?
Is it coming?
Regardless of Guo Yan's plea, Li Tai couldn't sit back and watch this matter.
As Guo Yan said, it would be derelict of duty if he failed to deal with Huazhou's rural soldiers, but Huazhou's hometown will definitely leave a very negative impression on Bafu. This place is the foundation of Bafu. If he is really rebellious,
That must be tidied up. By then, Li Tai's series of rural arrangements will naturally be greatly affected.
So after thinking about it, he said to Guo Yan: "I have seen General Guo before. He is indeed a capable person. His willingness to join this family will make my palace shine. There is nothing complicated in the house."
The rules and regulations are only about working together and helping each other, and no deviation can be tolerated. If you do anything that harms the moral integrity of the family, you will be punished without mercy!"
Guo Yan recommended himself as Li Tai's protégé, of course because he valued Li Tai's strong prestige in the village. This would allow him, as the head of the state, to be widely respected by the villagers and become more competent in his work.
After gaining something, of course something has to be given. Although the disciples are not slaves, they still have to share the benefits brought by the family master's power and fame, and of course they have to be loyal and service in return.
"Thank you Sir, Sir, thank you so much for accepting me! I will abide by the rules of the family, carry forward the family tradition, and dare not violate it."
Guo Yan hurriedly bowed again and said, a big stone in his heart finally fell. With the reputation of this master, the villagers no longer dared to turn a blind eye to him.
After Li Tai thought for a while, he said to Zhou Changming: "If Changming is not in a hurry to return to the government and take matters into his own hands, I would like to help you visit the homes of the local people recently and tell them that I am hosting a banquet in their homes and introduce the new people to them.
When people from the same hometown meet and get to know each other, they can get along harmoniously in the future."
In addition to Guo Yan in front of him, he also accepted other disciples. These people are not only engaged in various government affairs, but also arrange and manage some household affairs if necessary. It is indispensable to deal with people from the same village. It is also necessary to introduce each other.
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"Since it's your husband's order, I will definitely do it."
Zhou Changming said quickly after hearing this, and then sighed: "If it weren't for the entanglement of the army of soldiers, I really want to return to Lang Jun's command with Qu Ji."
After Da Xiwu restrained Li Taylor, he released Li Quji with satisfaction.
However, Zhou Changming commanded the army based on the original Wuxiang counties and regiments. He may not be able to mobilize it easily if other generals were replaced, and the transfer of positions was restricted, so he still belonged to the right army commander He Lanxiang.
It was said that Zhou Changming needed to visit the countryside to inform the people, but this time Li Tai returned to his hometown, many wealthy people from the countryside came to Shangyuan to welcome the party in person, and they have not left yet, so he only needed to go around Shangyuan for a week and inform them all.
Seventy-seven-eight-eight.
In a few days, the banquet to introduce the disciples to the villagers was held in Shangyuan. In recent years, all the disciples who have joined Li Tai's command and are now also in Shangyuan all went out to meet the villagers gathered here.
The soldiers met.
These people may not have been born here, and some even came to Shangyuan for the first time with Li Tai. However, because of their relationship with Li Tai, they also received heartfelt welcome, enthusiastic praise and sincere encouragement from the villagers. They are expected to be able to
Create greater achievements under the leadership of Li Tai.
Guo Yan, who was also present at the banquet, also caused quite a stir at the banquet. Before, his reputation in the village was not so great that he became a household name. However, he quickly became famous after becoming the chief minister of the state, but the most he received was
There was no cynicism, and few congratulations and encouragement came only from relatives and friends.
But this time when he attended the hometown banquet as a disciple of Li Tai, Guo Yan was treated much better than before. Even before the banquet was over, some local tycoons came to him to inquire about the gathering of local soldiers.
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Li Tai is neither a state official nor a foreign military governor, so it is naturally difficult for him to openly interfere in the gathering and dispersal of rural soldiers. He did not mention this matter at all at this rural banquet. But many things do not require direct words.
Expression, just by accepting Guo Yan as his disciple, the people attending the meeting can interpret a lot of information.
It was already late March, and Guo Yan did not have time to stay in Shangyuan for a long time. After attending this banquet, he stayed overnight and hurriedly set off on the road, heading straight to the east of Huazhou City and Chaozhou along the Yellow River.
Go away.
This is the gathering place for the state army and rural soldiers. The camp is large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of soldiers stationed here. When Guo Yan visited here before, there were few troops stationed in the camp and the camp was empty. But when he returned this time,
On that day, more than 2,000 rural soldiers arrived and settled in.
In the next few days, there was an endless stream of troops led by various armed rural regiments rushing to the Chaoshan camp, looking at each other on the way. Finally, before the arrival of April, the number of armed rural soldiers stationed in the camp reached more than 10,000.
Naturally, there were rural soldiers who obeyed the previous order and arrived as scheduled, but Guo Yan also understood that if he had not become Li Tai's disciple and used the master's prestige in the countryside, he would not have been able to gather them as scheduled based on the previous military order alone.
There were so many rural soldiers.
So while happily reporting to the Foreign Army Governor's Office, Guo Yan also did not forget to send someone to Shangyuan to report the news. This feeling of finding a powerful supporter of the organization is really wonderful.
Even if he had lived in the village for more than thirty years before, coupled with the honor and blessing given by the Taiwan government to the head of the village, Guo Yan could not make Guo Yan feel as important to the village as he does today!
For Guo Yan, the big difficulty that threatens his future is just a small episode for Li Tai because he has accepted an extra disciple. Right now, the most important thing for him is to enjoy the rare leisure time during his wedding vacation. When the situation in Henan develops further, he can
Even if I don't go to Henan in person at my current position, it will be difficult for me to have the leisure time I have now.
So during the past few days, he accompanied the newlyweds on a leisurely tour of the countryside during the day, and at night he gathered with family members to learn about the development of public and private industries and discuss the next plan.
Nowadays, he is involved in military and political affairs and is very important in the Bafu. Unless Yuwentai plans to continue to attack Jinyang in the Eastern Wei Dynasty in northern Shaanxi, he will not return to northern Shaanxi to take charge in the short term.
But now his personnel arrangements in northern Shaanxi are very rich and he has a very solid foundation. Unless the Bafu wants to treat northern Shaanxi as a key operation like the Kinki states and wipe out all his personnel arrangements, otherwise
It is difficult to shake his current control in northern Shaanxi.
Next, in northern Shaanxi, of course, the farmland will continue to develop and expand in scale. Moreover, the victory in the Battle of Yubi also made the salt profits in Hedong more stable and predictable, and its attraction to the current generation was greatly increased. It was just a wave of promotion
A good opportunity to open up China.
If the Kansai tycoons want to join the salt industry and share profits, Kaizhongfa also provides them with a convenient and easy-to-operate way. Li Tai wants to gather many Kansai tycoons to go to northern Shaanxi to give him his dream of being tenants
, it will probably be realized soon.
In order to promote the implementation and development of this policy, he even planned to give up some of his interests in northern Shaanxi to attract more people to join.
Although the north is not the main military base of the Western Wei Dynasty, the pressure on border defense is also not small, and the replacement of old and new overlords is about to occur on the Mobei grassland, whether it is to take advantage of the chaos to receive part of the inheritance after the decline of Rouran, or to avoid Turks in the coming year.
When you are alone and dominate, you also need to make arrangements early.
If Northern Shaanxi can stably supply border defense supplies and army supplies, then when Li Tai comes to power, he will have the confidence to finish the Northern Qi Dynasty and have the foundation to drink from the Mayin Mountains and attack Mobei for a long time!
Of course, these are very long-term assumptions, and there are also plans for the present. As Bafu's work of selling resources in Zhuzhou, County, Shanze, and other places began vigorously, Li Tai also continued to purchase properties in various places.
Although he is now unparalleled in Huazhou Township, looking at the whole of Kansai, there are still many local snakes that are difficult to resolve. Any conflict of interest with the locals will be very difficult.
But if we want to attract some of the personnel assets of these local powerful people to northern Shaanxi through the Kaizhong method, then we will have the means to check and deal with these local powerful people: If you dare to make things difficult for me in the countryside, I will dare to do it to you in northern Shaanxi!
So when Gao Bin came to bid farewell to him when he took office in Xihe County, Li Tai also specifically asked him to strengthen investment promotion through a series of preferential policies, first to increase the popularity and attract the assets of various counties.
Only in the past can you live a good life in the future.
After only a few days of taking a break from the busy schedule, and enjoying the relaxed and comfortable life of newlyweds in the country, as the time entered April, there was an urgent order from the Taifu government to come to the country, and they were urged to return to Taifu as soon as possible.
Because the situation in Henan has further developed, after remaining strangely silent about Hou Jing's rebellion for more than two consecutive months, the Eastern Wei Dynasty finally made further moves and sent troops from Yedu south to quell the rebellion.
He always had to pay back the money he went out to live in. Li Tai complained in his heart that his marriage leave was greatly reduced, but he didn't know that the reason was that he had robbed Jinyang before, so Gao Cheng seized the opportunity to deal with his uncle Cui. Accompanied by Cui, Gao Cheng went on a tour of Hebei provinces.
The state went smoothly, and he arrived in Yedu early to send troops to quell the rebellion, which in turn led to his marriage leave ending early.
The heat is steaming and the heat is uncomfortable. Today is a big chapter. Everyone should pay attention to preventing heatstroke...